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Post by BorneAgain on Jul 6, 2023 15:48:27 GMT -5
New tracks are... Feather Cup:Athens Dash (Tour) Daisy Cruiser (Double Dash) Moonview Highway (Wii) Squeaky Clean Sprint Cherry CupLos Angeles Lap (Tour) Sunset Wilds (Super Circuit) Koopa Cape (Wii) Vancouver Velocity (Tour) Mostly lines up with the datamine though a few things swapped around. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Can likely count on Bowser Castle 3 and Rome Avanti being in the last set then. The 12/7 makes it sound like it's coming out in December. I think the 12/7 is simply using the non American date system; ie Wave 5 coming out on the 12th of July. I suspect Wave 6 will be in October/November not only because the average time between them has been about three and half months, but also because I suspect Nintendo will do a holiday Switch bundle offering Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with a code for the full pass. Having it fully revealed makes it an easy sell.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jul 6, 2023 16:10:32 GMT -5
Just want to rant that I am stuck at 99.71% on Tears of the Kingdom and I feel like I’ve circled thee map about 12 times this week already! Very frustrated. Not sure if you’ve used it already but there’s a guy on YouTube with a channel called “Austin John Plays”. He’s got several videos on TOTK including a full breakdown of everything needed to achieve 100%.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jul 6, 2023 16:42:22 GMT -5
Good news for Spike Chunsoft fans as the debuting Master Detective Archives: Rain Code has been the best selling game (physical) in Japan in the past week.
Granted that's largely because FFXVI's sales dropped 90% in comparison to the week before but still a notable accomplishment for them.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 6, 2023 18:33:55 GMT -5
The level of DLC for Mario Kart 8 is frankly nuts. I don't mean that as an insult by any means, it's kind of awesome, especially since the game has sold LUDICROUSLY well, and they didn't have to support it to this degree, but have done so (even if it's to also bolster their online service).
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Post by "Sweet & Sour" ImSoFudginGreat on Jul 7, 2023 8:58:21 GMT -5
Just want to rant that I am stuck at 99.71% on Tears of the Kingdom and I feel like I’ve circled thee map about 12 times this week already! Very frustrated. Not sure if you’ve used it already but there’s a guy on YouTube with a channel called “Austin John Plays”. He’s got several videos on TOTK including a full breakdown of everything needed to achieve 100%. Coincidentally I found that guy a few hours after I made my post. Unfortunately didn’t help but I’m sure I’ll get it eventually. Thank you anyway.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 7, 2023 23:13:23 GMT -5
Been on and off replaying New Super Mario Bros. Wii for a bit and something striking me about it is that as aesthetically similar as they are the styles of level design between it and NSMBU (which I also replayed recently) are actually wildly different.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 8, 2023 5:46:00 GMT -5
Looking around through eShop deals I spotted that Raging Loop is presently available for $15 and anyone into visual novels I'd super recommend it. Hell I have it on PS4 and I'm still wondering about getting it. I played through it, Corpse Factory, and Fatal Twelve in short order last year after all three had been on my to-do list for awhile and by far Raging Loop is the one I liked the most.
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Post by "Sweet & Sour" ImSoFudginGreat on Jul 8, 2023 15:11:11 GMT -5
Just want to rant that I am stuck at 99.71% on Tears of the Kingdom and I feel like I’ve circled thee map about 12 times this week already! Very frustrated. Just want to let someone know as the wife doesn’t finish for a few more hours, I GOT TO 100% Turns out I hadn’t gone down a few chasms and I missed a some alternative cave entrances/exits. Feel kind of empty now, I’ve got Dave the Diver on Steam to play but I don’t know when emotionally I’ll be ready. May have got too attached to Tears of the Kingdom…
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 9, 2023 23:58:36 GMT -5
So Nintendo continues to pointlessly patch out things that make TotK slightly less of a bloated grinding chore of a game to play, and naturally the, "By cheating the game you cheated yourself," dipshits are feeling the need to lick corporate boot over it.
In general I kind of have little interest in playing TotK again anyway - I didn't even bother to beat two of the dungeons before I just went ahead and beat the game to get it over with and I legit don't know if I'll ever bother to go back to beat those and the other 70 or so shrines I had sitting or to watch the last memory - but Nintendo seemingly going out of their way to take out anything that helps cut down on how needlessly overstuffed the thing is definitely doesn't make me any more interested in doing so.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 11, 2023 0:23:51 GMT -5
Went ahead and bought the vouchers for Wonder and Super Mario RPG, kind of hits to do it now when I've spent a lot on video games lately as it is but that pretty much frees me up to in October and November solely worry about a local-ish anime convention and Spider-Man on the entertainment front (and maybe WarioWare but the motion stuff is kind of a turnoff to me and it feels too soon after Get It Together anyway so might put it off) so I figured it was the more pragmatic move.
Feels like we're likely due news on more NSO games tomorrow (or today, whatever, later on the 11th), they've been announcing them every two weeks of late and the last batch was announced on the 27th. Give us Mario Party 3 and / or Harvest Moon 64 cowards.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 11, 2023 21:58:49 GMT -5
Mario Kart DLC is up. Kind of forgot about that when talking about the NSO thing, guessing that'll push it back a week or two since it also sells the service.
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Post by The Ichi on Jul 11, 2023 23:05:40 GMT -5
Another month of wanting DK64 and not getting it.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jul 11, 2023 23:48:48 GMT -5
Two empty slots left on the character select. Good odds one is Funky, not sure who the last will be (Unless they bring back Honey Queen or something)
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 12, 2023 0:15:05 GMT -5
Two empty slots left on the character select. Good odds one is Funky, not sure who the last will be (Unless they bring back Honey Queen or something) A pretty vocal subsection of the Mario Kart community's convinced themselves for months that there's no possible way it's anyone but Diddy and Pauline, and I'm kind of just actively rooting against those two out of spite at this point.
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Post by chrom on Jul 12, 2023 7:06:01 GMT -5
I'm surprised since Link and Hyrule Castle was in it, that Zelda wasn't a racer.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jul 12, 2023 8:47:56 GMT -5
Diddy should have never been removed from the roster so I’m rooting for him if nothing else.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jul 12, 2023 8:56:10 GMT -5
So Nintendo continues to pointlessly patch out things that make TotK slightly less of a bloated grinding chore of a game to play, and naturally the, "By cheating the game you cheated yourself," dipshits are feeling the need to lick corporate boot over it. In general I kind of have little interest in playing TotK again anyway - I didn't even bother to beat two of the dungeons before I just went ahead and beat the game to get it over with and I legit don't know if I'll ever bother to go back to beat those and the other 70 or so shrines I had sitting or to watch the last memory - but Nintendo seemingly going out of their way to take out anything that helps cut down on how needlessly overstuffed the thing is definitely doesn't make me any more interested in doing so. I stopped updating it for that reason. I didn't do the 1.2 update, so the bow-item duplication glitch and the meatsword freezing glitch still work. I think the horse-item selling glitch still works with the latest update, and that's wayyyyy faster than the meatsword freezing for making mad rupees. You put your horse somewhere you can walk out onto it. While holding an item you drop down onto the horse. Then you hit + and hold 5 diamonds (or whatever). While still paused, go watch a memory. (hitting skip is OK) Then go back to + and hold the 5 items again. When you unpause, if you see an item bundle drop you did it right. Then, while still on the horse go talk to Beedle. (Lining up the horse right to get "talk" to activate was the hardest part somehow!) You can repeatedly sell the item you were holding (IE All of your diamonds) repeatedly by selling, exiting the sell menu, then selling again I have no idea how someone figured that sequence of events out. I was over 100K rupees in like 5 minutes.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 12, 2023 11:51:17 GMT -5
So there's a major oddity in the data for the last Mario Kart 8 DLC pack. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}There's been a Double Dash track in the data that's been continually pushed back to this point when going by how it's ordered it should've come out several packs ago, to there now being two of them lined up to be in the final pack since while Moonview Highway was thought to have replaced one of them it wound up replacing an unlabeled presumably new track instead.
The big issue is that any of the Double Dash tracks in Tour would be wildly redundant with stuff either within the pack, in the one before it, or with each other, which especially stands out as odd with them continually pushing it back to get to this point. Mushroom Bridge is similar enough to Moonview Highway that there's kind of a reason everyone assumed it was what it was replacing and DK Mountain and Dino Dino Jungle are both jungle tracks thus it'd be especially odd to pair them both together in the same pack. And for that matter DK Mountain is incredibly similar to DK Summit which is already in the game, though granted that might not matter too much to them given one of the tracks looks to be the new Piranha Plant Pipeline track from Tour and it's basically just the exact same damn track as Piranha Plant Slide that's not only already in 8 but was already in Tour.
Feels like either a Double Dash track is going to get replaced with something after all, they're going to be weirdly redundant with something after delaying it for ages, or they're adding a Double Dash track that isn't in Tour to date which would be exceptionally unusual because at the moment Tour's had its last non-city update for the time being.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jul 12, 2023 16:28:48 GMT -5
Limited Run Games announced a bunch of releases, pretty much all in the Switch:
-The Gex Trilogy (thank you Scott the Woz) -Tomba! (for the first time on a Nintendo platform) -Jurassic Park Collection (NES, Game Boy, and SNES games from the early 90s, though no Genesis ones) -A formerly canceled Shante game to get a physical Game Boy Advance Release
And finally Arzette, Jewel of Faramore a spiritual successor to... the Zelda CD-I games
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Post by chrom on Jul 12, 2023 16:33:48 GMT -5
The graphics and voices are just like the Philips CDI
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