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@Serebii I wasn't asking just to make a point - I'm genuinely curious for a source on your assertions about the Rare/Stampers deal as you spoke about it. Tbh I'm not getting any hopes up right now - I see this EA/NX thing right now as just sensible and early business. EA are fairly big in the gaming world, they know they'd be fools not to test the waters when they can afford to, in case the NX takes off and they miss the boat. It's just early days to me, exactly like their first 'unprecedented partnership' was. Don't shoehorn any of this in to something else, just give us a new Strikers game. BAM! Some variety. Quite surprised one never made it to WiiU as it is - understand it wasn't one of the biggest of titles but I don't think enough of a wider audience were aware of it or how fun it could be - I personally loved it after I first played it a few times(despite being shit) and bought my own copy!

Can you actually source those assertions? I must admit I've mostly tuned out since this post but I wanted to point out - the two most recent games I've played on an alternative system were Destiny and Dragon Quest Heroes, and that's what makes it brilliant. Two very different games, all round, and especially visually/aesthetically - a bit of the best of both worlds, and I love it. Two games in a very large sea of variety. Nintendo need that sea of variety to succeed IMO, broad appeal to a growing world of 'gamers' who all want different things - you have to grow with it to match.

Ahh well I did imagine so but wondered who you might have been teaming with! I'd love to be able to grind up with the non-raid stuff due to most people moving on to HM, and me still not being tip top with it, plus the hassle of getting together with folks for it too etc. Maybe I should start looking to try and join LFGs for the raid bits each week - I just feel not practised up enough to not be a liability really.

I'm out tomorrow too, and it seems I didn't realise til just now but I'm working next Saturday too. Maybe the 5th or 12th of March? Is anyone else down for this and got dates that suit?? EDIT: Seems 5th is a bad day for me as out in the afternoon, at an engagement night of the 12th but may get some morning-afternoonish gaming in. I'm pretty terrible given I suggested Saturday :p

Without actually making this too WiiU thread - I like Miiverse, and I love the idea of it, and I think it's a great thing from Nintendo - but I can really take it or leave it. I don't know whether that's down to the time on the WiiU, or just that it's not something I really kept on top of(plus not using my WiiU as much). To take it back to PS4 - it's generally much more seamless and quicker in its transitions, which for me is something that sits beneath any sort of features. It's slick and snappy enough already, the WiiU feels like it isn't(even with quick launch). Well yeah! But fortunately we already actually have voice chat with PS4, and no one's taking that away any time soon. See above for my miiverse feeling, and really it's only the notifications and activity log I'd like, but I've already covered that. I don't struggle with getting to my content and feeling a need for folders, but that might be due to staying mostly disc based and the recently used nature of the PS4's home screen. I can see why people want them though, and I don't see why they wouldn't try and give the people what they want if it isn't too much hassle - just makes the system more appealing.

Damn! I still need to do my sword quest! Just got it recent on my Warlock, and it seems Shaxx has given me it again for Sol Edge on my Titan(think it's because I'd bought it from him). How hard was the quest? Were you doing nightfalls with people @Choze or solo-ing? I do wanna try and find time to tackle more of them, but sometimes they're bloody hard!!

This is the only really pressing(if you could call it that) thing that I want from the PS4 - it's such a simple/basic thing and Nintendo have been doing it of sorts since the Wii, and nailed it excellently with the 3DS and then WiiU for me. Would absolutely love to have something like that on PS4/PSN, possibly even with some sharing features too. Notifications of friends coming online would also be sensible - maybe with options to set it for certain friends rather than everyone. Given how many times I get those bloody 'joined a party' notifications having actual friends coming online notifications would be better. UI's fine for me mostly though. Can't say it makes me want to say it's exceptional or anything - but a lot of what the PS4 does for me is all the smaller things adding together for the whole experience. The UI works for me atm plus it's swift and responsive, so I don't really have any complaint to make about it. Thing is, time for time, I still feel like I'm getting into Destiny on my PS4 faster than I am Splatoon on my WiiU. Feature it up with quick launch whatever etc - but if it isn't actually quicker, then I don't see the need.

How did you get your light so high without completing the raid?? Or have you done bits up to Oryx? I'd like to do a NM attempt again sometime...

Sounds like evenings are sucking for most people, so maybe a Saturday some time will work? Look to start an hour or two before map rotation to get some variety in. I'd def wanna skype/VC somehow tho, either Skype or PS4 iono.

I'd Turf among us depending when it is! Be cool to get @are1981 if he's about too, was a solid part of the Splatooning before it dwindled away. @DuD might even be interesting, depending on the timings. Wonder if we might even tempt @Goron_3 back to it??

I'd ask you guys the same as I did Happenstance - did you play it around original release, or later on? I'm always interested to see what draws the line for people in terms of something so universally renowned and acclaimed such as OoT/Zelda.

Is that just because of facebook though? On the whole, I thought it didn't seem all too bad. Had a few people doing tag-ins showing they were doing something, and one guy put a status about what he was doing but that as due to being an open invite to singletons, few other people tagged the people they were spending it with, and one mate happened to casually send me a photo of something in the pub that I suspect wasn't all that pressing but clearly showed me he was out and doing something. However considering a friendlist of like a few hundred friends - I'd say I saw less than 10, which isn't all that terrible. Having said that, The Oatmeal Valentines Day (also recommend checking out some of their awesome valentines)

Thanks for the join/offer @DriftKaiser, sorry I had to bail - messaged Frag this morning so we decided to have a little Destiny Date Managed to eventually get all the bounties(took some work, espesh hand cannon kills) and we generally got our arses handed to us on the whole baring maybe like 4or5/whoknows how many matches though we had one suicide team. Felt a bit gutted for Frag though because within a few matches I got a 317 shell, and just a few later got a 315 shell, and he didn't get any throughout it all! Made me wish there was a way you could trade items to friends in the game - say if you've played X amounts of hours together as fireteams or completed like Y amount of activities you can then trade a bit within limits - would have loved to send one of the shells his way, though I guess he'll still get the 320 when all's said and done. Also thank you to @MilaGi for offering to help the other night too! I was actually a little under the influence at the time and didn't trust myself to Destiny all that well, but it's really awesome and appreciated that all of you guys are keen to jump in and help folks so often! I guess I should say, given it's Valentines, that I heart N-E! Happy Crimson Day folks!

Just to check - is that a bounty or just a general thing and can it be done with multiple characters?. Nvm, per account. Still cool though. And maybe with that...anyone wanna play like 7 or 14 doubles games with me today at some point :p?

Out of interest how close to release have you played each of them? Was there anything in particular about the ones you didn't finish that put you off? I'm always curious how a series like Zelda is to people who don't really get into it, or play them at a different time to the majority of people. I know a couple people who tried OoT on 3DS and that was their first time, and they didn't get into it as much as others might expect. Hopefully people won't feel the need to correct your opinions of the games if you didn't like certain aspects, but with a series like Zelda it may be best to brace yourself after replying to this post :p

Yep, and I can understand that. I was using your post more to highlight exactly that effect that is had on threads by derailment such as that which I highlighted just previously! For the record - I'm not saying don't have these discussions, but we've got Other Consoles and General Gaming, please try and have them there. I don't want to put people off when they think they're coming in to read about TPHD, but it's actually become a completely off-topic discussion instead. It's difficult to then choose between a.)being involved in what's going on or b.)posting something completely not in line with the current conversation, trying to be on topic, and it getting lost in the new sea of off-topic.

From the sounds of it, about as bloody lazy as OoT3DS! Also for those who express disdain over people bringing up the competition in here - I hope it can be recognised how a sole post like this can quickly turn a thread like this into a discussion about Uncharted etc HD remakes/masters, rather than TP HD. C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! Can we try to get it back onto the TPHD/Zelda/Nintendo things please? We are in the Nintendo forum after all.

Tbh, I don't even think we should be having remakes/remasters, but even if we are to they certainly shouldn't be as mediocre as this! From the sounds of it, about as bloody lazy as OoT3DS! Also for those who express disdain over people bringing up the competition in here - I hope it can be recognised how a sole post like this can quickly turn a thread like this into a discussion about Uncharted etc HD remakes/masters, rather than TP HD.

Ahhh right cheers! I'm sure I've got an invective and a thorn somewhere but I don't ever use them - heyho did tell me that the Thorn used to be quite favoured when I got it though. Not sure if I'll bother with Doubles anyhow - likely to get my ass handed to me I imagine. Though saying that maybe I'll try and convince someone to have a go for the chuckle...

What's the deal with them weapons? OP?

Saw this on Wednesday with Magnus Peterson who's quite a Deadpool fan(and got me into Cable and Deadpool). We were most certainly not dissappointed!! Absolutely loved it, planning to possibly go see it again next week I think. Seemed well paced, constantly entertaining, and full of so many funnies. Not sure what my expectations were, but it definitely exceeded them! I skipped out on the post credits though.

You do realise my objection there was more to the 'New' and redundancy of crossing, right? - I totally got the X aspect of the Crossing!! Unless you were going for just Animal New Crossing. That sounds weird. Yeah there's fun and gimmicks, but they have their place. I can see the idea for this whole ecosystem, but let's get something functional and practical at its core that can then be built upon later and optionally. In fact, I was under the impression I actually posted something earlier which it seems I never did; so I post it now - albeit it a few days outdated. I think I was a bit drunker when I wrote it, though. ------------------------------------- Thanks Kav. I'd been meaning to reply to this post as I do find myself identifying with similar sentiments to yourself recently - whilst I'd say we probably still game differently, it seems what we actually want out of our systems is rather similar! I think a separation of hardware and software is important when thinking about new systems and companies etc. I believe there's many different facets to selling - salesmanship, marketing/advertising, the product itself etc. I think if you can nail the product itself with it being something that people want - you don't have to worry as much about the other bits. If you have a great product, a product that people want, they will buy it! It will start to sell itself because the people who have it will be satisfied, and talk, and essentially market it for free etc(one reason social media integration has another layer to it) and the bandwagon beings. Marketing and salesmanship etc can go a way to selling a product people don't necessarily want(and I'm sure we've all been there) - but if you have a product that's doing the job it's gonna sell itself, and everything else on top is just added extra and meeting the gaps. The Wii did the bandwagon well, but it didn't last, because the product+add-ons(in terms of software) just wasn't appreciated by enough people who bought it as a product where the add-ons matter. Its success was the gimmick, rather than as a gaming machine, and I think that damaged it in the long-term. I think consoles are somewhat unique in the sense that they're longer term products, of sorts. I honestly believe the reason the PS4 has done so well is because Sony listened to what people wanted and what they were saying and made no illusions about what the PS4 was. Not just customers, but supporters/developers/publishers too. Not just the East as an eastern company, but the West too. They've really closed down the gaps which I think has made them come up with a really good product that's done the job for many people. I think they also combined it with some smart business sense in not being too ambitious, not going for something too proprietary, and essentially just doing what they could to keep costs down in case it didn't do what they hoped. I think in that latter sense, Nintendo need to be careful with the NX and not be too ambitious or crazy - play it safe. ------------------------------------- Basically, these hubs etc are all a nice idea but don't make it a core part of your system. By all means have it, but make it an optional extra. Some people don't want to go through all of that - they want something they can turn on and get into gaming with quickly. I'm not against extra content or polish - but I don't like something too unconventional being forced upon me when it isn't strictly necessary.

Bit redundant on the Crossing though! Tbh I wasn't keen to even put 'New' in my idea given how much it's been rinsed by Nintendo as the new Super, but it fit for New Horizons. The more I'm thinking about it, the more I feel like an ACNX would be a good draw for me to the system; especially if it can hybrid so you can take your town(or some aspect of it) with you on the go. I would wonder with that though - how will syncing between the two halves of the system work? Will it be an always online syncing sort of system, or a direct sync between systems, or even both? Obviously raises all the issues you'd get with diff versions of saves etc.

But...but...it's YOUR face!! :p Imagine if you could get MeMiibo's! Nintendo officially making custom Amiibo of your Mii on request, that you can take everywhere! On the actual subject of Mii's - I can either take or leave them, but I do think their use and branding has been done pretty well all things considered. On the subject of launch stuff, having posted about this guy's AC mockup in Wii U general it's gotten me to thinking - what if they had Animal Crossing title at launch? I think it could be a great game to showcase some of the console's capabilities. Overhaul the Online system? Show some of it off with ACNX. Handheld+console hybrid? ACNX is a GREAT title to work with that. A uniquely Nintendo title that has mass appeal to lots of fans(not that this is the sole way forward)? ACNX. If they hadn't already used 'New' for New leaf it could have been like New something to work with the 'NX' angle. I'd have gone with Animal Crossing : New Horizons but that doesn't have any X in it :p