When things click in Wonderful 101 the game goes from being simply great to being SUBLIME!

I put the game down for about a week because I got kinda stuck at one particular Boss Battle, which I'll refer to as: "The Tower Defense." You have to protect and repair a Tower, while fighting an enemy the size of a couple of skyscrapers, while fending off smaller minions, while interacting with the Air Strike team and Commandos. The larger enemy is throwing all sorts of various attacks at you and you have to Unite Morph often to Counter...

I couldn't handle everything on the screen at once at first and got a little frustrated. Today, I sat down again and got into some kind of flow. I started recognizing when he was going to attack, when he was roaring in frustration and I learned how to do some MAJOR DAMAGE attacks against him by following the cues given to me by my Team. Everything just clicked and the Battle got INTENSE, but I finally beat him! There were even some cues I couldn't figure out that they were giving me, but it turns out, I didn't NEED to use them; the game gives you enough freedom to approach enemies with multiple strategies! So. Damn! Awesome!

I beat him, then I decided to fight him AGAIN just for the sake of extra experience and o-parts **currency!** ... What was once FRUSTRATING turned into GREAT FUN! This game is a one of a kind MASTERPIECE!!

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Nearly forgot to mention: Most Boss Battles end with some kind of QTE's... They don't detract from the game in the least! One of them at the end of this particular battle had a BLATANT reference to Bayonetta contained in it! So FRIGGIN' great!!

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That's enough Blighttown for today. Fucking shithole. At least I got the iaito, which will replace my uchi for this DEX build.

edgecrusher said:

GG, you sound like you're making excuses for Nintendo like a PR person.

I don't care to argue it....we'll agree to disagree.

Pathetic! There is nothing to argue about it, you lost. Deal with it, instead of acting like a whiny little bitch.

Yodariquo said:

If you don't care to argue it, calling it excuses and acting like PR person is rather petty.

Agreed

Iga_Bobovic said:

edgecrusher said:

GG, you sound like you're making excuses for Nintendo like a PR person.

I don't care to argue it....we'll agree to disagree.

Pathetic! There is nothing to argue about it, you lost. Deal with it, instead of acting like a whiny little bitch.

Yodariquo said:

If you don't care to argue it, calling it excuses and acting like PR person is rather petty.

Agreed

Shocking that you would come on here and say something like this.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Hey let pull out the fanboy card. But oh wait I do not even have a Wii-U because I think it is shit right now. So quite your pathetic bitching.

Hey go jerk off to Ultimate Fighting.

aspro said:

GG on your comments directed to me, yes I read the article, I was talking about the blogger not Ubisoft as it relates to "buy shit games you don't want or X publisher might not make good games in the future".  I did that for GameCube, learnt my lesson.

I see, gotcha.

I wanted to make the distinction between Ubisoft publically making such statements like Capcom and EA have in the past. Even if Ubisoft did cut off support post Christmas they have been actually very supportive of Wii U. Initially we only had Zombi U and Rayman confirmed. They delayed Rayman but then added U versions of Splinter Cell Blacklist, Assasins Creed 4 and Watchdogs. Apart from Warner Bros it's hard to find a third party publisher more supportive of the system. So I would cut them some slack. For me, from E3 interviews and the Crew and Division announcements it was obvious that they were going to analyse Christmas sales early next year.

Iga_Bobovic said:

edgecrusher said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Hey let pull out the fanboy card. But oh wait I do not even have a Wii-U because I think it is shit right now. So quite your pathetic bitching.

Hey go jerk off to Ultimate Fighting.

Will do on frigay!

The hell is going on?

From the Edge article on Mario 64s' hub world

"Nintendo sent us this rare piece of Super Mario 64 art – it’s actually the background image from the packshot in full. There’s more than a hint of Galaxy here, though it was created in 1996."

How the Gamecube controller was made article:

Speaking to the press in 1999, Shigeru Miyamoto said, “The major problem is that the Japanese user says that the N64 controller is too big and the American user says it’s the appropriate size.”

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s director of planning (at the time), spoke to Japanese magazine nDream about the GameCube. According to the magazine’s interview with Iwata, “Nintendo is obsessed with controllers and constantly redesigns them, but thinks that’s why their controllers receive so much praise.”

In a separate interview, Iwata explained, “A lot of people think that the Japanese market is tough. One reason for this may be that Japanese gamers look very closely at play control. If they’re at all unhappy, they’ll put the game down. Perhaps that’s because Mr. Miyamoto has trained them to expect perfect play control.”

Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan emphasized Nintendo’s philosophy on controllers. ”I will say, and I don’t want this to sound arrogant on behalf of Nintendo, but I think that we’re the only company — and really Miyamoto — that understands that the controller and the game are one big fluid thing,” said Kaplan.

The common belief was that Shigeru Miyamoto designed Nintendo 64′s controller around “Super Mario 64″, and many wondered if GameCube’s controller followed a similar development path. Nintendo’s Jim Merrick shot down any speculation that Miyamoto designed GameCube’s controller around a single game.

“No, and I think that’s a misnomer to say that the N64 controller was designed around Super Mario 64. Yes, Mr. Miyamoto wanted analog control because he had a vision of how he wanted that game to work, but the controller wasn’t designed specifically for one game,” said Merrick.

As the GameCube controller went through various changes, Miyamoto had hinted at the possibility of dropping the D-Pad altogether.

“We had to fine tune many aspects of the controller, but the basic layout and design hasn’t changed. The real differences have been the sizes and placement of the buttons.” said Miyamoto. “We wanted the perfect design and I think we nearly achieved that. In the future, perhaps we won’t need the cross button [D-Pad].”

IGN wrote an article claiming their sources had seen early prototypes of the controller without a D-Pad. After writing the article, they spoke to more developers working on Dolphin hardware, and one developer told the website, ”I don’t know where [the D-Pad] is going to be, but they’re going to stick it on there somewhere now.”

“To this we say, “Buh?” Was the D-Pad a go all along or is this some new development?,” wrote IGN. “We’re not sure. One thing is for certain, though – as of last month, developers were still telling us that there was absolutely not going to be a D-Pad on the Dolphin controller, which leads us to believe that Nintendo decided to go ahead with one in the eleventh hour.”

Tons more at the link up top

Interesting to read as it puts into perspective Nintendo's controller obsession:

Iwata says, ”I’m frankly pretty surprised at the number of changes we’ve made to this controller [laughs]. I think that it really contains a lot of the DNA of Nintendo, if you will. And I think that Nintendo puts a lot more emphasis and uses the controller more than any of the other companies.”

Other stuff in the link

Man, I wish Stephen Fry narrated Dragon's Crown.

Also, I chose the fighter just because it said it was for noobs. But it seems a lot simpler than Odin Sphere so far so that was a bad choice. I can kinda waltz through a dungeon and the AI just kills everything. How does the character changing work, Leo? Also, dat fucking male necks.

Hey GG, how are you liking your tablet computer now you've got some time to accustom to it?  Have you been using the digitizer in any meaningfull way?

gamingeek said:

What's the digitiser?

I love the freedom with it and the super mega long battery life. I don't like the small HDD, even with a 64gb version half of that is already taken by the OS and even expanding with an SD card can leave you short. It could also do with a bit more power CPU wise to make some things faster but in general you trade that away for more power efficient and cooler chips.

Windows 8 with touch is pretty great with a few quirks but there is also a desktop mode which is like normal windows. I'm happy with it but I'm facing the usual compatibility problems when upgrading to a new Windows OS. If you are looking at Surface tablets remember that the Pro version doesn't come with MS Word or office and that you have to pay 80-100 Euros for the package or do without.

EDIT:

One of the best uses is being able to use gyros to flip the display anyway you want. For picture viewing, web browsing or comic reading putting the screen vertically is a major part of making things great.

the digitizer is the technology that allows you to use the pressure sensitive pen.  It'd be of great use to me, but if there's no software that supports it, it's useless.

Yeah, I know that the Pro's don't come with office.  I'd try to install my office 2010 on it, and if that fails I'd have to get me a new copy.  No way I'm going to pay a monthly fee for it though.

Most programs I own allow you to install it on 2 devices, so I'm going to install them on the pro.  Worst thing that could happen is that they don't show up on the Metro front, right?