Social Swamp's Social Thread 3 - And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain...

[Aetheri]

This is another item on the menu

I'm not really sure how to feel about this

It could be worse...or better depending on your point of view...

Spoiler

 

[Frizz]

Male Robin's VA played Ritcher Belmont in SoTN.

Not the remake, the ORIGINAL version

Yeah. David Vincent's amazing.
He also played that shirt guy in Kill La Kill, I think.

 

[Burruni]

Male Robin's VA played Ritcher Belmont in SoTN.

Not the remake, the ORIGINAL version

DIE, GRIMA. YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD.

It is not by my hand that I am once again given flesh. I was called here by HUMANS who wish to pay ME tribute.

Tribute? You take men's countries, and turn them into slaves!

Perhaps the same could be said of any true king.

Your words are as dark as your soul. Mankind ill needs a god king such as you.

WHAT IS A MAN? JUST A MISERABLE PILE OF RESETTING! BUT ENOUGH TALK, HAVE AT YOU!

 

[IceBreakerXY]

I think you mean George Lucas.

You know if i had a dollar for everytime i made that mistake...i have 10 dollars.

 

[Deleted member]

Male Robin's VA played Ritcher Belmont in SoTN.

Not the remake, the ORIGINAL version

Correction: It was the remake. Male Robin sounds less like this, and more like this.

 

[AwesomeAussie27]

Betty Boop cartoons used to be pretty damn weird. Imagine running away from home and having the ghost of Cab Calloway as a walrus sing "Minnie the Moocher" to you. It was kind of funny how analyzing this cartoon was the first thing we had to do for our review class.

 

[Frizz]

Well, Steam just died. Right on the spot. Just when the chatroom was getting active.

 

[Deleted member]

high quality video game rips

Speaking of of High Quality Game Rips
SilvaGunner does it again:

(Skip to 1:51 to see the true meaning of life)

 

[Pazzo.]

So, what are some of your favorite Easter Eggs in games?

Here's one of mine:

Spoiler: Earthbound

If you talk to the Trumpet Man in Onett, he'll say a line about his song, then play the following:

This is taken from Dvorak's "New World Symphony".

(0:30)

Dvorak wrote the piece after spending time in America, so it's a take on the soul of the "New World". Earthbound is the same idea, a game based off the spirit of American culture.

It's really amazing how divisive that game is. Jim Sterling over here gave it a 2/10 (while also taking another opportunity to **** all over Kid Icarus Uprising).

And just like that, I've lost all faith in Sterling.

Male Robin's VA played Ritcher Belmont in SoTN.

Not the remake, the ORIGINAL version

This is the best news I've heard all day.

 

[Frizz]

Ok, Steam's back up again. How quick.

 

[Coricus]

. . .Actually, I will admit thinking on it that there is an exception in terms of when fairly low selling characters are allowed.

Bayonetta didn't exactly break any records and was third party no less, but she managed to win the Smash Bros Ballot.

If any character's ballot data is sufficiently high, either from this one or a future one, their chances may be much, much higher than otherwise.

So if something below the sales threshold wins or ranks high on a ballot, then yes, we might see them. If it depends solely upon how much success the character actually has, then something low selling is much more unlikely.


I am currently thinking about a situation related to low selling character requests, though. It's not requesting low selling characters in themselves, it's when it's mixed with implementing character cuts. A lot of characters from this game are already accused of being "too obscure," so that factors into how I'm thinking about this.

Basically, it's one thing when someone says, say, "I don't like Corrin and Bayonetta! We should have gotten K. Rool and Isaac instead!" That sounds a bit overly irritated and ignores the fact that those two characters not being added wouldn't have guaranteed the other two being added, but at least the sales of the former two are at least close enough in the ballpark to the latter two for it to not seem outright odd. But then you see some rosters half full of almost unknown characters. . .and a bunch of other characters are gone. It's one thing to add a few more unique characters, it's another to remove characters out of either some sense of practicality or even outright spite (although I don't recommend spite at all, it irritates anyone watching and it clouds logic), but mix the two together, and it leaves the impression that you just replaced a whole bunch of obscure characters. . .with even more obscure characters.

It gets especially weird when you start getting rid of third parties for many of these characters, as while we can't predict what companies might pull out later, without the knowledge that a company IS going to pull out, it looks like you just took out one really highly popular character in favor of half a roster full of characters that are so much lower selling by comparison that all of their series COMBINED haven't sold half as much as the series of a given character.

It's. . .odd to look at.

 

[Deleted member]

Bacon + anything = good
It's a fact.

Can confirm:

......i wish.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Can confirm:

......i wish.

I'd at least buy a 12 pack

Give it a try

 

[_Silver_]

I wonder when he'll make a Sonic Colors rip

Speaking of of High Quality Game Rips
SilvaGunner does it again:

(Skip to 1:51 to see the true meaning of life)

EDIT: I forgot to add that I heard "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

 

[Wario Bros.]

I wonder when he'll make a Sonic Colors rip


EDIT: I forgot to add that I heard "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

He has, actually:

 

[_Silver_]

He has, actually:

My Little Hedgehog: Going Fast is Magic.

He didn't do one of 3D Blast, or any of the game gear games has he?

 

[Burruni]

So, what are some of your favorite Easter Eggs in games?

Here's one of mine:

Spoiler: Earthbound

If you talk to the Trumpet Man in Onett, he'll say a line about his song, then play the following:

This is taken from Dvorak's "New World Symphony".

(0:30)

Dvorak wrote the piece after spending time in America, so it's a take on the soul of the "New World". Earthbound is the same idea, a game based off the spirit of American culture.

And just like that, I've lost all faith in Sterling.



This is the best news I've heard all day.

The hidden ocarina function in HW:L
Not sure if it was in the original

 

[ChikoLad]

So, what are some of your favorite Easter Eggs in games?

Here's one of mine:

Spoiler: Earthbound

If you talk to the Trumpet Man in Onett, he'll say a line about his song, then play the following:


This is taken from Dvorak's "New World Symphony".

(0:30)

Dvorak wrote the piece after spending time in America, so it's a take on the soul of the "New World". Earthbound is the same idea, a game based off the spirit of American culture.

And just like that, I've lost all faith in Sterling.



This is the best news I've heard all day.

I literally just discovered this yesterday, but in relation to Skyward Sword:

Spoiler

"Ballad of the Goddess" from Skyward Sword, is Zelda's Lullaby backwards.

 

[Schnee117]

So, what are some of your favorite Easter Eggs in games?

Here's one of mine:

Spoiler: Earthbound

If you talk to the Trumpet Man in Onett, he'll say a line about his song, then play the following:

This is taken from Dvorak's "New World Symphony".

(0:30)

Dvorak wrote the piece after spending time in America, so it's a take on the soul of the "New World". Earthbound is the same idea, a game based off the spirit of American culture.

The Tribute Room in Halo: Reach.
Basically a huge thank you to the community for playing Halo over the years.

Halo 4 having the radios that replaced certain dialogue with RvB characters in Spartan Ops was great too.

 

[Deleted member]

Nintendo's Fiscal Year Earnings Release (and Financial Results Briefing) is near upon us. More NX and mobile information might pop up.

Though I couldn't agree more with this NeoGAF post.
The post originally contained uncensored foul language, but I censored it.

 

[Deleted member]

The only exception I can think of would be Minecraft's Steve, but that depends if Microsoft aren't stingy with the IP (hence why we couldn't get Banjo in the long run).

Uh.....if we don't get Steve or Banjo, it won't be because Microsoft is "stingy".

 

[SegaNintendoUbisoft]

It's really amazing how divisive that game is. Jim Sterling over here gave it a 2/10 (while also taking another opportunity to **** all over Kid Icarus Uprising).

Will Nintendo send Jim Sterling a giant Star Fox Zero poster?

So, what are some of your favorite Easter Eggs in games?

Here's one of mine:

Spoiler: Earthbound

If you talk to the Trumpet Man in Onett, he'll say a line about his song, then play the following:

This is taken from Dvorak's "New World Symphony".

(0:30)

Dvorak wrote the piece after spending time in America, so it's a take on the soul of the "New World". Earthbound is the same idea, a game based off the spirit of American culture.

I absolutely love the Mighty and Ray missing posters in Sonic Generations. Along with the Fang, Bean, and Bark wanted posters.

 

[Burruni]

Also.
I forgot Bravely Second came out until a commercial came out today.
Gonna download that tonight.

 

[Coricus]

Uh.....if we don't get Steve or Banjo, it won't be because Microsoft is "stingy".

Yeah. . .these are competing companies.

Pretty sure the idea being turned down is easily a two-way street here.

Mojang is being left with a much looser leash than one would expect in terms of porting Minecraft and Nintendo allowed it due to the money they can make off of selling Minecraft on their systems, but I wouldn't necessarily expect that courtesy to extend to Smash characters. Either one of the companies could be against it, and even if they somehow agree at first the terms could easily get too absurd or difficult to work with.

 

[Substitution]

It's really amazing how divisive that game is. Jim Sterling over here gave it a 2/10 (while also taking another opportunity to **** all over Kid Icarus Uprising).

I still need to say: This whole thing is becoming exactly like Batman Vs Superman.
Critics hate the game.
Fans hate the critics.
And all the while it becomes a mess for everyone involved.

All we need is for people to say that Jim Sterling "just doesn't get it" and we're golden.

 

[Schnee117]

All we need is for people to say that Jim Sterling "just doesn't get it" and we're golden.

And that's probably happening in the comments section anyway.

 

[Coricus]

I apologize, I said something incorrect. . .again.

 

[ChikoLad]

I went to get an image for an avatar and ran into this:

Spoiler

I remember this fake leak. I sooooo wish it was real.

 

[Chrono.]

Gotta say, I've barely seen any positive opinions for SFZ.

Funnily enough, the more positives ones have been from reviewers themselves (Sterling, Polygon and GiantBomb aside). The general public seems much more unforgiving, it's also becoming common to say that SFZ represents everything wrong with modern Nintendo (tm).

I haven't gotten the game myself, mostly because I have no way to try it out and I'd need a couple runs to see how the motion controlling works. Instead I went for Dark Souls III (itself also a risk, as I've not played any Souls game before).

*finally reads it*

. . .The fact that this is somehow even more childish than the Polygon review, and by a wide margin no less, is worth some kind of award.

I recommend a model of the human digestive system forged with pyrite.

. . .No, seriously, who HIRES these people? It's their job to try to offer an objective view on a video game for others to make judgement calls off of, or at least fake some kind of attempt at it if all else fails. The fact that several different people are actually being PAID to type up what are essentially glorified temper tantrums, NOT in any kind of comedic field where that sort of thing is meant to be laughed at, but in what is supposed to be an ANALYSIS. . .SERIOUSLY?

I don't even have a proper word or expression for this. Just. . .seriously?

I can't say I liked the review, but Jim doesn't make money off his site.

As you'll notice there's no ads.

 

[SegaNintendoUbisoft]

I went to get an image for an avatar and ran into this:

Spoiler

I remember this fake leak. I sooooo wish it was real.

Good times...
Actually, I would love to see a Sonic Dynasty Warriors game.
It better be called Toot Toot Sonic Warriors.

 

[Coricus]

Gotta say, I've barely seen any positive opinions for SFZ.

Funnily enough, the more positives ones have been from reviewers themselves (Sterling, Polygon and GiantBomb aside). The general public seems much more unforgiving, it's also becoming common to say that SFZ represents everything wrong with modern Nintendo (tm).

I haven't gotten the game myself, mostly because I have no way to try it out and I'd need a couple runs to see how the motion controlling works. Instead I went for Dark Souls III (itself also a risk, as I've not played any Souls game before).


I can't say I liked the review, but Jim doesn't make money off his site.

As you'll notice there's no ads.

Alright, I noticed that it was his place right before you quoted me, so I take that back.

 

[Strider_Bond00J]

So I've been wondering something since yesterday, and I figure since Smash character selection discussion comes up whether we bring up hypothetical new games or not and is usually negative to an extent rather than positive, I may as well get it out.

Are there any characters that they could add to a hypothetical future Smash Bros that would make you actively hyped? Like, not just nodding about how they deserved the spot or something, but make you actually excited?

I feel like we focus so much on what we DON'T like that there isn't all that much discussion on what would have us on the edge of our seats squeeing like maniacs.

So how about it? Are there any characters that would make you super duper ooper excited to see them if they were added at some point?

Isaac, Inkling, Ridley, Phoenix Wright, Waluigi, Wonder Red, Snake, King K. Rool (Though in honesty, it'd probably be a mixed reception from me, great that we finally got one of the community's most wanted, but could bring up memories of salt that I want permanently erased. That behaviour was despicable and immature, and I never want to see that ever again) Rayman... Over the past few months since I haven't had the same following of Smash since the end of DLC, my wants have been a bit loose and over the place, but these characters would inspire a lot of hype from me, though.

 

[ChikoLad]

Gotta say, I've barely seen any positive opinions for SFZ.

Funnily enough, the more positives ones have been from reviewers themselves (Sterling, Polygon and GiantBomb aside). The general public seems much more unforgiving, it's also becoming common to say that SFZ represents everything wrong with modern Nintendo (tm).

I haven't gotten the game myself, mostly because I have no way to try it out and I'd need a couple runs to see how the motion controlling works. Instead I went for Dark Souls III (itself also a risk, as I've not played any Souls game before).


I can't say I liked the review, but Jim doesn't make money off his site.

As you'll notice there's no ads.

The Star Fox subreddit has been very positive about it.

Maybe a bit too much, as they can't really take a joke.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I am so glad when I went to school I had professors that steered me on the right path to be against Marxism

Because from what I hear of colleges of late it's the exact opposite, which the encouragement towards Marxism.

For example, I had a philosophy teacher that gave counter arguments when I brought up Socialist ideas in a Utopian society - It was actually a joke on my part as I was talking about how the Federation works in Star Trek.

My sociology class also had an interesting perspective on Marx, where half the class it seemed to praise him and the second half seemed to talk about the flaws of his idea. The first half of class I was actually considering looking more into Marxist ideas

 

[ChikoLad]

Good times...
Actually, I would love to see a Sonic Dynasty Warriors game.
It better be called Toot Toot Sonic Warriors.

Not even lying when I say, they could literally make that the only big game release this year and I would be OK with it.

They shouldn't do that, but I would still be OK with just that.

But yeah I think it would really interesting to try and fit more Sonic-esque running speed into a Warriors game.

 

[Burruni]

Instead I went for Dark Souls III (itself also a risk, as I've not played any Souls game before).

Dude I'm sorry.
Because DS3 is the hardest of the 5 "soulsian" games from my experience of being ~40% in.

 

[Kurri ★]

Gotta say, I've barely seen any positive opinions for SFZ.

Funnily enough, the more positives ones have been from reviewers themselves (Sterling, Polygon and GiantBomb aside). The general public seems much more unforgiving, it's also becoming common to say that SFZ represents everything wrong with modern Nintendo (tm).

I haven't gotten the game myself, mostly because I have no way to try it out and I'd need a couple runs to see how the motion controlling works. Instead I went for Dark Souls III (itself also a risk, as I've not played any Souls game before).


I can't say I liked the review, but Jim doesn't make money off his site.

As you'll notice there's no ads.

To be fair, people on the internet do exaggerate their dislike of things.

 

[Chrono.]

Dude I'm sorry.
Because DS3 is the hardest of the 5 "soulsian" games from my experience of being ~40% in.

Well that's the point, is it not?

 

[wedl!!]

DS3 isn't a good starting point but at least it isn't DeS.

Man that start is a kick in the teeth.

 

[AwesomeAussie27]

Oh boy, Deadline is trying to revive an established character like Betty Boop and focus on the teenage audience. And just when I didn't think things could be worse after The Looney Tunes Show.