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Game Blog / Re: New Wendy's Toys to Rule Them All

« on: May 04, 2007, 10:36:06 PM »

Oh sweet!  CHICKEN SOCKS!!!

I mean...........  uh yeah, cool toys guys.  I bet the two sided puzzle is, as the name suggests, a simple puzzle with an image on each side.  SPOILARZ:  If it's like in the picture you can just flip it over when your done.  Duh.  And Mario looks like he's running from that Wiimote.  I doubt it's remote controlled.  That'd be too cool for kids meal toys.  I suppose the Wiimote could launch him though....

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Mario Chat / Re: Chuckola vs. Kero Kero Challenge

« on: May 04, 2007, 07:15:00 PM »

Kero Kero Cola, because it's from SMRPG.

And all of Sapph's reasoning.

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Mario Chat / Re: Moustaches FTW

« on: April 28, 2007, 11:36:47 PM »

Curse these American-Firefox-spellcheck-ruiners!!!!  Now that I think about it, didn't the Axem Rangers say "moustache"?  Oh well.  I'll stop whining about spelling as long as someone doesn't start pronouncing "Realtor" or "larynx" the wrong way....

Moustaches for the world!!!  >{D

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Mario Chat / Re: Spin-offs ruining the franchise?

« on: April 28, 2007, 11:16:41 PM »

Chance based board games are incredibly boring if made wrong (I know of a game which in its entirety involves pulling a card and moving the number of spaces indicated.  You have no choice whatsoever in the events of the game.)

I'd go for ditching the orb system, but the dice are fine, despite my little rant there.  (Why don't they just bring the items back?)

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Mario Chat / Re: Spin-offs ruining the franchise?

« on: April 27, 2007, 10:29:54 PM »

Please, no more Mario Parties, and no more games where Mario is obviously out of place and/or suddenly becomes "educational".

Seriously, someone should make a Mario text-adventure.

>jump on goomba
I'm sorry, but I don't recognize the word "on"
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

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Mario Chat / Re: Moustaches FTW

« on: April 27, 2007, 10:10:51 PM »

I know one girl who has a visible moustache and beard, and doesn't seem to take any measures to conceal it (it really freaks me out.)

It's moustache, not mustache.  (Just like theatre not theater, colour not color, and grey not gray.  But I guess it all depends on whether you're speaking english or american.)

:}o

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Mario Chat / Re: Favorite Mario Pictures

« on: April 20, 2007, 10:33:26 PM »

Hah!  Lizard Dude is so right.

I like a lot of Mario art, but at the moment, I have none on my hard drive...  A lot of what people have already posted sums up all of the art I like.  I always did like the doctored screenshots section of SOTSS, but I can't seem to find that either...

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Video Game Chat / Re: Button-Mashery and Analog Stick Rotisserie

« on: April 19, 2007, 10:02:59 PM »

For those attacks (and Bow's in PM) I just grab the analog stick between my thumb and forefinger and jiggle it back and forth.  By the way, I just noticed that my CT is gone (I never understood it anyway)

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Video Game Chat / Re: Button-Mashery and Analog Stick Rotisserie

« on: April 16, 2007, 09:44:53 PM »

I think that filling up a meter should be done in some way other than pounding on a button. Maybe, and this is off the top of my head, getting successive attacks in a row, or whatever. Think about it: if you were a wizard, would you charge up your attacks by pounding your fists on something? Hopefully not, unless it was a Moogle or something else annoying. I think that a Guitar Hero-eusqe minigame where you hold down certain buttons to charge up the meter quicker would be awesome. However, things like unscrewing screws by rotating the stick is cool, because you're doing something that resembles something on-screen.

Maybe pounding your fists on something could be part of the attack....  Glorb, do you pound your controller with your fists?

I always liked the "push buttons in the right order" approach.  The two best examples I can think of right now are most of Vivian's attacks in PM:TTYD and the sword fighting duel game in MP2.

I hate button-mashing.  Certain games make your fingers fall off from mashing buttons (yes, my fingers will break before the controller.)  The button mashing stage in Mischief Makers is preventing me from getting all 52 golds, the soda guzzling game in Chrono Trigger was quite annoying, and the button mashing in the Crane Game in MP2 is just as impossible.  The stick rotations are just as bad.  Have you ever tried to play with a dead (not springy) joystick.  Not fun.  But what's even more annoying than joystick rotation is D-Pad rotation as in several special moves in SMRPG.  That hurts your thumbs.

Didn't Nintendo have to provide gloves for people when they claimed that the joystick rotation in MP was scraping skin off of their hands?

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Video Game Chat / Re: How do YOU game on the go?

« on: April 16, 2007, 09:32:21 PM »

To me it was just in Foreign. Which is to say, it's all Greek to me. XP
What do the Greeks use in place of that adage...?

Probably either, "It's all Latin-based to me" or "It's all German to me".

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Video Game Chat / Re: How do YOU game on the go?

« on: April 12, 2007, 07:08:07 PM »

Ah, the joys of Latin.  I actually thought it was Italian, which would make sense since this is a Mario website.  Shows how much Latin I know.

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Video Game Chat / Re: The Value of Saved Games

« on: April 12, 2007, 07:06:17 PM »

Make room for what?  Uploading your cat?

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Video Game Chat / Re: The Value of Saved Games

« on: April 11, 2007, 11:44:41 PM »

...Oh, and all my precious photos. And the cats, because you can't upload them onto the internet or keep them in a safe place....

What do you mean?  I uploaded my cat onto the internet MONTHS ago...  She hasn't been the same since.

I don't think save files should be worth money, but they're still valuable.  I was pretty frustrated when my Yoshi's Island cart blipped and deleted all my data.  (Of course, my current file is better than it was before now, but that's beyond the point. :D )  IMO the fun of beating the game matters much more than the save data.

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Video Game Chat / Re: How do YOU game on the go?

« on: April 11, 2007, 11:34:57 PM »

As for "superior" graphics, as they say, flocci non facio.

Who is they?  I've never heard that expression.

I can obviously see that I'm losing this argument.  Oh well.  I still like my PSP...  And I'm sorry if the title of the poll throws people off.  :S

[Do you think used game sales take away money from the developers?]

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Video Game Chat / Re: Used Games: Bad for the Industry?

« on: April 10, 2007, 04:25:57 PM »

The "I'm Poor" argument (WarpWrattler) and the "I don't understand the difference between a developer and a retailer" argument (PaperWario) have nothing to do with the question of the poll:

Do you think used game sales take away money from the developers?

Regardless of your opinion of Gamestop's business practices, the answer to the question is yes. The 6 voters for No are tards.

I have to agree with Lizard Dude about that, so I'm gonna say yes.  But I still buy all my games used if I can :D