[Official SSB4 Newcomer Bets Thread]

Updated bets:

Chrom

Lucina

Dark Pit

Ghirahim

Little Mac

Mii

[Wild Golem Appeared!]

Hi and welcome to Serenes Forest!

English is not my first language, don't kill me for small mistakes... I got bit scared during reading the rules when I saw the part about "proper grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation" @.@

Don't worry about that too much. You are not going to get in trouble for making a few grammatical errors.

[Hug a Puggle]

I think it's a baby ant eater or echidna. I am not 100% sure though. It may not be the cutest baby animal, but it's still cute.

[Help Me Decide the Rules for "The SSB4 Newcomer Roster Bets" Game]

I think a person should be allowed to change his guess only twice.

[Help Me Decide the Rules for "The SSB4 Newcomer Roster Bets" Game]

I think I understand the rules, and it sounds like it might be fun. Do we start guessing now? And is there a limit to how many characters we can say will be in SSB4?

[Hello! >:D]

Welcome to Serenes Forest!

I found out about Fire Emblem through Smash Bros. Brawl (I usaully play as Ike or Marth). The first game I tried was Shadow Dragon. I now own all the FE games relesed in North America, and am a huge fan of the series.

[Video games and their psychological influences?]

I think the psychological influence of a video game has to do with a person's maturity level and ability to tell reality from fiction.

I totally agree with this statement. I am not against all violence in video games, and I realize there is a difference between reality and fiction. I guess I feel like people are getting more disensitized to violence. I know killing a fictitious character is not necesarily wrong, but I find it disturbing that people consider killing an innocent person (even in fiction) "entertaining." I am not saying that anyone who has played an M-rated game (for violence) is going to commit murder one day. I just think people take certain issues too lightly to the point where it is entertaining.

These are my personal thoughts. You have the freedom to play any game you want, just as I have the freedom to express my opinion.

[Video games and their psychological influences?]

Your logic makes no sense. I also wouldn't participate in cock fights, guess I shouldn't ever play Pokemon!

I sort of see your point there, but the violence in pokemon is more cartoonish and the pokemon do not actually die, they just faint. I was thinking more of the more realistic games.

I knew I shouldn't have gotten involved in this debate.

[Video games and their psychological influences?]

I agree that all video games have some degree of influence (especially on young children). I personally don't like to play extremely violent video games (I don't own any m-rated games), and I think video games are starting to get too realistic when it comes to violence.

In my opinion, a game with lots of blood and gore can desensitize a child (and adults too), and he may not see any problem with killing someone. In addition to the amount of violence, the overall plot of the game is important too. I like to play "good vs. evil" type games. I don't see how anyone could EVER play Grand theft Auto. Some people use the excuse " its just a game. I wouldn't do it in real life." However, if you wouldn't kill innocent people in real life, why on earth would you want to do it in a video game.

Overall, some violence in games is okay, but people need to be careful.

[What was...]

That's a tough question to answer. One of the happiest moments of my life was when I started horseback riding lessons when I was 12. I love horses!

[soundcard with ASIO?]

Hi,

I was considering buying some music composing software, but, according to the system requirements, I need a soundcard compatible with ASIO (audio streaming input output). Do most computers have asio (I have a realtek soundcard and windows 8)?

[New Nintendo Direct]

There was no news about the North American DLC, but if I'm not mistaken, we already have "Death's Embrace" which is from series 2. I'm assuming we will get the others as well.

[PICS: Nintendo Force Magazine - Fire Emblem Cover]

Can you find this magazine in stores (like walmart), or do you have to order it?

[Bad ending?]

I recently started playing Fire Emblem 12 for the first time, and I think I am missing a starsphere shard. I am currently on CH. 10 and I am missing Scorpio (wich is obtained in Ch. 7) How will this effect the ending? I am trying to decide if I should start over.