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Tarsen Since: Dec, 2009
#55551: Aug 30th 2014 at 1:41:28 AM

well i mean, if you want to keep going, and i might as well join in...

i heard arc the lad 2 is pretty depressing. havent gotten very far in it but so far theres been genocide, child experimentation, the first games protagonists are actual terrorists, and the main character is in a coma after his childhood friend exploded in his arms; he was almost forced to kill her but then she broke free of the mind control and suddenly- boom and apparantly the ending would be considered a downer in any other jrpg :V


but really, how do you judge the most depressing game in the world without actually knowing every game in the world?

edited 30th Aug '14 1:51:07 AM by Tarsen

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#55552: Aug 30th 2014 at 5:43:46 AM

Nier.

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Fawriel Since: Jan, 2001
#55553: Aug 30th 2014 at 5:48:25 AM

You were able to play that game as a child?
I didn't say that... I might just be a little emotionally immature, haha.

Tarsen Since: Dec, 2009
#55554: Aug 30th 2014 at 5:52:10 AM

[up][up] oooh yeaaah.

though, some of the endings are kind of uplifting, in their own, bittersweet way.

all in the manual makes everything worse though.

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#55555: Aug 30th 2014 at 5:53:45 AM

Anyway. Xenoblade didn't even originally have "Xeno" in the title. I think the original working name was something like "Monado: Beginning of the World".

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#55556: Aug 30th 2014 at 6:45:37 AM

It was. There was a small blurb in Nintendo Power in 2010 that called it that. With the announcement of X it seems like Xenoblade is becoming its own series.

edited 30th Aug '14 6:45:56 AM by kostya

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#55557: Aug 30th 2014 at 6:58:45 AM

I wonder how much stuff will be pulled from Kirby Fighters/Deluxe.

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LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#55558: Aug 30th 2014 at 6:59:26 AM

Agrees with Midna on Smash For. being a PR vehicle for new games instead of a celebration of Nintendo history.

I've decided to use my last 99SEK offer for the 3DS version(trading in Kirby Triple Delux and Brawl). I kind of don't want to pay money for this game.

As an aside, didn't everyone expect MK 8 to move millions of consoles only for the real sales to be tiny since everyone who wanted the game already had the console?

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#55559: Aug 30th 2014 at 7:01:24 AM

[up]The old series are all mainly accounted for now, so the only place in history left to go is the present. News Flash: F-Zero is not that important.

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FawfulCrump Since: Dec, 2010
#55560: Aug 30th 2014 at 7:02:02 AM

Sorry if someone brought this up already, but according to the newly added items page...

Picking up [the Fairy Bottle] item will heal 100 points of damage for a player—as long as the player was already over 100%. If a player doesn't have enough damage, the Fairy Bottle has no effect, so the item's usefulness depends greatly on the situation.

So that's why no one could get it to work in the E3 demo...

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#55561: Aug 30th 2014 at 7:33:59 AM

Representing old characters: Nintendo is grasping at straws to find new characters.

Representing new characters: Nintendo is using the series only to advertise.

However you see it, people will complain. And I like to see new faces in here.

edited 30th Aug '14 7:34:17 AM by Elbruno

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paperbritt Since: Apr, 2013
#55562: Aug 30th 2014 at 7:39:02 AM

@ "omg Nintendo just turned Smash into a big advertisement!!!": Roy. Using Smash Bros as advertisements has always been a thing. Quit acting like this is some new phenomenon.

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#55563: Aug 30th 2014 at 7:49:23 AM

Pikachu and Jigglypuff count, too. Pokémon had only been around in the US for one year before Smash 64 was released.

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#55564: Aug 30th 2014 at 8:08:56 AM

Really? Huh. I didn't know Smash was that old.

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#55565: Aug 30th 2014 at 8:39:58 AM

[up]Yup.

The Japanese releases were a bit farther apart, but only by a couple years. Even in Japan, Pokémon was the exact same age back then as Xenoblade is now.

edited 30th Aug '14 8:41:04 AM by BaffleBlend

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Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#55566: Aug 30th 2014 at 8:45:29 AM

I would like to note that this is the American release we're talking about. In Japan (aka the country that matters most for this kind of thing) Pokemon was already a well-established franchise by several years.

On the subject of advertising, I definitely care about the franchises that get represented, but frankly advertising is less of a concern than how the character actually plays. Do I want Lip from Panel De Pon? Sure, she' the closest thing we can get to a Tetris rep without making one up from whole cloth (and yes, I'm aware it's not similar) and she definitely has boosted chances for being in Captain Rainbow. Similar things could be said for Takamaru or Isaac or Ridley. That said, if they somehow managed to cram the Inklings in I would be all over that shit.

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#55567: Aug 30th 2014 at 8:48:16 AM

[up]I mentioned that, too. Pokémon Red/Green was released in Japan in 1996. Xenoblade Chronicles was released in 2010 in Japan.

tl;dr: 64 Pikachu and 4 Shulk are almost the same age. And 64 Pikachu was actually younger.

edited 30th Aug '14 8:56:27 AM by BaffleBlend

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Blueeyedrat Since: Oct, 2010
#55568: Aug 30th 2014 at 9:35:24 AM

Speaking of character debut years, a user on /r/smashbros presented this today.

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#55569: Aug 30th 2014 at 9:55:48 AM

ZSS came in 2003.

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#55570: Aug 30th 2014 at 10:01:48 AM

That's what she said.

I'm sorry, that was a bit mysogynic.

edited 30th Aug '14 10:02:29 AM by GaryCXJk

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#55571: Aug 30th 2014 at 10:02:20 AM

Oh, My Final Edits is a woman?

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#55572: Aug 30th 2014 at 10:02:36 AM

2004, actually.

Err... that's what Wikipedia tells me.

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#55573: Aug 30th 2014 at 10:14:00 AM

Oh yeah, that reminded me of something which I forgot to link. There were two trailers and the second one shows sneak peek of All-Star Mode.

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Tatsumar Since: Mar, 2011
#55574: Aug 30th 2014 at 10:17:52 AM

We also see that Peach has her final smash from Brawl back.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#55575: Aug 30th 2014 at 10:26:03 AM

I'd hoped they would change it to something more...

She had that emotions-based power system in Super Princess Peach, but they haven't used it. Heck, she turned into a flamethrower using her rage.

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