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[Mdk7]

a mod should make sure that everyone on gaf sees that video or something... wow

that nintendo marketing, that video was made for gaf. Watch it.

iwataaaa....

It's almost true.
Great job Ninty!

 

[Oxx]

Hopefully they haven't spoiled some of the best bits of weirdness with the screens and video.

 

[Cipherr]

XD

Oookay.... back to the D3 OT for me.

 

[mrmickfran]

This is Konami E3 2010 levels of bizarre.

 

[Refyref]

How...do you get the Miis from the Nintendo group? How does this work???

It uses Miis from your Mii Plaza (or Maker). If you have Nintendo employees there, they'll appear in game.

Let me amend this. Did they patch out

1. same-sex pregnancy

2. same-sex marriage

3. same-sex relationships

?

The first. It was a bug with Miis imported from a different device. (Miis imported from the Wii, I think.)

This is Konami E3 2010 levels of bizarre.

It reminds me of some of the ads Nintendo did in early 2010 as well, like the Club Nintendo ad.

 

[Hasney]

How...do you get the Miis from the Nintendo group? How does this work???

If you haven't had any of them arrive via spotpass, you can find versions here:

http://www.miicharacters.com/

 

[Bullza2o]

That was surprisingly very entertaining haha.

 

[RelentlessRolento]

this game seems suited for a digital download.



...why did you write this? ...why would you write this?

because it happened.

 

[Kageshinzo]

It uses Miis from your Mii Plaza (or Maker). If you have Nintendo employees there, they'll appear in game.

If you haven't had any of them arrive via spotpass, you can find versions here:

http://www.miicharacters.com/

Awesome. Thanks!

 

[Jaded Alyx]

How...do you get the Miis from the Nintendo group? How does this work???

I got a bunch via SpotPass like Reggie, Aonuma, and the others who were at E3 last year.

 

[PotionBleue]

I see the Nintendo Network logo; what are the online capabilities of this game?

 

[Lambtron]

Game of the Fucking Year. Shut it down, folks. This is going to be glorious.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

It uses Miis from your Mii Plaza (or Maker). If you have Nintendo employees there, they'll appear in game.

The Streetpass Mii Plaza (capacity 3000) or the Mii Maker one (capacity 100)?

Speaking of which when I stupidly had invitations enabled I got Nikki in my Streetpass plaza, I can send her to Mii Maker if anyone needs a QR code closer to the release. Does anyone know if when you send from the plaza to maker and back again do they still remember being a Streetpass or are they demoted to being invited. I don't want to lose playing ability from the Nintendo employees.

 

[Minister of the Dog]

"Please take a look"

Is everyone on Nintendo mocking Iwata now? First Sakurai, now this Tranen guy (who seems like a cool guy, by the way). Not that I object, I hadn't laughed so much with a trailer for a very long time.

edit: day 1. This summer: Smash, EO:TMG and Tomodachi Life. Nice.

edit 2: Regginator, :lol

 

[Jaded Alyx]

"Please take a look"

Is everyone on Nintendo mocking Iwata now? First Sakurai, now this Tranen guy (who seems like a cool guy, by the way). Not that I object, I hadn't laughed so much with a trailer for a very long time.

Trinen has been doing it since forever.

 

[MaximumSpider]

I'm in.
Day one.

 

[Forkball]

Nintendo is riding the crazy train to... I don't even know anymore.

 

[vareon]

That was batshit insane and they just sold one more copy.

 

[Diprosalic]

"Please take a look"

Is everyone on Nintendo mocking Iwata now? First Sakurai, now this Tranen guy (who seems like a cool guy, by the way). Not that I object, I hadn't laughed so much with a trailer for a very long time.l

Shibata does it too.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Well shit. Just got me.

 

[Refyref]

The Streetpass Mii Plaza (capacity 3000) or the Mii Maker one (capacity 100)?

I don't know. If I had to guess, I'd say the Mii Maker.

 

[Animekatt]

Just watched the videos. I... I think I have to get this now...

 

[Busaiku]

Bill said you can get Miis from Mii Plaza.

 

[Atlas157]

Hahahaha I love the voices.

 

[LOCK]

May 2 - Kirby
May 2 - Mario Golf
June 6 - Tomodachi Life
July - Nintendo hates July
August - Probably SSB

Yeah, great summer line-up.

I hope this game catches on like crazy, it has so much potential. Twitter could make this game huge. lol

 

[ec0ec0]

^

you mean mario golf.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

"Please take a look"

Is everyone on Nintendo mocking Iwata now? First Sakurai, now this Tranen guy (who seems like a cool guy, by the way). Not that I object, I hadn't laughed so much with a trailer for a very long time.

edit: day 1. This summer: Smash, EO:TMG and Tomodachi Life. Nice.

edit 2: Regginator, :lol

First Kamiya, then Sakurai.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Did the Japanese version of this have twitter support like ANCL did? Because I feel like this game basically needs it. Miiverse adds too many steps for people to do it quickly and does not benefit from a pre-baked hashtag.

 

[grumpy]

So... Animal Crossing on steroids? If so, my SD card is ready.

 

[Mael]

I guess that's why we don't have new Metroid games, Samus is too busy going out with Iwata....

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Did the Japanese version of this have twitter support like ANCL did? Because I feel like this game basically needs it. Miiverse adds too many steps for people to do it quickly and does not benefit from a pre-baked hashtag.

As you say that....do we know of any 3DS games at all that have Miiverse integration? Is such a thing even possible?

 

[KojiKnight]

"Please take a look"

Is everyone on Nintendo mocking Iwata now? First Sakurai, now this Tranen guy (who seems like a cool guy, by the way). Not that I object, I hadn't laughed so much with a trailer for a very long time.

edit: day 1. This summer: Smash, EO:TMG and Tomodachi Life. Nice.

edit 2: Regginator, :lol

As noted Trinen is known for this stuff... also the fact that you don't know who Trinen is makes me sad. He really is great at PR, I wish he'd take more of the spotlight especially in directs... but instead they mostly get Reggie to do it... and he's not great at it.

As for reasons you should know Trinen:

He's a translator at NoA. He often translates for Miyamoto and others at E3 (and takes the stage in his own right).

He used to (I don't think he does anymore, too high up now) translate games themselves. This includes the Oracle series on the GBC.

He's done a few other directs as well... he's just an all around awesome guy.

 

[Neon_Icarus]

While I approve of the crazyness, the game making me (and all my friends) straight
would leave a bad taste in the mouth.

 

[Penguin]

Did the Japanese version of this have twitter support like ANCL did? Because I feel like this game basically needs it. Miiverse adds too many steps for people to do it quickly and does not benefit from a pre-baked hashtag.

As you say that....do we know of any 3DS games at all that have Miiverse integration? Is such a thing even possible?

Well you can take screenshots at any time in game by pressing X or Y.

I imagine probably saves them and allows you to upload whenever.

Actually has anyone posted any of the previews?
I read this in CVG article

 

[sugarless]

One of the rare instances of the US boxart being vastly superior to the EU one.

Day one.

I agree on the US one being better but the EU one is more like the Japanese one. NOE is like a branch of NCL, while NOA are an independent company, so that might have something to do with it.

 

[Kyzon]

Whaaat the fuck is this? I must have it.
Friggin hilarious!

 

[sugarless]

Pretty much day one, I wanted the original Tomodachi and so glad the EU and US finally get a localised version!

One interesting note: the EU vocal synth seems a little more robotic in comparison to the US English which seems to have varied tones in speech. I know British English is a little harder to work with in these these sorts of things, but hope that'll be tweaked a bit more before release.

Yeah I noticed that too. Maybe it's the cart storage space being taken up by EFIGS for Europe and just English (or just EFS) for NA making them lower quality? Or just that the only UK accented voice pack they could get sounds like this...

 

[ohlawd]

k I haven't seen the Direct but I watched NA trailer and yeah this is bought. In for Xtina.

 

[StreetsAhead]

Did the Japanese version of this have twitter support like ANCL did? Because I feel like this game basically needs it. Miiverse adds too many steps for people to do it quickly and does not benefit from a pre-baked hashtag.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Japanese version of this had the same implementation as New Leaf in the Japanese version.

 

[Niraj]

That was so bizarre, but hilarious.

 

[kubus]

Did the Japanese version of this have twitter support like ANCL did? Because I feel like this game basically needs it. Miiverse adds too many steps for people to do it quickly and does not benefit from a pre-baked hashtag.

Yep, it worked the same as Animal Crossing.

Pretty sure it will work the same here.

It allowed me to keep a tomodachi collection blog

 

[Asd202]

WTF did I just watch.

 

[DNAbro]

That Nintendo Direct video was absolutely amazing dear god.

 

[blitzwolf215]

Yay! Finally a release date, and sooner than I though. Amazon needs to hurry and put it up for pre-order already.

 

[Crab Milk Mickey]

That Direct just pushed me over the edge to buy a 3DS sooner rather than later.

 

[VeryGooster]

Was familiar with the "Tomodachi" name, then I read the press release, then watched that Direct...

Day one.

 

[Minister of the Dog]

As noted Trinen is known for this stuff... also the fact that you don't know who Trinen is makes me sad. He really is great at PR, I wish he'd take more of the spotlight especially in directs... but instead they mostly get Reggie to do it... and he's not great at it.

As for reasons you should know Trinen:

He's a translator at NoA. He often translates for Miyamoto and others at E3 (and takes the stage in his own right).

He used to (I don't think he does anymore, too high up now) translate games themselves. This includes the Oracle series on the GBC.

He's done a few other directs as well... he's just an all around awesome guy.

It might be because I watch the UK Nintendo Directs? But you're right, I should know the guy by name given his curriculum

 

[ShockingAlberto]

With Twitter support, I think this game will get good word of mouth, then.

 

[Soup Bar]

Holy fuck I'm getting this. This game will be bat shit insane.

 

[Vexxan]

I may have just been sold on this game. Fantastic video.