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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Analyst likes Revolution

« on: May 23, 2005, 05:50:07 PM »

To find the future just read an anaylsts report and then think of the opposite, works usually. Honestly most people in forums like this have just as much knowledge as these analysts some even more so.

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Nintendo Gaming / Design the Revolution

« on: May 23, 2005, 05:41:30 PM »

During the conference Iwata-san said something which I realy liked, he asked for the journalists and readers to help him decide which colour to use to market the Revolution, so this thread is dedicated to choosing your favourite colours or showing links to designs you made yourself.
Anyway Ill get the ball rolling and propose a Zelda Sp type gold, or black with gold writing, gold is a really marketable colour and will most definately make the console stand out, just make sure not to make it too close to diarrhoea jabs, (though jabs like that don't really bother me if I were Iwata I might just send out a pink console with a furry controller with a message "maybe purple doesn't seem so bad now?").
So if you want post any ideas of the colour, look etc.

On a related note is PlanetGamecube going to do a poll and send to Nintendo seeing as Iwata-san asked and everything.    

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:NDS screens gave me a near black-out: was advised by EB Games staff to do away with it!

« on: May 12, 2005, 04:34:45 PM »

No I did read it, people can have migraines which can incapacitate them for days (sometimes 1-1.5 days) and you then need a while to recover, personally I would swap almost fainting and temporary blindness for that, but it would be a scary experience happening unexpectly like that though. I've had migraines for over ten years so I know a bit about them.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:NDS screens gave me a near black-out: was advised by EB Games staff to do away with it!

« on: May 12, 2005, 02:49:59 PM »

Honestly Gamebasher I wouldn't worry about that too much, people take much worse migraines than that, anyway whatever you do don't play games on the bus, moving vehicles etc. and if you are wondering why it didn't happen so much with the PSP, your eyes have a larger area to focus on and less background, the DS should be fine however as long as you play at home,outside but not moving.

And about Homeopathy it works because you believe it will work, faith is an incredibly powerful thing, mind over matter if you will.    

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Silicon Knights still working on games for GC

« on: May 12, 2005, 02:27:28 PM »

Just a message to Denis if you are reading:
I watched the video, and I do think that your way of adding more content to games and whatnot will be successful for you as a company, however your reasons which you stated you left Nintendo are flawed, the fact that your games are driven by content and Nintendo's games are driven by smaller and simpler philosophy*, being the reason for the split is the equivalent of saying Nintendo doesn't make RPG's therefore RPG's don’t sell on Nintendo's consoles, which Tales of Symphonia proved differently. If anything if all there was were simple games then naturally there would be a market for complex ones, which leads me to believe it is something in addition to what you stated, which you will most likely never go into. The reason I believe this is because less than a month before the split was announced, you in an interview said when you think of Silicon Knights you also think of Nintendo you are one and the same (paraphrased), well at this stage I was well aware of Nintendo's simpler philosophy so I'd guess you would be as well, so it doesn't really make sense to me.

Also Denis some fans may feel betrayed by promising games exclusive to Nintendo beforehand, so I think it’s only fair you promise Too Human for a Nintendo console.
By the way this not not a way of trying to use guilt in a feeble attempt to gain games exclusive on my favourite consoles, (turns head whistling).

But seriously though I have enjoyed your previous games; especially Eternal Darkness which I played through three times, so although I don’t understand your reasoning for the split,(though I suppose you are in a better position to understand these decisions than me), I wish you good luck and have no doubt [aside from Canada being swallowed into the Earth after its invasion of America (don't pretend you don’t know about it)] that Silicon Knights will be a huge and well respected company in years to come.

*It should be noted that while Iwata-san said that there will be a simpler games philosophy he also said that this philosophy would not be at the expense of traditional games but instead in addition to it*
   

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General Chat / RE:The Reggination! (It's Reggie Month, k?)

« on: May 11, 2005, 11:05:28 PM »

I live in Ireland, where you learn Irish from age 8 to 18 roughly, although I'm not fluent so I might wright the odd gramatical error and stuff.

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General Chat / RE:The Reggination! (It's Reggie Month, k?)

« on: May 11, 2005, 04:19:06 PM »

I don't post much, but I'll join in too. Reggie's belated birthday present is he learns Irish!
If you cant read it, it reads Is máith liom bhúalim na hón, which means I like kicking ass.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:No Live Webcast on Nintendo.com?

« on: May 10, 2005, 04:29:40 PM »

Thanks DontHate, ill be using this site then, I would probably advise anyone who wants to view the stream to get there early as sites during E3 (especially independant ones), are usually as fast as a fatigued constipated snail.

Edit: Rather than having two topics just post in GcCafe thread now seeing as its more relevant.    

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:No Live Webcast on Nintendo.com?

« on: May 09, 2005, 04:57:46 PM »

OK thanks for telling about gamespot, though it seems the show will only be free after it has taken place from what i read in the forums but I may be wrong (hopefully).  

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Nintendo Gaming / No Live Webcast on Nintendo.com?

« on: May 09, 2005, 07:19:12 AM »

Don't know if this belongs here but I was reading through IGN and they mentioned their exclusive E3 live webcast; naturally only for insiders, so I go Nintendo.com as it was streamed there last year to find out how exclusive it was and this is what I find

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Our coverage begins on Tuesday, May 17, when we'll break early news about Nintendo's key products right after the press event concludes.

so it looks like there will be know live webcast for non insiders this year, which is one of best things about E3.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Legend of Zelda: 2005 Official Discussion

« on: March 21, 2005, 01:52:52 AM »

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out of all races the zoras had the more chances of surviving the flood

Actually if you remember being older Link in Ocarina of Time you would notice Jabu Jabu was gone, and also remember that Zoras received their Scales from him (the silver scale won in the diving contest), now in The Windwaker Valoo is their new guardian and the Ritos receive their scales from him which gives them the ability to fly (Prince Komali), so thats the real reason I suspect and also allows for the possibility of faster evolution. Hope that helps!    

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General Gaming / New Sony Chairman and CEO

« on: March 06, 2005, 11:40:15 PM »

http://www.game-science.com/
Turns out Ken Kutaragi is stepping down to take care of the game division and the new chairman isn't Japanese, his name is Sir Howard Stringer he is originally Welsh, Cardiff to be exact.  

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Sony today announced a new management structure, due to become effective on 22 June, subject to approval at the Shareholder's meeting that day. Sir Howard Stringer will assume position of Chairman, Group CEO and Representative CEO for Sony Corporation. Meanwhile "father of the PlayStation brand", Ken Kutaragi, will resign from the Board, along with six other board members - Nobuyuki Idei, Kunitake Ando, Teruo Masaki, Teruhisa Tokunaka, Goran Lindhal and Akihisa Ohnishi. From 22 June, Ken Kutaragi will be concentating on the running of Sony's Game division. Here is the full story at Yahoo!

 

[Ray00101]

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General Chat / RE:Why do they leave?

« on: August 20, 2004, 05:59:03 PM »

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Originally posted by: Ray00101
Why do former nintendo fans stop buying nintendo products and start saying nintendo sucks?

To answer this question, its probably best to use an analogy so here goes!
Consider Nintendo your friend
You care about this friend  (platonically) but you see this friend making what you think are stupid decisions, (these decisions may actually make sence but you dont see it).
You give this friend ideas of what they should do but your friend still makes these "stupid decisions" after a while you become more and more angry and so you hate this friend for never taking your advice and may even say bad things about this friend to others
Now switch this with Nintendo and presto answer solved.

Or analogy number 2
Your friend once played games you liked with you all the time but now your friend plays different games with other's aswell
You want your friend to play the games you like but your friend is too busy trying to keep everyone happy and cant do everything at once
And so you get angry
Now look at this as another parallel by switching your friend with Nintendo and playing games to making games and you get another answer.

There's probably more analogies I could think up but I think those two will do

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NWR Feedback / RE:Press Conference Videos

« on: May 19, 2004, 03:32:55 PM »

aye I noticed its much faster aswell and tons of options well thanks for your help KDR

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NWR Feedback / RE:Press Conference Videos

« on: May 18, 2004, 03:08:58 PM »

Never mind I just changed to opera and its working fine
Just one last question if I change opera to my default browser will it keep a history in the same way I.E. does
I like to read articles on sites after I go offline (what can I say im cheap), trust Ireland to be the only country in the world where you cant get a proper internet plan eg. unlimited hours for €60 a month changes to 50 hours for €50 a month and broadband isnt in my area

any way thanks for your help  

[KDR_11k]

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NWR Feedback / RE:Press Conference Videos

« on: May 18, 2004, 02:41:54 PM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k

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Originally posted by: chaos
I thought i'd put this here seeing how its kind of similar
When I try to download videos or audio from this site (and others) it always cuts me off right at the start saying download complete which it isnt
It seems to have something to do with the computer not knowing how much its actually downloading and so cuts of at the start
Im on a 56k modem and use DAP would it have anything to do with either of these or it something wrong with the server
If its got nothing to do with the server sorry about bothering you but if you have any ideas it would be aprecciated

Thanks

Maybe DAP is triggering the anti-DoS protection. Ever tried using your browser's default downloader?

Aye I tried that a while ago, I uninstalled DAP and set it back to my default downloader,
It seemed to work for a while but came back after a month or so
So I thought seeing that E3 was coming up I thought I'd need an accelerater even if it only worked sometimes
I use Internet Explorer do you think it would change if I used Opera or Msn
   

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NWR Feedback / RE:Press Conference Videos

« on: May 15, 2004, 03:11:56 PM »

I thought i'd put this here seeing how its kind of similar
When I try to download videos or audio from this site (and others) it always cuts me off right at the start saying download complete which it isnt
It seems to have something to do with the computer not knowing how much its actually downloading and so cuts of at the start
Im on a 56k modem and use DAP would it have anything to do with either of these or it something wrong with the server
If its got nothing to do with the server sorry about bothering you but if you have any ideas it would be aprecciated

Thanks
 

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Tales of Symphonia Hype Thread (Including Opening Movie)

« on: May 08, 2004, 04:12:11 PM »

I know its off-topic and everything but in Soul Calibur 2 Noboyuki Hiyma (Link OoT) also does Nightmare and Yoshimitsu
Fujiko Takimoto (Young Link OoT) does Taki
Takashi Nagasako (Ganondorf OoT and Tww) does Cervantes
Also did you know that the voice for the Skull Kid in Majora's Mask plays Link in the Wind waker (Sachi Matsumuto)

Well thats my pointless information for the day
 
Oh and I think Nightmare (Japanese) is way better much more emotion in him

And to bring it back on topic Tales of Symphonia will be class, it fixes everything thats can be annoying in RPG's control of your character in battles, no random battles and other stuff which I cant think of  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Silicon Knights and Nintendo break up

« on: April 22, 2004, 12:31:20 PM »

Well I suppose its different for each person, it happens me all the time with my uncle or aunts but i've seen it with other people too but I suppose your right i cant guess it
happens to everyone

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Silicon Knights and Nintendo break up

« on: April 21, 2004, 06:30:03 PM »

Okay I would just like to point out something I have probably read all of Iwata-san's interviews and not once has he said that technology wasn't important he said it would become less important, and thats true graphics arn't going to get much better and games are getting more and more complicated, how many times have you given a controller to someone and they just hand it back after two minutes because it was too difficult to decifer the controls. These statements arn't there to show Nintendo doesn't care about graphic's or story for that matter,(I could be wrong but I dont think I heard Iwata-san even mention stories as being unimportant) but Nintendo are saying this because they know if they dont rejuvinate the industry in Japan people will lose interest and so they are trying to bring new people into gaming but how will they do this if these people cant figure out how to play and so the answer is simpler controls not smpler as in Pacman but simpler as in Mario and Zelda anyone can figure out how to play these games, so please try not make it seem that Nintendo doesn't know whats going on right in front of their eyes they aren't blind they see more than you expect.

By the way; both Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear Solid both fall under the category of easily controlled games, people easily learn both games controls in seconds.
     

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Silicon Knights and Nintendo break up

« on: April 14, 2004, 04:20:52 PM »

OK I wouldn't post often but everyone seems to jumping to conclusions so I thought I'd give some possibilities both likely and unlikely.
1 Nintendo and Silicon Knights have had a difference of opinion and so parted ways, normally in business's its quite common however both Silicon Knights and Nintendo aren't normal business's whom both seem to have worked perfectly together and would in my opinion be a bit stupid to throw away over an argument.
2 Well it's "contractually over" so maybe Nintendo decided the Silicon Knights were loyal enough to stay exclusive while being a 3rd party
3 I dont know if anyone else thinks this but if I was in charge of a games company I would prefer to be independent not because of money but to prove I can run my own business without outside help (of course I would remain exclusive for as long as possible)
4 Mr. Dyack has said many times that he would like to do more collaboration with other companies maybe Nintendo has some sort of plan with this!
5 I noticed that with Twin Snakes that it made many people contemplate getting a Playstation 2 for Sons of Liberty possibly actually helping the PS2 more than Nintendo now think if Silicon Knights  releases an amazing game across all consoles gaining a huge fanbase but then remain exclusively for the N5 using the same tactic which they would have just seen with their own game, there by giving it a boost for the launch of the N5 from the flock of new fans
6 Its an insanity effect I know its unlikely but it could turn out to be the biggest joke in gaming history I wouldn't put it past them, does anyone else think its strange the abrubteness of it all these are the only explanation I see as possible
I saw some quite odd and unlikely reasons behind this too
1 Their philosophies clash: Rubbish this would be more reason to stay as they would compensate eachother's weakpoints
2 Nintendo is joining with Microsoft and so Silicon Knights wanted no part in it: Nintendo would not join with Microsoft because they would simply lose more than they would gain; independence money (dont get forget Microsoft just cant turn a profit from the X-box) diferent business ethics (this is different from above as SK and Nintendo hold relatively honourable business practices unlike Microsoft which is well known for its slyness ) to put it simply Nintendo cant trust Microsoft.

P.S I like many of the X-box's games I just don't agree with their ethic's
   

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Silicon Knights and Nintendo break up

« on: April 13, 2004, 03:45:20 PM »

Expect Silicon Knights to be a form of collaboration company between other companies and possibly Nintendo
Well I get that feeling from previous interviews
But I suppose the only ones who do know are Nintendo and Silicon Knights

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Nintendo Gaming / Did anyone notice....

« on: May 30, 2003, 05:23:00 PM »

In the Windwaker, in Hyrule Castle where you get the master sword look at the windows specifically ones with the triforce on them in the middle of it there is a small upside down tiangle it kind of looks like an extra piece. Its probably nothing but take a look for yourself and decide.  

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TalkBack / Billy Berghammer Retires From Planet GameCube.com

« on: April 18, 2003, 04:19:12 PM »

I've never posted before but i think i will now, i've been visiting this site for a while now and i'd just like to say its the best on the internet and that you've done a great job and that you will be missed good luck on your new job though i dont i can subscribe as i live in Ireland. Well thanks for the great site