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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo should pull out of the consol race.

« on: April 09, 2003, 08:25:45 AM »

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Although profits are declining, they are still making a decent sized profit off gamecube sales, but the biggest issue is ethics. Nintendo has already made two unethical marketing decisions in the past few years: introducing the GBA SP less than two years after introducing the GBA, and the shoddy design of the GameCube. Pulling the plug on the GameCube at this point would be an extremely unethical thing to do, and it would tarnish Nintendo's brand image. The wiser thing to do would be to wait for the next generation of consoles to emerge before it pull the plug on consoles.

It seems that an overwhelming number of gamecube owners are complaining about their cubes malfunctioning and/or no longer working properly at all, which disturbs me. It would be unethical if these problems are the result of a design flaw and if they knew about it, but I don't know whether or not this is the case. The answer to a demand for a light up GBA screen is not unethical, but what they did was simply redesign a product that was already on the market with minimum improvements while the product was still in the early growth stage of the product life cycle. Such product redesigns usually borderline as unethical, that is, it is debatable.

Really? An overwhelming number? That sounds like fan-boy BS to me. I've seen, at the most, ten complaints here at PGC. I myself own two GameCubes, both of which have never malfunctioned in ANY way. I have, however, had both my PS2's break, the first one irreparably, which is why I had to get a second.

You speak of ethics, but it is quite apparent you haven't any idea what it really means.

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Nintendo Gaming / Xbox fan buys Gamecube....story at 11.

« on: April 09, 2003, 08:04:49 AM »

Wow, your GC collection is looking might fine.  Future purchases that I would recommend...

Super Smash Bros.: Melee
Super Mario Sunshine
Waverace: Blue Storm

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TalkBack / Metroid Prime 2 Poll at Nintendo.com

« on: April 09, 2003, 07:50:52 AM »

I was tempted to say "2D", there should be more 2D games on these next-gen consoles. But MP was so great in 3D... I chose longer/more challenging.

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General Gaming / Final Fantasy X-2.

« on: April 08, 2003, 07:39:35 PM »

Sorry, I'm not a big fan of FFX. It was a fairly dissapointing game. I'm not holding my breath for FFX-2, I hate the fact that they decided to "sex up" the characters.

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I like how creative Square is being. Pop Star job?

Sounds like a knock-off of the "Teen Idol" job in DQVII (and perhaps others)

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Nintendo Gaming / NINTENDO FANBOYS

« on: April 08, 2003, 01:41:14 PM »

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In Wind Waker, there's a tribute to Nintendo fanboys. If you talk to the guy who runs the ________ Gallery (don't want to spoil it for ya), he says something like:

"Our membership has gotten low as of late. People are leaving because the ________ Gallery doesn't have all the bells and whistles as some others do. But we've got a special group of hardcore, devoted gallery members, who will always stick with us. And its those kind of people that we stick around for."

That was the coolest! I stood up, and yelled "Hell yes!", then proceeded to do a little dance.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Why not a wait a while for the second zelda?

« on: April 08, 2003, 01:25:59 PM »

How about... We get another Zelda on GameCube... And then ANOTHER Zelda on the next system?! Whoo!

I just hope it is much more difficult than Wind Waker (the only true flaw WW has, in my opinion)

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General Chat / Futurama

« on: April 06, 2003, 05:08:41 PM »

Does no one like Spongebob Squarepants? I love that show!

Top cartoons would be... (In no particular order)

The Simpsons
Futurama
Spongebob Squarepants
Ren & Stimpy
Angry Beavers

Umm... Crap, I suck at listing things. I know there are a ton more.

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zoidburg: my house burnt down noooo
hermies: that raises a few questions
bender: oh tahts where i left my cigar
hermies: that just raises further questions!!

i most likely haven't quoted it properly, but anyway its one of the best moments

ROFL!! I missed ten minutes of the show after that! I couldn't stop laughing!

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General Gaming / Ogre Battle 64

« on: April 06, 2003, 04:26:37 PM »

Thanks for the info! Doesn't sound like my cup of tea after all, I may rent it though, just incase.

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General Gaming / Ogre Battle 64

« on: April 06, 2003, 09:54:42 AM »

I was just wondering if this game is anything like Final Fantasy: Tactics? Actually it is the other way around; is FFT like OB64 and it's predecessors?

I can't find any "footage" of the game. Does anyone know where I can find some in-game movies?

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Nintendo Gaming / majora's mask

« on: April 05, 2003, 09:20:36 AM »

When I first got the game I hated it, I just stopped playing after the first dungeon. Then one day, quite awhile later, I picked it up again and I thought "Wow, this actually kicks arse", I went on to beat the game, after filling out my Bombers Handbook (I think that is what it was called), I also got all the Fairies and Masks. And I loved having the shooting sword at the end, I miss that almost as much as I miss FireFlowers in Mario.


Majora's Mask isn't my favorite Zelda game, but it was still very good.

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Nintendo Gaming / ps3/xbox to get crush by GC2?

« on: April 04, 2003, 03:50:18 PM »

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I don't think Myamoto is the best games designer in the world. I think Hideo Kojima's games are better, personally.

Kojima has one game I like, MGS. Butchering MGS2 didn't really help my opinion either. Your PS2-bias is showing

Oh yeah, and ZOE is pretty cool.


Top Designers...
Shigeru Miyamoto
Roberta Williams
Lori, and Cori Cole.

Those aren't in any particular order.

I can't, seem to think of anymore, I know there are few more, though.

Kojima is one of my "Worth noting". I won't list all these, there aren't alot, but I am lazy.

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General Gaming / Which is better for TS2?

« on: April 04, 2003, 03:22:05 PM »

For FPS's I find the XBox controller to be the best. GameCube is the best all around. PS2 is a brick, and I think it is awfully ignorant of Sony to consider it's controller "good enough".

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IDIOT. If you don't know, keep you mouth SHUT.

I would have thought someone who throws the phrase "Insults are childish" about so freely, would be wise enough to remember his own words.

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Nintendo Gaming / Wind Waker boring? (spoilers)

« on: April 04, 2003, 10:25:17 AM »

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As for buying Wind Waker's triforce map translations, I think it's ridiculous. I'm going around and cutting stupid grass just to find rupees. Collecting these rupees is about as pointless as collecting the notes in Banjo-Kazooie... except of course, Banjo-Kazooie was a lot more fun than cutting grass.

POSSIBLE-SEMI-SPOILER*****

There is alot of money to be made in the place where you obtain Outset Island's Triforce chart, I haven't calculated how much yet, but it was fairly significant. I'm nearly 100% sure you can go back as many times as you like.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Super Smash Brothers Confusion

« on: April 04, 2003, 10:12:57 AM »

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I just bought this game last night, and I'm confused. When my character falls off the edge, why does he keep coming back? Also, what's the deal with all the junk laying around on the screen?

SSB isn't about KOs, well it is, but not in the sense of most fighting games. You can either set a time limit and try to get the most KOs, or set KO limit, and the last man standing is the winner. There are also other modes, but those two are probably the most often played.

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NWR Feedback / So now that the PGC Birthday contest is over....

« on: April 02, 2003, 02:27:14 PM »

I was going to make a video essay, with lots of comedy. But I got sick, and then other bad stuff happened, and then I got Zelda on the 24th, and I only recently stopped playing 5-7 hours a day.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Where are the cell-shading naysayers?

« on: April 02, 2003, 02:16:41 PM »

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EXACTLY. I've heard people say the the cartoon-look doesn't suit Zelda, but if you look at the designs of older games like Ocarina, Link to the Past, and Legend of Zelda the style was always cartoonish. Nintendo simply made the graphics match the cartoonish style.

Yes.

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(that's anime, NOT cartoons)

I didn't realize there was a distinction to be made... I guess "cartoons" are written better... and have more depth.

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Nintendo Gaming / Wind Waker boring?

« on: March 31, 2003, 09:12:18 PM »

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Ah, kind of like a Pokemon using Bide... just saving up his power for one day when he nukes us ALL! RUN RUN RUN!!!! HE'S COMING!!!

LoL!

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Please don't say anything about theaveng... that's just stupid. Maybe it's true, but it's just downright sad to be suspecting people like that. Sure, he's a regular at some XBox forums, but that doesn't mean he is one of those anti-GC fanboys who are bent on destruction and think it's really funny to act like an as$-hole. Maybe he just doesn't like Wind Waker?

This must be directed towards me. All I can say is "Right...". I lied, here comes more...

First of all my comment was in good fun, hence the friendly emoticon at the end. I also went on to say the phrase "But seriously" which should have tipped you off. You obviously didn't feel the need to read much, or perhaps it just didn't sink in.

I can also tell from your post that you don't have a clue. TheAveng doesn't own an XBox (last I checked), so I doubt his attending any XBox forums has anything to do with XBox fanboyism, infact he strikes me as anti-XBox. What I said was "PS2 fanboy", and had I been serious, I said it in a most complimentary way, citing him as one of the more refined PS2 fanboys.


 

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Nintendo Gaming / Just bought my 2nd Cube

« on: March 31, 2003, 08:47:03 PM »

My family had to buy to GameCubes... Things were starting to get out of hand... six people, one cube.  You do the math. If you add in friends, and visiting relatives, sum verges on infinity

I'm actually dead serious. The demand for GameCube was so high we had to get another one. I'm gonna be getting a couple broadband adapters and some cables for LAN play, as soon as Nintendo makes some LAN capable games.

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Nintendo Gaming / Wind Waker boring?

« on: March 31, 2003, 03:00:48 PM »

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I really don't know what to say, Theaveng. You've been sort of a downer the past month or so, so I want to respond but I'm not sure what to say. I've found Wind Waker to be a lot of fun.

He has always been that way. I am nearly convinced he is one of the more patient, and cunning PS2 fanboys


But seriously, don't worry about the long ocean voyages, this can be alleviated significantly, and you're not too far from being able to do this.

I do agree that the monsters are fairly easy. The bosses are difficult, until you figure out the trick to beating them(I don't ever listen to the hints from Tetra's stone), then they are about medium difficulty. Aside from the difficulty level I can't think of anything I dislike, if I could wish for one thing, it would be be: having the option of "hard", or "extra hard" difficulty level. To be perfectly honest I think EVERY game should have different difficulty levels, and the should range from pathetically easy, to so hard it makes you want to rip your hair out.

With all that said, I LOVE Wind Waker, it is my new favorite game of the next-gen consoles.


Also with that said, We should all contact Nintendo, and plead for an option for an insane difficulty option in all of it's upcoming games.

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Nintendo Gaming / SLDLE?

« on: March 29, 2003, 01:52:39 PM »

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The guy has some interesting things to say when you first arrive... Mainly a message to Nintendo's fans. hehe

Hell yeah! That was the best!

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Nintendo Gaming / WARNING: Do NOT open the newest Nintendo Newsletter!

« on: March 29, 2003, 01:46:02 PM »

Bless you, Rick!

I know I would have read that newsletter, had you not warned us! I might not have if it had Zelda in the subject line, but then again, I rarely read subject lines...

I deleted everything from Nintendo, hehehe! Although, now that I think about it, I should have kept it so I could see how bad it was (after I beat the game that is.)


Thanks again, Rick.

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Nintendo Gaming / XIII (13) the Cell-Shaded 1st-person Shooter... no thanks!

« on: March 22, 2003, 04:11:53 PM »

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Still, I have a hard time imagining myself playing a cartoon Shooter. I can accept the cartoon style for "fake" stuff like Zelda, Mario, and Dark Cloud 2..... but when I think about First-Person Shooters, I think "realism". Cartoon and Realism just don't mix for me.

Yeah, because a one man army, who is able to carry hundreds of pounds of munition, in addition to being able to take 20 some odd body shots before going down always evokes realism within my mind.

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General Chat / New Metallica Album: St. Anger *UPDATE*

« on: March 20, 2003, 07:15:57 PM »

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yeah has anyoen noticed thi. there are a ton of christian bands...and they all get famous for soundign just liek osmeoen else. The only christian band that seems to me to be pretty cool is chavell. I wish most these bands would try to be original and devlop their own sound.

As opposed to what other musicians out there? There isn't much "originality" anywhere.  It sounds to me as if you are writing them off for being Christians; disguising your prejudice with a generic, and all encompassing excuse.

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Nintendo Gaming / Good Stuff is Always Made of Gold...

« on: March 20, 2003, 09:10:35 AM »

I just wanted to say: I think PGC's screenshots look ALOT better, the Gamespot shots make the disc look too yellow (I think it is the bad lighting)

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Nintendo Gaming / WaveBird Suggestion

« on: March 19, 2003, 11:23:42 AM »

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I'd like to see it with a docking station. For the rechargable batteries

Yes! I to have wished for this! I mean I have plenty of rechargable batteries (purchased for my Wavebirds), but it is horribly confusing keeping track of them all. A built-in battery + docking station would be a dream come true.