Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 21:54:12 2c94f9 No. 10535
So does anyone else just like having figurines of their favorite Nintendo characters without giving a fuck about the NFC garbage?
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 22:15:56 79ab4b No. 10553
They are nice figures for the price, the normal retail price anyway. Fucking scalpers.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 22:30:36 a607f5 No. 10556
They're alright, but they're not high enough quality that I'd want to display them.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 22:33:01 714b55 No. 10557
>>10535 I'd pay more for a higher quality amiibo, but thats probably not gonna happen.
The Yoshi yarn amiibo is qt as fuck though.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 22:34:38 430c25 No. 10559
>>10556 >I just dislike it because it encourages developers to lock fun unlockables and interesting features behind the paywall. That's like saying having to buy games is locking features behind a paywall.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 22:35:51 a607f5 No. 10560
>>10559 No it's not.
I don't want to be constantly pestered for money while I play games. That's why I don't go to arcades, why I don't play MMOs, and why I don't play mobile games.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 22:58:05 5b6d13 No. 10574
I once ordered a Super Game Boy off ebay for $10. I got an import Marth instead. Never returned it, craziest accidental deal this year.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 23:26:57 aa3dc9 No. 10582
>>10559 These plastic figures are separate from the actual video game and they are not the video game.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 23:27:13 bb6d86 No. 10583
I'm pretty sure that's what they're meant for. I only get amiibos for characters I like, or that I think I'm going to like in the case of Splatoon (which I haven't been able to get yet). They're basically just entrylevel buyfag figures for casuals. The DLC, if you can call it that since most of it is just inconsequential, is just icing on the cake.
Anonymous 04/02/15 (Thu) 23:49:12 fd3d51 No. 10588
I have the opposite problem. I appreciate how Amiibos are generally used for bonus costumes and special features, but the toys themselves are happy meal-quality. The Link, Samus, and Pit ones in particular are blown out of the water by their Figma counterparts.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 00:38:37 430c25 No. 10596
>>10560 >I don't want to be constantly pestered for money while I play games You aren't
Well I now know to ignore you now.
>>10582 And? Controllers are plastic and are separate from the actual video game and you have to have those to play games.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 00:52:57 98a29b No. 10599
>>10596 So now you're saying that amiibos are as essential as a mouse and keyboard to be able to play video games?
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 01:05:19 117c5b No. 10602
are there things in the all games I can't do without having they toys?
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 01:24:12 117c5b No. 10607
in Hyrule Warriors are characters, costumes and weapons locked behind amiibos?
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 01:30:38 714b55 No. 10610
>>10607 Just one weapon for link, who has all the goddamn weapons.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 01:39:37 b3147e No. 10612
>>10602 In Mario Kart and Captain Toad is just cosmetic stuff
In Kirby and The Rainbow Curse it's a couple of power ups
In Splatoon it seems they'll "challenge you" to complete a level with certain weapon (but I guess you could challenge yourself) and if you do they'll give you gear that can only be obtained that way, so just cosmetic stuff too
Codename S.T.E.A.M. is the worst they've done and I hope they don't go any further
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 01:42:38 bb6d86 No. 10613
>>10602 Might be DLC later on, but I doubt it. You really don't need them for the game. I don't miss them for not having any of them. Why the fuck would I want sword users only in a game that's primarily about ranged combat and setting up killzones?
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 01:54:57 b3147e No. 10615
>>10588 > as well as an entire mode locked behind Amiibos. I didn't watch the entire Treehouse but from what I got their "challenge" was just playing a regular level with certain weapon, something you could do yourself by equiping that weapon
or was there something else that I missed?
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:00:51 bb6d86 No. 10616
>>10615 Nah that's really all there was.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:06:39 430c25 No. 10619
>>10599 No, but they're essential to use certain features, much like a headset is required to use voice chat or something.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:07:28 ea6a2e No. 10620
>>10619 That's complete bullshit. They were only made required for the sake of being required so that people would buy them.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:12:21 117c5b No. 10623
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>>10612 >>10613 even if they aren't that great or different then default characters, I hate unlocks being forced under a pay-wall, in a free to play game that makes sense. but I already paid full price.
and the price of the toys is outrageous. (compared to what that DLC would be on its own)
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:19:26 430c25 No. 10624
>>10623 >and the price of the toys is outrageous. (compared to what that DLC would be on its own) Divide the number of games the amiibos work for to unlock things by their $12 price.
You'd easily get under what most DLC costs that way.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:21:29 117c5b No. 10625
>>10624 doesn't make sense if you need multiple amiibos though.
and I don't want most of those games. just a few (3+)
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:23:05 430c25 No. 10626
>>10625 Then why complain? The unlocks are usually tied to the character the amiibo is of so if you don't like that character enough to have an amiibo of them why bother with the unlock?
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:23:43 117c5b No. 10627
>>10624 only if you intend buy all games that they work with,
but for that to work you have have all the amiibos. thats going to well over $100. way over the price of most dlc.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:26:24 117c5b No. 10628
>>10626 No I don't want most of the games (Kart, party, Smash)
for me the price of the toys doesn't make sense. I wish they would just let me by a cheep pog or token that has the same functionality. I don't want to store toys in my house either.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:32:01 430c25 No. 10634
>>10628 $12 makes sense though
You have the RFID chip, then the little storage device, and then the actual statuette itself.
Vinyl Pokemon statuettes go for about the same and they don't have Amiibo functionality.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:34:37 117c5b No. 10637
>>10634 yeah, but I just want the chip for the DLC. I don't want the toy.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:38:02 117c5b No. 10639
>>10634 >>10637 I'd be fine paying $3.99 for a little plastic coin that Mario's face on it. as long as it had the chip.
I don't need an overpriced happy-meal toy
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:39:49 bb6d86 No. 10640
>>10623 Then stop thinking of it as unlocks. They're more intended to be bonuses for people that bough them. If it was an unlock, then IS made Steam with the full intention of having Fire Emblem characters in it, and then cut them out to put onto amiibos.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:42:44 430c25 No. 10641
>>10639 But it's not overpriced, I just explained this
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:48:14 117c5b No. 10646
>>10641 its overpriced for me and they should give people better options for that content.
>>10640 >Then stop thinking of it as unlocks. that precisely what they are, that's the whole point of doing this.
you just want the toys, that's fine for you.
but I just want the DLC.
(rip the chips out your toys and sell them to me for $3.99)
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:56:01 117c5b No. 10654
>>10641 Ok, I want the Rosalina unlock for "Game X'
no, its not. stop lying!
these things always going to fucked when it comes to pricing.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 02:58:10 714b55 No. 10656
>>10654 Because some asshole bought like two truckloads and buried it in his backyard so no one would buy them.
I'm not kidding, that actually happened.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 03:02:08 117c5b No. 10660
>>10656 yeah, that's why this whole thing is a bad idea.
adding physical scarcity to digital items is ridiculous.
only Nintendo (and Blizzard) would think of something so shitty.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 03:09:56 117c5b No. 10664
>>10656 >>10640 They took already shifty anti-consumer idea (crash grab DLC) and made it even worse.
don't defend this shit.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 03:30:07 117c5b No. 10671
>>10612 >Codename S.T.E.A.M. is the worst they've done and I hope they don't go any further you want to play the water levels in the next Galaxy Game? gotta buy frog-suit Mario!
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 03:47:37 6737f6 No. 10680
>>10656 Actually that was a hoax. The likely reason behind the Amiibo shortages is the West Coast Port strike, I believe Iwata even said this was why.
Is it possible he's using it as an excuse? I suppose, but you'd have to have tinfoil ingrained in your brain to be that suspicious about something that's likely costing Nintendo more than benefiting them.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 03:52:48 714b55 No. 10682
>>10680 Oh. Well I didn't know that.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 04:06:26 430c25 No. 10687
>>10664 >selling a product is anti-consumer >>10660 Nintendo didn't add the scarcity, those unionfags in the port strikes did.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 04:54:19 2c94f9 No. 10700
A lot of the hard to find figures wouldn't have been nearly as hard to find if they weren't retailer exclusive, which never should have been allowed to happen in the first place, especially when they're the only way to unlock in-game content. That 3.99 disc thing should have been an option.
Anonymous 04/03/15 (Fri) 15:02:05 ee5218 No. 10795
>>10637 >>10639 >>10646 They're doing that, actually. I remember reading that one of their solutions to the shortage of amiibos was selling RFID cards with chips in them that are functionally identical to the amiibo base.
Anonymous 04/04/15 (Sat) 00:51:07 1f522f No. 10928
I tend to prefer the simple designed ones like Kirby and Pikachu as the humans and more detailed ones look off generally.
Anonymous 04/09/15 (Thu) 11:43:34 c6306d No. 12438
I absolutely had to have a King Dedede and Kirby.