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I'll be getting it and playing on Super Casual Pussy Mode. I hate restarting because someone died (no, I cannot keep going if I lose someone, fuck that), so it's a welcome addition.
NO ATTACHMENTS!
I'm excited for RPGs in general on the sytem. We've got Fire Emblem, Etrian Oddysey IV, and a few Shin Megami Tensei games hitting, and then of course there's the rumor of that "All the Bravest" trademark SE made awhile back as being the western localization of Bravely Default.
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Listening to
while studying just makes me feel good.Man they did a good job with the OST to the Black/White generation.
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YAY! FYI guys, Ocre is pretty awesome! Now my battle team is nearly complete! Just need to figure out whether I want a Torchic, a Mankey, a Tepig or a Meditite to round it out...
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I totally forgot to post my friend code for the game: 1464 4889 9623.
I've got a Seadra that I'm trying to trade to evolve it into a Kingdra so I can have another dragon pokemon on my team. I'd love it if anyone could help with that. I just need to figure out where the hell I can get a dragon shard before Victory Road.
I actually restarted the game 35 hours in and am back to 40 hours, and I've spent a shitload of time using the pokemon dream world on the global link page. In fact, most of the pokemon on my team are mons I acquired through it. It's not that I don't like Unova region's pokemon, I just like a lot from other regions a lot more.
Let's get some battles and trading in, people!
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So I managed to score a copy of Epic Mickey and Paper Mario Sticker Star for Christmas this year. Full impressions later, but I can say without a doubt that Epic Mickey Power of Illusion is far better than the demo lets on(which is good, by the way). There is however one important detail:
After awhile, you'll eventually gain the ability to sketch Scrooge McDuck into helping you clear an area. Upon doing so, he will jump all around the screen on his trusty cane like a pogo stick ala Duck Tales!
This is the greatest thing.
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Not included are some tanktops and boxers, WHICH I'M WEARING!
This messenger bag is so great.
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_Insert preemptive flippant condemnation of self-stylized "Final Fantasy fans" here_
But seriously SE, change that name to FFXIII-3.
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this is relevant to the discussion
Incidentally
.Because after all, I just want to ride my bicycle.
Come on guys, let's play some Pokemon.
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You can check out their website over at http://www.dolphin-emulator.com/. The emulator is pretty advanced at this point, and as long as you have a computer with the guts to play something circa 2008 or so and are cool with not running it in HD, you should be able to run it just fine(Skyward Sword looks beautiful on it in HD). They have a start up guide video on their front page.
You WILL need a USB bluetooth dongle to get it working with your actual WiiMotes and nunchucks though, as well as either a wireless IR sensor or 2 candles(yes it works). You can map most all controls to your keyboard and mouse if you have absolutely no other alternative though.
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Well I only played the game a bit last year, since Dolphin still wasn't running the game particularly well and my Japanese at the time still wasn't amazing, but from what I played I could definitely gather why people might assume early on that it MAY be a bit simple? But honestly I could tell by the way more and more concepts were being added(performing sneak attack headshots, using Area of Effect magic, healing and so on) gave me the impression that the game was going to get more complex as time went on. That's as far as my impressions go I'm afraid.
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Why do you need a headset if you're worried about not hearing the sound from the TV? Just get a boom mic then.
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What's hilarious is that SE fans build themselves up again and again, and have done so for the last 8 or so years, only to be beaten down, time and time again.
Only those who set their own dumb asses up for disappointment in the first place.
It's like a new Sonic cycle...
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I'd love to get a Wii U with both New Super Mario Bros. U and Ninja Gaiden III, but the lack of online multiplayer for Mario means that outside of family gatherings, it's gonna be real hard to find anyone who actually wants to play the thing.
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I defy anyone on OCR to be given the chance to score 4-6 major retail RPGs from major game companies and turn them down. (Although my point is admittingly counter-productive since Motoi Sakuraba can get work regardless)
Having not played either of those games but still being aware of their mixed-towards-favorable reviews, I must ask what the measure of a "bad game" is in that context, and it better not be something akin to "well, it's not FFVI."
Also, since none of this is very relevant to the topic point, let's not turn it into a long debate.
Lost Odyssey had excellent character writing in the form of Jansen and excellent short story inserts courtesy of Kiyoshi Shigematsu and probably one of Nobuo Uematsu's best soundtracks next to FFVI, but the game itself has terrible pacing, a very droll and rote cookie cutter battle system, and very disgusting visuals(the designs are great, but the Unreal Engine is as fugly as ever).
Blue Dragon was just a shit Dragon Quest wannabe. It should be no surprise why Microsoft dumped Mist Walker. But hey, they went on years later to make The Last Story, which by all counts isn't too shabby.
And you can't sit here and tell me that after awhile, every string section and electric organ doesn't blend into eachother for the most part in Sakuraba's stuff, and the greatest offenders are the latest Tales and Star Oceans. Resonance of Fate's OST was great, but that was by virtue of Sakuraba being balanced out by the excellent work of Kohei Tanaka.
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Bullarkey. You try being hired to do 18 CDs worth of music a year nonstop and make each of those 900 tracks memorable.
This is basically the problem. It's called being overworked. It generally leads to subpar work, which in the creative industry could be devastating.
We all thought Hironobu Sakaguchi was awesome(well, rabid fanboys did), but he also made Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, which are both BAD GAMES. Sometimes people need to step away for awhile.
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I can't believe you would say such a thing.
Sakuraba's Tales and Star Ocean music is pretty uninspired and blends into eachother to create a musical mess. Doesn't sound offensive, but hardly memorable.
I'll grant you that his Eternal Sonata stuff was great, but he had to work within a theme there.
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There is nothing good about this news unless they fire the entire team responsible for Star Ocean The Last Hope and get back on track with what Star Ocean SHOULD have been, which is much more sci-fi akin to Xenosaga with much less religious references and long-ass cutscenes. Good sound engineering and music would also help out.
Also calling it now, mobile game for iOS or Vita rerelease of SO4.
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go to giantbomb.com if you want respectable people reviewing your games. it's the old gamespot crew headed up by jeff gerstman, the guy who got fired for giving kane and lynch (i think it was?) a 6.0 after they had advertised all over their site.
they have a subscriber setup so they don't have to completely rely on money from ads, and are pound for pound the most fun you can have watching videos of games and reading reviews.
To be totally honest, I don't see why most other sites aren't willing to go the subscriber route. Seems like not only would it get rid of the internet forum chaff, but it would free journalists to actually act like 'em. I'm almost tempted to go subscribe to Giantbomb now after hearing that.
I actually like the current 1up skeleton crew, and I after hearing a few of their recent podcasts, I think they could easily branch of of gaming and head into other media as well.
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Well as far as I know, RPGamer relies on ad revenue from non-gaming sources, but they're still a bunch of unprofessional gushy fantards.
I'd say that out of the entire 1up crew, there probably isn't a single one that isn't free of the revenue game regardless of what Sam Kennedy may have said in the past. In fact people like Frank Cifaldi have pretty much admitted on various of their podcasts that a lot of the website's design choices came from the need to increase ad revenue. I still think that Jeremy Parish is relatively free from bias, or at the very least he seems to actively disdain that side of things.
I try to offer my own impressions of things(since "professional" reviews are bonk in all media in my opinion), but like Mirby I pretty much enjoy almost everything I play, so yeah, don't know if that's bias or not.
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Here's the problem with the VGAs.
Or rather, one of the many problems.
So I took a look at the nominees a week or so ago for the VGAs. Get to Best Handheld Game.
4 nominees, 3 of which are Vita games. The sole 3DS game is New Super Mario Bros. 2.
Where's Kid Icarus: Uprising? Kingdom Hearts 3D? Theatrhythm? As much fun as I've had with NSMB2, there are other 3DS games more deserving of an award than NSMB2, which to me shows they only put it there out of courtesy. And the fact that the other 3 games were Vita games? Out of how many games for the Vita? I mean, the system is slowly building up a library, but it's still quite small.
If this was truly an awards show, the nominations should be unbiased, not just tossing in a Mario game to make it look as if they're giving everything a fair chance.
Like someone else pointed out, the whole thing is just a bunch of paid advertisements, glitz, and groan worthy moments that you'd only get out of a Kid's Choice, an MTV music awards or whatever the fuck the vulgar masses are into right now.
The 3DS is still building its own library, but I'm sure a game like Black Ops Declassified(don't know if that one actually made it in) is easier to sell than a Kingdom Hearts or Kid Icarus, even if it tanked all across the review board and hasn't managed to help sell a single Vita.
We should just make our own VGAs, one that is more fair to everything, that is actually about the games and not just celebrities. One where the people in the industry get the recognition they deserve, regardless if they're Western developers or not (whereas the VGAs seem to focus on the Western side of things whilst ignoring everything else).Fortunately there are the GDC awards, which is really all the actual devs and certain publishers like Nintendo care about.
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In this thread award shows are stupid.
Spoiler: They really are.
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Haha! Get it, guys!? It's the VGAs!
No but seriously, who actually watches that thing?
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Bach is actually Baroque.
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Oh, well fuck me. I had always thought the Romantic period was part of the Classical period. Welp, if that's the case, I'm officially not a big fan of most classical music. All those wasted years as a kid playing Bach and shit when I should have been doing jazz...And this is exactly the problem with using Classical as an umbrella term: it misleads people into thinking that anything classical is basically Mozart or Mozart-sounding, when in reality there is SO MUCH great music that has been written over the centuries, but a person who might otherwise enjoy said music might pass over it because he or she heard Mozart or whoever and automatically make the association "this is classical music"(which to be fair you could do with any genre) and hate it without listening to something like Debussy's Clair de Lune or Chopin's Revolutionary Etude. But who's to blame here? I can't really fault the layman as much as I feel it's the fault of whoever decided to misrepresent centuries of music by calling it all "Classical".
/pretentious music fan
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Classical music is a stupid umbrella term that doesn't even properly convey the range of musical works it tries to classify. It's even more ridiculous given that "classical" is already a period within said grouping. What? Is Mozart Classical Classical music then? Good grief.
Pokémon Black 2 and White 2: OCR's Finest Trainers, Version 14.3.5.1(b)
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Hey gang! I've FINALLY beaten the Elite Four and gained access to pokemon breeding. Here's the sklnny:
I want a Torchic(egg or recently hatched/<lvl.10 is fine), and I've got a few Oshawott and Oshawott eggs that I'm willing to trade, although I could probably breed a few other things if anyone wants. I just want me a torchic!
Someone let me know if they wanna deal or if they could direct me to anyone who would. Happy gaming!
Edit- I just got a few golarks and male eevees that I can trade as well.