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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Let's Talk Controller

« on: March 17, 2005, 06:13:54 PM »

All this rumors about a touchscreen controller had me worried, but I realized is more a worry about the media's reaction to it than actually the gamers (and non-gamers) reaction, because a touchscreen idea is really great! it would made games completly customizable, every game having his own unique control layout that actually helps the gameplay for it to be more intuitive, it can also be an instant eye catcher, I mean imagine a costumer seeing how the controller adapts to any game, its almost an instant seller, it would be easily picked up over the other two consoles, specially because the difference in graphics will be almost undetectable...

But then comes the media  they will bash to death the idea and Nintendo for doing it, every site from gamespot to ign would call it gimmicky and such, and they ultimately will lead everyone of their readers to hate the controller...[/paranoid mode]

well, hopefully everything will turn out well  

[Savior]

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

« on: March 17, 2005, 11:56:30 AM »

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They showed Icons Legend of Zelda on G4 a couple of days ago... It was great. I still hope Nintendo would do something like that for the release of the game  They interviewed Matt fom IGN though ...

urgh, Matt... anyway I would love to see the show, but I dont live in the States, all I get here is a "making the game" special in MTV LA about halo 2  

One thing I can be sure about the new Zelda is that its not a remake of OoT, its getting really annoying reading in many sites and forums that it is, I cant recall riding a boar and picking kittens in OoT, much less wolfs and exploding arrows.

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TalkBack / RE: Happy Birthday, Jeff!

« on: March 17, 2005, 11:39:29 AM »

wow, I feel old >_<

so happy birthday!

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

« on: March 15, 2005, 02:54:22 PM »

I wouldnt mind ganondorf with a last name, it wouldnt be so shocking for my tastes, and  I could even tolerate Zelda's last name, as long as its not some ackward name. I actually like Dragmire, it sounds nice.

I think it would be really funny to find out about the actors who do the voices in games, the could easily play two completly different characters and we wouldnt even have a clue that its the voice of the same person. They are voice actors after all, it wouldnt look so good for an actor like that to only have one type of voice.

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

« on: March 15, 2005, 01:59:30 PM »

the latest rumor! its kind of a minor spoiler if you want, but seems *SPOILER! * that ganondorf will be in the game

http://imdb.com/title/tt0441877/

imdb is not the kind of site you would go to get info on games, but their databases are always accurate, and for what Ive seen so far imdb isnt the kind of site that would put false information.

Just a reminder, but this doesnt mean there will be voice dialogs, since the same actor has already participated in previous Zelda games, they just need them to do the grunts and yells and things like that.  

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

« on: March 14, 2005, 07:51:30 AM »

I dont want to think too much about it, in fact I think Ill try to stay away from news about the game, I want the game to be a total surprise for me

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TalkBack / RE: Satoru Iwata GDC Keynote Transcription

« on: March 14, 2005, 06:54:38 AM »

YAY! torrentz ^_^

I streamed the whole thing from gamespot, but having it in my HD is better, thanks! nice speech, I really like his vision, and I hope it will be successful.

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

« on: March 14, 2005, 06:04:06 AM »

LOL

anyway...Its not that I dont want a musical instrument, but I dont want it to be the main item for the game, probably I just want to avoid comments on forums about how Zelda is not "original" anymore or something like that .

And remember that what Aunouma said its just a RUMOR. Theres not even an interview of some kind to back it up, so dont lose your breath on this one, Id be very shoked if there aren any towns or NPCs, I find that actually impossible.

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

« on: March 13, 2005, 05:51:40 PM »

Its very plausible. Since the times of MM, which was when Aonuma took charge of the series, theres an emphasis about controlling, possesing or transforming into other creatures. You transformed in the different Hyrule races in MM, in WW you controlled statues and seagulls. Still I really wish the game to not have again a musical item as the main one, I wouldnt mind an ocarina or a flute, but not as the center item of the game,  I want something new.

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

« on: March 13, 2005, 12:13:05 PM »

I doubt it, Nintendo is not the kind of company that looks forward to be "cool", unless it was Reggie himself who edited the video lol. From what Ive seen from Nintendo all these years, I can conclude the wolf is there for a reason, its not just a random scene put there imo.

I agree with Don'tHate742, we have to think that gameplay comes first than story for Nintendo, so a transformation thing can be not likely, and Nintendo without a doubt will make storyline plotholes even bigger if it helps the gameplay to be better. For example I really dont think Aunouma an Miyamoto sat down and say "lets make a game about a moon thats going to destroy the world!", Im sure it was more like:

- lets make a game where the player interacts more with the NPC! but  how do we do that?
- lets make Link help them in their daily activities! we can have like a list of requests from them.
- cool! but what if the player fails to acomplish his request?
- oh right, he or she couldnt be able to try again...
- unless we give the posibilty to Link to travel back in time
- thats right! but it seems complex, we need to give Link a reason to take the trouble of going back in time
- how about if the world is about to be destroyed, then he has to do things before this happens
- oh, that would be nice...


And what about the puppies (maybe wolf puppies) that appeared in the first batch of screenshots, do you think the decided to change it to cats? or maybe they are using both? Im hoping for both ^_^  

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

« on: March 13, 2005, 06:21:29 AM »

I really dont think there wont be towns, so far we are sure theres a castle, and it does seem to be inhabitated, since the torches are lit and all, so the rumor might be pointing out about something else. Maybe its a reference that Link now is more independent, since hes all grown up... ok I have no idea what Im talking about, but Im sure there will be sidequests if the cats are any indication.

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

« on: March 12, 2005, 07:23:00 PM »

I actually read about this rumor that Link can transform into a wolf and an eagle, and I read about it before this trailer was shown, so of course it now seems a likely possibility. The rumor also said that the game was going to have a sense of loneliness or something like that, which should be interesting, a sense of loneliness? the rumor says it was Aunuma who said that, if it was really him, what could that mean? it was a rumor, so Ill take with a grain of salt, although watching the wolf at the end really surprised me, it would be the first time a rumor has this sort of back up, or maybe it is just coincidence, who knows? (heh, Ive never had so much fun speculating about something)

one thing Im sure is that the trailer wasnt put together carelessly. Every scene was carefully edited to show us enough info to get us all hyped up, but not to much to still have some surprises at E3.  is it the moon from MM? to tell you the truth every time I rewatch the trailer Im more doubtful, because it just doesnt make sense to have a moon with a face, except if they really intend to pay some homage to MM.

and also I really dont think this game is in the lines of MM, as in it is a side quest with few references to Zelda an Hyrule. This has all the looks of being the epic Zelda game everyone  expects, with Ganon, Zelda and Hyrule.

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

« on: March 12, 2005, 02:35:37 PM »

I dont expect that also, Im sure the game wont be about saving the world from inevitable destruction by a maniacal moon (I think that has to be the best theme for a game ever! I just love MM with passion, sorry for the wierd statement). now after my hype-o-meter has started too cool down, Í can say its probable Im trying too hard to find things in the trailer.

I also think that what the trailer shows is still an early stage of the game, and the trailer just hints us about posible things, if you look back trailers for OoT and WW were very vague also, for me those big cell-shaded chunks are just a minor error of the engine that honestly I only noticed because I wanted to see that scene frame by frame to see in detail the awesome animation of those creatures, and also wanted to see if they were casting a shadow on Link in addition to the ground. Sadly  the trailer quality doesnt let you see that clearly.

[Bloodworth]

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

« on: March 12, 2005, 12:02:07 PM »

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Noticed a couple things graphic wise

-Link kicks up dust/grass when he runs some place
-When ever Link strikes, it lights up the surrounding area (nice touch nintendo)
-When things die, they give off smoke, light, as well as big chucks of mass (I have no clue....look at it with quicktime).

Take a look at Wind Waker again.  I'm pretty sure all of these details were there, and this game is running on the same engine.

I found it hard to believe that this game was running on the Wind waker engine, but after looking carefully I found this. And the purple smoke was another proof. I think Ill miss the awesome dust and smoke effect from the Wind Waker, but they dont fit this new game. Seeing that "realistic" dust is kind of boring after seeing the one in WW, but Im sure Nintendo will add some other beatiful things to look at (like that moon O_O, I just love it!, an I still think it has eyes Bill ).

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: LOZ: 2005

« on: March 11, 2005, 03:19:48 AM »

thats why  I said it looks better in the trailer, just pointing out where those evil eyes are, it looks a lot like the moon if you ask me ( or maybe Ive watch the trailer so many times that Im losing common sense )

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: LOZ: 2005

« on: March 11, 2005, 03:10:29 AM »

I all honest and truth, everything that fits the fantasy genre was inspired by LOTR, so its fine. I found it more like a mix of OoT, MM and Princess Mononoke (the boars, the wolfs, the forest!)

Now Im almost sure that moon is from MM, in the trailer the moon is so bright that we cannot see its details very well, but when it fades to black at the end we see this:

http://img193.exs.cx/img193/459/nuevo13vq.jpg

It looks better in the trailer, but trust me I cannot forget those creepy eyes, why the hell MM got an E rating? that moon was so scary! >_< maybe it was the fact that it looked a lot like Freddy Krueger, my childhood monster (I even had a nightmare with him, now thats scary)
 

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: LOZ: 2005

« on: March 10, 2005, 08:11:32 PM »

well, I still thinks he walks funny, but previous 3D Zelda games didnt dissapointed me with that, so Ill be expecting the movement to look better in the game.

And I just noticed that the moon seems to be from Majora's Mask, which is very weird, how could it fit in the story? and did you notice the wings of  those dragon-like things waving in the air? they werent stiff wings like we are used too! it looked so awesome!, this game is just so, so beautiful I feel I cant bear it.

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TalkBack / RE: Reggie Bombs Dropping

« on: March 10, 2005, 07:26:09 PM »

Its so damn annoying these "nintendo fans" that need to believe again in the company... the most funny question was about the Rev controller "people says its going to be a touchscreen" LOL I can understand an uninformed forumite asking this question, but a game journalist taking the rumor for granted?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: LOZ: 2005

« on: March 10, 2005, 04:12:44 PM »

the water is awesome!

and I also loved how "epona" stepped over the fallen bat-like monster, it was great.

and omg that moon!! those sunsets!! it was really really beautiful!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: LOZ: 2005

« on: March 10, 2005, 03:30:58 PM »

So I finally got it, and from the IGN, the site I couldnt dislike more! ^_^... well, it was so amazing! but thats a given, so Ill just mention my only complain....

Link walks so weird, when hes fighting and going backwards his feet dont move, he seems so stiff for some reason in one of the scenes of the trailer... but anyway I just need to post this:

OMFG THIS GAME IS AWESOME!!1!1!!

sorry...

oh I forgot, I found the direct link to Nintendo's official site trailer http://media.nintendo.com/mediaFiles/52937b07-384a-4364-b8fc-e6f11617d1ab.mov  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: LOZ: 2005

« on: March 10, 2005, 02:37:57 PM »

I care! although Ive never seen Nausicaa, but we are talking about Ghibli here...

So Im waiting impatiently to get that trailer, damn! every site offers it in stream, and my conection is so bad that I hardly see three frames before the clip ends, I need a place to download it as soon as possible and I cant find it

[PaLaDiN]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Reggie COMMANDS your attention now.

« on: March 10, 2005, 05:14:30 AM »

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Dammit.

I was hoping Nintendo would hold out on jumping on the online bandwagon. Their pursuing it aggresively is the last thing I wanted to happen.

I totally agree, imagine the money they are investing on the online affair being put to some other good use, specially R&D. But no, it seems the gaming world is ruled by the minority that is the online gamers and dictates the things we, the people who find online boring, have to play in the future, urgh...

At least I know that Nintendo will try to make online better.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: PSP outsells DS for the first time (EDIT)

« on: March 08, 2005, 06:11:52 AM »

I think that for an experimental system, which the DS is in at least some way, Nintendo is doing extremely well. Sony doesnt have to overcome a two million sales lead of the DS, it has to overcome a 20+ million sales of the gba to say they have won in the handheld market. Unless Nintendo stopped the support for the gba, which they havent.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Reggie speaks. 'Nuff said.

« on: March 05, 2005, 04:00:22 PM »

O_O  Reggie in latinamerica! will he ever come to Colombia? not a chance, he doesnt need too, although xbox and ps2 sell more, Nintendo has the last laugh since piracy is absurd in these two consoles, Ive never even seen someone with an original game for these two... even with the probably dead sales of GC, Nintendo makes more profit than the other two consoles combined.

I dont get you people anyway, Reggie didnt said anything we didnt knew already anyway... and also Iwata was far from being pessimistic, it sounds like it, and with the media giving headlines " Iwata fears third parties will go away" which is an ugly twist of his words, people now think that Iwata believes the revolution will fail, which is completly false.

Now I have to buy the Club Nintendo magazine, which sadly came to my country almost with a whole two month delay! damn mexicans ¬_¬ anyway if he gives some new info and no one has commented on it I gladly will do it ^^

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: No Third parties?

« on: March 04, 2005, 07:54:04 PM »

and stupid Matt does it again! way to twist Iwata's words, he's simply stating what we all knew, "if rev isnt appealing there wont be third party support" duh, thats obvious. did you people even read the article?

"If the next generation platforms are going to create even more gorgeous looking games using further enhanced functionality, and if that next-gen market can still expand the games industry, I'm afraid that third-parties may not support Nintendo"

that honeslty is tha same as saying "if rev isnt appealing there wont be third party support" which is obvious to anyone with a brain, now the choice of words of the translator made idiot Matt (sorry but Im sick of that guy) put things like doom and gloom to Nintendo, as he always do. He isnt really "afraid" they way the want to portrait it, he isnt expecting the Revolution to lack third party support, he just said what everyone already knew, how Revo is risky, nothing more. he's not thinking Revo will fail.

And whats people's rection? Savior's first post says it all:

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1.less third party support

which Iwata cleary didnt say, because if you read the whole quote there's a big IF.

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2.more third party support because the Nintendo Revolution wont have great looking games?

O_o! thats stretching Iwata's words way too much!

the most important thing he said imo was this

"Already publishers are not hesitant in disclosing their concerns over next generation gaming platforms, and development costs are rising. Publishers are afraid... of whether [next-gen] consoles can appeal to people who are not the avid game fans of today."

which is really interesting, hes saying that if next gen consoles dont expand the market developers will be worried. I didnt know that Nintendo wasnt alone in his way of thinking, unless Iwata is lying, but I know he wont do that.

/end rant

uuff, that made me feel better, Ive never been so pissed about an internet article.