Author Topic: The DS 2005 Release List (Read 20177 times)

Don'tHate742 · « **Reply #25 on:** May 25, 2005, 08:37:17 PM »

I don't have a DS.....

....that'll change....

thepoga · « **Reply #26 on:** May 25, 2005, 08:53:12 PM »

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Another thing that surprises me is that movie companies keep saying they will release UMD movies. Realistically UMD is worthless.

Well the UMD is a really great format for games. It holds A LOT of space and makes it easier for developers to not have to cut corners, etc.
Take Need for Speed Underground 2 for example. It's not a bad game. But the music in it and the sound of the engine (no difference between different cars) is terrible. It's just bad techno music which would have had high quality liscenced music or whatever if the DS had more space. UMD movies ARE useless though. Especially when you can download movies and put it on the memory stick. But too bad memory sticks are really expensive, but one with the capacity to store a movie or two is about the cost of several DVDs. So the selling of the UMD's as movies is pretty dumb.

Mario · « **Reply #27 on:** May 25, 2005, 09:42:25 PM »

When stores realise nobody wants to buy a UMD movie, they'll take them off the shelf, hopefully... or just leave them sitting there forever.

TMW · « **Reply #28 on:** May 25, 2005, 09:49:34 PM »

The local Hastings (video, game, and bookstore) is already selling UMD movies. I don't know how well they're selling though

But, considering this is a smaller town with only a Hastings and a Walmart to buy videogames at, I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't selling well at all. I was shocked to see them in the first place.

MrMojoRising · « **Reply #29 on:** May 25, 2005, 10:38:18 PM »

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However, I am worried that the PSP has the potential to beat the DS in the U.S.

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if PSP beat out DS in America...however I would be surprised if the DS didn't hold it's own and still kick some ass. It doesn't matter if GTA for PSP is bad because people will be like, "GTA is gangsta! I'm gonna save my money for a PSP, and some new bling, and the new 50 cent album!" In conclusion, many Americans are stupid...except me or anyone else on this forum.

RABicle · « **Reply #30 on:** May 26, 2005, 12:19:01 AM »

I dont even have $900 AUS to spend on the 15 games I want! Then there's Gamecube games to buy too!

Blackknight131 · « **Reply #31 on:** May 26, 2005, 12:32:22 AM »

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Ha, it's funny but I was just looking at the EBGames release list too. You have your typical duplicate games and sketchy release dates, but look at it this way: any game that is listed for 2005, ESPECIALLY the big ones, will be released this year come hell or high water. Having played most of the big games at E3, these are the ones that jump out at me:

Advance Wars
Animal Crossing
Castlevania
Electroplankton
Guilty Gear
Lost In Blue
Madden NFL 2006
Mario & Luigi 2
Mario Kart DS
Metroid Prime Pinball
Metroid Prime: Hunters
Nintendogs
Shogun Empires: Real-Time Conflict
Snowboard Kids DS
Sonic Rush
Tony Hawk: American Wasteland
Touch Golf
Trace Memory
Trauma Center: Under the Knife
Viewtiful Joe DS

There's something on that list for everyone - sports, RPGs, Mario, Animal Crossing, Castlevania, Sonic, FPS, pinball, 2-D fighting, RTS, far-out games like Nintendogs and Electroplankton...my God. This Christmas for DS is going to be ABSURD. The PSP had better be coming with some sh*t, that's all I gotta say.

Ahhh, good to see you coming around on the ol' DS. ^___^

I really look forward to Mario Kart on this thing...Castlevania for single-player, Mario kart for Online, and of course Phoenix Wright for all my lawyer hankerin'. Ive been hearing mixed impressions of Snow Board kids tho...one especially cool little thing has me intrigued tho: I heard there was a propeller power-up in there that you would spin by blowing into the mic. Very cool little extra.

clevelandst124 · « **Reply #32 on:** May 26, 2005, 03:03:18 AM »

Sorry FFVII on Sept 13 is the movie. Although there is a FFVII game planned for the PSP, but it won't hit stores till next march.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #33 on:** May 26, 2005, 08:53:45 AM »

The last time I've seen GTA PSP mentioned a guy from Rockstar Leeds (or North? He worked on San Andreas and GTA3 GBA) commented with "Why did nobody tell me?". Take that as you want.

Bloodworth · « **Reply #34 on:** May 27, 2005, 04:27:45 PM »

yeah the latest animal crossing "date" is Q4

nickmitch · « **Reply #35 on:** May 27, 2005, 08:13:53 PM »

I hate seeing commercials that end with "Now on (or comming soon to) DVD and PSP!" When they really should be saying DVD.

jasonditz · « **Reply #36 on:** May 27, 2005, 08:26:54 PM »

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The last time I've seen GTA PSP mentioned a guy from Rockstar Leeds (or North? He worked on San Andreas and GTA3 GBA) commented with "Why did nobody tell me?". Take that as you want.

Rockstar's got a page up for it... its called "Liberty City Stories".

jasonditz · « **Reply #37 on:** May 27, 2005, 08:28:39 PM »

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I hate seeing commercials that end with "Now on (or comming soon to) DVD and PSP!" When they really should be saying DVD.

What really galls me is that they'll sell maybe 5,000 of the UMD version, and yet they don't release VHS versions of half the things except for as rental copies.

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #38 on:** May 31, 2005, 12:54:42 PM »

hahah, yeah, E3 really turned me around 180 degrees on the DS. Nintendo has suppressed my fanboy whining for a while, at least about this particular gaming platform.

E3 is heaven if you have a DS, because EVERYBODY there has one. I'm sure it'll be even better next year when the DS really hits critical mass. Maybe next year the downloadable demo kiosk won't be overloaded either. You can't beat standing in line and starting up an 8-way Puyo Pop Fever session with people you don't even know. And don't even get me started on how much fun a Pictochat session is when you have 10+ people involved. Honestly, E3 wouldn't have been nearly as much fun without a DS.

stevey · « **Reply #39 on:** May 31, 2005, 03:56:37 PM »

I just look at np game and watch list and there 42 good for the ds of witch 25 are great of witch 12 are must buy as soon as they come out. I need ot find new way of getting money ... I got it I steel from the handcap people.

Don'tHate742 · « **Reply #40 on:** May 31, 2005, 04:13:52 PM »

It's about time Nintendo gave me a real reason to buy the DS...

darknight06 · « **Reply #41 on:** May 31, 2005, 05:56:19 PM »

"Take Need for Speed Underground 2 for example. It's not a bad game. But the music in it and the sound of the engine (no difference between different cars) is terrible. It's just bad techno music which would have had high quality liscenced music or whatever if the DS had more space."

I'll give you the engine sound to a degree, but the music part I don't agree with. DS can do great sounding music, afterall the sound system is better and more efficient than that of the N64. It's just that pocketeers decided to key out some godawful tunes, which you cannot blame on the system. Gameloft's Asphalt Urban GT had much better music than NFSU2. Besides I'd rather have original music over some garbage EA Trax licensed crap.

Stimutacs Addict · « **Reply #42 on:** June 02, 2005, 07:48:49 AM »

i dont forsee GTA Liberty Stories selling too many PSPs... most of these people already have PS2's and identical if not better copies of a game they'd have to spend $300 to play on the go.

thepoga · « **Reply #43 on:** June 02, 2005, 02:10:21 PM »

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I'll give you the engine sound to a degree, but the music part I don't agree with. DS can do great sounding music, afterall the sound system is better and more efficient than that of the N64. It's just that pocketeers decided to key out some godawful tunes, which you cannot blame on the system. Gameloft's Asphalt Urban GT had much better music than NFSU2. Besides I'd rather have original music over some garbage EA Trax licensed crap.

But would better music have been included if the DS had more space? That was the whole point of what I was saying. I don't question the DS' ability to have good sound. It can produce great sound. But the size of the DS cards can limit what developers want to do. If they never had to worry about the amount of space they had to work with, it would have been a lot better. The UMD in comparison has TONS of space. But it takes up battery life and loading times really suck. Nintendo should move to a similar format later on, if these problems are eliminated later.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #44 on:** June 02, 2005, 02:17:49 PM »

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I'll give you the engine sound to a degree, but the music part I don't agree with. DS can do great sounding music, afterall the sound system is better and more efficient than that of the N64. It's just that pocketeers decided to key out some godawful tunes, which you cannot blame on the system. Gameloft's Asphalt Urban GT had much better music than NFSU2. Besides I'd rather have original music over some garbage EA Trax licensed crap.

But would better music have been included if the DS had more space? That was the whole point of what I was saying. I don't question the DS' ability to have good sound. It can produce great sound. But the size of the DS cards can limit what developers want to do. If they never had to worry about the amount of space they had to work with, it would have been a lot better. The UMD in comparison has TONS of space. But it takes up battery life and loading times really suck. Nintendo should move to a similar format later on, if these problems are eliminated later.

I don't remember what thread it was in, but we were discussing how the DS game card format is able to go up to 8Gbit/1GByte and still at a reasonable price. So don't worry more space will be available should a developer need it.

darknight06 · « **Reply #45 on:** June 02, 2005, 04:22:43 PM »

"But would better music have been included if the DS had more space? That was the whole point of what I was saying. I don't question the DS' ability to have good sound. It can produce great sound. But the size of the DS cards can limit what developers want to do. If they never had to worry about the amount of space they had to work with, it would have been a lot better. The UMD in comparison has TONS of space. But it takes up battery life and loading times really suck. Nintendo should move to a similar format later on, if these problems are eliminated later."

You know, if Nanostray wasn't in development and footage of that wasn't going around I could see your point, but here we are with a game that arguably is technically more advanced on a graphical scale with high resolution textures, numerous special effects, and a ton of different enemy and boss models scattered through 8 different stages, yet that game seems to have a close to CD quality techno soundtrack. Then again this also could be attributed to their custom sound engine as well, but the truth of the matter is they did it.

Now that I think of it, NFSU2DS sounds like it's using the same sound engine that they used for the GBA with no upgrades at all. Same little scratches, same samples, same everything. They just mixed it differently. Chances are they probably weren't planning on doing any more than that either. One more thing, in a previous interview with IGN they specifically mentioned that storage space WASN'T a development issue they ran into.

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #46 on:** June 03, 2005, 03:45:42 PM »

Nanostray is great. It plays and sounds just as good as you think it does. As far as storage space goes, it all depends on what you're trying to do. Obviously full-motion video isn't the DS' forte, but it's really good for smaller developers that don't want to make games with really high production costs.

That extra storage space almost becomes a barrier to entry - once it's there, the really big and well-funded development teams make use of it, which forces everybody else to follow suit. In other words, your game loses marks if it doesn't have tons of rendered cutscenes and digitized audio.

jasonditz · « **Reply #47 on:** June 03, 2005, 04:14:53 PM »

I'd just as soon they didnt go crazy with FMV personally... it gives me "Night Trap" flashbacks.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #48 on:** June 03, 2005, 10:15:01 PM »

Silks: For a comparison, what do you think of Iridion II?

NWR_Lindy · « **Reply #49 on:** June 04, 2005, 11:25:52 AM »

See, I didn't play Iridion II. I always thought it looked real nice though. Nanostray didn't have the super-fast gameplay of, say, Ikaruga...it was more about control and the strategy of switching between several different weapons. If it would have been as frenzied as some of Treasure's shooters it wouldn't have been fun because you'd get killed while you were figuring out which gun to use.

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