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Well, two things. Code Name STEAM is a SRPG, like Fire Emblem which at this point is a pretty successful series. And two, "games are only high profile if they belong to currently popular genres" is arbitrary and silly. Tomodachi Life is a recent Nintendo IP that was very successful, and I'm not sure it even has a defined genre (it has "but it doesn't count!" written all over it, though
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Man, I agree that Nintendo needs to generally advertise and market better, but yeah, cannot fault them for not creating new things. Through the years, we got Pikmin, WiiFit, Xenoblade, Tomodachi Life, W101, Codename STEAM, and now Splatoon!
And, I actually feel like even with their flagship "old, over and over" titles, they take way more risk with them than other studios do with their bread-n-butter franchises.
Look at how varied the mainline Mario and Zelda games are. Look at how Metroid has straddled various genres with its different entries...
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I always feel like I have to constantly keep myself in check when I talk about this and keep the nintendo-nerd in me from stepping outta line.
That's so freaking awesome. It's summer and hot here. I want that to be a giant pool made of super cold juice.
Fuck now I want a Splatoon water-park.
And, I actually feel like even with their flagship "old, over and over" titles, they take way more risk with them than other studios do with their bread-n-butter franchises.
Look at how varied the mainline Mario and Zelda games are. Look at how Metroid has straddled various genres with its different entries...
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I always feel like I have to constantly keep myself in check when I talk about this and keep the nintendo-nerd in me from stepping outta line.
They actually advertised Splatoon.
from my friend's facebook.
That's so freaking awesome. It's summer and hot here. I want that to be a giant pool made of super cold juice.
Fuck now I want a Splatoon water-park.
Sure Mario games shouldn't suddenly turn into FPS', but Nintendo is a big company and Polyphony Digital pretty much only makes Gran Turismo games.
It's not black and white, the advantage is Nintendo can make a very polished game a lot of people are asking for. The disadvantage is we've never seen anything close to as revolutionary as Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time. That's a huge task, but I just find it a bit depressing seeing them not try things like that anymore.
Polyphony have gotten a lot of flak for not changing though and GT6 was a bit of a bomb.
I don't feel Platinum quite counts because they literally have a game for the XB1 in the works. They were mostly independent and mostly just got financial and marketing support from Nintendo. Nintendo helped, no doubt, but I don't feel comfortable crediting them the same way you'd credit them for making Splatoon.
Codename STEAM might have been stillborn as you said, but outside of gaming circles I don't think many regular people know of it.
Life simulators (for lack of a better term) are popular. Tons of F2P games have had a lot of success with a similar formula.Well, two things. Code Name STEAM is a SRPG, like Fire Emblem which at this point is a pretty successful series. And two, "games are only high profile if they belong to currently popular genres" is arbitrary and silly. Tomodachi Life is a recent Nintendo IP that was very successful, and I'm not sure it even has a defined genre (it has "but it doesn't count!" written all over it, though
I think that has nothing to do with ambition. The thing that made OoT and 64 so impressive is that they brought a new perspective to their respective genre and made it work. But you're not going to see a paradigm shift in the entire industry as huge as the switch from 2D to 3D, so it's pretty much impossible to bring anything that will ever feel like such a big change and it's kind of disingenuous to ask them to do it.
I honestly don't think anyone should criticize Polyphony for not changing (they should be criticized for using really old models for the sake of content padding though
), they're good at what they do. GT 6 bombed because it released as a PS3 exclusive after the PS4 came out and dazzled people with promises of amazing graphics, suddenly the very good looking GT doesn't look that great. They should either have made it cross-gen or delay it to make it PS4 exclusive.Henchmen21
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How's everyone's Wednesday so far?
Kris Slater is the hottest str8 pornstar I've ever seen
I guess TW101 is as much of a Nintendo IP as Bloodborne is a Sony IP, then. That's to say, I don't see how they don't count
Also, are we agreeing that Code Name STEAM does count but was sadly not very successful?
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You can't try things like that anymore, it just doesn't exist. There won't be anything like transitioning from 2D to 3D, some people consider VR as big of a transition, but that's just another form of 3D.
It's like people expect them to invent time travel, they can't make something that isn't possible.
I forgot today was Wednesday. A few more days till E3. How's your Wednesday going?
Kris Slater? *Googles*
I wasn't thinking ahead!
I was just like "fuck it, I'm getting a next-gen console now." And Mister Chef was whispering to me in his smooth, rough voice.
hm as far as straight porn goes i'm kind of a fan from the guy who just goes by 'jake' from x-art. Smooth, muscular, stoic face, brown, and doesn't have a stupid moaning voice? Sold.
hm his profile page on the site doesn't always have great images. idk his exact race but in videos he generally looks pretty golden brown
Maybe I'm not googling correctly but he doesn't look very brown :0
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Feeling powerless and perpetually ignored is a terrible state of being. If anyone here is feeling/has felt that way because of circumstances outside of their control, I hope things change for you soon.
On a different note, I really appreciate what Laverne Cox wrote about the response to Caitlyn Jenner. It speaks a lot to the doubts I had after commenting on Caitlyn's appearance. Here's the article and one of the parts that resonated with me:
On a different note, I really appreciate what Laverne Cox wrote about the response to Caitlyn Jenner. It speaks a lot to the doubts I had after commenting on Caitlyn's appearance. Here's the article and one of the parts that resonated with me:
Laverne Cox said:
Addressing this sentiment, the jump to 3D in itself was not that big of a deal and not new at the time. A bunch of games has done it before, but Nintendo managed to invent control schemes that are basically still in use today. On top of that the games were took advantage of this new world by opening up exploration never seen before.
Such a huge revolution is hard to do again, but there have been big changes after 1996. Most prominent is probably online multiplayer which can either be split screen at a distance or a completely different game and it's far from thought out. The extra power means worlds can be bigger and have given us Minecraft which has a world way larger than our own planet.
Nintendo hasn't really taken advantage of either of those. They've used the bump in power to boost graphics and storage to get more characters and multiplayer to make split screen at a distance, but not to create something fundamentally impossible on the N64. Not that they're the only one, but that's a different discussion so, bonne nuit
I love how their algorithm skips nudes and flags underwear.
Quite rough days compared to Monday and Tuesday. But better than last Wednesday to Sunday.
TheAbsolution
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Well, I just signed up to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.
That's pretty cool. I love helping people.
That's pretty cool. I love helping people.
I'm finishing up a volunteer shift at a local homeless shelter and after that will be off to get dinner with my roommates.
They make dinner here every night for the guests though, and they offered me some tonight. It was so tempting. They made pasta and chicken that looked crazy good.
So now I'm sitting here waiting for my shift to end and kind of salivating with hunger >:/
They make dinner here every night for the guests though, and they offered me some tonight. It was so tempting. They made pasta and chicken that looked crazy good.
So now I'm sitting here waiting for my shift to end and kind of salivating with hunger >:/
Henchmen21
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Okay. Woke up late. Like 1pm late.
It's a beautiful day!
He looks better clean shaven
he did some gay stuff early on and has done some dildo/strapon stuff within the last few years
There are three str8 porn actors that I wouldn't mind having "fun" with. Seth Gamble, Kris Slater, and Phat Zane.
Addressing this sentiment, the jump to 3D in itself was not that big of a deal and not new at the time. A bunch of games has done it before, but Nintendo managed to invent control schemes that are basically still in use today. On top of that the games were took advantage of this new world by opening up exploration never seen before.
Such a huge revolution is hard to do again, but there have been big changes after 1996. Most prominent is probably online multiplayer which can either be split screen at a distance or a completely different game and it's far from thought out. The extra power means worlds can be bigger and have given us Minecraft which has a world way larger than our own planet.
Nintendo hasn't really taken advantage of either of those. They've used the bump in power to boost graphics and storage to get more characters and multiplayer to make split screen at a distance, but not to create something fundamentally impossible on the N64. Not that they're the only one, but that's a different discussion so, bonne nuit
I love how their algorithm skips nudes and flags underwear.
Actually it was a big deal. The 64 was the first console geared toward 3D graphics. The only other way to see 3D graphics was in the arcades (and even that was only relegated towards a few fighting games like VirtuaFighter). Sony's big mantra at the time with the PS1 wasn't 3D graphics but was the CD technology and how they're games were more "mature" than Nintendo's or Sega's.
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So true. You're never going to see a game as impactful as Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time, at least not anytime soon. Nintendo does their own thing very well, their games are incredibly varied and polished. Stan for life tbqh.
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Addressing this sentiment, the jump to 3D in itself was not that big of a deal and not new at the time. A bunch of games has done it before, but Nintendo managed to invent control schemes that are basically still in use today. On top of that the games were took advantage of this new world by opening up exploration never seen before.
Such a huge revolution is hard to do again, but there have been big changes after 1996. Most prominent is probably online multiplayer which can either be split screen at a distance or a completely different game and it's far from thought out. The extra power means worlds can be bigger and have given us Minecraft which has a world way larger than our own planet.
Nintendo hasn't really taken advantage of either of those. They've used the bump in power to boost graphics and storage to get more characters and multiplayer to make split screen at a distance, but not to create something fundamentally impossible on the N64. Not that they're the only one, but that's a different discussion so, bonne nuit
I agree with you almost 100%. I think StreetPass, or that asynchronous sleep-mode multiplayer that began with Nintendogs, is a really interesting design choice/philosophy that took advantage of the advent of WiFi and in some ways was a total shift of how multiplayer should work. It kind of also blurs the line between "local" and "distant" multiplayer. I don't know enough about video game design to know if Nintendo was really the first in this arena, but I'd say that was an inventive use of tech and maybe the earliest well-known example of it. StreetPass, for me, is a very fascinating system to analyze against other traditional forms of "interaction" in video games. You could probably make some cases for how Nintendo has kind of manufactured the hardware circumstances for innovation (mostly thinking of the DS) in more recent years.
All of that said, I still agree with you that Nintendo's influence as a developer has waned a bit compared against their 80s and 90s work, and that generally, nothing has really been as fundamentally influential across so many games as that stuff. A fair amount of their work on DS and Wii created market booms in certain genres (Nintendogs, Brain Age, Wii Sports, Wii Fit), but that's more innovation within a genre (or creating a genre), rather than base-level ideas that influence how people experience video games across many genres. I think part of this is simply because of how many studios exist today creating content and putting out new ideas, so I think this is a good thing.
ZombiePlatypus
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Honestly, I don't mind it being not a graphical powerhouse so long as the art-direction is actually nice and, the game isn't released with a lot of bugs.
Henchmen21
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A Bethesda game without bugs?
ZombiePlatypus
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I know, I know.
Is that what we're calling it?
SoraanTribal
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The graphics look fine to me personally. I was watching some Fallout 3/NV games and those games were always pretty damn ugly from the looks of it, lol.
Single Ladies ft. Ducktales Strangely on beat. lol
Single Ladies ft. Ducktales Strangely on beat. lol
Nintendo should punish you all for not buying The Wonderful 101 and Code Name STEAM by releasing 10 new New Super Mario Bros. during 2016
That's just horrible.
Yup, Fallout only shines with mods. Check out nexusmods.com, they have a section dedicated to New Vegas mods. Some excellent work there from some very talented folk.
Meicyn
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You pierced your own ear?
Yes, I industrial pierced my own ear.
TheAbsolution
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Yeah, Bethesda is about to get sued for lying. Lol.
kitchenmotors
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Knew it was cross-gen. This game has been in development for YEARS, it obviously started out on the old gen consoles.
I really lost hope today.
Saw a couple, they weren't good looking but they looked cute togheter, they were even wearing the same clothes.
They were holding hands, not giving a shit about what people could said about them and I was like "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwww".
Then, they started hugging and lightly kissed and then my father got on his nerves and shook his head almost in front of them and started to hurry up to get to the exit door
So yeah, I'm fucked and not in a good way
Saw a couple, they weren't good looking but they looked cute togheter, they were even wearing the same clothes.
They were holding hands, not giving a shit about what people could said about them and I was like "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwww".
Then, they started hugging and lightly kissed and then my father got on his nerves and shook his head almost in front of them and started to hurry up to get to the exit door
So yeah, I'm fucked and not in a good way
Hey all, I called it first!:
I knew it!
I should be one of those palm reader/future teller persons that you see at circus/weird places.
I really lost hope today.
Saw a couple, they weren't good looking but they looked cute togheter, they were even wearing the same clothes.
They were holding hands, not giving a shit about what people could said about them and I was like "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwww".
Then, they started hugging and lightly kissed and then my father got on his nerves and shook his head almost in front of them and started to hurry up to get to the exit door
So yeah, I'm fucked and not in a good way
it's okay daripad we're here for youI know that feel, I really wish homophobes would stop thinking they have to respond with disgust any time they see a gay couple.
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Uh hang on guys. There's been no indication from Bethesda that they will release last gen versions of Fallout 4. That quote is from the reddit post.
Do you really think that in late 2016, Bethesda will have spent all that time porting Fallout 4 to a ~2011 engine while adding features like save import from a 2008 game that the flagship current gen version doesn't do?
Sounds fishy to me. Active buyers on last gen is already very small, which is why EA, Sony, and Ubisoft are done with it for their AAAs already. Even Activision seems to be dropping it this year. If there was a last gen version at some point, I'd suspect they let it go or that it is coming much sooner than 1 year after the main release. Late 2016 for a specialized port sounds like bomb sales waiting to happen especially when they had to go through the trouble of separating the engines.
EDIT: Hell, even Bethesda as a publisher has dropped last gen. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood already released current gen only and Doom is current gen only. It's very likely that if there was a last gen version, it's long, long gone and that reddit post is false.
Do you really think that in late 2016, Bethesda will have spent all that time porting Fallout 4 to a ~2011 engine while adding features like save import from a 2008 game that the flagship current gen version doesn't do?
Sounds fishy to me. Active buyers on last gen is already very small, which is why EA, Sony, and Ubisoft are done with it for their AAAs already. Even Activision seems to be dropping it this year. If there was a last gen version at some point, I'd suspect they let it go or that it is coming much sooner than 1 year after the main release. Late 2016 for a specialized port sounds like bomb sales waiting to happen especially when they had to go through the trouble of separating the engines.
EDIT: Hell, even Bethesda as a publisher has dropped last gen. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood already released current gen only and Doom is current gen only. It's very likely that if there was a last gen version, it's long, long gone and that reddit post is false.
ZombiePlatypus
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Looks badass.
Prototype Viktor
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It's almost that time of the year where I go to pride to be looked at like a piece of meat heh
Blood Diamonds
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slay a bit
Prototype Viktor
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Sounds like this girl I know who hide every single boyfriend she had til a month ago when she finally got a Hispanic one. Her parents don't like to see any interracial interact let alone dating. So she's openly in denial that she can only love someone of her race and clinging hard on her current guy who is trying to make her lose 20lbs because she's at 140lbs.I really lost hope today.
Saw a couple, they weren't good looking but they looked cute togheter, they were even wearing the same clothes.
They were holding hands, not giving a shit about what people could said about them and I was like "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwww".
Then, they started hugging and lightly kissed and then my father got on his nerves and shook his head almost in front of them and started to hurry up to get to the exit door
So yeah, I'm fucked and not in a good way
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Prototype Viktor
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you're not cool enough to be Shane ;p
same yolo
damn, that's sexy. my girl and i want to get a ton of different piercings together. we both totally have a 'thing' for it.
Prototype Viktor
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I still wonder why isn't there a Avengers shirt with the flag colors
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