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General Chat / Anti-Aliasing?

« on: February 22, 2004, 08:26:30 PM »

I have a question for u guys that i will be using for a essay and presentation for my college class (Game Art & Design) and i want to use this survey type question as a reference.  (Im not sure if this is breaking any  forum rules so i hope i did this correctly)

That being said my question is simple, Do you agree that video game texture's anti-aliasing is a huge importance for graphical realism and that the right color shades to create the anti-aliasing is important for realism?  One more question Do you think Anti-Aliasing is the biggest thing to creating realistic textures?

P.S. I need more than a couple of you guys to reply otherwise the survey would be very inaccurate.

Oh God plz say this thread is ok i dont want to face the wraith of the mods (Bloodworth) and just in case let me bribe u with this  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Nintendo: Out of Gamecubes?

« on: February 20, 2004, 12:31:47 PM »

Yeah a bit old news, Gamecubes have been gone since Christmas.  I work at a Sam goody store, and we havent seen any since then and yet we have like 10 ps2 and like 5 xbox, yet we havent sold any for awhile either.  I'm actually having a bunch of ppl ask for gamecubes alot and they keep saying "Dude i can't find it anywhere!"

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Eternal Darkness, Help me plz

« on: February 20, 2004, 12:22:36 PM »

i dont have reaveal invisible spell, and i only have recover, and enchant spells.  Ive look through the level and i cant find anything.  There is a door that i cant get to because the roof fell in on it, am i supposed to do something there?

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Nintendo Gaming / Eternal Darkness, Help me plz

« on: February 19, 2004, 08:23:08 AM »

I decided to pick up this game and start playing it again and im stuck.

I am Karim in Chapter 4:  The Gift Of Forever/ Persia

I am apparently supposed to stick the Ram Dao sword into this door but it wont accept it.  I noticed the rune design on the door so i enchanted the sword and it still doesnt work.  So i figure i missed somethin and i have walked throughout the map a billion times and i cant find anytihng at all to get passed this.  What silly @$$ thing am i doing wrong?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

« on: February 18, 2004, 04:24:57 AM »

so how do u beat the game then?  Or are u just saying i can level up as much as i want before fighting the boss?  Well just how far am i, if im only in my 4th year?

Side Note:  Been Playin this game single player, but i will be playing multi very soon, my friend is now thinking of getting a cube too, lol.  Yay!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

« on: February 17, 2004, 04:09:39 PM »

One question.  I'm on the 4th year and i was curious about how many years there are?  Anyone Know?  Or at least what is the furthest anyone has been on.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

« on: February 13, 2004, 05:45:03 PM »

if my family trait is blacksmith what is the best thing to send to them.  I keep sending seeds because the item says it is a perfect gift for them.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:FF Crystal Chronicles: Ask a question, get an answer

« on: February 13, 2004, 12:37:27 PM »

Anybody else stuck?  I'm stuck in the 2nd year in single player.  I only need one more myrrh droplet and the last place i can get it from is this @%@#$ Manor.  It is like a guys home and he the begining cutscene is him yelling at his chefs to get cooking.  I cant find the tree or anything though.  I'm totally stuck.

By the way how far am i and how long can i stay on the road before its too late for my tribe dies?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:GCN SHORTAGE??????

« on: February 10, 2004, 07:47:19 PM »

Yeah i work at a Sam Goody music shop and we havent had any since christmas, we havent gotten any new shipments at all.  I have had a few customers ask me for one and i told them we were out and they replied "I can't find them anywhere!".  This is totally a negative situation for Nintendo.  I hope they fix this soon because FFCC just came out and Pokemon Collesseum is coming too.

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TalkBack / RE:EA Teams with Marvel Comics

« on: February 06, 2004, 09:27:04 AM »

Wow this is the worst news ive heard in a long time.

Isnt there any developer out there that can save us from EA?

First they have to ruin the Bond games and then they take out Westwood Studios (Command & Conquer).

EA is just getting worse and worse yet ppl keep buying and buying and i bet even Marvel VS EA game will sell.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:FF Crystal Chronicles: Ask a question, get an answer

« on: January 31, 2004, 04:08:52 PM »

wow i just saw ign's review.  They gave it like a 7 out of 10!  And they kept dogging on the game it sounds really bad in the review.  I know IGN are a bunch of morons seeing how they gave Dead or Alive Beach Volley ball a 9.0 score but the review still sounds very bad.  Now im really confused at how good the game really is.  Hey PGC i cant find a review anywhere please give me a link to the PGC reviews  of this game.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:FF Crystal Chronicles: Ask a question, get an answer

« on: January 31, 2004, 09:23:34 AM »

Thats what i meant, use 2 cubes, 1 using its gba player to connect to another cube that has final fantasy playing.   So in other words yes i would have my cube turned into a glorified cube with its own intec mobile screen!  Would that work?  It sounds like it should but im not sure.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:FF Crystal Chronicles: Ask a question, get an answer

« on: January 30, 2004, 09:42:14 PM »

ok i heard this on another forum.  Is there any way i could use a gcn/gba link cable with my gameboy player (GCN) and hook it up to ffcc like it was a GBA.  Of course i would use a seperate tv but would it work?  I mean it is basically making my cube into a gba right?  I know that this method is costy but i already have a GCN and a Gameboy Player plus I have a Intec mobile screen so this would really benefit me to buy another GBA.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:FF Crystal Chronicles: Ask a question, get an answer

« on: January 30, 2004, 07:12:37 PM »

so if i only use the game as a 1 player game will it be worth while to play the game through a couple of times?  say with 1 of each race?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:FF Crystal Chronicles: Ask a question, get an answer

« on: January 30, 2004, 12:05:35 PM »

Alright im a little confused about this.  In movie clips ive seen i only see one player.  So in single player mode do u not have a party of ppl in your caravan or what?  Do u just play the whole single player mode without cpu assisted characters in your party?

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TalkBack / RE:Nintendo Executive Retires

« on: January 29, 2004, 02:04:19 PM »

Wow what a stand up guy, all the charaties and he served in the army in time of war.

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TalkBack / RE:Latest Nintendo Performance Numbers

« on: January 27, 2004, 01:50:41 PM »

Actually i believe nintendo does not participate in any North American Stock exchanges.  they only have stocks in Japan.  Anyway I wonder how confident sony is about the PSP now that nintendo has reached 20 million GBA's in America only and now nintendo has a new system to compete against the PSP even though nintendo says it wasnt made to compete with the PSP.  I bet sony has been wetting their pants since the december.

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TalkBack / RE:Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Review

« on: January 25, 2004, 09:38:03 AM »

I have some questions.

1.  Can u play 2 players (1-4 players)
2.  In single player do u still command a party?
3.  If i decide to play mulitplayer but then say my friends leave can i play single player and keep my data and move on without them?
4.  How hard is the game, so far the videos i have seen make the game look way too easy

By the way Blooworth great review it cleared up about 3/4 of the questions i was gonna ask.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:What is Mario & Luigi like?

« on: January 03, 2004, 09:09:55 AM »

wow, sounds good, thanks for the replies guys.  I have already went to buy it but it seems sold out everywhere, ive tried target, walmart, sam goodys and ebgames.  I guess i will have to wait a bit untill i can find this one.  thanks again!

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Nintendo Gaming / What is Mario & Luigi like?

« on: December 27, 2003, 06:22:55 PM »

 I dont know much about this game plz give me info.  what kind of game is it like?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Nintendo to switch packaging for GBA games...

« on: September 22, 2003, 12:10:07 AM »

Anybody think maby this is to try to stop theft?

I work at a Sam Goody store and they have the GBA games inside of the original boxes but with a hard plastic covering, kinda like for the music cds that they have.  And anywayz every once in a while i will find a GBA game stolen!

OMG it pisses me off when that happens.  The last time i noticed it Madden 2004, Kirby, and Sonic was stolen!

So if they change it to a dvd case then this might help some of the retailers that have this problem bcuz those GBA boxes are hard to protect against theives.

I swear if i saw a guy trying to steal a game i will sock him in the fuckin b@lls!!!!!!!!!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Nintendo fans reach 'cult' status

« on: September 21, 2003, 11:55:55 PM »

WoW, and i thought our kind was rarier, lol, nice turn out for this topic.

Well where should i start, ummm.....I'm 18 and the first game i remember getting into was the original MegaMan game on NES.......then followed up with Duck hunt, mario 1-3, and etc...................Then i got my SNES and i ended up getting like about 18 games in that systems lifetime, GOD that was the best era in videogames!

N64 was a revoultionary system for me though, thnks to mario 64, goldeneye, thq wrestling games, etc.

GCN still reigns supreme with me though.....even though ive boughten a xbox and ps2..........my ps2 broke in 5 months (got full store credit though).  Used the full store credit to get xbox.  i currently own 7 xbox games and 4 of them i got 4 free (Halo, shenume2, fuzion frenzy, and MechAssault), and yet i barely play any of them at all.

So far i own 13 games for GCN, 7 of them being 3rd party!

lol, i even own a zelda shirt *caption* "Dont Make me go Zelda on you", another shirt that has a NES controller on it, a duckhunt shirt, and another with a GCN logo on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i cant wait till the next system comes out so i can get up at like 8am and wait for my N5 just like i did for my GCN!!!!!!!!!!!

PS hey Perm i live in AZ too! lol  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Soul Calibur 2

« on: August 28, 2003, 01:22:40 AM »

First things first..........WOW

Second, i have xbox and cube and i chose GCN cause of Link, & load times.  Graphics are a second fiddle in my book and all versions look almost the same (except ps2 version).  Hmmm Link, Spawn or Tekken guy.......Link, lol spawn is alright but holy fuckin hell even if i was a big spawn fan i would seriously think about gettin GCN version just cause of link.  By the way ps2 controller gets owned by arcade stick so ps2 loses matter what.  And GCN controller so far i have found no problems with.

Third, omg i wish i could quit my job and sit and play this game 24/7

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General Gaming / Is there anything superior about the X-Box or PS2?

« on: June 17, 2003, 09:50:34 PM »

umm well to say the truth, i actually think the xbox hard drive is a nice feature especially for xtreme sports games where your own music tracks can be played, downloadable content, and etc.  I know u can just blast a stereo but it is nice to hear it from the same system so dont flame me.

xbox has easy lan abilities.  I totally cant wait for GCN it will be super sweet for Mario Kart!

umm dvd playback, bleh, alot isnt even supported and u need to purchase a controller for xbox, bleh.

xbox has online abilities, but nothing interesting on it yet, lol.  IMO mechassault isnt a great game to make me pay $100 dollars for (game then xbox live), and ps2 has online abilities, but they have very little and the only good one has alot of cheaters (socom).

Personally I like my Gamecube the best.  I currently own a GCN, XBOX, and i used to own a Ps2 but it broke down in 5 1/2 months.

My ps2's dvd player ruined my simpsons dvd, argh!  and the games graphics were terrible for most games and load times was god awful.

And my xbox is only on a so so basis untill i have my every other week halo lan party.

My Gamecube plain out just has been a blessing since its release, unless u count the dent it put in my wallet, so many great games!

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Nintendo Gaming / real time or turned base

« on: June 14, 2003, 12:59:47 AM »

what?  nobody likes my pokemon idea