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Nintendo Gaming / Having a problem with Pal verison of Metroid Prime and freeloader

« on: June 16, 2003, 06:28:18 PM »

I got the pal verison on Metroid Prime and a freeloader. The game won't load and all I get is a blank screen. Is this game incompatible with the free loader? Do I have a bad disc? Please let me know if there are others that have this same problem.

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Nintendo Gaming / Metroid Live action movie=sucks , All CGI Metroid Movie= not to shabby

« on: May 28, 2003, 09:36:22 PM »

I'm not sayin I'm totally against a live action movie or that it couldn't be done well but lets face it in all likelyhood it will suck all the odds are against it. After seeing the suit in the prime commerical which was decent for that I cringe of the thought of it being in a movie. I know in the movie they will try to make it look much better but its not like they can do alot. Also samus is very agile it would be hard for her to do alot of the stuff she does in the game with that heavy suit. I know I sound like a stupid fanboy but I just feel that a metroid movie would look so freakin awesome done all cgi like final fantasty.I mean they wouldn't have to worry about sacrifing so many of the elements from the game like they would if it was life action and what elements that could be done in both would look better in cgi cause obviously cgi affects would be needed for certain things in live action as well .  The cgi affects would obviously blend together better if everything is cgi around unlike if everything was real like a live action movie.I'm not saying cgi always looks bad in live action to the contrary but sometimes its looks awkward jumping to something real then cgi cause it can look real fakey like alot of scenes in spiderman. I still loved that film but it was kinda annoying. An all CGI film would be no more expensive then a live action and if they wanted to look real good live action they would undoubtly have to pay more then giving it the final fantasty treatment. Besides you know they prolly wouldn't give the live action movie a huge budget what game based movie have you seen with a real huge budget with maybe the exception of tomb raider and I bet that wasn't as expensive as alot of non- game based action movies. So if they don't put forth a huge sums of money on live action movie were stuck with a movie with affects like the prime commericial. Just think about it

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Nintendo Gaming / Metroid Live action movie=sucks , All CGI Metroid Movie= not to shabby

« on: May 28, 2003, 11:27:15 AM »

I think one of the reason's making it all CGI would be better cause not everyone will be happy with the actress they choose. Another reason is because no matter how hard they try the chozo suit will look kinda fakey and lord knows how hard it will be to make samus look good and believeable changing into the morp ball. They will most obviously have to use CGI effects to make the morp ball effects and make samus look more agile then she really is in a metal outfit. The  problem with this is it alot of times this looks awkward when adding really intense CGI effects to live action it doesn't blend so well together alot of times that why if the whole movie was CGI it would blend together seemlessly. I like the ideas for having Tim Burton or Ridley Scott directing but I think they could still direct it if it's CGI I mean some of it looks real photo realistic like Final Fantasty so it wouldn't be too different all they would have to do is tell the animator what kind of camera angles they wanted and how the scene would play out.

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Nintendo Gaming / Metroid Live action movie=sucks , All CGI Metroid Movie= not to shabby

« on: May 27, 2003, 03:41:22 PM »

No there is no trailer for the movie yet and there hasn't been any movement forward with it other then the same guys who produced america pie and final destination bought the rights to make a movie of it. The commericial I reffered to was for the game metroid prime. I think they could afford an all cgi movie besides nintendo wouldn't be paying for it the movie studio would in fact they will make money off of it if it does well cause they sold the movie rights to them so its up to the producers and the movie studio to bare the burden of the cost not nintendo. The Final Fantasty movie was different cause square took on that burden themselves writing the script, directing, producing and using there own cgi computers all colombia pictures did was distribute it.

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Nintendo Gaming / Metroid Live action movie=sucks , All CGI Metroid Movie= not to shabby

« on: May 27, 2003, 03:24:29 PM »

Ever since it wa annouced that metroid was to be made into a movie I like many people was excited and diisappointed at the same time. Excited because its one of my favorite games of all time and has a great story and mood about it that could make a good film. But like many others I was also dissappointed because I know it will most likely not be done right and suck ass. The more I think about it even if they took a serious as possible effort it would still look cheesy live action. Just look at the metroid commerical look at samus's costume. I though they did a decent job and looked cool for a commericial and all but it still looked cheesy especially the morp ball. The job they did for the commerical doesn't cut it for a box office film we demand better quality.  Even though they would most likely would try to make the costume better looking then that in a live action movie it would still not look all that believeable and still look cheesy. I think if they really wanted to make the movie look great they should make it a cgi movie like Final Fantasy. Sure the story wasn't as good as one of the games or even looked liked something from Final Fantasy I'm sure many aggreed it looked awesome and one could only imagne how sweet the world of Samus Aran would look under these kinds of great cgi animation. In my opinion that would be the best way to go. So what do you guys think? CGI or live action?

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Nintendo Gaming / where can I Import the PAL version of Metroid Prime?

« on: May 24, 2003, 11:27:49 AM »

I really want to import the europeon version of metroid prime does anyone know a good website that sells it?

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Nintendo Gaming / Donkey Kong GC, Donkey Kong Racing and Yoshi GC...

« on: May 05, 2003, 12:18:47 PM »

Of all the games nintendo has made Yoshi's story is the only one that I must say I hated. You went in buying it think it was going to be the master piece super mario world 2: yoshi's Island was instead your stuck with crap. I hated everything about it all you did was eat fruits and your game didn't end until ate all 30 fruits.  i was such a let down. I hope to god if miyamoto makes a new yoshi game it is nothing like that piece of crap.

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Nintendo Gaming / SD Adapter

« on: April 29, 2003, 09:18:00 PM »

I heard on gamepro that it will only work on games that support it and most likely won't be used for regular game saves. So I guess that means I can forget about using it on my old games for regular saves. It would have been nice for games like pso and sports games.  

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 22, 2003, 08:38:11 AM »

Listen I know perfectly well how money works and I know Microsofts tactics are pefectly legal in this matter. However, windows is another story. But it still does make me mad when I know that it doesn't matter how good a product Nintendo has xbox can make a complete piece of junkif they want to and advertise the hell out of it and still win. Try putting yourself in the shoes of the little guys for once especially if you have a competeing product to windows. Every one knows Mircosoft monopolizes that market and they give incentives to other companies to package their computers with windows. But do you really think someone should dominate that much? It's not good for the consumer because there's a lack of choice and really microsoft if they wanted to could make little to know effort to make their product that much better. I'm sure many of you notice that windows new verisons are not exactly drastically different or all that much better. If Mircosoft had stiffer competition that would give them more incentive to make a better product but they have literally no competition.  About your comment on praise the rich for getting richer I suppose your refering to the fruits of having a capitalist ecomony where any man can make money, but do you really thing Microsoft needs to be that much richer. Really when you think about their complete control over one market where they are pretty much the only product it's closer to communism then capitalism. I know that may be too extreme to say that but I don't feel thats to off base from the truth and I'm sure many would agree with me.

[thecubedcanuck]

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 22, 2003, 08:19:36 AM »

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Originally posted by: thecubedcanuck

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Sony and Mircosoft are paying them off. It's ridiculous how much they are paying people off

LMAO, lets try to get a grip here and touch back down on the landing strip called reality.

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i called Electronics Boutique the other day and the rep said this is Electronics Boutique your mircosoft xbox gaming center, this is brian how may I help you.

its called a PROMOTION, they do the same thing with Sony and Nintendo as well.

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It's not fair and it's ridiculous how xbox is buying it's way into this market.

Its perfectly fair and perfectly legal in the form it occurs, its called common business practice in North America. You however seem a little to paranoid and are a little misinformed when it comes to just how money plays a role here. Ever here the phrase the rich keep getting richer? Where do you think this comes from.

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Some times I wish I was Nintendo's director of marketing cause I guarantee we would probably be in a much closer race with microsoft or at least beating them.

After reading your entire rant, I highly doubt it.

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 22, 2003, 08:09:27 AM »

Listen wheter or not its fair or not or common business practice I'm not going to argue. But it's obvious they pay them or give them some incentive to promote them. The point I'm trying to make is Nintendo truly lacks the understanding of just how important retailers are. Every once in awhile EB may answer the phone and say you can reserve Legend of Zelda or something like that but even you have to admit Nintendo's support of game retailers and advertising is awful compared to Microsoft and Sony. I mean if you were a casual gamer and didn't know alot about games and went into a retailer you probably wouldn't even know Gamecube existed. As far as your comment about me not being a good director I can gurantee wouldn"t be any worse off. At least I would be trying to build stronger relationships with retailers and trying to promote the cube more. I'd like to see what your strategy would be I'm sure it wouldn't be too far off from mine. I'm also willing to bet alot of nintendo fans would do similar things as well to get the word out for nintendo. I know Nintendo can't afford to advertise like Sony or Microsoft but they do have some money to blow and they need to try a little harder. It's not like it would be hard for them to recover the cost because they make profit off of Gamecube and not lose money like Microsoft. So I defintely doesn't hurt to sell more Gamecubes.

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 21, 2003, 06:46:02 PM »

I noticed alot lately at blockbuster the only new games they seem to get anymore for cube are exclusives. If it's mulitplatform they only seem to get the ps2 and xbox verisons and in the rare ocassion they have a cube verison they have only one copy like Def Jam Vendetta and Dead to Rights. Sony and Mircosoft are paying them off. It's ridiculous how much they are paying people off i called Electronics Boutique the other day and the rep said this is Electronics Boutique your mircosoft xbox gaming center, this is brian how may I help you. That just pissed me off and when I went in there xbox stuff was all over the place around the front counter and the employes had those those tags you where around your neck saying xbox all over them.  For a place that sells games for all platforms it seemed hard to prove that it wasn"t an xbox only store. It's not fair and it's ridiculous how xbox is buying it's way into this market. I don't have a problem with xbox as a whole I think it's a good console but not as good as cube and I hate to think it was a piece of crap cause it would sell regardless since mircosoft blows so much money. Why doesn't nintendo cozy up to retailers. Thats the biggest problem they have is they don't advertise enough in retail stores especially in small game only stores like EB and Gamestop. In less your Walmart nintendo could seem to careless, heck even there they don't advertise enough. Gamestop and these other places are just as important. Nintendo is hated by these retailers because they are so hard to deal with. Well I got news for nintendo they can't do that anymore cause they are not number one anymore. I know lately they have been trying to gain third party support  but retailers need to be in the equation too cause it's something there missing and the problems with third parties and retailers are all linked. Third parties complain about low sales because retailers won't carry there games cause nintendo is more concerned about there games and they use minimal advertising. Some times I wish I was Nintendo's director of marketing cause I guarantee we would probably be in a much closer race with microsoft or at least beating them.

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 16, 2003, 04:02:05 PM »

I think disc size is somewhat of an issue for cube. Most games don't use a lot of FMV but what little they use may require a second disc while cheap some developers may not want to use a second disc to fit just one level on it. Capcom fortunately really doesn't seem to care and thankfully we didn't get crap compressed videos. But other games I can understand why they would want one disc like Tony Hawk. I mean wouldn't it seem kinda awkard for a skate boarding game to be two discs when all they may need it for is maybe one or two tracks I know people don't want to pop in a new disc for a game like Tony Hawk which is just a quick pick up and play game. Games that are more drawn out like adventures or rpgs don't suffer from this. I just hope in the future that companies use the divx compression technology developed by Factor 5 if they want to fit their games on one disc. I think Nintendo should have made their disc's slighty bigger in size that could have made a big difference. They should have made it a size in between the standard mini-disc size and full disc size. I think piracy issues would be even better cause even gamecube disc are a standard mini disc size you and fit them in a lot of disc caches that have a mini-disc indention. While gamecube disc are still hard to burn it still leaves the door open but it they were an in between size they couldn't fit in anything and at least we would get more space out of them. I've also heard about pansonic working on a tera bite technolgy on dvds. That could add tremendous space to a mini-cube disc  and have more space then a regular dvd. I wonder if this could be implented on the cubes disc now. I hope Nintendo will look into this for their next console at least.

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 16, 2003, 10:14:48 AM »

I think you should write an editorial about this Bloodworth I think's it's a very important topic.  Heck I would love to write it for you guys since I feel very strongly about it and I love this site, but I think you'd probably do a better job since you most likely have better grammar skills and have experience writing for websites. This is such an important subject I feel because third party support has become so important. Gone are the days where who had the best first party software took the crown. Now it's all about who has more variety cause now the market is dominated by the casual gamer and not the hardcore. It's quite sad really when the cube actually has a very good selection of games but gamers have no clue due to lack of advertising and retailer reluctance to carry many titles. Nintendo may still make profit off it's loyal fans but even those numbers are growing thin they just won't be enough to keep nintendo going in the long run. They need to make more fans of their games and products and the only way to do that is to let public know what they have to offer by advertising more. It's not like they have to spend alot on comericals like metroid prime where it practically looks like a movie. All they have to do is make them simple like xbox commericals show the game footage then cube logo. That way they can put more money into actually buying more time slots and show them more frequently. It's sad how when nintendo makes a commerical then they hardly ever show it like the one where they offered a gamecube and one free game they should have been running that one like crazy like xbox did with it's two game deal over christmas. I have seen that commerical like maybe only twice. It's ridiculous it's like why even bother. Nintendo needs to get it's act together on this front and stop sitting on their hands.

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 15, 2003, 06:25:31 PM »

Thanks for your support Darc. This a problem nationwide and a problem with the industry as a whole. Lets face it the gaming community is not the same anymore once what was only hardcore geeks is now dominated by casual gamers that buy something if its flashy and looks cool. Advertsing is so important now word of mouth just doesn't work anymore bescause the market is not domminated by harcore gamers anymore that read magazines and are in the know about games. Most casual games want something short and fun and has lots of action and probabaly wouldn't know a really good game if it bit them in the ass. Terrible games will sell if its marketed right and exclusives just aren't as important as they used to be. Lets face it xbox has a pretty terrible selection of exclusive games with a few exceptions but it holds it own cause of its variety of games and lots of money it spend advertising them and its system. Gamecube is truly the hardcore gamers machine just like most people said alot of casual gamers don't know what gamecube is or told it was kiddy and to instead get an xbox.  But really could blame them if they didn't know what we know about gamecube and all they ever see is commericals saying there's no power power of x what would you buy. If Nintendo would advetise more they would make all the money back for ads and then some from game sales and cube sales. They do have one adavtage that mircosoft has if they sale more consoles they make more money not lose money cause nintendo isn't taking a loss. If more casual gamers saw cubes variety with ads and realized how cheap it was compared to others they'd give it a shot. I don't know if nintendo's new president will do this but so far I like his changes it does seem that he's trying to be more competitive. I'm not sure it will do much to help gamecube but hopelly nintendo's next console will have a much better game plan.

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 14, 2003, 07:11:12 PM »

But Darc don't you get it,to most third parties just putting the stupid logo off to the corner is enough for them. I guess they figure its more important to advertise Playstation 2 and Xbox then Gamecube since they are consider it to be more popular. But really when you think about it thats retarded logic any business knows if one sector of your business isn't selling well you put more money into to correct it and less in your more successful ventures to alleviate the cost and balance things out. So why not l put more money into for ads for gamecube to correct this problem. I mean really at this point any high profile game coming to ps2 probably doesn't need near as much advertising as a gamecube title since more people have ps2. You would also think since they realize that most people buy gamecube for just nintendo games that would be more incentive to make there games more well know on gamecube with the stiff competition of first party games nintendo has. You may be right nintendo shouldn't have to pay them to advertise more but they shouldn't just sit on their hands. At the very least if they broker a deal to have a exclusive third party game they should at least pay some money to advertise it. Look how much mircosoft paid for splinter cell and it was only had a short exclustivity period. It sold better then Metroid Prime. Every time I saw an xbox commerical it was all about splinter cell and they did the same thing with DOA extreme beach volley ball. I'm not stupid I know nintendo could never afford to win in an advertsing war with the likes of sony and mircosoft but dammit it's time they start being a little more agressive and stop taking it like a prison bitch.  

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 14, 2003, 12:31:17 PM »

It's obvious Nintendo makes alot of money. It's also obvious that in a straight out money war on ads mircosoft and sony would kick their butts. But hell they could stand to blow some of that money for the return they will make. They need to help third parties advertise games and advertise their games better. Like for one no more terrible mario sunshine commericials or ridiculous times of the day like Metroid Prime and Eternal Darkness. They really need to push advertising and make incentives for third parties to advertise more. The reason most developers don't advertise more for cube is they spend so much as it is on making the game as it is and some can hardly afford to make a commerical as it. So Sony and Mircosoft step in and give them money for commericals resulting in more sales for them. And nintendo never does that the and thats why the gamecube logo is off in the corner. We as fans need to write into nintendo and let them know what garbage this is.

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 14, 2003, 06:47:33 AM »

Has anyone seen the new splinter cell comericial where they mostly talk about the new ps2 verison. They have a review from a playstation magazine and show the ps2 box and talk about the added levels. Then off in the corner you see a small gamecube logo. Thanks for that guys if you hadn't of put that little gamecube logo in the corner we would have never known it was coming to cube.

(by the way that was sarcasm )

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling

« on: April 13, 2003, 07:22:06 PM »

I agree with you totally its just plain ridiculous nintendo needs to come in do something. I find it hard to believe crap like Monsters Inc dodge ball sells better then resident evil and deserves more selve space. And it hurts nintendo's image more cause when I tell friends that a certain mature game is on cube they are like really? I didn't know I never see it in stores. No wonder everyone thinks they make kids games. Even blockbuster is getting worse about carrying mature cube games for rental only they will carry is like resident evil but more obsecure stuff they won't. Black n' brusied has been out for months at my local blockbuster and they only have it for ps2 and xbox the cube selection is really going down even Rayman 3 isn't available at my blockbuster just on ps2 and xbox and it came to cube first . And they only had one copy of dead to rights for cube while they had a bunch for ps2 and xbox. Nintendo needs to start paying these jackasses off to carry there stuff. This is why third-parties want to leave cause of poor sales cause retailers are being jerks to us cube owners

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Nintendo Gaming / what did famitsu give metroid prime?

« on: April 13, 2003, 07:10:54 PM »

I'm curious what score they gave it I know it didn't sell that well in Japan but I was just wondering if Famitsu thought it sucked cause it was first person

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Nintendo Gaming / Xbox fan buys Gamecube....story at 11.

« on: April 11, 2003, 06:07:00 PM »

Well I honestly I think you should get pso for cube. I heard that you can only play in america cause they use xbox live servers also you can only use the headset cause  for now I don't think they will have a keyboard yet. Try talking to someone on a headset with 20 other people at once. Thats got to be annoying and the fact there is apparently there is a ten second delay. I know your probably saying well there's no keyboard for cube either except for japan but don't worry datel the makers of the action replay just made a kb for cube just like the one they made for ps2. I'm kinda peeved about it since I spent 90 bucks for mine I got from japan  The cube version is free the first few months also and you can buy a broadband modem for cube I've seen quite a bit of them lately at walmart and target.  If I had an xbox I would probably get the xbox verison in most cases but  I think you should seriously consider the cube verison. You got more servers you can go to like eu and jp which you can't on xbox and you can still use broadband and buy the datel keyboard for 20 bucks. Besides as a cube owner you need to show nintendo you want to play online games

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Nintendo Gaming / Raven blade

« on: April 11, 2003, 05:54:59 PM »

Yea I mean it was obviously early on and you know the final product would look awesome after seeing prime. I'm not to hot on the idea of multiplayer in prime 2 it just doesn't fit the game. I also think the lock on style shooting would suck for multiplayer they would have to use a more traditional control scheme.

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Nintendo Gaming / Raven blade

« on: April 11, 2003, 03:01:20 PM »

Do any of you remenber this game by Retro studios? It was in development before they cancelled it to finish prime it looked so awesome I wish they would bring it back cause after playing prime I'm anxious for something orignal from retro and we could use a really good rpg for cube.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Xbox fan buys Gamecube....story at 11.

« on: April 10, 2003, 07:56:48 PM »

I had a genisis too I really liked it was a great system. But Super nintendo to me stuck out more to me cause it had better first party software and some of the greatest rpgs ever. Sega Dreamcast was their best system ever I was so mad when it died it didn't deserve to die like saturn. I haven't got an xbox yet I just not really sold on it yet. Nothing seems to jump out me I guess I mean most its types of games aren't nessacrly my favorite genre wheter there good or not. Halo I here is great but not sure if it's worth an xbox. Steel Battalion sounds awesome but its a bit steep. I'll probably wait until Rare makes some games and Fable comes out before I decide. And thats only if they all turn out to be good.

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Nintendo Gaming / Xbox fan buys Gamecube....story at 11.

« on: April 09, 2003, 06:41:53 AM »

My god man you never owned a nintendo console before? Gamecube is great but not there best. You need to get an old nes and especially super nintendo. Super Nintendo was the greatest console ever in my opinion.