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Nintendo Gaming / Animal Crossing DS NEW PICs & Info

« on: October 29, 2004, 07:38:10 AM »

I looked through the DS section and could not find an Animal Crossing DS topic so here goes.  Quick side note though, I'll like to say sorry to the forum adms, I had created another PSP vs DS forum when I just noticed there were 2 previous ones already made.

Nintendojo seems to have some new scans up from the new famitsu magazine and in one picture you can see new Animal Crossing pics (well new to me lol)  Here's the link
http://www.dojomediaserver.com/media/misc/2004/10/10_DS_Scans_02.jpg

In the picture you can clearly see that the detail for the main character has been upgraded along with detail around the town.  Some of the information given confirms now that you can visit others towns with the wireless connection.  Another nice little tidbit was that 4 players can roam around town at the same time.  This is depicted on the picture to the far right where you can see to human female characters in one screen.  The 2 screens are now being used to show the sky in some cases as apposed to showing the menu screen.  I'm sure you can toggle between the 2 displays or they occur during key moments in the game.  

I don't know about you but with all this new info, its got me even more excited for the DS and Animal Crossing in general.  I'll like to know if anyone else have any more links to pictures or have heard any new info on the game.  Also, if anyone can blow up the pictures in the scan so we can get a better look at  the items in the menu screen and what some of the icons are at the top, it'll be much appreciated.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:PSP vs DS

« on: October 28, 2004, 10:13:33 AM »

Everyone has to realize that the supposed battery life is having almost every feature turned off or minimized.  Light as dim as possible, wifi off, headphones being used, all this has to be met to reach the "4-6" hours they are claiming.  

Yes the system has a cheap base price but thats not all that people will be buying.  To get anything out of your PSP, you will need to buy the PSP, a memory stick, and a game, that should break well into the 250 dollar range.  Throw in the optional headset, carrying case and extra battery pack and your breaking into 300 plus range.  The 185 price tag will look pretty up in the stores but once someone goes to actually buy it, they'll start to add up the costs of everything else they need, and that my freind will put a huge damper on their party.  

Remember people, portable gaming is about ease of play, pick up and go gameplay.  How enjoyable is a PSP going to be when you have to remember to charge the battery before you go to ensure it doesn't die out half way, remember to bring your memory card so you can actually play the game and be sure to be extra gentle with it so as to not create any scratches on its big lovely screen.  Looks to me like the PSP is in more need of a planner and touch screen to keep everyone on check on everything they will need to do and bring in order to enjoy their system.  They should release the PSP with a duffle bag or something to help carry all this stuff cuase no one is about to have games, the PSP, an extra battery and a memory stick poking out their jeans along with their keys , wallet and whatever else.

As for the graphics, 3d should stay in the home business, I like my portable gaming to stay 2d.  The portable industry is an escape to more old school gaming.  Its our only source for those type of games and if portable gaming were to make the transition to full 3d then goodbye to 2d sidescrollers and shooters, old school rpgs too.  I don't want to see that happen.  As for the jaggies that everyone is complaining about, don't stress it, it wont be so obvious on such a small screen.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:PSP vs DS

« on: October 27, 2004, 06:58:05 PM »

I think the game that will break the race open and show the clear cut winner is going to be the next official sequal to pokemon.  Just look at how the new revised ones are selling.  Imagine a true sequal with worthy additions.  You know they'll take full advantage of the wireless play with the new pokemon.  Pokemon to the portable industry is basically the equivalent of grand theft auto and halo to the console industry.

EDIT: I have another nice little tidbit of info that should be brought up.  The following quote is from one of the users on the N-Sider forums.  Enjoy...

"Originally Posted by Samer!!
Here's something interesting quoted from Gamasutra News, refering to the announced battery life range:

These figures have, by Sony’s own admission, been arrived at by limiting the display luminance and volume, as well as using headphones rather than speakers, and ensuring the wireless LAN is not in use. This could suggest that a less careful use of the console would result in a battery life closer to the 2 hours previously suggested by some observers."

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Nintendo Gaming / PSP vs DS

« on: October 27, 2004, 11:07:02 AM »

Now that both SONY and NINTENDO have revealed much of their launch details ( and some crucial PSP info has been released) we can start speaking of the PSP/DS battle on a more level ground.

As for me,  with the announced PSP launch details, the battle seems too similar to the past. A stronger system with weak battery life is challenging nintendo again. I know the PSP has additional features that the previous system's didnt have to brag about, but I honestly don't believe it'll make a huge difference. The PSP including movie and music playback isn't going to be as big as for example when the ps2 came out with dvd playback. The movie playback feature will get the least support of the 3. As for music playback, people can purchase better mp3 players for the price.

At 185 , I'm sure the battle will be alot closer than alot of people have been anticipating. The PSP will sell strong at first but as time passes by, word of mouth plus hands on experience with the "estimated" battery life, will be the PSP's downfall, not the DS.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Resident Evil or Devil May Cry on the GC

« on: October 22, 2004, 07:01:51 PM »

resident evil should have adopted devil may crys control by now.  You can do so much in devil may cry and the tank controls of resident evil have gotten old at around code veronica.  I wish they'd use that control for resident evil 4 as they are taking a more action tone with the game.  In a game where I'm constantly being surrounded by attackers, it wouldve been nice to give me full control to battle it out.  I guess thats how they create fear and despair, cuase you know if you get surrounded by alot of heads, battling out aint going to be easy, due in part to the control scheme.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Next Pokemon RPG will be on DS - Pokemon Diamond and Pearl

« on: October 10, 2004, 07:49:06 PM »

I like some of the ideas being thrown around here but right now I'll just talk about graphics and then touch up on the gameplay changes later after more thought lol.  I think they should go 2 ways with this.

      The more obvious route that I think we'll see is just an enhancement of what we're seein now.  They should go with the overhead view or 3/4 views that some old school rpgs used to use like breath of fire 3 I believe.  For those that dont know, 3/4s is like the overhead view just slightly slanted over.  The graphics should be up to final fantasy 6 or chrono trigger levels ( or even some of those styles in the last secret of mana or saga frontiers, those were great hand drawn graphs)  

      The other route I'll like to see them take instead of the more traditional one would be a mario 64/Zelda OoT type of graphics.  Complete 3d for both battle and world.  The overworld map should be scrapped for something much greater in scale.  Make the gamer actually travel like in the zelda games lol.  Cel shadin would be best for this series though since the cartoons are so popular and fit in with the game.    

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Silicon Knights and Nintendo break up

« on: October 08, 2004, 10:54:26 AM »

It is strange to see that MS nor SONY have came out and rubbed this in nintendo's face yet.  I'm sure if they are developing something for either xbox or ps2 that sony or MS will love to shove this in nintendo's face.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:DS vs PSP: An intelligent comparison

« on: October 07, 2004, 04:10:22 PM »

I'm getting the DS for the same reason as many others, for the new experience.  The PSP I'll only buy if its released at 150 or less and if the battery life is reasonable, beyond that I wont touch it till I find it used or its discontinued.  There's really nothing that excites me about the PSP.  The DS has got my mind working in overtime of the possibilies that lie ahead that normal games just dont make as much as impact anymore ( on handhelds )  I see the DS becoming FPS, strategy, and RPG lovers dream machine.  FPS and RPGs are goin to get the most out of the system.  I cant wait

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: DS vs PSP....devs and journalists debate

« on: October 05, 2004, 12:42:14 PM »

aight, thanks for the info.  They should take out the movie playback feature though, I think it'll get the lease amount of use of the bunch and it'll cut down on the price.

[nemo_83]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:They should make a Zelda RPG.

« on: October 05, 2004, 12:00:04 PM »

Quote
Originally posted by: nemo_83

If you take out the characters of Link, Zelda, and Gannon then it is nolonger The Legend of Zelda so what is the point of making it a Zelda game.  Just throw everything out the window and create something fresh preserving the gameplay philosophies.

If they were to make a zelda game with a totally different style of gameplay, they'd have to take out all the main characters and not have it associated directly with zelda as to not get the purists and hard core fans mad.  In my post I said if they were to go with a totally different direction.  Use Hyrule as the setting and the legend of link and his adventures as a part of that world's history.  As for the title, they cant use the standard "legend of zelda" or anything of the sort, again, just to keep the purists and hardcore fans happy.  The only thing I can compare to this idea is Final Fantasy 11 in the sence that it uses the history and typical setting of the majority of FF games but doesnt include any major characters in it.  Its a loose comparison, but thats as close I can can think of to my idea.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: DS vs PSP....devs and journalists debate

« on: October 04, 2004, 05:37:42 PM »

I was just thinking for a moment about the psp and its features and I aint badmouthing the psp but here are a few problems I see it having as a result of its features.

mp3 playback:  This is more or less a useless feature to the ds becuase most of the people that listen to mp3s on the go, burn their own music.  How many people are goin to want to get a psp to listen to music when they find out they cant listen to their huge list of already burnt music.  The usual consumer will lean towards a regular mp3 player so they can transfer their music with ease instead of having to purchase an album on a umd.  Unless they let you use the memory sticks to burn songs and then listen to them from there, then it'll work but I dont know the details.  If anyone knows, fill me in.

Movie playback:  How many companies do you honestly think are goin to  re-reliease their movies on umd for sony (besides sony themselves)  Why is someone goin to buy the psp to watch movies when their selection of movies is goin to be severly limited, thus making buyin a portable dvd player a better choice.  Same with music, if sony doesnt permit burning of mp3s to memory sticks on the psp then what companies are goin to be willin to put money into re-releasing albums on umd.  

Those to hurdles will leave you with basically just a portable game system that runs around 300 to 350, assuming it stays within that range.  Given the extra graphics and all that, the price is a lil too steap for just video game playin on the go.  I aint 100 percent familiar with their plan so anyone in the know, fill me in on whats goin on in regards to their mp3 and movie playback features.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Mario 64 DS Confirmed for launch and official boxart...

« on: October 04, 2004, 05:19:54 PM »

It says the release date is dec 7th though.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: DS vs PSP....devs and journalists debate

« on: October 04, 2004, 03:35:53 PM »

I agree with you at some points, I really dont think fps are goin to be that playable on either system (neither racing games besides on sony's cuase of the analog) but if the rumors are true so far with what warp pipe has in store for the DS then I see the DS being a haven for fps becuase of the ease of running lan games.  I aint goin to get further into that though until I hear WP's announcement, thats a whole nother topic .  As for who's responsible for xbox's supports, its easily hands down HALO's work.  HALO is the only reason a majority of people bought the xbox and microsoft has been milkin it since day one.  I didnt buy and xbox till more than a yr after its release, and even though xbox had its platinum selection of games (all the million sellers at a low price I think ) HALO, which is by far its best selling game to date was still at a regular price and not added to its platinum line.  They held it off for so long cuase they knew everyone buyin an xbox was for the sole purpose of gettin HALO.  Till this day the only reasons Ive bought my xbox were for HALO, KOTOR, and FABLE.  Got a few more I'm interested coming up and most are sequals to the mentioned games.  Thats a whole nother topic there also though lol so let me stop detracting from the subject at hand.

EDIT: Team Ninja is only credited with givin the xbox life in japan, thats there biggest contribution.  The big titty girls of DOA is huge in japan and so is ninja gaiden.  As for rpgs and strategy games, I cant wait, there so much that can be done on the DS in regards to those.  Also sports games can get a real boost in micromanagement.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: DS vs PSP....devs and journalists debate

« on: October 04, 2004, 03:23:33 PM »

The DS can do anything the PSP can just using watered down graphics to make it run reasonable.  The only thing I'll give the psp is its screen size , graphics and analog control but it really doesnt bring anything new to the table.  I cant speak for anyone else but I am all for new gameplay experiences and the duel screen, one being touch sensitive, is a great way to breath new life into games.  Its all up to the developers to make right with the equipement they have at hand.  I can see all the posibilites that lay open becuase of this its up to them to make it happen.  IMO memory careds are a true waste and in a generation or 2 they'll be completely gone.  They say blue ray is rewriteable so if thats the way they go maybe they can use some of that space to save games.  Anyways, the 1 Gyg stick that the DS games are goin to be comin in is more than enough mem for a portable video game, I dont know how much more people want.  I think the psp is about 4-5 yrs ahead of its self and wouldve been a wiser move for sony to have waited till they perfected their portable console.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: DS vs PSP....devs and journalists debate

« on: October 04, 2004, 02:06:29 PM »

How does the psp have a better chance to play more classic games than the ds?  As far as Ive seen its rehashes of ps 1 and 2 games just like the ds has n64 games.  Also, how are you assuming that me or critics for that matter wont buy a ds game if it aint innovative or use the systems feature?  A good game is a good game no matter if its innovative or not.  I'll buy what I think is good regardless of what features it does or does not implement.  If your goin to talk about 2d games then you should know the ds is goin to have more of them.  I think I have yet to see a 2d game for the psp and dont think there will be many since it is basically a portable playstation ( a system that when first came out and till this day has little 2d gems)  The gameboy and its lineage have been widely known as the system of choice for classic gaming.  I'm sure they'll be alot of 2d fighters for the ds cuase I think it can handle 2d better than it can 3d, besides , it has no analog control so more developers will be inclined to create something 2d.  2d side scrollers? how about the castlevania in developement and the many sequals that will undoubtably follow, I'll put money on it that they'll be 2d.  The metriod series beyond hunters I'm sure is goin to continue the 2d side scrollin method.  Those argueably 2 of the best side scrollers we have today not even mentioning any wario, kirby, or mario games that'll eventually come out.  Megaman is already known to be all over the gameboy advance so the trend will likely follow over to the ds.  
    As for team ninja, true nintendo fanboys should know who they are as they are the ones that made all the ninja gaiden games back for the nes.  DOA3 isnt their best work either, its just a pretty game, I'll take street fighter, soul caliber, or vurtua fighter over it anyday.  You gotta remember, graphics dont mean much when it comes to portable gaming.  There have been many portable systems out before that have eclipsed the gameboy graphic wise and have all failed.  The key to success in the portable market is low cost, ease of use and accesability.  The psp is a nice system but it way ahead of its time and tryin to accomplish too much.  You do have a point in sayin that alot of developers will be forced to use the double screen and touch option and all that with there games but thats only the first wave of games.  After a while, the novelty will die down and developers will be left to do as they please with the system.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: DS vs PSP....devs and journalists debate

« on: October 04, 2004, 12:06:51 PM »

my points arent fanboyish, the way I word some of my statements might be, but off the given information, nothing I said is fanboyish.  I'd put myself on the spot right now and garantee that the psp is goin to have battery probs when its released and that the pricerange is goin to be well over anything the average consumer is goin to be willing to pay.  Also, what can the psp do that the ds cant?  The ds can do whatever the psp can do gamewise just not as pretty.  If you were to switch that around and ask what can the ds do that the psp cant game wise then you have a list of things that I aint goin to get into right now.   Another big thing is that I'm hearin you have to get memory cards for this psp lol, thats nuff said right there

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:They should make a Zelda RPG.

« on: October 04, 2004, 10:28:40 AM »

I think the only direction they should go if they were to make a zelda rpg would be to make it similar to fable or a mmorpg.  You create your own character in the game,  it takes place in the hyrule but link had nothing to do with the game besides be a mythical hero from long past.  Prob have a statue in the main village where you start off.  Kids grow up idolize and  striv to emulate him.  The title can not have any mention of Link or zelda or "legend of".  Like that they can go in any direction they want and it wont trully have a signifficant affect on the main serries and wont upset the hardcore fans ( like me lol)  The game would have a large selection of armors, bows, swords and whatnot.  Guilds to join to look for side adventures when you want to take a break from the main quest.  Just imagine, you can make your character to resemble link yet have a different style with his outfit.  Also, if you REALLY want Link to be involved in some way.  Have him appear at the end of the game and you'll have to team up wit him to get through the last dungeon.  Have 2 end bosses or somethin lol, have link disapear with one of them and you batle the other.  Then whatever that happened with link and the other boss can be implemented into one of the stand alone zelda games, storywise though, not the actual gameplay.

EDIT: on a side note, you dont play the zelda games for a good story, people play the zelda games for the sence of exploration, the freedom you have to travel across the land.  You dont look back at A Link to the Past and say, wow that was a great story, you replay the game cuase its an overal fun game of exploration and discovery.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Remember Ogre Battle?

« on: October 04, 2004, 09:22:54 AM »

dam, Orgre Battle for the N64 was (and still is) the shiiizzzznite.  Dam that game was a gem.  They def need to build off that.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: DS vs PSP....devs and journalists debate

« on: October 04, 2004, 09:14:28 AM »

I'm sure you'll get all your old school fighting games and the real good developers arent going to force the use of the touch screen if they cant come up with anything worth while that'll enhance the gameplay.  The posibilites are endless for the DS and fighting games.  Like some have said, you can use the screen for lest say marvel vs capcom where fighters get hit so far up in the air that you lose sight of them, with 2 screens you can see whats happenin up in the air with the secont top screen.  
    For boxin games, the bottom touch screen can be used for info and in between rounds.  Lets say in between rounds the bottom screen has a frontal view of the fighter sittin on his chair.  With the stylus you could go and grab the water bottle to give the fighter water, cut him if need be, try and seal cuts and whatnot.  They can also use the old punchout look since you into the old school.  Bottom screen will be the behind the back view from punchout and the top will be like the sports broadcast of it, with replays and all the commentary.  You can take your psp if you want to settle for the basics.  

    IMO the psp is dead out the gate and no I aint biast.  I am a nintendo fanboy at heart but I do own all the systems cuase they all serve their purposes.  If it comes out over 200 dollars then it'll be too much and the only people that'll buy it are the tech heads that always need the new stuff or the sony fanboys that'll buy anything with a sony logo on it.  So far speculation is that its goin to run in at 350, god help sony if thats true.  Also, battery life is goin to SEVERELY cripple the psp.  From what I read, predictions so far are about 6 hrs for games if I remember correctly and bout 2 hrs for movies, cant remember how much for music though.  If that holds true and it trully is 2 hrs for movies then they might as well not even include the featuere.  What if your watchin a 2+ hr movie?  Near the climax of lord of the rings you goin to want to charge the batter of your psp so you can finish the last half 4 or so hours later? right, I just might do that.  Then you have to get into the idea of havin to buy the movies and albums you already have on that umd thing just so you can take it on the road.  Sh*ts just gettin out of hand.  
    Sony is just becoming another MS tryin to force products onto us to make them standards.  They doin wit with the psp and its umds (if thats what the format is called) and they goin to do it to the industry with the ps3 and blue ray discs.  Anyways, more power to you though, I hope you enjoy your psp when its charging while I play my DS and a few extra games for the same price you payed for your psp.