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9031 | 65.25% |
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1191 | 8.60% |
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808 | 5.84% |
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460 | 3.32% |
| Waluigi |
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1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
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748 | 5.40% |
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The Introvert posted:They almost did go out of business a few months back before they got bought over by an equity firm, I think? And with their prices it's no wonder, I've basically turned to Amazon entirely for games now, occasionally HMV. Most places online rarely ask for over £40 for new games where GAME's all too willing to charge up to £45 or more. I like how we American PC gamers bitch every single time a new game comes out for 60 USD even though it's been every game for years, and the largest British retailer for games sells them for 45 loving pounds or more. That's over 72 dollars. Highway robbery for sure.
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Oct 18, 2012 20:51
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I have regular sized hands and other than the black and white buttons the Duke is the #1 greatest controller of all time. They should re-release it.
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Oct 21, 2012 18:33
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As far as this year's E3 attendees go I think it was just that one idiot from CNN who couldn't tell it was a new console despite over a year of hype and sitting through a presentation on it.
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Oct 22, 2012 02:42
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But people loved the adult timeline in OoT. Wind Waker was making up for every prior Zelda game not being quite awesome or beautiful enough.
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Oct 22, 2012 19:27
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:I don't play very many games with loading screens. Probably Xenoblade is the extent for me. I can't think of very many DS games with loading screens. If there's longer than a five second delay into playing I tend to lose interest fast. There are a number of games with no or very few loading screens, for instance Dark Souls lets you traverse its entire world without a loading screen. I just want to see SSDs make loading screens near instant.
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Oct 22, 2012 20:19
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thexerox123 posted:Here's someone who hasn't played the Playstation version of Chrono Trigger, then. The load screens in Morrowind were extremely bad. I can't even decide whether the regular version or the GOTY version was worse; the GOTY version made a lot of the in-game loading screens much shorter, but loading a character took an hour and a goddamned half.
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Oct 22, 2012 23:10
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Can you name some examples?
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Oct 22, 2012 23:32
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So you think 2K made Firaxis hobble Civ 5 in order to sell Gods and Kings like a year and a half later? Disregarding the fact that expansions are usually seen as a bit different from the newer, smaller DLC phenomenon on consoles, that's extremely unlikely. It's not like there's never been a bad Civ game, Civ 3 sucked too.
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Oct 22, 2012 23:41
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Chronojam posted:You know, for Battlefield 3, DICE cut voice chat for the PC version. Also, not even text chat for co-op either, they left that out. No they wanted you to use the Battlelog voice chat.
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Oct 23, 2012 03:53
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Doesn't have to be fully 3D per se, they could make a game that plays identically to the current Pokemon games and put it on the consoles. Maybe spruce it up with some really nice hand drawn art. Make it look like Rayman. I bet if Nintendo owned Gamefreak this would have happened already.
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Oct 23, 2012 05:00
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edit: Whoops, mod intervention
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Oct 24, 2012 21:11
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Folt The Bolt posted:Wii U is gonna sell at a loss? 3DS post price drop. edit: vv Oops, my bad. Fergus Mac Roich fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Oct 24, 2012 |
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Oct 24, 2012 21:35
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To be fair TV manufacturers want you to buy a new TV every 3-5 years so loving badly.
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Oct 27, 2012 07:53
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Thank God the Wii U won't be stealing my precious shelf space because everything will be available digitally; I hope that includes stupid HD compilations should I ever want to buy one.
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Oct 28, 2012 01:12
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I sure wish 15GB were massive!
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Oct 28, 2012 21:33
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Atomicated posted:That's nearly half the Wii U's hard drive! C'mon now, that thing's not really for storage if you're going to commit to downloading games. As someone who doesn't want to own physical game boxes, I consider an external drive mandatory for me. Sadly, I may end up buying physical copies and having to make room for the cases somewhere. Maybe I'll keep all the discs in a binder and the cases in a box somewhere.
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Oct 28, 2012 22:01
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greatn posted:I also have a fond nostalgia for the late 1990s. Honestly if it's between that and getting a new shelf just for games I'll take the CD binder. If it's not clear the reason this is more difficult for me than most is that I don't have a lot of space and I don't have an already existing collection of physical discs that I can get rid of; I have maybe 4 PS2 games and that's it. All my games are on PC and they are all from Steam, gog, etc.
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Oct 29, 2012 02:31
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Executing a task at a certain time is practically all computers do. It should be trivial.
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Oct 29, 2012 06:14
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Well would you look at that! I think they could probably work in sci-fi as long as it was always subtle and mysterious and not explained very well.
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Nov 4, 2012 19:07
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My computer can do it. It's a shame that the Wii U can't.
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Nov 6, 2012 00:48
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I don't have F-zero GX but it does other GC games at 1080p and 60fps. It's just an i5 and a 6870. For the record the 360 and PS3 were comparable to high end PCs when they were released. Fergus Mac Roich fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Nov 6, 2012 |
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Nov 6, 2012 00:53
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suddenlyissoon posted:I've never been a Rayman fan but drat is that game pretty. Stopped in to Gamestop to try it and I was blown away graphically. In case you don't know, Origins had very similar visuals. It is a very pretty game. It's also awesome.
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Nov 8, 2012 03:27
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Just played the Rayman demo and got a feel of the controller. Loved everything about it except it felt like I was holding some multi million dollar piece of NASA technology.
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Nov 8, 2012 20:17
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:Racing to first early and thinking you should win just because of that is dumb. Isn't it a racing game? I kind of hate Mario Kart for this reason. I hate how arbitrary everything seems. I like green shells as a mechanic but pretty much nothing else and that's why I never buy Mario Kart games.
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Nov 9, 2012 02:50
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You could see the smudges in the Giant Bomb unboxing. Please let me buy a matte console 
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Nov 9, 2012 06:24
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I wonder if the eyeball computer chips more powerful than today's super computers that we'll all have by 2025 will support distributed computing to play the most taxing games.
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Nov 10, 2012 20:37
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Oh that's true actually. You wouldn't even need as many firmware updates that way.
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Nov 10, 2012 20:42
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Gamestop one's have Rayman Legends, the one at my Walmart just has trailers. You can hold the controller at least! I don't know about anyone else but it's totally different from what I expected in terms of how it feels in your hands.
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Nov 11, 2012 02:10
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Different good. I didn't expect it to feel terrible or anything but it's totally comfortable. Weight is comparable to a wired 360 controller. I can't comment on how it feels after a long play session but in my ~15 minutes it felt totally fine. If it doesn't cramp your hands after a while I can't even see why the pro controller would be necessary. edit: A wired 360 controller is lighter than a wireless one and heavier than a PS3 controller.
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Nov 11, 2012 02:24
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Bobnumerotres posted:They could always release smart phones with buttons. I have a Samsung Replenish for work. It's an Android phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. It convinced me that my nostalgia for the tactile feel of phone keyboards was completely misplaced; the phone is a piece of poo poo and the buttons only make it bigger and bulkier than any phone should be, while ensuring that the screen is pathetically small.
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Nov 11, 2012 19:31
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I hadn't been reading the Iwata Asks at all. That was a mistake. Why aren't they selling this thing?: That's bleeding edge tech, man. Looks really next gen.
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Nov 12, 2012 05:56
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Are you asking why it can't do these things when you don't actually know whether it does them?
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Nov 12, 2012 06:13
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Quest For Glory II posted:Yes because the correct assumption to always use with Nintendo is "Does it have (X)? NOPE" That's fair.
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Nov 12, 2012 06:32
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Akileese posted:I don't think any of us expected NG to be that great though. I was out and about and figured I'd stop by Gamestop to see if I could pay off/pick up AC3 for Wii U and sure as hell I was able to. Wasn't going to be able to get back over to Gamestop again until Sunday so it was just easier for me to pay it off and pick it up now. I dunno, I did see some posts around here saying that Ninja Gaiden 3 was definitely going to be fixed by this update.
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Nov 13, 2012 19:26
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greatn posted:Batman fully takes advantage of the blimp generation processor. On Destructoid? 5/10. The game was pretty much universally panned.
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Nov 13, 2012 20:25
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Holy poo poo I have like 8-9 USB Mini-B cables and adapters because they're used in a device at work and this is the first time I've heard of anything else using one.
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Nov 14, 2012 20:03
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Astro7x posted:The Wii U has to be one of the most confusing hardware launches I've ever seen... It's making me kind of miss the days where you put the cartridge in the system and it just worked, you know? Except when it didn't, you know?
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Nov 15, 2012 00:04
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Almost Smart posted:What's the fascination with a midnight Wii U launch anyway? It has a solid launch library as far as these things go, but nothing there really screams "Oh God, can't wait gotta play it NOW." There's no such thing as "gotta play it now" because most people would normally be asleep within a few hours of midnight anyway. People want a midnight launch because they enjoy nerding out with other mutually interested dudes.
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Nov 15, 2012 00:30
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Disappointing Pie posted:They're very simple games. No voice tracks, very simple music, basic textures etc etc. It's kind of maddening actually that they didn't come out with a new style of Mario for the Wii U. And that seems to be a criticism by several if some of the previews and the Giant Bombcast is any indication. I don't think NSMB, which is tacitly the zero creativity zone for Mario games, is mutually exclusive with other new Mario games. Some other team, like some guys who worked on Galaxy 1/2 or 3D Land, is probably working on a new one that takes things in another direction. I hope that's what's happening and I'm very excited to see what they do.
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Nov 15, 2012 01:33
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Boten Anna posted:I just don't understand why this tablet attachment for the Wii requires the friend codes to be twice as long! It's already bad enough that Nintendo is forcing all games to require local multiplayer only using camera facial recognition. Cancelling all 5 preorders. I heard with the next console, the Wii Us, you will only be able to play multiplayer with those who share a blood relation to you. There's a syringe built into the console for drawing blood.
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Nov 15, 2012 04:45
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