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[Athrun Zala]

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General Chat / RE:Zelda Commercial

« on: June 23, 2006, 02:38:24 PM »

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Originally posted by: Athrun Zala
LOL

but this one wins the "most bizarre" award XD

That reminded me all those japanese education programs I grew up with, science for children, 1,2,3 mathematics (no idea of the original japanese names), they were so great, and used puppets just like the ad, the music was so similar too!.  

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General Chat / RE: Opera 9 = sex

« on: June 23, 2006, 08:43:37 AM »

good to see ms is copying the mouse gestures finally, I can't stand old versions of IE, once you start using mouse gestures theres no going back. It has been a bit tricky for me because Opera and Firefox have different ones and I use both, but I already memorized the most important ones for both of them, they are probably customizable (word?) but Im too lazy to search.

oh mouse gestures are gestures done to browse more intuitively, if I explain them it would seem they are confusing, but the truth is that once you get used to them the old way of browsing is unbearable, give it a try!

Oh theres also the voice option which is very convenienent for a non native-speaker like me.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wii - One Syllable Word

« on: June 23, 2006, 08:30:16 AM »

what? brain age has syllable count? thats really hard in english for me, you break words in a weird way.

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General Chat / RE:Favorite Web Comic

« on: June 22, 2006, 01:21:43 PM »

http://70.86.201.113/imageserv2/stilltemporary/PBF088ADWorldChampion.gif



the archive some are NSFW.

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General Chat / RE: DO THE MARIO

« on: June 22, 2006, 01:04:00 PM »

I saw it when I was a kid and I loved it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wii - One Syllable Word

« on: June 22, 2006, 12:52:17 PM »

one sillable names are great, I really didn't see any complains about the name for being short. actually I was sure the name was going to be "go", or "rs", or maybe "N5", and the rumored names were for the most part really short. Being short is not what made a lot of people to hate the name.

 

[Smash_Brother]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Always knew he was a phony

« on: June 22, 2006, 12:43:51 PM »

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother

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Originally posted by: vudu
What kind of Nintendo fan complains so much about SSBM?

The kind who isn't afraid to point out when their favorite game developer isn't realizing its full potential.

however you don't miss a chance to criticize me when I do the same with TP

This whole thing is pretty silly, I dont understand why kotaku or ign are making it such a big deal.

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TalkBack / RE: Radio Free Nintendo - Episode 6

« on: June 21, 2006, 08:57:08 AM »

It really sucks halo is recieving the royal treatment when there are hundreds of more important and just overall better gaming franchises.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: "Playing with my Wii" becomes clean?

« on: June 21, 2006, 06:12:10 AM »

oh, wireless interactive innovation, I like that acronym.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: "Playing with my Wii" becomes clean?

« on: June 20, 2006, 11:04:09 AM »

I see the name doing more harm than good, hopefully the harm done wont be relevant, and I couldnt be more glad that english is not my native language.

EDIT:

I always say "Im going to play with my GC", "Im going to play with my DS", and I see that phrases used plenty both in english and spanish.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE: Emoticonundrum

« on: June 20, 2006, 05:29:16 AM »

mario party? metroid prime? Im lost...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

« on: June 19, 2006, 01:39:04 PM »

ignore this post

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

« on: June 19, 2006, 01:39:04 PM »

LMAO

ok, maybe its not that important, a few plot twists like sheik/zelda are fine but the story doesn't really need to be overly complicated, is a Zelda game after all.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

« on: June 19, 2006, 12:05:00 PM »

haha I am of the opinion that no picture or page whatsoever is safe for work, no boss is going to like to see you surfing instead of working

Theres no need to spoil man on fire though, it was so predictable he was going to die at the end. In fact is almost predictable Link will die too, its an overused plot twist, I'd like to see something else.

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General Gaming / RE: Matt's 360 bites the dust

« on: June 18, 2006, 06:52:20 AM »

hahaha

fortunately, no system has break down on me, I treat my GC like a newborn baby though, maybe that helped.

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TalkBack / RE: Radio Free Nintendo Episode 5

« on: June 17, 2006, 10:20:13 AM »

Samus is a girl! omg

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Big Thread of Wii Launch Pessimism: All the things that could go wrong!

« on: June 15, 2006, 06:13:26 PM »

"One raindrop raises the ocean."

I agree, but I could live without the ocean being a milimeter higher, Im only complaining about one single raindrop after all . The console is on a really good track, It has to be a lot of negative things put together to affect this nice change. The response to the remote has been a lot better than I expected, I thought that the press was going to be really divided being such a change, but the only site Ive seen who complained a lot was joystiq. Theres enthusiasm on third parties too. The only big thing that  could go wrong is if its priced at $600, but few companies are THAT nuts .

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Big Thread of Wii Launch Pessimism: All the things that could go wrong!

« on: June 15, 2006, 05:31:58 PM »

here we go again

"1. Your Gamecube is gathering dust because Nintendo didn't bring enough 1st party support to acquire the sales which result in better 3rd party support."

I play my GC almost daily, and I still have plenty of games I havent bought and I want.

"2. Releasing Twilight Princess on the GC and only the GC would be putting high octane gas into a broken car."

So? I couldn't care less.

"3. Nintendo needs to convince everyone that the Wii can sell the big numbers so that developers will feel safe in developing for the console, thus ensuring AAA 3rd party titles for the duration of its life span. The GC did not make these numbers and it suffered immensely."

and they are going to prove that the wii can push millions of software units with Zelda? LOL, that sure is going to convince third parties yes sarcasm... maybe if Red Steel has good sales third parties can be confident, but Zelda selling well in a Nintendo console is the status quo, its no indication of anything, third parties arent stupid.

"If you want to argue, write up a compelling argument about how, despite all evidence to the contrary, the GC has received consistent excellent titles throughout its entire life span, enough that 3rd party developers have shown unrelenting support for the console and in no way are large 3rd party devs dropping support for the console altogether (Midway, Akklaim, etc.)."

I dont understand this at all. The wii isnt going to break apart if it has no TP, why do you think that the wii is "doomed" if such thing happens? A single game will never save a console, not even the "all mighty" ocarina could do it. The GC didnt have -just- the problem of a lackluster launch, it has media storage problems , it has a long period without any games, its marketing sucked big time, it had already lost a lot of ground to playstation's brand and recognition, etc, etc ,etc. It was a whole lot of problems, not -just- the launch.

"Twilight Princess will be the Wii's #1 selling title at launch, I guarantee it. It will probably be the game which will be credited for pushing the most Wiis at launch and will provide a compelling reason to own the console years after launch (just like Halo for the Xbox). In fact, I'd bet an appendage or two that TP sales will blow Halo 3 sales clean out of the water."

Thats absolutely NOT going to happen. At the best case scenario the number of sales for the two games maybe will be comparable. Stop pretending that Zelda is allmighty and omnipotent, thats just fanboyism. The compelling reason to buy the console is very likely to be wiisports, and I wouldnt be surprised if the game outsells Zelda, or any other "non-game" for that matter.

The launch of the wii and the console itself isnt going to be doomed if you remove TP from it, the wii has the right price, the right software and finally, the right image with the gaming public (the name notwithstanding). It will help obviously, Ive never denied it,  but it isnt a make-or-break deal for the console.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendo's unannounced games

« on: June 14, 2006, 08:12:45 PM »

Im still waiting for an official announcement of Metroid Dread.

[couchmonkey]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:The Big Thread of Wii Launch Pessimism: All the things that could go wrong!

« on: June 14, 2006, 12:51:48 PM »

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Originally posted by: couchmonkey
I'm surprised nobody suggested games getting delayed.  A delay for MP3 seems entirely possible to me.  Something like that could hurt.

Oh I wouldnt care, the demo at E3 didnt give me a good feeling, I was happy when people were saying that Corruption might end up being a 2007 title. I actually would be more confident if Retro delays it, I have this fear that in Japan they are pushing Retro to get the game out no matter what at launch and that would affect the overall quality, lets hope for the best, the guys at Retro haven't dissapointed me so far.

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Originally posted by: JonLeung
You've got Majora's Mask as your avatar...don't you like Zelda?

Probably I like it too much, thats why I want it to be a perfect game no matter how good or bad the launch is or how it will affect Nintendo financially, I wouldve have prefered if all the focus was on the GC, to make it really the best game possible, now theres the doubt that maybe the game could have been better if the focus wasn't splitted.

I love Zelda, but Nintendo is a company and their first and most important objective is to make money, not to make good games. The TP deal just confirms it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Big Thread of Wii Launch Pessimism: All the things that could go wrong!

« on: June 14, 2006, 08:50:32 AM »

Im not putting credit into anything My rants wont do a damn thing to affect Nintendo's decisions. Im just saying the effect of TP wii version for the console is practically negligible, even if the press goes with me and criticize the controls to no end. The launch is good, third parties are on board and the remote so far has delivered. Now if this was a totally new Zelda developed from the ground up for the console the impact on launch might be bigger, but with a GC counterpart the attention the game recieves is split, and it doesnt have the same effect....

Now that you made me think about it thats exactly why Nintendo is downplaying the GC original version, people are dumb enough to believe this is wii "exclusive" when it isnt. Forget about the sony and ms fanboys looking TP as having good graphics though, they already are saying it looks like crap.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Big Thread of Wii Launch Pessimism: All the things that could go wrong!

« on: June 14, 2006, 08:26:06 AM »

You (and Nintendo) are putting way too much credit into the selling power of Zelda. The Zelda zealots you mentioned are not significant enough to "save" the sales of any console.

But anyway, the launch is already pretty good without that game, thats why is so unnecessary.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Can you plug Retro-Replica Controllers into Wiimote?

« on: June 14, 2006, 06:24:05 AM »

As someone who doesnt like the generic shell and would prefer an N64 pad, I also think that the N64 stick isnt good and the new sticks are better.

With just slight modifications, like the stick and bigger c buttons and other details that scape me at the moment, the N64 controller could be perfect for any traditional game.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Big Thread of Wii Launch Pessimism: All the things that could go wrong!

« on: June 14, 2006, 06:14:20 AM »

"7. People complain about Zelda for Wii feeling "un-whole"
What if the gaming media latches onto this game and starts complaining more about how Nintendo shoe-horned a GC game into the Wii than about the Wii's benefits?"

Im pretty sure this will happen. Its really sad that Nintendo actually pushed TP as one of the big launch titles. Back when I was supposing Nintendo was going to do it I was kind of joking, because I didnt expect Nintendo to be so stupid. This little  tactic they are pushing has a terrible flaw. Nintendo is claiming the controller to be the new way to play games, the real next generation, yet this game has a GC counterpart, it really makes the remote looks like just replacing buttons for gestures and it really afffects the overall image of the remote, it just doesnt seem to be that innovative. Maybe if this wasn't being advertised as a big launch title but rather a GC title with aditional benefits for wii owners the press could react better.

Besides it was totally unnecessary. Being the console so cheap TP could be use to advertize the backward compatibility without any shoehorned functionality. All they did was to tremendously piss off some of us. I really doubt the people who werent going to touch TP and now are going to because of the functionality are significant to the console's success. I even think is totally possible the "non-games" like wii-sports or wii-music will outsell TP wii version easily. In fact thats exactly what Nintendo wants, they want Nintendogs/Brain Age-like success with the console and that wont be achieved with Zelda.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Metroid Prime 3 Revolutionized

« on: June 13, 2006, 03:18:53 PM »

No one is saying Echoes is genius, and halo 2 isnt genius either, only its marketing campaign