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TalkBack / Re: New Metroid: Other M Trailer
« on: March 02, 2010, 07:12:16 PM »
I'll break from the chorus and say the voice acting doesn't bother me, I don't think it's that bad.

After all, it could worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTizJemHO8

Or a whole lot worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XyghKl72R0

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Nintendo Gaming / Miyamoto: E3 No Longer the Best Place to Show Core Games
« on: July 19, 2008, 12:30:06 AM »
Miyamoto says: don't blame us, blame E3.

Straight from Miyamoto, Nintendo's lackluster showing could be blamed on the nature of the new E3.  He said they've got plenty of big core titles in the works (Pikmin being one of them, of course), just that E3 isn't the right place to show them anymore.

Also, EA and Ubisoft think the new event blows and want the old E3 back.


I can't remember if this had already been posted, apologies if it has (long day).

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:REAL LEAK! NOT A DRILL! (SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER)!
« on: January 29, 2008, 04:48:48 PM »
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Originally posted by: JonLeung
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Originally posted by: AgentV3
How about this leak, A screen cap of the character select screen.
Cool that there is Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass Link, but I hope his English name isn't "Toon Link", as it appears to be in the Japanese version...


He'll probably be called Young Link here, just like Koopa will become Bowser, and it's likely that Robot will become R.O.B. here.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:REAL LEAK! NOT A DRILL! (SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER)!
« on: January 29, 2008, 09:08:42 AM »
How about this leak, A screen cap of the character select screen.



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General Gaming / RE:One console to rule them all.
« on: October 20, 2007, 04:47:10 PM »
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Originally posted by: bustin98
But a one machine future is not what EA is proposing, Gamebasher. Only to have one standard for all machines. Either way, as long as Nintendo is in business it will never happen. And looking at the handling of Windows OS is probably a good way to judge how Microsoft likes to play nice with open standards.


If this was the Gamecube generation I'd be more inclined to agree with you, but in this generation, the Wii is using a lot of industry standards.  It's memory cards are SD cards instead of some proprietary standard, they're using DVDs instead of something like the Gamecube Optical Disc or cartridges, it has USB ports and internet over 802.11g wireless.

I think you picked up on what EA was asking for the same way I did, that they want all the console makers to at least use more standardized parts instead of coming up with what they did now, using three different architectures with completely different instruction sets.  They want what the PC industry does now.  Even though AMD and Intel use different sockets (AM2 and LGA 755 respectively), they understand the same x86 (or x64 code now) instructions, they both use DDR2 memory, and they both use PCI Express x16 for graphics output over a common graphics API (DirectX, and to a lesser extent OpenGL).

That's what EA wants, to be able to use the same game engine between all consoles, regardless of how much power they harness.

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General Gaming / RE: One console to rule them all.
« on: October 19, 2007, 10:20:46 AM »
I think is less about EA trying to build a box more than EA begging console makers to agree on a standard of hardware to make cross-platform development easier.  Imagine if the successor to the Wii, XBOX360 and PS3 all used AMD Athlon X2 CPUs and nVidia GeForce 8-series GPUs, that's what he's talking about.  It would still be like it is now, you wouldn't be able to play Halo 4 on the Nintendo system or Gran Turismo 6 on the Microsoft system or Zelda on the Sony system, they would just all use a commonly-derived hardware architecture so development across platforms could be easier.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Super Mario Galaxy
« on: October 19, 2007, 09:58:56 AM »
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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix
I feel sick, I found out what it was ::throws up::.


We tried to warn you.  It's very much not for the faint of heart or the sane of mind.

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General Gaming / RE: Sony getting hit Hard lately (Now With Rumbling Fun Time Machines)
« on: October 19, 2007, 09:45:14 AM »
And Jack Tretton does it again:

This man has all the answers

To review: sales of PS3 games are lagging because people are playing their PS2 games on the console instead of buying new games, and that cutting off access to one of the largest game libraries in history by removing PS2 backwards compatibility from the 40GB PS3 will encourage gamers to instead by more PS3 games.  He reasons that most people already have a PS2, so why would they need backwards compatibility in the PS3?

Here's why, Jack, pay close attention because this might get complicated:  most people who own a PS2 are exited about upcoming PS3 games, games more than a year away.  Stay with me here, now, if the PS3 can play PS2 games, then those people will go ahead and buy one in anticipation of those big games, and can use the machine to play their old library in the mean time.  Still with me?  Good.  Now, and this is the important part, if these people cannot play their old games on the PS3, then they will wait on buying one until the good games come out, thus hampering PS3 hardware sales.  The PS2's backwards compatibility with the PS1 did not hamper PS2 game sales, the same way the Wii's backwards compatibility with the Gamecube is not hurting it's game sales, and the XBOX360's backwards compatibility (and I use the term loosely) with the original XBOX is not hurting it's game sales.

All he's ensuring is PS2 owners are going to wait until either the price of the 80GB unit falls, or for some actual good games to come out that's worth buying the console for, and these are sales that Sony needs RIGHT NOW.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: new trademarks
« on: June 19, 2006, 03:14:31 PM »
I read that as IIM, or Instant Message.  They might be making an IM client for Wii, which would tie into WiiCulture if that's an online system.

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General Gaming / Your computer specs.
« on: February 20, 2003, 05:40:14 PM »
What mine has:

CPU: AMD Athalon Thunderbird 1GHz
Memory: 256 MB SDRAM
HDD: Maxtor 30GB HDD, Maxtor 40GB HDD
CD-ROM: 8x8x32 CD-RW
Video: nVidia GeForce4 MX440 64MB DDR memory
Sound: Philips Rhythmic Edge sound board

Don't go with a major distributor, as it's much harder to upgrade and repair them in some cases.  I browse through pricewatch.com for good deals on parts, and I'd recommend them if you're looking for parts for good prices.  You could find a good CPU/Motherboard combo there, even complete PC deals.  

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