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General Gaming / "Big Holiday Games" for the Xbox

« on: May 02, 2003, 06:24:38 AM »

While it's not one of the games listed, I am looking forward to Dino Crisis 3.  Seems to be a significant departure from the previous 2 in the series and looks interesting as well.

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General Gaming / "Big Holiday Games" for the Xbox

« on: May 01, 2003, 10:24:26 AM »

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How would you know anything about Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox? They've only released screenshots, and I think maybe one video that is old. What grounds do you have grading the gameplay when no details have been released.....LOL <rollseyes>

Tecmo's track record lately leaves something to be desired.  Their volley-breast (sic) game was about pretty graphics (and a little more) and nothing else.   Sorry if my OPINION bothered you, but my opinion is that the game will be no different that DOA: Volleyball game, both made by Team Ninja.  I am not going to get my hopes up for a phenominal game.  If a game has great graphics then usually it assured that there will be no real game to back it up, that's the way things are now a days.

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General Chat / Buyrite Games

« on: May 01, 2003, 10:09:03 AM »

So, did you have to get your ass up on your shoulders?

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General Gaming / "Big Holiday Games" for the Xbox

« on: May 01, 2003, 09:47:35 AM »

Ninja Gaiden looks like it's going to be a game about pretty graphics and nothing else, and on top of that it doesn't look interesting to me, and I loved Ninja Gaiden on the NES.  Of all of them, the one I am actually interested in is Starcraft: Ghost, and that is going to be on all three consoles so I will probably pick up the GCN version if the game actually turns out to be worth my money.

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General Gaming / WHAT IS A CELL PROCESSOR?

« on: April 29, 2003, 08:30:08 AM »

...a pipe dream Sony came up with because they thought it sounded good and would get them attention... kinda like the Xbox.

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NWR Feedback / 2 Suggestions

« on: April 29, 2003, 08:24:02 AM »

He a shy little webber IT Director.

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General Gaming / Sony's last Quarter.

« on: April 29, 2003, 08:01:05 AM »

Sony's stock has fallen over 2 days to it lowest in 19 years. gamesarefun.com has a piece about how its market value was cut by 895 billion Yen ($7.5 billion US).  27% in the last 2 days.

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Nintendo Gaming / Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow in less than 2 weeks!

« on: April 24, 2003, 09:20:16 AM »

I just realized that the new Castlevania game comes out May 6, less than two weeks away, and like eight months after the last Castlevania game came out  Too bad still no Gamecube Castlevania



Oh, and hopefully the PS2 Castlevania plays as well as Devil May Cry does, being in 3D it has a shadow of doubt already on it.  At least it looks promising.

[EggyToast]

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Nintendo Gaming / What SNES titles should be ported to GBA?

« on: April 24, 2003, 08:58:23 AM »

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Originally posted by: EggyToast
Earthbound and Secret of Mana are already coming out (although Secret of Mana is going by its japanese name so far, Seiken Densetsu or something).

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The new Secret of Mana game is a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure which is the first game in the Secret of Mana series, not the SNES Secret of Mana.

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General Chat / Buyrite Games

« on: April 23, 2003, 10:44:01 AM »

First off call your credit card company and tell them you have been charged for something you haven't received.  They'll take the charge off and probably look into the complaint.  Credit cards are not supposed (possibly even not allowed) to be charged until an order has been shipped.  IMO this sounds like possible fraud intentional or not.

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Nintendo Gaming / GCN Soul Calibur 2 outsells PS2 Version!!

« on: April 23, 2003, 10:23:49 AM »

I wasn't discussing the charts, I was merely mentioning the fact that a GCN game is outselling its PS2 counter part.  And as we all know, this is not something that normally happens. So I thought it was worth pointing out more thoroughly.  

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Nintendo Gaming / What SNES titles should be ported to GBA?

« on: April 23, 2003, 10:16:28 AM »

Act Raiser.  I loved that game.  And Secret of Mana.  

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Nintendo Gaming / GCN Soul Calibur 2 outsells PS2 Version!!

« on: April 23, 2003, 08:00:21 AM »

http://the-magicbox.com/toptenDengeki.htm

The Dengeki Console Game Ranking Top 50 from April 7, 2003 to April 13, 2003 has the Gamecube version of Soul Calibur II at # 12, with 12,471 current and 69,467 total while the PS2 version is at # 19 with 9,826 current and 89,278 total.  I find it great that the Gamecube version is outselling the PS2 version.  I wonder if this is a sign of better things to come.  I guess having Link in the game really does make the difference.

The Xbox version is not on the list, nor is any other Xbox game.

[mouse_clicker]

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Nintendo Gaming / Golden Sun: The Lost Age

« on: April 22, 2003, 03:41:21 AM »

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Originally posted by: mouse_clicker
Also, I need to ask you guys a question that's been plaguing me since the first Golden Sun- is it pronounced DEjinn or just Jinn? I originally pronounced the D but I now think it's meant to be silent (the African country of Djinouti is pronounced as if the D was silent), and so pronounce it as such. Which way is correct? Maybe Rick with his mad English skillz can help me out.

It's pronounced Jinn, like Gin and Tonic. Or Djinn and Tonic

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NWR Feedback / Dead Boards?

« on: April 21, 2003, 11:11:30 AM »

It could also be that some people had more than one account making it appear that there were more users.

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Nintendo Gaming / Golden Sun: The Lost Age

« on: April 21, 2003, 11:05:23 AM »

I love the game.  But unless I am missing something there seems to be no real set explanation on what to do next, other than to "go explore."  and hope you stuble onto the next "mission"  But the game is as good as the first if not better.

I am now going after the second Trident Piece.  I think I have 19 Djinn, 4 Venus and 5 of all the others. My characters are almost to level 30 but I don't know how long I have been playing, hours seem to pass like minutes.

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Nintendo Gaming / 8 pieces of hell (ww spoilers)

« on: April 14, 2003, 06:23:06 AM »

Well according to the GameNow walk through one of the pieces required you to go on a scavanger hunt collecting maps that eventually would give you a Triforce map, like getting three maps from underwater before actually getting the Triforce map. (The golden boat part)  This must be the part near the end that Nintendo simplified when they brought the game to America.

[yellowfellow]

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Nintendo Gaming / Your thoughts on the Wind Waker ending (major spoilers!! Do not read unless you have already beaten the game!!)

« on: April 10, 2003, 11:05:23 AM »

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Originally posted by: yellowfellow
the answer can be found in:

http://cube.ign.com/articles/379/379358p2.html

like miyamoto says, there are two dimensions; one where link is an adult and the one where he goes back to being a child.
since miyamoto says that WW takes place after the dimension where adult link left off, perhaps the other zelda games can take off from the timeline of link returning to his childhood.
therefore, two separate paths in the zelda dimension which can exist at the same time.

There being two dimensions is an easy way out of establishing the story.  Why is there all of a sudden a second dimension when there has never been.  This is a fanasty series, not a sci-fi series.  I don't buy the 2nd dimension.  Neither the story nor the ending of Ocarina had anything to do with alternate dimensions therefor there isn't one now.  

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NWR Feedback / HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH PGC?

« on: April 10, 2003, 09:30:14 AM »

I don't know when I started coming here, I accidentally came across the site and decided I liked it so I haven't left.  I started with the forums last summer.

[Bloodworth]

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Nintendo Gaming / Zelda WW = OoT 100 years later ?

« on: April 10, 2003, 09:10:29 AM »

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
Ganondorf remains alive because of the Triforce of Power - which he doesn't lose until the original Zelda game from NES. This is why the first two games will always be at the end of the timeline.

THink about this.

If the King of Hyrule could plead to the Goddess' to flood Hyrule, why couldn't he have just pleaded for them to save the land, instead of flooding the land (which is stupid in itself, but this way Nintendo can conveniently get the game they want)?  And why at the end did he use the Triforce to wash away the castle instead of saving the land?  By my account Zelda 2: Adventures of Link should be the last game in the series, and if Hyrule was flooded in Wind Waker, which is set about 100 years after Ocarina of Time and before A Link to the Past, then how would the New Hyrule (it would have to be new since Old Hyrule was destroyed in Wind Waker) have their towns named after the Sages in Ocarina of Time? (I thought it a wonderful idea to give the Sages the same name's as the towns in Zelda 2, BTW) How would New Hyrule know about the Sages to name the towns after them?

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is where Ganondorf becomes pig-man Ganon, or at least Nintendo wants us to think.  The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is where Ganondorf is already Ganon -aside from his short stint as the wizard Ahgnamin (sp?) and the instance of the Dark World being corrupted by him and became pig-man Ganon (I thought he was pig-man Ganon in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time at the last battle?, there are holes and inconsistencies in the stories.  How can he become pig-man in Ocarina when in A Link to the Past, the corruption of the Golden Land ala Dark World turns him into Ganon?)  This would make sense (him becoming pig-man in A Link to the Past; because in the very first The Legend of Zelda game, it is just pig-man Ganon and he his killed at the end and the whole premise of Zelda 2: Adventures of Links is about the forces of evil trying to resurrect Ganon.

The only thing I can think of is that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker takes place after the events of all the other previous Zelda games, meaning that every Zelda game previously has been within a 100 year time period.

MY ZELDA TIME LINE
1.   The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2.   The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
3.   The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
4.   The Legend of Zelda
5.   Zelda 2: Adventures of Link
6.   The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
7.   The Legend of Zelda: The Oracle of Season's
7.   The Legend of Zelda: The Oracle of Age's
   (The true ending of the Oracle games have pig-man Ganon in the process of being resurrected)
8.   The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker


By my calculations, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is now the last game in the series story-wise, it would rule out a New Hyrule, at least until the next Zelda game, but doesn't help to fill in the gaps about the first truth of pig-man Ganon.  Was the pig-man Ganon at the end of Ocarina not really pig-man, but merely a form Ganondorf took on out of rage, and that he wasn't forever connected to the form, being that his corruption of the Golden Land into the Dark World making him pig-man Ganon by reflecting his true form (of course if he had the Moon Pearl he could just reverse the effects, or was he corrupted to the point that it was permanent?)

So, when did Ganondorf really become Ganon?

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Nintendo Gaming / So what are your disappointments with Wind Waker (Spoilers)

« on: April 10, 2003, 09:04:15 AM »

My only real complaint about Zelda: The Wind Waker was that the story did nothing to help fill in any gaps in the series.

If the King of Hyrule could plead to the Goddess' to flood Hyrule, why couldn't he have just pleaded for them to save the land, instead of flooding the land (which is stupid in itself, but this way Nintendo can conveniently get the game they want)?  And why at the end did he use the Triforce to wash away the castle instead of saving the land?  By my account Zelda 2: Adventures of Link should be the last game in the series, and if Hyrule was flooded in Wind Waker, which is set about 100 years after Ocarina of Time and before A Link to the Past, then how would the New Hyrule (it would have to be new since Old Hyrule was destroyed in Wind Waker) have their towns named after the Sages in Ocarina of Time? (I thought it a wonderful idea to give the Sages the same name's as the towns in Zelda 2, BTW) How would New Hyrule know about the Sages to name the towns after them?

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is where Ganondorf becomes pig-man Ganon, or at least Nintendo wants us to think.  The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is where Ganondorf is already Ganon -aside from his short stint as the wizard Ahgnamin (sp?) and the instance of the Dark World being corrupted by him and became pig-man Ganon (I thought he was pig-man Ganon in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time at the last battle?, there are holes and inconsistencies in the stories.  How can he become pig-man in Ocarina when in A Link to the Past, the corruption of the Golden Land ala Dark World turns him into Ganon?)  This would make sense (him becoming pig-man in A Link to the Past; because in the very first The Legend of Zelda game, it is just pig-man Ganon and he his killed at the end and the whole premise of Zelda 2: Adventures of Links is about the forces of evil trying to resurrect Ganon.

The only thing I can think of is that The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker takes place after the events of all the other previous Zelda games, meaning that every Zelda game previously has been within a 100 year time period.

MY ZELDA TIME LINE
1.   The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2.   The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
3.   The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
4.   The Legend of Zelda
5.   Zelda 2: Adventures of Link
6.   The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
7.   The Legend of Zelda: The Oracle of Season's
7.   The Legend of Zelda: The Oracle of Age's
   (The true ending of the Oracle games have pig-man Ganon in the process of being resurrected)
8.   The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker


By my calculations, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is now the last game in the series story-wise, it would rule out a New Hyrule, at least until the next Zelda game, but doesn't help to fill in the gaps about the first truth of pig-man Ganon.  Was the pig-man Ganon at the end of Ocarina not really pig-man, but merely a form Ganondorf took on out of rage, and that he wasn't forever connected to the form, being that his corruption of the Golden Land into the Dark World making him pig-man Ganon by reflecting his true form (of course if he had the Moon Pearl he could just reverse the effects, or was he corrupted to the point that it was permanent?)

So, when did Ganondorf really become Ganon?

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Nintendo Gaming / GameShark...Worthwhile?

« on: April 10, 2003, 06:24:35 AM »

I have a Code Breaker for my GBA and have never had a problem using it, never lost any saved data or ruining my games, nothing.

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General Chat / do you know or have you met anyone famous??

« on: April 07, 2003, 09:35:10 AM »

I met Tom Clancy once, he's a stuck up, pompous ass.  

I also met Brookes Robinson when I was little, I have a baseball and glove both autographed by him as well from when I met him.

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Nintendo Gaming / The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker General Help

« on: April 07, 2003, 09:23:33 AM »

Hemmorrhoid,

You'll be able to get at least six more crests.  You will have to fight 6 Darknuts, 2 in one area at the same time, then 4 at the same time in another area that is not connected to the first area.  (The good thing is that they can help you out if you get them to bunch up and attack you, they'll hurt each other making it easier to kill them.)  It is required to further the story, and is near the end after completing both Earth and Wind shrines.  I don't remember the exact locations but Tingles "incredible" map helps you out.

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Nintendo Gaming / Voice Acting - Yay or Nay?

« on: March 28, 2003, 02:46:06 AM »

You know having to actually read the dialogue in a game is just terrible, [sarcasm] why don't we just become even more lazy and request that they don't make games anymore, just make movies.  

America has a terrible literacy rate, having to read to play and understand a game is great.  And 90% of the time voice acting is terrible.  I like that Nintendo doesn't go with the flow created by everyone else.

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I completely agree that for the voices that are already there, they are absolutely perfect. But I'm talking about the blocks of text that you read throughout the game. I think those would be great if professional known actors did them, so it would be just like watching a cartoon while people talked, rather than reading a cartoon.

People who can't hear need those blocks of text.  While voice acting is nice, games that rely on it to propell the story suffer by discriminating against a portion of consumers that will be left out.  Blood Omen 2, for example, on the Xbox (the only version I have) had voice acting but no subtitles so I had to turn the volume up really loud just to follow the dialogue.