I'd like to apologize for saying FAST should've been F-Zero. I didn't realize it was a third-party. In retrospect, that was like someone saying Freedom Planet should've just been a Sonic game.
Though clearly Nintendo knows the game exists and would like to promote it. It would help both Nintendo and Shin'en if Nintendo had a few people from SPD come in and say "hey, give us some renderings of F-Zero characters. If you can model them right, we'll help fund this and make it into an F-Zero game." Sells more as an F-Zero game for Shin'en, Nintendo gets some good will.
I'd like to apologize for saying FAST should've been F-Zero. I didn't realize it was a third-party. In retrospect, that was like someone saying Freedom Planet should've just been a Sonic game.
Though clearly Nintendo knows the game exists and would like to promote it. It would help both Nintendo and Shin'en if Nintendo had a few people from SPD come in and say "hey, give us some renderings of F-Zero characters. If you can model them right, we'll help fund this and make it into an F-Zero game." Sells more as an F-Zero game for Shin'en, Nintendo gets some good will.
I think the issue is it might NOT sell more as an F-Zero game. Racing as a genre isnt huge at the moment
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Rive was chaotic fun, but my god jumping with the left trigger is kind of awkward. You keep trying to hit other buttons.
Typoman: Had a few performance issues, but I like the concept and the puzzles are pretty interesting.
Runbow: I go back and forth. It's pretty fun, but the physics occasionally seem a bit wonky, like sometimes you get stuck on inclines which makes a few parts unduly frustrating. Speedrunners will have a blast I think.
I will sing the praises of Typoman. In addition to loving the idea, I tweeted out that HALT, SLOW, WAIT, and STOP all work for that one puzzle but some other words don't, and the creator tweeted back that he would add them to the list.
I wasn't even sure that STILL should work, but apparently it will.
Today's stream is a lot of really interesting and cool stuff one after another. Steamworld Heist looked like a must-buy, 2D XCOM or something! Typoman was great. Fire Emblem Fates up again taking another path through the story.
The Treehouse Livestreams were easily my favorite part of E3 last year and this year, and keep me more engaged than anything E3 has ever done before. Its nice to be able to bow in and out and see some new stuff for a few days.
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Damn you Best Buy, why do you hire morons as customer service? I was trying to ask if I could get the Mario Maker pin set by pre-ordering through their website (it was never really clear if you had to do it in-store during that event or not). This was the reply:
Thank you for choosing Best Buy.
I understand you'd like to know if you can have Super Mario Maker 7 button set if you will pre order two games online or at the store. Let me check it for you.
After going through our inventory, it shows that the games is only available for pre order online and not available at the store.
You may also visit our website periodically to check on the item's availability.
For any other concerns, you may visit our Help Center at www.bestbuy.com.
We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
Lovely
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But... but... that wasn't even my question. *sigh* I may just go for it...
I'm gonna go there on Saturday. Hope the line stays short, as i need to meet my parents for dinner early-ish too.
See if they can't sell me on this.
It was really short on Wednesday, though Saturday is a weekend so maybe more people will show up? (I'm sure it also depends on location though) I would recommend going early so you can get a good place in line (especially if you need to leave by a certain time - each demo is ~3 minutes so multiply that by how many people will be in front of you).
I went an hour early on Wed. and was 4th in line (probably could have been 1st or 2nd but she just handed the couple of us that were there a bunch of wrist straps kind of randomly and I didn't bother to look at the number until I had grabbed one. Honestly, that close together it doesn't even matter tho :P)
Rive was chaotic fun, but my god jumping with the left trigger is kind of awkward. You keep trying to hit other buttons.
Typoman: Had a few performance issues, but I like the concept and the puzzles are pretty interesting.
Runbow: I go back and forth. It's pretty fun, but the physics occasionally seem a bit wonky, like sometimes you get stuck on inclines which makes a few parts unduly frustrating. Speedrunners will have a blast I think.
I will sing the praises of Typoman. In addition to loving the idea, I tweeted out that HALT, SLOW, WAIT, and STOP all work for that one puzzle but some other words don't, and the creator tweeted back that he would add them to the list.
I wasn't even sure that STILL should work, but apparently it will.
Oh, that's cool. So it really comes down to how many words you know.
Yeah, I really do like Typoman. The fact that the environments are so dark make it a bit hard to spot your character sometimes, and there are a few performance issues that I hope they'll fix, but I think I'll buy the full thing when it's out.
Damn you Best Buy, why do you hire morons as customer service? I was trying to ask if I could get the Mario Maker pin set by pre-ordering through their website (it was never really clear if you had to do it in-store during that event or not). This was the reply:
Thank you for choosing Best Buy.
I understand you'd like to know if you can have Super Mario Maker 7 button set if you will pre order two games online or at the store. Let me check it for you.
After going through our inventory, it shows that the games is only available for pre order online and not available at the store.
You may also visit our website periodically to check on the item's availability.
For any other concerns, you may visit our Help Center at www.bestbuy.com.
We appreciate your business.
Sincerely,
Lovely
Best Buy Customer Care
But... but... that wasn't even my question. *sigh* I may just go for it...
It may just be Canada, but my understanding was that was the only way to get it -- by going online and pre-ordering on their website, I mean.
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I've tried opening Typoman a couple times and it decides to...not, each time. Maybe I'll delete and redownload. Otherwise, I played Runbow, Rive, and Soul Axiom. Rive was actually pretty cool, I see a lot of potential for it. Runbow seems okay as a party game, but it reminded me too much of a slower, clunkier, less amusing Speed Runners. Soul Axiom is a game that has a lot of promise in the concept, but if the demo is at all a sign of things to come, will be pretty bad. Lousy controls, poor graphics, not much to do.
My final analysis on Nintendo's E3 this year is that, yeah, the Digital Direct Event was a disappointment. Fortunately, I'd already lowered my expectations since there was no reason to believe that they had another Splatoon in the wings. I did think that they were going to announce something by Retro, and I'm kind of confused that they didn't.
On the other hand, if we take the surrounding material as part of their E3 event, we also got Roy's return to Smash Brothers, and the goddamned Super Mario of fighting games, Ryu, as DLC. And the Nintendo World Championships demonstrated the appeal of Super Mario Maker in the best possible way.
So... my opinion really hasn't moved one way or the other. Nintendo still makes quirky games, there's plenty of stuff I'm looking forward to on their console, and I'm pretty confident it's going to stay that way.
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My final analysis on Nintendo's E3 this year is that, yeah, the Digital Direct Event was a disappointment. Fortunately, I'd already lowered my expectations since there was no reason to believe that they had another Splatoon in the wings. I did think that they were going to announce something by Retro, and I'm kind of confused that they didn't.
On the other hand, if we take the surrounding material as part of their E3 event, we also got Roy's return to Smash Brothers, and the goddamned Super Mario of fighting games, Ryu, as DLC. And the Nintendo World Championships demonstrated the appeal of Super Mario Maker in the best possible way.
So... my opinion really hasn't moved one way or the other. Nintendo still makes quirky games, there's plenty of stuff I'm looking forward to on their console, and I'm pretty confident it's going to stay that way.
And the treehouse stream is once again a great way to get a good look at the next year's releases. The championships and treehouse and muppets redeem the lackluster presentation imo.
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Though clearly Nintendo knows the game exists and would like to promote it. It would help both Nintendo and Shin'en if Nintendo had a few people from SPD come in and say "hey, give us some renderings of F-Zero characters. If you can model them right, we'll help fund this and make it into an F-Zero game." Sells more as an F-Zero game for Shin'en, Nintendo gets some good will.
I think the issue is it might NOT sell more as an F-Zero game. Racing as a genre isnt huge at the moment
I will sing the praises of Typoman. In addition to loving the idea, I tweeted out that HALT, SLOW, WAIT, and STOP all work for that one puzzle but some other words don't, and the creator tweeted back that he would add them to the list.
I wasn't even sure that STILL should work, but apparently it will.
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I fear my hopes are going to be crushed then.
Still, let me treasure them for a few minutes more.
Maybe they brought back the brits?
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The game is set in New Los Angeles, so no.
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I was like 90% sure one of those was Hynden Walch (Starfire, Princess Bubblegum, Viridi in Kid Icarus, a million other voices :P)
Edit: The character was Lin
I see what you did there
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They sound pretty good
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Oh right, that did sound like her.
Good choice if it that is the case.
That's probably right. The voice was super familiar but I couldn't quite place it.
I think I am right about Hynden Walch too - it sounds like she's mixing her Starfire/Bubblegum voice with Viridi
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Edit: Bah, didn't even make it to the end. Also they kept missing the ? Mushroom at the start
Well, from the sound of it, it's pretty fucking disturbing. Like, I've heard people discuss if the game should have a content warning and shit.
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I knew that was it from the description!
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But... but... that wasn't even my question. *sigh* I may just go for it...
See if they can't sell me on this.
It was really short on Wednesday, though Saturday is a weekend so maybe more people will show up? (I'm sure it also depends on location though) I would recommend going early so you can get a good place in line (especially if you need to leave by a certain time - each demo is ~3 minutes so multiply that by how many people will be in front of you).
I went an hour early on Wed. and was 4th in line (probably could have been 1st or 2nd but she just handed the couple of us that were there a bunch of wrist straps kind of randomly and I didn't bother to look at the number until I had grabbed one. Honestly, that close together it doesn't even matter tho :P)
Oh, that's cool. So it really comes down to how many words you know.
Yeah, I really do like Typoman. The fact that the environments are so dark make it a bit hard to spot your character sometimes, and there are a few performance issues that I hope they'll fix, but I think I'll buy the full thing when it's out.
I still have to try forma 8.
It may just be Canada, but my understanding was that was the only way to get it -- by going online and pre-ordering on their website, I mean.
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I had to have a taste of old school Mario after watching so much Super Mario Maker footage.
On the other hand, if we take the surrounding material as part of their E3 event, we also got Roy's return to Smash Brothers, and the goddamned Super Mario of fighting games, Ryu, as DLC. And the Nintendo World Championships demonstrated the appeal of Super Mario Maker in the best possible way.
So... my opinion really hasn't moved one way or the other. Nintendo still makes quirky games, there's plenty of stuff I'm looking forward to on their console, and I'm pretty confident it's going to stay that way.
His memetic butt monkey status since Robin's Smash Bros video might have something to do with that.
And the treehouse stream is once again a great way to get a good look at the next year's releases. The championships and treehouse and muppets redeem the lackluster presentation imo.
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PSN: AbEntropy