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What do you think about it?

Amiibo = shit 179 29.88%
 
Amiibo = meh 152 25.38%
 
Amiibo = love 167 27.88%
 
BraLoD = hater 51 8.51%
 
BraLoD slept with Sanic 50 8.35%
 
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think-man said:
Nintendo are very crafty at making people pay for missing content, it all started with Pokemon. Now these toys, FE etc

Huh?

I'm a proud Nintendo fan that owns 0 Amiigos. 



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I dont really care because the Amiibos are junk DLC in my opinion.

I rarely buy DLC as is.



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BraLoD said:
Yerm said:

well, you sure took that the wrong way. first off, i dont know how you missed Kirby using his copy ability the way he normally does earlier in the direct trailer. so it isnt going away and being locked behind an amiibo. the amiibo is meant to be a convinience- dont have an ability? just tap the amiibo and get one. or you can get an ability manually by eating enemies. you probably took that the wrong way and if you just go back and rewatch the trailer, you will see that the only feature locked away is the one UFO copy ability, which is completely new to the series, and a costume that will not affect the game in any way.

aand for that last bit about needing to buy the extra accessory, well you just have to deal with that. its a $10 accessory. 

http://gematsu.com/2016/03/kirby-planet-robobot-announced-3ds

No I didn't, read the article, the ONLY way to have the ability in the game is with the amiibo.

give me a direct quote from that article where it says that because all im reading is that some amiibo give him special copy abilities, not "amiibo are the only way to use copy abilities"



Bandorr said:
Yerm said:

give me a direct quote from that article where it says that because all im reading is that some amiibo give him special copy abilities, not "amiibo are the only way to use copy abilities"

"Tapping the Kirby figure is the only way to get the UFO ability.". I literally did a search for "only" and found that.

thats just one ability, and if you watch the gameplay for it, the UFO functions similarly to how invincibility powerups work in other nintendo games. plus, thats a brand new powerup, so that is additional content being added to Kirby, not locking away already existing features



Yerm said:
Bandorr said:

"Tapping the Kirby figure is the only way to get the UFO ability.". I literally did a search for "only" and found that.

thats just one ability, and if you watch the gameplay for it, the UFO functions similarly to how invincibility powerups work in other nintendo games. plus, thats a brand new powerup, so that is additional content being added to Kirby, not locking away already existing features

 

You heard that right folks, UFO is a brand new powerup!

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Dravenet7 said:
Ck1x said:
Once again there are games that come out every year and people buy the dlc that is essentially costumes, guns and accessories. If you already own the Kirby amiibo since most probably already collected it from playing Smash, what are you complaining about! I would understand your argument if Nintendo released a UFO Kirby amiibo and you had to buy that specific one for the ability, but that's not the case here. I don't like pay wall features either, but there are far worse practices of dlc done wrong more so than amiibo...

Actually that bascially is the case. 

So I actually just re-watched the trailer and it's not what you are saying it is. Obviously you haven't seen how amiibo work because Nintendo have released  new sets of amiibo with different games that have launched in the past, but if the amiibo is Kirby that's all that matters. They didn't say that you have to buy this specific amiibo to get the ufo ability, it says tap any Kirby amiibo. What you are saying completely goes against what they wanted for amiibo in the first place, to give people the opportunity to collect and use over multiple games. Once again, I have many WiiU games and not one forces me to buy an amiibo in order to enjoy the full game or what I want from it! People are just looking for any reason to complain...



If it helps Nintendo to turn a profit than I am fine with it. Amiibo has been implemented in such a way that it doesn't really inconvenience gamers who don't want to purchase them. I'm not a huge fan of collectibles, myself, but the Yoshi's Woolly World Amiibo was so cool that even I had to pick one up!



Ck1x said:
Dravenet7 said:

Actually that bascially is the case. 

So I actually just re-watched the trailer and it's not what you are saying it is. Obviously you haven't seen how amiibo work because Nintendo have released  new sets of amiibo with different games that have launched in the past, but if the amiibo is Kirby that's all that matters. They didn't say that you have to buy this specific amiibo to get the ufo ability, it says tap any Kirby amiibo. What you are saying completely goes against what they wanted for amiibo in the first place, to give people the opportunity to collect and use over multiple games. Once again, I have many WiiU games and not one forces me to buy an amiibo in order to enjoy the full game or what I want from it! People are just looking for any reason to complain...

Lmao.

"Alongside Kirby Planet Robobot on June 10th, we're launching a new line of Kirby series amiibo, including Kirby (of course), Metaknight, King Dedede, and the irreplacable Waddle Dee. When you tap any of these Kirby series amiibo, Kirby will recieve a copy ability, but he'll also recieve a costume unique to each figure. Not to mention the Kirby figure grants him a power you can only get in this game with amiibo: the UFO ability."

Now if you saw the trailer asyou claim, I'm sure you'll notice the Kirby Smash Bros. series amiibo grants him Smash Bros. ability; an ability that I previously said in this thread is good implementation. They never mentioned otherwise that the Smash Bros. line is implemented with the Kirby line once.

I prefer amiibo stay and they are implemented in games well. In fact, I'm an advocate for them. I am not, however, going to pretend that bad implementation like this is good nor will I defend them when they do it.

Also this about a 3DS game not a Wii U one... 



RolStoppable said:
BraLoD said:

I seriously don't know.

But it's also really concerning watching people fight for a company taking things from them, the simply thought of "it's not 50% it's 1%" as if that's acceptable is beyond my comprehision, people are ok with having things taken away from them because it's Nintendo!

And a lot of people also don't seems to realise people may not want the amiibo, but buying it is the only way to get that ripped ability, no matter if you want the amiibo or not, as I said in the OP,,if I don't care about amiibos I have to cash in up to $40 for an once regular ability, which nornal dlc would ask for like 50 cents for something like that, which would already be bad.

Aren't the abilities of the other three Kirby series amiibos unique to them as well? That would be four amiibo-exclusive abilities.

From the direct it seems 3 amiibo grant you an ability and an exclusive costume, but the powers aren't. There's a version of Hammer Kirby in the multiplayer quest mode, so its almost garunteed to be in the single player.



Alby_da_Wolf said:
Amiibo Pokémon lock IMVHO is the natural, almost automatic evolution of Pokémon games, as they're so heavily based on collection. Monster Hunter too should evolve that way. Yeah, utter shitty scam, but it's the kind of scam collectors desire, crave.

My original idea to solve the problem hurting just who likes to be hurt.

Jranation said:
Nintendo is a business. Most businesses wants $$$$.
Amiibos is making tonnes $$$$$ for them.

Soooo why would they stop?
TheLegendaryWolf said:

While I'm not a fan of the locked DLC thing going on with amiibo lately, calling it the worst thing to happen this generation is a long-shot. Paying to play a game online takes the cake for that. Up until recently, amiibos had zero impact to the overall gameplay of games like Mario Kart, Hyrule Warriors, Splatoon, Super Mario Maker, Xenoblade Chronicles X, etc. Super Smash Bros U did offer a unique amiibo functionality that wouldn't exist without it.

I do agree that Twilight Princess HD and Kirby are taking the amiibo functionality towards the wrong direction. It should be like Pokken Fighters where the amiibo only gets you instant use of the "DLC" but you could still unlock it without the need of an amiibo.

Snoorlax said:
Amiibo has made Ninty millions, atleast more than WiiU has so it's actually a good thing. (for now)

If you don't like Amiibo, don't support it by not buying it.
It's that simple.
Paatar said:
Here's the issue.

People don't want to buy amiibo just to get that extra content, however it is a collectible figure.
They want to give people who buy the amiibo extra stuff, so it just gives them more out of owning it:

That's where it comes from.

So people will complain about having "locked content"
And people will complain about not having those extras for the amiibo they bought.

I love amiibos and I think you just have to suck it up and either buy or not buy them. Cause they definitely aren't going anywhere.

But you all, and someone else I couldn't find again without reading again this big thread suggested me an even better solution, although it will work only with NX if it will be as powerful as 3rd parties and power whores desire.
We must distinguish two kind of hardcores, "classic" hardcores that like games rich of contents, gameplay and often, but not mandatorily, complexity and not dumbed down difficulty, while they may care or not for HW power (they care if it allows more contents and complexity), and technophile hardcores, power and graphics whores.
Casual won't care muich about DLCs and figurines, they'll buy some of them if they like them without pondering over what it means for gaming.
And they don't care about ubergraphics, they're happy if graphics are "good enough" and not jagged.
Classic hardcores HATE DLCs and locked contents, they want their game to be rich of contents, gameplay and sometime complexity too, they accept pay EXPANSIONS, that add new missions and areas, not that unlock contents already developed when the game was launched, but locked out to make people pay for them too later.
Finally, graphics whores are the ideal target for my idea: they are happy to spend more money for the latest and most powerful device, so here is the plan to make them pay for Amiibos.

With the new, powerful NX, particularly the home one (or the home docking station, if it will be such a thing, offering a full power GPU, video output for TVs and monitors, connectors, additional storage, maybe, and multilple  controllers to the portable one), game related AMIIBOS COULD BE USED TO UNLOCK THE GAMES' HIGHEST RESOLUTIONS AVAILABLE. I'll write asap to Nintendo to give them my suggestion.   



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