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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Official DS Sales Thread

« on: June 30, 2006, 12:04:15 AM »

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Originally posted by: Requiem
I would.

Nintendo has made enough money with those games!

To all the companies in the world, there's no such thing as enough.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official DS Sales Thread

« on: June 29, 2006, 11:02:39 PM »

I rented it, but never owned it.  I still feel like a complete idiot for not buying it when I had plenty of chances.  I wonder if it'll be on the Virtual Console, because as Nintendo showed with the Mario Advance games,they want us to buy all the Mario games seperately so they can maximize profits.

Of course I'd still download the NES versions as well since I'm the kind of person who likes having both versions.  But I'm sure alot of people would just download Super Mario All-Stars to save money, which would anger Nintendo.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: How soon after launch do you think you'll be personally Wiiing?

« on: June 28, 2006, 10:31:08 PM »

NES - Christmas 1991
SNES - July 1995
Gameboy - Christmas 1996
N64 - Febuary 1998
Gameboy Color - June 1999
Gamecube - July 2002
Gameboy Advance SP - Summer 2003 (This is the only one I cant remember well)
DS - July 2005 (I bought it when they released the special blue version with Mario 64 DS bundled in)
Wii - Spring 2007

There's still several Gamecube games I'm playing right now and with Super Paper Mario and Zelda TP arriving on the Gamecube this fall, I really dont need to spend between $200-250 to buy a Wii right away.

I'll buy one in either Febuary or March for Metroid Prime 3 and Wario Ware.  Plus when I buy one I plan on just downloading as many classic games as possible for the first few days.

[Spak-Spang]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 27, 2006, 03:56:35 PM »

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Originally posted by: Spak-Spang
I actually thought of something else I don't want to see have to Smash Brothers.  It isn't bad enough to get me to stop buying the game, but I believe it will hurt the experience...and has a potential of happening.

Too many characters that are TOO similar.

Melee contained clones which were rather uneventful characters to unlock.

However, something else more horrible could happen.  Original characters that all play so similar in structure that it doesn't really matter who you pick.

Everyone is wanting every single Nintendo character they can think of in the game...but I believe a character should only be included if it can truly add something to the game.  

Some characters need to be unique and exciting boss battles (Ridley)

Other characters need to be axed because they would be too similar to exciting characters.  (Star Worf could be an example.)

While still some very unlikely characters need to be added because of very unique gameplay mechanics.  

Olimar is a great example.

And yet, some characters I am worried about their inclusion until Nintendo proves they will play differently than other characters...Pit, MetaKnight examples.

Don't get me wrong. I love the inclusion of the above mentioned characters...I just hope that the design team works hard to make them unique and play differently than all the other characters.

I dont think we'll have to worry to much since Brawl will have a longer development time then Melee had.  As we've seen with the games Sakurai's made, he's very talented and with a long development time he and his team should be able to make most of the charactors unique.  Plus the fact Sakurai has said they'll be reworking the existing charactors from Melee when they appear in Brawl, I think it's safe to say he's working very hard on this issue.  

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General Gaming / RE: and I thought Sony couldn't sink any lower...

« on: June 23, 2006, 11:31:12 PM »

I scored a 78.9%.  Then again I watch the news all the time so I knew who most of the people were.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 23, 2006, 10:36:02 PM »

The Trident boomerang would be a great idea.  I think a good moveset for Ganon could go like this.

B (Fire Bats)  For this move he'll spin his Trident and Fire Bats will start appearing.  The longer you hold B the more bats will appear and when you release B they'll go flying around in the direction your facing.

Forward B (Trident Boomerang)

Up B (Bat Transformation)  His ability to turn into some type of bat would work great for a third jump.

Hmm, the only thing I cant quite think of is what a good Down B move would be.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 23, 2006, 12:14:40 PM »

Ganon should be the slowest charactor in the game if he's in.  I mean so slow that if he's running he'd be moving at the same speed as Bowsers normal walk.  But his advantage would be his A attacks with his trident would have a longer range then any other weapon on the game, plus he could create his fire bats for a great long range attack.

This would be a great way to balance him out.

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TalkBack / RE: Sonic on GBA for 15th Anniversary

« on: June 23, 2006, 11:52:05 AM »

I think it's a great idea since I find Sonic 1 to be the best of the Sonic games.  It actually had a challenge to it and could be considered a platformer.  Sonic 2 and 3 while still fun games, were just rollercosters where you held right on the controller the entire level and watched Sonic run.  Only the later levels in Sonic 2 and 3 actually made the games exciting again but it doesn't help that I was bored playing through the first 75% of the games before getting to thoughs.

Sonic 1 on the other hand has never gotten boring.  The levels were designed in ways that your not holding right the entire way, plus there's plenty of traps and challenges that actually require skills to get through.  Which makes it fun everytime I sit down to play.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: New Tales game maybe announced for Wii

« on: June 20, 2006, 12:14:25 AM »

Well the big annoucement turned out to be just that Namco's going to remake Tales of Destiny for the PS2 and Tales of Phantasia for the PSP.  Plus their releasing a new Tales of the World game for the PSP.

So all it ended up being was that they wanted to milk the series with even more ports and remakes.

Here's the link

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General Gaming / RE: Matt's 360 bites the dust

« on: June 17, 2006, 11:42:48 PM »

Oh God, the PS3 will probobly only last for two weeks.  And that's if your lucky.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 07, 2006, 09:47:31 PM »

Well we shouldn't be expecting any big updates on SSBB to soon.  According to one of the translations from SamuraiPanda at Smash Boards, Sakurai says that when the charactor poll ends on June 9th which would be tomorrow, he'll be devoting his full time to development of the game.  

He says that sometime in 2007 when the game is more complete they'll give the game a real introduction and do something similar to what they did with the offical Melee website where he'll reveal one charactor every week and show us how they play.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 07, 2006, 10:29:06 AM »

Oh no, now several other websites including 1Up are reporting the rumor as actual news.  And they're source is the same LiveWii french site that Mario posted.

Now when I first posted this rumor last week my only sources were Smash Boards and Gamefaqs Smash Bros board but both boards after some disscusion decide the info was false and stopped talking about it.

The thing that everyone decided makes this false was the part where Ice Climbers and Game and Watch would be removed because they weren't popular.  Sakurai has said on the Japanese Smash Bros website that charactor popularity will play no role in deciding who stays or goes.  He also said that having all famous charactors would be boring and that having non famous charactors can be more fun.

I'm guessing someone at LiveWii most have been looking around the web and found this on a message board and didn't realise this was a fake rumor and decided to post it thinking they had breaking news.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Bleach on Wii

« on: June 07, 2006, 09:27:58 AM »

Well the anime has been licensed and will air in America in the future so if it becomes popular here as well then maybe Sega will put alittle more money into the Bleach games.

The one for the Gamecube was just an average fighter, but it could have been so much better if they had just worked out the fighting engine more.  With a bigger budget I'm sure they actually could make a good solid fighting game.

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Reveals More Wii Details

« on: June 07, 2006, 08:48:59 AM »

If the max is $9 dollars for some games then this is a great deal.  If things go right then this means we could all be downloading Dracula X: Rondo of Blood for only $9.  Considering in order to play it now, your required to spend hundreds of dollars just do import a PC-Engine with all the attachments just to play the game, then you'll have to spend another hundred to buy the game itself.

So getting Rondo of Blood for only $9 has got to be one of the greatest deals ever.  And since Konami owns Hudson now, there's a very good chance this game will be on the Virtual Console sometime in the future.  Hopefully soon.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 06, 2006, 04:17:18 PM »

Has anyone else seen this clip?

WWE Smash Bros

Wow, whoever did this did a perfect job.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 06, 2006, 02:16:17 PM »

Well the whole "within a budget line" was said at last years E3 before they delayed the game and decided to make a Wii version of it.  Any budget they had they've probobly gone way over by now so anything is possible.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Mario Galaxy Multiplayer....

« on: June 05, 2006, 12:30:25 PM »

"I think implementing this functionality into past games could make for some exciting changes"

All that line says was that they'd add some sort of multiplayer type mode into some of their classic games.  It says nothing about changing things in the actual games themselves.  

The Famicom Mini (NES Retro) re-releases for the GBA had nothing changed in them, they were the exact same game just emulated to the GBA.  That's because they were meant to be the an exact version of the game, which is what the games on the Virtual Console are also meant to be.

The Mario Advance games weren't supposed to be exact ports, they were meant to be upgraded portable version of the games which is why changes were made to them so they'd feel new, even though some changes like added voice work were not needed.

Plus this is Nintendo who loves finding ways of making money.  If they did make changes to the single player in any classic games, they'd more then likely have that as a different game to download.  Meaning on the download list you'd be looking at Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros Special Edition.  This way you'd have to download both games if you wanted to get the original and remake, which seems like something Nintendo would be more likely to do.  

Since they had no problem charging $20 for 20 year old games seperately on the GBA to maxuimize profits.  Even though they easily could have put all the games on just one GBA cartridge and charged $20 for it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 03, 2006, 12:11:02 PM »

Oh, I hope I didn't sound like I hated Sonic 1-3, I love the soundtracks to those games as well.  It's just the Japanese version of Sonic CD has my favorite Sonic soundtack and I get really worked up when I talk about it.

I agree, Green Hill Zone would be the best choice since it's the theme pretty much everyone thinks about when they think of Sonic.  Plus it's a very good theme as well.  
Another one that'd work well would be Starlight Zone's theme and the second stage of Sonic 2 (I cant remember the name at this moment) theme

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 03, 2006, 10:56:44 AM »

Because of the orchestral music, this is one of the reasons I'm hoping for Sonic and Megaman to be in the game.  Sonic and Megaman games had amazing music and to hear some of their themes orchestrated would just be beyond perfect.

Oh God what I'd love to hear would be a Sonic theme that had orchestrated versions of the Japanese versions of Palmtree Panic (Present), Quartz Quadrant (Present) and Stardust Speedway (Present) from Sonic CD.  Those are my three favorite Sonic themes of all time.

Of course the problem would be since Sonic CD was for the Sega CD/Mega CD, it's still one of the lesser known Sonic games and so music from Sonic 1, 2 and 3 would be more likely because they were more popular.  

Plus there's the fact that Sega of America's a bunch of dicks when it comes to the Japanese soundtrack for Sonic CD and would probobly try to find of way to stop the music from being thrown into the game by saying it'll cause Americans cancer if they listen to it or some other horrible excuse like that.  Or worst of all, try to have the music replaced by the horrible American versions of the songs.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: June 02, 2006, 01:13:18 AM »

Hmm, this could be interesting.

While looking around some message boards I've discovered a quote that I'm not sure if it's true or not.

This is the quote.

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Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed the following names to appear in Nintendo's upcoming Super Smash Bros. Brawl via interview with Tokyo's popular "The Gaming Exchange" radio show:

New Faces:
KOOPA KID
RIDLEY
WIND WAKER LINK

Removed Faces:
ICE CLIMBERS
MR. GAME & WATCH
YOUNG LINK

Sakurai also confirmed that the existing "clones" from SSBM will be reworked as entirely seperate characters. One should also note that Young Link isn't being replaced entirely, rather simply replaced with the cel-shaded Link from Wind Waker. His name on the selection screen will still read "Young Link". Sakurai stated Game & Watch and the Ice Climbers will be removed due to the lack of general fan interest and that he decided to include Kid Icarus' Pit as a replacement to the Ice Climbers for those old school fans. He mentioned Pit will likely be the only classic character included. Also of importance is the fact that, according to Sakurai, the roster will be "between 30 and 40", leaving room for about 15 newcomers or so. In addition, there will be only be "one or two" 3rd party characters.

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Once again, I'm not sure if this is true or not since it hasn't been reported by any major websites yet.  But I'm posting it because it would be very important information if it's actually true.

Oh and Bowsers name in Japan is Koopa so the Koopa Kid would be Bowser Jr from Super Mario Sunshine.  So if this info is true that would mean Bowser Jr and Ridley would both be new charactors with WW Link replacing Young Link.  Of course poor Ice Climbers and Game and Watch would be gone if true aswell.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: May 31, 2006, 08:20:26 PM »

Since they're showing the charactors from the trailer, my guess is Mario, Link, Kirby and Pikachu will be the next group shown, followed by charactors like Fox and Donkey Kong which everyone knows will be in it.

I get the feeling that any completly new charactors probobly wont be revealed until sometime this fall since the game isn't supposed to come out until 2007.  Plus for Melee the secret charactors weren't shown on the offical website until after the game was released so chances are alot of charactors wont be revealed until after the game comes out.

Of course the website N-Sider revealed all the secret charactors for Melee a few weeks before the game was even released in Japan so maybe the same will happen with Brawl to.

[couchmonkey]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: May 26, 2006, 10:58:47 AM »

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Originally posted by: couchmonkey


P.S. Continuing on my stupid costume rants, Mega Man could be offered in both X and classic flavours via a costume.   Their moves are pretty similar anyway.

I agree, but how about his Legends(Dash) and EXE costume as well.  Charactors were given four different color choices for their costumes in Melee.  If they go with different costumes for Brawl then it'd work perfect for Megaman since there's four different Megaman series.  This way anyone could play as the Megaman from either Classic, X, Legends, or EXE so all fans are happy.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: May 26, 2006, 12:18:05 AM »

According to a recent update to the Japanese Smash Bros website, Sakurai says that for third party charactors, expect only 1-2 more.  He also said the third party charactors MUST have appeared on a Nintendo system.

So that means we shouldn't worry about them getting out of hand with third party charactors.

If there's going to be only two more third party charactor, Sonic and Megaman seem to be the most obvious to me.  Both charactors have appeared on Nintendo consoles and both charactors have a long history and are considered icons.  Plus it's been my dream to have a game with Mario, Sonic and Megaman together in it.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: May 25, 2006, 12:44:05 AM »

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Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1
Don't be surprised if online play is pretty limited in this version of SSBB, I expect Nintendo to go for more money and offer up a SSBB Tournament edition about a year later with full online capabilities and a few extra characters.

Thats not what I want to happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if it became fact.

SSBB is being made by Nintendo, not Capcom.  If the onlines limited they'll fix it up for the Smash Bros game for their next console which will be years later.  Nintendo handles most of it's series very well in how sequels go.  Smash Bros has gotten the Mario Kart treatment where there's only one per system.  

So they'll be no

SSBB Tournament Edition
SSBB Turbo
Super SSBB
Super SSBB Turbo
Hyper Super Mega Ultimate SSBB Amazing Grand Turbo Nobody Cares Anymore Edition  

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General Gaming / RE: The end of the Playstation Era?

« on: May 24, 2006, 11:27:56 AM »

So if your PS3 breaks down someday, you'll have to buy a new PS3 and buy all the PS3 games you had again.  But since stores cant sell used PS3 games it'll be impossible to find any older PS3 games you might have had.  

Wow, that would suck.