(01-03-2013, 06:25 PM)TomGuycott Wrote: Yeah, if neat is dirty, underhanded and downright ridiculous. Why would ANYONE want to buy their games anymore if they did that? A consumer wouldn't even be able to feel safe using their product. What if something happened to a customer's system that was completely out of their control? Does their entire game library suddenly become useless?

Or am I misunderstanding, and does it actually mean that it will only read one disc for that particular game ever? Lots of similar problems with that too.

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It was a peaceful day as usual. Two girls saw in the new world a place which could prosper. Armed with infinite resources and creativity, both girls spent their life building onsens and statues. What a great day it was! That land saw progress like nothing seen before, and suddenly, what was an untouched grass plain became a small village.
Despite all this, the girls still felt they were lonely. "We could use another person to help us build things!" "I'll call this person here, she looks like a good person!" The cat-girl said that while looking at a cute cowgirl wearing glasses. After inviting her into their world, the cowgirl started to build. Her clumsy behavior didn't avoid her from building underwater domes, and teaming up with the pink haired bunnygirl, they built a huge cactus house which stood very high to the sky. Once again, the land saw progress. Everyone was happy with their work. But what the two girls didn't expect is that the innocent cowgirl actually had a wicked and evil soul. She had just pretended to be good to attack them by surprise! "They will never find out!" thought the cowgirl, while doing fake smiles to her 'friends'. Armed with TNTs and flint and steel, the cowgirl went to a rampage, exploding all the beautiful buildings from inside out. The statues were turned into rubbles and the onsen no longer was a safe place for the girls to bathe. An experienced black magician, the cowgirl started to summon terrible monsters which further destroyed the scenery. The once peaceful world was now a crater-filled wasteland. Lava was flowing everywhere, animals were dying and the cowgirl saw everything with a twisted smile on her face. "I can't believe she was like this..." "We will not let this happen!" The girls entered the last standing building: a castle-like fort with a shining beacon mounted below it. They shoot many arrows at the evil cowgirl but they had no effect... The cowgirl then spent the rest of that day trowing cats into the lava pool, her favorite pasttime. The world was ruined...
"We can try Survival next time", said the cowgirl to the two girls. The cowgirl left mysteriously...
[Gorsal Disconnected.]

(01-06-2013, 05:12 PM)Mr. Popo Wrote: I probably wouldn't even bother picking up NSMB2 unless it was sold to me for a buck. actually, not even that, it'd have to be worth a penny. And not even the fact that it's a Mario game can save it from that.

I mean really that whole game seems like a massive insult to what Mario can do in a platformer and frankly it really disappointed me when I saw the trailer. It just showed me that Nintendo is really losing control of the Mario series and what to do with it. How it got decent reviews is beyond me but quite frankly, I just don't think it's really worth my money just to play a game where I have to get money.

I'm really disappointed with nintendo for that alone.

(01-07-2013, 11:54 AM)NICKtendo DS Wrote:

(01-06-2013, 05:12 PM)Mr. Popo Wrote: I probably wouldn't even bother picking up NSMB2 unless it was sold to me for a buck. actually, not even that, it'd have to be worth a penny. And not even the fact that it's a Mario game can save it from that.

I mean really that whole game seems like a massive insult to what Mario can do in a platformer and frankly it really disappointed me when I saw the trailer. It just showed me that Nintendo is really losing control of the Mario series and what to do with it. How it got decent reviews is beyond me but quite frankly, I just don't think it's really worth my money just to play a game where I have to get money.

I'm really disappointed with nintendo for that alone.

I see where the disappoinment comes from, but I feel most are completely blowing it out of proportion to the point that my head explodes everytime I read the word 'rehash'.
Sure, you have every right to hate the game, it's your opinion. It's just the magnitute of the hate it gets that I find unjustified. It's decent, but fall way short. That doesn't mean it's the devil's bastard child that should've never been born.
I have to agree that Nintendo, or just Nintendo EAD, is being a big, moronic money-whore for releasing 5-10 Mario games in such a short timespan, let alone run 2 NSMB projects at the same time!
However, jumping into the conclusion the game is bad just because it's a rehash with a broken gimmick? Play SMB:LL. For some reason the 'fake' SMB2 gets more hate than a harder rehash of SMB1.
Or I'm just rambling nonsense, I don't know. Call me a fanboy if you want, I don't care. Just putting it out there.

(01-07-2013, 08:04 AM)Gorsalad Wrote: I've played Creative Minecraft with Kitsu and Zac.

What was a peaceful place with onsens and cute buildings turned into a burning hole of chaos.

(01-07-2013, 08:24 PM)Mag Wrote: OK, played FarCry 3. Man that game is awesome, the characters are just so intense, so deep-rooted and crazy, and the gameplay is honestly loads of fun. It feels almost like I'm cheating Ubisoft from all the stuff I get in the game, HUGE singleplayer open world mode, 4 player co-op mode, and online multiplayer.