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    Ports that disappointed you.

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    Any port that was for the Wii.

    If the game was made specifically for the Wii, it may be good. If it was made for the 360, PS3, *and* Wii, though, the Wii port is always the crappiest. I've yet to find a port of a game that is better on the Wii.

    Wii was great when it was Zelda or Mario or Metroid.

    Resident Evil 4's best version was on the Wii, I felt.

    Tropes vs. Women / #GamerGate Conspiracies

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    I think the Nintendo examples are easy enough to change, Peach has already been not helpless before in a few games(my favorite character in SMB2, floating!). A game where Mario gets kidnapped and Peach has to save him isn't farfetched in that series' canon.

    They did that. Super Princess Peach on the DS.

    That's a whole other can of worms though.

    Tropes vs. Women / #GamerGate Conspiracies

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    We're delving way off-topic here, but I guess ultimately my issue is the following: yes, video games are the "domain of men" if we look at consumer statistics.

    But that's not true at all, if this is to be believed. Women make up half the market!

    I've watched the video twice now, and...mmph. Trying to find the best way to say this without sounding like an ass.

    For a video that's eight months overdue and received thousands of dollars in crowd funding, I am not impressed. On one hand, twenty minutes seems pretty short to me for what she's trying to go for. On another, I felt there were some things that could have been cut out or explained in a better fashion.

    I think the thing that bothers me the most though, is how she either seriously downplayed certain things or outright left out details about others. Like the brief mention of Sonic CD. That part of the video has been really bugging me for the past couple days. She briefly mentions the game, as if to say "Even Sega is part of the problem with Sonic!" but then leaves out the fact that in most of Amy's other appearances, she's out fighting with Sonic or helping him in some way.

    Hell, in Sonic Adventure 2, she's the one having to save HIM at one point!

    I just...I understand what she's trying to do and trying to bring attention to, I just don't think this video did a good job of it.

    And looking at her list of other videos in the series? Can anyone explain what the difference between "Mrs. Male Character" and "Man With Boobs" is supposed to be?

    Death in Video Games

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    Fire Emblem and various other tactics games that follow the "you're dead, sorry" rules are some of my favorites in regards to dealing with death. Essentially, if a unit dies, you don't get him back at the end of the battle. He/she is dead.

    I always liked how Final Fantasy Tactics did it. When a unit dies, you have three rounds to try and revive them, otherwise you lose them forever.

    Seeing a unit fall in the middle of a heated, tough fight really made things more tense, changing your priorities from 'okay, let's take down this boss and try to keep our health up at the same time' to 'OH SHIT THE NINJA IS DOWN GET HIM BACK UP CRAP CRAP CRAP'.

    As far as actual plot death goes, I always thought Suikoden II handled the death of one of it's major characters really, really well. Then again, just about everything about Suikoden II was done really, really well, so. :P

    Pokémon X/Y and OmegaRuby/AlphaSapphire (Gen6) (3DS)

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    Sylveon is definitely a Flying type.

    The name 'Sylveon' probably comes from 'sylph', an air elemental.

    The French name for it is 'Nymphali', probably referring to nymphs, female elemental spirits.

    Then, take a look at this chart Nintendo made for us...

    Eevee_Evoli_Graphic_EN-545x600.jpg

    Go counter-clockwise from Leafeon to Jolten. Each Pokemon has an advantage over it's opposite. Leafeon beats Vaporeon, Umbreon trumps Espeon, Flareon melts Glaceon, then wouldn't it make sense for Sylveon to be flying so that Jolteon has the advantage over it?

    Also, it's the lightest Eeveelution. It weighs less so it's easier for it to fly, perhaps?

    And finally, finally, look at

    released for it. See the way it's ribbons are waving and moving? Like they're being blown around by wind? Definitely seems like an aspect a Flying type Pokemon would have, no?

    If it's not a Flying type, I'll eat my hat.

    Nintendo Wii U

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    Who the fuck has ever cared about anything Kotaku says? Seriously, who?

    The idiots that still visit their site and give them the pageviews they need to get paid. :<

    I swore them off after they dropped a major spoiler for Arkham City in the headline of one of their articles WEEKS BEFORE THE GAME CAME OUT and haven't looked back.

    Nintendo Wii U

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    It does look really cool.. and has that weird quirky Nintendo charm i've been craving.

    They should make a new Lemmings game for Wii U. I miss that franchise.

    Won't happen. Sony owns the rights to Lemmings.

    I *think* I heard something about Lemmings being in one of the stages of Playstation All-Stars in the background?

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