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Nintendo Gaming / Anybody else looking forward to TMNT game?

« on: February 02, 2003, 10:47:21 AM »

Man, does this bring back memories.  Kudos to anybody who knows Splinter and Shredder's real names...  And yes, I still remember them.  I need a life.  Badly.

But back to the game, I hope it's not a Street Fighter clone.  The GC controller just isn't suited to that style of gaming.  If I were designing the game, I would make it cel-shaded, obviously.  It would be third person, with gameplay similar to Devil May Cry - high on visual flair, emphasis on action, but without all the gothic imagery.  It should try and capture the cartoon's action sequences.  Probably have to limit it to single player, and cut out a lot of the explicit violence to keep it a Teen rating.

The missions would be laid out in a storyline sequence.  Kill the Foot Clan in this neighborhood, rescue April from Mousers, etc.  All of it culminating with a boss battle against Shredder at the end.

Konami is sitting on a gold mine of nostalgia in TMNT.  If they can capture both the younger market who is watching the new cartoons and the older demographic who remembers with fondness Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael...  They could make millions.

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Nintendo Gaming / Skies of Arcadia - best GC RPG

« on: February 02, 2003, 10:34:18 AM »

The rumor I've heard is that Overworks will develop a sequel to Skies of Arcadia if sales of the Gamecube game are high enough.  It's just a rumor, though, and I have no way of verifying that it's true.  But the prospects for Skies selling well are high.  There's a severe lack of classic RPGs on the Gamecube, so the audience is there.  The game is very good.  The game also has a following from the Dreamcast days, and plenty of information is available on the game.

Here's to hope...

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NWR Feedback / Report this to a Moderator.

« on: February 02, 2003, 10:29:58 AM »

Horribly off-topic, but "...and knowing is half the battle" is usually followed by a chrous singing "G.I. Joe!"

Go here for more information, as well as a sound clip!

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Nintendo Gaming / Skies of Arcadia - best GC RPG

« on: February 01, 2003, 09:56:07 PM »

Skies of Arcadia: Legends is the best RPG for the Gamecube.  Of course, when the competition is Phantasy Star Online, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, and Lost Kingdoms, it's not very hard to pick a winner in the classic RPG sense.  But SoAL is still a terrific old-school RPG.

All the classic RPG standards are here - strange woman whose origins are unknown, magic-wielders, and the underdogs taking on the evil empire.  But the flair of the game is different from any other games I've known.  It's not hyper-futuristic like FF7, and it's not hyper-medieval like Dragon Warrior 7.  It truly is a land of its own.

I don't wanna start getting this into a review-like format, so I'll just urge anybody who enjoys RPGs to check this one out.  Because it's not especially difficult, I would also consider this an excellent choice for the entry-level RPGer.  This could be the game that hooks you on RPGs forever.

[RickPowers]

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NWR Feedback / New Forums BUG DISCUSSION

« on: February 01, 2003, 02:06:26 PM »

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Every once in a while, using my browser's back button, the page I return to is not rendered. The HTML code is still there, but for some reason it's displaying it as plain text and not HTML.

Sounds like a problem with your browser.  There's nothing in the code that could keep it from displaying.  Regardless, there are breadcrumb links at the tops and bottoms of the pages you can use to navigate.  Perhaps avoiding the back button would help.

Actually, the problem has seemed to fix itself.  It was also happening on just simple page reloads using either the button or Ctrl-R.  But it's working now.  Strangeness.

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NWR Feedback / New Forums BUG DISCUSSION

« on: February 01, 2003, 09:15:28 AM »

Damn, I just made a thread that explained my problems... here they are again:

- At the top of each page, above the PGC Forum logo, is some text that varies depending on where I am on the forum.  Looks like they're variables that the forum software is spitting out, things like date, page completion status, etc.  The main homepage (planetgamecube.com) is also displaying this text at the top, above the banner ad.

- Every once in a while, using my browser's back button, the page I return to is not rendered.  The HTML code is still there, but for some reason it's displaying it as plain text and not HTML.

- "New Messages" tags aren't refreshing correctly for me.  I go into a category or thread and several messages are marked as "new".  I exit the thread, reload the main page (or forum page) and they're still displayed as new.  This might not be a bug with the software, but just my problem dealing with this new UI.

I'm running IE 5.0 on Windows 2000.  My connection is from my PC, to a 100Mb hub, to a gateway running Windows 2000 Internet Connection Sharing, then out to the Internet over a 56k modem (yes, it's a bit of overkill).  Other webpages are rendering fine.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Final Fantasy 3 on Game Boy Advance?

« on: January 31, 2003, 07:52:16 PM »

What do you mean by "Final Fantasy 3"?  Do you mean FF3 from Japan (never released here, originally on the NES) or FF3 from the USA (originally FF6 for the SNES)?  I always use the Japanese numbering scheme, but I know that many people don't, so I'm unclear.

Final Fantasy 6 is widely considered to be one of the best RPGs of all time, and if it were to be enhanced on the GBA, I'd go nuts.  FF3 was unreleased here, so if it were to be enhanced on the GBA, I'd go nuts.  So I guess my point is moot - I'd go nuts if a Final Fantasy game were ported to the GBA.

Does that make me a Square fanboy? :-)

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General Gaming / Phantasy Star Online: XBOX Version.

« on: January 31, 2003, 07:27:50 PM »

About the only drawback to the pricing of PSO is that, even if you plan to never play it online, an Xbox Live subscription is still necessary.  I realize why they did this - Microsoft is probably picking up part of the cost of PSO in order to make it look more appealing on the Xbox than the Gamecube.  And, to make up the difference, Live is being used.  Not a terrible business strategy, as most of the Xbox owners are already on Xbox Live.

But there's plenty of fun to be had offline...  I couldn't find anything about Xbox offline multiplayer.  Does the Xbox version let 4 people play split-screen?