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Gaming / Re: The Kingdom Hearts Thread

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:52:08 PM »

Oh yeah, Xehanort..apparently he´s the Villain in all games..altough he´s not

I'm betting that in the end, he turns out to be good or some inunderstandable crap.

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Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:50:36 PM »

Blasphemy.

"Not memorable, but listenable", that I agree with.  The problem is, to me (and a fair share of Sonic fans), taking that as an accurate descriptor means it is the one thing Unleashed managed to do that was utterly inferior to every other 3D Sonic.

To be blatantly honest, the corny metal started to [acid burst] me off around Heroes. After that, I could take the soundtracks or leave them.

They should just hire Richard Jacques to make every single Sonic soundtrack and be done with it.

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:48:18 PM »

It's a joke mostly. Given the entirety of Zelda is apeshit continuity wise, I devised my own theory that makes sense enough to me that I can call it a theory. That said...

For those that Gameplay is their major factor... I suppose that is fine and dandy. But someone like me plays games primarily for the story. When the story makes no sense, we must do something to make it make sense to us.

Playing games for the story? Games like Zelda? Zelda has never been about the story, to be honest. It had a few good things going on OOT, MM and WW, but aside from that... it never really was about it.

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Gaming / Re: The Kingdom Hearts Thread

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:35:43 PM »

Which is why more and more I'm ignoring the story.

Although Christopher Lee does do the voice of DiZ which is cool.

...and Leonard Nimoy does Master Xehanort's voice. Which is awesome.

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:35:01 PM »

Well, I have no problem with JSA being canceled, as it's completely gone down without Johns behind the helm.  JLA needs to be given to Johns, or handed back to Morrison again.  I like the current Teen Titans team, but I just don't like the writing.  I like the idea of the generational teams though, like Teen Titans, JLA, and JSA.

Morrison's handling quite a few projects as it is, and so is Johns. JSA... they... as much as I LOVE the JSA, I think Flash, Wildcat and Green Lantern kinda need to go and retire for good, maybe a house in the countryside or some crap, and dying respectfully in bed with their families around them, like worthy men. I love them, I love them being awesome veterans and stuff, but I think that, immortality timeloop or not, they're way too old for this [parasitic bomb]. They've become kind of irrelevant, and I never want that for them.

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Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:32:42 PM »

So much for my hope of a Secret Rings soundtrack.

Instrumental's better than "who gonna rock the place place place place place", IMO. =P

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Gaming / Re: The Official E3 2010 Discussion Thread & Lounge (Jun 13, 2010 - June 19, 2010)

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:32:02 PM »

I thought Everquest popularized the MMO

Everquest was the Playstation. WoW was the Wii.

...WoW popularized MMOs.

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:29:59 PM »

I promised myself never to waste a single thought on continuity or timeline matters. It's meaningless and doesn't affect gameplay at all.

True that. Continuity isn't given a single thought except in games like Wind Waker and Majora's Mask.

Not to mention Zelda's continuity is constantly rewritten.
More like the same two guys.  FSA provides another origin to "Ganondorf" separate from that of OoT, which centers around his trident rather than the Triforce of Power.

Forgot about that one. Never did pay much attention to the Four Sword Universe in Zelda.

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Gaming / Re: The Kingdom Hearts Thread

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:27:24 PM »

I think Square got the deal with Disney and made a Disney-like storyline. After that, they could keep the characters and go their own way. So they went the way they did; I don't like the story at all. In fact, I'll watch the story so I know what's going on, but generally I'll skip it if I can read what happened in the Journal or something. Part of my knowledge-seeking, I guess.

I mainly play it for the gameplay; it's pretty fun.

The gameplay in the main titles and Birth By Sleep has always been fun. But I'm tired of the bullshit they're pulling with the story, which has it becoming Nomura's own personal fapfest. He's [speed burner]ing all over the characters, making them become more of his own personal stereotypes, and getting everything to be some kind of DBZ-hybrid where nobody dies, souls have like... 4 or 5 different ways to go, and it obeys every single anime cliché.

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:25:14 PM »

Similar to how the Titans became [tornado fang]'d up in the future.  Man, I miss Geoff writing that comic.....

I honestly think a TON of team comics should be cancelled, and they should just have more teams and artists making a solid structure for the main comics. Tons of stuff gets shared artists, like Return of Bruce Wayne or the Blackest Night saga, which pretty much happened GL-BN-GL-BN-GL-BN if you wanted to make any sense of the story. Only... instead of doing the bullshit Amazing Spider-Man has going for its current structure, they should have one continuous story, so you can expect something good every week. Morrison and Johns have already shown they can write tons of stuff at a time.

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Gaming / Re: The Official E3 2010 Discussion Thread & Lounge (Jun 13, 2010 - June 19, 2010)

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:21:48 PM »

Believe it or not, most MMOs are based on the concept of WoW, XI or Korean Rehash. Sad, but yeah.

I know. But saying WoW is riding on anything's tailwind is like saying Super Mario Bros copied this platforming from this or that. It's just ridiculous. WoW is THE MMO, the one game that popularized MMOs gigantically. When you say MMO nowadays, you just says WoW. Why bother saying anything else?

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Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:19:24 PM »

LoL, whoever did this is NOT Daft Punk.  Also, I really cannot wait for Tron Legacy.

No, but it has a tiny influence in the voice. Although the music itself is still kinda punk bullshitty, but what can ya do... at least we'll have Unleashed's people doing the songs. One thing that game had was decent tracks. Not memorable, but listeneable.

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:18:22 PM »

OK so... originally I had made a really large theory on how everything was connected by Incesty.

Yes, incesty.

It's a word now, look it up. Anyway, I lack the major details now but it's CLEARLY obvious that the entire Zelda series is one big incestuous orgy. Why? Because Link, Zelda AND Ganon are all... well, in nearly every Zelda game.

That said... it brings up interesting questions. Do they get down and dirty after every game? Are Link and Ganon brothers or father and son? Why the hell is it popular to "love thy enemy" in Hyrule? These answers and more... I must have them, Nintendo! The fanbase deserves to know!

A CHALLENGER HAS APPEARED!

This could very well be a new theory! Maybe anyone who is destined for the sword is invaded by the Link Virus and be-- ... Naw, that's just stupid.

Since Link and Zelda NEVER end up together or even slightly romantically involved at the end of every game, it's safe to say they never do the nasty. Ganon, I think he's been proven to always be the same guy going through time and dimensions and causing crap to happen.

Also, it was a reference to this:

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Gaming / Re: The Kingdom Hearts Thread

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:15:54 PM »

Okay, just asking. They did kinda gay him up in 2.

Not just him. Everything.

I mean, what did the organization did that was so evil? Ooooh, they want hearts of their own because they can't feel. SO EVIL. Ooooh, they're manipulating Sora into saving the worlds from heartless, something he'd most probably do anyway. SOOOO EVIL AND DIABOLICAL. Individual members were doing evil manipulative stuff, but it didn't make any sense why they did that.

The whole plot makes no sense. And people just come up to Sora and go "MEN IN BLACK COATS. EVIL. MUST DESTROY." Even Haloween Town's whole quest is simply based on Maleficent "trying to cause mischief once more". At least KH1 had a straight plan, an organization at the core that made sense, was Disney-based, and had actual perceptive goals. And it was a fun game that although a bit dark, it never stopped being an adventure with children going around and having fun through Disney worlds. Then in comes KH2 and starts being grimdark and retconning EVERYTHING.

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Gaming / Re: The Light Myth: Palutena's Mirror / Kid Icarus Thread

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:09:55 PM »

I'm fairly confident that it does in processing muscle, even if not in end results.  You have to bear in mind that the 3DS is effectively rendering three screens at all time: The touch screen plus two different screen angles for the 3D effect.

And remember, after all, that we are looking at launch titles.
It does.  Vix's screenshots are actually the native resolution of the 3DS images, according to Nintendo's specs.  400x240, up from the previous DS's 256x192.

(that said, it's a common practice to show preview screen renders that do not match the actual hardware's output resolution; so wrong reason, right result)

We'll still need to see alot more of the console's titles before we judge that, as well as gameplay. But I'm confident it's at least as powerful as a PS2.

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:08:46 PM »

.......is that him?  Why is he the Red Skull?  Wouldn't.......Cap be REALLY pissed at him for this?

No no no, Mettle is kind of a Colossus that can't turn his metal self off. But yes, the first issue of Avengers Academy does reveal that the whole kids' team that has been put there is there because they are the ones with the biggest risk of becoming the "next Red Skull or Magneto". So in a way, yeah.

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Gaming / Re: The Official E3 2010 Discussion Thread & Lounge (Jun 13, 2010 - June 19, 2010)

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:07:18 PM »

Yes, finally. WoW and all the ones on it's tailwind are crap.

WoW.

...riding on ANYTHING'S tailwind.

...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA

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Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:05:45 PM »

Well........I hate the auto-tuner......

Think of it as a spacey Daft Punk-ish tune. I do hate the rest of that band's repertoire, though. =P

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:04:57 PM »

Listening to Pink Floyd while drunk is AWESOME

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Gaming / Re: The Kingdom Hearts Thread

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:04:24 PM »

Just a question: Did you play Chain of Memories, Flash? That sets up the story for 2 while making it so it isn't like it's just thrown in for no reason by adhering to the ending of 1.

Chain of Memories was good. It made it so Axel was a sneaky dude, adhering to his plan every single step of the way so he'd win, no matter what.

...then KH2 turned him into a pansy looking for his love.

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:03:00 PM »

It'd be awesome if he held up the Skyward Sword, yelled out HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! and lightning struck it, making it could it could fly!

Of course, that's the Sword of Omens fanboy in me talking! 

"WHOEVER HOLDS THIS MASTER SWORD SHALL POSSESS THE POWER OF... LINK!"

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Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)

« on: June 18, 2010, 10:01:54 PM »

1st Adventure had without a doubt the best general character/stage setup.  Sonic was the obvious focus, by far the longest quest, and at the same time Tails and Amy played reasonably similarly (not to mention Tails, you know, WAS PLAYABLE).  The gimmick character quests were kept short.  Problem was, the game engine was buggy as hell.

Sonic Adventure 2 was most definitely better polished, but made the action an even split between Sonic, Knuckles, and the sick Gamma-derivative that they decided to make Tails into.  Nevetheless, it is definitely my most replayed 3D Sonic, and IMHO features some of the best stages I've seen in 3D platforming (Final Rush is simply epic).

Exactly. A perfect balance between the polished stages and gameplay of Sonic Adventure 2, together with the game structure and Adventure Fields of Sonic Adventure 1, would be awesome.

But I gotta say I still like the stages from SA1 alot better than the ones from SA2. They're more epic, overall, or have a better feel. SA2's ARK levels, for example, are just the same hyper-technological bullshit we're tired of seeing, while Final Egg and Sky Deck have a special way of seeming incredibly powerful and evil. Racing through that part of Sky Deck where planes are rising from the ground and everything's falling just makes you go "Wow, Eggman could pretty much conquer the world with this thing!" And Final Egg seems more hand-made, more mechanic than electronic. The stages overall seem more made with love.

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 09:57:54 PM »

Yeah I wasn't happy with what they did to Speedball.

He's back as a mix of both personalities, as I can see. Does that mean Squirrel Girl will be a fangirl over him again? I hope so. Kinda miss her.

Also, having him teach in Avengers Academy may turn out to be cool.

Also, Mettle is SO MOE~

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

« on: June 18, 2010, 09:51:46 PM »

Oh really?  That's pretty awesome, actually!

I think the words used were "The Skyward Sword would later become the Master Sword". So you probably put it in the Temple of Time at the end of the game, or something.

And to be honest, for a game that features so much stuff, a way to make Link FLY would be incredibly awesome. Sure, it'd take away alot of the puzzles, but can you imagine the potencial?

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Gaming / Re: The Light Myth: Palutena's Mirror / Kid Icarus Thread

« on: June 18, 2010, 09:48:53 PM »

This game looks GORGEOUS. I couldn't have thought of a better demo to play during E3 to stamp out the mutterings of the 3DS being "just another model of the NDS." This game proves that the 3DS is a brand new system. Higher quality graphics for sure. The old NDS struggles to match N64-quality graphics. The 3DS surpasses the GameCube. I'm sure the 3D screen has a higher resolution too, otherwise those screenshots would be a lot more jaggedy.

...we're still not sure it SURPASSES the Gamecube. It seems to be quite powerful, but it remains to be seen.