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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread

« on: February 09, 2009, 05:21:43 AM »

Ah yes, many an Egg, Bomb, Giant Punch, and Ragnell flew tonight. Lots of ass-kicking on all ends. I do wish I'd had more chances to fight your Ike, you sure are lethal with him.

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Gaming / Re: Worst experience while gaming online?

« on: February 09, 2009, 03:57:23 AM »

Well, I'm not saying it's THAT common. And if there was no reason for it, hey, some people just like to wreak havoc for the sake of wreaking havoc.

That kinda disappointed me about Mario Kart Wii, the fact that its filters kick anyone doing anything goofy. It's not like those people are EVERYWHERE or anything. Those who manipulate the system are far more annoying than any who simply disregard it to screw around could ever hope to be.

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Gaming / Re: Worst experience while gaming online?

« on: February 09, 2009, 03:36:56 AM »

Ike? He hasn't given me much trouble online, a few can use him to annoying degrees but I manage to work with it.

Something I find odd is that I virtually never see anyone use the allegedly "top-tier" Brawl character online, that being Meta Knight. Personally, I suck with him to extraordinarily shameful levels (I'm talking THREE Easy Mode deaths on All-Star), but that's hardly unusual since the tier rankings have pretty much meant jack [parasitic bomb] to me from day one. Besides Marth, anyway.

Quote from: Blue on February 09, 2009, 01:43:11 AM

The guy (using Mario) gets a star, and runs over me. Normally, it's not a big deal; after all, it's what most people do when they get one. However, the guy switches into reverse and runs me over again. Then he pulls forward again and hits me again. The annoying part was that it was inescapable. He hits me with this "combo" of his until the effect of the star runs out, and then he pulls off, despite the fact that he was already lapped. The other opponent took advantage of this and won that race.

In "Mario's" defense there is a legitimate reason for practicing such tactics: Snaking revenge. Thankfully most of them have moved on, but if you are unfortunate enough to run into them again, annoyance is your only recourse (well, besides hacking a Battle stage and waiting for them to do something that crashes their game, thus forcing a disconnect/loss on their end). I myself would turn my kart around and race backwards. The decent players would take a hint after that. The assholes paid a visit to Pipe Plaza.

I don't play a lot of online games so I don't have too many bad online experiences. Besides temperamental nights with the Smash Bros. servers, anyway. >.> The worst of those would probably be when they kept on kicking us out of my "Dragon's Lair" stage while we were trying to have a 2.0 Damage Coin match. I don't really understand that at all, maybe the Nintendo servers just couldn't cope with the sheer number of flying character ricochets.

Then there's Pokemon Battle Revolution. Some guy came at me with a Spore Breloom and Fake Out Mew. Took me three tries to dismantle it, and when I finally had victory in my grasp, the connection was conveniently lost.

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread

« on: February 09, 2009, 03:33:15 AM »

Well, since my head feels less like a bloated sack of mucus tonight than it has for the past few, who wants to Brawl tonight? I've got a waiting room set up this very second, so any who are willing feel free to jump in.

EDITS: You know, I am really, really, REALLY getting annoyed at Green Hill Zone's blatant disregard of the My Music settings. It seems like the low-probability songs get picked in that all the time.

Oh, and fun fact. Apparently if nobody takes any damage for a long enough time, the server calls an automatic No Contest. Nintendo can be real assholes sometimes.

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Gaming / Re: Sonic and the Black Knight

« on: February 09, 2009, 03:27:39 AM »

Near every Sonic game gets a luke-warm reception at release. Some avid opposition and some supporters. If even Heroes had its supporters, then "a few people regard it as pretty good" doesn't say anything. Personally, I'm a huge skeptic of the were-hog and I found the main theme song of the game to be positively ear-splitting, so I'm not all that anxious to buy it right away, especially for what is effectively half a good game. I already did that for NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams and regretted it. Maybe when it's cheap I'll back-track.

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Gaming / Re: Sonic and the Black Knight

« on: February 08, 2009, 08:10:46 PM »

From what I've heard I believe Deadly Creatures would be a better place to look if you're searching for relief from the Wii drought.

That being said......hey, it's Sonic, and it has a good theme song. I KNOW I'll buy it, it's just a matter of whether or not I'll be patient enough to wait for the price drop. Which at this rate I probably will.

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Gaming / Re: Obligatory Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum thread

« on: February 08, 2009, 08:06:33 PM »

Well, I've always got my Doubles team ready to kick some tail.

Quote from: STM on February 04, 2009, 04:08:49 PM

Let the price dro--

(looks at Pokmon Diamond and Pearl)

...god damn you, Nintendo.

Same can be said of Battle Revolution.

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Gaming / Re: Sonic and the Black Knight

« on: February 08, 2009, 07:55:35 PM »

Quote from: STM on February 07, 2009, 05:42:48 AM

I don't know... the same people were against the media flow in their review of Sonic Unleashed Wii.

Matt Cassamasina is also the same guy who claimed Heroes was an improvement over the Adventures, and a frequent basher of their soundtrack style. I NEVER trust IGN when it comes to Sonic, least of all Matt. He usually writes well but his Sonic reviews are highly opinionated.

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread

« on: February 04, 2009, 04:19:04 AM »

Quote from: Akamaru on February 04, 2009, 04:14:54 AM

Oh, it isn't you. It usually takes about 150% - 200% to kill me off. I have high Evd. rate... Ask Hypershell. It normally takes a lot to kill me off.

Your Pikachu does, yes. I've been doing a good job of raping your Samus, which USED to be your most troublesome character for me. My, how times change....

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread

« on: February 04, 2009, 03:51:54 AM »

Okay, lag sucks, and the Wii locked up. I'll consider that a sign from God to take a breather.

Quote from: Cosake Solrac on February 04, 2009, 03:44:33 AM

...it lags for me >:

and um...

what happened just now? why stand there?

From my end the camera shifted so that one of the side pillars was in the middle. Next thing I know, death.

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread

« on: February 04, 2009, 03:42:59 AM »

WHAT THE F#$(*&% WAS THAT?!!!

It was like the stage itself just said, "[tornado fang] you all, die now."

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread

« on: February 04, 2009, 03:34:37 AM »

In what way was ANYTHING you did comparable to Mewtwo?

Quote from: Protoman Blues on February 04, 2009, 03:24:05 AM

Are you insane? Battling to Mii Channel & Wii Shop Channel is [tornado fang]ing priceless?

I bequeath a boot to the head.
*THWAKK!*

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Gaming / Re: Super Smash Bros. Thread

« on: February 04, 2009, 03:18:25 AM »

Quote from: Akamaru on February 04, 2009, 03:15:32 AM

I forgot you hate that stage...

Posted on: February 03, 2009, 06:11:22 PM
I hate little kids that want to play...

I hate the default music (and frankly Animal Crossing isn't much better). If other combatants had the sense to pick Lip's theme or Dr. Mario, it'd be a different story.

What was with that disconnect? It was like it refused to load the next Pokemon model. You were hanging on the respawn platform and yet I wasn't lagging.

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