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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NES/SNES/N64 controllers on your Wii.

« on: May 21, 2009, 01:28:16 PM »

not that i advocate gamestop, but the two near me have n64 controllers there. you can also try ebay, but it is harder to see how well the controler is from a picture.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NES/SNES/N64 controllers on your Wii.

« on: May 21, 2009, 10:14:28 AM »

i saw that, i dig it.

though as i play retro gaming challenge i wish you could plug an NES controller into the DS...

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TalkBack / Re: Does Nintendo Hate Excitebots?

« on: May 21, 2009, 09:59:59 AM »

Metroid Prime 3's "failure" (selling more than Super Metroid oughta mean something, jeez) is always a scapegoat for some reason I have yet to decipher.

i think the point was that MP3's advertising was a failure. The only people who think the game sales were a failure are the ones that compare it to Halo 3, which came out almost the same time.

i think there is a lot of truth in Ian's post. Nintendo doesn't seem to know how to advertise itself very well. there are two great ads that come to mind, the nintendo characters running through the feild holding hands, then one slugs the other for smash brothers and then majora's mask one (which i saw in the movie theatre, made me want to play it there) but for the most part they either don't advertise, or just have print ads with release dates, etc.

maybe they think that nintendo power is all the advertising they really need?

excite bots is on my get / try list, it looks like a fun game, but with punch out and conduit right around the corner it had a strange time to come out.

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TalkBack / Re: Does Nintendo Hate Excitebots?

« on: May 17, 2009, 02:02:09 PM »

i did see an excitebot add somewhere random and big, like the front of yahoo, but i don't remember now.

i think its title throws people off, excite bots doesn't sound like a racing game to most people.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: emag iiW terceS

« on: May 15, 2009, 10:30:30 AM »

this! is! sparta?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: emag iiW terceS

« on: May 14, 2009, 08:33:05 PM »

oh a puzzle!

ok i see two people, maybe a sword and blood.

resident evil rail shooter? (i keed i keed)

ok, but seriously, killer instinct maybe?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Retro Gaming Challenge?!

« on: May 14, 2009, 10:09:12 AM »

why does rally king hate me?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Retro Gaming Challenge?!

« on: May 11, 2009, 06:35:45 PM »

ah 8-bit frustration.

this game is great.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Gold and Silver being remade for DS

« on: May 08, 2009, 06:44:08 AM »

actually i see this as a GOOD indication for E3. this means that this was not to be an E3 announcement. so instead of this being a big announcement there will be something else.

and +1 to DSi version. it would be nice to see what DSi specific features you could pack into a pokemon game. (my pokemon ranch dsi? downloadable gyms? pokemon CALCULATOR!! ahahahaha.)

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Retro Gaming Challenge?!

« on: May 07, 2009, 04:12:07 PM »

grr. this thread made me buy this today. should be here monday. good thing last day of class is tuesday.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Avalon Code (ARPG)

« on: May 04, 2009, 07:52:22 PM »

you know, i even searched the forum for this topic because i swore i saw it...

but this one doesn't come up? weird.

anyway I own this one now. here is what i posted elsewhere:

Just picked this up this weekend. Played the first 30 minutes or so and seems a good one. It seems that you can decide whether to help the world or turn against it.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Virtual Console Mondays Thread

« on: May 04, 2009, 06:47:53 PM »

i think there is something big in the AC announcements.

the alarm can use your town's song. this means that DSiWare games can talk to DS games. Pre-existing DS games, not just ones that are designed for that.

especially in the case of AC, i think this has potential. Whether that will ever show up? who knows.

for example. Imagine having 'tag' mode (or whatever AC called it, it was Bark mode on Nintendogs) as a stand alone program. so i don't have to have AC with me, i can still interact and then load it later.

same thing with trading pokemon, or selling coke (err, virtual coke on Chinatown wars, not the real stuff...)

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Nintendo Gaming / Avalon Code

« on: May 04, 2009, 06:43:05 PM »

Just picked this up this weekend. Played the first 30 minutes or so and seems a good one. It seems that you can decide whether to help the world or turn against it.

action RPG with an interesting upgrade system. Seems you can steal things abilities from monsters that you scan and use them for yourself.

still working it all out. anyone else have this?

http://ds.ign.com/objects/142/14253169.html

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Pokemon Gold and Silver remakes on the way? Possible May 10th announcement.

« on: May 03, 2009, 11:56:42 PM »

i'd put my hopes into the downloading thing too.

actually, if i had my way there would be one pokemon cart and you'd have to buy expansions for it (which go on the cart or SD card)

i mean imagine having one character, but several pokemon games in one thing?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times: What AC:City Folk should've strived for...

« on: April 27, 2009, 10:00:29 PM »

*casts 'life2' on topic.

w3rd.

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TalkBack / Re: Let's Play GC on the Wii!

« on: April 26, 2009, 09:35:04 PM »

i still want NPC for geist. it was a great game and lost because FPS on a GC, well, frankly sucked.

i do agree though, give us NEW games, not ports. seriously is there a gamer left who doesn't have at least one port of RE one? it was a good game, bu tnot that good.

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TalkBack / Re: Ghostbusters Trailer Released

« on: April 26, 2009, 04:40:57 PM »

I was amazed that they got the real voices.  Bill Murray and Harold Ramis?  That's crazy.  I don't know if Dan Ackroyd is in there, though.

he should be, he is the one who wrote the game...

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: DSi owners' thread

« on: April 21, 2009, 04:36:14 PM »

well i ordered the invisible shield... for the ds lite. sigh. so sending that back.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: WiiWare games have to hit a sales threshold before devs get paid

« on: April 20, 2009, 07:39:44 PM »

Nintendo is FUN to bash now.

like apple that way.

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i'd dig being a wii-ware developer, or having a company that did as such. especially by making an older style RPG, like rogue or fool's errand. give me something like that.

or better yet, 8 person online gauntlet with wii-speak. don't even have to improve the graphics.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NPC! <what game would you insert here>

« on: April 19, 2009, 10:00:14 PM »

i'll second geist. great game but i am one of those people who sucked at FPS with my thumbs.

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TalkBack / Re: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Website Now Live

« on: April 18, 2009, 04:28:53 PM »

why is it, that most of the time there is never a link to suggested headline.   I would really appreciate the news and a link at the bottom..  that would be great.  really.

Do you mean the link to the source?

i think that is what he means, i mean it is an article about a website, but the website or a link to it doesn't appear in the article...

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: DSi owners' thread

« on: April 18, 2009, 04:27:53 PM »

is it just me, or does the Dpad feel cheaper than the one on the phat? (i never had a lite, so not sure about that one).

it doesn't feel like it will break off if i push too hard or something, it just feels, i dunno, not up to nintendo standard? maybe?

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TalkBack / Re: PREVIEWS: Takt of Magic

« on: April 18, 2009, 04:23:06 PM »

want.

speaking of Nintendo and RPG's, didn't they buy the Xenosaga company like two years ago?

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TalkBack / Re: Rapid Blogging Comes to Wii with Twiiter

« on: April 15, 2009, 07:38:31 AM »

now there is some potential for a system that auto tweets your status

"playing world at war"
"reading the news"
"dancing to Disney tunes" (oop! err, i mean Shootin ZOMBIES, yeah that's it)

the xbox has something like that already. i suppose if we had acheivements it would make more sense. but if we had achievements I think i'd be doing something else.

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TalkBack / Re: Rapid Blogging Comes to Wii with Twiiter

« on: April 12, 2009, 03:50:56 PM »

um. i don't see the point, why not just use twitter?