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TalkBack / RE:REVIEWS: Baten Kaitos Origins
« on: October 11, 2006, 04:45:01 PM »
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Originally posted by: Viewtiful mario
And besides, our avitars are different enough for you to be able to tell us apart.


I don't know about anyone else, but your avatar doesn't even show up for me. I assume it's because the site half-life-2.narod.ru has some kind of anti-hotlinking script in place.

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General Gaming / RE: Funny and interesting look back on NES
« on: October 11, 2006, 07:50:17 AM »
"So are their names Mario Mario and Luigi Mario?"

OMG, precendent for a joke in the movie...

The gameplay advice section is priceless though.  

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Reveals Japanese Accessories
« on: October 11, 2006, 07:42:14 AM »
$30 for a 512 MB SD card is pretty step, considering Bestbuy tends to discount that data range to about half that price (although the normal price is $25).

Wonder what they will charge in the US for it. As some other have pointed out, you can also save a ton on those by ordering online at the right places.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: My own personal photoshop
« on: October 10, 2006, 09:30:38 PM »


The neighbors were on to them from day one, but you just wouldn't listen...

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TalkBack / RE: REVIEWS: Baten Kaitos Origins
« on: October 10, 2006, 06:21:15 PM »
I am sooo getting this game with my Wii.

Can anyone comment on the overall difficulty of the game versus the first though? Gamespot complained that the bosses were too hard, but I thought the first was way too easy near the end so I actually hope that the challenge has been ramped up for this one.

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General Chat / RE:Nintendo in the classroom
« on: October 10, 2006, 03:21:39 PM »
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Originally posted by: vudu
I think the answer the professor is looking for is low cost, but I would argue for differentiation.  However, that's more of a operations/marketing answer, so if this is economics, who knows?  I hate economics.


Well this is a marketing class, but the correct answer was "Penetration".

Oh, and I'm still laughing at Ian's second example.

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General Chat / Nintendo in the classroom
« on: October 10, 2006, 02:33:36 PM »
Odd topic title I know, but this thread is basically asking for any examples of Nintendo being used or brought up in the classroom by a teacher or other faculty (something not related to actual student conversations or presentations as I'm sure that's not uncommon).

Anyway, my inspiration for this topic came from a question on my Marketing exam (college level):

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Nintendo chose a ___________ approach to pricing the new Nintendo DS because they felt the market for this product is price sensitive, there are major economies of scale to be achieved, and both Sega and Microsoft would be introducing new game systems shortly?


Just can't keep Sega down...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Red Steel: new movie
« on: October 10, 2006, 11:51:53 AM »
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Originally posted by: mantidor
I really, really hope that this footage isn't indicative of the game's load times T_T that was awful


Fully agree. It looks great, but that loading time is looking dreadful. I hope that is fixed by launch, although I kind of doubt that it will be.

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TalkBack / RE:MP3 Playback on Wii
« on: October 10, 2006, 07:30:32 AM »
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Originally posted by: JonLeung
Anyway, the .MP3 support is kinda cool, if somewhat unexpected.  I also would've thought DVD support would've been easier, but apparently not.


Shift Key had it exactly right. It has nothing to do with how easy it is to develop DVD support, but more to do with if its really worth the extra licensing fee to add it. That whole licensing fee is also the very reason why Sony and Toshiba are ready to kill each other for the "next generation" of the movie format: they both want those fees headed their way.

Anyway, this is great news. I don't think I would ever use it, but it's always nice to have another feature that third parties could use if they wanted to.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:As of last night, I finally got to 999999999 Bells in AC:WW.
« on: October 09, 2006, 06:00:18 PM »
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Originally posted by: JonLeung
Okay, maybe it is.

It involved me travelling to a hacked town that had bags of 99000 Bells...


Yeah, it definitely is, even if it still took you awhile to do it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Square-Enix to support the VC
« on: October 09, 2006, 08:44:03 AM »
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Originally posted by: Requiem
So is anybody else anxiously awaiting the release of Chrono-Trigger for VC?


If that's one of the titles they select, then yeah. Although it mentions nothing in that particular release and, as far as we know, could be stuff like Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and what not; titles which they figure they couldn't port and sell again on a current handheld.

I am looking forward though to possibly getting Chrono Trigger, Ogre Tactics 64 and EVO if available.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Evan Has Bad Taste In Movies: A Radio Production
« on: October 08, 2006, 06:01:21 PM »
The man loves Kurosawa films, that's like a +10 on the "movie taste scale" right there...

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General Gaming / RE:Sony getting hit Hard lately
« on: October 06, 2006, 05:14:05 PM »
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Originally posted by: VGrevolution
But like others mentions the big difference is that Nintendo lost no money (there seemed to be hints they in fact made money) on the N64...


I believe the N64 was actually much more profitable than the GCN was for Nintendo, the reason not only being units sold but that a great deal of those "Player's Choice - Million Sellers" were Nintendo first party titles. So they were definitely pushing software during that generation, even if it was primarly their own.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wii Box Art
« on: October 06, 2006, 09:04:45 AM »
I'm not a huge fan of the Wii emblem there, although not bad; however, I do agree some of the box art is nice, with my particular favorites being: Zelda, Red Steel, Super Monkey Ball and Marvel Ultimate Alliance (love the art on that, especially for Ghost Rider).

"So are these DVD cases again? "

Who knows, although I imagine it's probably a good chance that they will be the regular Amaray cases as it would likely be cheaper to go that route.

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TalkBack / RE: Hilary Duff in The Sims 2 Pets
« on: October 05, 2006, 11:51:40 AM »
" [EA] is pleased to announce a partnership with multi-platinum, chart-topping recording artist, actress, fashion designer and philanthropist Hilary Duff, to make her inaugural video game debut in the critically acclaimed, best-selling, groundbreaking video and PC game franchise..."

Man, talk about a mouthful... just try to actually say that while reading it.

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TalkBack / RE: PGC T-Shirts Sold Out!
« on: October 04, 2006, 05:18:21 PM »
...is this a premeasure before the move to a new domain name?

...maybe, perhaps...?  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Try out the Mii channel before the Wii releases
« on: October 04, 2006, 05:03:18 PM »
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Originally posted by: Svevan
I'm just very into Kurosawa: just got the new Seven Samurai DVD from Criterion, it is so sweet.


Yes, I love that set. Criterion really did a fantastic job restoring that film and I was so happy when the first scene came up and it wasn't plagued by a ton of print damage.

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Originally posted by: Svevan
My other faves include Throne of Blood and Yojimbo (praying for a Yojimbo/Sanjuro boxset soon!).


Oh, nice choices. I also love "Throne of Blood" and "Yojimbo", which is my second favorite Kurosawa film behind "Seven Samurai". I overall tend to prefer his older films as opposed to his newer, 1980's and beyond productions, although "Ran" is a fantastic film. "Ikiru" along with "High and Low" are some others ones that I very much enjoy from Kurosawa, and the only one that wasn't quite my cup of tea (although I wouldn't say I disliked it by any stretch) is the "Lower Depths".

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Originally posted by: Svevan
I mainly follow Criterion as a way to branch out into other directors, so the only other Toho films I'm really interested in are the Samurai trilogy and Onibaba...


Yeah, Criterion does a good job of picking some of the cream of the crop from Toho's vast library of films. I love Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy, especially the first although that seems to be an unpopular preference in that regard. The current region 1 discs for those films aren't so hot, though, and I really wish Criterion would spring for an enhanced release sometime in the near future.

Speaking of other Criterion titles, have you ever seen Kihachi Okamoto's "Sword of Doom" or Masaki Kobayashi's "Samurai Rebellion"? Those are another two, non-Kurosawa, gems from Criterion.

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Originally posted by: Svevan
...also of course the original restored Godzilla, which I hear is not a very good DVD (according to both you and DVDBeaver).


It's not bad I guess, I was just really disappointed with the video quality, especially the cropping at the top. Someone really needs to restore that film.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Try out the Mii channel before the Wii releases
« on: October 04, 2006, 07:44:24 AM »
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Originally posted by: Svevan
So Arbok, your pic link is screwed up...


Oops, forgot my own hotlinking protection... I guess because I don't often link to my own images from other sites very often.

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Originally posted by: Svevan
Why didn't you tell me you were into Kurosawa and other Japanese filmmakers? For goodness my gracious.


The opportunity rarely comes up on any forum, PGC included... ;-)

But yeah, Japanese cinema as a whole tends to interest me, although I'm much more into their live action films then animation, which tends to be a rare preference.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:I just went like four days without internet
« on: October 03, 2006, 12:14:41 PM »
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Originally posted by: mantidor
I shall conquer the three week period of NO internet waiting for the true and only TP GC version just to avoid spoilers, this is nothing.


Ganondorf is back... what?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Resident Evil 10th Anniversary
« on: October 03, 2006, 11:18:13 AM »
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
I don't have any of the RE games but I'm interested in RE4.  Maybe I should get this just to get them all in a big blob.


Don't give it a second thought, this is worth it for the REmake and RE4 alone if you have never owned a Resident Evil before (0 is okay, but wasn't my cup of tea with the swapping getting annoying).

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General Gaming / RE:Oblivion for PS3
« on: October 03, 2006, 07:33:49 AM »
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Originally posted by: capamerica
I don't see what the big deal about the PS3 getting Oblivion.


It's something to take away from the Xbox 360 actually. Right now, Oblivion is one of those few titles to tout about why to get the system (most people ignore the PC angle anyway), so having it appear on another system is getting devots uneasy, much in the same way that people around here were uneasy when RE4 was announced for the PS2 (although that was even worse considering Capcom did so before the GCN version was even released...).

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Resident Evil 10th Anniversary
« on: October 03, 2006, 07:19:36 AM »
Shame everyone and their uncle likely has one or two of those (or all three in my case)... still, should be great for any Wii adopters who never had a Gamecube.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Try out the Mii channel before the Wii releases
« on: October 02, 2006, 04:12:38 PM »

'Sup

EDIT: Hmm... well not to be the odd one out, here is a real picture of me circa five years ago (sunburnt with my trademark Joker grin I might add) that I'm just going to lift off my site as I'm too lazy to scan in a more recent one:

 

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General Gaming / RE:Sony getting hit Hard lately
« on: October 02, 2006, 12:28:28 PM »
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...shares in Sony Corp. fell to a 2-1/2-month low today (Monday) over news of continued problems with batteries made by Sony for laptop computers. Analysts estimated that the recall of Sony batteries could wind up costing the company some $420 million. In a note to clients, Koichi Ogaawa of Daiwa SB Investments, commented, “Without a doubt this is damaging for Sony. However, we've been hearing about this recall for some time, so there is also no need for panic.” Most analysts said that the real damage was a public relations one -- tarnishing Sony’s reputation as an elite maker of trouble-free products.

Source

Clearly these analysts have never purchased a PS2...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Nintendo's biggest blunder?
« on: October 02, 2006, 11:04:32 AM »
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Originally posted by: VGrevolution
One thing I do disagree with is Nintendo letting talented 2nd parties go, Rare was on the decline and people like Silicon Knights and even Factor 5 to a degree were not putting out enough games to justify holding onto them.


Was Factor 5 ever second party? I mean some of their games like Roque Squadron also ended up on the PC. Their situation seemed to be just that they prefered to work with Nintendo, much in the same way that last generation Tecmo seemed to prefer working on the Xbox.

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