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9031 | 65.25% |
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| Waluigi |
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1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
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748 | 5.40% |
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Look at this guy, never played Sluggers and saw Goomba play baseball. Sluggers was easily one of my favorite Wii games. First baseball video game that I really enjoyed in years.
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May 1, 2014 19:36
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Astro7x posted:Anyway, does anybody know the file sizes for the 4 NA games that come with Mario Kart? Wind Waker is 2.4GB, NSMBU is 2.3 GB, Pikmin is 4.5 GB, and Wii party is 5.1 GB.
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May 1, 2014 19:59
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So for the Mario Kart 8 free game promo, Game and Wario or Wii Party U?
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May 1, 2014 20:01
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Kurtofan posted:So for the Mario Kart 8 free game promo, Game and Wario or Wii Party U? I'd go with Game and Wario, Wii Party U apparently requires a gamepad stand for a lot of the games that is bundled with the retail version.
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May 1, 2014 20:17
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Do the EU Wii U's not come with the charger/inert stand in the box?
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May 1, 2014 20:21
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Medium Cool posted:I'd go with Game and Wario, Wii Party U apparently requires a gamepad stand for a lot of the games that is bundled with the retail version. The Gamepad stand just levels the Gamepad out so you're not viewing things at an angle. You can use a few playing cards or something instead. The Gamepad games are awesome though, Tabletop Baseball is the poo poo, mind games distilled to its purest form.
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May 1, 2014 20:29
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Kurtofan posted:So for the Mario Kart 8 free game promo, Game and Wario or Wii Party U? I'd choose Game & Wario too. The multiplayer is great if you need a multiplayer game but don't want to buy a ton of extra controllers.
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May 1, 2014 20:34
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SeANMcBAY posted:I'd choose Game & Wario too. The multiplayer is great if you need a multiplayer game but don't want to buy a ton of extra controllers. Or if you want drinking-friendly games, there's no reason to not have a drink in your hand 80% of the time you're playing Sketch.
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May 1, 2014 20:35
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Medium Cool posted:I'd go with Game and Wario, Wii Party U apparently requires a gamepad stand for a lot of the games that is bundled with the retail version. Um... only those crappy table top games benefit from using the stand, but by no means is required. If you even play them
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May 1, 2014 21:00
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I'm probably gonna go with Mario & Sonic. I don't have friends to play with, but there's online and I heard the games are pretty good. Game & Wario seems cool but I heard it just doesn't have enough substance. Outside of those two, the only game I don't have would be Wii Party and, well, yeah.
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May 1, 2014 22:20
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Elliotw2 posted:Do the EU Wii U's not come with the charger/inert stand in the box? My UK one did. Only with the 32GB models though, I think.
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May 2, 2014 02:04
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Astro7x posted:Um... only those crappy table top games benefit from using the stand, but by no means is required. If you even play them If you don't like Tabletop Baseball you're dead inside 
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May 2, 2014 02:58
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Sarchasm posted:Temper your expectations. The 3DS thread was in a nerd-rage uproar about the mediocre reviews, then a handful of people actually played it. Talk of an anti-Nintendo agenda by the games journalism machine went out of style real fast. Is the response really that mediocre? Most people I know who managed to play the game said it was excellent. And I seem to remember some major game journalism site (probably EGM's) giving the game a very positive review.
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May 2, 2014 03:42
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SilverSupernova posted:Is the response really that mediocre? Most people I know who managed to play the game said it was excellent. And I seem to remember some major game journalism site (probably EGM's) giving the game a very positive review. Nah that dude just lives in some weird spaceman world where an 80 on Metacritic and one guy saying "it's fun but I beat it in a day and returned it" is some massive conflict
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May 2, 2014 03:46
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absolutely anything posted:Nah that dude just lives in some weird spaceman world where an 80 on Metacritic and one guy saying "it's fun but I beat it in a day and returned it" is some massive conflict People need review scores, otherwise how will they know a game is objectively good? 
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May 2, 2014 04:22
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absolutely anything posted:Nah that dude just lives in some weird spaceman world where an 80 on Metacritic and one guy saying "it's fun but I beat it in a day and returned it" is some massive conflict I never attempted to characterize it as a massive conflict, I just said that the reception was mediocre. I don't even read reviews, I was just urging a little caution by repeating stuff from another thread. Jesus, you people are defensive.
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May 2, 2014 04:47
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Sarchasm posted:I never attempted to characterize it as a massive conflict You loving said the thread was in a "nerd-rage uproar" dude
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May 2, 2014 04:50
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absolutely anything posted:You loving said the thread was in a "nerd-rage uproar" dude There's about a page in the 3DS thread ripping on gaming journalist sites for giving Kirby what they considered undeservedly low scores. That's an uproar. It was only calmed when two people who own the game chimed in with their own opinions, corroborating the criticisms in these reviews. Edit: This is an incredibly dumb argument. Anyone who has anything further to say to me on the matter, I encourage you to take it to PMs.
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May 2, 2014 04:52
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Now I know why Kirby is always angry on the boxart.
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May 2, 2014 04:54
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Curious, is Miiverse still popular to check out? Felt like randomly doodling and a hour later noticed I haven't gotten a single yeah. (Make the obvious burn I'm asking for it ) Checked out the communities in general and there's just a lot of 0 yeahs, comments etcs. vvvv Well obviously
ThisIsACoolGuy fucked around with this message at 11:44 on May 2, 2014 |
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May 2, 2014 11:00
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Sort by popular posts and you should find some better ones, yours won't be there though I'm sorry.
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May 2, 2014 11:09
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Curious, is Miiverse still popular to check out? Felt like randomly doodling and a hour later noticed I haven't gotten a single yeah. (Make the obvious burn I'm asking for it I still get yeahs posting Child of Light screenshots, but like most online communities after the first week things kinda die down unless it's a really popular game.
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May 2, 2014 12:54
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Curious, is Miiverse still popular to check out? Felt like randomly doodling and a hour later noticed I haven't gotten a single yeah. (Make the obvious burn I'm asking for it Some games just have evergreen Miiverse communities. I got a couple Yeahs on something I posted on NSMBU the other day.
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May 2, 2014 13:21
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For lack of a better place to put this: Now that I have a Wii U I'm buying a lot of Wii games I've missed and catching up on them. Currently romping through Super Mario Galaxy 1 and Metorid Prime 1 (I don't know if you guys know this or not but these games are pretty good!). The following is a list of the games I've got so far: Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Galaxy 2 Super Mario All-Stars Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Xenoblade Chronicles The Last Story Mario Super Sluggers Mario Strikers Charged Rhythm Heaven Fever Fortune Street Metroid Other M Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Sin & Punishment Star Successor Super Paper Mario Donkey Kong Country Returns Mario Kart Wii Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny Super Smash Bros. Brawl I feel like I've gotten a lot of the heavy hitters but I'm looking for any other games I may have overlooked / unheralded games that deserve a playthrough that's not on this list. I've admittedly ignored a lot of the Wii's library in the past so I know very little about it.
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May 2, 2014 14:14
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Fire Emblem is pretty good if you enjoy those types of games.
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May 2, 2014 14:15
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Kirios posted:For lack of a better place to put this: Skip other M
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May 2, 2014 14:17
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It was literally five bucks. I really, really enjoy Metroid games so it's worth a shot at least. I love Fire Emblem games but Radiant Dawn is 80 loving dollars. Xenoblade Chronicles and Metroid Prime Trilogy came first...I'll get it eventually.
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May 2, 2014 14:19
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Kirios posted:For lack of a better place to put this: Get a classic controller pro and get the original Sin and Punishment off the Wii Shop Channel. Here's some more retail games worth getting; House of the Dead: Overkill Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles Red Steel 2 Sonic Colours Muramasa: The Demon Blade Madworld Dead Space: Extinction No More Heroes No More Heroes 2 Trauma Center: New Blood Trauma Center: Second Opinion Trauma Team Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Okami
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May 2, 2014 14:19
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Punch Out! Wii is a great puzzle/fighting game. Wario Land: Shake it! is a good platformer, with a gimmick a la Warioland 4. I liked Kirby's Return to Dreamland, but the sequel just came out on 3DS so you may want to go for that instead. Sonic Colors is pretty good. Okami if you haven't played that yet. Murasama is a cool hack'n'slash that I found a bit repetitive at times but it's really pretty. Zack and Wiki: an original puzzle/adventure game. Edit: oh yeah, forgot about No More Heroes 1 and 2, very cool action games. Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 14:26 on May 2, 2014 |
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May 2, 2014 14:23
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Excellent - that's the type of list I'm looking for, thanks! I've got a classic controller pro already. I forgot to mention this but I'd even be willing to look at some Wii-shop games as well. Are there any RPGs that I've missed that are warrant playing through? I heard Arc Rise Fantastia's alright? What about the Pikmin games?
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May 2, 2014 14:23
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Kirios posted:It was literally five bucks. I really, really enjoy Metroid games so it's worth a shot at least. If you enjoy Metroid games I would highly recommend skipping Other M. Not even just because the plot is overwhelmingly dumb and sexist, but because the game is completely linear and has pretty bad controls. Also 20 minute cutscenes. It takes everything that was good about Metroid and throws it out.
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May 2, 2014 14:24
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Battalion Wars 2 is a pretty fun/niche game, I recommend giving that a look.
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May 2, 2014 14:26
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Kirios posted:Excellent - that's the type of list I'm looking for, thanks! Pikmin's wonderful. Get them both, and if they're to your liking there's a third game on the WiiU.
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May 2, 2014 14:26
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Please destroy the Tales of Symphonia sequel. One less copy of that terrible game in the world. If you liked the first game, you must never play that one.
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May 2, 2014 14:31
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...the first Symphonia was my favorite Tales game ever.  Is it really that bad? Why's it so bad?
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May 2, 2014 14:34
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Kirios posted:...the first Symphonia was my favorite Tales game ever. Good God, the protagonist is the whiniest anime character ever and its so so painful to play. I pushed through it based on my love of ToS, but its really really painful. Dude, just play ToS again.
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May 2, 2014 14:37
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The biggest game that sin committed was having all of the original Symphonia characters join you temporarily as "guests" and you can't play as them. DotNW is a bad tales game on par with Legendia (which is saying something since Legendia is literally unfinished) but it tried to get away with it by plastering beloved characters and locations all over itself. That being said it does have a semi-interesting monster capture/training mechanic ala Pokemon. That was the one redeeming factor of that game, what I wouldn't give for a PC in a mainline Tales game that was a beastmaster and could capture wild beasts like that
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May 2, 2014 14:43
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LanceKing2200 posted:The biggest game that sin committed was having all of the original Symphonia characters join you temporarily as "guests" and you can't play as them. DotNW is a bad tales game on par with Legendia (which is saying something since Legendia is literally unfinished) but it tried to get away with it by plastering beloved characters and locations all over itself.  Admittedly it's been a while, but last I checked, you could totally play as them, they just can't level up because...reasons, I guess. I mean, don't get me wrong, DotNW is by no means a great game, but it has enough actual flaws that we don't have to make things up about it.E: For what it's worth, I say go for it. Certainly, temper your expectations before playing it, but if you ignore the plot (which is basically a retread of Symphonia 1) it plays well enough that you shouldn't have too many issues with it. Just remember that it was made by the Tales B-Team and it came out right around the same time as Vesperia, so you're looking at Abyss-era combat mechanics. Artix fucked around with this message at 14:54 on May 2, 2014 |
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May 2, 2014 14:49
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LanceKing2200 posted:The biggest game that sin committed was having all of the original Symphonia characters join you temporarily as "guests" and you can't play as them. You can actually, you just can't set them into party slot 1 for some reason. You could just switch to them in-battle in every battle. Besides, I don't think that's the biggest issue with that game. I think the biggest issue is that they somehow made the battle system feel bad. I can't quite describe it, but there's something about the battle system that just feels off, almost like it's a non-Tales game that tries to imitate the real Tales games but doesn't quite get there.
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May 2, 2014 14:52
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Kirios posted:It was literally five bucks. I really, really enjoy Metroid games so it's worth a shot at least. If you enjoy Metroid games then Other M is the opposite of "worth a shot". However, I still say play it entirely for the train wreck value. Also, it's five hours long so you're not wasting a lot of time being horrified at what they've done. So interesting stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet: Lost in Shadow, A Boy and His Blob, Kirby's Epic Yarn, De Blob 1 and 2, Dead Space: Extraction, and ExciteBots (ExciteTruck is also a lot of fun but of the two Bots is much better).
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