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Video Game Chat / Re: Super Smash Bros. 4 Wii U and 3DS
« on: June 21, 2013, 06:03:30 PM »
As we all know, the "graphics dont make a good game" line of reasoning is completely dead now.

Tropical Freeze is a wonderful example of how excellent graphics make an excellent game even excellent-er.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Wii U
« on: June 20, 2013, 06:21:38 PM »
Nope, EA is coming back to Wii U.

I don't understand why there is always a games shortage with Nintendo releases.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Super Smash Bros. 4 Wii U and 3DS
« on: June 20, 2013, 06:17:52 PM »
Every time I see one of KoopaTripper's posts, I think of glorb.

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Game Help / Mario Golf & TT Highlight Reel/Replay
« on: June 20, 2013, 06:16:33 PM »
How the crap do you save replays in Mario Golf and Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour? I want to assume it's automatic, but what constitutes a replay being saved? I see a bunch of my old ones from long ago, but I don't remember what to do with it. It sucks making an accidental albatross with Metal Mario with a hellacious crosswind (true story) and not being able to save it.

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Mario Chat / Re: Mario Games Offline... Again.
« on: June 17, 2013, 10:55:02 PM »
I call on Nintendo to bring us out of that predicament, in that case. Someone develop netcode libraries for it, determine what would happen if a player disconnected at a crucial moment, and figure it out. That would be preeeeeeetty cool.

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Mario Chat / Re: Mario Games Offline... Again.
« on: June 17, 2013, 06:34:58 PM »
are you 12. that entire line you said about challenging me to figure out a way to make it work makes absolutely no sense.

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Mario Chat / Re: Mario Games Offline... Again.
« on: June 17, 2013, 05:39:15 PM »
Just because 20-40 year olds don't come over and play doesn't mean nobody does. Nintendo is a family company. Kids go over to their friend's house all the time.

I wouldn't play 3D World or any iteration of NSMB online; unless you have headset communication working for you during gameplay, it doesn't seem worth it. ...hearing cooperative commands across the living room makes more sense than them being barked over wi-fi.

Just more shining examples of exactly what I'm talking about when I say people will make any excuse. Both of those don't make any sense. There's basically no reason why Nintendo couldn't do it and make it work; they just don't want to do it. It'd make things easier if Nintendo actually had voice chat, I'll concede that. Some of you people think that it's something that is unattainable. "well its not really designed for it and omg what happens if someone DCs and  what happens if there's no communication and man how would nintendo code such a feature in a game that is already built around the multiplayer aspect (3D world) hmm lets just not do it its too much trouble."

You still have no excuses. Some of you are allergic to online multiplayer. You are all horrible people.

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Mario Chat / Mario Games Offline... Again.
« on: June 16, 2013, 05:05:24 PM »
So, Nintendo has used what seems to be every excuse in the book to not include an online multiplayer mode for 2D (and more recently 3D) Mario games.

Some of you have defended their decisions to the death citing all sorts of reasons why it doesn't matter that Mario games aren't online, and even Nintendo tried stating that NSMB Wii wasn't online because the game by itself was "...pushing the Wii to its limits." Why any of you defend it confuses me.

Now that we are in the era of Wii U, they have literally no excuse to not include online play in multiplayer 2D or 3D Mario games, and you don't have any excuses either. There aren't any technical issues, the gameplay in NSMB U and 3D World has already been tailored for multiple characters on the screen, and other games that will be coming out (MK8, Smash Bros. U, etc.) will quite easily implement online even with their more impressive technical attributes.

So I must ask, why the crap not? The "it's about having friends over and bumping elbows" excuse is completely dead and makes no sense.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Super Smash Bros. 4 Wii U and 3DS
« on: June 16, 2013, 04:43:39 PM »
in b4 WarpRattler starts typing out and italicizing the titles of the games as SSBfWU and SSBf3DS.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Super Smash Bros. 4 Wii U and 3DS
« on: June 13, 2013, 10:26:05 PM »
Mmmm.... I don't see them getting rid of Snake. I'd say he's pretty prominent.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Let's *Not* Play, Apparently
« on: June 12, 2013, 08:37:41 PM »
The only exception I can think of is Game Grumps.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Let's *Not* Play, Apparently
« on: June 12, 2013, 08:20:46 PM »
I don't get the whole "free advertisement" defense. Who cares if these people are "advertising" their games. That's not really their primary objective.

I hate the vast majority of Let's Plays.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Super Smash Bros. 4 Wii U and 3DS
« on: June 12, 2013, 08:17:31 PM »
cartoon characters

Cartoons? pretty sure they haven't been on the saturday morning block since the 80s.

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Mario Chat / Re: Worried about the future of Mario
« on: June 12, 2013, 08:10:12 PM »
The only thing I've criticized the New series for has been the overflow of irritating voices in the music (BAH BAH, baby Yoshi voice in NSMBU), and its never-changing art direction. I do rather enjoy NSMBU's laser sharp graphics, etc., and hey, it definitely fits the theme. I've always jumped on Donkey Kong Country Returns (and now Tropical Freeze DEFINITELY) for having what I think is the snazziest art style and highest level of organic detail along with action-packed levels. New Mario has always seemed pretty relaxed by comparison, and the Tropical Freeze trailer got me pumped up. Seeing the Mario Kart 8 trailer, it would've been great if THAT had been what 3D World looked like with open, sprawling levels.

Don't get me wrong, I am jazzed about 3D World for sure. I DON'T believe, however, that this is going to be the definitive 3D Mario platformer to define the Wii U platform. Regardless of how polished it looks or how solid the gameplay is, 3D World just couldn't hold a candle to the masterfully crafted Galaxy series. We're only several months into Wii U's 5-7 year lifetime. Nintendo wouldn't punish us by having 3D World be the answer to the Wii's Galaxy 1 & 2.

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I just think this whole mindset of "poor people are just too dumb to not be poor; it's their own fault for not picking themselves up by their bootstraps and being superheroes like me" is a larger problem endemic to our culture.

I agree with what you say. I made a post about getting motivated and stuff in the Being Broke vs. Being Poor thread that sort of deals with that same quote. My post in it, at first glance, would seem like I'm being exactly what you're saying is an endemic. I was a bit more specific with who I was talking about (lazy high school kids), though, as a response to WarpRattler's comment.

To defend that post, I will say that I do understand other people's situations to a far extent, especially considering I was (and in some ways still am) in that situation. I believe that to succeed, there must be an effort put forth. On the flipside, I know exactly how it feels to be unmotivated and feel like you're spinning your wheels. To tell poor people the solution to their problem is "stop being poor," as WarpRattler feebly framed my post, is stupid; of course it's a lot more complex than that. That's just like people who would tell me to "just stop being sad" when I was going through my enormous rut. As if it's that friggin' easy.

Of course, I know that not everyone is in the exact position to do what I am doing at the moment, and I don't expect anyone to be doing everything I'm doing in order to be "on my level." "Be on my level" and all that I think is bull[dukar], personally. I can't stand when older adults try to tell me that "I don't know what being stressed out is" because I don't have kids, a mortgage payment, a house payment on an upside down house, a light & water bill, a defaulted loan, and a million other problems. As if I have to experience those things in order to be stressed or anxious. People always seem to know who I am, telling me that, "you're a 23 year old kid. You don't have anything to stress over." So, even with the amount of stuff I'm doing, I get just as unmotivated or [dukar]ty feeling as the next person (usually worse), and I turn around and hear people say stupid [dukar] like what I said above every time they notice I'm not running around with an enormous smile on my face.

The point of that post was that if someone feels like they are in a rut and they want to change, they know that there is some way in the world to do it. I went from a morbidly depressed couch potato to a working student. That's not to say I got all extroverted and put on my A-personality and turned into an overly-motivated ******bag in order to do that. I just knew that in my inaction, I was getting the same result every single time and was going to get the same result for the rest of my life if I didn't even try to change something small. So I started making changes little by little and each change would give me a little taste of motivation and success. That's the way I started changing my life, not by saying, "Tomorrow, I am doing a complete 180."

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