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Marketplace / Xenoblade Chronicles X with Collector's Strategy Guide

« on: February 15, 2016, 03:29:21 am »

Selling a copy of Xenoblade Chronicles X for the Wii U in good condition along with the hard cover collector's strategy guide that still has the screen cleaner and extra digital guide code.  75$ for it all, paypal only and shipping only within the USA.

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Modern Video Games / Dragon Quest Builders

« on: January 25, 2016, 08:20:45 pm »

Anyone play the Japanese demo? I know some people have Japanese accounts for this kind of stuff.  I was just curious if it was any good as games like this, Terraria, Minecraft, and Slime Rancher are my "casual games".  Stuff that I can sorta just mindlessly invest a lot of time into while I have music or a podcast going at the same time.  I figured it was simply going to be Minecraft with a better story/RPG element to it, but if it's any good as basically a Minecraft type game where you got a lot of freedom, but quality combat and stuff to get, then I'm all for it.

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Marketplace / Call of Duty Black Ops 3 w/Nuketown map PS4 [Updated]

« on: January 21, 2016, 05:42:04 pm »

Selling the PS4 version of Call of Duty Black Ops 3 with the Nuketown map, still sealed.  45 bucks, paypal only, shipping included.

http://i.imgur.com/779DiSR.jpg

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Modern Video Games / Final Smash Bros Presentation

« on: December 15, 2015, 04:53:01 pm »

Starts in less than 10 minutes.  Signs seem to be pointing to Cloud releasing today among a couple other available goodies and I'm guessing we'll see what could be some of the last character DLC for the game would be coming off the character poll.  I really want it to be something like Shovel Knight, Banjo-Kazooie, and like Splatoon, but it's probably gonna just be more something like...Wolf, some other slight variation character that's popular, and like King K. Rool lol That's the boring choice for sure.

http://www.twitch.tv/nintendo

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Hardware and Tech / Wii U External HDD Recommendations?

« on: December 09, 2015, 06:24:22 pm »

With the Xenoblade Chronicles X quicker loading packs, I'm basically up against the wall for my system and with future DLC on the horizon from Smash and Hyrule Warriors, I'm gonna need more room.  Anyone picked up a relatively cheap, but good external HDD or whatever might work best for expanding save space on the system? I don't buy much digitally on the system, so I don't really need a huge expansion.

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Modern Video Games / The Game Awards 2015

« on: December 03, 2015, 08:52:09 pm »

The awards themselves are mostly unimportant, but they tend to have announcements at the show, such as showing Zelda Wii U last year.

This year, it was already leaked that that the next Mortal Kombat DLC will have Bo Rai Cho, Leatherface, a Cyborg that is the originals combined into one, and they added the Xenomorph, but with the twist, that he was born from the Baraka race, so he has blade arms.

Baba Yaga story DLC for Tomb Raider.  Looks like a lot of mind altering type of stuff.  Makes me glad that when the game leaves Xbox, we'll be getting the better, more complete version lol  Looks cool though and it's supposed to be hours of new content.

Wow, kinda surprising, but Splatoon won best multiplayer over COD, Halo, Rocket League, and Destiny lol I need to go and play this more since they've released new maps.

New Uncharted 4 footage, but just a tease.  Looks pretty fun.

Witcher 3 is half-off on GOG right now.  Perhaps other platforms? I might've missed that.

Shaq-Fu is getting shown off  Wasn't the original game a fighter? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but this is definitely a brawler.

New eSports tv show on TBS called E-League.  Guess it's more of a documentary style setup, following groups around big tournaments?

Okay, interesting...Batman by Telltale.  This could be cool if they take this one to advance their usual works.

Far Cry Primal footage.  You apparently get to control beasts like Sabertooth tigers, wolfs,  and bears.  That's a pretty sick way to replace guns in this game lol Out February 31st and apparently March 1st on PC.  More interested in the game now.

-Brand new Psychonauts game just confirmed. Crowdfunded on something called Fig that apparently is like investing in stock for the game rather than just the usual Kickstarter setup. 3.3 million dollar goal.

-Not directly connected with the Game Awards, but apparently as Dark Cloud was announced to be up-rezzed for the PS4, it also confirms that there will be NO PS2 disc use on the system.

-Rock Band VR lol Oculus Rift support.

-Glad to see that Ori and the Blind Forest won for best art direction.  It's a very beautiful game.

-Kind of a bittersweet Icon award for Westwood Studios I feel, with how the company died off and so did Command & Conquer.

-New Walking Dead Telltale Game starring Michonne.  Kinda cool to see I think. Will be cool to get more backstory for Michonne.

-Not a single bit of new information from Nintendo.  Kinda disappointed with that. Thought they might have something new to show off.

-Deadmaus also confirms after his DOTA 2 appearance, is that he's boring as all hell.  I don't care if he works some videogame aspects into this one, he's boring and awful in every way and should no longer be associated with the gaming industry lol

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Modern Video Games / Nintendo Direct - November 12th

« on: November 10, 2015, 02:46:57 pm »

Just a heads up for folks as we are finally getting a new Nintendo Direct very soon.  Hopefully we'll get that confirmation of Twilight Princess HD and some other good surprises as they hinted about some new stuff coming out soon that hadn't been discussed before.  Also would be interesting if we got some Smash news, such as maybe a new character or two they plan to release for the game.  I'm also wanting new Mario Kart courses, so that would be great to announce.

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Modern Video Games / Nintendo News

« on: October 29, 2015, 01:22:53 am »

At the recent investor's meeting, we got a lot of information for upcoming new ideas for Nintendo.  My Nintendo will be the Club Nintendo replacement and will connect accounts and game data using a cloud based data service, so that your account is connected with basically everything, from social apps to game data that'll go between PC, smartphone, and console.  It sounds like this will also see the return of original physical items like with Club Nintendo.

There are unannounced games for this year still and I assume this is what the next direct will be, I'm guessing coming next month.

The first mobile game coming up is called "Miitomo", but no one is really sure what it is.  Sounds like it'll just be like that Tomodachi game, but with more of a social aspect to it.  Not much of anything, but it is the start of the 4 to 5 games planned and will release in March of next year.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/29/nintendo-unveils-first-smartphone-game-live-blog/

Hopefully we'll get the next Direct in a week or two and we'll finally see if the rumored Twilight Princess HD is real.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2015/10/29/nintendo-unveils-first-smartphone-game-live-blog/

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Marketplace / Super Mario Maker For Sale

« on: October 06, 2015, 10:19:58 pm »

Turned out to be way too much of an impulse buy as the craving to create maps wasn't there, so I'm just gonna sell it off and put it towards something else I know I'll put the time into.  50 bucks, barely played, comes with the artbook and carboard case of course.  No added shipping costs.  Paypal only.

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Modern Video Games / Konami and their games...

« on: September 23, 2015, 07:09:34 am »

With my daily play of Metal Gear Solid V as I work slowly towards 100% completion (screw you multi-hour development time on weapons and gear!) and how Konami is done with AAA development (outside of Metal Gear Online they still have to release and PES'16), it got me thinking of what is the likelihood of Konami letting other companies utilize their properties? They are essentially holding their properties hostage, relegated to suffering as Pachinko and mobile titles, but is there a comparable instance in game development history where a company let another developer/publisher utilize their properties to create a game? Like if Platinum wanted to make Metal Gear Rising 2, and they found a way to fund it through another publisher, is this a small possibility? It has no risk for Konami and with how money focused they are, it would be pure profit for them if they just get money based off sales, could that entice the uber businessmen that rule Konami?

I actually just thought of a comparable thing maybe after bringing up Platinum, with Bayonetta 2.  Platinum wanted to make it, Sega wasn't wanting to dive into that, so Nintendo pops in, offers to get it going on their system, helping with the funding, with I'm sure Sega getting some profit from it in some way.  Am I right in thinking that? What if to get more hype going for Nintendo's NX, they go over to Konami and say "Hey, how about you let us make Metal Gear Rising 2 with Platinum again for the NX and maybe a new 2D Castlevania with another...Retro (or whoever)?"

All lofty thinking for sure and unlikely to happen I feel, but I felt the topic was interesting enough to discuss.

*EDIT*
Of course right after I post this, I find a new article that just got posted that says that Konami ISN'T abandoning consoles and franchises will continue, but this isn't super official at all, so the topic is still worthwhile enough to at least discuss should it come down to them actually leaving consoles behind or at least highly minimizing their console presence in favor of other methods.

http://www.destructoid.com/konami-rep-we-re-still-definitely-working-on-console-games--312143.phtml

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Classic Video Games / Gotta Go Fast: A Sonic Retrospective?

« on: August 24, 2015, 07:03:38 am »

Anyone interested in maybe kinda doing a look back into the Sonic series over the years? Starting with the first one and basically hitting most of what could be considered main series releases up till now?  Not sure if I'm gonna consider doing everything with a full playthrough or not, there's some real nasty games in there, but maybe at least a good couple hours out of them at least.  Kinda like the 52 games thread over in General, you either playthrough the game or put some time in and just give kinda your thoughts on it, what you liked and didn't, throw in some nostalgic memories if you got them.  Just sorta gets everyone looking and playing at the same time and sharing experiences.

-Sonic 1
-Sonic 2
-Sonic 3
-Sonic & Knuckles
-Sonic CD
-Sonic Adventure
-Sonic Adventure 2
-Sonic '06
-Sonic & The Secret Rings
-Sonic Unleashed
-Sonic & The Black Knight
-Sonic the Hedgehog 4
-Sonic Colors
-Sonic Lost World
-Sonic Boom

I'm sure a few others could fit into there and I'd avoid the handheld ones.  Side games could be done for the heck of it too as I wouldn't mind checking out some of the PS2 ones other than Shadow.  Think I remember playing Sonic Riders.  I'm no reviewer or lets player, though this could make for an interesting start for a video series, but I think it would be just sorta fun as a look back at the Hedgehog over the years.  I haven't played much of any of them in a very long time and there are many I never played such as the Wii ones and the Adventure series.  Maybe it's been a long time for everyone else or maybe you've just been needing an excuse to dive into certain Sonic games lol

I would have to play a lot of them on PC though.  Steam has most of the main games other than anything Nintendo related, so that is easy enough for like the Adventure and Sonic CD games.  Man, 25 bucks for Sonic 4 though.  I heard that isn't very good lol

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Modern Video Games / Pokken Tournament Wii U - Spring 2016

« on: August 21, 2015, 11:18:59 am »

Finally it was confirmed for the Wii U.  I just realized this is basically the only kinda big Pokemon game the system will likely ever get.  I wonder why they never tried to do more.  Pokemon Stadium? Pokemon Snap 2? That's literally the most absolutely perfect game to utilize the gamepad for.

Prepare yourself for Pikachu Libre!

http://www.destructoid.com/pokken-tournament-is-coming-to-wii-u-in-2016-307318.phtml

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Modern Video Games / Zombi (ZombiU) is coming to PS4, Xbone, PC August 18th

« on: July 30, 2015, 03:43:59 pm »

This is kinda interesting, but Ubi is re-releasing the game on modern systems, I'm assuming to make up for less than stellar sales on the Wii U.  I might actually be interested in this and I own the Wii U version.  I think in concept, the game was a cool idea, but I found myself getting abit annoyed by all of the camera movement using the gamepad.  I'm spinning in my chair examining everything and it gets kinda uncomfortable.  Some ideas were great, such as no pausing, in that you have to be exposed to danger to look at your gamepad and get stuff out of your inventory.  It also wasn't that great looking of a game, even if it was an early Wii U title, it just wasn't very nice looking, so if it turns out to be like a 20 or 30 dollar digital title with better performance and maybe some updated visuals, I might grab it again for PC.

http://www.destructoid.com/zombiu-hits-pc-ps4-and-xbox-one-next-month-296912.phtml

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General / Anyone recognize this Japanese Video Game Gorilla? (Not DK lol)

« on: July 18, 2015, 08:51:34 pm »

A guy on a local game FB page I'm a part of posted this picture of what is frankly a big statue thing, 20 to 30 pounds, and was told it was a Japanese Video Game character or mascot or something.  Anyone have anything on it? Some basic googling didn't come up with any details.  Figured that someone here might know about the Japanese side of gaming might recognize whatever this gorilla is.

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Marketplace / For Sale: Batman Arkham Knight PC Code

« on: July 07, 2015, 09:50:08 pm »

Got an extra digital copy of Arkham Knight for PC, figured I'd see if anyone would be interested in it for 30 bucks.