1976
Off The Wall / Re: OH GOD PIZZA HUT WHAT THE [tornado fang] ARE YOU DOING
« on: July 25, 2009, 07:16:40 AM »
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1977
Off The Wall / Re: OH GOD PIZZA HUT WHAT THE [tornado fang] ARE YOU DOING
« on: July 25, 2009, 07:02:45 AM »
I personally like my NYC Pizza with the soft, somewhat floppy/fluffy consistency dough and crust, but PB's point in crunchy and firm crust still stands. Seriously, you have to try both anytime you're here.
1978
Off The Wall / Re: OH GOD PIZZA HUT WHAT THE [tornado fang] ARE YOU DOING
« on: July 25, 2009, 06:36:43 AM »
[tornado fang]ing PB, I had something witty to defend NYC style pizza (as if it needs defending) right before your post went up. 
Woman, you don't know the half of it. Once you go NY you can't go back.
By the way, these pictures are not helping my quest to stay fit and low cholesterol. I wants Pizza now, and I've had it at least twice this week.
I wish I could have some NY styled pizza, pizza is my favorite food after all.
Woman, you don't know the half of it. Once you go NY you can't go back.
By the way, these pictures are not helping my quest to stay fit and low cholesterol. I wants Pizza now, and I've had it at least twice this week.
1979
Fan Creations / Re: A music mash-up I did with MM9...
« on: July 25, 2009, 04:35:01 AM »
This one came out quite well. 
1980
Off The Wall / Re: OH GOD PIZZA HUT WHAT THE [tornado fang] ARE YOU DOING
« on: July 25, 2009, 01:14:36 AM »WE DON'T!
Well, by my NYC Pizza standards, they never did!
Jesus, I'm in tears. All the wit in the world couldn't have nailed this one better.
Also, this is still not as bad as SyFy or MtnDew.
1981
Forum Games / Re: Praise the above poster!
« on: July 25, 2009, 01:09:13 AM »
Always has some awesome new nickname.
1982
Gaming / Re: Recommendations for the Wii
« on: July 24, 2009, 09:35:16 PM »I'm pretty sure Muramasa will be great too. And the only one who mentioned it was Vixy.
D:
I'm just gonna copy and paste something from my ever growing list of games that I want to get or have already now. Keep in mind that a few of these games aren't out yet though:(click to show/hide)
Let me know if you'd like any Virtual Console recommendations as well. Also as I mentioned before, your millage may vary with this list. I don't mind trying out different kinds of games and it shows with a lot of the picks here. Some of them however might not be one's cup of tea. Still most of the ones here that I mentioned are at least worth a look over if you get the chance to see them in the future.
1983
Gaming / Re: Wow... Starfox. It won't make it.
« on: July 24, 2009, 09:28:17 PM »Where was this IP Protection back in the Super Mario World days, when they seemed to license Mario's image to anybody just to sell more merchandise, and stuff like Mario Is Missing was coming out?
Dunno honestly, it's been impressive watching the ebb and flow of Nintendo to be quite honest.
I miss the stuff like the Super Mario Bros. cartoon shows for this reason dammit.
1984
Gaming / Re: Wow... Starfox. It won't make it.
« on: July 24, 2009, 08:58:04 PM »StarTropics, anyone?
Fixed.
Now then, since I said I'd do it:
For the record, I already mentioned F-Zero X, quite literally before your bold
Fxeni brought ya up to speed on this already.
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As for FE, I'll admit that it's gotten more love recently, but look at how long it took for Nintendo to bring it over state side. The fact that it's very delay has created a trope means that it's not exactly well looked upon with NoA in the early years.
Do note that previously, due to NCL not knowing how well received a game series like Fire Emblem would be in the West as well as most of the games in the series coming out in the later years of the Nintendo console lifetimes (most notably, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragons & The Blade of Light, the first one which debuted in the NES/Famicom's golden years) they weren't sure whether or not the risk would be worth it. It was just because of Marth's and Roy's dual cameo in Melee that they were even considered due to the popularity of the characters themselves. It was Nintendo's way of advertising, and since us West folk were all like "whoa, who're these guys?", they tested us to see if Fire Emblem could fly here, and sure enough, it does and well.
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Not to mention it's one game every other year. Ever since Melee, we've gotten about 5 FE games; the second and third GBA games, the GC and Wii games, and the remake of the first game for the DS. In 8 years, only 5 games have come out. Granted it takes time to make RPGs, at least more time than other games, and particularly FE games, but NoA didn't even bother releasing the older games on a GBA cart.
Two things are wrong here. First off, you're comparing this generations' output of Fire Emblem games to a generation that has already concluded. This gen I wouldn't even think is half over yet, naysayers excluded. In that time we've gotten two much higher quality Fire Emblem games (Radiant Dawn & especially Shadow Dragon DS) as well as the promise of more surprises to come. The numbers might not be as great as the previous generation, but considering that last gen was the first gen we even got Fire Emblem here and it was all just so that there would be some name recognition and development of a western fanbase, you can't really hold 5 games in one go as the standard.
The second part to this is that if there are too many releases in too short a time span, you risk over saturating the market with the games. Imagine if Fire Emblem would release bi-annually. Sure us big time Fire Emblem heads would be in nirvana, but the majority of people would actually see this as cash cow efforts and pass them all up. New people who might be interested in the franchise might become discouraged to do so since they wouldn't know which one to jump into first when they see 4 or 5 games on the same rack. It could also come as a knock on the actual quality of the game. The dev team at Intelligent Systems would be forced to churn out as good a product as possible to make ends meet for their next one with only minor or incremental updates from the last game since they don't have a long enough development cycle to bring in the new ideas. This then leads to series burnout where even the hardest of the hardcore FE fans would probably get slightly tired of the same old same old with a little new dressing on the top.
Long story short, I for one welcome the longer time periods between FE games (and most Nintendo and non-Nintendo franchises actually). A delayed game can become a great game with the time, but a released game will be whatever it is (good, bad, unrefined, etc.) forever.
Also, since I failed reading here, the possibility of future Virtual Console + localized JPN Fire Emblem games (or hell even more remakes in the forward thinking vein of Shadow Dragon DS) = everyone's happy. This is all on them though, so I think it's best not to worry about it and just appreciate it when and if it does happen. (It'll save ya a headache or two to think that way.)
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If there's one company I actually would never WANT to work for, it's probably Nintendo. They don't give two shits about a lot of their series.
This is the same company that won't lend out even the images of their characters for others outside of the company to manipulate or use due to their ninja like means of "IP Protection". Need an example of this? Switching Mario's persona to a more serious fighter's personality and giving him denims in Brawl. There's a story about Sakurai having to overcome this just to get Mario. Imagine the hoops he went through for the rest of the cast.
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Just put out Kirby and Pokemon on the handheld and Mario and Link on the console and the machines print money.
I'm not particularly fond of the neglect a lot of series get when it comes to console outings myself, but you know this isn't true. We've had rumblings on HAL working on a console Kirby much like a natural evolution of Super Star since the GCN days ([tornado fang]ing HAL). Pokemon was never really a console series, but we did get our Stadium equivalent in Battle Revolution. Then you forget a lot of the smaller stuff that really has a fanbase that's getting second chances on Wii. (Sin & Punishment 2, Punch-Out!! Wii, the EXCITE racers)
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Plus, how often do they come out with an original series? I mean, seriously, I think the most recent ones are the Golden Sun games and Starfy games.
They do come up with original series, Captain Rainbow, the Tingle series (which is getting two weird new games soon
), the Rhythm Tengoku series, and as much as folks want to discredit it, the Wii ___ series. Thing is, it's a risky business trying to create a new property these days since no one is sure how it will sell and who/what market it'd sell to. It wouldn't be much use if you created a top 3 game of the forever with production values out the ass if the market for that kind of game was shallow and "fool's gold" to chase after. I understand your side though because Nintendo, who used to pioneer some of the most amazing new game experiences and series when they were fresh in the game, seems to have fallen back on their laurels and brand name to sell a game. Not like this is bad when 75% of the time they push out a new Mario, Zelda, Metroid and the like, it's always a top tier game. (I do wish for a new StarFox, Kirby, Wave Race, Pilotwings, StarTropics, or even the Kid Icarus reboot, just to see some fresh Kool-Aid from Nintendo soon. )Quote
I mean, I know Capcom isn't exactly innocent of it either, but at least they try a bit more. Dead Rising, Zack and Wiki, and because they were under the name once, you could also count Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and God Hand. Even if most of those games aren't a series, it was at least an attempt to branch out.
Everyone can learn from Capcom this generation. They took chances and seriously pushed their efforts and were rewarded for them. They obviously have a long way to go before their "sequelitis" starts to fade from the public scrutiny, but you also have to admire their forward thinking in this particular round of game generations.
Although the bastards did ax Clover...
1985
Gaming / Re: Wow... Starfox. It won't make it.
« on: July 24, 2009, 10:02:47 AM »
So much farce to dissect... Bleh, I'll do this when I'm not half asleep, just know that a lot of that post is kinda whiny.
1986
Gaming / Re: Wow... Starfox. It won't make it.
« on: July 24, 2009, 04:53:46 AM »
That's always true. Gameplay will always be more important than story or logic by extension. In a lot of cases, stories tend to stifle the creativity of the gameplay because people then have to think of how much sense thing A makes in plot B's context and what have you until it becomes a whole mess of a thing. This could all could be prevented with one person saying "[tornado fang] logic, go wild and make sure it plays well".
1987
Gaming / Re: Wow... Starfox. It won't make it.
« on: July 24, 2009, 04:43:13 AM »
I'm personally waiting for Nintendo to give this series a kick in the ass and drop all the story bits that have accumulated from the StarFox Adventure days. They aren't Sonic Team after all, tea tables shall be upended one way or another, especially if they get Miyamoto the story destroyer involved with the series again.
1988
Gaming / Re: Wow... Starfox. It won't make it.
« on: July 24, 2009, 04:33:18 AM »
Anybody else feel like game series that revolve around Saturday morning cartoon level plots that feature anthros as the leads are always going to be destined for outcomes like this once people start focusing on storylines?
1989
Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread
« on: July 23, 2009, 06:24:53 AM »
Riiiiight.
*Remembers the crazy [parasitic bomb] he did last night with Lucas*
I guess I'm smarter than the average badger.
*Remembers the crazy [parasitic bomb] he did last night with Lucas*
I guess I'm smarter than the average badger.
1990
Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread
« on: July 23, 2009, 06:21:01 AM »
Characters we suck as huh... Welp, looks like you need to get crackin' with Lucas!
1991
Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread
« on: July 23, 2009, 06:06:40 AM »
Well I'll be on, but much later than usual since some folk are hogging the Wii currently.
1992
Forum Games / Re: Praise the above poster!
« on: July 23, 2009, 05:59:21 AM »
Sharp tongued and loves it.
1995
General / Re: Post Counts and Member Groups
« on: July 22, 2009, 03:18:04 AM »You fools, it's all about the perfect balance of ass and tits! just like breakfast!
*mauled by Jelly and DZ*
This is true too. More important is personality though. Also, breakfast now?
1996
General / Re: Post Counts and Member Groups
« on: July 21, 2009, 11:36:14 PM »ass only looks good in clothing
I need like the world's largest lolwut image for this one here.
I figured you a latino. Oops.
Join the club.
I'm on tits' side, and also happen to be a veteran. Bad move, rookie.
I'm half and half too, but seems you got a grudge against me, so let's duke it out.
We shall settle our differences the gentleman's way in the future. Duels in Street Fighter 4.
1997
Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread
« on: July 21, 2009, 11:07:48 AM »
Blah, I'm not counting my boy out yet.
1998
Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread
« on: July 21, 2009, 11:04:53 AM »
In other news, that Frigate Orpheon flip KO still makes me go lol-[tornado fang]ing-hwat even in the replay.
1999
Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: July 21, 2009, 11:01:31 AM »
"I miss so much when I play as normal Falcon these days."
2000
Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread
« on: July 21, 2009, 10:58:21 AM »OK, fine, I'll use different colors.
