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General Gaming / RE:Camping out for the PSP

« on: January 06, 2005, 09:47:16 AM »

They were pretty expensive, but I might have paid that much for one, if I was sure to get a system without any flaws. And its impossible to know that, so thats the reason why I have not gotten a PSP yet. I should have lived in Japan too.

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General Gaming / RE:Camping out for the PSP

« on: December 18, 2004, 05:21:23 AM »

I could not login to my account for a few days, but yes I'm interested in knowing what the final bids were.

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General Gaming / RE:Camping out for the PSP

« on: December 14, 2004, 03:32:24 AM »

Great story, but there should have been a pitcure of #5's face in there somewhere. Have you sold any of your PSPs yet? If so how much did you getl for it/them?

I was thinking of buying a PSP, but since my DS had dead pixels, and I assumed that the first few PSPs will have some problems to, I have decided to wait until the American/European release. Also there really aren't that many great games on either system in the next few months anyway.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Resident Evil 4 Discussion

« on: November 03, 2004, 06:43:34 AM »

To use "the series started on x console, so it should return to that console" as an argument is weak. What about all the series' that started on NES/SNES but went to Sony's consoles? Because there are several franchises that should come back "home" in that case.

But in any case, like I've said earlier, RE4 could not have sold a substantial amount of GCs. Other games have failed to drastically increase the sales of GC, so I doubt that this one game could have made that much of a difference. I'm really not that angry about it going to the PS2. I'm more pissed off at Nintendo these days anyway, to care about what Capcom decides to do with one of their games, no matter how big it might have been.

I really hate the way Nintendo threw away the opportunity to bring an epic RPG from Square to the GC, when it let Square develop for the GBA. Instead of getting a great epic RPG, we got the absymal (I admit the game was not that bad, but compated to what we GC gamers were expecting it was downright lousy) Crystal Chronicles. The game sold nearly 900 000 copies worldwide, but thats because GC owners were starved for a new epic RPG. The only RPG (worth mentioning) we had on the GC at that point was Skies of Arcadia (a great game, but a port of a couple of years old DC game).

This is a game you must not only own 3 GBAs to play, but you must also have 3 friends who are interested in playing these kind of games. I do have 2 GBA's, but no friends of mine wanted to play that game for longer then 15 minutes (which I can't blame them for, as the game was not that good to begin with, regardless of whether you played it single or multi player). Nintendo tried to sell GCs by using the GBA, but it had not worked in the past, and it sure as hell was not going to work this time, especially given the bad quality of the game they were trying to sell it with.

If I'm not mistaken, the Q fund was used to finance the development of this game. And in return Square got to give us the FFTA on the GBA. A game that was more or less build on the same principles as FFT, with a different (more childish) story. The story of this game was so weak, it could put any serious RPG gamer off. I hate this game. And now they are giving us remakes of the first 2 Final Fantasys. Just like every other every other 3rd party developer uses the GBA to earn easy money (by making nearly direct ports of their old games), and then pisses all on Nintendo by using that money to fund rival consoles' (mostly PS2) games, SquareEnix is doing it to.

As for Mario Tennis being a "real" tennis game. I would not have bought Mario Tennis, but since there is no other option on the GC, I'm almost forced to. Sure Mario Tennis is decent, but its not an actual Tennis game. Its more of a tennis game with Mario characters in it, which means that it also doens't use actual Tennis rules.

I want a tennis game like the legendary Super Tennis, where I can't pull of super natural moves. I don't want to get power ups in a Tennis game, I want to play a regular tennis game, with no power ups.

Nintendo might make most of the profits, but that won't help the company much in the long run. Nintendo's profits on the home console market is decreasing, and it will continue to do so, unless Nintendo starts to approach the market differently. The N64 sold twice as much as the GC, even if the GC is still selling, I don't think it will ever sell more then 20 million units.

Also Mario 64 sold 5 times as many copies as Mario Sunshine. Ocarina of Time sold more then Wind Waker, and so on. The only platinum seller the GC has in Japan is Smash Bros Melee.

Nintendo needs to make changes, its even started to loose its most loyal fans. I've stuck with Nintendo through thick and thin, I missed on several classic games in the previous generation, and I've missed out on maybe even more classic games in this generation, and there is only to a certain point the gamer in me can let him be dictated by the Nintendo fan in me. There is a limit for everything, and Nintendo sure has reached the limit of patience in its most loyal fans.

How much longer do we Nintendo fans have to suffer for Nintendo's stubberness? I know 15 GC owners, 10 of those GCs were partially or fully financed by me (I either gave those away as presents to friends/family members, or paid half the price for those who were somewhat interested in the console, the GC costs only around $100 here in Norway, and that is by far the cheapest home console ever here in Norway, even a dying DC costed more), and 80% of these people own a PS2 or an Xbox as well.

Thats were the market is going, some are buying the GC as a second console, most are just ignoring it altogether. Nintendo needs to change or else its profit will continue to decrease until there will no longer be any profit for the company, and thats when Nintendo will realise that it should not have ignored those who have kept it alive for all these years. The loyal Nintendo fans who have stood by the company for nearly 20 years.

Btw, I bought RE and RE0, and enjoyed both. I will also buy RE4, regardless of it being on the PS2 or not.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Resident Evil 4 Discussion

« on: November 02, 2004, 07:06:38 AM »

The loyalty to Nintendo is still as big as ever for me, and I still own only GC out of the 3 home consoles, but I won't even deny that lately I've been more then tempted to buy a PS2 as well. I enjoy playing my GC games, but the thing is there are games (in some genres) that are missing on the GC.

First of all we have no real Tennis games. Sega could have given us Virtua Tennis, but instead they gave us the lousy Virtua Soccer, which is by far one of the worse sports games ever. We also miss a good Rally game, and not to be forgetting the countless other 3rd party games we miss out on. There is no need to write about all the games that I would have liked to play on the GC, as that is a known issue.

But what bothers me the most, is all the great RPGs I as a GC only owner am missing out on. The good RPGs released on the GC can be counted on one hand, and as a RPG fan, it just is not enough for me. I want to play more RPGs as that is one of my favorite genres.

Basically what I'm saying is that, even people like me, who has been die hard Nintendo fans for almost 20 years, are now considering to buy atleast a second console, in addition to the Nintendo one, and if it continues like this, there is no other way for Nintendo then to turn into a 3rd party developer/publisher like Sega, and pull out of the hardware market.

I really don't see any future for Nintendo in the hardware market, if things stay as they are. Nintendo are getting killed out there. MS have taken over the 2nd spot, and Nintendo would be lucky to sell 10 million consoles in the next generation. I'm pretty sure MS will come out even harder the next time, now that they have established themselves. And most of GC owners own a second console anyway now. The PS2 owners do not.

About RE4, I doubt that it could have sold anymore GCs (atleast not increased the userbase drastically) by staying an exclusive, because a couple of games can not change the image Nintendo have managed to create for themselves. Nintendo have been too occupied with making profits, that they have forgotten that some losses now, could help them in the future. Nintendo should have paid/ivested more money to/in developers to develop new software for the GC.

At the moment, I regeret missing out on the PSX in the last generation and the PS2 in this one. 25 is too old for being blind on what the other consoles have to offer.

[Bloodworth]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Shining Force vs Fire Emblem

« on: June 10, 2004, 12:11:32 PM »

Thanks for the recommendations guys. I already own Mario and Luigi and have played through it, I also own both Breath of Fire games (I actually own both the GBA and the SNES versions). I have ordered Tactics Ogre before, but since it is a rare game, it wouldn't arrive for weeks, so I bought FFTA instead. I have never liked Pokemon, so I'm definitley staying away from those games. Phantasy Star Collection can be bought for as low as $15 here, but I don't like the fact that they are direct ports.

I own Shining Soul, and the main reason why I bought it was because I thought it would be a tactical RPG (because thats what I had heard about the Shining Force series), but instead it turned out to be one of the worse RPGS of all time. That game was really bad, and total waste of money. I don't think I have played a game as bad as it for a long time, the past 10 years atleast. It really annoys me that I bothered to play through this lousy game. I should have just given it away, or thrown it into the trash can, because thats where it belongs. I'm pretty sure anyone of you who played it, will agree with me.

Blackknight131, thanks for the long informative post. Now I will definitley buy Shining Force.

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
In the future, please use the "what game should I get?" thread stickied at the top.   I'll let this go on a bit longer since it turned into a decent discussion.

Sorry, I have to admit that its been a while since I last visisted the Planet Gamecube forum, so therefore I thought that the "what game" thread was more for people that had just bought a GBA.

Btw, I have found out that the Final Fantasy games will be released in July in Japan. Hopefully they won't take too long on the translations, and we can play these games by the end of the year.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Shining Force vs Fire Emblem

« on: June 09, 2004, 06:31:31 AM »

Yes I have played both Golden Sun games, the first one was great, the second one was frustrating because of the annoying lack of bosses in the game. You could go to a dungeon/mountain or whatever, climb all the way to the top/get to the end of the dungeon, and then get the object you came to get, before you had to use exit or whatever that psy energy was called to get to the beginning of the dungeon/mountain again, and then just leave.

How boring and repititive is that? I was looking forward to fighting bosses after I spent almost a couple of hours climbing a mountain, and what do I get as a reward? I have to use exit (the psy energy was probably called something else, but I dont remember it, as the game was stolen, when someone broke the window of my car and took it and my GBA), and just get on with the next dungeon/mountain.

One of the high points of a turnbased RPG are the boss fights, and if the fight forces you to use strategy and goes on for almost half an hour, then it just cant get any better. But when a RPG misses out of that, then for me it just isnt a good RPG, especially when the stroy is as weak as it was in The Lost age.

And this wasnt after a couple of hours play, I put in a good 30+ hours in it, before it was eventually stolen, and I just cant be bothered to buy the game again, as its really not worth the money.

But anyway, I would prefer a traditional RPG then a Strategy RPG, but there really aren't that many good traditional RPGs coming out on the GBA at the moment, therefore I am thinking of buying Shining Force (I'm almost certain that I will buy this game instead of Fire Emblem now, as it seems to be alot more of an RPG then Fire Emblem).

Btw, do you guys know the release date for the Final Fantasy remakes?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Where's Chrono and Mario?

« on: June 08, 2004, 11:07:21 AM »

I wouldn't call A Link to the Past rare, as it is one of the best known games of all time, and is regarded as the pinnacle of 2D games by many. And I have not noticed that Mario ports have been dumbed down. Aren't they direct ports of the Super Mario All stars series, with some added "bonuses" such as the annoying voices.

Square is making remakes of the first 2 Final Fantasy games, do you guys know anything about the release dates for those 2 games?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Shining Force vs Fire Emblem

« on: June 08, 2004, 06:39:45 AM »

Well, it sounds somewhat like FFTA if its battle only, thats the major reason why I didn't like FFTA, as I missed the RPG part. I want to have strategic battles, but at the same time I also want to explore, and visit towns etc, stuff that is essential to RPGs.

Thanks for the answer, I think I'm even closer to Shining Force now then I was before, as it seems to have more RPG elements to it, then Fire Emblem.

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Nintendo Gaming / Shining Force vs Fire Emblem

« on: June 08, 2004, 05:55:53 AM »

As I have been disappointed by the last two RPGs that I have bought (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (I missed the RPG part in strategy RPG) and Sword of Mana (The battle/fight system is too clumsy, I really don't understand how the hell companies can go wrong with something as simple as a battle system in an Action RPG, when all they have to do is to look at the Zelda games, it so simple to just use the Zelda battle system as a basis, and then go from there for developers, but still one ends up with battle systems such as Sword of Mana).

So I am thinking of buying a new RPG. My two choices are Shining Force and Fire Emblem. As I have not played either of the games, I'd appreciate it if anyone of you guys who has played any of the two games could write the pros and cons of both games. There really aren't that many reviews of Shining Force on the net (and the only two I found didn't really make the decision any simpler for me). At the moment I'm leaning towards Shining Force, and I might buy it on Friday.

Thanks in advance.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

« on: September 20, 2003, 05:38:21 AM »

After the RPG drought on GBA lately I pre ordered Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis, because I heard alot of good things about it. Since I had not played a good GBA RPG since I finished BOF2 in May/June 2002. And that game doesnt even count, as it was a re relase, and I had played the SNES version almost ten years ago anyway.

What about Golden Sun: Tha lost age? Well to be honest it was a huge dissapointment, becuase of the annoying lack of bosses in the game. You could go to a dungeon/mountain or whatever, climb all the way to the top/get to the end of the dungeon, and then get the object you came to get, before you had to use exit or whatever that psy energy was called to get to the beginning of the dungeon/mountain again, and then just leave.

How boring and repititive is that? I was looking forward to fighting bosses after I spent almost a couple of hours climbing a mountain, and what do I get as a reward? I have to use exit (the psy energy was probably called something else, but I dont remember it, as the game was stolen, when someone broke the window of my car and took it and my GBA), and just get on with the next dungeon/mountain.

One of the high points of a turnbased RPG are the boss fights, and if the fight forces you to use strategy and goes on for almost half an hour, then it just cant get any better. But when a RPG misses out of that, then for me it just isnt a good RPG, especially when the stroy is as weak as it was in The Lost age.

And this wasnt after a couple of hours play, I put in a good 30+ hours in it, before it was eventually stolen, and I just cant be bothered to buy it again.

But back to FFTA and Tactics Ogre. I pre ordered Tactics Ogre as I really wasnt that keen on FFTA, because of what seemed like a weak story line. But since Tactics Ogre is a rare game (so it seems), I wouldnt recieve it in a couple of weeks, and therefore I decided to buy FFTA to kill the time, while waiting for the real RPG that was Tactics Ogre to arrive.

But now that I have spent over 30+ hours in the game, I must say that I am as little dissapointed, and this dissapointment  eventually lead me to cancelling the pre order of Tactics Ogre.  The reason why FFTA has been a dissapointment for me is obviously the very weak and paper thin story line, that is one of THE most weak story lines ever, annoying is it as well.

But its not all bad though, I've eventually discovered that I actullay enjoy the strategic battles, and the option to build an army, make them learn the different abilities, and upgrade their weapons are definitley the strong points of the game. And therefore I am thinking of ordering Tactics Ogre again. Cause it promises a great story line, and almost all the feautres that FFTA hold.

So all in all, I have to say that I'd give FFTA a 7/10, if it had a better story line, it would definitley compete with the likes of Golden Sun and BOF2 for the best RPG of GBA, but as it is now, its IMO only barely better then the likes of BOF and Golden Sun:The Lost age. I've got higher hopes for Tactics Ogre though.