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    Nintendo Wii

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    There are some pretty tough puzzles if you're not looking out for them. Some tricks (especially with the clawshot) had me stumped for the longest time because I had absolutely no inkling they should be possible.

    Wait a second... how are videogames fun?

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    Zelda.

    kinda

    I'm not saying anything bad about Zelda games in general, this actually applies to all games, but how often can you sit back and say "wow this is FUN."

    More like, wow this is cool, wow that is pretty, wow this is epic, wow midna is HOT.

    You know.. for how many people love to say Midna is hot...

    Just which Midna are you talking about? The little imp Midna who rides around on Link's back and bosses him around(eventually resorting to begging..), for 30-70 hours of the game, or the more human Midna you see for maybe 3 minutes in a cutscene at the end of the game?

    Because, you know, if it's the first one, I can think of a couple signature memes that would fit, to describe it.

    yiff yiff, if you know what I mean.
    They're actually talking about the giant Fused Shadow tentacle being. Hurrrrrrrr

    I don't know what's wrong with you guys, but I had fun during every single second of Twilight Princess. Seriously, if you're getting worked up about it then you're playing it wrong. Stop taking the game so seriously and you'll have so much more fun than ever before.

    Nintendo Wii

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    You know, these jackass spammers are really starting to bug me.

    Anyway, anyone else find it sad that it's been left in the laps of the end user to integrate tabbed browsing through possibly insecure and scrupulous websites, because Opera was, apparently, too damn lazy to put it in themselves? Seriously, it's becoming almost a cottage industry, trying to make the best, easiest to use tabbed portal.

    I'm pretty sure it's been speculated all over that given this is the trial version of the browser, the final version will include tabbed browsing. Possibly even support for pop-ups.

    Whatdja Get!? (Christmas Gifts report in)

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    ololol

    Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

    The Waste Land and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot

    Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

    How I Met Your Mother, Season 1

    Carcassonne Big Box (best nonvideo game ever)

    Killer Bunnies (apparently a good quirky nonvideo game, haven't played it before)

    shipping in 4 to 6 weeks:

    Ulysses and Dubliners by James Joyce

    The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

    yeah I like books. Too bad I won't have time to read any for a while.

    Contest Idea!

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    where's a picture of the "why not take a break?" screen when you need one

    nintendo_take_break_final_break_lg.jpg

    Note how the player jumped out of the window.

    yeah that's what I was going for: dude your boss killed a little kid and now he's on the run

    Nintendo Wii

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    On the topic of emulation...

    Rather than using a cheap ripoff of a cheap PC game controller, just go get an X360 pad. Plugs right in, the drivers are available on winupdate(or through the XBCD 3rd party drivers, so you can get rumble..), and it's a REAL system gamepad. :)

    Because, you know, that's not more expensive than getting an adapter for the real classic controllers. :roll:

    Injin: Right, okay. I think I'm just resigned to the fact that, no matter how pretty the graphics get or how innovative the control design, good video games will always be basically the same, sharing common elements. It's like literature. You can change up the language, the style, the setting, the genre, but in the end anything worth reading will always approach the same topics and themes and attempt to convey the universal Truth. The Wii is like the step from Romanticism to realism. It's a brilliant, exhiliratingly fun step, but it doesn't change the core of gaming.

    Also, if they can sell the same game over and over again, it must be worth keeping alive (and bringing to those who never had it before--it's not like I'd buy Super Castlevania IV again on the next Nintendo console). I think it's far less a crime to do this, claiming nothing more than surviving a classic, than it would be to dress a less-than-stellar game in a fancy new package and sell that, as many developers will do these days.

    CE: Yes. And it's Good.

    World of Warcraft

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    If I'm going to play a game because friends/guild want me to, I want to know if it can be enjoyable if played casually, because even if I do play this some more, I'm not going to devote huge amounts of time to it.

    This is actually the question I'm waiting to see answered with the expansion in mind as well. As badly as I want to play it, I don't want to spend the money on the expansion and the first month only to find out it won't be rewarding for the amount of time I would actually have to devote to it. I don't think there will really be an answer until a little while after it comes out.

    My high school ripped off your school's mascot FYI.

    Nintendo Wii

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    I know what emulation is. Ever heard of metonymy? Some people use it out of ignorance, others use it on purpose. I did the latter because I really don't like computer emulation. If I'm going to go to the trouble of metonymically distinguishing between subsets of emulation, please go to the trouble of recognizing it, whether you think I did it on purpose or not.

    I'm aware there are adapters for console controllers. But I'm going back to the means and desire bit here--it just doesn't compel me to believe it's worth the effort (yes, it is my preference). Besides, given how few games I expect to purchase on the VC from each console, it would probably be more expensive for me to acquire the proper adapters for several console controllers than to just buy the bloody games.

    Also, I hope I didn't give you any indication that I was a "gaming purist." I couldn't care less about the sharp, cutting-edge graphics of current games, so I see no reason to care about the "authentic" look of older games. If it's playable, I play it--appearances have a very minimal role in determining that.

    I feel the same way about PC emulation that I do about music-sharing. If it's something I never have or rarely can experience as its producer intended me to, I have few qualms about taking part, because it will either allow me to realize I don't want to experience it any further or give me reason to support its producer in the future. Tales of Phantasia, for example, and Super Metroid the first time I heard of it, were things I could justify with free PC emulation. But I bought the GBA version of ToP, and I'll probably get Super Metroid on the VC, just as I eventually bought Franz Ferdinand's second album, having downloaded the first in its entirety. And, well, that's just how I consider my role in the entertainment industry. Notice how I keep referring to myself, not to anyone else. I don't care how you do things, or anyone else for that matter.

    Nintendo Wii

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    Yeah, but isn't the VC basically emulation? :?:

    BTW, I'm waiting for the reviews for the new VC titles. I probably won't ever buy any VC title other than SMRPG, but it's interesting to hear how the games have aged on a new console. I still wish they put out high definition, pixel-laden versions sometime though. The higher definition actually lends itself to the retro feel.

    1. I am playing with a real console controller, not a crappy PC counterfeit or keyboard.

    2. I am playing on a TV, not a PC monitor, and I have neither desire nor means to feed the PC through the TV for emulation.

    3. I am paying for it and it feels powerful.

    Nintendo Wii

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    Wow why have I never played Super Castlevania IV before? It is like I have been losing life until this day.

    Best played on an SNES if you ask me. I swear my copy is almost 100% mint condition. I keep the games in good order.

    Unfortunately (and blasphemously) I no longer have my SNES and I have neither desire nor means to get an SNES + all these good games I should have (although I do still have quite a few SNES games). I also cannot stand the feeling of emulation. This is why the VC is good for me.

    Nintendo Wii

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    I was about to come on ranting and raving, wondering why Super Castlevania IV wasn't available in the Wii Shop Channel, until I realized it's been less than a week since I determined to buy it and it's not quite Christmas day yet.

    :roll:

    For those bored with the Wii try out Madden's mini games... great way to waste time until Monday when the new VC games are released.

    I've been meaning to ask someone... how good is Madden? Would it be worth getting for someone like me who, despite not liking most sports games of the sort, knows several people who would probably enjoy it and have even expressed interest in trying it out to see how the controls work? In other words, are the controls impressive enough to justify that $50, or a rental perhaps?

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