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  2. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon
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    With a clue like this, I feel compelled to say Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers :heh:

     

    But it's probably not that (too specific, and the art style doesn't fit), so I'm going to guess Super Punch Out!!

     

    It's not Super Punch Out but don't fret because...

     

    6. X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse

     

    Also, I think that based on the other clues and answers, Jonnas is right with his guess. But as he dismissed it:

     

    4. Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers

     

    It's not Super Street Fighter II either.

     

    You are right for no. 6 being X-Men though.

     

    4. Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters?

     

    And claiming the last of board is Dog-amoto - well done sir.

     

    So, that's the 8 questions done and dusted but this is Mega Man right? Those games never end after just 8 levels...

     
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    Mwahaha!!!!

     

    Keep guessing suckers!

     

     

     

    9. Darkwing Duck - Jonnas +1

    10. The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse - Cube +1

    11. Duck Tales - Jonnas +1

    12. Chip n' Dale - MoogleViper +1

  3. Posted

    By the way, I've still got Lissa on her own. Don't know who to marry her to, she's got an A rank relationship with Ricken but I don't want to go down that route.

     

    Advice?

     

    It depends on what skills you Ricken has, and what you want to use their child for really. Parents pass on both skills and their growth rates and so together they make for a good magic user child or help to pull up magic/resistance stats for those who use them on the side. Their parents also determine what units the child can reclass to.

     

    Their child use

    swords

    as their form of attack. So you have to decide how the above info fits into that in terms of how the unit will be attacking and what you want them to do.

     

    Ultimately, parentage will always be about getting skills onto units that can't reclass into others to get them. Stats can be always be buffed/improved by reclassing over and over until a unit is powerful for whatever you want it to do.

     

    I have them together but that's because I felt with them being similar ages that it made more sense for them to be together than sticking them with someone of a completely different age.

  5. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon

     

    Another reason is that you can have a character with a long-range attack (eg. mage or archer) ride on the back of a character with only a short-range attack. This way, if someone attacks you from a distance, you do still have some chance of fighting back, especially if they have a good rapport.

     

    Actually that isn't true. The paired up unit can only attack if the lead unit can hit the enemy with their currently equiped item - the partner unit will then ignore weapon ranges for their attack. If the lead unit is out of their attack range but gets attacked, the paired up unit cannot activate a dual strike. All they can do is activate the much less likely Dual Guard.

     

     

    I'm up to chapter 18 now. The gulf in difficulty between the main campaign and Side Story is quite remarkable. That said, most of the times I've been caught out have been down to how reinforcements are handled on Hard - i.e. they arrive and can move on the same turn which can leave you totally exposed without any warning. I had one attempt at SS11 and I was quickly overwhelmed. I'm not sure if the bigger fault lay in my strategy or just my units strength in that not even the best tactics could have meant everyone made it through in one piece.

     

    And @\-Dem0\-, I take back what I aid about Gaius not being powerful - providing he doesn't get hit, he's a killing machine. Since I have him partnered with Cherche, it propels his great attack even higher and makes him a bit more durable too.

  6. Posted

    Were these just that difficult?

     

    You've had longer than normal since I've busy but still few guesses - so now it's clue time.

     

    1. Competing Educational Institutions

    3. Two cadavers in an elevator going up

    4. Super guy the sequel: the strong opponents

    5. Alley brawler MMX

    6. Gifted people : Freaks end the world

  7. Posted · Edited by Ike
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    A couple more posts like that and I can imagine it, along with the other, will be wrapped around your neck a little tighter than considered ideal... at least ideal from your perspective anyway.

  8. Posted

    Don't buy the DLC then. Just because you don't find this an appropriate spin-off for Fire Emblem doesn't actually mean there's a good reason to censor it (or not do it in the first place).

     

    I'm not disputing the bolded part. IS made the game they way they made it and it should be delivered to us as they intended. I'm not advocating censorship here.

     

    It's the bit at the end, about not doing it in the first place. Three of the words I associate with FE are taste, dignity, and subtlety... and that image (either of them) isn't any of them. You can be provocactive without selling out but that's what it feels like they've done.

  9. Posted

    I guess the other 2 things you get with the premium are the regular and charging stands.

     

    And in the UK, you also get the Wii Remote Sensor Bar. It comes with both SKUs in the US but only our Premium version has it.

  10. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon

    Do you still get that money off scheme through the eshop if you buy the premium?

     

    You do get the discount thing but it's not as great as it sounds in reality.

     

    First, you collect points on purchases and only when you reach a certain threshold can you redeem them for a £5 voucher toward your next purchase. So if you don't hit the limit, you won't get anything back and the same goes for amounts over the threshold that never reach it a second time.

     

    Second, it's not the 10% they first claimed but is closer to 8% meaning you have to spend £60 before you see something back.

     

    Of course, you can argue point two isn't so bad because the games are full retail price on the eShop to help you get there faster. Of course that still means spending a lot more than games can be picked up for at retailers - £50 in the eShop and still not enough for a reward or £35 in store is not a difficult choice for many.

     

    The final point is that there isn't much on the eShop really that necessitates you get it from there. Also, given the game sizes, even with the Premium unit, you will need a seperate HDD sooner rather than later. Lego City, for example, is too big to fit onto the system storage on Premium even with nothing else on there.

     

    The promotion is only set to run until the end of this year - whether they will extend it is unknown.

     

     

    It sounds good but when you break it down, the incentive is incredibly minimal to all but the people who can afford to waste money on the most expensive way to enjoy their pastime anyway.

  11. Posted

    :shakehead Way out of order. Why can't they just give it the correct rating (which it does have - 12+ is fine for a bikini) and put "Suggestive Themes" on it? They are actually censoring proper art here.

     

    To be honest, I find the whole thing a bit gaudy even when covered up. There is just zero need for it even as DLC. I don't see the connection between a bikini clad girl and tales of political intrigue between warring nations. I like that FE takes itself quite seriously for the most part so why is there this lowest common denominator stuff going on?

     

    The supports convos can get a bit silly at times but it's often down to misunderstandings between people as is perfectly common and natural. This is going a bit far in my opinion.

     

    I don't care to what degree they censor an image because I don't think it should have been in their full stop to censored in the first place.

  13. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon

    Only a couple of staff members from Brownie Brown were involved, not really many at all. You're right about staff members being able to move around freely within EAD (though rarely do members swap between Kyoto and Tokyo for obvious geographic reasons) but it seems that one team has been larger than the other at any one given time. They've been hiring quite a bit recently, but I would imagine that this has remained the same (with one large team working on the Wii U Mario, while the others were working on SM3DL and later Flipnote Studio 3D and that Mario AR Photo app)

     

    Don't forget also that SMG2 was also finished for quite a while before it was released, but was held back for strategic purposes (to cover up the Wii release gap and generate a decently large release gap between NSMB Wii and SMG2)

     

    I hope your right. That Kyoto Report site has their head count at 43 people as of the end of last year, the vast majority credited on all 3 Mario games, and Miyamoto said up to 30 people were working on SM3DL at one point and if few of them were BB staff, then it would stand to reason that they are Tokyo staff and so not working on Mario 3D U. These guys are the pinnicle of Nintendo staff, and Koizumi has the chance to take over Miyamoto as the star guy, but they are still only human. I'm just having difficulty reconciling some of these numbers.

     

     

     

    Don't get me wrong people, I enjoyed 3D Land, and recommended it another thread today, but when you've seen 90% of the original content after 3hrs, you can't help but feel the game is a little short. Spinning most of the same content out for a second time, with a slight twist, is a classic sign of trying to hide an artificially draw out game - as is dropping 240 blue coins in to one without any form of guide or system for identifying them.

     

    Most games under 10 hours get lambasted for being short and that game was no where near that length regardless of its quality. Quality over quantity of course but the credits were rolling before I'd even gotten fully happy with the controls.

  14. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon

    3D Land wasn't made by the same team as SMG2 and started development before SMG2 was released. It was Mario Kart 7 that was rushed out for the holidays (by Nintendo's own admittance in the Iwata Asks - hence why they needed Retro's help), not SM3DL.

     

    I thought the idea of teams at Nintendo internal studios was just really a matter of Directors and people are free to move around. They might be different teams but lot of the same staff worked on both games such as all the programmers and designers.

     

    3D Land may have started in end 09/early 2010, so before completion of Galaxy 2 but it was only 2 people and wasn't their first action porting Super Mario Galaxy to the 3DS anyway or did I misread that? It's system/tools programmers doing donkey work rather than active development.

     

    How big are the two Toyko teams? Do they have it in them to do that amount of work in such a short time - i.e. two brand new games on 2 systems they've never worked on before. I didn't have them pegged as having that kind of man power. I was under the impression it was two teams but the bulk of the staff are working on a major project whilst the other team hands other, smaller multiple projects and people move around as needed.

     

    Iwata may not have come out and said it like with MK7, but I can't for one second believe that development on 3D Land wasn't rushed to meet a deadline they weren't willing to go beyond. Why did they draft in Brownie Brown for help if they didn't need it?

  15. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon

    For those worried about this game being "rushed", do remember that EAD Tokyo is a two team studio, whose last games came out in 2010 (Super Mario Galaxy 2) and 2011 (SM3DL), so this game has had plenty of development time.

     

    Also, DKCR got the same release treatment. Announced at E3 2010, released at the end of that same year.

     

    The difference there is that porting duties aside for Trilogy, and they already had Prime 2 running with Wii controls before the system was released, their last full game came out over 3 years before DKCR.

     

    3D Land came out less than 18 months after SMG2 and it felt pretty rushed. What was there was polished but there just wasnt very much of it and I'd hate to see the same thing happen here. I guess the saving grace is that we no longer have to rule out the idea of a machine not having 2 3D Mario titles.

  16. Posted

    Yeah not entirely true, I've seen Mario etc... drop to £15 as part of the 'Wii Classics' or whatever.

     

    And Zelda games have been even lower as of late. OoT3D often crops up for just £5 and SS has been sub £15 at loads of places. You just have to keep your eyes peeled but if you aren't looking, you'll never see the cheap prices and just assume it never happens when in fact it does.

  17. Posted

    I suppose it's just that (assuming this is shown in June, as planned, then released in October), that wouldn't be in line with how Nintendo normally does things - although it does remind me of Super Mario 3D Land. Only 4 months from reveal to retail is a bit strange, considering Pikmin 3 will be 13+ months - not that I'm complaining.

     

    3D Land was first shown in stills at GDC in the March of the same year. And if anything, that kinda proves the point as 3D Land was one of Nintendo's most obviously rushed games in some time.

  18. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon

    Bring it on.

    Also, good luck waiting for it to be cheap Rummy. Mario games never go cheap. :D

     

    Depends on how cheap he wants it - I paid £23 for 3D Land less than 2 months after its release. Tesco had a deal on where they were selling 3D Land and MK7 for £20 each not too long after release too - I almost picked up MK7 but ended up passing.

     

    NSMBU has been down to £30, and even cheaper with discount codes on top.

     

    The question is: how cheap does it have to be?

     

     

    Nintendo games don't seem to be quite as immune to discounting as they used to be.

  19. Posted

    I very much doubt that you will be given a code, you'll make your choice through Club Nintendo I imagine, and the game will be added to your account.

     

    The Terms and Conditions state as follows...

     

    The download code will be sent by email to the email address registered with your Club Nintendo account.

     

    The download code can be used to download the chosen game from Nintendo eShop to any Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo 3DS XL system. The download code expires on 31 December 2013

     

    So it certainly sounds like an option unless I'm being incredibly dim.

  20. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon

    Oh I am definitely buying Luigi's Mansion (once I finished FE) and I already have Animal Crossing pre-ordered for about £26 and a bit. But then I will end up with a free game that I don't really want. =P

     

    That's a decent price for AC you've hit upon.

     

    I wonder if you could sell the code on. You could register your 3 games and then ask anyone you know if the want one of the games because you can get it for them discounted price. They give you £15 and name the game they want and then you submit a request for that game and give them the code - everyone's a winner.

     

    Can anyone possibly verify that as an option or is the DL somehow tied to your Club Nintendo account before you even get it?

  21. Posted

    I would so love to get AC in that deal so I can have it as a free digital game, but sadly there aren't really any games in that list that I want/have. Only FE and Luigi's Mansion (which I still need to buy). =(

     

    I guess the question you have to ask yourself is are you going to get AC and LM regardless?

     

    I'm in the same boat. I have CV and FE and wouldn't mind getting LM but the rest of the 8 I'm not bothered about. But if I can guarantee (or as good as) that I'll be purchasing LM at some point, is it better to pay £30 and get a game for free (even though I wouldn't have ever chosen to buy the other game at full price) or hang on and see if it drops in price?

     

    Basically, do I wait until I can get it for say £20 and then miss out on a full game as a result - are any of the free games worth the potential saving I can make on LM by waiting. The fact is, I'd never pay £30 for Animal Crossing as it holds little initial appeal to me but at £10, it might be worth a punt for curiosities sake.

     

    This of course assumes a game like LM would drop as low as £20 anyway and given it's currently flying off shelves all around the world, it doesn't look likely any time soon and that tends to be the way with most first party games.

     

    I hope that makes sense :)

  22. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon

    Is Fire Emblem worth getting if I didn't like Advance Wars (or those kind of turn-based games)?

     

    Kid Icarus and Super Mario 3D, I'll eventually pick up. Most looking forward to Animal Crossing when it's out (next month?).

     

    For me, *braces self for stares*, Advance Wars has never held enough appeal for me to want to pick one up - that's right internet, never played one. The best I managed was Battalion Wars on the GC.

     

    And the reason was that it all seemed so impersonal like RTS games where you send wave after wave of identical units off to get slaughtered for the sake of capturing a small section of land.

     

    FE is different in that every unit has a personality and they all have differences in the stats that even two of the same unit types could wind up with surprising different balance of stats that makes one more favourable in a situation than the other. And on top of the structured narative provided by the game, your personal experience playing, and the bond you build with your units, fleshes them out even more. You, or at least I do, go into the FE thread and talk about the battles my units waged and how a certain member cut a swath through a dozen units before they could even ready their weapon. Yet someone else will be telling a different story about how they sent the unit off and he got clobbered round the head with an axe and they chose to reset their machine.

     

    It's the small, but incredibly important, differences as to why I love FE but have no immediate interest in AW despite their supposed similarities. As I said, there is a demo on the eShop if you want to get a feel for it but it really comes down to why you don't like AW or turn based strategy games. It the blend of RPG into the TBS that pulls me in.

     

    Animal Crossing is out on 14th June and arguably the best choice for the digital freebie in the So Many Games promotion if you can make use of it. Having it always on the machine will make dipping in and out much easier.

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    I decided I'd start using Frederick for a bit but even for a Oifey type (a good Jeigan), his stats seem low. Anyway, I got him to level 5 for Luna and then reclassed him in a Wyvern Rider so he'd at least get the +2 Strength Skill to help combat the heavily reduced stats from moving to being unpromoted. The major benefit is that he actually gets decent exp from the units he can kill now instead of getting very little from the weaklings he could just about topple before. I then ended up marrying him off to Olivia and then recruited their kid. The enemes were all using forged Silver weapons and it got a bit close at times but luckily, after a few 50/50 dodges early on, I managed to get to a point when I could use the environment a bit better. To be fair, I could have hung back and used it better from the off but then I'd have to wait for the enemy to traverse the rather large map.

     

    Sometimes it's better to sit and wait for them to come to you on the maps they will, but I generally feel like I need to be on the offensive. It's only when it's incredibly obvious, or repeated failed attempts at being offensive, that I opt for a sit back and let them come at me approach.

  24. Posted · Edited by Captain Falcon

     

    YAAAAAAAAYY!!! I WILL ENJOY A NINTENDO CONSOLE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!!!

     

    Now someone advise me on what I should get.

     

    Buy Fire Emblem: Awakening and you'll enjoy it even more.

     

    Despite it being easy and short, even after dubious attempts to extend its length, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Super Mario 3D Land as game also worth getting.

     

    Also, this is worth bearing in mind if you are after a few of them games. I personally fully recommend Castlevania but not everyone seems as taken to it as myself - be sure to check out the demos on the eShop for both CV and FE:A if curious, plus other games too.

  25. Posted

    I think it just defaults to that model until you download the proper DLC with that character in.

     

    Well I just skim watched a video on Champions of Yore III looking for Micaiah footage and she has the exact same body, with a different head, as Tharja only in red instead of black/grey.

     

    I was looking for a picture of Roy the other day and I saw he was a standard Merc but red spiky hair and so I tried looking for a few others and they all seemed like that combo of generic body and new head.

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