Meccanical
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Protecting the emerald is Knuckles excuse for not getting a real job.
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Protecting the emerald is Knuckles excuse for not getting a real job.
tiggerkiddo
Member
He's pretty lousy at it too.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
This fucking Wii U update, holy shit.
NINTENDO WAS SURE SMART RUSHING DAT CONSOLE OUT THE DOOR
Yep. Well at least it should be finished by the time Lost World comes out. Hopefully.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I need to copy/paste this list. We need to talk about this.
Why the fuck would you ship your console without these features? And then say, "Oh, before you give it to someone as a gift, update it for them!" Some of these things seem like features that were advertised as part of the core of the system. Why would you ship the system out before that outside of the fact that you're meeting a deadline?
I just bought this system last week. I shouldn't even have to download a launch update since it's been almost a year since then. Unless it's a launch unit that wasn't purchased since last year--then I can accept that... then ponder the peculiarities of having a launch unit when it's almost been a year since then. Not to mention that my update keeps failing for some reason, but thank goodness it keeps all the data it's downloaded prior to it failing and then me restarting the download.
LOL. I wish this bar had a % or something. It's silly.
Seven Force
Banned
tiggerkiddo
Member
Knuckles was always a few chaos emeralds short of a super power up
Shadow Hog
Member
The console has not been selling well. The odds of you having a console that were amongst the first manufactured aren't as bad as you'd probably think.
I almost forgot how many bars I had to sit through on day one, honestly, because it's been mostly hunky-dory since then. The spring update sped things up a fair bit. Curious as to why we haven't had the summer update yet, though.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
That is true. Some launch units are still probably on shelves everywhere. Especially those Basic SKUs that they're clearing out now.
The system UI still seems kinda slow, though. I can't imagine it being even slower than this. :O
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Rayman Legends is the best looking Mario game yet
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Finally, a modern 2D Mario platformer with good music
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Can't wait to see those models in the PC version. It's been a while since we had a Mario game on the PC.
Shadow Hog
Member
There's no way the costumes are going anywhere outside the Wii U version, realistically speaking.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Mods.
Shadow Hog
Member
Is the Rayman community really that involved in modding, though?
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Btw my Nintendo ID is SpinDasher if you guys are lacking in friends.. or just want to be friends with me.
Sent you a friend request, NNID same as here on GAF. Don't really play anything online but never hurts to have GAF peeps on the list.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Sure! NNID is SchalaAsha. I don't do much online stuff either, but I like having GAF people around.Wait there's another Wii U update?
Btw my Nintendo ID is SpinDasher if you guys are lacking in friends.. or just want to be friends with me.
And, nah, it's because I had to update my Wii U because I just set it up today. And it took forever.
Shadow Hog
Member
I swear I heard that a web interface for the eShop was coming before the end of the year.
If Nintendo had any sense, the ability to tie those purchases to the account would happen then. Alas, I'm not convinced Nintendo does have sense...
Professor Beef
Banned
I had an account on my friend's Wii U, but he recently moved to Seattle so now I can't access it. Not that it's a huge loss, since I didn't want to buy anything until Nintendo got their shit together regarding accounts.
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Meccanical
Member
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Seven Force
Banned
I feel absolutely terrible for chuckling at the little detail of having Cosmo and Wanda as the IV bags.
I hate how I can't add people via web... I should really turn on my Wii U and beat Earthbound.
So with all the NSMB talk here and in Gaming lately, I felt compelled to go replay SMB3 for the first time in god knows how many years.
Major points for innovation, but that game has aged. Once you get past Grass Land the level design is all over the place, and usually not in a good way. People criticize the cape for letting you fly over entire levels, but you can do the same thing with the raccoon tail because the levels are just that short. And even as tiny as they are, you get the occasional one where they just didn't give a shit, like the water level with a single lakitu and nothing else. Even the legendary Kuribo's Shoe level is over before it begins. But then, as though they felt they had to make up for the length somewhere, a good fifth or sixth of the levels are interminable autoscrolling affairs. It's a game where they clearly had a ton of ideas but weren't really sure how to execute all of them.
I think I'll backtrack to SMB1 next, because I suspect that it's the more tightly designed and paced game in the long run.
Major points for innovation, but that game has aged. Once you get past Grass Land the level design is all over the place, and usually not in a good way. People criticize the cape for letting you fly over entire levels, but you can do the same thing with the raccoon tail because the levels are just that short. And even as tiny as they are, you get the occasional one where they just didn't give a shit, like the water level with a single lakitu and nothing else. Even the legendary Kuribo's Shoe level is over before it begins. But then, as though they felt they had to make up for the length somewhere, a good fifth or sixth of the levels are interminable autoscrolling affairs. It's a game where they clearly had a ton of ideas but weren't really sure how to execute all of them.
I think I'll backtrack to SMB1 next, because I suspect that it's the more tightly designed and paced game in the long run.
Cross-posting from the LTTP Crash thread:
I'm gonna do another 100% run of this game real soon. Can't wait to return to Crash 3 with the dash ability
Professor Beef
Banned
Cross-posting from the LTTP Crash thread:
I'm gonna do another 100% run of this game real soon. Can't wait to return to Crash 3 with the dash ability
Funny, I actually bought Crash 3 last night before I even saw that thread. Just beat Dingodile earlier tonight.
Nocturnowl
Member
I found my last trip to SMB3 gave me greater appreciation for what it did but i've always felt wanting more from the short stages and i'll never be much a fan of the amount of increasingly repetitive scrolling doom ship stages.
But as short as some of the stages may be they offer some nice platforming and there's nary a dead moment in any of them, world 5 especially. SMW sometimes seems to have the opposite problem, longer stages but with the platforming spread too thin within them leaving a few almost bare stretches.
Hot Coldman
Banned
BETTAH BREAK OUT THA BUTTAH
I will always love watching Penta ghetto stomp him after the fight.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I need to beat Crash one of these days...I have never beaten one yet.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Go get 3 off PSN. Easiest and the most fun.
I haven't even played them yet. I never grew up with the ps1... lol
Azure Dream
Member
tiggerkiddo
Member
You missed out on one of the most fun racing games in Jet Moto.
Huh, first I've heard of that game :O
Perhaps one day I'll dig deeper into the PS1 library. There's so much I've missed out on I bet.
Jet Moto 3 is one of the most frustrating yet still enjoyable experiences I've had on Playstation. I really sucked at it.
Even if you could do that, you still can't take out files from the Wii U discs because nobody has decrypted the new form of Nintendo's paranoia layers of DRM again. (All the Wii hacking has got them doing some ridiculous stuff that even makes development more complicated)
Rayman was the only thing that gave me a mild interest in attempting to get a Wii U (and it only felt like getting dragged to it rather than wanting one) regardless of the ridiculous hoops/prices I have to jump through, but hey, thanks Ubi!
Shadow Hog
Member
Crash 2 is great fun, but there's almost no way I'm gonna figure out where the hell all the secrets in that game are. The ones I did find were already giving me headaches.
As I said in the chat last night, I'm actually more partial to the Spyro trilogy, even though the voice-acting gets a bit grating toward the end of it (I'd probably be less hard on it in Spyro 3 if the music didn't stop every time you were forced to talk to somebody, or if you didn't have to hear the same lines after failing some of the more poorly-designed mini-games, over and over).
As I said in the chat last night, I'm actually more partial to the Spyro trilogy, even though the voice-acting gets a bit grating toward the end of it (I'd probably be less hard on it in Spyro 3 if the music didn't stop every time you were forced to talk to somebody, or if you didn't have to hear the same lines after failing some of the more poorly-designed mini-games, over and over).
Hot Coldman
Banned
Spyro 3 also ends in mass furry romance and the most anti-climatic secret boss fight of all time, so yeah, Crash all the way.
I'm suddenly glad that I stopped playing 3 halfway through it.
Yeah, I don't want to say that it isn't a game full of ideas, because it's certainly where the tradition of making every level unique started. It's just that some of them aren't executed well at all. Giant Land's probably the worst offender, with stuff like the level where you can switch world sizes but the only actual difference between them is a couple of hidden 1ups. It's novel, but there's no actual reason to do it, and what you end up with is basically a SMB1 level with a minor twist.
On the other end of the spectrum, the game expects you to pull off a lot of tricky jumps that no NSMB title would dream of, so that was refreshing.
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