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Yegolev
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Killjoy and I found an old battery-operated Pong machine some years ago. It was the one that had the paddles on the main unit, I think. We were very sad to find that the batteries had corroded in the unit.
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ArtificialKid
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It's a poor man's gaming system and it shows in everything they do. Just look at the friend code system, which the public at large doesn't even know about. Just wanted to point out that all of Nintendo's online play systems are deliberately awkward because the systems are geared towards kids and they wanted to trhow some protective barriers up. Which is why you never see even basic chat systems in public matchmaking games (ie Mario Kart DS). |
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Jain Zar
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It's a poor man's gaming system and it shows in everything they do. Just look at the friend code system, which the public at large doesn't even know about. Just wanted to point out that all of Nintendo's online play systems are deliberately awkward because the systems are geared towards kids and they wanted to trhow some protective barriers up. Which is why you never see even basic chat systems in public matchmaking games (ie Mario Kart DS). Considering I generally avoid online play unless I can join in SA groups or play with friends its not all that bad really. After enough trash talking and the usual selection of racist, homophobic, and antisemitic comments I just gave up. Whenever I feel bad about my currently on hiatus WoW zombie chick not being able to babble about eating every Alliance brain she can find, I remind myself of the comments one is likely to hear from opponents in any game and then I do not feel bad any more. (This isn't to say that XBL isn't outstanding for what and how it does its thing. Merely that like all online gaming bits its full of twits.) |
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Margalis
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I would much rather play with my friends than online. Even in an online game I would rather do something like me and my buddies in CS vs. some other people. Online with random people just doesn't appeal to me at all.
SOMEBODY GET ME A WII!
Please, for the love of god. If someone can get me a Wii I'll pay shipping and a nice $25 finders fee...this is driving me insane. I've stood in line at 5AM twice now and still not gotten one.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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"If all of your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?"
"If there was a Wii at the bottom, yeah."
Wizard needs Wii badly!
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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naum
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SOMEBODY GET ME A WII!
Please, for the love of god. If someone can get me a Wii I'll pay shipping and a nice $25 finders fee...this is driving me insane. I've stood in line at 5AM twice now and still not gotten one.
Got one last weekend but still haven't hooked it up yet as I've visited like 5 places and no Wii Component cables can be purchased... ...suppose I could just hook it up with the standard A/V cable but then I'd have to climb behind the monstrous construct of audio video equipment in my living room twice... ...sad is that if ordered them online, I'd probably already have them... |
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Velorath
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I pass by a Gamestop every morning on my way to work, so I'll keep an eye out for any Wii's they might have. Not making any promises of finding one though.
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schild
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Sigh. When my Gamestop gets another Wii in, I'll tell them to hold it and see if they'll ship it to yours. Margalis, what are you gonna play? Nothing? I kid, I kid. I'll see what I can do.
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Margalis
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I'd be perfectly happy with Wii sports. Make sure to keep a reciept in case I manage to find one here...not sure a Gamestop is around here but there must be one in the Boston area...
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Strazos
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I'll keep an eye out as well.
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Bokonon
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I'd be perfectly happy with Wii sports. Make sure to keep a reciept in case I manage to find one here...not sure a Gamestop is around here but there must be one in the Boston area...
You could always use the EB/GameStop store locator on their web site. And yes, there are EB/GameStops in the Boston area. What can I say about F13? It's really my favorite website in the entire universe! I love the irreverent banter and sly wit these keyboard jockeys produce. And I especially love the staff, they're AWESOME. |
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sigil
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you could always try iTrackr. put a buck ninety nine down and have it message you when it was in one of the stores they monitor.
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HaemishM
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Nintendo released Contra 3, Mario Kart 64, Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) and a few others on Virtual Console and it was good. Also, since Stray had asked for a flying game for the Wii, there's a game called Wing Island in the works. I can't remember for sure, but it might have a first or second quarter release date this year.
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stray
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I can't believe I didn't mention Starfox when I originally mentioned flying games. I hear there's one early in the works. Hell, Starfox 64 would be kind of cool too.
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schild
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The PS3 gets Lair and the Wii doesn't get Pilotwings (yet). Lol.
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stray
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Damn there's another one. Come to think of it, the 64 had a lot of flying games.
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schild
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Yes, from the company MAKING Lair. Poor Nintendo. Couldn't keep one of the only third parties that really rocked ass and supported them through the 64.
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Margalis
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Contra 3 is one of the best games ever made.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Triforcer
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Mario Kart 64 is my favorite one because the skill differential can never get so great that you don't have a chance against another human (Double Dash is like chess in this way- someone "better" than you will beat you 99 times out of 100). Also, all the weird glitches that let you win races in 15 seconds.
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Velorath
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Nintendo released Contra 3, Mario Kart 64, Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES) and a few others on Virtual Console and it was good. Also, since Stray had asked for a flying game for the Wii, there's a game called Wing Island in the works. I can't remember for sure, but it might have a first or second quarter release date this year.
I think Wing Island was a launch title in Japan that they're porting here. I don't recall hearing a lot of good things about it. |
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Miasma
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Margalis
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If I don't have a Wii by my birthday I'm killing somebody. At this point it isn't even about playnig games on it - its just about having what I can't have.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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stray
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If I don't have a Wii by my birthday I'm killing somebody. At this point it isn't even about playnig games on it - its just about having what I can't have.
Sony PR has been attacking the Wii as an "impulse buy". :-D Maybe they're right after all. |
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Roac
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Sony PR has been attacking the Wii as an "impulse buy". :-D
Maybe they're right after all.
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schild
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At $250 there's no point in not owning it if you like games. That said, they need to start coming up with reasons TO own it. And fast.
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Margalis
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To make it clear, I'm perfectly happy playing Zelda, Sports and GC titles for a while. I'm way behind in my gaming, I have tons of old games to catch up on. For example I've only played RE4 for about 2 hours.
I'm just saying even if it had no games available I'd still want one at those point, because not owning one is torture.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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stray
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No need to make excuses. I'd probably be having more fun with Zelda and Wii Sports right now. ;)
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« Last Edit: February 01, 2007, 02:09:45 PM by Stray »
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bhodi
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No lie.
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I'd almost import the Japanese titles.
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schild
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To make it clear, I'm perfectly happy playing Zelda, Sports and GC titles for a while. I'm way behind in my gaming, I have tons of old games to catch up on. For example I've only played RE4 for about 2 hours.
I'm just saying even if it had no games available I'd still want one at those point, because not owning one is torture. I was a reasonable supporter of the Gamecube (I even bought the Baten Kaitos stuff, and a mess of other weird shit for the system) and even I know it's impossible to have "tons" of games worth playing through on the Gamecube. Xbox either. PS2 - well, yea. |
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HaemishM
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Your ton = normal man's ton.
You are using imperial measurement, we are on the metric system.
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schild
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A normal man's ton given the life of a system is probably somewhere between 10 and 25 games. The Gamecube has about 5 worth playing and maybe 2-3 more if you're drunk and have friends over and own 4 wavebirds.`
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Azazel
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Sony PR has been attacking the Wii as an "impulse buy". :-D
Maybe they're right after all.
That's what mine was. With the PS3 priced at $1k here though (when it's eventually released, plus games, cables, all that shit) there's not a chance in hell I'll be picking up a PS3 as an impulse buy.. And yeah, I have 12 Cube games in total, all of which I'd consider decent or better. 4 for the Wii so far, and until Mario Party comes out, no more must-buys on the horizon. Might check out those Cooking Mama or Trauma Medic things once they come out here though. |
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schild
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It's called Trauma Center. And you have 4 games? I can only think of two that validate a purchase, one of which is probably a rental.
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stray
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Almost bought a Wii tonight (yes, I actually saw one!). One umpromised system is enough for now though. If anything, I should be impulse buying a 360 or PSP.
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Azazel
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Yeah, 4 games. Got two with the console. Wii Sports (pack-in),
Wii Play (as explained, essentially cost me $5 as it was packed-in with a second Wiimote). If it's a similarly-cheap pack-in once it gets released in the US, I recommend it. If not, don't bother.
Later, we got:
Rayman: full of mini-games, got good word of mouth, some of the mini-games are stupidly difficult however for a "casual, party" game.
Monkey Ball: After a rental, it fit the Wii control scheme and was fun (never played previous versions) and just as importantly it has 50 immediately-accessable minigames.(no unlocking bullshit).
Rented several others, including the so-called "A-list" title.
I found Zelda to be boring since it didn't mamage to engage me within 5 minutes of turning it on so it got turned off (that's all the time a console game gets to hook me these days, much like your review of Vanguard, as it happens). Would have liked to swing a sword and so on, but fuck all that JRPG bullshit of being forced to wander around talking to the fucking villagers for ages before you can even go outside. I just don't care enough.
CoD3 was horrid visually and too busy/uncomfortable with the controls.
Red Steel was the same, though slighly less uncomfortable, but with a shitty unskippable long set of Japanese-style bullshit still-image cutscene exposition that I don't care about to piss me off before I could even start playing. I didn't have enough patience to keep wading through it to get to the sword-swinging. Like Zelda, as it turned out.
Seriously, there are so many good games across all formats that once which waste my time before giving me a taste of the good stuff can go get fucked. Novelty control schemes aren't the good stuff.
Out of interest, which are the two games you think are worth a purchase? Bearing in mind that Wii sports is a pack-in so not a seperate purchase.
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« Last Edit: February 02, 2007, 10:31:47 PM by Azazel »
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