KnightWing Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 The 3DS isn't exactly a failure, it's just not a great success. It's "meh." It's actually done better than the first DS did in its first year. And having played through Skyward Sword almost twice now, that bug would be very hard to trigger. You'd have to actually ignore the directions the game gives you and deliberately do four unconnected things out of order. Overall, Skyward is incredibly polished. But yes, perception is important. They need more than new blood; they need a much broader focus. And get more studios like Retro doing great games Americans want to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 They cut $80 off the price four months after it came out because people weren't buying it. That's a failure. The real problem was the lack of games people wanted to play on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Yeah, they overestimated the power of the DS as a brand name, kind of how Sony did with the PS3 at launch. $169 is really the price the 3DS should have been from the start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Robinson Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 I get the general sense that the 3DS will do fine, but it won’t be the massive success the DS was. Yeah, they had weaker sales near with the DS early on, but once it gained momentum it just kept going. I doubt that the 3DS will do that in the current market. The fact that they’re selling a console at a loss for the first time is kind of amazing to me, but it’s not hard to see why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Speaking solely as a retailer, the 3DS was a complete failure until the price drop. Now, I can upsell the people wanting a DSi to spend the extra $20, not the extra $100 as before. But I cannot give the games away. Beyond Mario, Zelda & Pokemon, there are not games people want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Did they ever do the 3d movie rentals that were promised when they announced it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 I think Netflix is actually supposed to be providing 3D streaming movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/devinsupertramp#p/u/0/WWyI-58gpic All this guy's videos are great but I figured this one belonged here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 http://www.youtube.c...u/0/WWyI-58gpic All this guy's videos are great but I figured this one belonged here. Even though it's a girl, it's still the gayest thing I've seen on YouTube in a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Too much prancing. But the music is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chops Posted December 10, 2011 Report Share Posted December 10, 2011 Playing Ico/Shadow of the Colossus Collection. Shadow is a lot easier than I remember. Probably because the first time I played it on PS2, I didn't know about the shining lizards and fruit power ups. The last boss was a bitch when faced with bare bones stats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 Watching the VGAs. They just revealed a PS3 exclusive game called "The Last of Us". It looks intriguing, but I'm so over the post apocalyptic setting in games. They just announced Command and Conquer Generals 2. I thought I was the only person that played the original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 Reaper vs Thresher Maw. YES!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 That Transformers:Fall of Cybertron trailer gave me chills. Why can't we get that as a movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted December 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 It was a joke, but everyone is running with it anyways. Also, Metal Gear Rising looks like the most violent game ever made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 That Transformers:Fall of Cybertron trailer gave me chills. Why can't we get that as a movie? One of the things that the Prime continuity (includes the War for Cybertron games and the Prime TV series) gets really well is the fact that Transformers stories are best when handled as war stories, and the bots are treated like soldiers, with all the wartime band-of-brothers emotion that should go along with it. Until the movies switch directors they're probably not going to get that. On that note, how badass would it be if Spielberg stepped up from his Exec. Producer position on the TF films and actually just directed them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 That Transformers:Fall of Cybertron trailer gave me chills. Why can't we get that as a movie? One of the things that the Prime continuity (includes the War for Cybertron games and the Prime TV series) gets really well is the fact that Transformers stories are best when handled as war stories, and the bots are treated like soldiers, with all the wartime band-of-brothers emotion that should go along with it. Until the movies switch directors they're probably not going to get that. On that note, how badass would it be if Spielberg stepped up from his Exec. Producer position on the TF films and actually just directed them? I think if there's a criticism that's tough to level at Transformers, especially the last two, it's that they don't have heavy war elements. The final hour of the last film was nothing but a pitched war in Chicago. I grant you it should be a more consistent deal throughout the films but to be honest, the human element and smaller scale encounters have always been as much as part of Transformers as the massive conflicts have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 I'm sorry, but if I hit you with a goddamned RPG rocket, you should fucking disintegrate; not keep running and blast me with a shotgun. MW3 is a great time-waster and I've certainly put a lot of hours into it, but shotguns are grossly overpowered and launchers are grossly underpowered in this game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 I think if there's a criticism that's tough to level at Transformers, especially the last two, it's that they don't have heavy war elements. The final hour of the last film was nothing but a pitched war in Chicago. I grant you it should be a more consistent deal throughout the films but to be honest, the human element and smaller scale encounters have always been as much as part of Transformers as the massive conflicts have. It's true. I was actually a big fan of the way TF3 handled the Chicago occupation and all that, but what I meant was more that the story should focus more on battlefield emotion, not just the fact that they're battling. The beginning of the Fall of Cybertron trailer, with Optimus carrying a wounded Bumblebee, was the kind of thing they really needed more of in the films. One of the things that really makes TF: Prime work is that even when dealing with day-to-day life, the Autobots carry the weight of being soldiers rather than jumpy cartoon characters like in the live-action movies. The human kids in that show even understand the seriousness of what's happening (they have to learn it, but still). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 Watching the VGAs. They just revealed a PS3 exclusive game called "The Last of Us". It looks intriguing, but I'm so over the post apocalyptic setting in games. Agree with you on both counts. Will be interesting to see how the 2 character thing plays out, would be great it if switches all the time between the 2 mid fight, like if the one I'm controlling gets in a grapple, it switches to the other character for the save. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 At least it's not another game made entirely of gray and brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 The Zelda timeline has supposedly been revealed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Seems like a really complicated way of saying, "People keep buying the same game in a shiny new box! We don't know why, but we like money too much to stop!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Pretty much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 You and Aaron really need to do a catch all Zelda episode, "Ganondorf fucks things up, Link gets artifacts from Fire, Water, Earth and Air. Link beats Ganondorf. Fishing." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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