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General Chat / That Monkey Movie...

« on: December 05, 2005, 07:13:40 PM »

So um...apparantly King Kong is really really good. I had a few friends who attended the L.A. critics screening tonight (yes, they're legit) and they all loved it. Apparantly the audience did too, big clapping for Jackson, Watts and Serkis. Anyone excited about this?

[trip1eX]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Official DS Sales Thread

« on: December 05, 2005, 04:44:46 AM »

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Originally posted by: trip1eX
The PSP is doing alot better in America than in Japan I believe.  I know the PSP GTA game sold well the other month.  And so did Madden.  

I don't think the DS is dead even if the PSP is in the lead.  There's room for both.  The DS is at the lower end of the handheld market.  And it's unique at that.  PLus there's the gameboy advance.  I did here Reggie say they are going to revise the DS hardware a bit to make it look sexier like the PSP.

You "know"? Meaning? Your EB store sold ten of them? Analysts were saying last week how bad game sales had been in November, and PSP was on the disappointing list.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Hooking up to a monitor

« on: December 04, 2005, 01:19:54 PM »

You can buy a box, GS, that let's you hook it up.

[norebonomis]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Another Controller Secret to be Revealed

« on: December 03, 2005, 12:48:47 PM »

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Originally posted by: norebonomis

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Originally posted by: Kairon

Maybe the Controller itself will have SPEAKERS?!?!

this idea appeals to me. similar to the direction apple has taken with it's mighty mouse (for those of you who dont know, apple's mighty mouse has a built in speaker for a deeper level of sensory immersion)

Except no one likes the Mighty Mouse.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Rev to feature 12GB custom discs?

« on: December 02, 2005, 06:50:01 PM »

1TB discs are projected to cost LESS than $1000 by 2010! Sounds like a deal to me!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Dongle Problems

« on: December 02, 2005, 06:33:53 PM »

Mine works, thankfully. Though it wasn't connecting at first. Turned out that PeerGuardian was blocking it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Mario Kart DS - The Release Thread

« on: December 02, 2005, 06:32:12 PM »

May I just say the online in this game may be simple, but it ROCKS. It's exactly what I've always wanted in Mario Kart. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose! Usually the latter. But better than always beating the computer!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official DS Sales Thread

« on: December 02, 2005, 05:01:31 PM »

I just made those #s up, btw.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official DS Sales Thread

« on: December 02, 2005, 01:28:22 PM »

Apparantly the PSP sold 41,000 units in November! The DS sold 312,000! Whoa...

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General Gaming / RE: Nice impressions of PDZ

« on: December 02, 2005, 01:27:18 PM »

Timesplitters is a better FPS than Halo any day. Much more fun.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

« on: December 02, 2005, 12:02:08 PM »

Wendy does look remarkably like Peach. And Ludwig has her hair, only shorter...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: I suck!

« on: December 02, 2005, 10:32:36 AM »

We should have an I SUCK tournament. Only us four!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official DS Sales Thread

« on: December 01, 2005, 03:44:33 PM »

DS     132,012
PSP    51,196
PS2    27,545
GBM    7,594
GBASP    5,709
GC    5,130
GBA    241
Xbox    128

Woohoo. Can't wait to see what MK does.

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Nintendo Gaming / I suck!

« on: December 01, 2005, 03:35:16 PM »

I figured it was a good idea to have a thread for sucky people like myself to smack talk themselves!

I've won ONE out of like 30 RACES.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official DS Sales Thread

« on: November 30, 2005, 06:17:40 PM »

When does MK come out?

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General Gaming / RE: ITT: PSP Discussion

« on: November 30, 2005, 05:07:45 PM »

According to analysts PSP hardware sales in November were "surprisingly bad."

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: So, do you think Wi-Fi Connection will actually go anywhere?

« on: November 30, 2005, 04:47:56 PM »

This thread is silly and pointless.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official DS Sales Thread

« on: November 29, 2005, 03:31:28 PM »

Advance Wars and Fire Emblem were around on the NES/SNES.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution details to be revealed May 9

« on: November 28, 2005, 12:33:00 PM »

I think it's too early. Nintendo has already given us too much information, and this will just make it look like they're trying to beat Sony and Microsoft.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Mario Kart DS - The Release Thread

« on: November 28, 2005, 12:31:56 PM »

This is FINALLY shipping to me! Should arrive Wed/Thurs. Hopefully my dongle does too.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: December 2005 issue of Edge - anyone got it?

« on: November 27, 2005, 10:27:05 PM »

110 for 13 issues!? WHAT? Why would anybody pay that!? That's over $9 an issue!

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General Gaming / RE: So anyone got a crashing XBox 360?

« on: November 27, 2005, 05:03:29 PM »

I believe those are the guys who raised money to smash an XBOX360. Did it with an iPod too.

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TalkBack / RE: Super Princess Peach review

« on: November 26, 2005, 08:49:31 AM »

Odd, I never had trouble. Beat it without ease, and I'm not that great. Perhaps you're just used to easy games and need to practice more. Or stop staring at pixelated boobs.

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TalkBack / RE: Super Princess Peach review

« on: November 26, 2005, 08:21:17 AM »

Mario DS's camera is the same, or better, than Mario 64s. I also had no problem with SMS's camera...if I couldn't see I just waited, fixed the camera, and moved on.

[Ian Sane]

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TalkBack / RE:Super Princess Peach review

« on: November 26, 2005, 06:53:27 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
I'm a little disappointed to hear that it's a little easy.  I wish Nintendo would realize that Super Mario World was NOT A HARD GAME.  Yeah some of the levels like Tubular and the Forest Fortress were insanely hard but they were optional levels you didn't have to beat to beat the game.  Nintendo's classic games largely were not that difficult so it makes no sense for them to lessen the difficultly in all their ports and make it impossible to die even once in Wind Waker unless you try to.

The ideal balance for game difficulty is for a game to be hard enough that you're going to die and fail a few times but it's never so hard that you get frustrated and basically require sheer luck to beat certain parts (Super Mario Sunshine I'm looking at you and your sh!tty camera).  Nintendo had this balance on the SNES and it was pretty good on the N64 too.  Why they have tinkered with this balance I'll never know.  Having a really easy game is in some ways just as bad as having an impossibly hard game.  Both make you feel cheated.

Still I am going to buy this game regardless of difficulty.  It sounds pretty sweet.

Super Princess Peach wasn't designed as a new Mario game, it was designed to appeal to girls. They weren't trying to make it as hard as classic games.