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Nintendo Gaming / RE: FORCE FEEDBACK GYROS FOR THE REV---

« on: April 05, 2005, 07:30:28 AM »

LOL its true, it doesnt matter what Nintendo does, the "dissapointed" people are going to abound all over the internet after E3, its going to be as annoying as the DS vs psp endless discussions....

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: April 05, 2005, 07:19:28 AM »

Ive found the humor in the Zelda series to be great. In OoT for example, when Ruto says theyll be engaged, that honestly made me laugh out loud. Or how about the boring guy who owns the "shooting galleries" of the Wind Waker, it was hilarious how he started to explain you the rules of the game, even thedarkest game yet, Majora's Mask,  had its funny guy Tingle. This next game can have its funny moments and its serious moments, I dont think that is a detriment to the game in general, even if this new aproach is more mature.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official GCN Sales Thread

« on: April 04, 2005, 09:05:59 AM »

I missed this title too what was it? dont worry, I think Ill be able to handle it ^_^

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: April 02, 2005, 08:45:34 PM »

hahaha, you people... wasnt Wind Waker great? because imo it was! and so it was for many of you, so stop complaining... I feel like siding with Bill on this one, Id actually like Nintendo to make Zelda celshaded again, just to make all of you cry My real secret hope is for tingle to appear in the new game, just to make IGN Matt to cry...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: April 02, 2005, 07:09:56 AM »

what was the forum title? I missed it

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General Chat / RE: Underappreciated NES classics

« on: April 01, 2005, 12:51:56 PM »

I dont know if it has already been mentioned because I cant remember the title, but it was this game with two cute penguins, you only moved one, but the other mirrored the movements of the one you were moving, the goal was to make them kiss each other at the end. I know it sounds corny, but it was awesome!! best puzzle game Ive ever played.

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General Gaming / RE: Shocking Psp sales yay for nIntendo?

« on: March 31, 2005, 06:48:02 PM »

whats "in the channel"?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Just reread that gameinformer article

« on: March 31, 2005, 02:31:57 PM »

Ive heard that touching technology so far can only read on point being pressed, so games will be in a way that you can only use one "virtual" button at a time? Nintendo will never do that, I cant believe a gaming magazine could believe such thing.

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TalkBack / RE: Mario Petitions Hollywood for Spot on Walk of Fame

« on: March 31, 2005, 02:04:50 PM »

If any video game character deserves a star in the walk of fame, is Mario. Im all for it, but it should be given to really stablished characters, not a generic hero of the current popular game (yes, slight bashing of the walk of game)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 30, 2005, 04:40:24 AM »

well, he said that since Link was a teenager, there could be a posibility of romance, but just that. I wouldnt bet money that there will be romance, but the posibility is there.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 29, 2005, 03:47:12 PM »

every Zelda game has been unique, I think this new one wont be the exeption. At first I wasnt happy to hear Aunoma saying that they were building the game around Ocarina, but then I read somewhere else when he also said that Ocarina was built around a Link to the Past. The game will be unique, I dont have a doubt about it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 28, 2005, 04:40:59 PM »

Ive read somewhere that the game will feature the same eye tracking thing of tWW, which was really nice. And also I would love for Link to have a great ammount of facial expressions, in cel shaded it was easier, but Retro actually made great facial animation with regular 3D in MP2 at the last battle, so Im sure that Nintendo will be able to pull it off.  

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TalkBack / RE: Spielberg and Nintendo Celebrate Charity's Success

« on: March 27, 2005, 05:51:09 PM »

Its always pointed out that Bill Gates is the person who donates the most to charity, but being the richest person in the world, that really is no surprise.... only if he actually donates 90% of his personal fortune Ill be impressed (and that 10% thats left for him is more money than any of us will see in our life time)

[nemo_83]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 27, 2005, 01:31:48 PM »

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Originally posted by: nemo_83
The original topic on this rumor was posted 11/01/04.  I am not going through every single page to find out if anyone was able to confirm that its information was fake.  There are fourty something pages for this particular topic.  All I know is that the information was closer to what they showed at GDC than any other specualtion leading up to it.  The flooding, the boar with the same gear as the horse, and the wolf at the end of the video.

not to mention, that the horse has a trident as a symbol, which happens to be the symbol of the greek god Poseidon. Epona is also a god, a celtic godess to be exact.

It fits extremely well with the official trailer for being a rumor, but Im almost sure that such interview was debunked some time ago, all I can say its an amazing coincidence.

And also I wouldnt want voiceovers, in another forum someone brougth up an interesting thing: having text is like reading a book, as in you imagine how the characters sound, the moment they speak, the magic is lost, and it will most likely be dissapointing. It can only work if the voice overs are absolutely amazing, and done by professional actors, which of course its just common sense, it cannot work any other way.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 22, 2005, 05:53:01 PM »

I was thinking the same, and it definately can work on land! no longer the central hub scheme (which I dont dislike), this seems to be a fully open world, and Id really love to see that. I dont see why can it be bad, we already see theres plenty of action while travelling in this open field. What I dont think it will happen is that the overworld is divided into squares and every square has a location. It might be divided in a "squarish" way but the locations might be different. For example there could be an important town who covers two "squares" of the world so to speak, and if theres an hyrule castle it could cover a big area, like 4 "squares", and you dont stop riding "epona" when entering any location.... actually the trailer hints that its posible to enter locations with the horse. I think that would be really great!

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General Gaming / RE: PSP vs. DS ... Final Verdict (G4)

« on: March 22, 2005, 05:34:10 PM »

About the microsoft example... the whole touch interface failed solely because of the input device itself? didnt the high price (because I suppose that touching technology  a whole ten years ago was expensive) didnt have anything to do with it? I really think that it wasnt just touching, it was another number of factors, it wasnt time for it yet. In fact Im willing to bet that in the future touching input will be the rule, I havent the slightest doubt about that, and Im not basing that just on hollywood and science fiction in general, Im seeing it every day.

Even if the problem with windows was solely due to the touchscreen I honestly think it was because we are already used to use a mouse as an input device, if its really superior then why every single museum Ive been to uses touching screens instead of puting a mouse? touching is essentially easier, the problem again is the already defined userbase, I really cant explain myself any better so Ill put two examples:

1) the Dvorjak (sp?) keyboard arrangement has already been proved to be superior to the qwerty arrangement, but we know theres no way in hell it will become standard, never, even if someone actually pulls out a big campain to make it known to the average consumer, this is an extreme case scenario similar of what its happening with the touchscreen as an input device.

2) I have a really hard time trying to teach my mom to use the controller of the GC, even for such simple games as Mario Party, my brother has tried to play with her many, many times, but always she walks out, she finds it boring, and frustrating, can you really say that she will have the same reaction when playing Yoshi's touch and go or WarioWare?

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General Gaming / RE: PSP vs. DS ... Final Verdict (G4)

« on: March 22, 2005, 04:56:02 PM »

I disagree, I think that the touchscreen is the most transparent input device, its the most intuitive of them all. Weve been playing games with a D-pad for practically 20 years, so all the game reviewers everywhere are going to say its not intuitive, that its ackward, and that it plainly sucks, but thats only because we are already  very used to the old ways! all Im reading around all the internet is people that just hate games having an awesome time with the DS. In all honest and turth, can anything be more intuitive an accesible than touching your game? imo only Virtual Reality, and we are still far from it. The problem is again the old crowd of gamers, who would and will be happy with the same. Im sure most of us wouldnt mind at all playing with the same input device (for example, current controls) for twenty years and on, because we have happened to fall in love and in some cases to have an almost sick affection for games (yes, me ), but we are not enough to make the industry stay alive, the DS trully opens new gates, the hardcore gamers in general are the ones who dont want to cross them because they are pretty happy with what they have now. Im willing to try the DS when I can with a totally open mind.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 19, 2005, 08:12:06 PM »

ok... confession time... I... have never played 2D Zeldas *covers*

It was the language barrier, in the NES and SNES, Zelda was never popular here because of the english text, so my first experience with Zelda was with OoT, since my english skills were already acceptable by that time, and sadly in this moment I cant afford a GBA. I recognize those guys now, since Ive recently start to play the first LoZ with... emulators, >_<

If only Hyrule was flooded, it would be posible for the Zoras to have survived, but I always though that it was the whole world that got flooded, since Tingle descendants appear in the WW, while he was a Termina habitant, not Hyrule's... of course you can make other explanations for this, liike Tingle leaving Termina.

Professional, I missed your other comment before, it would be nice an eding like OoT, or specially MM, that was so touching and emotional for me, seeing all the people you helped happy after having acomplished your goals.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 19, 2005, 07:12:06 PM »

oh god, I need to replay the wind waker as soon as posible, but I dont have any space left in the memory card, the other two games are from my brother

I really wish zoras to come back, just imagining them swiming in that awesome water makes me drool, but thinking about it they are extint, that makes them less likely to appear in the next game, why would they returned? it again makes no sense...and Bill you talk like if there were evil zoras in the previous Zelda games, they were? >_< crap, my memory is failing too much these days, and I replayed OoT and MM only a few months ago.

[KnowsNothing]

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General Gaming / RE:PSP Pouches

« on: March 19, 2005, 06:42:39 PM »

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Originally posted by: KnowsNothing
10 bux says that a pouch with a big "NOT MADE BY J-LO" on the front would sell better.  In fact, Nintendo should do that.

That would be truly awesome.

[Bill Aurion]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 19, 2005, 06:38:00 PM »

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Originally posted by: Bill Aurion
"out of all races the zoras had the more chances of surviving the flood"

Not really, if you think about it...The Great Water was poisoned, which led to only monsters being able to survive in it...That said, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Zoras returned, but I'd love to see some evil River Zoras make the cut as well...

That makes even less sense... I know, Zelda's timeline is like, inexplicable... but thats just absurd, if what the godesses wanted was to seal evil under the waters, why use poisoned water that actually kills everything exept the evil?... I have a question though, the waters being poisoned are actually mentioned in the game or its just a theory? I cant recall them being mentioned at all, all they say is that the waters have no fish to catch, that really doesnt mean the were poisoned, its just a posibilty, one that doesnt make sense.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 19, 2005, 04:50:12 PM »

true! so lets talk about... Zoras! Ive seen a lot of excitment about the gorons coming back in this game, but they really never even were gone, while zoras were ultimately forgotten, all we had was a glimpse of a zora as a phantom sage in the Wind Waker, what happened to them? the obvious answer would be that they evolved into the ritos, (as that particular scene migh suggest) but that doesnt make sense, out of all races the zoras had the more chances of surviving the flood and the ones who dont need any kind of evolution to adapt to this new sea world, what are your theories on that? because its certainly mind boggling.

and to keep things on topic do you think that Zoras will be back in the new Zelda? it has a chance to happen, so far weve seen that finally Link can go underwater again without problems.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Resident Evil 4 Discussion

« on: March 19, 2005, 02:51:15 PM »

I still think it was dull, my and brother were like "its shoot in the eyes, climb, repeat and repeat... and repeat" after having such a terrific fight with the scorpion-zombie thing (the one that grabbed you like a rag doll and then climbed up from the depths you had already thrown him into and fights with you going underground and all) I was dissapointed with that fight with saddler, the moment Ada threw the rocket launcher I didnt hesitate to end the battle, it was either do that or do the shoot eyes - climb sequence a dozen times, very few strategy needed, it didnt matter to have saved all the big guns for this fight, you just needed a shotgun and enough ammo to end it, the scape in the jet-ski was totally awesome though

I dont remember who was tyrant, it wasnt the scorpion zombie thing, was it? because thats honestly the best boss fight of the game I can recall now

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Resident Evil 4 Discussion

« on: March 18, 2005, 07:45:26 PM »

I just finished the game! it was absolutely amazing! the cutscenes in this game are like a million times better than any other because you just dont know when you have to push the buttons! I couldnt put down the controller at anytime ^_^


The final boss was dull and dissapointing, but I really didnt mind that fact, the whole scape scene at the end was awesome! the only thing I missed, and specially my little bro, was that you cannot play the Ada mission with her original sexy outfit

to get all the weapons you had when finishing the game you need to load the last save of the game, the game after you finished has all the new things unlocked but in order to have all your weapons from the start you must load the game from the save file, not start a new one.

In conclusion, it sucks that the GC had such a lackluster third party support, because as this games showed, the GC is very capable of putting amazing games, my only explanation is that devs are idiots and never gave the little good GC any chance. I can only imagine games like Devil May Cry with the kind of graphics that they deserve as shown in RE4! or a great Castlevania title! all those games wouldve been totally mind blowing in the GC.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 17, 2005, 06:55:14 PM »

I downloaded a video of the ending of one of those games... I do agree, they dont exist, period.