Post by: Bloodworth on March 25, 2005, 08:12:16 AM
Nintendo Power Volume 191 features a big DS blowout with more details regarding online plans for Nintendo DS, new games shown off for the first time, and several developer interviews.
The online announcement echoes Iwata’s GDC speech, with one important distinction: Nintendo is partnering with GameSpy to set up the wireless network for free, global online play. GameSpy is set to deliver development kits to developers before E3, and it’s noted that developers currently working on local wireless modes will find it easy to expand to online. Animal Crossing is the only confirmed online title, allowing you to visit other villages across the globe.
Several new games are unveiled for the first time, and a few more previously unknown titles have sneaked into release lists.
These are the more significant points, but there are a lot more details, screens, and interviews in the latest Nintendo Power, Volume 191.
Post by: Knoxxville on March 25, 2005, 08:42:14 AM
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Post by: Ian Sane on March 25, 2005, 09:17:15 AM
What about Mario Kart? Arrgh! I can just see Nintendo releasing Mario Kart Offline and then like two weeks later releasing Animal Crossing Online. Mario Kart is THE Nintendo game people want to see online. It would be insanely retarded to release it as an offline game in the SAME YEAR online games debut on the DS. It be just flushing a killer app down the toilet.
Post by: Bloodworth on March 25, 2005, 09:21:57 AM
Post by: Darkheart on March 25, 2005, 09:23:17 AM
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Snowboard Kids DS will be an all-new title, and the developer has spent a lot of time analyzing the good and bad aspects of the previous games. There will be more of a focus on tricks with speed and shot rewards. Graphically, they are steering away from the super-deformed look with a slicker art style.
Yep just like i thought they are going with a more realistic style. There was that advertisement bout the game around a month ago with a sillohette of a realistic child with a snowboard that said SBK coming 2005.............I didn't want to believe that this was happening. The part I loved about snowboard kids was the fact that it was toony. That allowed for a random giant pan falling out of the sky and flattening all of the other contenders. Please dont ruin my fav N64 series with realistic graphics and physics.
Post by: Karl Castaneda #2 on March 25, 2005, 09:25:14 AM
Post by: Bloodworth on March 25, 2005, 09:27:50 AM
http://www.atlus.com/sbk.htm
I linked it in the article too.
Post by: LandStalkerRyle on March 25, 2005, 09:51:50 AM
Well, yeah there was. It was a fun game to play. Of course it doesnt beat a game like SSX, but still fun regardless.
Post by: Polemistis on March 25, 2005, 10:28:07 AM
Thats a nice move to bring it to the DS ! I been playing the conquerors's expansion online for like 5 yrs now haha. There is an older audience that plays the PC game so hopefully it will trigger some older ppl to pickup the DS. I'm sure as hell gonna spread the word around about this now ! GG.
Post by: Don'tHate742 on March 25, 2005, 11:05:38 AM
Mario Kart Online isn't the killer app. SuperSmashBros. is the killer app. How many copies did it sell on the cube? Crazy. If they launch this with online capabilities and 2 level (2 screen) platform design, I think we have a winner.
Post by: Tanookisuit on March 25, 2005, 11:26:44 AM
Post by: gally on March 25, 2005, 11:37:35 AM
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Originally posted by: Knoxxville
....there was something good about Snowboard Kids?
Yes. I loved Snowboard Kids 2 especially. The cartoony atmosphere and eccentric levels (haunted house, outer space, etc - various places you'd never expect to SNOWboard), combined with the Mario Kart-esque weapons made it great fun.
I'd love to see it come back. I'd probably end up playing it at work or during long downloads.
As for the new art style, truth be told I liked the original art style better. It was more distinctive and new. But I'm assuming most of the cartoon antics will still be in there even with this new "slick" art style. I hope so at least. I don't want to see too much realism.
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Post by: Windrunner on March 26, 2005, 05:49:28 AM
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Nintendo Power talks online and shows off new titles.- Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is coming from Majesco as a “fast-paced” turn-based strategy game. Wi-Fi support for four players is mentioned, but it’s not clear if that refers to true online play or local wireless.
This line scares me
A lot
Like.. I may need to be held...
Post by: NotSoStu on March 26, 2005, 11:55:25 AM
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Nintendo Power talks online and shows off new titles.- Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is coming from Majesco as a “fast-paced” turn-based strategy game. Wi-Fi support for four players is mentioned, but it’s not clear if that refers to true online play or local wireless.
This line scares me
A lot
Like.. I may need to be held...
You're not alone..... I need a hug. That was my first real PC game, I don't want them to make it something besides an RTS.....
;_;
Post by: KDR_11k on March 26, 2005, 10:49:39 PM
And you dare to call yourself a gamer?
I'm hoping for a port of Total Annihilation but I doubt that'll happen. TA was and still is the reference for good RTS user interfaces. Screw Blizzard and their selection and queueing restrictions!
Post by: Don'tHate742 on March 27, 2005, 02:05:39 AM
What are you saying?! How could you not have fun playing Starcraft? Especailly with the Fat Albert Mod?! hehe
Post by: KDR_11k on March 27, 2005, 06:04:03 AM
Post by: Gamefreak on March 27, 2005, 07:55:12 AM
Man I just got through playing a match of Total Annihilation myself. The UTASP mod (brings the number of units up to the max of 512 and rebalances the game) is freaking sweet. Plus it updates the AI so they actually fight well and build all the different types of units.
TA's interface was God back in 1997 and even today not a single RTS even comes close.
Plus the way the game works is just so great... Look at modern RTS game's aircraft and then look at TA's... owned.
Look at the way TA's units can fire while moving... owned.
Look at the awesome physics... owned...
And the game still looks great, and it plays great too. And there is so much stuff to download for it... If you go to TAMEC there are thousands and thousands of maps, and if you go to TA FanSite they have a unit archive of pretty much ever downloadable unit made... almost 3000!
Man TA rocks.
Anyway, since Gamespy is doing online we at least know lots of developers will actually use it. If it was just Nintendo they would just say... Well the DS is capable do it if you want. But I know Gamespy will actually try to encourage companies to use online.
Not only that the fact that Gamespy is in charge of a universal DS service means we'll see more "American" trends like voice chat and automatic matchmaking and all that PC/Xbox type stuff that Nintendo's probably never even heard of.
Something the PSP doesn't have...
Post by: Don'tHate742 on March 27, 2005, 10:19:17 AM
I'm interested now. I've always been a fan of Blizzard, but if you say it's that much better, then it has to be. Plus, moving while firing is a much needed tool that all RTS's should implement.
GameFreak -- your point about Gamespy "americanizing" the online DS service is a good point that I hadn't really thought about. GameSpy has a nice selection of features, and I hope even more are added.
Come to think of it.....what would you want from an Online Service? I'd like....
::: Chat: not exactly voice chat, but IM instead. Voice chat would be nice too though.
::: Friends List: Something akin to Xbox Live
::: Avatar and custom preferences
::: MatchMaker and Tournaments
::: SSB Online
Anything else I didn't mention, maybe updates (though I hate the idea)?
Post by: Bill Aurion on March 27, 2005, 11:25:39 AM
::: Updates suck, unless they are piddly stuff, like new furniture in Animal Crossing or something like that...A game should be complete when shipped...
Post by: KnowsNothing on March 27, 2005, 11:42:59 AM
) Piddly furniture updates sound awesome though =o
Post by: Aussie Ben PGC on March 27, 2005, 04:04:34 PM
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Post by: Windrunner on March 27, 2005, 04:26:10 PM
Or for those of us who liked to... make the opponent reinforce that area, and then circle around with our main force.. BWAHAHAHAH.
Post by: Gamefreak on March 27, 2005, 05:42:36 PM
People will go buy them if they want to play DS. Around where I live anyway, everyone has a wireless router. I don't think that many people will be left out, and wireless routers are cheap now.
Post by: Renny on March 27, 2005, 06:05:06 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on March 27, 2005, 10:33:02 PM
Gamefreak: You forgot how critical recon was in TA. Few other games implement so many techs and countertechs- radars, radar jammers/stealth, sonars, sonar jammers, optical cloaking, nukes, anti-nukes, etc. Setting up areas patrolled by scout and fighter planes with artillery support, having units generally see less than they can shoot (I once had 20 Goliaths destroyed by one GAAT because I couldn't get it into my FOV), Big Berthas... I think there weren't many games this close to large scale warfare.
Post by: TheYoungerPlumber on March 27, 2005, 10:47:12 PM
Nintendo would be wise to offer a "Wired ethernet" option pak you put in the GBA slot, and make its support mandatory (er, provide the code needed to redirect) for online games.
Post by: Finnegan on March 28, 2005, 04:12:25 AM
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Post by: miedo on March 28, 2005, 11:21:17 AM
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Sorry this report came so late. When it broke over the weekend, we could never find reliable scans of the magazine or anyone we trust who had received theirs.
Aww, you don't trust me Karl? Where's the love?
Post by: Don'tHate742 on March 28, 2005, 11:27:37 AM
I popped over there recently and that thread is HUGE! In the 190's...
