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I don't know how Van Gaal is still in that job... but I'm glad he is! Haha Thank you Liverpool... I just hope we can capitalise when we play our game in hand. @dazzybee, excited for today?

I finally managed to find another room of decent randoms. It was just 3 of us but we all set off from HR7, did a good few hunts from there and got each of our urgents. We proceeded to slay the beast for each of us and then got the urgent for G-Rank. Again we slaughtered the beast and all hit G-Rank. It's great when a group works together, takes turns picking quests and doesn't screw each other over. Now for G-Rank! ...unless anyone still fancies hunting at their level, I'm happy helping (I've still only got High Rank gear so I'd not likely be overpowered).

Anyone seen the Number 23 face-plate? Skull Kid in the woods holding Majora's Mask? Nice!

@Glen\-i these were hunters that were the same HR as me but they didn't bother upgrading to High Rank armour. They just relied in others dragging them up the HRs. I'll probably be online at some point tonight and I'll jump on with you if I see you.

I've not been able to see it as white and gold for the life of me! I still can't see white and gold at all.

Bitter buggers. :p

You've got that right @Hero\-of\-Time! The amount of times I've been in a room only for a random to enter, not say a word and immediately run to the counter and chuck a quest on the board. No "hello", no "do you mind if...", there's no etiquette at all. I just boot these fuckers when it's my room. If they ask I tell them we're all taking turns. I was looking to slay Akantor and 2 of the hunters in the room had low rank armour... at HR7... how've you still got low rank at that HR! As soon as I get to G Rank I'll farm out a monster to get an armour set and then take to the hunt properly from there. On a positive note though, the new (to me) monsters in this game are AMAZING!

Sometimes it can be so hard finding a good group of hunters in this. Only managed around 5 successful hunts last night. Randoms fainting left, right and centre all over the place last night. I don't think I'll ever find people able to prevent themselves fainting against Akantor. So many failed hunts against him, it was so annoying! I'm not sure I'll ever get my HR7 Urgent Quest up at this rate.

The stable 3D makes the upgrade well worth it I think.

That One Piece chapter was all kinds of awesome, I love Zoro!

Yes! Nintendo should make these games. It doesn't mean they should stop making the ones they still do though. This is the pout people are making; give us variety! That's what would be best! I'd have taken a Nintendo game even if it was a bland grey colour pallette over either Yoshi or Kirby, two 2D Platformers on a console that's absolutely rife with 2D Platformers!

@Sheikah, I know what Destiny is like and I know the differences to it and Halo... I've put hundreds of hours in both. It's still feels similar. I'm not saying they're identical, just very similar. Which is why it feels less fresh to me than the others.

@Sheikah I remember very well what I did in games. It's not that I don't. I agree that Destiny does different things to Halo, but the actual gameplay itself is vastly similar. The character movement, control etc. this is what I mean by it feeling like Halo. It's like The Last of Us, to me it didn't feel new because it felt incredibly similar to Uncharted in this same respect. Sure, there are new characters and a new story, but to control and actually play the game it felt vastly similar. This is how I mean feeling similar. There isn't a lot on the market that feels similar in this respect to Pikmin and Smash. I guess for me, Smash always feels fresh as I usually select random on the character select screen. In the end, I'm not disputing what you feel, just saying that it differs from person to person.

@Sheikah whereas I get where you're coming from saying how MK, Smash and Pikmin feel stale to you, that doesn't mean they feel stale to others. To me they still feel fresh, even when compared to a lot of other games on the market. It's because between the releases of them there aren't many other games on the market that feel similar to them. So by the time they come around they feel fresh again. Pikmin epsecially, it felt like a breath of fresh air to me. Destiny on the other hand didn't feel fresh in the slightest. It feels like Halo, which has had a number of releases between the last two Pikmin games. Yes, the social element made the game much more than it was, but this isn't new. Many of us here had that experience with games like Monster Hunter. So to me, Pikmin felt more fresh than Batman, Assassin's Creed, Infamous, Uncharted, Last of Us, Destiny etc (the list does go on - all still good games, don't get me wrong) because these have all had either multiple iterations or they play similarly to other games on the market. I'll not put Mario in there as there have been many platformers and they do feel similar. Except for the Galaxy games, they are God-level games and actually felt very fresh.

Nope. I'm totally OCD and can't handle mixed armour, I am not even lying. @S\.C\.G I'm only High Rank so now youre HR4 you're in the same level as me. I'm happy to game with you although I don't use the PS4 to chat (long story as posted above/prior pages).

When it launched they stated themselves that they needed to sell just one game to make their money back on it. Drop it by £100 and all they need do is sell between three & four games and they're making their money back. That's even if we pretended it costed as much to produce! Yeah, they'd make their money back and more.

Nothing turned the Wii around, the thing flew of the shelves. @Serebii, they'd make the money back through game sales.

"Mario Kart can turn it around." "Smash can turn it around." These were the 2 games that had any chance, we all thought so. There's not going to be any other game that turns it around, no way. The only thing that can make it sell is a drastic price-cut, sub £150, for it to start doing any decent sort of numbers.

Mix armour?! Sure you can get better/more skills this way but it sends my OCD into "Cannot Cope" mode!

Iwata is high on meds man. I don't care what happened with the Gameboy, NOTHING but an insane price-drop is turning round the WiiU's fortunes!

We could always do what you do and paper over the cracks whilst pretending everything is rosy... :p Actually, on a positive note, I do really like the Gamepad. Off-TV play has been great for me because I share a flat and the WiiU is in the front room with the TV. It really is nice happily gaming away even if the TV is on. I'm looking forward to playing through Bayonetta 1&2 too so I know this will come in handy!

It is the standard, Nintendo simply aren't up to standards.

They'll be talking about their "vision" and the new game at EGX Rezzed on 14th March... http://www.egx.net/rezzed/news/ex-rare-devs-to-present-new-3d-platformer-at-egx-rezzed

Is there online multiplayer? Online co-op maybe?