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StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion |ST19 April 2023| A tradition unlike any other

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HockeyBird said:
Why is the Ocarina of Time Link Amiibo (selling for $45) near the top of Amazon's best sellers? It's the only Zelda Amiibo that in top 100. Kind of random.
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Because Hero of Time™

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Shigeru Miyamoto has become enamored with Japan's soap operas

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“At Nintendo, I have the joke title of ‘NHK Morning Drama Critic’. I check morning dramas every day and provide various critiques. Sometimes I’ll praise them as being fantastic, and other times I’ll point out their shortcomings.

Gradually, I’ve become more outspoken, and even my wife has told me, ‘I don’t want to hear it, go talk about it somewhere else’ [laughs] Over the past 10 or 20 years of doing this, I’ve developed an interest in creating dramas.

I find that morning dramas often have lively dialogue. Directors who emphasize ad-libs tend to create more engaging content overall. When a director or cinematographer is on set and says, ‘Okay, that’s a wrap!’ I often think, ‘I can’t believe they approved this line.’ I realized that lively conversations are crucial in creating dramas.”
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Got the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters. Which game should I start with FamiPeople? Never played any apart from 6 (which I don't vividly remember as I played it as a kid), so I'm practically new to every single one of them!
 
oese0 said:
Got the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters. Which game should I start with FamiPeople? Never played any apart from 6 (which I don't vividly remember as I played it as a kid), so I'm practically new to every single one of them!
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Depends a little on what you want.

I is pretty straightforward, short and simple. It's the most "vanilla" of the bunch.
II has more story but a somewhat divisive and unintuitive leveling system.
III I'm not very familiar with so I can't really give any advice here.
IV is arguably when the series got its footing. It's also rather simple and easy but more interesting characters and story.
V is again a little different, with an at times sillier story than IV but also a heavy emphasis on the excellent job system.
VI is a stone cold classic.

If you don't mind playing them out of order, I'd go with IV, V or VI first and revisit the first three later.
 
Dardan Sandiego said:
Depends a little on what you want.

I is pretty straightforward, short and simple. It's the most "vanilla" of the bunch.
II has more story but a somewhat divisive and unintuitive leveling system.
III I'm not very familiar with so I can't really give any advice here.
IV is arguably when the series got its footing. It's also rather simple and easy but more interesting characters and story.
V is again a little different, with an at times sillier story than IV but also a heavy emphasis on the excellent job system.
VI is a stone cold classic.

If you don't mind playing them out of order, I'd go with IV, V or VI first and revisit the first three later.
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Much appreciated, detailed insight. Will definitely take all that into consideration, thanks!
 
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Dardan Sandiego said:
If you don't mind playing them out of order, I'd go with IV, V or VI first and revisit the first three later.
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I haven't played the pixel remasters so idk how different they are, but based on my experience with the originals, I'll second this.
 
I started playing PSP versions of X-Men Legends II and Marvel Ultimate Alliance (with the mod that restores Colossus and Moon Knight) and began to wonder: will we ever get the MUA4? Yeah, the third one was too grindy for my taste, but nevertheless it was quite fun and the DLC chapter ended on the cliffhanger.
 
Dardan Sandiego said:
Depends a little on what you want.

I is pretty straightforward, short and simple. It's the most "vanilla" of the bunch.
II has more story but a somewhat divisive and unintuitive leveling system.
III I'm not very familiar with so I can't really give any advice here.
IV is arguably when the series got its footing. It's also rather simple and easy but more interesting characters and story.
V is again a little different, with an at times sillier story than IV but also a heavy emphasis on the excellent job system.
VI is a stone cold classic.

If you don't mind playing them out of order, I'd go with IV, V or VI first and revisit the first three later.
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One of these days I’ll finish a playthrough of an older Final Fantasy but until then this is a good reference point

I’d honestly like to buy VI and finally give it a proper playthrough but I know I’ll get 10-15 hours into it, TOTK will come out, I’ll play that for a couple of weeks, come back to FF and go “what was I doing again?” and then stop.

Honestly wish more JRPGs were a cool 20-25 hours, as much as I enjoy the genre I feel like I have to really commit to them or else I get disrupted.
 
Yazmat said:
I started playing PSP versions of X-Men Legends II and Marvel Ultimate Alliance (with the mod that restores Colossus and Moon Knight) and began to wonder: will we ever get the MUA4? Yeah, the third one was too grindy for my taste, but nevertheless it was quite fun and the DLC chapter ended on the cliffhanger.
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Nah obviously we’re getting X-men legends 3 written by Hickman
 
Mandos said:
Nah obviously we’re getting X-men legends 3 written by Hickman
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Hey... didn't team Ninja say they have one more game coming out this year? Dare I dream, a X-Men Legends sequel with jam packed roster... with Excalibur, Alpha Flight and Starjammers dlc packs....
 
Magic-Man said:
I really hate how good The Flash looks. Freaking Ezra. They're bring the rest of the cast and crew down with them.
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Yeah, as someone who's pretty burnt out on superhero movies, I think it looks great. Emotionally compelling, nice thematic lines in the trailer, and hopefully some inspired action sequences (even if the VFX look a bit rough). Ezra is a menace - I'm going to support Keaton, Calle, Shannon, Affleck, and the thousands of crew who must've busted their asses on this one.
 
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I really appreciate the warm reception here to the Nintendo diss track that I posted in February. I had a blast making it and it became such a passion project over the 8 months it took to make.

I won't post the link here again because I've posted it here a couple of times already and don't want to be the asshole that spams self-promotion links, but if you haven't seen it and are interested, you can find the link by clicking on my account :D

Just wanted to say that I've started work on a new song, and I really hope you'll give it a listen when it comes out! I want to do this more and more, and hopefully the Nintendo diss track was just the beginning.
 
@Dardan Sandiego after what I mentioned the other day about duplicate assets I did a little digging and realized UE4 has a built in tool that lets you consolidate identical assets into one extremely quickly and easily, so my project is like 1-2GB smaller now. Thanks!
 
Skittzo said:
@Dardan Sandiego after what I mentioned the other day about duplicate assets I did a little digging and realized UE4 has a built in tool that lets you consolidate identical assets into one extremely quickly and easily, so my project is like 1-2GB smaller now. Thanks!
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Proving once again that complaining works, even if it’s in the most unexpected ways.
 
HockeyBird said:
Why is the Ocarina of Time Link Amiibo (selling for $45) near the top of Amazon's best sellers? It's the only Zelda Amiibo that in top 100. Kind of random.
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Isn’t Amazon the only retailer getting that amiibo? It’s been up for purchase at $16 a lot this month.
 
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I want to play Pokemon Arceus and Xenoblade 3 at the same time D: decisions decisions
 
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Awww, what a cute clip!



Oh wait, they're all tortured animals and at least two of them are probably dead before the main events of the movie take place fuck
 
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Magic-Man said:
I really hate how good The Flash looks. Freaking Ezra. They're bring the rest of the cast and crew down with them.
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I'm in the same boat. I love speedsters and Flash was easily my favorite part of Justice League, and then this was the first DC movie I was genuinely hyped to see and then... bleh.
 
Not Nintendo related, but I've been playing Binary Domain and this is a prime example of why I don't take reviews as gospel.
It got a 68/72/74 on Metacritic, but I've having more fun with it than I have with some games that scored in the 90s. The "destructible robots" thing is just so damn satisfying, shooting them and watching shredded metal go flying everywhere.
Terrific game.
 
Looks at Amazon page for Ocarina of Time Link Amiibo
"Last purchased December, 2016"
Huh, I don't remember this. Opens shoebox with Amiibo crap
Oh, I guess I do own it...
 
I know this is very random to bring up amidst everyone else's discussion, but does anyone know why Symphony of the Goddesses discontinue back in 2018? I only ask this since my curiosity was piqued from recently watching some videos, and I couldn't find anything stating why they discontinued. With the release of TOTK for example, an official orchestral rendition of all the different TOTK themes (and other zelda games obviously) would be very cool to see in person. Wish they would reform or make a new one to appease all the music-enjoying fans out there like myself, I know I'd attend if they did one around my area.
 
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Skittzo said:
My writing style was more or less trained by Sierra so that tracks
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"Welcome to The Return Of The Incredible Machine Contraptions! Hi, I'm the professor! I'm speaking to you through this loudspeaker because one of my experiments... went wrong. I'm currently radioactive, and I don't wanna contaminate you!"
 
Skittzo said:
Some of those old Sierra games really had great VA. John Rhys Davies did the narration for Quest for Glory 4 and it was great.
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And there's a TON of it, too! Both are examples of some pretty decent early VA that isn't terrible or 'so bad it's good' (not that it's amazing or anything by today's standards)
 
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