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PC gaming may not have been dead, but it was on a hospital bed gasping for breath and bleeding profusely before Steam came along.

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PartOfYourWorld posted...
I bet you can find more than one or two on this board alone. I used to play via emulators every once in a while and completely stopped now that Steam and even the consoles have started to offer tons of games at great prices. Like, I've paid for almost a dozen old Nintendo games on Virtual Console when I had nearly all of them on emulators in the past. You give people a great value, and they'll usually support you.

Also, isn't the state of PC gaming much healthier now than before Steam blew up (say, five years ago)? Yeah, pirates will always exist, but at least it's not a "dying" format anymore.

This P much. You can see the juxtaposition pretty clearly comparing Valve and Nintendo, the PC is experiencing a revival while Xenoblade is getting pirated in record numbers. It's all about how you treat your customers.

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What Smurf said. Pretty much -everyone- under 30 has a cell phone, a more accurate statement would be that nearly 10% of GameFAQs are old ass men.

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I've always felt that Pixar's movies are over hyped. Not terrible or anything, but I don't like them enough to defend them for this monstrous transgression. Pixar can go to hell, Pixar can go to hell and die.

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Apple just takes advantage of peoples idiocy though, they don't do that much that's -evil- per se as a lot of people in this topic are getting on them about. Quick question for everyone who considers Apple evil, what is your opinion on Sony? Because this company that installs rootkits on their customers computers, that won't fix their defective systems like MS and Nintendo do until forced to by lawsuit, that keeps its customers private info unencrypted, and that tries to subpoena people for viewing a youtube page, somehow seems to be pretty well regarded here! Does Sony get a free pass for being an evil, consumer abusive corporation because they make some good video games like SotC and GoW while Apple maintains a platform that is not a good choice for gaming?

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Apple just takes advantage of peoples idiocy though, they don't do that much that's -evil- per se as a lot of people in this topic are getting on them about. Quick question for everyone who considers Apple evil, what is your opinion on Sony? Because this company that installs rootkits on their customers computers, that won't fix their broken systems like MS and Nintendo do until forced to by lawsuit, that keeps its customers private info unencrypted, and that tries to subpoena people for viewing a youtube page, somehow seems to be pretty well regarded here! Does Sony get a free pass for being an evil, consumer abusive corporation because they make some good video games like SotC and GoW while Apple maintains a platform that is not a good choice for gaming?

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And yet, Apple is apparently the most valuable company at the moment. I'd say that people are obviously buying and wanting Apple stuff!

I never said people weren't idiots.

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Apple uses sweat shop labor? And they still mark up their hardware 200% compared to an equivalent PC -_-

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Mario Galaxy
Xenoblade

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NMA might be the best channel I've subscribed to.

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"Hi"

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comparing gamestop to a disease that actually in real life kills lots of people is kind of offensive

GameStop is killing the game industry, I never said it was killing -people-

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Calling cancer cancer shouldn't be deemed offensive. It is what it is.

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Seeing how that topic didn't violate the ToU, you can hardly blame Blulum for searching for more farfetched reasons as to why it was deleted!

+1 for making sense and not going for the clique derail.

You have to look to the far fetched for answers when more reasonable explanations have already been eliminated. What, am I to believe that they just deleted it at random and without any cause of any kind?

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I didn't know having a topic deleted on a random sub-message board of a site qualified as "corporate censorship."

There is no reasonable explanation for its deletion beyond how bad it makes GameStop look, a company that advertises on GameFAQs. Surely CBS wants them to be portrayed in a positive light.

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shutting down inflammatory topics on a niche video game contest message board is CBS/Gamestop's number one priority, yes

The topic wasn't inflammatory at all. It might not be particularly nice to say that GameStop is a cancer to the game industry, but it's the truth and it needs to be said.

SE doesn't even care about Gamestop's policy. You're getting more upset than the affected company; what does that tell you about your priorities?

I wasn't that upset about it until the topic got modded, and I'm more offended by the corporate censorship than GameStop's actual offense at this point. No wonder consumers are so easily abused in this era when the corporate world, and government for that matter, are all in on the same scheme.

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Guess we wouldn't want to offend our valuable business partners(because no one that isn't employed by GS would have been offended by that), I wonder how much advertising money GameStop pays CBS annually? Good to see the mods defending such an upstanding company that guts product, disposes of part of it, and then sells it as new.

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I'm a huge Zelda fan but the master sword was never anything special and it's a puzzling design decision that they've tried to make it so.

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Microsoft on the other hand is almost entirely dependent on third parties, they really don't make anything good of their own like Nintendo and Sony, the 360 is a great console mostly because it consistently gets the best version of multiplat releases, not exclusives.

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Nintendo has outsold Sony and Microsoft each by about 20 million units this generation with really only their first party games driving it, given Nintendo's stature as a developer, losing third parties doesn't really mean crap to them.

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One of the driving forces of Gamestop is also the fact a lot of kids/teens don't have jobs, so a lot of their money for new games come from trade ins. Gamestop is the only viable place to trade them in without dealing with all kinds of bank accounts, paypal, etc, so its easiest for teens to do it there.

There are other used game stores

**** EB games was much better than GameStop but people supported GS until they got too big and just bought EB out

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Best Buy is excellent, for used games I usually hit up Play N Trade or a few other local stores. Can still get psx and SNES games at Play N Trade, better selection for used games than GameStop to begin with.

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Wait what happened to make everyone suddenly hate them now? I know they're a corporation, which by default makes them terrible, but I never knew it was so bad that it would obligate you to boycott them.

I've hated them for years but read the Deus Ex topic for the most recent example of them being awful and anti-consumer.

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That if you buy from GameStop, you hate gaming and are actively supporting cancer.

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The analog sticks are also in the opposite place of where they should be, I honestly think Miyamoto just gets drunk and doodles random ideas down and they use that as the basis for their designs these days.

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I love Chrono Cross and consider it a better game than Chrono Trigger but I'd have to agree that because of the depressing themes in Chrono Cross that are in direct contrast to Chrono Trigger's more uplifting spirit that it detracts from Trigger once you've played it.

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GameStop once again proving to be cancerous to the gaming industry, it's hilarious too because people just keep going back to companies like GS and Sony no matter how much of this shady bull **** they pull.

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the icon ownz all posted...
what the

japan isn't xenophobic. they're assimilating american culture at a faster rate than ever before. the failing of the 360 in that market has less to do with "it wasn't made by one of us" and more "it has very little that appeals to us."


I'm not really seeing this, the PS3 and the 360 have very similar libraries except most cross platform games run better on the 360. There's no real -reason- why the 360 should do that badly, except the RRoD reputation making people swear it off before they finally redesigned it maybe. But MS fixed RRoD's for free here so I'd assume it shouldn't have been a huge problem in other regions either. This wasn't like when the PS2 was having mass DRE's and Sony refused to fix it until forced by a class action lawsuit. Microsoft and Nintendo generally take the high road and avoid that kind of thing. Thankfully since the 360 and the Wii were the less reliable systems this generation.

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Can't wait for Skyward Sword but NoA is seriously failing. How is the game coming out 2 days later here anyway when they pretty much aren't localizing **** else? We'd release Zelda sooner but we were too busy not localizing games like Xenoblade and The Last Story? Seriously considering buying the game used for the measely $5 off just out of nerd rage at this point.

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Well, everything is made in China now so obv

But you're completely right about the technical issues, the 360 wound up being the best console in the end IMO but you have to feel bad for anyone that bought one early. Hopefully MS can put out something more solid next time.

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They calling mangas comics now for sounding more american!

This is actually pretty awful because there should definitely be a distinction there...

Even so I think the Japanese have more pride than Americans. They're more likely to buy from one of their own where an American will readily buy something made in China, who is our enemy for all intents and purposes, if it's a dollar or two cheaper than a US made product. Of course the 360 also sells the best in America, but the PS3 and Wii are also enormously popular in the US.

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Japan is notoriously xenophobic, it was stupid of Microsoft to bother dumping that much money into that market when they were going to buy their own product no matter what from the start. That combined with the increasing prominence of handhelds over consoles made them pretty much irrelevant. Then again, they do ok in Europe although not as well as the PS3, and Europe hates America more than anyone.

It's amusing to see the 360 flounder late in the game like this when it is the only console that has been consistently improved with every revision, while Sony removes features near annually and Nintendo is now ending GameCube BC.

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I hope this happens and there's a live web feed or something so we can watch it degenerate into Lord of the Flies in just a few months.

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Weddings in general confuse me, how are we still stuck on tribal ceremonies in a modern western civilization? I mean it's good that we at least evolved past cutting other peoples hearts out and offering it to the gods so the sun will rise the next day, but it's amusing when you consider how little progress we've made in social customs beyond an obvious thing like that.

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I said the truth about you and you couldn't handle it apparently, how childlike.

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****ing hell that Bokurano anime was such a piece of ****.

Makes me feel better about not seeing it yet, it has a great OP at least.

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LMAO really? You are pathetic.

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Biolizard28 posted...
metroid composite posted...
Oh come the **** on. We may not get up off our asses to fight every wrong the government has committed physically, but people do fight for what they want when it counts; voting seasons.

Looking at who you've elected we can see that's done you a lot of good. How many points has the DOW dropped now as a result of their infantile pettyness and incompetence?

SlymDayspring posted...
Yeah, remember that Rondey King guy? Nobody rioted after that

too bad now it is literally illegal to film police officers anymore. if that happened now, those people filming it would have been given 10 years. lol america.

Oh wow I didn't even know that.

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In America it's totally normal for the police to go around killing citizens? Wow no wonder the US is so ****ed up.

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I'll give you credit for bumping this, usually trolls just slink away to start a new topic after they make themselves look this stupid. Good job owning up to it.

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FLCL is good and provides a great message.

I also thought this, when I was in middle school. Watched it more recently, much more juvenile and ham handed than I had recalled it being.

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Downloadable games are the best, I hope it becomes more standard with consoles in the future.

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I also haven't watched past Aizen's imprisonment though, I thought this would be a good time to stop watching for a while and maybe ask around to see if it's worth watching past then much later.

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Bleach started off as a pretty blatant YYH rip but it started borrowing more from DBZ and Naruto a lot later on.

Bleach pretty much went down the crapper when Aizen took off his glasses though. It's had its moments since then, but it never got back to where it was for the first 50-60 episodes. Even as unoriginal as it was, the earlier episodes were the best.

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LinkMarioSamus posted...
Is it sad that all four of the Metroid games I played last year (Fusion, Prime, Super Metroid, Other M) gave me light scares?

Funnily enough, Resident Evil 4 wasn't actually that much more scary!.

That isn't that surprising, Resident Evil isn't a horror series anymore, RE4 is an action game with elements of horror thrown in- just like Metroid.

Speaking of Shadow of the Colossus, do you guys think there should be a Metroid game in the future devoid of all enemy encounters aside from boss battles?

This idea may actually work better with Metroid than it did for Shadow of the Colossus. Games like Super Metroid and Metroid Prime had really beautiful atmospheres that were more varied in their design than either of the games team Ico has made.

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