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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Castlevania 24 on N5?

« on: August 16, 2003, 05:58:00 AM »

 If MSG:TTS sells well, it would´nt  be an abnormality to see Konami warm up to the idea of a next-gen Castlevania on a Nintendo home console (or the release of a "special edition" of Lament of Innocence on GCN). Then again,  good GCN games are notorious for being outsold by crappy Xbox games featuring scantily clad women, so, don´t bet on it...

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Nintendo Gaming / Castlevania 24 on N5?

« on: August 14, 2003, 06:16:30 PM »

 Current CV series producer Koji Igarashi (the MAN) recently said (I´m obviously paraphrasing here, folks; I can´t give you a link but it´s NOT something I made up) that he´ll produce another action game along the lines of the upcoming Lament of Innocence (think of the old TMNT arcade/NES games having full frontal intercourse with Devil May Cry and you´ll get a rough notion as to how this baby will probably play) to get a grasp of 3D gaming mechanics.

By then (and this is pure speculation) its safe to assure that the next generation of gaming consoles will be at its budding stage. Nintendo will want to secure as much good games for its new console as possible, and its a safe bet that an Igarashi 3D Castlevania will be a "good" if not "drop your pants and worship your new deity" game. And, Nintendo has traditionally been THE Castlevania console (doesn´t anyone find ironic the fact that what´s widely regarded to be the best game in the series , Nocturne in the Moonlight,  is available on all the consoles of the generation, except for the Nintendo one?) so a glorious return of Castlevania to Nintendo home consoles  is a tantalizing and not too far-fetched, possibility. After all, the new CV games are just what the doctor ordered for Nintendo, with Kojima´s hip (if not a tad too effeminate) art direction and deep gameplay. Hell, they could even make a 2D Dracula X (Metroid-style) MMORPG to jump start what could possibly be Nintendo´s online plans (the new Castlevanias have the most entertaining battle systems of any action/RPG)! Speak!

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Nintendo Gaming / OFFICIAL Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Discussion

« on: July 15, 2003, 05:35:15 AM »

 Man, I just hope that they add a sh*tload of extra content (such as directors commentary, artwork, VR minigames, apart from the prerequisite redesign) cause I plowed through the original , what, a million times? It´s obvious that the gameplay dynamics have changed (blatantly so); for starters, you now start off with a tranq dart gun (it´s in one of the screens at the Konami website; Snake´s in his scuba suit and he´s holding a gun which is uncannily similar to the one he starts off with in SoL).

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo on Life Support?

« on: July 15, 2003, 04:53:01 AM »

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"...what games has Sony and M$ made themselves?"[/Q

Sony and M$ have made commendable efforts to establish  their first-parties as respectable (ahem) developers/publishers by buying every single second party they can get their claws on. Bungie and Rareware ring a bell, anyone?

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Nintendo Gaming / LttP: Heart Piece help.

« on: July 15, 2003, 04:29:25 AM »

 Where the hell is spectacle rock? I keep hearing there are pieces there, and I´m only missing one.

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General Chat / Prog

« on: July 14, 2003, 10:55:32 AM »

 Question: Which band is considered to be the first prog rock act?

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General Chat / Prog

« on: July 10, 2003, 04:39:07 AM »

King Crimson´s great!!! Genesis (that´s Collin´s former act, right?) and Jethro Tull I´m acquainted with, but I´ve only heard Rick Wakeman´s odd medieval concept album. The Who´s another great prog band, by the way. Some other good prog bands: Deep Purple and Rainbow.

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General Chat / Prog

« on: July 09, 2003, 05:00:37 PM »

 You should try art-metal acts such as My Bloody Valentine. Also, Chino Moreno and company´s new sh*t has an artsy slant to it; after all, Chino´s favorite bands include Radiohead and The Cure.

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General Chat / Prog

« on: July 09, 2003, 04:49:14 PM »

Prog kicks ass!!! OK, in reality I'm mostly into "mainstream" prog (if there´s such a thing): Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Tool, Rick Wakeman, Radiohead´s OK Computer (OK, it´s not ALL prog, but it´s a damn good album coming from a damn good art-rock band) but I know some obscure bands: Latin America´s own Rata Blanca and Rhapsody (don´t know where those guys are from, though).

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General Gaming / Team Fortress Help!!!

« on: July 09, 2003, 06:14:16 AM »

First of all, I must clarify that I have the technical competence of a colobus monkey. Now that that´s out of the way, I need someone to help me out with a little problem; I just recently acquired internet access and I wanted to see what the whole Team Fortress fuzz was all about. I (obviously) had Half-Life v1.1.0.6 installed, but every time I tried to log on to WON (via both the Half-Life screen and the TFC screen) it said something about an outdated executionable. When I looked for upgrades via the (old) Sierra updater, an error screen popped up which claimed I had no connection. Afterwards, I downloaded the new autoupdater. This would be fine and dandy if it weren´t for the fact that the exact same f*cking error message pops up! What the bleeding f*ck´s going on? I´m running the dreadful Windows XP (an old version; I´m far too lazy to update it); maybe that´s the root of my problems? Please help!!!!!