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Everything posted by Helmsly
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Merry Christmas
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I finished through all 4 Season of Star Trek Enterprise. I feel like the show improved over time, although I didn't care for season 3 much, as it seemed to be the writers trying to deal with September 11 through Star trek, with a miserable 24 episode long story arch of earth being attacked and Enterprise out for revenge, but I enjoyed Season 4 and felt the show had got decent enough for it to run longer then it did...however, that final episode might be one of the worst finales to any TV show I've ever seen. I don't even have a problem with there being an episode of Enterprise told through the holodeck on TNG. I actually like the idea of an episode being told this way and then having those events help Riker make a personal decision 200 or so years in the future thanks to what he has seen, is actually pretty cool. But, having the very last episode of the show told this way felt very wrong to me. You are seeing characters for the very last time, but there's Riker just chilling out in the background watching it all and distracting you from it. It also meant most of the cast were hardly in it. Also the needless death of Trip too. Completely unnecessary to kill him off and we've seen that character get out of far worse situations in the past. There wasn't any time for any of the other characters to reflect on his death outside of Archer and T'pol chatting about it for barely a minute.
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Old news but I thought I'd post it in this thread in case anyone didn't see it in the Switch thread last week: http://stardewvalley.net/stardew-valley-console-release-dates/
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Disappointed the Wii U version has been canceled, but I can't say I'm surprised.
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I moved onto Star Trek Enterprise and I'm little over half way through Season 2. I don't know what to make of this show so far. I like some elements of it, like snooty Vulcans that think they're better then humans and the funny tensions between them and the earthlings they meet. Archer is a decent captain and I really like Trip as a Character too. But so many of the other crew have so little character to them, such as Malcolm. He just seems to be a very two-dimensional stereotype. Everything is delivered with a stiff upper lip and..that seems to be all there ever is to him. I'm sticking with the show until the end though, there have been a couple of good episodes and I really appreciate that they have had events carry over and effect what's happening in following episodes. Such as having a mines attach to the side of the Enterprise, one of them blowing up and the other injuring a member of the crew when he walks on the outside of the ship to disarm it. The story was self contained, but the following episode had them now have to deal with their damaged ship that can't travel beyond warp 2 and their tactical officer in sick bay. The the episode after that had them trying barter to get some fuel, again because of the events of that earlier episode. It was the kind of thing I expected to see in Voyager but never really happened.
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Wasn't sure where to post this, but I think this ties in with the Famicom mini so it should probably go in this thread. Nintendo Japan have uploaded pdf's of Game Manuals for the Famicom: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/ja/index.html I assume the US and UK sites will have their own versions of this soon UK site has a interview with Miyamoto about Donkey Kong: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/November/Nintendo-Classic-Mini-NES-special-interview-Volume-1-Donkey-Kong-1152552.html
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Yeah this is how I remember it too. I grew up in the 80's and early 90's and like you said, its not that Nintendo wasn't popular, its that they were not as popular as Sega. I recall hearing that a lot at the time and anecdotally more people owned master systems and Megadrives then NES and SNES's in my school then Nintendo consoles.
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I used to get the Club Nintendo magazine in the post. I remember it had a cheats and tips section with maps and I think it also came with a small poster aswell? I still have most of my issues somewhere in my home. I vaguely remember having some kind of card but I can't remember if it looked the same as the one you posted. It looks familiar though. I remember I was a little obsessed with this magazine, because it was pretty much the main place I found out about new games at the time, so I'd sit there reading it over and over again when a new issue came out. If I remember correctly, they stopped it here when Nintendo Magazine System launched as that was the official magazine so there was little need for Club Nintendo after that.
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Yeah that game was so difficult to get through. I actually got pretty good at it though, even getting through that water level that @Ronnie mentioned without losing any of the turtles. I kind of forced myself to keep playing the game refusing to accept that its bad, even though it clearly was, because my young mind had decided that a TMNT NES game would automatically be the greatest thing ever. In the end I could make it to Shredder but I never beat him. lol yeah. Also Michelangelo holding the wrong weapon.
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Yeah I've not had much chance to play the last few weeks, I've started playing Team Fortress 2 again and a few other games. I'm sure I'll be back at Splatoon at some point sooner or later.
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NES sometime in the late 80's. I got the pack in with TMNT: (not my picture)
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They've added a lot more to this then the direct revealed, although mostly small things, they're pretty cool. For example, you can place the flat screen TV on top of tables in your home: People have found out a few other minor things, you can shake tree's while holding a fishing rod or bug net now. New villagers don't move in on tiled areas and you can customise the 3DS item by taking it to Re-tail and put any image's you've drawn on it like a faceplate.
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Loving the new update for this. I never really stopped playing this game but there hasnt been much to do in my townfor a long time, so having some new content is awesome. I took a few screenshots today: Also, i got the 3DS item straight away. Then spent a good half an hour or so playing Puzzle league Also, You can sit on rocks now
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For those that missed it:
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I was disappointed with what I saw. I don't care much for the portability feature of this console as its a feature I almost certainly will never use, and they had to make a bunch of compromises to make it happen. Sorry to be a downer but it just looked bad to me.
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I was reading up about the way Kate Mulgrew was frosty towards Jeri ryan after watching through Voyager and its a shame. There is a interview from a year or so ago from some comic convention with Garrett Wang he tries to talk about the feeling on set and gets very emotional about it: A real shame things turned out that way. Although it sounds as though they are all friendly to each other now moved on. Yeah I'm with you on this, I wanted to see their home life after making it back in the final time line, although I can't really imagine how they could turn that into an episode.
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I think because then they would almost certainly have to make compromises on things like battery life, which obviously effects the handheld side of this device. If the thing is a handheld console first, then they would most likely prioritise battery life over power. This is why I i dont really want a hybrid console in the first place but if I have to choose, I want a home console first. The Wii U seems to be coming to an end and they announced that they plan to support the 3ds for longer so I guess I it is time for a new home console.
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I've been messing around with New Retro Arcade Neon for the past couple of months. The recent update which added attract screens was a great addition. It really brings the arcade to life: They also let you add individual audio files to play from each cabinet, so it sounds authentic too.
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ah crazy, I didn't know any of that. I was annoyed they took Kes out of the show, because I felt they could have done a lot more with her character over time. I also didn't particularly like her return in season 7, when she is old and bitter and wanted to destroy Voyager. I mean, if they were going to dump a character like that, at least let us assume she went on to something positive rather then just randomly turning bitter for no good reason and wanting to destroy all of her friends. Probably one of the few things I really didn't like that happened over the course the series. In the end though, I liked Voyager a lot. I liked how the crew became less formal with each other over time, which made sense as that's what you expect from a bunch of people that, as far as they know, are going to be living with each other for the next 75 years. I also really loved when the show had fun with its self. Like the Captain Proton episode or the one where the Doctor is day dreaming: I can't decide if this is my favorite episode or the one I linked before in my previous post, but i absolutely love this scene and a few others from this one.
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I watched through all of Voyager over the summer and was pleasantly surprised. I can see why people were disappointed with it as, it doesn't really do much with the premise of the show. But as I went into watching it knowing before hand not to expect anything along those lines, i had no problem with it. The show wasn't as bad as its made out to be and I ended up really liking a few of the shows characters. Namely the Doctor and Janeway. I'd say I only really found the ending a little disappointing. Mostly that its all rushed into the last two episodes. I would have liked a slow build over the course of the final season but again, the writers didn't seem interested in doing anything like that. For what is is though, i think its a decent show and I'm a little sad there are no more episodes left for me to watch lol This was one of my favourite scenes.
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yeah I find Giantbomb Endurance runs really entertaining. I just watched through their Shenmue playthrough over the past month, i think that comes to 24 hours in total Metal Gear Scanlon was also fantastic, that must have come to over 100 hours, as they played through Metal Gear Solid 1,2,3,4 and 5
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Well, they discontinued the iplayer for the Wii in February 2015 so at least the Wii U was out already by this time. I'd imagine with there being so few Wii U owners in the UK and with less and less of those people using the console as the months go on, hardly anyone is using the app for them to justify keeping it running. I wish they were keeping it running for a little while longer though. At last until the NX has a version of the app.
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The BBC iplayer will be discontinued for Wii U in January next year:
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Japan is getting the Famicom Mini: Games included are: