Lightning_Ninja

 

 

 

Clearly, they are reviving this series for the wii u, and this is what Reggie is going to show at vga.

A mere 14 tracks

Day 1 DLC

$50 Season Pass

Download a patch to finish the game

Significantly less cars/characters than previous Mario Kart games 

#NextGen

#Forza5

#ForzaXMarioKart

#XBONERULEZ

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I can't watch the video but I see a apicrot Miss Packmon. What's the cliff notes?

Thats actually the cabinet art of ms pacman.

Well... the actual subject matter is actually really, really good topic, I highly suggest people inform themselves on this stuff, as its pretty eye opening.... just... from someone else who doesnt completely blow it.

More third wave feminism er pretend third wave feminism with second wave values, most notably tangerine shaming, and other attempts at telling females what they should and shouldnt be. Other methods heavily over used is the logical fallacy argument via ridicule, and in general breeds division, intolerence, and demonization, a perfect recipe to create and mantain 'sides' where there should be none, and encourage fighting between them.

She covers female/male swaps, where a female character is just a visual swap for a male one, and characters where being female is the ONLY character trait the character has... And then proceeds to blow near every single example by her complete lack of understanding of the subject matter.

Starts with the subject of gender stereotypes and gender identity, where gender identity is a fake social construct (it is) created by a social class in power to opress another social class (it isnt. It was created by people who identified with one another, and then abused by aholes, to take advantadge of the weak willed). In this case, things like lipstick, and bows to show that a character is female.... And that being their only defining trait. Being the girl, thats it. Whereas the males are defined by who they are, or what they are like. The fun one, the smart one etc.
This is important on many levels, videogame storytelling sucks balls, and, since because most games now are story based experience games, having vapid one dimensional characters whos only attribute is 'the girl' arent helping move the experience forward. Same applies to male characters, they are horribly written, but at least they have more than one dimension.

And then she screws it all up with examples she clearly only glanced at and took at immediate biased face value, and dont apply at all to the situation. Im not going to cover everything because it would be beating a dead horse after a couple.

Ms pacman is a terrible choice, because pacman had no personality. He wasnt even a character he was a visual representation of a game mechanic, and nothing more. He wasnt portrayed as smart, fun, funny, mishevious, its not that kind of game. In fact, most of her qualms for all of these can be leveled at the MARKETERS and advertising, which game devs have no part in... Which makes sense as pretty much the extent of her gaming knowledge appears to be glancing at promotional material, as she appears to demonstrate little knowledge of the games or characters beyond that.

The koopakids is another terrible choice. Her complaint is that they just used a bow and lipstick for wendy o'koopa and that was it. Wendy's sole identity is the 'girl'. Well, actually, so far thats actually a decent argument. Unfortunately she just doesnt leave well enough alone. She then says the MALE koopas are defined by their personalities, the fun one, the smart one, the one that had to make a heart rending decision about which of their pets, the goomba or the troopa would live or die because he couldnt save them both and swore revenge on the fat serial killer who stomped them. And thats bull. Which one is the smart one Anita? Which one is the fun one? Which ones the stock market player? Its all bs. The koopa kids had no such defining qualities in their 8 bit pixel representations. You had the derpy looking one, the one with hair and a tooth, the one on a ball. Nothing male defining, flattering, or any more substantial than the one with a bow.

And then there is wonder pink, which of course, she knows nothing about, nor does she know anything about tw101. She starts off with a healthy dose of tangerineshaming, shaming pink for being an attractive female who enjoys being er... dressing, as an attractive feminine female. Her 'sexy pose' Anita complains about is a parody of Bayonetta's box art. MANY of the characters in this game parody other platinum game, and clover games characters, scenes, events, and catch phrases.

She erroneously states that pink is the only female plare character, when actually, there are about 50 other playable female characters with a wealth of creative, often hilarious background information defining them and their powers,ad their wacky/cool/bizarre choice in outfits in their files.

She then judges pink soley on her appereance, and ignores everything pink does that doesnt fit her scenario, (again not only because Anita is purposefully cherry picking, but because she also knows nothing about the game.)

She misses That Pink is actually defined beyond being the girl. Wonder Pink is an Olympiad, is 'by far' the most agile and nimble member of the team (Anita's oh so desired label, pink is the 'agile' one), prescribed as being known for having a “laissez-faire” attitude, with both negative and positive impacts to the team and missions both in game and missions past in her background file. Pink also has a tragic background story involving... NO not a love interest, the tragic death of her siblings.

She claims pink uses a whip to be gender stereotyped as a sex object dominatrix, pleasure fodder for men, and nothing more.

Pink is transelvanian, has 'fangs', has a special killer whip made by the 'belmont process', and shares her comedic worst character traits with this notorious gaming pop culture foopah:



Pink is a castlevania homage. She also pays homage to thier games, including bayonetta and viewtiful joe Of course, youd actually have to know about videogames a little, or at least play them to know that. Pink is very, very far from being 'the girl' and not having any other attributes.

Yeah... Anita is basically the worst possible thing for actual activism of this situation. She hasnt actually studied any feminist theory, so her face value obviously media gathered knowledge/interpretation of feminism is stuck in the second wave. She has absolutely no actual knowledge of the games she talks about, which immediately turns off people interested in actual pure gaming from empathizing with, or acknowledging the problem with female depictions in consumable media, and in fact are purposefully put on the defensive by anita's purposeful use of argument via ridicule, and she purposefully divides and baits for fighting.

Which... Makes for BRILLIANT self sustaining arguing, and making money via explotation (both sides too, well played Anita), which she is exceptional at.

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Whats that? You arent happy with our 3ds miiverse plans?

Oooohhh nooooo....

Well if you dont like our miiverse services, why dont you just switch to another Handheld with Nintendo games that has the services you want?

Oooohhhh.. Thats right, we ARE the only company with a handheld that has nintendo games dang it...... Ahhhh mannnn... Thats a bummer.... yeahhhh.... I guess youre just stuck with us....

Jesus Christ. At this rate, we're going to be waiting 2 more Nintendo console launches before we get a capable online system that has the ability to do simple things like inviting people to a game or chatting with a friend outside of a clunky app.

I'm going to post on the 3ds miiverse day 1 saying "I want to message my friends", and I believe everyone else should too.<br />nintendo have shown they look at miiverse, telling them what you want might have a tiny chance of getting through their thick asses.

 

Received Deus Ex yesterday, which is missing.. and Duck Tales Remastered should be arriving soon. I play and I collect. Don't hate me. 

 

Gotta love how they state no reason at all as to why it's a bad gift. Just that "it's a dud" and "XBO/PS4 are the only consoles people want this season". No legit complaints about games/online/account system/3rd party support/etc. Just seems like cheap shot and saying "lol Wii U sucks" for the sake of it. Not to mention this really feels like bait for fanboys. I could name some other tech items that are worse than this for Christmas, Ouya specifically comes to mind.

y'know, Rich typically does have a good head on his shoulders and does make intelligent comments and opinions...but when it comes to Nintendo this guy turns into a friggin' silly pony. He just doesn't seem to get how the company operates and them being successful seems to irritate him. He's basically asking for Nintendo to stop being Nintendo and that is STUPID and ignorant. Oh, they don't offer any of shallow, insecure grim 'n gritty stuff? Whoop-dee-doo, neither do a lot of studios. To me this is a classic example of man acting like HIS problems are Nintendo's. They're not. It's not Nintendo's fault that you steered towards the "mature" games out of some desperate need for approval.

 

To be fair, I've been watching for Reviewtech for a long time now, and Rich is a lot of things but he's no pony. He's actually one of the few people who has honestly given the Wii U a fair shot and sees it for both the goods and the bads. In fact, I'd say he has been one of the systems' strongest supporters outside of people who just come across as pure fanboys. He's not exactly wrong when he said they had a shot of knocking it out of the park this gen (There were going to be some things against them as always but they could have been so much more prepared). 

 

Where he is wrong though is acting as if there is something wrong with what Nintendo is doing based on nothing more than aesthetics, which is what I got out of that video. Whether or now people want to admit it, this industry NEEDS Nintendo. They need Nintendo to pump in fresh ideas and new concepts as well as basically being the only major company to go after the younger demographic and not treat them as second class consumers. Why in the hell would it be smart for them to give up doing what has made them money and instead try to compete for a demographic that is already getting so oversaturated that sales are going down? Do I think Nintendo could make a 'mature' game? Sure, and maybe that's what these guys are so annoyed about. They want to see one of the biggest and very best company show everyone else how it's done. But it's not their forte and that group is already well cared for.

 

Nintendo is basically the DIsney of gaming. They have the most iconic characters and appeal to the young while not abandoning the truly mature (C'mon, we all know you guys love to watch some classic Disney). They don't need to make gritty action movies because they already have their niche and they excel at it. 

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Hey did anyone catch the lovely Audrey Drake in the beginning?

 

A Link Between Worlds

 

They kick off with a brand new trailer, showing off the story, new dungeons.They showed the new bundle

 

explaining more on how awesome the Gold 3DS is, and if you pre order you'll get Oracle of Seasons

 

Mini trailers will be showing up until its release.

 

there are several secrets scattered through the game such as throw backs from past Zelda games, new unique characters and side quests.

 

Marip Party Island Tour

 

80 Mini games in 1 cartridge.

 

Party Tower is added for singleplayer.

 

Street Pass is enabled for you to play with up to 10 other people and face them one on one in mini games.

 

Bravely Default

 

The Brave & Default system is a unique RPG element that will either defend your character or attack in all your turns. Or stop time all together.

 

You earn Default points when you keep your 3DS in sleep mode.

 

You can street pass people and add them in your party, help you on your journey or rebuild your homeland.

 

Will Release on February 7th 2014.

 

Collector's Edition announced for North America.

 

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy.

 

Eshop exclusive. (....Nothing really new.)

 

Nintendo Zone

 

More stuff for Animal Crossing again.......So go get 'em while their gone.

 

Nintendo 3DS System update.

 

The system update you can register your Wii U Nintendo Network ID to your 3DS. No more buying separate cards (FINALLY)

 

Miiverse is coming to the 3DS.

 

3DS Can now play youtube

 

Pikmin 3

 

More DLC, you can finally play as Olimar & Louie in mission mode......That's it.

 

Animal Crossing Plaza

 

Updating the software, stamps will be added and so will other games on miiverse. Similar to Mario 3D World.

 

Polling will be added, like "Who is the best Mayor, Senator, ect"

 

Multi delete will be added.

 

Will be launching the update later today.

 

Indie Games

 

Showed a Montage of Indie games, didn't talk about any specific ones.

 

Super Mario 3D World

 

touch screen and mic gameplay,

golden express stages,

captain toad levels,  (play as Captain toad from Mario Galaxy)

Speed run levels, 

mystery houses ( multi Green star collecting)

Giant boss battles,

top down shooter stages, 

Kart style stages,

unlock-able bonus game Luigi Bros.

and an unlock-able 5th character ROSALINA!

 

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Lets completely ignore our struggling console and focus on the one that's doing great! In all seriousness, that was a really awesome 3DS direct, but really the Wii U needs some attention, its already been a year and people still don't know about it, have Reggie or Bill tattoo themselves with Wii U logos and run around naked in Time Square or something.