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The colour dungeon needed colour as it was designed around using the colour screen and colour coded enemies to solve the puzzles; the multiplayer requirement for some of LTTP GBA similarly was the case because it actually had puzzles that were thoughtfully created for multiplayer play. I don't see how you can argue a dungeon would somehow need an amiibo to be cleared or unlocked, at least not in a non-arbitrary way. There is also the issue that if it did center around tapping an amiibo as the main gimmick that it wouldn't be very fun. Think Tesco checkouts meets Zelda. It might be that amiibo will just be the requirement to unlock it. I've noticed that this has caused a bit of a shitstorm on Eurogamer's article feed. Least I'm not the only one to think it.

We're planning it out at the moment, intending to travel throughout Japan with a rail pass (spending a few days in Tokyo). We're going end of March - return tickets were £439 per person going with Air France on both outbound and inbound which seemed really good (Air France also apparently serve Champagne at no cost to all cabins and have an open bar). One stop in each direction with reasonable stopovers. I've ordered the lonely planet Japan guide to give me a better idea of what is worth doing. Any recommendations?

There's simply no proof of that. The only thing we know for certain is that the content is there from day 1 but only people who pay even more get access to it.

It's just about one of the purest examples of pay to win I've seen for awhile. Yeah. If you pay a certain amount of real money you have something that heals you (as much as you want?). I don't see how it could be less pay to win. It can help you literally win fights where otherwise you might have died if you suck.

Well obviously I won't do it. But it is blatant pay to win, used in a pretty crappy way. None of us should be afraid to question or highlight it.

They probably should listen to them if they're not buying their products. Like, really listen. New dungeon sounds cool, but tap amiibo to heal yourself sounds like the kind of thing that I hate to see in games.

I have just bought....tickets to Japan! For 15 days.

This is a really silly thing to say. I'm sure I can speak for most social gamers here when I say that voice chat has done nothing but enhance the games and gameplay that is already there. Destiny 3 man fireteams on competitive Trials of Osiris provides one of the best social and gameplay experiences there is to be had - sharing tactics, information and, most importantly, the laughs, over voice chat makes this all the more fantastic.

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Whether or not you see it as shambolic depends on what you expect from an online service (free or not). When it doesn't match up to 3 other competitors (including 1 free) then I don't see any problem calling it shambolic.

Umm... All this started because I said Nintendo don't have a proper online infrastructure. Not that they don't have an infrastructure. The buzz word in this instance is 'proper'. I don't think anyone here will realistically argue that Nintendo have a proper online infrastructure given how severely lacking it is. A shambolic one, but not a proper one. Unless I'm missing something?

Of course it is. Even if not to chat, an OS-level ability to form parties that you can use for the purpose of arranging games is a must.

Here's one I just bought and installed the other day for my sister (although mine was yellow). Cheap and cheerful and works fine.

The gamepad is not a standard controller...it is particularly divisive in fact. While you can buy a more traditional controller the Wii U does not come with one of the box which means less support and less confidence from other parties. Don't you think it's odd that every time you say Wii U has proper online, literally nobody but yourself believes it?

No amount of money is going to save Nintendo when it comes to third party games if they don't sort their next console out. Proper online infrastructure/accounts, hardware parity and standard control setups are what is needed.

Emulators aren't illegal, so of course. Many emulators allow you to play from your own discs anyhow.

@Shorty @Zell @Deathjam @MilaGi @DriftKaiser Just a reminder about continuing the raid tonight on our alts. I am available from half 7.

While true, they're reliable enough that most people building a decent PC use one to store the OS and many commonly used applications. Flash storage has also dropped crazily in price in recent years. When Guild Wars 2 came out it cost me £80 for a 120GB SSD. Recently I bought a 240GB SSD for my sister's new laptop for £40.

I would happily see the Gamepad put to bed. I don't like it one bit.

It's not about the individual cost per unit, because that argument is naturally biased towards what you're arguing in favour of. It's that one guy may choose to funnel hundreds of pounds into amiibo, and ultimately have a load of toys, while one guy may choose to put all that money into one new piece of tech. It's easy to laugh at a very expensive single item while completely ignoring how easily similar amounts of money can be blown on things that some would believe are even more frivolous spends when taken collectively. Also...I don't think you can argue that just amiibos are fairly priced. Do you have intimate knowledge of the cost of the included tech in the Rift, along with development costs? The cost for this may well be fair, but I'm no expert. Saying it will never be a mainstream success at that price point, though, is a bit of a pointless comment. Of course it will not stay at that price point - so what is your point?

His point was that if you bought lots and lots of amiibo, which a lot of amiibo owners seem to, it can add up to hundreds of pounds.

The difference between 3DTV and VR is that one is what humanity has dreamed about and pined for since the early days of computers, while the other is what manufacturers figured we would just warm to. As long as there exists that passion for VR there will always be a market, and more importantly, enthusiastic people developing the technology. For those that think this is an impossible dream or unlikely, citing 1080p60fps issues of modern day - just look back twenty or thirty years and see what games looked like then. Heck, even last generation most console games were 720p30, while at least now many are 1080p30 or beyond. I don't think it's unrealistic at all to expect massive leaps in technology within 10 years to support VR more adequately.

@Shorty @Zell @Deathjam @MilaGi @DriftKaiser Just a reminder about tonight's raid, starting some time between half 7 and 8 (will aim for half 7). Both Zell and Shorty are good to continue on Friday since we probably won't manage to run all 3 instances of Oryx tonight. Is this good with everyone else?

Perhaps I am missing something here but it seems like you're pretty much admitting to deliberately ignoring the actual point I made because your grievance was "topic of the day".