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TalkBack / Re: REVIEWS: Frontman Guitar
« on: September 21, 2008, 08:57:57 PM »
I was thinking the same thing.
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General Gaming / Re: Atari to drop nearly all of its retail games.
« on: September 21, 2008, 08:56:52 PM »
I'm saying that they can still make money in retail, therefore they aren't putting all their efforts into setting up really good digital distribution because they don't have to rely on it 100%. If a company only sold their games online, you can bet that their digital distribution setup would be pretty slick. It would have to be.
Retail won't completely go away for a long time, because there's a lot of people out there that simply can't afford broadband internet (or internet at all, for that matter). But once it becomes as ubiquitous as cable TV, watch out. That's when retail distribution may become nearly extinct.
Retail won't completely go away for a long time, because there's a lot of people out there that simply can't afford broadband internet (or internet at all, for that matter). But once it becomes as ubiquitous as cable TV, watch out. That's when retail distribution may become nearly extinct.
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TalkBack / Re: Proto Man to Playable Via DLC in Mega Man 9
« on: September 21, 2008, 06:58:09 PM »
How many blocks is the DLC?
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General Chat / Re: Official 2008 NFL Football Season Discussion Thread
« on: September 21, 2008, 06:54:11 PM »
I totally agree. That defense looked awful. To anybody that had Ronnie Brown in their fantasy league, you hit the jackpot this week.
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TalkBack / Re: PODCAST: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 115
« on: September 21, 2008, 05:51:45 PM »
I think you in a dress, wig, and lipstick is comedic gold when combined with the British accent.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mega Man 9 for WiiWare announced by Nintendo Power
« on: September 21, 2008, 05:02:53 PM »
I just have beef with the 3.0 graphics score because it's not TRYING to look like Bionic Commando: Rearmed. It's probably using the same NES engine as the old games, for crying out loud. Scoring it against today's 2D graphics doesn't make any sense.
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TalkBack / Re: Gaming's Graphical Future
« on: September 21, 2008, 05:00:27 PM »
I think the worst generation in terms of dated 3D graphics was the PSOne/N64. Some of those games are just hideous to look at, even the "good" ones.
I downloaded the id Super Pack off of Steam last week, and playing Castle Wolfenstein 3D and Doom was an LOL session. I love those games to death, but God damn do they look terrible nowadays.
I downloaded the id Super Pack off of Steam last week, and playing Castle Wolfenstein 3D and Doom was an LOL session. I love those games to death, but God damn do they look terrible nowadays.
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TalkBack / Re: REVIEWS: Groovin' Blocks
« on: September 21, 2008, 04:56:39 PM »
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought Lumines was good but not great.
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TalkBack / Re: REVIEWS: de Blob
« on: September 21, 2008, 04:55:14 PM »It was love at first analog stick tilt
Best quote ever.
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TalkBack / Re: PODCAST: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 115
« on: September 21, 2008, 04:54:01 PM »
It's Greg in drag.
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General Chat / Re: Official 2008 NFL Football Season Discussion Thread
« on: September 21, 2008, 04:52:27 PM »
Atlanta KILLED them. You really have to watch the KC offense in action to realize how horrible they are. They actually made some noise at the end of the first/start of the second half, but by then they were already down by 24 points. And that 4th-and-goal stand by Atlanta made them look like little beeyotches.
I think this season is the Herm Edwards farewell tour.
I think this season is the Herm Edwards farewell tour.
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General Gaming / Re: Atari to drop nearly all of its retail games.
« on: September 21, 2008, 04:49:49 PM »
Solid state is definitely the way things are going. Broadband is pretty "slow" now, but what's slow now will be blazing in five, ten years. I also don't think that a lot of companies are trying to optimize the digital download arena either, since most of them can still hedge their bets with retail.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wario Land: Shake It!
« on: September 21, 2008, 04:45:26 PM »
I just don't think you can justify a 2D platformer at $49.99 in this day and age. I think $39.99 is a reasonable price for this game, and it would probably move a lot more units at that price. I think it's hard to expect people to pick up Wario Land: Shake It! at the same price as Super Mario Galaxy.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: September 21, 2008, 04:42:56 PM »
I don't think PS3 will see any sort of a sales bump in Japan until White Knight Story releases on December 25th. All of Sony's big holiday releases are very Western-skewed (Resistance 2, LittleBigPlanet, SOCOM, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift).
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mega Man 9 for WiiWare announced by Nintendo Power
« on: September 21, 2008, 10:40:11 AM »
I always say, score the game for what it is not what you think it should be. Look at IGN's reviews for Mega Man and Mega Man 2 on VC: MM got an 8.0 for graphics, MM2 got an 8.5. How is MM9 any different from those games when it's SUPPOSED to look like an NES game? It's like they scored it low on principle.
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General Gaming / Re: Atari to drop nearly all of its retail games.
« on: September 20, 2008, 08:17:44 PM »
I don't buy that argument. People don't seem to have a problem with waiting days for pirated games to download off of BitTorrent. Those are free games, but with a dedicated server you could serve people games in a few hours.
I've always wondered why game companies don't have client/server setups that let people pre-order games for digital download. The download could automatically start at midnight of the game's release date (according to your time zone), and you'd have it when you woke up in the morning. As long as you get the game on release day, what's the difference? There seems to be some perception that anything more than a 10-minute download is a total failure.
I've always wondered why game companies don't have client/server setups that let people pre-order games for digital download. The download could automatically start at midnight of the game's release date (according to your time zone), and you'd have it when you woke up in the morning. As long as you get the game on release day, what's the difference? There seems to be some perception that anything more than a 10-minute download is a total failure.
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General Chat / Re: Official 2008 NFL Football Season Discussion Thread
« on: September 20, 2008, 08:05:00 PM »
If the Falcons can't beat KC in Atlanta with Thigpen at QB, they might as well call it a season.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Time Splitters 4?
« on: September 20, 2008, 07:53:32 PM »
Yeah, but TS2 had the sick multiplayer.
TS2 will always hold a spot in my heart because of what me and a buddy called "The Magic Belt". 50 Cent's "Magic Stick" was the huge song at the time we were playing it, and we'd always say that whoever won a match would have "The Belt". After one particularly sweet victory, I started mocking my friend by singing, "I got the Magic Belt/I'll kill you once, I'll kill you twice...", and a legend was born.
He won the last match we played (which was years ago now), and to this day he still reminds me that he currently holds The Magic Belt. It really burns me, because he doesn't game much but was still able to score some pretty sweet victories over me.
I keep urging him to get a 360 and NHL 09 (he's a huge hockey fan), but really it's of a bigger plan to regain The Magic Belt at some point in the future in head-to-head combat.
TS2 will always hold a spot in my heart because of what me and a buddy called "The Magic Belt". 50 Cent's "Magic Stick" was the huge song at the time we were playing it, and we'd always say that whoever won a match would have "The Belt". After one particularly sweet victory, I started mocking my friend by singing, "I got the Magic Belt/I'll kill you once, I'll kill you twice...", and a legend was born.
He won the last match we played (which was years ago now), and to this day he still reminds me that he currently holds The Magic Belt. It really burns me, because he doesn't game much but was still able to score some pretty sweet victories over me.
I keep urging him to get a 360 and NHL 09 (he's a huge hockey fan), but really it's of a bigger plan to regain The Magic Belt at some point in the future in head-to-head combat.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mega Man 9 for WiiWare announced by Nintendo Power
« on: September 20, 2008, 07:41:49 PM »
The graphics score is a joke. 3.0? When it's MEANT to look like an NES game? Way to score a game out of context, IGN.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Time Splitters 4?
« on: September 20, 2008, 07:38:28 PM »
TS2 was amazing, but TS3 was pretty mediocre, wasn't it? I remember it getting only so-so reviews.
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General Gaming / Re: Atari to drop nearly all of its retail games.
« on: September 20, 2008, 07:30:51 PM »
As more stable and reliable non-volatile memory types (like SD Cards) become cheaper and cheaper, hard drives are going to disappear completely. I was reading that the new BlackBerry Bold accepts memory cards up to 16GB in size, meaning that there are 16GB Mini-SD cards on the horizon (and they're the size of a fingernail). That's enough room to contain some retail PS3 games, I'd bet.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread
« on: September 20, 2008, 07:22:05 PM »
Nintendo seriously ought to just release a bundle that includes Wii Fit and Wii Sports, and then take the year off.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Time Splitters 4?
« on: September 20, 2008, 07:14:49 PM »
Seriously, this game needs to be on Wii. The Wii has yet to get a first-class FPS from a developer with any pedigree (Conduit looks promising, but High Voltage has zero track record). There's a massive hole in the console's lineup that is just waiting to be filled by somebody.
Haze bombed because the game was utterly mediocre, not because it was on PS3. When you're choosing between Haze and CoD4, the choice is an easy one.
Haze bombed because the game was utterly mediocre, not because it was on PS3. When you're choosing between Haze and CoD4, the choice is an easy one.
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TalkBack / Re: REVIEWS: Charge Station
« on: September 20, 2008, 05:01:13 PM »
My remotes fit into the Wii Wheel just fine too.
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General Gaming / Re: Atari to drop nearly all of its retail games.
« on: September 20, 2008, 04:58:07 PM »
If you're allowed to just download another copy if your hard drive dies, what's the difference? I wouldn't mind having less game cases/discs lying around my house. Once you get a big collection that stuff starts to take up a lot of space, and when you move it's a pain in the butt to bring your whole game catalog with you. On top of that, game discs can get scratched.
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