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Gaming / Re: Metroid Discussion Thread

« on: March 14, 2011, 08:25:09 PM »

Which is not what the game put you through, stop exaggerating.

A Metroid he promptly took care of, without having Samus suffer the baby's death by her own accord this time around.

Funny, I don't recall Ridley being in every Metroid game.

A species that lends itself to being easily controlled due to their hive-mind mentality.

Even ignoring your complete and utter misunderstanding of how cloning works; she's a computer. If you don't want her evil, don't program her to be.

The other games didn't have a narrative to slap over our heads with.

Perfectly justified by the Federation mimicking the baby's reaction to Samus. You'd rather they make MB resemble a Metroid Queen?

The game shouldn't have to put you through any situation where you have to lose health at all if you actually own the health-keeping item in the first place. BAD STORYTELLING. It's the equivalent of making a soldier take non-lethal bullets in his chest when he's carrying a kevlar around. It is, put simply, bad storytelling. They could have just said Adam had access to her suit or something, and he was the only one to be able to activate the upgrades. But they didn't. He let Samus go through a whole section of health-losing while she could have perfectly put a suit upgrade on. A suit upgrade that didn't make any difference if she had it on or not, because it was not a weapon, or transportation mechanism. It was a [tornado fang]ing suit upgrade. By this point, you're either trolling me, or you're really damn clueless. I'm honestly not discussing this point any further.

He wasn't. He was in most of them, though. And we should expect him to be in one rather than not.

Perfect species to control through the means of cloning evil entities, huh?

You're both implying that cloning in Nintendo works at the level or actual cloning, and that a computer is anything without its programming. You honestly think they went that far in terms of characterization? Oh, and she was previously programmed to be evil, huh? The Chozo, masters of technological superiority, programmed a superior computer and it turned evil. Oh, the humans shall SURELY SUCCEED AT THIS. And before you start calling it a metaphor on human arrogance because the game has suuuuuuch a good story, I'll just say it's not arrogance. It is prime stupidity.

The other games had minimal story, which suited the Metroid series best. However, if you want a story, you better make it good. This was not good.

What? What does it have to do with the Metroids? They made her a kawaii uguu girl because they're japanese and they eat that [parasitic bomb] in spades. If they could give her big tits and have panty shots every 5 seconds, they would have.

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Forum Games / Re: Make a Wish and have it horribly corrupted, RPM Edition!

« on: March 14, 2011, 05:55:00 PM »

Holy shitballs it came back

Granted, but its actually some random shitty game boy game instead.

Alrighty, I wish my Damn computer was faster.

Granted. It just ran out of your room and made a hole in your wall.

I wish I had a portal in my pants that made me able to make my sexual organ enter ANYONE'S ear. Whenever I wanted.

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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"

« on: March 14, 2011, 05:51:39 PM »

Yep, no teachers unions, firefighter unions, no nothing. It'd give the organizations more power (Apparently the school's don't want more power, from what I've heard.).

Apparently the new governer was a rich guy who bought his way into the election. Again, thats just what I've heard.

That is awful. It goes against worker's rights, basically. The most basic rights. Without unions, nobody can really vouch for any worker's rights, and they can keep getting exploited by their employees.

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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"

« on: March 14, 2011, 04:47:40 PM »

We got people protesting in the capital here.

Political stuff about a new governer trying to abolish worker unions.

Abolish unions... completely? Meaning, no more unions whatsoever?

[parasitic bomb] ain't right, dawg. I'm glad your people are protesting.

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Gaming / Re: L.A. Noire

« on: March 14, 2011, 04:02:46 PM »

Sorry. Console only.

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Forum Games / Re: Praise the above poster!

« on: March 14, 2011, 03:32:52 PM »

Holds fork and knife correctly at dinner table.

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Forum Games / Re: Add a caption to the previous poster's avatar, ROUND TWO!

« on: March 14, 2011, 03:30:19 PM »

...What is that phalic shaped thing?

CAPUTAIN EASTA RAINUBOW BUNNI, HENSHIN!

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Gaming / Re: Metroid Discussion Thread

« on: March 14, 2011, 03:21:18 PM »

To the above, yup. It's one of the reasons why the PTSD episode in Other M makes a bit of sense even if it was exaggerated greatly. Samus thought that after [tornado fang]ing his [parasitic bomb] up in Super that should have been game set match. I mean seriously, she blew him up then blew up the planet his remains were on. There shouldn't have been enough of him to pick up in a Swiffer in her mind. Seeing him come back once more after all of that had to have been a "[tornado fang], HOW are you still alive?!" moment that'd cause anyone to wonder if he could ever be completely put down.

As for the second, what a loaded question. I could play a really mean card right now and ask if all of a sudden it's suddenly "not okay" to portray women having nervous breakdowns especially when one neglects the context of said panic attack. Furthermore, the way you talk about it made it sound like she went and hid herself in her hidey-hole or a kitchen curled up in the fetal position after being confronted by Ridley when in reality, she snapped right the [tornado fang] out of it and beat the hell out of him once again within a few seconds of realizing "oh yeah, it's Ridley. Lock 'n load." It's unrealistic to see a character just charging through everything (within the context of a story, gameplay is a different thing) without relenting or considering the events that led to a confrontation like this you know, but at the very least Other M's reason makes sense.

It still doesn't. Hell, look at all of the times Samus faced him before. I wouldn't mind in the slightest bit if she went "No! RIDLEY!" And froze for a bit before turning towards him and fighting. But she went into total spaz mode and needed Adam's shouts and Anthony's death to snap out of it. It's not normal behavior. And not in the least bit justified. It is exactly because she's faced him so many times that she should be more used to the situation. Heck, these situations have been portrayed SO MANY TIMES throughout games. Look at MGS4's ending, in which Snake looks completely BAFFLED, after having killed a dude two times, having his remains blown up and thrown apart everywhere, and pretty much decrepit as hell, few months to live, having almost commited suicide. And he CAN STILL GET HIS GUN AND POINT IT. Same with Liquid. If Samus wasn't such a worthless human being in cutscenes and characteirzation, maybe we could have had a good character.

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Forum Games / Re: What did you learn today?

« on: March 14, 2011, 02:29:19 PM »

I learned that all communists smoke.

And by standing next to them, your clothes will get stinky. Very stinky and smoky.

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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"

« on: March 14, 2011, 02:27:59 PM »

That is a lot of protesters. Where in Portugal?

Lisbon. The capital. We also had protests happen everywhere in the country at the same time.

It lasted for almost the whole day. It was amazing.

I was quite sad to see an anime event took place at the same time. I went there the next day, but most people were there when the protest happened. Sucks, because this protest was about our basic rights, how obvious measures have to be taken and how certain people in the government are so obviously corrupt, we have no idea why they're not leaving right now. It was an "I Can't Take It Anymore" kind of thing. Using the same kind of online social network tactic everyone had with the Obama fever back in the american elections, we used facebook and a few other networks to pass on the message, and all appeared in the same place, at the same time, covering the entire downtown area of the city. It was amazing.

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Gaming / Re: L.A. Noire

« on: March 14, 2011, 02:17:40 PM »

Brilliant story with serious western themes, amazing graphics and realism, and a plot by Rockstar, who employs some of the greatest gaming writers this generation.

Honestly, I don't think this topic will have alot of replies, considering none of the characters are KAWAII DEZU DEZU. =P But this is one of my most antecipated games of the year. All of it seems absolutely brilliant. This goes beyond the stereotypical cop shows we have now, and delves deeper into a policeman's life. Getting to experience all police ranks and sections, I think it's a great idea, actually having some realism to it all instead of being one guy who does everything in a flashy way, ala CSI. Most of all, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE games that take place in this age. Sucks about the basic human rights and no technology, but for the technological designs, fashion and music alone, I'd give my left testicle to live there. Everything seems absolutely amazing.

Every single time I keep believing that Rockstar is probably the greatest game developer in our days. Every single experience they deliver completely defies all expectations, and keeps getting better, better and better. Red Dead Redemption wowed me in ways I never expected. I seriously believe LA Noire will be even better.

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Gaming / Re: Metroid Discussion Thread

« on: March 14, 2011, 02:09:41 PM »

Ridley is always going to come back. Always. Like Ganon(dorf), or Sigma, it is impossible to kill the bastard. He's gonna keep on coming.

By the way, can anyone tell me if any of you remember EVER seeing any female character whatsoever breaking down like a total spaz in such a way? In ANY game whatsoever. There must be some examples in JRPGs, since subservient woman roles are everywhere in Japan, but I don't really remember anything.

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Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"

« on: March 14, 2011, 10:59:25 AM »

We just got free music. No other free stuff here, since this was to protest about our economy in the first place.

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Gaming / Re: HARD CORPS UPRISING. HELL YEAH

« on: March 14, 2011, 10:58:20 AM »

To lose continues like that also sounded like a glitch.

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Off The Wall / Re: See ya later!/Welcome back!

« on: March 14, 2011, 10:56:54 AM »

where you have you been all this time? 

Bored.

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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)

« on: March 14, 2011, 10:56:07 AM »

Technically he was based off of Sun Wukong but the similarities to Superman is there.

He has the items of Sun Wukong. In any other thing, he is Superman. It's as obvious a homage as Disney's Hercules was.

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Gaming / Re: Metroid Discussion Thread

« on: March 14, 2011, 10:54:43 AM »

I repeat. The Auroras are also Mother Brains. They are just fine.

Mother Brain herself is a HAL 9000 cliche. If we are to assume that the Primes happened in relation to other M, then considering that the Aurora Units were a success, why wouldn't they try to go the next step, and basically make a version with a body and emotions?

Because surely,if anything can keep her from coming to the same conclusion that drove Mother Brain to her position, it is Human emotions. And for the most part, they worked. Until they betrayed her and tried to reprogram her. As a robot with not quite the grasp on emotions that Bergman would have hoped, she wants revenge. Only in her twisted vision, this revenge is against Humanity in general.

She didnt go bad because she was Mother Brain, she went bad because she became twisted with anger. Of course, abandoning her emotions by that point. If they hadnt pulled a dick move on her, she wouldnt have snapped.

Also, come on. This is the federation. The ones who actually tried to use a potentially GALAXY ending lifeform as a biological weapon.

The ones who despite the disaster aboard th Bottle Ship, still went ahead and decided to keep on making bioweapons, AND TAKE RIDLEY ALONG WITH THEM.

The Auroras don't have evidence of being connected to Mother Brain other than their look. They're organic computers, that's all. The Federation basically tried to replicate the brilliance of a Mother Brain-like computer through their own science, nothing wrong with that, and they ended up being corrupted. They didn't hit us over the head with them. It's different than straight-up cloning Hitler along with his entire army in a science base which could be easily overpowered. It's every single cliché in the "evil creation" book at once. Mother Brain herself was HAL 9000, but it wasn't slapped over our heads in any other game. It was simply... hey, "organics suck and are straight-up illogical, what's up with that?" In Other M, they basically decided to make her a kawaii uguu girl who was defied and treated wrong, even though she had a direct link with the pirates. The scientists basically did the stupidest thing they could have possibly done. By adding human emotion (we can see how well HUMAN EMOTION fits girls in this universe, it turns them into straight up bitches) and then angering Mother Brain directly and treating it like a kid, what the hell could that have led to? Why did they even HAVE that conflict in the story? It was the most obvious thing there. The only thing missing was to make her wear a schoolgirl uniform or some crap. If you want to know how to do a Hal 9000 plot right, play System Shock 2, for example. Hell, even Portal does it right. But this? This is just wrong, wrong, wrong wrong on so many degrees.

And about Ridley, sure, you're only helping my argument. The feds basically used him AGAIN after all the crap that happened. Making it obvious that realistically, they would have cloned him this time 'round too, even if they didn't know he was a birdy. Samus didn't [acid burst] her pants and barf uncontrollably then. Oh, and she actually FINISHED HIM. On every other game I might say, instead of letting him escape like a retard.

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Gaming / Re: Legend of Zelda - The official Zelda thread

« on: March 14, 2011, 10:31:36 AM »

As long as they do not make it too dark. Otherwise, it'll ruin the franchise.

I'm not talking God of War, man. Just make it as dark and epic as that trailer, with a few fights where you fight alongside Hyrule's army to defend the city.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUXyzv0k4ZM[/youtube]

Like this.

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Gaming / Re: Official Nintendo 3DS Discussion Thread - Specs, Tech, Price? It's all here!

« on: March 14, 2011, 10:26:13 AM »

Aiming is really not the issue. The flying parts are fine once you get used to it. It's the ground movement that's really atrocious. You literally turn your character around by flicking the stylus on the touch screen. I could potentially see it working if I just use my thumb on the touch screen instead of the stylus, but I didn't have the option to do that at the demo. I was also not alone in the discomfort level found while playing Kid Icarus, as many many other PAX goers felt the same way. I mean, my hand hurt after playing the demo, so I can't imagine anyone with bigger hands being able to handle it. Overall though, the excitement level for this game has drastically dropped.

I know, I played it. I have no idea why they needed strafing for those parts.

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Entertainment / Re: OH! HEY! IT'S A ZORRO CARTOO-WHATTHEHECKISTHIS?!

« on: March 14, 2011, 03:47:57 AM »

Honestly, I can try, but I'd need to hardsub the eps, even. Heck, I love the voices, even if they're a bit "done in the 80's" style, since the dubbing material we got here is kinda weak. But yeah, I'll definetly give it a try.

The portuguese version of the show actually used to be entirely on youtube, but they took it out.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2J51na7oRU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/youtube]
Here's a clip.

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Entertainment / Re: What are some Commercials you hate?

« on: March 14, 2011, 03:33:30 AM »

Oh I'm sorry. I COMPLETELY forgot about this gem, which unless anyone can prove me wrong, has the WORST ANIMATION EVER.

EV. ER.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti7cfnaRTdQ[/youtube]

Worst animation ever? PB, that is smalltime. That is the smalltime of smalltimes. That is considered DISNEY GRADE STUFF where I come from.

Over here, in this godforsaken land, we get actual local animation on our channels. For kids. And one of the channels provides animated music videos with traditional songs. Made with MS Paint and Flash.

You'll have to excuse this not being a commercial, but I wanted to take your challenge. Now this is one of the BEST animated segments we've got. If I can find one of the worst ones, I'll show it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5TS2KgkDCM&feature=related[/youtube]

The kicker? THEY SELL THIS IN DVDS. WITH 5 MUSIC VIDEOS EACH.

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Entertainment / Re: OH! HEY! IT'S A ZORRO CARTOO-WHATTHEHECKISTHIS?!

« on: March 14, 2011, 03:25:15 AM »

I can't. ;_; It's all in portuguese. No subs.

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Off The Wall / Re: Japan has been hit by a massive earthquake.

« on: March 14, 2011, 03:24:39 AM »

Oh, you haven't seen the worst, believe me.

There are a ZILLION facebook accounts with "Yay! God has finally given us payback for Pearl Harbor!" on their pages.

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Off The Wall / Re: Japan has been hit by a massive earthquake.

« on: March 14, 2011, 03:17:49 AM »

Even with all of this, it's absolutely amazing how well-prepared they were. They've got actually quite minimal damage for this kind of disaster. It could have been much worse. And it seems the economy will be easy to fix, according to the news.

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Off The Wall / Re: Post a Random Fact About Yourself

« on: March 14, 2011, 01:49:43 AM »

I guess it's no one's fault really, since there is a great deal of ambiguity in speaking this way.

Aight then, agreed. Just try and speak a bit in "totally clear" mode next time, not everyone online has english as their first language.