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Nintendo Gaming / Hot Deals for Canada...

« on: March 19, 2003, 10:36:47 AM »

Nope, nowhere near Ontario, and I just picked up a $30 Wave Race... oh baby.    

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Nintendo Gaming / IGN reports the next Triforce game

« on: February 23, 2003, 10:32:58 PM »

Well, there are 2 ways to look at this...

#1)  "aww man, what a lameass game.  I hate Sega."

or...

#2)  "wow, Sega is making games on the Triforce without coersion, using material usually intended for the more mature crowd, and is getting Hitmaker, one of their best developers, to do it, therefore familiarizing themselves with Gamecube hardware on a foolproof game concept... and did I mention that the Gameboy Advance's eReader makes this game a possibility for porting?"



Think about which one you'd rather have... half-empty, or half-full?

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Nintendo Gaming / Hot Deals for Canada...

« on: February 19, 2003, 01:15:49 PM »

EB in Saskatchewan selling Hunter: the Reckoning for $39... pretty sweet, especially since I can't find it anywhere BUT EB

[Aretak]

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Nintendo Gaming / Official F-Zero Thread

« on: February 19, 2003, 11:49:12 AM »

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Originally posted by: Aretak

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Originally posted by: nolimit19
i hate to say it, and i better not get flamed, but is this game online? and if it isnt it should be.

Not as far as we know, and it's very unlikely it will be.

Well... let's look at the facts.

1)  The game doesn't come out for several months yet... perhaps that's one of the many secrets Nintendo has kept from us about the title... after all, there are supposedly modes in the game we know nothing of.

2)  F-Zero, as a racing game, would be very playable online... much like Mario Kart.  Throwing online onto F-Zero to see how well it works for fans as a sort of testing ground for the new Mario Kart would be a sound idea, especially if Nintendo is genuinely interested in pushing that title online.

3)  F-Zero AC and GC are being developed by a SEGA team... y'know, SEGA?  The biggest online pusher in the business right now?  And not only that, but developer Amusement Vision has experience not only taking games online, but games OF THE SAME GENRE.  Daytona USA comes to mind fondly... and not only that, but Sega also has experience taking arcade games online in Japan, so with Sega handling the arcade unit distribution, who's to say that Nintendo and Sega didn't work out a way to take the game online in both the arcades in Japan and on the console for them as well as us?


It's still a fair possibility... for the time being.  We'll have to wait and see.

[Perfect Cell]

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Nintendo Gaming / Incoming SEGA GCN announcement!

« on: February 19, 2003, 10:36:53 AM »

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Originally posted by: Perfect Cell
From what i understand VF 4 Evolution is Sony exclusive though someone on the Xbox boards said Sega would announce it alongside a ton of new titles for the Xbox at E3.

We dont nececarily need VF4, Fighting Vipers is more fitting for the gamecube audience IMO its less of a serious fighter, but still plenty good

Ummm... more fitting?  Can you explain how?  It's still people beating the crap out of each other, just like Virtua Fighter.  Besides, the Fighting Vipers franchise died a horrible death when the sequel was released to literally NO fanfare, so I REALLY doubt that it'll be revived again.
And seriously, if we're getting an action-RPG based in the Virtua Fighter universe, how is that fitting for Gamecube but the fighter it's based on not?  Your logic falters on this point... because the more serious themes you implied Virtua Fighter has would be present in Virtua Fighter Quest, as well, but placed in a different genre.

And it's getting to the point where "target audience" isn't going to matter to Sega... when they see the overwhelming demand for Skies of Arcadia Legends (as has been said, many online retailers are on back order), they will understand that their games "inexplicably" sell better on Gamecube... hell, we made SUPER MONKEY BALL a marketable franchise, that has to say something...

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Nintendo Gaming / Incoming SEGA GCN announcement!

« on: February 18, 2003, 07:46:19 PM »

Well, discussion of CONTROLS aside (which is kinda funny, when you consider the fact that most of the arguments laid forth don't even apply to me) Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution would be a good game to put on Gamecube, for the same reason that Skies of Arcadia Legends is so high in demand for the system... lack of palattable titles of that given genre.  Seriously, until Soul Calibur 2, VF4E would have NO competition due to the fighting genre's weak showing for Gamecube... and if VF4E were put online for the Cube, that'd make it unrivalled even AFTER Soul Calibur 2 comes out... and it's not like they can't, Sega-AM2 already has online servers set up for VF4E, VF.net

So... I mean, seriously, with VF: Quest coming, I could see it hitting Gamecube, for sure...

[Sean]

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Nintendo Gaming / Incoming SEGA GCN announcement!

« on: February 18, 2003, 08:46:53 AM »

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Originally posted by: Sean
As for Virtua Fighter 4 on GCN, I can't imagine it.  I mean, I LOVE THE GCN CONTROLLER, but I don't even want to play Street Fighter with it much less the unbelievably complex VF4.  I mean, some of those moves, if you ask me, are almost literally impossible to pull off on the much bigger and loser PS2 control pad (I've lost fingers--nuff said).  The only way I would get that game, my favorite fighting game just behind Steet Fighter Alpha 2, is if Sega released a joystick or if I had that sweet new Hori Soul Calibur stick.  To me it really boils down to that.  I just really think that it's with games like this that the GCN controller shows one of its few real handicaps.

I don't agree... the Gamecube button layout itself, with the guided layout (unlike the uniform are rarely distinguishable PS2 botton scheme, which I can only distinguish between because my X button is the most worn) provides a major plus for fighters... the problem comes with the control pad... but why should you have to use the pad?  Seriously, I would love to try and play Virtua Fighter 4 with a stick... it would be far more reminiscent of using an arcade stick instead of getting a blistered thumb trying to achieve the same thing on a pad.  Seriously, the only handicap is 2D fighters, and those have gone the way of the dodo.  If you've ever played the original Soul Calibur with the Dreamcast controller (and it's lame and uncomfortable pad), you understand that using the analog stick for 3D fighters is just a good idea.

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Nintendo Gaming / Incoming SEGA GCN announcement!

« on: February 17, 2003, 07:54:36 PM »

Anyone consider it might be a game we already know about?
Cuz seriously, I wanna hear about some Xbox Sega games migrating to the Cube, or Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution on Gamecube... but maybe that's just me.