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Hakkesshu posted:I would unironically appreciate it if someone could explain the appeal of Pokemon to me. The whole craze completely passed me by - I first picked up Pearl for the DS, but I just thought it was too slow, boring and easy for me to want to sink more time into it. I mean I think the collection stuff is kind of cool, but I'm not seeing why that alone inspires someone to play each game for 100+ hours. I don't have an answer for you but I wanted you to know that you're not alone. I've tried a few times and I just cannot get into Pokémon at all. We can form our own "Don't Care About Pokémon Club"!
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Dunban posted:And then there's Stunfisk. Voltorb. Literally just a ball with eyes.
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Oct 2, 2013 16:11
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Hakkesshu posted:I would unironically appreciate it if someone could explain the appeal of Pokemon to me. The whole craze completely passed me by - I first picked up Pearl for the DS, but I just thought it was too slow, boring and easy for me to want to sink more time into it. I mean I think the collection stuff is kind of cool, but I'm not seeing why that alone inspires someone to play each game for 100+ hours. Several months before Pokémon was released in the US, there was a Nintendo Power article about the premise of the game. The idea of a turn-based RPG where you raise a team ala Dragon Warrior and make them fight other people's teams appealed to 14-year-old me, so I bought Pokémon Blue and enjoyed the hell out if it. The craze at the time was pretty big around my age group, so finding other people to link up Game Boys to play and trade with was an awesome concept. I guess a lot of it is nostalgia now, but I do like the game for its RPG-lite single-player campaign, yet having a pretty good post-game where you work on your team of six dudes to beat the six dudes of other players. Thanks to the internet and Game Freaks adding in simpler, non-grindier ways of getting your six dudes up to speed, the post-game is better than ever. The single-player has been about the same as it always has, though. Barring that, you could always get "Pokémon for Big Dick OGs" that is the mainline Shin Megami Tensei series. 
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Oct 2, 2013 16:13
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Has there been any word yet on Pokemon X/Y's street pass functionality? I'm at college right now and that comic posted earlier is totally true and I'm pretty excited to see what effect that game has on the 3ds count on my campus.
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Oct 2, 2013 16:14
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Speaking of Rune Factory.. http://www.siliconera.com/2013/10/01/rune-factory-4-reaches-europe-spring-2014/ quote:Rune Factory 4 will be available in Europe in spring 2014, Marvelous AQL and Zen United announced today. The European release will use Xseed’s localization for the U.S.
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Oct 2, 2013 16:20
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Dunban posted:Speaking of Rune Factory.. It's a good localization.  You guys are in for a treat!
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Oct 2, 2013 16:21
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I've never played a Rune Factory before and generally have a very low tolerance for ~anime~ but there's something really charming and fun about RF4! I actually missed my train stop ( by 3 stops ) and had to re-route myself on the way home about 30 minutes out of the way, because I was tending my crops too intensely. 
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Oct 2, 2013 16:22
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Roguelike posted:I just want to second that hard mode giving the bosses not just health/damage but more lasers/aggression/butterfly bullets is really refreshing (even though that should really be the standard by now). I haven't played a Rune Factory before but I went in expecting a fantasy Harvest Moon clone and it's way better than that. I haven't seen anything but Hard mode, but I think it even gave the second boss a whole third phase. I'm really surprised by how good the combat feels for how simple it is.
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Oct 2, 2013 16:31
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sentrygun posted:I haven't seen anything but Hard mode, but I think it even gave the second boss a whole third phase. I'm really surprised by how good the combat feels for how simple it is. No, that's in Normal mode, too.  Took me by surprise and got me killed the first time.
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Oct 2, 2013 16:35
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Mercury Crusader posted:The idea of a turn-based RPG where you raise a team ala Dragon Warrior and make them fight other people's teams appealed to 14-year-old me, so I bought Pokémon Blue and enjoyed the hell out if it. Same, except I actually got Dragon Warrior Monsters instead... ...we're never going to see Terry's Wonderland, are we?
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sentrygun posted:I haven't seen anything but Hard mode, but I think it even gave the second boss a whole third phase. I'm really surprised by how good the combat feels for how simple it is. Unfortunately it kind of goes downhill after a bit. Toward the end of the game, and especially in the post-game content, it has this weird difficulty curve where everything is either way too easy or you hit a brick wall with extreme difficulty spikes. The post-game dungeon is especially egregious where you'll suddenly be finding yourself facing grunt enemies 60 levels higher than you were a few rooms ago. Your own levels don't scale too well at that point so the solution seems to be to grind enemies endlessly for rare components so that you can make equipment to pick up the slack. Still a really good game though. The farming component especially shines.
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Oct 2, 2013 17:38
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I have no experience with Dealzon but they have a sale on a few games. Mario & Sonic Olympic Winter 2014 (Wii U) Original - $49.99 Sale - $42.99 Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS) Original - $49.99 Sale - $37.99 Sonic: Lost World (3DS) Original - $39.99 Sale - $34.99 Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (Wii U) Original - $59.99 Sale - $19.99 Newegg also has Sonic Lost World (both 3DS and Wii U) on sale for $5 pre orders. Sonic: Lost World Wii U - $44.99 with promo code EMCXLVN225 Sonic: Lost World 3DS - $34.99 with promo code EMCXLVN224
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Oct 2, 2013 20:18
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The other posters explaining the appeal to Pokemon are pretty much dead on. At the same time, the series hasn't changed drastically in the nearly two decades it has been going on and really has just been refining and adding touches here and there. If you played the game and didn't like it, or liked it but just felt it was slow (D/P did have that problem), then you could try it again. But if you felt the general play itself is too slow then that really hasn't changed. The new games might have a handful of old fans getting back into it, but if Pokemon never appealed to you before, it probably won't appeal to you now.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:19
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Pokemon is a game about assembling a team of The Coolest Pals like "Pile Of Gears" and "Lamp" and "Ice Cream Cone That Is Alive" and going on a magical journey to beat up everyone's pets. Stunfisk owns I named mine Knotts and used him the whole game in Black 
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Oct 3, 2013 00:12
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Did we ever determine the official way to get 3 stars in MK7?
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Vince Videogames posted:Has there been any word yet on Pokemon X/Y's street pass functionality? I'm at college right now and that comic posted earlier is totally true and I'm pretty excited to see what effect that game has on the 3ds count on my campus. You can put together a roughly ten-second Trainer PR Video where you choose the poses, expressions, angles, subtitles, Pokémon included, and share it with passersby. That's all we know for sure, I think.
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Tx2005 posted:I'm sort of in a similar boat. I've never played a Pokemon game, I'm 30 and I'm curious what appeal this game would actually have for me. It has a gigantic competitive scene surrounding it, since its battle system, which the average player assumes being dumbed down for kids, turns out to be a really complex chess-like monstrosity with over 600 pieces and I absolutely adore it. Check it out yourself: http://pokemonshowdown.com/replay/ou-54282517 This is a battle I had with a goon buddy an hour ago. You can't tell half of what the hell is going on in there if you aren't familiar with the game, but it's a bunch of predictions on top of predictions trying to outplay the opponent. Pokemon is great because the story mode is 1) an RPG that easy to pick up by anyone including young kids, and 2) it's a longass tutorial for the post-game stuff that doesn't feel like a tutorial.
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Are there any special deals on the XL going on, or is nothing changing until Black Friday? I'd consider trading my DS Lite in for one, but how would I play my GBA games. 
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Oct 3, 2013 02:41
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Pomp posted:Why isn't Rune Factory on the eshop? It is! Unless you have a PAL 3DS. In which case, uh, wait a few more months. 
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AfroSquirrel posted:Are there any special deals on the XL going on, or is nothing changing until Black Friday? You'd probably not get more than $20-30 worth of credit for it anyways, you're better off just hanging on to it at this point.
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Pokemon is a simple marketable RPG with a lot of customization that anyone can play but has unexpected depth. That's basically all there is to it. It's an RPG anyone can play and find something to enjoy unless you're looking for a story.
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AfroSquirrel posted:Are there any special deals on the XL going on, or is nothing changing until Black Friday? It isn't an amazing deal but walmart.com is packaging the Pokemon XL with a reservation for X or Y at $230 which saves like 10 bucks.
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Putting cool sunglasses on stunfisk was my personal top gaming moment of 2013
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Holy poo poo how did I miss Etrian Odyssey and Rune Factory 4 coming out?  Gotta buy dis.
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naptalan posted:It is! Unless you have a PAL 3DS. In which case, uh, wait a few more months. Wikipedia lied to me!
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Pollyanna posted:Holy poo poo how did I miss Etrian Odyssey and Rune Factory 4 coming out? I want to buy EO:Untold, but I also know I'll completely ignore it when Pokemon comes out. Maybe I'll pick it up in a couple of months.
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Rune Factory, EO, Pokemon, Phoenix wright, Zelda. I can't handle this many games.
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uPen posted:Rune Factory, EO, Pokemon, Phoenix wright, Zelda. Remember when the 3DS "had no games"? Good times.
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Dunban posted:Remember when the 3DS "had no games"? Good times. Wii U owners are experiencing deja vu right now.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Wii U owners are experiencing deja vu right now. I wouldn't call it a deja vu until there actually are some Wii U games! 
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It's deja vu in the sense that it's going through that exact same drought that never should have happened with the 3DS, except now it makes even less sense because they should have known better. This poo poo comes up every other day, why'd I even mention it? Here's something worth mentioning: the new Umihara Kawase game. Where is it, XSEED/NISA/Atlus/(insert non-terrible niche publisher here)?
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Oct 3, 2013 12:41
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I've been looking at the Soul Hackers 3DS port and it apparently has some bugs/translation issues. Has anyone played the game and can tell me more? Are there any game-breaking bugs?
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Here's something worth mentioning: the new Umihara Kawase game. Where is it, XSEED/NISA/Atlus/(insert non-terrible niche publisher here)? Attempting an early 2014 US release, at least: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/fish-frenzied-platformer-umihara-kawase-headed-to-western-shores
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uPen posted:Rune Factory, EO, Pokemon, Phoenix wright, Zelda. Oh god. I'm gonna be broke.
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scissorman posted:I've been looking at the Soul Hackers 3DS port and it apparently has some bugs/translation issues. I haven't encountered anything game-breaking so far except a single freeze that I could not reproduce, at about half through. The translation so far has been alright (the only typo I've recently encountered was in the Phoenix Wright demo).
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Healbot posted:I haven't encountered anything game-breaking so far except a single freeze that I could not reproduce, at about half through. The translation so far has been alright (the only typo I've recently encountered was in the Phoenix Wright demo). I got impatient and posted in the Megaten thread (which you also answered) and it seems like the bugs should be no problem if I save often enough, so I'll probably get the game. I really like the cyberpunk setting plus EO4 has made me want to play more first-person dungeon crawlers.
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Rune Factory 4 question: how many story dungeons are there? I've just saved Dolce and am on to the next dungeon as the story urges, but with what I've seen so far it seems like that would definitely be a second-to-last thing... Except I'm not even through Spring yet. There has to be more, right? Right??
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Shoopuf posted:Rune Factory 4 question: how many story dungeons are there? I've just saved Dolce and am on to the next dungeon as the story urges, but with what I've seen so far it seems like that would definitely be a second-to-last thing... Except I'm not even through Spring yet. These games are HUGE. In one of them you are close to finishing the story and bam, the true story is meant to be played by your son, all of these 12 hours were just a tutorial. I'm really fighting against myself to not get this game since pokemon is next week. What were they thinking? Why release anything a week from pokemon?
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Katana Gomai posted:I wouldn't call it a deja vu until there actually are some Wii U games! We're pretty much waiting for our Mario Kart 7/3D Land in the form of Super Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8. EDIT: Heck we even just got our Ocarina of Time 3D remake in Wind Waker HD
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