Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 11, 2024 23:44:18 GMT -5
I do really hope this helps ignite interest in the games. Like, I am not entirely sure what the best path forward is, but I feel like the atmosphere is there for a new game or a remake of the two existing games as a singular package, or something. Hell, we're getting a new Mana game, there was the Live-A-Live release, Octopath Traveler I and II, Sea of Stars, etc. RPG fans are eating well, but we're insatiable, and Golden Sun die-hards have been hungry, especially. I think it's telling how off the radar Golden Sun is that everyone just kind of collectively forgot that there's a third game. True, though in my case, I was conflating the second and third one in my head, since it's been ages, and I have stronger memories of the first one.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 13, 2024 20:30:39 GMT -5
Trying to preorder the Noah and Mio Amiibos in the split seconds they're becoming available on and off today and I am so, so, SO sick of Nintendo's artificial scarcity fetish. Been wanting Pyra and Mythra for ages and they just adamantly refuse to restock those despite them selling out in two milliseconds because no reason.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 16, 2024 12:48:30 GMT -5
Very faithful to the original intro.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jan 16, 2024 12:52:25 GMT -5
Trying to preorder the Noah and Mio Amiibos in the split seconds they're becoming available on and off today and I am so, so, SO sick of Nintendo's artificial scarcity fetish. Been wanting Pyra and Mythra for ages and they just adamantly refuse to restock those despite them selling out in two milliseconds because no reason. Is it artificial scarcity or being scared of having a billion figures hanging on shelves at Best Buy. Because, from what I can tell, all of a sudden the Amiibo collectors dropped by about 90% a couple years ago and the stores were overflowing with Amiibos until they just stopped stocking them in brick and mortars
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Jan 16, 2024 20:34:24 GMT -5
Golden Sun is up
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 16, 2024 20:39:17 GMT -5
Bit of a shame on the timing on Golden Sun. Been wanting to give those games a while for a long while but I'm in the middle of a Xenoblade 2 replay so I'm still going to be waiting to actually get around to them. Trying to preorder the Noah and Mio Amiibos in the split seconds they're becoming available on and off today and I am so, so, SO sick of Nintendo's artificial scarcity fetish. Been wanting Pyra and Mythra for ages and they just adamantly refuse to restock those despite them selling out in two milliseconds because no reason. Is it artificial scarcity or being scared of having a billion figures hanging on shelves at Best Buy. Because, from what I can tell, all of a sudden the Amiibo collectors dropped by about 90% a couple years ago and the stores were overflowing with Amiibos until they just stopped stocking them in brick and mortars I'm definitely more inclined to say it's artificial scarcity given 1), Nintendo's been doing this shit for a long time, like with the NES and SNES Classics releasing like 7 of them at a time and the limited releases of things for no real reason, and 2), Pyra and Mythra sold out instantaneously and they still months later haven't gotten a single restock. Plus side I did manage to get Noah and Mio ordered earlier but I've basically had to obsessively stake out Best Buy's site for days to do so.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 21, 2024 3:58:31 GMT -5
Been on and off playing the Another Code collection and really wondering why on earth they opted to make it so that you apparently have to unlock the sequel or it's folded into the first game. Would be an utterly baffling thing for a collection to do under the best of circumstances, much less when it's a collection where one of the games was previously localized but the other wasn't so it's fairly likely that a lot of fans might be buying the collection specifically for the second one.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 23, 2024 10:04:08 GMT -5
Ninja and Cowgirl Peach have been revealed, plus there are pastel pink Joycons on the way
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Jan 23, 2024 10:25:06 GMT -5
Well her moveset for the next Smash has expanded tenfold
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The Ichi
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Post by The Ichi on Jan 23, 2024 13:59:06 GMT -5
Well her moveset for the next Smash has expanded tenfold If they haven't changed Link's moveset they won't change Peach's.
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CMWaters
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Post by CMWaters on Jan 23, 2024 14:06:59 GMT -5
Well her moveset for the next Smash has expanded tenfold If they haven't changed Link's moveset they won't change Peach's. I mean they removed his hookshot and gave him the remote detonating bombs. Mario's moveset on the other hand still has F.L.U.D.D. after all this time.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Jan 23, 2024 14:18:44 GMT -5
Giddy up, Peach! EDIT: Wow, whoever cut that out of MKT needs to ready up their lasso tool, partner.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 23, 2024 15:08:57 GMT -5
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Jan 23, 2024 15:35:53 GMT -5
The Kunoichi getup is a good look for her.
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Post by Paul on Jan 23, 2024 19:07:34 GMT -5
Michael MJD looks at some Nintendo-themed web browsers from the year 2000:
Did any of you download these back in the day?
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 23, 2024 20:37:09 GMT -5
More Spirit Board stuff coming out on the 25th including some Hades rep with Zagreus.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 24, 2024 1:21:23 GMT -5
OH SHIT PEACH HAS A GUN! >_>
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 24, 2024 10:53:18 GMT -5
So like... Cowgirl Peach has horns?
Confused.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 25, 2024 4:23:09 GMT -5
Guessing the Zagreus fight will be Pittoo, not sure on 13 Sentinels. Baseball thing will presumably be Ness.
On another note, disappointed but not particularly surprised that Another Code seems to have flopped. I get it - it's never been a super acclaimed game in the first place (and honestly back in the day I tried and failed to get into it myself; am enjoying it now but it is kind of hard to stick with because of how sloooooow its pacing is), mostly notable as, "That thing connected to Hotel Dusk," and Nintendo gave it virtually no advertising - but still a shame if only because I would love a Hotel Dusk and Last Window remake. They really should've probably done those ones first since they're both more well-liked and more well known.
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Post by Fundertaker on Jan 25, 2024 4:25:25 GMT -5
Guessing the Zagreus fight will be Pittoo, not sure on 13 Sentinels. Baseball thing will presumably be Ness. Either giant ROB (because mecha) or giant Olimar (because mindless kaiju) I'd imagine.
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