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Post by kitten on May 18, 2011 4:09:34 GMT -5
Wow, I'm pretty impressed by the compensation. Not many games that interest me on the list very much, but the free month of PS Plus is going to be great for picking up some shit in the store I wanted.
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Post by kitten on May 18, 2011 4:07:01 GMT -5
Yeah, yeah. Whatever makes you feel vindicated. There. I still am happy with my 3DS and recognize whatever you want me to acknowledge regarding your superiority in whichever domain fits you. : ) lol nice try |
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Post by kitten on May 18, 2011 4:03:49 GMT -5
Maybe I'm missing something. I don't get the social networking complaints. Your profile page has a different aesthetic now, but the features are 100% the same. Your list of Now Playing games, comments left on your profile at the bottom, recent friend updates on the right. I don't see how any of this changes anyone's day-to-day use of the site. It is now considerably more cluttered and has tons more shiny decorations all over the place. I was quite happy with it being plain. Most important change they made (which is like Twitter and many other social networking sites) that really pissed me the fuck off, though, is that if you load a list of any games (for example, hit "all games" on my page) it will only load about 20 games, then ask you to load more. I can't tell you how much this impedes my use of the site, as ctrl+f'ing "all games" was a tremendously useful feature for me. I'm pretty disappointed that Backloggery has become some stupid social networking site rather than something for keeping track of your games, too. Says the girl who loves to comment on the games she's currently playing. ?_? How does this change my point? I love talking about games, but Backloggery's community is 90% Drumble worshipers who care more about the weird memes and updating their page than they do actually playing video games. Some social networking is fine, putting this huge emphasis on it and cluttering the site when Backloggery has such a reprehensibly sycophantic community is not. |
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Post by kitten on May 17, 2011 4:23:14 GMT -5
Just wondering if anyone has any Magic: The Gathering cards they're willing to part with that they have sitting around the house. I've recently gotten really big into magic and am willing to pay shipping if anyone wants to give some away, or possibly willing to pay for the cards if you've got some good stuff. I want to get up a collection of "older stuff" so I can make a decent EDH deck or decks for other formats.
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Post by kitten on May 17, 2011 4:11:10 GMT -5
^ Actually, I think Rambo has some pretty good points. I'm pretty disappointed that Backloggery has become some stupid social networking site rather than something for keeping track of your games, too. I'm not as angry as he is about it, but I can definitely see where he's coming from, and the site's just not been going in the directions I've wanted it to since I signed up. It's kinda too late to back out now, though! Oops!
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Post by kitten on May 16, 2011 14:59:31 GMT -5
I really liked the most recent Wolfenstein and how it portrayed Nazis as unforgivably evil, faceless bad guys, but had a German resistance going on to differentiate Nazis from average Germans.
It's obviously really inaccurate, but I like the portrayal of Nazis as unanimously evil bad dudes.
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Post by kitten on May 16, 2011 14:54:37 GMT -5
And I was aces on DC Bangai-O. That game just didn't seem as gimmick-y on most of the levels. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. I just remember skill would get you by. In this game there may be 'doing it' better or worse, but so many of the levels have ONE real solution with the difference in times and scores reflecting refinement. You're definitely not remembering it wrong, the DC game was far and away better designed. It had a few gimmicky stages, but Spirits and Missile Fury are raw gimmick. It's such a shame, too, because this game could have been so much more fun than it is, but they blew it all on making the stages asininely specific in what you need to do to finish them. There's no creativity or different ways to handle the situation, and it just ends up boring and repetitive.  *sigh* |
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Post by kitten on May 16, 2011 13:14:27 GMT -5
If that's what you're saying, why were you even arguing with me in the first place? Bold letters and italics in response to me don't make your side any more persuasive.
"There are reasons to buy the 3DS as of now already"
That is what you opened your post with, it implies that there are general reasons for people to get a 3DS, not just reasons specific to you and a tiny niche. It's redundant to say there are reasons to get it if you acknowledge anything, like I said, can be argued that it has reasons to be purchased.
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Post by kitten on May 16, 2011 2:21:08 GMT -5
Man, I was having a lot of fun with this one today, but I'm up around level 40 and all of the last 5 or 10 levels have been hardcore bullshit. I mean, Bangai-O has always been a bit cheap, but I'm getting annoyed when each level I'm playing takes me ten or so tries and has a very annoying and specific solution to beating it. I don't even feel like I'm exercising skill, anymore, more like I'm just solving frustrating puzzles that punish me with minutes wasted for each minor, incorrect step I make.
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Post by kitten on May 15, 2011 4:10:21 GMT -5
I really loved the first game. I bought this one day one, but haven't had time to get around to it, yet.
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Post by kitten on May 15, 2011 3:59:51 GMT -5
But they are very limited, and cater to a niche demographic My point is that when arguing if there are "reasons to buy a 3DS," you'd need to pick something a little more universal unless you're just arguing "reasons I bought a 3DS." As it stands, there's hardly any reason for the average gamer to really want or need the system. It has the little perks you mentioned, but extremely few gamers really consider those more than perks. I mean, if you get down to reasons as specific as those, you can argue anything has "reasons" to get it. It is, right now, little more than expensive gadget. The best reason I could offer for why I bought it right away was because I didn't want another Wii situation, where when some games I do want start coming out, then the fucking thing will be impossible to get anywhere. Hindsight 20/20, this clearly isn't likely to happen to anyone, but I didn't know that before the system launch. Definitely reasonable. I thought about doing the same, but couldn't afford it. |
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Post by kitten on May 14, 2011 4:47:03 GMT -5
You've not really listed any reasons to get it, other than that you can get a game that has a better version on other consoles and another game with tracks from a better version on a different console.
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I mean, yeah, it's a new Nintendo handheld. Okay, that's cool. It doesn't do anything except take neat pictures, right now, and the novelty on that wears out sorta quickly.
I'm 100% certain that it will have been worth getting, there's no doubt that, it's just that, currently, what the fuck.
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Post by kitten on May 14, 2011 1:19:36 GMT -5
I didn't know the online shop and web browser weren't launching with the console :/
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Post by kitten on May 14, 2011 0:55:22 GMT -5
so far all I have done with this piece of shit is make a new Mii and get "play coins" by walking at work every day
:S the delayed opening of the store is making me so mad
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Post by kitten on May 13, 2011 5:14:49 GMT -5
I think it's like 2-X (X i.e. as a variable)
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*sigh* 