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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendos new trademarks

« on: June 04, 2004, 09:38:03 AM »

I was wondering if they were going to do such a thing with the Mario like that.  I mean people bitch that a Mario game is just "Save the Princess, get a cake, hurk" and when Nintendo deviates from that norm people want to return to what it was.

I like the deviation, because I really would think a game that starred Princess Peach would be fantastic if I'm thinking what Miyamoto's thinking.  Like say, Bowser kidnaps Peach, and then for some reason Mario's not showing up. Boswer, being impatient, decides to take the fight to Mario this time and abandons his castle.  And Peach escapes, because well...  that's what the game would be.

I see two distinct possibilities for a game like this.  Possibly a 3-D/2-D/2.5D Platformer in which you do the levels of a usual Mario game in reverse.  They could either make you do the usual increasing difficulty in which the only difference is that you are moving right to left (2D style) or just doing going backwards through 3D representations of the levels from, say Super Mario Brothers 1.

The other possibility is Nintendo doing their classic "let's take unfun genres that have stagnated and make it appeal to people who like gameplay" like they do with RPG's every now and then.   Imagine Peach having to sneak out of Bowser's Castle.  A stealth game could be done very well as long as they ignore two precedents.  Splinter Cell, with it's "OMG they found a footprint you made at the beginning of the level.  Please Restart."  And Sly Cooper AKA the most boring platformer, ever.

Either possibility is fine, and I believe I am very correct in saying EAD (if my speculation is right) has done weirder games before that turn out to be classics and have elements quickly emulated.  And I also believe EAD has never ever made a bad game, and I am including Luigi's Mansion.  Haters.

But really, I would like to hear what people already think of the game when they only know the title.  It's so insightful.

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General Chat / RE: Blender's 50 Worst Songs Of All Time (not pretty)

« on: June 04, 2004, 08:48:06 AM »

Once again, I feel inclined to inform people who have "figured out" what the "worst <subject> of all time" are that they, in fact, have no idea what what bad examples of that subject are.

Take for instance... Captain Sensible's "Wot."  Listen for a minute or so and see if your cerebrum doesn't implode.  Repetitive, stupid crap.

Or how about Macho Man Randy Savage's album "Be a Man."  Is that better than Kokomo?

Such attention seeking behavior.

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General Chat / RE:Tommy Tallarico: New (not really) Target of the Nintendo Fans

« on: June 03, 2004, 08:24:19 PM »

Also screwed up about Tommy Tallarico reviewing games is the fact that he doesn't seem to realize the conflict of interest therein.  If he or his company worked on "X" game, would he not benefit from a positive review of a game he worked on?  Even if he says he's honest and whatnot, the possibility for abuse is still present, and as such all of his reviews should really be meaningless.

Well after  Earthworm Jim I believe he used 2 minutes, and by ignorantly attacking fans (professionalism is overrated) with words and "opinions" created with inflammatory intent and base purpose, he used up another 3 minutes.

I wonder how he'll spend the next 10.

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General Chat / RE: Tommy Tallarico: New (not really) Target of the Nintendo Fans

« on: June 02, 2004, 07:06:17 AM »

I seem to remember that way back when... Tallarico said something about helping out with Metroid Prime's music.  Now I looked for his name in the credits of this wonderful game...  He's nowhere.  And I also think something about Metroid Prime's music all being done by some guys in NCL.  However on his G4tv profile he still says he made it, or at least some of it.

With these facts, I believe it is quite easy to figure out Tommy's hatred for Nintendo.

A hypothetical situation, if you will.

Tommy sent some music to Retro+Nintendo.  They, upon listen to his material, realize he is quite mediocre, and send him a "thanks, but no thanks" style response, possibly at the same time they discovered that it would be cheaper to just make it themselves.  Tommy, feeling slighted that somebody didn't require the services of such a revolutionary video game icon, decides to do what mediocre men do when slighted.  That is, rag on them any chance they get to get some kind of retalliation.

Unfortunately for Tommy Tallarico, the only person who takes Tommy Tallarico seriously is Tommy Tallarico.

Is he a new target?  I am actually glad he might be.  Used to be the targets for Nintendo Fans were game execs and producers who spouted stupid crap to cover their own asses about things.  It's would be refreshing that the new target be a man who overestimates himself and his contribution to the industry he ostensibly knows all about when he asserts to unsuspecting (I'd also wager uncaring) people that he is, in fact, Tommy Tallarico.  

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General Chat / RE: Get your custom title here

« on: June 02, 2004, 06:35:03 AM »

I've been just a lowly staff writer for so long.  T-Y.  I want you to surprise me with a custom title.

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General Chat / RE: June is end boss month!

« on: June 02, 2004, 06:23:25 AM »

June is indeed End Boss month.  My selection this year is Onox.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:OFFICIAL Online mouse_clicker vs the world thread

« on: May 30, 2004, 01:06:51 AM »

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Also, there are plenty of popular PC games that have been out for years, MOHAA, CS, UT, Q3, many more, people just enjoy different games.

I don't mean those.  Last Time I checked, Diablo 2 and those in the quote don't charge asinine monthly fees.  So they are exempt.  And since those games also have p2p modes and LAN and such in it, the "online mode" will quite possibly last forever.

About Everquest and Lineage and Asheron's Call and others of that ilk, they charge monthly for something that will disappear since they are reliant on core servers

One one hand you have something free that will, as long as there are some people around still interested, still be there 10 years from now.  And on ther other, you have something unpredictably finite that you pay for every second of.  I like that first one better.

I don't knock online features.  I knock paying for them, and I knock their forced integration into core game design at the expense of a good single player.  That said, Starcraft RAWKS.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Resident Evil storyline hoedown

« on: May 29, 2004, 01:57:10 AM »

The way to fight off the zombies in Gaiden is quite different, they still run up to you and grab ya.  When you shake them off you enter a sort of turn-based fight against them.  The Zombies approach rather slowly and how close they are is represent by this bar that runs on the bottom of the "playinf field" so to speak.  They get closer, their bar gets bigger.  All the while this cursor is sliding back and forth and you have to try to hit A when it gets to the center of the zombie's err... ahh.. hit area.  Sorta like you are always Mario Golf during the fight scenes, trying to get the timing right to hit the center.

And this one guy keeps calling Beardman continually telling him that he's on a ship, or something.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Resident Evil storyline hoedown

« on: May 29, 2004, 12:26:40 AM »

Resident Evil Gaiden is one weird piece of work.  It takes place on the Starlight ship for some uh... reason.  And Bearded Barry-man is the slow-running star of it.  I can barely stand it, but I still love it.  It's a bit more... musical than other Resident Evils.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:OFFICIAL Online mouse_clicker vs the world thread

« on: May 29, 2004, 12:17:26 AM »

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The most popular online game is freakin 6 years old and it ain't going anywhere.

If you mean CounterStrike, that game is P2P requiring no "Service" to sign up and pay for (except of course, the ludicrous Live verion), and thus will not go anywhere.  AND that is a Half-Life mod to begin with.  And thus not what I meant by a game disappearing.

However, if you mean Everquest, that's in expansion hell.  I severely doubt people are still playing the original, unmodified in any way, and still paying the subscription.  If it's even supported.

(Opinion Time)  And besides, Everquest, like ALL Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, are horrible horrible games.  NO EXCEPTIONS.  They all involve running around killing rats and picking stuff up in the search for a rare weapon.  And then chatting with people.  And the best part is they charge you monthly for this wonderful experience.

[joeamis]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:OFFICIAL Online mouse_clicker vs the world thread

« on: May 07, 2004, 08:10:30 PM »

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Finally in response to Deguello, you make a good point BUT the DC is a bad example since it was an abandoned piece of hardware after being out for two years if that.  Most online games live a much much longer life than abandoned hardware games.  No offense but you probably should've done more research on the game before buying it so you would know it was specifically an online title and an inquiry on forums would've let you know it was abandoned online.  Nonetheless your point is still valid, a bit less, but the truth is by the time an online title does get ended it's atleast the next generation of consoles with either a much better sequel and/or much better online games and similar online games to the one ended.  By that time you will probably be tired of the ended game anyways too.

It wasn't a bad example.  At the time of 2000 the DC was a rather successful little console with a good sized online commitment.  Just because it got discontinued doesn't mean anything.  And why should I have done any research on the game?  What if I didn't care about it until I saw it?  And what about Joe schmoe, who doesn't read about stuff online?  And what if I don't have an internet connection to begin with?  Is it MY fault that this game is pretty much destroyed?

And "better" sequels is immaterial.  A better example than Bloodworth's is GoldenEye and Agent Under Fire.  And I see no such Online game like Earth and Beyond.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: OFFICIAL Online mouse_clicker vs the world thread

« on: May 06, 2004, 04:26:14 AM »

As long as a game's main focus isn't its online features, I really don't care if they put it in.  But see lately I have become very ill equipped for playing online games.  Living in the sticks will do that for you, what with no broadband and all.  But I have at least had some online gaming experience this generation with the Dreamcast.  And I think this magical little Sega-box holds the dark, dirty truth about the fate of all online-centric games.  They all have expiration dates.

Anybody up for a rousing game of OutTrigger?  Unfamiliar?  OutTrigger was a DC game made by Sega specifically to be played online with their spiffy new BBA.  Of course it still worked with 56k.  I wish I could tell you how I fared against Broadbanders, but by the time I got it, it was too late.  Sega had already started stripping off Sega.net and OutTrigger was one of the victims.  Of course, I didn't know that OutTrigger was online centric until I got it.  But upon realization that the main single player was uber-repetitive junk and the manual pretty much indicated that OutTrig was meant for online play, I realized I owned an essentially broken game.

Trust me, in 4 years, more than possibly sooner, many of the MMORPGs, MMOFPSs, and MMO anythings that are popular right now will be gone as if they never existed.  FFXI?  I bet that'll be Gone.  Planetside?  Gone.  RE Outbreak?  Despite the popularity, I think people will lose interest.  World of Warcraft will probably come and go in this period.  SW Galaxies?  Even THAT novelty will get old.  Earth and Beyond is already gone.  And not just gone as in discontinued and hard-to-find like Panzer Dragoon Saga.  Even if you found a copy of Earth and Beyond, you can't play it.

The worst part about this wholesale erasure is that not only are the games lost to me, they are also lost to the next generation as well.  These discs and the bits of data printed on them become worthless.  It's hard for an online game to be a classic because of the inherent subjectiveness in "having to had been there" to experience it.    The mere suggestion that a company like Nintendo or Namco or whoever "should" make "Super Mario Online"  or "Zelda Online" or "Tales of Internetivity"or whatever game with "online" tacked onto the end is totally absurd.

I really have no problems with online features so long as it doesn't encroach the core game design.  Because when it does, games have a tendency to disappear for no reason other than some players lost interest or the company that published it wants to pull the plug.

Oh and on a side note, I agree with mouse_clicker lots, so at least now he's just against the World - 1.

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TalkBack / RE: Square-Enix Announces E3 Line Up

« on: May 04, 2004, 11:10:05 PM »

>>Enix AKA "we only support the market leader".<<

It will be interesting to see how that speil stands up when the PSP is released.  The current market leader for handhelds is the GBA.  It will definately be the market leader when the PSP releases and for a long time after that.  Will they hold to this line of reasoning then?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendo wants your thoughts!!!

« on: May 03, 2004, 05:02:35 PM »

An online poll about online games is usless.  It's like polling the state of Georgia about the treatment of minorites, but restrciting the poll to people who are members of the Ku Klux Klan.  Not only are the results predictable, but they are not indicative of the whole populations opinion.  You would only hear one thing over and over, and anybody who would say different would conveniently not be a member of the KKK.  Yet if you would compare that poll of another poll which questioned everybody regardless, not only would it show a complete 180 in terms of opinion, it would indicate quite a bit of scorn and dismay towards the other poll's resulting outcome.

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Patents GBA Emulation

« on: April 29, 2004, 11:53:49 AM »

" Plus there is a perfectly morally acceptable use of emulation that doesn't hurt Nintendo at all (though I don't know if it's in use)."

You're right Ian.  It's just too bad most (read: VAST MAJORITY) people just want to use emulators to play GBA games like Zero Mission and Mario and Luigi before legitimate copies even exist.  I mean that is just out of control.  And the fact that you are unsure this method of emulation is still being used adds more fuel to the fire.  For every 2 or 3 guys that MIGHT make an egg timer out of a GBA or learn how to overclock it or whatever, you got hundreds of people who DEFINITELY use GBA emulation to freeload brand new GBA games, sometimes before they are even released.

"I can't hold a patent on word processor programs and technically a Gameboy emulator is no different."

Different beasts.  A patent on Word Processors wouldn't fly because it's too broad a concept.  Now I think you can patent "Ian Sane's Word Processor," because that specifies things a bit.  However, Nintendo's GameBoy stuff is already specific and mostly proprietary in nature.  

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General Chat / RE: Where you from/ what it's famous for.

« on: April 29, 2004, 01:39:31 AM »

I live in Silver Creek, GA.  I'm not sure where the creek is, and I'm not sure it ever had any silver in it.  For every stage of my life I have moved farther and farther away from people and civilization in general.  Everytime I opened my eyes I saw less people and more livestock.

I was born in Newnan, GA a good-sized city with a rich history dating back to the Civil War.  When I was 4 or 5 I then moved live in a screwed up yet bustling city of Carrollton, GA.  Then I moved to Bowden, GA a peacefully quiet hamlet.  I didn't mind it, in fact I grew to like it.  Nice weather there.  But when my parents' work demanded they leave we landed in a subdivision in Rockmart, near an old Goodyear plant.  Rockmart, GA, despite it's desolation from the Goodyear plant downsizing (I dunno if it closed or not), was a pretty cool place for a non-working kid like I was.  I found lots of other kids that loved playing video games and baseball.  We all sucked at baseball, but we still loved to play anyway.  It was nice, my favorite place.  But Mom and Dad needed to uproot again, so onward my family went to a really small town of Aragon, GA.  This place sucked, I lived in a duplex in a community with the most unsavory of men and women.  The types that would kill a cat with a BB gun for scratching a car.  Thankfully we bought a scrap of land out in Silver Creek and built a house with money fused with a rather fortunate inheritance, and now I live there.  Or rather, here.  It's dull out here.  And improvement over the last place, but since I just graduated I find myself with a lot of free time.  Not a lot of jobs out here.  All the good ones taken.  All the bad ones taken.  Not a good place to be when you're thinking about college.  Ah well...

Oh about Georgia, heh.  Well... Coca Cola.  That guy Alton Brown (host of Good Eats, neat food network show) is from here.  The Atlanta Braves, who have no pitching anymore, d'oh!  Oh yeah, peanuts.  Chickens too.  Onions.  One of the 13 original colonies, right.  But most people in the other 46 non-Florida Contiguous states see Georgia as the driveway to Florida.  And I wish I could argue with them.  But it's true.  There is lotsa neat stuff in Georgia, like the Shakespeare Tavern, but most people just wanna get to Florida.  And that's ok.

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TalkBack / RE: Mary-Kate and Ashely Sue Acclaim

« on: April 26, 2004, 06:22:16 AM »

"Jeez, so much hatred for Acclaim."

It's not that they make crap games.  Well... not JUST that.  Acclaim has been a moron festival ever since this generation began.  Worst of all have been their "wacky zany" ad campaigns.  Like the one where they would defile a grave to advertise for ShadowMan 2.  Or where they would compensate your endangering of lives by paying off your speeding tickets on a certain day.  Or their attempt to scar children for life by having them named after their washed up game character Turok.  That kind of crap makes people remeber Acclaim for their asinine advertising rather than any game they've made.  And Coincidentally, Acclaim has made nothing but near-unanimously concurred garbage this entire generation.  And despite their obviously horrible games and stupid advertising campaigns, they still found the time to fling mud at a console manufacturer, shirking off all the fault that is so obviously theirs.  So yeah, I guess you could say there is a lot of hatred for Acclaim nowadays.

The karmic wheel of justice now turns to Acclaim.  It's hard to root for somebody in this case, but me, but I hope Acclaim loses just so they nearly go bankrupt and have to rethink their business.

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TalkBack / RE: THQ Claims No. 2 Publishers' Ranking

« on: April 20, 2004, 11:35:37 AM »

When you publish a mighty assload of titles like THQ it's hard not to be rated high.  Especially when you have Sega's contract for GBA publishing.  I always picture THQ's QA dept. to be one guy with an "OK" stamp pounding furiously as hundreds of different, yet identical games fly by at an alarming rate.

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TalkBack / RE: Iwata Discusses Nintendo's Next Console

« on: April 12, 2004, 09:38:39 PM »

"They've talked of innovation a lot and have delivered gimmicks like the e-Reader instead."

Definition time!

gim*mick

1. A device employed to cheat, deceive, or trick, especially a mechanism for the secret and dishonest control of gambling apparatus.
2. An innovative or unusual mechanical contrivance; a gadget.
3. An innovative stratagem or scheme employed especially to promote a project: an advertising gimmick.
4. A significant feature that is obscured, misrepresented, or not readily evident; a catch.
5. A small object whose name does not come readily to mind.

And since the E-reader doesn't exactly allow you to cheat at gambling, #1 doesn't count.  I'm so glad that somebody likes the E-reader and thinks it clever and innovatite.  I do.  It's a cool gimmick.

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TalkBack / RE: BBC to air documentary on Nintendo

« on: April 08, 2004, 02:24:13 PM »

What I find strange is of the 3 big platform publishers today, Nintendo has the most prominent warning about epilepsy.  A warning is even printed on the back of the box.  Both Microsoft and Sony warn about epilepsy too, but on the first page of their manuals, you know, AFTER you open it.  And if that gets them off the hook, then Nintendo should also get off the hook, because they have bigger warnings about more things than just epilepsy.  Motion Sickness, Electric Shock, hell even "Laser" damage.

[nemo_83]

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TalkBack / RE:Paper Mario 2 on the Way

« on: April 05, 2004, 01:40:23 AM »

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I've been waiting for a fully 3d cel shaded Paper Mario SEQUEL for a long time.  I've been sickened lately by rummors that it might just be a ramake further solidifying GC's reputation of a game collector's system.

I don't mind that the view maybe similar to the original, but I would prefer cel shading to the exact same paper technique.  I thought cel shading was mostly inspired by Paper Mario's look.

Unfortunately for us they took the paper gimick one step too far.  Paper airplanes?  What's the boss?  King Kutter?  The Evil Scisors?  The Big Book of Matches?

At least fire balls will seem like a real threat in this Mario game.  Joking aside though, you guys are right.  Why do they do this with every idea they come up with.  They brainstorm behind a ninety foot tall bullet proof wall for three years until they come up with an idea that has nothing to do with Mairo or Zelda and then tack it on like we won't notice that it could have been an original game with real focus on back packs, or oragami, or sailing the open seas.

Hey superguy.  It's nice that you waited until you played the game to pass judgement, eh?  "Unfortunately for us?"  Who's "us?"  And you seem to pass off the airplane idea as some kind of gimmick while at the same time wanting "origami" for Paper Mario.  Which begs the question, isn't making a Paper Airplane technically origami?  It seems like you don't know exactly what you want and just wish to be quarrelsome, even if you don't have a legitimate reason to.

Cel-shading was already in a couple of games before Paper Mario, so I don't see where get that Cel-shading is Paper Mario's "look."   And unless I'm mistaken, the original Paper Mario was full 3-D.

I get the feeling you already have it out for this game, nemo, by your entertaining the notion that this is possibly a "remake:, when if you had even seen a screenshot or so you would know to the contrary.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Paper Mario2 announced!!!

« on: March 31, 2004, 05:42:55 PM »

I'm gonna disagree heartily with Ian and say that Square should keep their glad hands off Mario.  I found Alpha Dream's and Intelligent System's Mario Action-Platformer-RPGs to be FAR superior to Square's.  Definitely Alpha Dream's.

"Now Paper Mario was a great game and Paper Mario 2 surely will be as well but in my opinion it's not as good as Super Mario RPG and it's irritating that Nintendo is going forward with what I consider the "inferior" design."

Aww Ian I hate to say this, but can you at least wait until the game is released before you make a judgement on it?

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

« on: March 31, 2004, 09:07:25 AM »

The commander room is really freaky.  Try shooting the armor and chairs.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Resident Evil 4 Discussion

« on: March 30, 2004, 07:16:54 PM »

Real Player is the way The Devil controls his minions.

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Announces NES GBA SP, Plus Retro Games

« on: March 29, 2004, 08:49:11 PM »

Xevious?  Neat.

I imagine this set is aimed towards two types of people.  Collectors, who buy lots of stuff regardless of whether they have it already or not, and 25-year-old corporate employees or factory workers or dairy farmers, etc whatever, who have long since put down the controller, but now would like a round of Donkey Kong on their lunch break, and may not care if Nintendo already released it in Animal Crossing or whatnot.

What I find amusing is that some people whined and bitched and moaned about the possibility of Nintendo's Famicom Mini series staying in Japan, and then now turn around and bitch that LESS THAN WHAT NCL was originally charging might be too much.