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The Black Culture Thread |OT4| Learn to love the BBC
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Yeah. To be honest though, not enough games are made about the lives of historical rulers in general, or even historical people. Even if you sort of closely follow history, there are people who've lived crazy enough lives to make for an entertaining action game.
Even beside that, I've always wanted to see more games at least use well-researched historical settings as backdrops for interesting fictional stories. If anything medieval Africa might lend itself to a lot of what I would call "creative speculation" since we know a lot less about it.
MorisUkunRasik
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Slayven ruins everything.
Maybe black fathers aren't a good thing? I mean look at Luke Cage taking Powerbaby into battle.
Jack of hearts? Really? On a 50 year cover?
"You realize what you did was of the most cruelest things in the world. Don't you?"
"....No"
His face when he said no was funny as hell
CrazyDogg77
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What happened in this one?
Chick met a dude in an online game. They meet the guy, and it turns out brah has dozens of online girlfriends and was just using the game to up his "game."
When confronted with the young lady they Catfish guys got in contact with, dude said straight up he had no emotional feelings for her.
Spring-Loaded
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There's another children's book with amazing art:
There was a Saudi Arabian-developed Uncharted knock-off made that seemingly centered on Battuta's travels. I'd support it just in the hopes of seeing games designed in regions outside of the usual ones.
Yeah, that's what I look forward to seeing someday. You see mostly see fantasy media with clear Medieval European influence, even media in the U.S. or Japan. It'd be refreshing to see other places explored more.
Boss Riovane
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Maybe black fathers aren't a good thing? I mean look at Luke Cage taking Powerbaby into battle.
His wife right there so its all good. Some shit go down you know Luke gonna send Jessica with Danielle back to SG. Its probably take your daughter to work day or some shit. Or they could be gonna get portraits afterwords and didn't wanna make 2 trips. Lol.
This is the pic my girl took. She zoomed in on it. But yeah he got bricked. And after I killed him I danced around like it was a ceremonial kill. I mean I hope the neighbors didn't see a grown ass man in boxers and flip flops killing something out of harry potter with a goddamn brick doing a fucking end zone rain dance over his carcass at 9 in the am.
MorisUkunRasik
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The Faceless Master
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*follows*
Wait until your wedding reception.
Big Baybee
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Just finished season 4 of the wire and it may be the best thing I've ever watched. The feels...
Yes!!
But of course.
Big Baybee
Member
I started watching this series knowing literally nothing about it. First 3 seasons were good (season 2 was kind of a chore to watch), but 4 is seriously on another level. My god.
The Faceless Master
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This is the pic my girl took. She zoomed in on it. But yeah he got bricked. And after I killed him I danced around like it was a ceremonial kill. I mean I hope the neighbors didn't see a grown ass man in boxers and flip flops killing something out of harry potter with a goddamn brick doing a fucking end zone rain dance over his carcass at 9 in the am.
that looks EVIL
S2 is better on a re-watch.
Discotheque
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yeah. it's better than season 1 and 5.
soundscream
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Just listened to the SWS podcast,
Devo: "JUST BLOW HIM!"
Devo: "JUST BLOW HIM!"
Shit has glowing eyes and everything.
Vermillion
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Damn, Wii U's sales are fire.
By which I mean on fire.
By which I mean it's burning.
By which I mean it's turning to ash.
The sales suck. Are you happy, Slay?!
By which I mean on fire.
By which I mean it's burning.
By which I mean it's turning to ash.
The sales suck. Are you happy, Slay?!
The Faceless Master
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some dudes selling their music cds in Walmart parking lots and Brooklyn streets are moving more units than Wii U
EscoBlades
Ubisoft Marketing
*stalks*
edit: gonna use the SWS followers list to see how many of y'all are on Twitter
Vermillion
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Kaori's Babydaddy
Banned
Did the regular Wii start off bad?
As in sales or game content wise?
It was selling like hot cakes the day it released. Plus, Nintendo couldn't keep up with production with making units so they were rare to find. Early months of the Wii release. People were selling Wii's on eBay at high prices. It was crazy around the first few months.
Quite the opposite, actually
The Wii U is the equivalent of a kid with new sneakers tripping over the laces when he runs outside
ViewtifulJC
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dat wii u shipped thread tho...
Kaori's Babydaddy
Banned
Oh yeah, now I remember. Why do you think the Wii U is doing bad? Do any of you own one?
soundscream
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I did, but I got rid of it because I realized any game I would want isn't coming out for YEARS! By that time it will most likely be cheaper with a bigger hard drive and maybe even have fixed the horrible speed of the OS.
The Faceless Master
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waiting for bomba
Because Nintendo screwed up in just about every possible way.
1. They essentially abandoned the Wii with two years left in its life cycle, leaving even those who did like the Wii for more than just casual stuff out in the cold. The fact that the American audience literally had to beg for games to come out (Operation Rainfall) says a lot.
2. They went in the wrong direction with the controller. WiiU should have been a refinement of the Wii concept, but instead Nintendo got scared because of tablets and designed the controller around having a screen in your hand.
3. Nintendo is getting just as screwed up by the HD transition as a lot of Japanese companies did, they are just doing it eight years later than everybody else. Scrambling to staff up, having trouble getting games out the door quickly enough to matter, etc.
4. And because of all this, the third-party situation, which hasn't really had a negative impact in the last generation because of Nintendo's output, is finally killing them, because Nintendo's output isn't enough to cover it up any more.
10k shipped this quarter in territories not named US or Japan. GOTDAMN
They abandoned motion control thinking it was just the games that made them hot shit last gen. It was the novelty and Wii sports. Shitty marketing hasn't helped as they've for no real reason continued to use the name 'Wii', I told my friend just last week that Nintendo has a new console, he was oblivious more than half a year later. They've continued to hope a disruptive strategy would be a best fit for them and opted to use a tablet controller that seems compelling to pretty much no one. Nintendo has been 3rd party poison since at least n64 era, its just gotten that much worse. Lack of games now and the horizon. There's a plethora of reasons, really.
ViewtifulJC
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Also, they're competing with themselves with the 3DS, not just in splitting up the amount of developers they have, but the kind of games being made. 2D Mario, 3D Mario, new Zelda, DKC, Lego City, Luigi-focused game...all that stuff coming to the Wii U soon is already or will soon be on the 3DS, a product people actually seem to like, and it'll be cheaper, too. Hell, I wouldn't be shocked in Smash Bros 3DS outsold the Wii U version.
I have one. The answer is quite clear. No games, all I have on it is MH3U and I haven't played it since March
They have better marketing to.
Almost end of the year and stores are still selling shit they got around the beginning of the year. Think about that.
It's doing bad because there are no games people want on it. People keep trying to compare the Wii U to the DS vs the Wii (the Wii started out with games people wanted and sold incredibly, whereas the DS got games people wanted later and sold incredibly). But even when the original DS was doing poorly, Nintendo had an onslaught of games internally and from 3rd parties that came late but within the first year of launch, both for Japanese and US gamers (in addition to Nintendo being shook by the PSP during that period, which caused them to step things up in terms of game releases). The 3DS followed the same/similar pattern as the DS.
But the Wii U has very little games of interest on the horizon unless you're a Pikmin fan and their window of getting games out before the PS4 and Xbox One overtake them has shrunk. They've completely blown a year's head start to get out quality titles. And considering they've done these launches for so many years, you'd think they'd have learned their lesson by now and would have had games ready to go/spread out so that there would be a constant supply of games for gamers to play.
I feel sorry for Platinum Games though, cause if they thought their sales were bad on the PS3 and 360, they are going to need a new word to describe how bad the Wii U numbers are going to be.
There are no words...
Future PhaZe
Member
The Wii is a niche product--doesn't appeal to casual or hardcore markets right now.
It's not even a better value proposition than a Ps3 or 360 right now.
I think they should have never released the Wii U and just lived off the Wii success and focused on bolstering their position with 3DS.
Then flip the tables on Sony and MS by launching a next gen Nintendo console two years after PS4/Xb1 launched, showing off better hardware.
Their current strategy is really bad though
It's not even a better value proposition than a Ps3 or 360 right now.
I think they should have never released the Wii U and just lived off the Wii success and focused on bolstering their position with 3DS.
Then flip the tables on Sony and MS by launching a next gen Nintendo console two years after PS4/Xb1 launched, showing off better hardware.
Their current strategy is really bad though
This is probably the most rational description of the problem I've ever seen. Nintendo has even admitted to number 3 being a main problem.
nah
DS piracy was way more of a problem than Wii piracy, and they didn't drop the ball with DS like they did the Wii.
lol
DS piracy hitting the breaking point is why the 3DS was rushed out. When certain good games struggle to sell more than 10k on a console with a 140 mil install base, you know the R4 is juggling your shit
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