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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Cant EAD make decent graphics?

« on: August 22, 2003, 08:58:04 PM »

Multible names? Let's see you click my profile, you get my name, address, email which happens to be rabicle@netscape.net I have a link in my sig to a gameboy website which just so happens to have a staff member called RABicle who posts in their forums using my old avatar. What kind of sceptic are you? Do I have to go and tell you the product id of my gamecube so you'll belive me that I own one or something? Did you even read my last post. i said i should take back things I said in the beginning and that I'm expecting too much, hardly someone who's stuck into an opinion.
The fact that i'm willing to question the ways of EAD shows that I'm not a totally blind fanboy, but a fanboy who happens to read a multiformat magazine. You dont know anything about me, do i have to get people from this forum who know me personally (Evilmanman) to clarify what I've said or something?

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General Chat / RE: Who are the people from the Original Planet Gamecube Boards that are still here today?

« on: August 22, 2003, 08:47:29 PM »

I was much more active in the days of the Ezboard forums, simply because my homepage is my ezbaod control center and I went to heaps of other ezboards. For those reasons I tend not to hang around here as much, and because I talk to the aussies on MSn more than in the boards.
Oh and being in Boarding school toned down my internet usage a great deal too.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: If you like any Mario, come here, URGENT!!!!

« on: August 22, 2003, 08:24:38 PM »

Well if it is then PGC are kinda hypocrits seeing as last year they posted a link to the gamefaqs character battle on the FRONT PAGe to get mario over the line against cloud.
Final fantasy fans were fuming but even they neglected to notice that Cloud receive more tha the average number of total votes. (ie. gamefaqs would normally receive about 50k votes for the poll with each character getting their share of it. Cloud got 50k votes on his own while Mario still got more.)
So some square fansites were doing the same.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Cant EAD make decent graphics?

« on: August 22, 2003, 08:17:31 PM »

hey hey, I'm not saying the games are crappy, I'm just saying the graphics probaly arn't as good as they could be.
yes I think Zelda looks mindblowing, I love the look. I also like Mario Sunshines water effects. I shuld take back a few things I said at the start of this topic. EAD graphics arn't bad as sorta, but when you compare the quality of the gameplay and the sounds in their games it's almost as if the graphics ae taking a back seat. And while Gameplay should always be first graphics are very important in peoples initial impressions of the game.
Take halo for example, When people see it for the first time they would initially be impressed by it's stunning visuals, when they have a chance to play it they would enkoy the gameplay. Same goes for a stunning game like Metroid Prime. When a person sees Pikmin in action for the first time though, they might be turned off by the fact that the graphics arn't as good as they could be. Sure when they play it they'll enjoy it but first impressions is one of the most important factors when anybody buys a game. especially if ift's just your average gamer or your kid, two markets Nintendo used to have.

Mabye I am expecting too much. Mabye i'm used to the days when EAD were leading the industry in the graphics departments (see Mario 64, Mario Kart 64 etc.) Mabye I have been expeting those days to continue or something, I dont know. They are very talented and make some stylish games, but their exceptionally high levels in the gameplay stakes are far above what they are doing with graphics.

And they are making their games look better than a lot of other GCN developers, I only have to look at the Sega games I own (Crazi Taxi, Sonic 2, SMB) to see that.

[AgentSeven]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Cant EAD make decent graphics?

« on: August 22, 2003, 07:41:17 PM »

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Originally posted by: AgentSeven
I gotta say that this "thread" smells a lot like flame-bait.  Sorry, but it just does.  Just about everyone here feels that EAD does in fact create some great games with beautiful graphics.

Why is it that fanboy loners do nothing but complain?  I'm willing to bet that whomever started this"thread" hasn't even seen Mario Kart: Double Dash in person, as I have on more than one occasion.  It's graphics are bright and colorful.  It's a joy to behold.

Hey Rab, quit complaining I love the part where this "graphics genius" says that the average Ps2 game looks better than most GC games, LMAO!!!!  Take a look at the JOKE of a game that is the ps2 version of Soul Caliber 2 and you will know why I'm laughing

(BTW, am I the only one here who notices that the same, Nintendo bashing person keeps posting threads under different forum names?  Hmmm........I bet this kid doesn't have a GC...)

I'm glad you could go to the trouble of not adding anything to the disscussion but instead just flame me. real good man, real good.
This thread wasn't supposed to be flame bait, I was seeing if other people had noticed the fact that as a whole EAD arn't producing the same high quality of graphics that companies such as Capcom are.
Yes I have never seen mario kart in person. Living in a regional area of WA and having things such as school and life to attend to I cant spend all day attending Nintendo previews in stores and watching Mario Kart in person, so i guess you win whatever money you put on that bet.
I actually quite enjoy complaining and I'm glad you brought to our attension how much better Soul Caliber 2 looks on Gamecube when compared to the PS2 version. Obviously this means that the gamecube is a technically supirior machine, giving developers such as EAD no excuse for not being able to replicate some of the Playstations finer looking games.
And belive it or not, I am not the same Nintendo bashing person posting under a different name. I've been a member of this board ever since PGC swapped from the Ezboards, The only consoles I own are Nintendo consoles, including the Gamecube you believe I dont have. SO i looks like you lose the money you placed on that bet. Sorry. (I presume you thought I was evil because of my communist avatar or something)

Anyway now that I have dealt with you I'll state the next part of my case.
If you go down to any primary school, and ask some kids there why they like xbox or why they like Gran Turismo or something, one of the first things they will say is "Because the graphics are so good"
Now thats what would happen when you asked a primary kid, Primary kids ounce upon a time played kiddy games, they played Nintendo. Now if the kids arn't playing Nintendo, who else besides us here are? Because certainly the older casual gamer crowd seems to think that Nintendo is for kids, and they dont buy it and the kids are buying Playstations and Xboxs. And one of the most important things toa  kid is how good the graphics are. When I was in 5th grade I wanted a N64 cos it had the best graphics.
And if the best gamecube games arn't displaying the graphical quality they could be Nintendo are losing their ounce core market.

Also i'ld like to thank the people that brought to my attension the fact that the poly counts on Mario Sunshine could be low because of the complex wter effects it throws around. I beat the game a fair while ago and have forgotton just how good it looked. I can remeber that it would mysteriously dropp it's framerate greatly for seemingly no reason at all.
And lastly somebody was telling me that GCN games often look dodgy in screenshots when compared to Xbox and PS2 games because the GCN Debug kits simply wernt very good at taking the screenshots.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Peach's new look

« on: August 22, 2003, 04:53:26 AM »

She was in this same outfit in Mario Golf on N64.
So yeah it aint new, neithor is the brainless expression she sports.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: the official "if i was running nintendo" thread

« on: August 22, 2003, 04:44:58 AM »

If I was running Nintendo I would simply release A huge MMORPG based on Pokemon as the next consoles launch title. It would have no monthly fees because in game advertising would pay for server maintenence. Now when you have free to play huge online 3d Pokemon game your going to sell large amounts of inventory.

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Nintendo Gaming / Cant EAD make decent graphics?

« on: August 22, 2003, 04:41:22 AM »

Looking through those Mario Kart screenshots got me thinking. "Does EAD just not care about graphics or are they just crap?"
I'm mainly referring to the geometry or our figures, or the blockiness if you want to call it that. If you run down the EAD developed games on gamecube, Animal Crossing, Mario Sunshine, Zelda, Mario Kart, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion etc. they are all very low in polygon counts. This is a bit of a bad image for Nintendo as some of their biggest games, look average when compared to your average Xbox or PS2 game, turning off the joe Blogs of the gaming world. Even turning off the young market who believe graphics is everything.
We all know the gamecube is powerful and capable of amazing graphics, as seen by the example shown to us my Retro Studios, Capcom, Nintendo System Technology, Amusement Vision and others. It just seems strange that EAD, arguably the single greatest and most influential of all video game developers, who would've had a say in the way the cube hardware was put togethor, produce such shoddy graphics.
I'm guessing that a) They dont care, graphics dont make a game great (I agree, but they can make a very good game even better)
or b) The way they are making their games is saving more processor grunt for the dynamics of the gameworld than the graphics.

You people agree?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: What should be Nintendo next big hit series

« on: August 22, 2003, 04:09:10 AM »

First off.
No developer is ever gonna think that they arn't capable of creating a big hit series without the help of others. What i mean is that collaborations between developers are very rare, Nintendo is one of the few companies that do it, mainly because they want to help other companys. They arn't goning to one day think up this great idea and go "Oh wait, we need to partner with Generic Studios to make this game"
Your idea sounds pretty dodgy too.

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TalkBack / RE: 3DO Sells off Game Properties

« on: August 21, 2003, 03:48:06 PM »

Nintendo wont buy fuckall from them

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TalkBack / RE: e-Reader Scrapped for Europe

« on: August 20, 2003, 12:31:44 AM »

So? Australia spends more money per capita towards videogames then any other country, thats an irrelevent stat, taking a device like the ecard reader to europe without the killer app (animal crossing) to go with it is stupid.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wind Waker the second time

« on: August 19, 2003, 04:23:50 AM »

Yeah thats a bit of a turn on.
Dont you also start with the color camera in the 2nd quest?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Princess Mononoke influence in Zelda?

« on: August 19, 2003, 04:16:53 AM »

Zelda has loads of influences. OOT was practically written off Greek mythology. Pegagues boots that make him hover, much like the horse that guy rode to fly to medusa. Medusa was a Gorgon, who could turn people to stone. Gorons on the other hand ate stones.
The rupee is the national currency of India
Boomerangs are Aboriginal weapons.

This isn't a bad thing though as their is no such thing as true originality.

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TalkBack / RE: Animal Crossing and e-Reader to Australia

« on: August 18, 2003, 05:47:10 AM »

Nintendo dont translat their games into all languages because, simply because they dont directly distribute to eastern europe. Eastern Europe all speak Russian anyway (horrible sterotype I know), requiring a completly new character set. I'm willing to bet that there is definatly a scandinavian version of games too seeing as Sweden and Denmark are too of their biggest european markets (Mario has his own street in Sweden) and you western europpeans simply dont know about them.

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Targeting China

« on: August 17, 2003, 04:18:53 AM »

Sadly guys, because it's a hot spot for piracy the Gamecube will never succeed in China. "Oh it's so hard to crack" thats only gonna turn consumers off even more.
et's say you were the average gamer in China, would you rather the console where teh makers would receive the money, or the console where you can buy 50 games with the change in your pockets? I'm guessing the latter. I've lived in a place called Vanuatu (check your atlases for a small bunch of islands just North of Fiji in the Pacific). I lived there in 1999, the reign of the playstation and N64. You could buy both consoles there. For $5US you could buy a Playstation game. For about $150US you could buy a N64 game. Take a guess which one was selling better. Sure, Sony wasn't making any money at all, but neither was Nintendo and in the end, the gamers there liked sony games better, because no one could be bothered geting the money togethor to play nintendo. The exackt same thing will happen in China, mark my words. Sure the Chinese wont be able to crack the gamecube, bt they wont sell any either.

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TalkBack / RE: GameCube Price Drop in Australia

« on: July 25, 2003, 06:24:05 AM »

Big W will always hold true. I hope.
But really, if things deteriate much more then I'm going to get a freeloader, althoguh importing games doesn't exackly help the current situation...
Oh well, they are only games I guess, there are other things in life. I have too many GCN games anyway. Although I want Soul Caliber 2.. And Skies... and  and and.

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TalkBack / RE: Sega Development Teams Reorgainization Details

« on: July 25, 2003, 06:20:15 AM »

lol

Splitting up Amusement Vision seems sad, Monkey Ball and Daytona USA could be gone forever, and in their place.. sport, what a lousy trade off, I'ld rather play REAL sport, you know where you get hurt and pffed out and have fun? That one.
Overworks and Wow is the one I'm interested in though. It seems an odd combonation, seeing as Wow's biggest games were the House of The Dead games and Overworks with Skies of Arcadia, seems an odd mix. I would've just dissolved WoW and put Sonic Team with Overworks.

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TalkBack / RE: Merrick and Rosso added to XIII Cast

« on: July 25, 2003, 06:14:35 AM »

Tryhards. They should have Adam and Will instead of these tossers.  

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TalkBack / RE: Stuff Magazine Announces Stuff Gamer

« on: July 18, 2003, 07:03:49 AM »

It must suck being an American... having big companies insult you before kicking your shins all the time.

[FINALLY]

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: June 07, 2003, 04:41:53 AM »

Yay for infernal tekken the piss out of the Xbox fanboy and selling the gamecube to the RE fan.

Not much to say except that today I FINALLY got Zelda!!!!!! unfourtunatly now that I'm completly stranded in boarding school I wont be able to play it until school holidays! It's just as well I guess seeing as I have exams starting MONDAY and i started studying LAST NIGHT. But i shall bow to Zelda every Morning and Night, and before exams, I'll see if I can take it in with me
But seriously these Exams are extremly important, They're all worth 50% of the semesters mark and so far I'm failing English and Geography and just srcaping a pass in History (Intro Calc and Physics are fine) so I need to do well in all of them. Apparently if i fail English for the year I have to repeat year 11, and theres no way I'm doing that. So yeah, i'll have lots of Important Gaming to catch up on after exams and ounce I escape from Boarding school (Soul caliber, Zelda and Skies of Arcadia spring to mind)
Anyway wish me luck, I'll tell ya how my exams go as they happen

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: June 03, 2003, 03:56:05 PM »

Glad to see you like the site. It's not that kickarse, theres some incomplete bits and a horrible ad down the right hand side, it's also not as profesional looking as the only other Australan GBA site. :S
I'nm not planning on starting a GCN section because, the other head staffer guy doens't even own one, and theres allready plenty of great Aussie GCN sites out there, no point on me making one.
Anyway if you wana work for us reviewing GBA games or posting news then of course you can. Just write a review and I'll get the other guy to give you access to the news posting service

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TalkBack / RE: Atari Sells a Million Matrix in North America

« on: June 03, 2003, 03:50:37 PM »

My friend finished this game in 3 hours, what a piece of crap

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: June 03, 2003, 04:46:20 AM »

What? doesn't work? Its a redirect, it should work. Well try http://members.lycos.co.uk/gbanetwork1/ that should work for ya. Anyway the marketing guy they got back did the "lets see that again" ads, that everyone loved. after he left Nintendo marketing dropped and sony took over the market.

if this is a double post kill me.

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General Chat / Official Australian PGC visitors disscussion

« on: June 03, 2003, 03:48:54 AM »

Woah guys, I just have to quickly reply, not sure if it's been said or not but NAL has a new Marketing director, well not really new, they had him 3 years ago and he left to Acclaim. Check my site for details.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Advance Wars.....why not?

« on: May 17, 2003, 06:11:23 AM »

It's a great game btu i think that advance wars 2 will be a waste. The new unts look gimmicky and there was nothing that they could conceivably improve upon without changing the whole formula of the game. I'll just save my money and not buy Advance wars 2