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Nintendo Gaming / RE: How To: Get Cheap Wii Points

« on: March 01, 2007, 11:20:05 AM »

for me it's the fact that my local Best Buy has never ever had any wii points.

Or wiimotes

Or nunchucks

Or classic controllers

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Amazing Wii Deals!

« on: February 28, 2007, 03:17:03 AM »

There hasn't been much activity in this thread, has there?

Splinter Cell: DA is $27 at Amazon right now (was $20 earlier this morning)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000IZK3TA/ref=nosim/cheapassgam08-20

[BigJim]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: February 21, 2007, 09:57:29 AM »

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Originally posted by: BigJim
I don't mean to thread hijack, but why is the PSP still selling respectably in the States? I'm asking seriously. Are there actually good games coming out on a regular basis for it? I pay no attention to it, but the sales still surprise me.

There've been some decent PSP releases of late, and the platform has quietly gotten a halfway respectable lineup of titles. I mean, it's still not in the DS league or anything, but it's no longer the Ngage redux that it was shaping up to be early on in its life.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Namco mailing Tales fans questionaire

« on: February 19, 2007, 12:42:01 PM »

Seems sort of silly to remake Phantasia for the DS when they just remade it for the GBA not that long ago.

I want original tales titles, not just Tales of Destiny and Tales of Phantasia ad infinitum.

I'd love to see an Abyss sequel though.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official "Virtual Console Mondays" Thread

« on: February 17, 2007, 07:48:20 AM »

Hudson needs to get Milon's Secret Castle on there... I'd totally pay $5 for that.

[nitsu niflheim]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: February 16, 2007, 09:13:04 AM »

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Originally posted by: nitsu niflheim
Virtua Fighter 5 didn't sell systems, even if it was # 1.  It sold mostly to people who already had a PS3 (more than twice as many copies were sold than PS3 systems were sold.)  This is just very laughable.  

This is like the Seinfeld episode were Elaine's and George's luck seemed to have switched between them.

What're you, sticking it to me?!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Namco mailing Tales fans questionaire

« on: February 16, 2007, 09:04:20 AM »

Tales of Tempest has co-op multiplayer, correct? I'd buy a second DS just for that...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Japan-Only Games Possible for US Virtual Console!

« on: February 15, 2007, 01:21:38 PM »

Indeed, I thought they'd already said Super Mario Bros. 2 (the Japanese one) was coming...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Ruminations on the Next Generation

« on: February 14, 2007, 01:58:44 PM »

The PS3 at launch was facing a half-way strong Xbox 360 and the Wii which became the big holiday hit.

The PS2 at launch was facing the struggling Dreamcast and LOZ: MM (and Nintendo didn't release another meaningful thing for like a year after that)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Perrin Video Interview

« on: February 14, 2007, 01:44:02 PM »

Did it really take 10 minutes to tell us absolutely nothing?

If we're going to sit through these interviews Perrin really needs to take a page out of Reggie's book and flat out lie to us.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Namco mailing Tales fans questionaire

« on: February 14, 2007, 05:44:01 AM »

they could make it a prequel to Symphonia (and by extention a prequel to a prequel of Phantasia) called Tales of Mithos

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Namco mailing Tales fans questionaire

« on: February 14, 2007, 05:42:41 AM »

and they largely fixed the camera issues already in the PS2's Tales of the Abyss

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Namco mailing Tales fans questionaire

« on: February 14, 2007, 05:36:30 AM »

Unfair... I didn't get one... I love the Tales series.

They need to bring that japanese DS tales game over first, then make the future titles Wii specific. And yes, all future titles must be multiplayer.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Gamecock

« on: February 12, 2007, 03:32:02 PM »

Are they a bunch of University of South Carolina graduates? That's the only way that's not a totally assinine name.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Turtle Beach launches Wii headphones

« on: February 12, 2007, 03:29:43 PM »

headphones are nice, but I think we really need a full headset

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Guitar Hero coming to Wii!

« on: February 10, 2007, 04:39:12 PM »

there are so many ways to do the controller:

USB?
Bluetooth Guitar?
Shell that the Wiimote plugs into.

[Smash_Brother]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Capcom has a lot of Wii games planned, but...

« on: February 10, 2007, 04:35:47 PM »

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
True, and I can see that's the market they're aiming for, but once the Wii passes the 360 in the US (and it will), then Capcom will be pledging all of their mature franchises for a console which is second in the US and UK and dead last in Japan. Not a good recipe for decent sales...

Is that really so different from when Capcom was commiting heavily to the Gamecube?

Their ineffectual marketing lends itself well to developing for second tier systems.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Capcom has a lot of Wii games planned, but...

« on: February 10, 2007, 01:19:08 PM »

What can you say about capcom? They're usually wrong about the industry and they couldn't market themselves out of a paper bag. If they didn't have such an impressive collection of developers they'd be totally irrelevant by now.

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General Gaming / RE: Old question: What PS2 games might I like?

« on: February 10, 2007, 04:29:21 AM »

of, and if you liked Symphonia you'll likely also enjoy Tales of the Abyss

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General Gaming / RE: Old question: What PS2 games might I like?

« on: February 10, 2007, 04:26:47 AM »

I'd toss the Xenosagas in there though if you don't have the patience to play a TRPG you probably also don't have the patience to watch half hour cutscenes.

Another series I really got into was the .hack// series. OK, so it's a licensed tie-in, but it's also a very interesting action/RPG with some great characters. Kind of expensive to buy all four games though (which you really need to have any sort of resolution), even today that's likely to set you back $100 or so.

[oohhboy]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wii stronger then the first Xbox ?

« on: February 09, 2007, 02:12:20 PM »

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Originally posted by: oohhboy

Rare on the other hand is a different story as they have fallen from grace. Their N64 games are so good that I am still playing them today. Having played their newer games I wonder what happened..

Not to oversimplify, but Free Radical Design happened.  Rare lost too many good people in a short period of time and they never really recovered.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: February 09, 2007, 02:05:22 PM »

TP and DBZ are actually a nice comparison for me because both have virtually identical versions available on other consoles I already owned.

I think I'd have been fine with the Cube version of TP... the motion controls are neat, but by no means essential.

DBZ, on the other hand... I wouldn't have even considered buying this game for the PS2. Not that it's not a fine game there too (I'm sure), but that honestly I've played DBZ games with a dualshock to death. Yet there's something so much more appealing about the Wii controls, something so unique about playing it that way, there's really no comparison.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: February 09, 2007, 10:28:03 AM »

Don't discount the value of games like Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, and Dragonball Z: BT2.

Sure, those games are multiplatform, and maybe they're not the sort of "all time great" games that Zelda is or SMG likely will be. But you know what, those games are very solid, very unique in their control schemes, and they're attached to strong licenses.

If you're even remotely a fan of DBZ, the Wii version of BT2 is a must own. If you're a Marvel fan, you will not be disappointed by UA.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Manhunt 2 from Rockstar? Whoa...

« on: February 08, 2007, 02:16:28 PM »

I wonder if parents are really as dumb as they say, or if they're just making a cop-out after something bad happens.

I was playing tons of "M for Mature" type games when I was a kid... granted this pre-dates the ESRB, but its not as though my parents were totally mystified by the content of some of these games. Many times I'd specifically show my mom some of the worst parts of those games... like "hey mom, watch, I'm going to rip this guy's spine out".

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: February 08, 2007, 02:09:20 PM »

if you wait till the paper hits they may all be gone, use a website like CAG to check the ads the night before and make a game plan.

Toys R Us, if I'm not mistaken, is running the Wii this week.