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[Silks]

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TalkBack / RE:EA Buys Five Years of Exclusive NFL Rights

« on: December 14, 2004, 06:41:00 PM »

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Originally posted by: Silks
No.  The difference is that Sony never WAS making Zelda games, and has and never WILL be able to make Zelda games, so nothing is being revoked.  The customer isn't getting shortchanged because there wasn't competition in the first place.  In the case of the EA/NFL, any real possibility of fair competition is being removed.

Well, we could use the same example but throw in Disney lisences and any of the various companies who made Disney games over the years... or *may* other lisenced titles.

[Silks]

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TalkBack / RE:EA Buys Five Years of Exclusive NFL Rights

« on: December 14, 2004, 02:11:20 AM »

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Originally posted by: Silks
So I guess the question would be, does Electronic Arts have a legitimate business justification for securing this license?

Yes.  That's like saying because Nintendo gave Capcom exclusive rights to make Zelda games, they're giving Capcom a monopoly and Sony should be allowed to make Zelda games as well.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: EBGAMES & OTHER STUPID STORES

« on: December 13, 2004, 01:41:56 AM »

I seem to remember this post with a different title.

Anywhoo, yeah, the crew at the local GameCrazy are great!  Highly reccomended!

[Aussie Ben PGC]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Are you a blindly-loyal vicious nutcase?

« on: December 10, 2004, 04:59:32 PM »

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Originally posted by: Aussie Ben PGC

See, I'm absolutely baffled as to why Nintendo released Mario 64 as their DS Flagship title as opposed to Wario Ware Touched!.

I kinda feel that Mario 64 was the launch title for two reasons:

First, when the previous system lauched with a *great* title that wasn't a "Mario" title, everyone threw fits (Luigi's Mansion)...

Second, Mario 64 is a very indepth game - rich and full in game play.
Wario Ware, while one of my favorite games (I've got both the GBA and GCN versions, and I'm highly anticipating the two upcoming titles) is pretty... I don't know.  But it's not really a Mario 64 type-game...  I'm not sure how to phrase this...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: GC Game Boy Advance Player

« on: December 10, 2004, 04:53:36 PM »

Anyone with a GameBoy Player, the Hori Digital Controller is a *must* with it...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendo controllers – it’s time to demand better quality

« on: December 10, 2004, 04:51:47 PM »

You know, my NES, SNES, N64, GameCube and Virtual Boy controllers all work just fine and dandy...  And I've bought plenty of used controllers with no problems...

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Promises More DS Units

« on: December 10, 2004, 05:26:20 AM »

It could be worse...

http://www.chrismukkah.com

Or that cell phone commerical... "Chrismahanukwanzakah"... I'm not even religous, but I'm slightly offended by that one.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Link should LVLup in LOZ

« on: December 10, 2004, 05:19:38 AM »

I completely disagree with the idea of stats in a Zelda game.

However, if I was to play a game that had stats implemented, I would enjoy one something akin to another game that came out whose name I cannot think of right now...  Your stats increased as you played, but the monsters you battled had stats that changed based along your own individual stats - meaning that it doesn't matter how freakin' powerful you were at the final boss - he was still more powerful than you.

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TalkBack / RE: Ping Pals Released for Nintendo DS

« on: December 07, 2004, 05:35:10 PM »

Maybe it'd be cool if you were mad at them and not talking to them?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: "DS Option Pack Detected"

« on: December 04, 2004, 05:40:15 PM »

I kinda imangined that there would be different kinds of "Option Pak" add-on devices - one of which might be a rumble pak...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: "DS Option Pack Detected"

« on: December 04, 2004, 08:18:56 AM »

Oh, btw, the message is actually "DS Options Pak Detected" - so it's defenatly something Nintendo is planning, since they've always used the "Pak" description

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: "DS Option Pack Detected"

« on: December 04, 2004, 08:09:02 AM »

I personally can confirm the "DS Options Pack Detected" - athough not with a Flash Card (bad!).  Putting in the GBA Game Shark without a Game Pak in it shows this message (on my DS at least).

As far as the "Rumble" message, http://www.dual-scene.com reports that [With certain flash carts, when setting the alarm, the Nintendo DS will ask you "Would you like the Rumble Feature to accompany the alarm?"]

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TalkBack / RE: First GameCube Mod Chip Available

« on: December 04, 2004, 08:00:29 AM »

They sell mini-DVD-Rs for camcorders...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Are you a blindly-loyal vicious nutcase?

« on: December 04, 2004, 07:58:17 AM »

If IGN continues to do a poor job at reporting the news (which, over all, is simply what is going on here), there are two ways this can go.

Either people will stop going to IGN and they'll slowly wither and die *or* people will continue to go to IGN to "stir the pot" which makes more people want to go there to check out all the action - all of which increases their readership - and their advertising revenue - making them continue to report "news" that pisses people off so more people will come to "stir the pot".

I stopped going to IGN *years* ago.  I would reccomend that everyone else do the same.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Get a FREE Nintendo DS!

« on: December 04, 2004, 07:52:33 AM »

> Our ads don't post all over our forums

Are you kidding?  I've seen more "Free DS" ads while browsing the forums than I've seen threads for free DSes (?)....

Not that I care at all... I just found it amusing.

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TalkBack / RE: Acclaim Up For Auction

« on: December 03, 2004, 06:01:52 AM »

It'd be interesting if someone managed to get this who didn't care about Acclaim's old video game stuff... imangine the prototypes and such one could score from this...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: pico chat

« on: December 03, 2004, 05:56:50 AM »

o.O

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Sawaru: Made in Wario impressions

« on: December 03, 2004, 05:35:22 AM »

Yeah, they were pretty much the same game... that's why I said it was just as fun.

I've always kinda felt that we wern't really supposed to think of Wario Ware (GCN) as a seaperate game from the GBA version...  just a port with a few features added/taken away - to optimize the game for play on the GCN... basically, if you own one, you shouldn't buy the other... (although I did....)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Sawaru: Made in Wario impressions

« on: December 03, 2004, 05:21:00 AM »

The GameCube version is pretty fun...  in fact, it's just as fun as the Game Boy Advance version.

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Nintendo Gaming / Get a FREE Nintendo DS!

« on: December 03, 2004, 05:16:35 AM »

By clicking one of the random ads that keep showing up at the top and/or right of the screen...

Wasn't there threads that were getting locked for these kinds of schemes?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Digital Controller Q's

« on: December 02, 2004, 04:25:41 PM »

Well, it's offical name (I believe) is the "Digital Controller"...  I don't know how GameCrazy does things in their registers, but I'm guessing if they can sort by console (GameCube), Company (Hori) and/or product (Hardware or Controllers), they should be able to pull it up...

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TalkBack / RE: Crave Ships Pinball Hall of Fame

« on: December 02, 2004, 10:26:07 AM »

>Crave Entertainment, a leading publisher of console videogames[...]

Who?

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TalkBack / RE: Independent and Objective Ratings System Initiated

« on: December 01, 2004, 04:55:03 AM »

>“The fact is, parents don’t know the half of what is going on in these games,” said David G. Kinney, CEO of Veritasiti Corporation, the parent company of both PSVratings and Current Attractions.

And this guy is hoping to change that?  Parents don't know what's in the games for the simple fact that they don't care.  Red, yellow and green bars on the cover aren't going to change a thing (except maybe getting pre-teen boys to want games that has a large, red bar under the "sex" catagory...)

This seems to make things yet more complicated...  I think the ESRB is okay, but the two changes I would make would be to make the ESRB completly independant from the industry and I'd go with the more understood "G", "PG", "PG-13", "R", and "NC-17" movie ratings that everyone is already familiar with.

"Look mom, can I get this new Pokémon game?"
"No Johnny, it's Fire Red!  It must be way too mature for you!"

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Touts Big Holiday Hardware Sells

« on: December 01, 2004, 04:42:55 AM »

Dangit, Nintendo is so doomed!

Seriously, this is awesome... I just wish there was someone nearby to play my DS against.

I'm surprised no one has pointed out the large number of GBA/GBASP units sold.  I believe the major factor in this number is all of the Wal-Mart stores that sold the original style Game Boy Advance for $40 on the day after Thanksgiving - I know our store got a butt-load of these things in (about 100, I believe) and we sold every single one on Friday.  And we're a tiny store (By comparison, we got six - yes six - DS units for launch.  If every one of the 3,000+ Wal Mart stores *only* got 100 GBA units in, there's 300,000 GBAs right there that likely sold on Friday (and I'm quite sure that many, many more stores got quite a bit more GBAs than we did...)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: A Zelda, staring Zelda?

« on: November 30, 2004, 06:30:55 PM »

How about a game where you play as Ganon and try to take over Hyrule?