Yeah, from what I can tell 3DO's main problems were the price and the lack of launch titles. The Jaguar, though...Atari had caught full-fledged Commodore syndrome by then. They not only had a mediocre product (both the 3DO and the PlayStation were easier to work with than either the Jaguar or the goddamn Saturn), but they were certain it was the best on the market despite being about 5 years behind.
The 3DO seemed to want to answer a question that bugged me as a kid: why are there always several different game consoles, all incompatible with each other, rather than an industry standard like (say) VHS tapes?
All the same I can see why it bombed. I remember playing the launch game (Crash n' Burn) in a store and thinking, well, this is okay, but not worth freaking $700.
Is there anybody here (with a North American 3DS or Wii U) who would like one of the following games? I have a Club Nintendo download code that I would like to give away.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)
Mario Golf: World Tour (3DS)
Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
Mario Party: Island Tour (3DS)
New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS)
Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Wii U)
NES Remix 2 (Wii U)
Punch-Out!! (Wii U)
Pushmo World (Wii U)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii U)
If more than one person is interested, we can do a random drawing for it.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I kinda wish there was a physical release of Cities: Skylines in North America, 'cause it's totally the kind of game I'd put on my shelf alongside SimCity 4.
Then again, I don't have a physical copy of SimCity 2000 either, so I guess it evens out.
Is there anybody here (with a North American 3DS or Wii U) who would like one of the following games? I have a Club Nintendo download code that I would like to give away.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)
Mario Golf: World Tour (3DS)
Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
Mario Party: Island Tour (3DS)
New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS)
Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Wii U)
NES Remix 2 (Wii U)
Punch-Out!! (Wii U)
Pushmo World (Wii U)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii U)
If more than one person is interested, we can do a random drawing for it.
Is there anybody here (with a North American 3DS or Wii U) who would like one of the following games? I have a Club Nintendo download code that I would like to give away.
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)
Mario Golf: World Tour (3DS)
Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
Mario Party: Island Tour (3DS)
New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS)
Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Wii U)
NES Remix 2 (Wii U)
Punch-Out!! (Wii U)
Pushmo World (Wii U)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii U)
If more than one person is interested, we can do a random drawing for it.
Also, unfortunately I only have one code to give out to one person, so on Wednesday I plan on doing a random drawing among the people who have expressed interest in one of the games on that list. I apologize if my last post was unclear about that.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My only real complaint with the traffic modeling in Cities: Skylines is that there doesn't seem to be any sort of priority given to emergency vehicles responding to calls.
They run lights and sirens, sure, but it seems to be just for show, since they'll end up sitting in a crowded, backed-up lane and the other traffic makes no attempt to get out of the way. :\
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Sadly, you're not that far off the mark.
I remember one time I had to run a stale red light to let an ambulance through in downtown Columbus because nobody else was going to let him into the intersection. -_-
As for Skylines: why do so many people seem to have it out for Chirper? The filler tweets are kind of annoying, but it's useful to be notified when you've got a garbage problem, or corpses stacking up, or something. Especially if your city is big enough that you can't focus on every area at once, which happens fairly quickly once you start expanding...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I wasn't worried about getting a ticket or anything--there wasn't a camera at this intersection, and no decent police officer would write a ticket for letting an ambulance through--but it was frustrating to be put in that situation in the first place, you know?
I found compilations of the quotes from the splicers from Bioshock.
My first thoughts after "FEAR" is that I could probably splice a few of them together with some music and get a hundred people listening to it on Tumblr.
One of the comments say that these are the difference between Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite. Each type of run-of-the-mill enemy has their own reasons and their own motivations, all thrown together in a way that causes them to strike out at everything.
All you Vita people pop your pussy like this should go get MonsterBag because it's rad and adorable and wicked hard.
I'm about halfway through and it's been a good time thus far. The amount of violence involved betrays the art and the rating -- think Happy Tree Friends-ish with a LocoRoco aesthetic and you're essentially there -- but even without that aspect it's a clever and gorgeous game that deserves a home in any challenge-loving Vita owner's library.
(also, V, the protagonist, is a beautiful cinnamon roll and too good and pure for this sinful earth)
In Aria of Sorrow, they should have avoided displaying "Top Floor" when you simply pass through the bottom room between the Inner Quarters and the Castle Corridor and don't yet get to explore more of it.
It's like how in Symphony of the Night you don't get the Colosseum tag when you accidentally enter the Colosseum from the wrong side.
I guess I'm just a little less used to it. It's very poppy and actiony and not really all that "dark". It kinda works though I guess.
I prefer the SNES version of the Rondo soundtrack though.
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on an unrelated note: this is an excellent, excellent final dungeon theme. twisted, dark, and representative of how the final boss is a twisted perversion of life itself. it's also thematically associated with the final boss theme.
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All the same I can see why it bombed. I remember playing the launch game (Crash n' Burn) in a store and thinking, well, this is okay, but not worth freaking $700.
We just don't know.
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)
- Mario Golf: World Tour (3DS)
- Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
- Mario Party: Island Tour (3DS)
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS)
- Yoshi's New Island (3DS)
- Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Wii U)
- NES Remix 2 (Wii U)
- Punch-Out!! (Wii U)
- Pushmo World (Wii U)
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii U)
If more than one person is interested, we can do a random drawing for it.Then again, I don't have a physical copy of SimCity 2000 either, so I guess it evens out.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Also, unfortunately I only have one code to give out to one person, so on Wednesday I plan on doing a random drawing among the people who have expressed interest in one of the games on that list. I apologize if my last post was unclear about that.
I only have one code to give out today, but if I have other stuff to give away in the future, I plan on letting you all know about it.
I remember one time I had to run a stale red light to let an ambulance through in downtown Columbus because nobody else was going to let him into the intersection. -_-
As for Skylines: why do so many people seem to have it out for Chirper? The filler tweets are kind of annoying, but it's useful to be notified when you've got a garbage problem, or corpses stacking up, or something. Especially if your city is big enough that you can't focus on every area at once, which happens fairly quickly once you start expanding...
Though you could always move off into the intersecting street temporarily or something, or only run it halfway.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
though Aria is good too
harmony is more about exploration and pieceing together the mysteries of the demon castle
At any rate, I enjoyed both of them more than Circle of the Moon.
Though it has an excellent soundtrack -- the grandest of the three GBA castletroids.
And yeah, CotM does at least have a really good soundtrack. HoD's music got ruined by poor sound quality.
and this music played
It's like how in Symphony of the Night you don't get the Colosseum tag when you accidentally enter the Colosseum from the wrong side.
i can't figure out what it has that the other Michiru Yamane soundtracks lack
I prefer the SNES version of the Rondo soundtrack though.
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on an unrelated note: this is an excellent, excellent final dungeon theme. twisted, dark, and representative of how the final boss is a twisted perversion of life itself. it's also thematically associated with the final boss theme.
i think it can
there's this one final dungeon theme that contains a callback to an emotional track from the very beginning of the game