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Forum Games / Re: You Get Amazed, You Lose

« on: September 09, 2013, 10:26:24 PM »

Augie's Great Municipal Band is The Emperor's Theme.

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Forum Games / Re: The Pointless Topic!

« on: September 09, 2013, 07:45:38 PM »

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Video Game Chat / Re: 2ds

« on: September 03, 2013, 12:23:16 AM »

It's actually one giant screen, partially covered up by the shell to look like the 3DS screens. Knowing this, the chain of logic behind the design of this thing is perhaps more clear:

We need a super cheap version of the 3DS --> One screen is cheaper to produce than two + 2D screen is cheaper than 3D --> all 2D and no hinge

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Mario Chat / Re: Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

« on: September 02, 2013, 11:43:02 PM »

I was playing it, it was good, but then FFXIV came out (again) and obliterated Dream Team's chances at my time. Ahhh well.

I liked Sticker Star more though, because it was new and weird instead of "Yep it's this game again (again (again))".

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Site Discussion / Re: Question about usernames.

« on: September 02, 2013, 11:31:01 PM »

Well that was a change for the severely less cute.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Animal Crossing: New Leaf

« on: August 17, 2013, 05:49:36 AM »

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Video Game Chat / Re: Animal Crossing: New Leaf

« on: August 17, 2013, 05:03:46 AM »

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Video Game Chat / Re: Animal Crossing: New Leaf

« on: August 17, 2013, 03:54:27 AM »

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CoK9ONSTBU" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CoK9ONSTBU</a>

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Mario Chat / Re: New Super Luigi U

« on: August 17, 2013, 02:07:26 AM »

o_o

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiEG0C-NKWE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiEG0C-NKWE</a>

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Mario Chat / Re: What Mario characters would you like in Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS?

« on: August 10, 2013, 11:39:23 PM »

Boring moveset? Mario's cape is one of the most hilarity-causing moves in the game.

Flipping a Samus around at the last second so she fires her charge shot into someone else... priceless.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Bleedthrough

« on: August 08, 2013, 09:58:23 PM »

I was walking through a mall today and I heard breathy saxophone music coming from a store and my brain freaked out.


<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGsFpUsCc9g" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGsFpUsCc9g</a>


In other news, Pikmin 3 is having the usual Pikmin-effect of making miscellaneous garbage on the street really, really eyecatching.

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Game Blog / Re: Sequel to Super Mario RPG? Original director says...

« on: August 06, 2013, 03:19:34 PM »

I don't get why people rave over it so much when it's by and large missing the point of what Mario's about.

As a person who considered SMRPG his "favorite game ever" for much of his life, let me explain. It is inexplicably beloved for the exact same reason as FFVII is to some people, and FFX is to some others: it was the first game of a certain character/story/world development threshold that they experienced after reaching an age old enough to understand and appreciate it. It's a bit mindblowing to experience a complex JRPG before you've built up the shields of experience and cynicism towards the genre's tricks. And the Mario brand name lured many fresh minds in to experience SMRPG in this way. The same goes for FFVII's and FFX's massive marketing hype and word-of-mouth due to the FF series jumping to the new consoles.

The content of the games isn't exactly what created the powerful love for them, and that's why it doesn't make sense when you contrast them to other arguably better games in the same series. It was more their societal opportunity to critical hit minds. I agree with everything you wrote Bird, but the effect is so powerful that merely hearing this is enough to instantly make me put SMRPG at the top of any Best Mario Games list, every time.

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General Chat / Re: I think it's about time ... we saw each other.

« on: August 01, 2013, 11:10:56 AM »

I'll take neck and hair over WeeGee's hairy neck.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Animal Crossing: New Leaf

« on: June 27, 2013, 01:49:11 PM »

That question was incredibly easy for me because I hang out in a Vietnamese restaurant eating bánh mì all the time. Pho pronunciation arguments filled my life long before Gulliver showed up.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Animal Crossing: New Leaf

« on: June 26, 2013, 09:32:49 PM »

Isabelle is a bell.



Her Japanese name is Shizue. "Bell" in Japanese is suzu. (And she's a Shih Tzu.)