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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Tales of Symphonia voice actors...

« on: July 15, 2004, 09:14:31 PM »

Bill, I LIVED in Japan for 3 years and I don't know enough to tell you whether the Japanese voice actor I'm listening to is good or not, and until you personally know the inner workings of the spoken language yourself, neither do you.

My point is you are FAR more critical of english voice actors because it's your native language. You can recognize the the subtle discrepancies and nuances that convey emotion in english because you've been speaking the language all your life, and therefor can pinpoint the flaws in english voice acting. You couldn't possibly transfer that knowledge to another language, especially one so radically different as Japanese. You may THINK the voice actors are emoting better, but you since you don't know the language any judgement you come to is purely an assumption.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Tales of Symphonia voice actors...

« on: July 15, 2004, 07:46:39 PM »

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Back on topic. I agree w/ Bill. I find Japanese VA to put more emotion into their work.

Guh! You don't know that at all! You're just assuming! None of you know Japanese well enough to tell me how well voice actors of that language emote.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Tales of Symphonia voice actors...

« on: July 15, 2004, 07:33:47 PM »

Jennifer Hale also worked on Metal Gear Solid, Eternal Darkness, and Grandia II- they're all just one big family, eh?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Tales of Symphonia voice actors...

« on: July 15, 2004, 07:26:38 PM »

How do you know they put more emotion in their work? Different languages use entirely different intonations and stress entirely different parts of the sentence to convey emotions. Simply overacting isn't "expressing more emotion". I don't think Japanese voice actors are any better or worse than American voice actors, you just can't tell if they're bad or not and simply assume they're good.  

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TalkBack / RE:Ty is Getting His Own TV Show

« on: July 15, 2004, 06:43:10 PM »

I think they just assumed that any and every Australian would purchase a game built around countless lavish stereotypes of their homeland.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Tales of Symphonia voice actors...

« on: July 15, 2004, 06:34:59 PM »

I don't know why a lot of people think Japanese voice actors are somehow a thousand times better than American ones- you just can't tell if they're acting bad because you don't understand the language.

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General Chat / RE:Windows XP File Encryption

« on: July 15, 2004, 06:15:37 PM »

If so I probably have copies of it all, in case he needs them.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Tales of Symphonia voice actors...

« on: July 15, 2004, 06:13:36 PM »

Cam Clarke does the voice of Kratos. He wasn't the voice of Edward Roivas from Eternal Darkness, but he DID do the voice of Anthony the Paige from the same game. He also did the voice of Ryudo from Grandia II (best RPG ever), Liquid Snake from all the Metal Gear Solid games, and Leonardo on the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game.

A fellow by the name of Scott Menville does the voice of Lloyd, who also did the voice of Kevin French from Mission Hill (excellent cartoon on the WB, and now Adult Swim).

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Mario Tennis!!!!

« on: July 15, 2004, 10:13:20 AM »

According to Electronics Boutique it ships December 6th.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:OFFICIAL Online mouse_clicker vs the world thread

« on: July 15, 2004, 12:52:19 AM »

Admittedly the original Grandia is extremely good, indeed right behind 2, but it's sequel improved on the formula and was better overall.

Skies of Arcadia is amazing, too, but I can't let a game where the average random monster encounter is literally every 1.5 seconds be considered the best ever.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:OFFICIAL Online mouse_clicker vs the world thread

« on: July 15, 2004, 12:05:39 AM »

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So is mouse_clicker the argumentative type?

Wahahahahahahahahahahahaha! You're new here, aren't you?

Oh, and Grandia II is by far the best RPG ever made- anyone who disagrees obviously hasn't played it.

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TalkBack / RE:Donkey Konga 2: Hit Song Parade Review

« on: July 14, 2004, 09:59:09 PM »

I can't read it because it pisses me off that the first one hasn't even been released and you're already reviewing the second.

Hurry up Nintendo!

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General Gaming / RE:Sony's PSP May Face Games Shortage

« on: July 14, 2004, 09:03:20 PM »

If you ask me, both the DS and the PSP look quite ugly. I hope they both go through some redesigns before they're released.

[July]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:My precious little GameCube, what has become of you??

« on: July 14, 2004, 04:23:33 PM »

There's at least one major game being released each month all the way until March of next year. I'd say we're set.

July
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Tales of Symphonia

August
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Pikmin 2

September
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Donkey Konga

October
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Paper Mario 2

November
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Metroid Prime 2
Prince of Persia 2
Star Fox 2
Resident Evil 4 (maybe)

December
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Mario Tennis

January
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Virtua Quest

February
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Starcraft: Ghost
Timesplitters: Future Perfect
Viewtiful Joe 2
Killer 7
Resident Evil 4 (maybe)

March
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Geist

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TalkBack / RE:Pikmin 2 European Date

« on: July 14, 2004, 02:55:35 PM »

I agree that random levels generally are quite uninspired, but it doesn't sound like ALL the levels are randomly generation- in fact, it sounds like only the caves are.

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General Gaming / RE:Sony's PSP May Face Games Shortage

« on: July 14, 2004, 11:11:16 AM »

Great job repeating yourself there, Ymeegod: So they have games planned for the PSP right now, but are saying they won't be offering any new titles. They'll release the ones they're already making but won't be starting any new projects. Koei may be giving the PSP the same game as the DS, but Koei didn't say they weren't making new DS games. Same with Capcom.

Enjoy Egg Monsters? I'll be enjoying Crystal Chronicles on my DS- the PSP players can enjoy Frogger.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Memory Card Rip-off

« on: July 13, 2004, 08:41:03 PM »

So we're not complaining about how long it took to drop the price on Vice City, or Halo, which is still $30? No, let's complain about how SSBM was marked down only $20 instead of $30 like the rest.    

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General Gaming / RE:HALO & HALO II Discussion

« on: July 13, 2004, 07:19:48 PM »

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My previous point with TS2 is that you can just run around without any real danger coz you take a while to die and you're very hard to hit if you run in erratic strafing patterns.

Eh, did you only play on Easy mode or something? Go play it on Hard mode and come back and tell me you can "run around without any real danger".

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TalkBack / RE:Miyamoto speaks on DS WiFi

« on: July 13, 2004, 12:41:24 PM »

Ian: It's also practically the same as Sony's online model for the PS2, keep that in mind. The only difference is Sony encouraged 3rd parties to make online games, which I definitely think Nintendo should do with the DS. Just because they're not supporting online play themselves doesn't mean they should discourage 3rd parties from doing so if they please.

Honestly, though, I always viewed handheld online play as being little more than using the internet to connect to other DS's the same way they're already using the wireless LAN- am I off base here? And if not, would you even really need servers or anything to support online play? If not, I'm at a bit of a loss as to why Nintendo refuses to support online play, since they seem to love LAN so much.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Tales of Symphonia: Scores.

« on: July 13, 2004, 12:38:39 PM »

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RPG is the only genre where fans support archaeic design. You never hear platformer fans talking about how much they miss blind leaps of faith or FPS fans talking about how they miss the days where you couldn't aim up or down.

I dunno, being able to aim up and down made the games more complex- I preferred just going around shooting in Doom I/II and Wolfenstein 3D. Still the best FPS's ever.

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General Gaming / RE:Sony's PSP May Face Games Shortage

« on: July 13, 2004, 12:29:45 PM »

As you pointed out, though, Advent Children is a video, not a game- it's kind of funny how a lot of PSP supporters tout Advent Children as one of the reasons it's better.

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TalkBack / RE:Miyamoto speaks on DS WiFi

« on: July 13, 2004, 12:28:14 PM »

I thinkyou're jumping the gun, Ian: I'm still getting that Nintendo isn't the one making the online games, they're leaving it to the third parties. If you ask me you're twisting everything nintendo says to fit your theory.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:EBgames "don't open ToS right away"

« on: July 13, 2004, 12:05:26 PM »

It's not illegal to sell your own property.

Anyway, this news distresses me- why does it seem like companies can never ship enough copies to fill demand? Good thing I preordered.

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TalkBack / RE:Miyamoto speaks on DS WiFi

« on: July 13, 2004, 12:01:30 PM »

Isn't this almost exactly Sony's online stance with the PS2, minus a few games? Uh-yup uh-yup, I think it is.

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No link over the internet AT ALL? That likely does mean no online. ARRRRRRRRGH!!!!! WHY ARE THESE F*CKS SUCH BACKWARDS THNKING OLD FUDDY DUDDIES?!! If the Revolution isn't online Nintendo = third party by 2010. This bullsh!t can only go so far.

Eh, I don't know about you, but what I got from that was you wouldn't have to buy any accessories to hook up to a wireless router and connect to other DS's over the internet.

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General Gaming / RE:Sony's PSP May Face Games Shortage

« on: July 13, 2004, 11:56:06 AM »

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Maybe by "based on" they mean ports, but those sound like new games to me (not to mention Metal Gear Acid). I think what the article meant was "no new games at launch".

Those games were already planned and the companies are simply following through with them. THey're not planning any new titles until they see how those do.