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TalkBack / RE: Steven Kent Interviews Zelda Produer Eiji Aonuma

« on: June 07, 2004, 11:30:55 PM »

Yeah, I thought it was pretty interesting when Aonuma said he didn't like the first game. I always held a supostition that whoever would take over such an important franchise would be some sort of Zelda fanatic: someone who loved Zelda and played it so much they indeed grokked all that was contained within it. Giving Aonuma the position, however, has allowed the series to branch in more and more directions.

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One thing I didn't really like about LttP and OoT was that towards the end of the game it was just dungeon after dungeon without any "breaks" in between.

I have a habit to just stop playing a game altogether if I spend too much time concentrated on a broad goal, and see myself to be doing a lot of 'work' for progress that is noticable, but not rewarded with anything more than abstract. For example, getting the longshot would be the sort of thing that would make me enthusiastic about playing through the water temple; a medellion that I cannot interact with (yet is supposedly of great importance) would not. I feel the Zelda series has always been pretty good like this.

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General Chat / RE: Tommy Tallarico: New (not really) Target of the Nintendo Fans

« on: June 07, 2004, 11:17:02 PM »

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One thing I noticed over the years is that Tommy might be the video game version of Payola.

It seems to me that the videogame media is perfect for payola. Is supplying a news site with a beta demo a form of payola? It certinally attracts additional publicity that would not be gained otherwise.

If you have decent arcives and can offer downloads, you can essentially get away with anything. Look at IGN... I remember cracking up laughing when I once went to their site to see it covered in McDonald's goodness. Pity it lost its humour the second time when it happened with EA.  

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TalkBack / RE: Steven Kent Interviews Zelda Produer Eiji Aonuma

« on: June 07, 2004, 07:14:20 PM »

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This really is a great interview--I wish I had asked more about MM when I had the chance!

I really would be interested in hearing more about MM, particuarly in the design section. Where did all that character development come from after ALttP and OoT?

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General Chat / RE:June is end boss month!

« on: June 04, 2004, 04:34:59 PM »

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MY NAME IS GATO
I HAVE METAL JOINTS
BEAT ME UP
TO EARN FIFTEEN SILVER POINTS

I do believe it's:
They call me Gato
I have metal joints
Beat me up
And earn 15 silver points

Yeah, I'll change my avatar soonish.

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TalkBack / RE: Iwata Looks to Australia

« on: June 04, 2004, 04:26:43 PM »

Yeah, my understanding is that Monaco are a tad pissed off since the N64 days, when they lost money from advertising in the second half of it's lifespan. Monaco now actually ask for a quite a wide range of games, just not many copies of each. Of course, NAL don't actually give them much anyway. Bloody hell, we don't even have player's choice titles here! It's bloody ridiculous.

EB games get their stuff from Aussie, so I've actually seen Mario Golf, and strangely enough, Hrarvest Moon for sale here. They also have player's choice games with player's choice boxes, just they cost as much as normal games. We actually got a deal where you would get a Zelda bous disc with a new Cube, so I traded mine in and bought another one to get it, as well as a free player's choice title. I think that was a move on Monaco's behalf, which was a good, except no stores actually have many of the titles anyway.

1080 will come out next week, a few months after the Aussie release.

For the first half of the N64's lifespan in Australasia, it was going pretty well. There was credible advertising with famous sportsmen in NZ and giant billboards with Mario Kart in Sydney. The thing was, it just couldn't match the PSOne's price... something that was clearly quite important. The next-gen should probobly just be dumped here: NAL's dug themselves into a hole that's going to take a lot of effort to get out of. Unless Nintendo want to starts losing mega-profits for a token market, why should they bother?

BTW: This is Ocarina Blue, just that as soon as I changed my email to an Hotmail account so it could be public, my Hotmail account stopped recieving messages.