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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: March 06, 2006, 07:32:17 AM »

that would suggest having to rest the screen somewhere... which would make it decidedly unportable. the screen and control need to be physically attached, whether detachable for repairs or not. it would be simpler to just have the analog sticks removable, it would cost a lot less.  

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Nintendo Gaming / First Place

« on: March 06, 2006, 06:19:53 AM »

Unlike other topics that have some basis in fact, this one is total speculation.

Here's what I'm wondering what do you guys think (even the haters) will happen if Nintendo were to become #1 in console sales again with the revolution? Not just the effect it would have on Nintendo, but on Sony, Microsoft, and the video game community in general. What about the trickle effect? Would Nintendo being #1 with the revolution effect their handhelds at all? I'll ask one other question with the hope that it doesn't start a flame war; Is it even possible for the revolution to boost Nintendo to #1 again?  The ps3 may have it's share of problem at the moment, but there are still lots of people who can't even begin to fathom buying anything except the next playstation.

I have my own answers to these questions, but first I'd like to see what others think.  

[IceCold]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: March 06, 2006, 05:44:26 AM »

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Originally posted by: IceCold
Nintendo has almost completely shifted their focus to the DS; there are only very few first party titles coming out for the GBA at the moment. So they haven't stopped making GBA games, but they've dramatically decreased their focus on it. If a Game Boy and the DS were to coexist, it just wouldn't work.

I'm not trying to be a prick or anything, but just trying to understand you. But aren't they co-existing right now? Yes more focus is being put on the ds, but where I live I still see many more people walking around playing gb than ds, as a matter of fact besides my brother and one old lady, i've never seen anyone around here playing ds.

rats posts made me think that we wont be seeing the new gameboy for a couple years, they just released the micro after all. they would wait at least 2 or 2 1/2 years to release a new gb.

oh i just remembered I've seen another person playing ds, my mom cuz i sold her my old one, expecting my dsl to be here alrdy.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Best system launch ever?!

« on: March 06, 2006, 05:32:12 AM »

I don't know how many games nintendo will actually provide at launch but what they need to do is release one of every category. fps (or fpa doesn't really matter), rpg (zelda counts, but another one would be more significant), a platformer (mario 128?), a racing game, a sports game, a fighter (ssmb), and a non-game (this cooking game). Maybe i forgot some but 11:00a.m is still early for me. anyway, all these kind of games need to be released at launch, and with the exception of the sports game, and racing game (because these two will likely utilize the shell controller), they need to all be first party releases. no matter how much praise the controller gets from developers, the press, the other people at e3, nintendo still needs to prove to everyone (firsthand), that the controller works with all types of gameplay. if they can't prove this questions will arise that won't be good for them.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: March 05, 2006, 05:42:42 PM »

When did they stop making gba games?

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:the greatest game of all time is.....

« on: March 05, 2006, 05:08:40 PM »

I think my genitals are a better game to play than gta. I get tired of gta after a couple minutes. .

no but seriously though, ok no never mind i'm not going to be serious.
best game ever?
how the hell can you choose something like that? maybe you could go year by year, but even system by system is tough.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: March 05, 2006, 05:02:04 PM »

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The same problem occurs in Madden '04, where my running backs are only able to run full tilt if they do it on a diagonal.

That is the worst, for one game i thought my running back was like tired or something, so i ended up having a 600yd passing game. anyway...

analog sticks do have problems, but that is easily solved. here are a few ways i have thought of, and something tells me that the people at nintendo are smarter than i am.
1. just make them easily replaceable
2. make a brand new type of analog stick that can survive thousands of hours of gameplay
3. ok all i got is two.

the gba isn't dead. japan doesn't account for the entire world. there are a good numbers of games coming out for the gba that i want to get. nintendo and other companies are focusing a lot more on the ds, but as someone suggested, i believe they will be alternating tides. when the next gb comes out, a lot of focus will go to it,  will ds will probably see a small decline in sales, and so forth back and forth, and the only reason for this is that there isnt really a third way to play games, or place. i think the 3 pillars has been a success. the gba is still kicking ass left and right, the ds is putting up a damn good fight. also the psp was launched to compete against both the gba and ipod, (both are at the top of their fields) and it failed miserably. the ds i believe was launched as a third pillar because nintendo has had it in the back of their minds for awhile to create the next gameboy with gc discs. in console went from cartridges to discs, then handhelds would follow, sony was premature with this, nintendo is biding their time making sure they get everything right before unleashing the next big thing for videogames. at least this is what i think.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Best system launch ever?!

« on: March 05, 2006, 04:46:02 PM »

I've always thought of it as a best of both worlds kind of thing. I love playing old games, especially the ones that are impossible to beat (for me that includes A LOT of games). However, just like anyone else with breath in their lungs opening something new and exciting is in a league of its own. there are times though, even when i buy a new game i'll play it, love it, and then be like, alright it's time to fire up the snes. and after about ten minutes of resetting, blowing in the cartridge, and praying, i can play some of my all time favorite games. the revolution offers you the chance to do this without all the blowing and praying (they took all the fun out) if you don't like classic games don't use the virtual console. if you want something else to tide you over, explore the expanded gameplay going online with new games. all in all what i'm trying to say is don't bitch. maybe the controller will suck maybe it will be the greatest thing since sliced bread, maybe Iwata and Miyamoto have a secret plan to take over the world by getting a revolution in every home and sucking information out of brains like in Batman Returns (pretty sure that was the one with the riddler and two-face). who knows. oh i know who. no one. that's who. no one.  

[Artimus]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: March 03, 2006, 12:41:08 PM »

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Originally posted by: Artimus
I'm happy with the DS?

totally unrelated. nintendo is pretty adamant about have 3 pillars.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Best system launch ever?!

« on: March 03, 2006, 11:32:27 AM »

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Nintendo doesn't half-ass stuff. They don't include features you don't need and they design their games really tight so that everything fits really well. If they switched the aiming to manual and had otherwise the same design all they would do is make the game more difficult to play. It would be the same game only without lock-on.

mp1 and 2 both had the same gameplay. was the second game the same as the first? i must've missed something if it was. so why would they make mp3 the same game but harder? it would be a completely new adventure, and much better.

I think you're thinking is too narrow. aiming is hard with a traditional controller. (imagine how hard duck hunt would have been without the light gun) but with the nrc aiming will be a natural function. raise your hand if when you first started playing video games like mario, and you wanted to make him jump really far you would move the controller to, subconscienciously hoping it would help him jump further. ::raises hand::

maybe the game will be harder without lock-on, hey i'm up for the challenge, which is one of the reasons I can't wait the virtual console. there are so many games from the nes and snes days that i plain couldn't beat because of how hard they were, i miss games like that, the fun in them was repeatedly trying to beat them. I say bring on the difficulty.

Just because they take out lock-on doesn't mean they're going to redesign the whole game. Why would they shoot themselves in the foot like that? This game is called Metroid Prime 3, it's a triquel ( i know that's not a word) why wouldn't it follow the same game formula as the its two predecessors?

if Microsoft took over Nintendo they'd probably try to do that, make it into a really good fps. Nintendo happens to be smart, they wouldn't completely change the gameplay just because you can't lock on anymore. and it's not going to be the same game but harder either. Nintendo doesn't half-ass things remember? They have to sell the idea of the nrc and nunchuck, this is the perfect game to do it with. unless of course u'd prefer they'd make a sequel to luigi's mansion cuz i think that would also make good use of the two of them.

Oh yeah one other thing from your post; NINTENDO DOESN'T INCLUDE FEATURES YOU DON'T NEED?? you say that? after how much you cried about them not including HD in the rev. and how they're trying to think for us, and tell us what we want? and i figure you were talking about their games, but they use the same priniciples to innovate their games as they do their consoles.  although it was one of things you said I agreed with.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:IF Revolution still is a code name...

« on: March 03, 2006, 11:17:26 AM »

It was a tongue in cheek comment. while i wouldn't put it past nintendo to use the name i wish they'd just stick with revolution. that's what everyone calls it, so leave it at that. it's a good name. it wraps up their entire strategy in one word.  

[Ian Sane]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Best system launch ever?!

« on: March 03, 2006, 09:50:03 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
Metroid Prime Hunters isn't an FPA because it plays nothing like one.  At least the demo that came with the DS sure as hell doesn't.  There is no point in allowing people to aim in Metroid Prime because the game is designed so that you don't need to.  There is no advantage whatsoever for having that option.  So it's useless.  To make it useful they have to change the game to play like a first person shooter.  It's like jumping in the 3D Zelda games.  The game never needs you to have a jump button so having a jump button provides no advantage and if they made it so that you have to have a jump button the game would lose track of the main focus on the series.

a few things here
1. think about how old the demo is compared to when this game is being released. do you really think it took them all that time just to add wifi?
2. what do u mean there's no point in allowing people to aim? you could aim in metroid prime if you wanted to. didn't you have to AIM at the grapple points and other such points situated high on the levels?
3. the games do play like a first person shooter. the greatest difference between metroid and typical fps's is the ability to free roam environments, and not have linear missions and boards. not the controls. the controls are pretty similar except the dual analog control which i believe is a byproduct of giving an easy way of changing visors and beams. and aiming vs. lock on. are you going to tell me that all a developer has to do to make an fpa is take away aiming and add lock on? of course not.
4. how would having a jump button lose track of the main focus of the series? imagine the don't change anything about the game, there were lots of point in OoT where link had to jump, it was done automatically but he had to jump nonetheless. how does a button assignment or making something automatic change a whole series?

mainly i'm asking for an elaboration of what i quoted, cuz either i don't understand what you're saying, or you don't know what you're talking about. and i'm actually less inclined to believe the latter.  

[KDR_11k]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Screens&Artworks Baten Kaitos 2

« on: March 03, 2006, 09:17:44 AM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k

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Originally posted by: MaryJane
I will kill any and everyone who attempts to stop me from buying this game.

Thank you, we will consider this a confession.

-- Department of Homeland Security

I know one person who works in the dpt of homeland sec. i also know 2 people in the fbi, and one person currently in cia training. so i'm pretty safe. so just give me bk:2 no one dies and everything is cool.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:IF Revolution still is a code name...

« on: March 03, 2006, 09:08:57 AM »

how about the Nintendo Freestyle?
It would attract the hip-hop culture maybe, and imagine using the voice software alrdy being implemented in mp:h to make an actual freestyle game? it would be online and the judges would be the other battlers. like you have brackets and stuff and those not in a current battle would judge the ones currently battling, idk how u'd do the final two, but you can't tell it would sell systems. look at when mtv did the battle thing, so many  people came that when they told some people they couldn't participate someone got shot, at least if they did it online people wouldn't get shot.  

[Ian Sane]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Best system launch ever?!

« on: March 03, 2006, 09:01:11 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
Everyone talks about how well the Rev will control for first person shooters and then you said the Metroid Prime 3 would prove this.  If Metroid Prime 3 plays like a first person shooter then it becomes a first person shooter.  The lock-on system in Metroid Prime 1 & 2 isn't just a workaround for a keyboard/mouse setup that wasn't possible on the Cube.  It's designed so that you don't have to be an FPS expert to play the game.  It removes the hassle of aiming (which wasn't an issue in the 2D games) so that you can concentrate on the exploration which is the whole point of Metroid.  If Metroid Prime 3 stays true to the Metroid series then it won't prove that the Rev is the ideal system for first person shooters because it won't be an FPS and therefore by definition can't prove that.  All the idiots that complain that Metroid Prime doesn't play like Halo should still be making that same complaint about Metroid Prime 3.

doesn't the ability to just point at an enemy would negate the need for a lock on system?. although i wouldn't be surprised if it was still included, but personally i think i'd try to play without it i would only use it for multiplayer. bcuz the only reason i used it in the first two was as you said, an fps expert is good at aiming strafing and shooting all at the same time, while those of us who suck at games (like me) like the ability to lock on, then strafe and shoot, making the job easier and as u said you can concentrate on other things. but point and shooting would be great and i can't wait, would you say that mp:h isn't an fpa cuz it doesnt use lock on, and has a heavy focus on multiplayer?

but i think you're being way to technical. in essence mp3 is an fps. its in first person view and you shoot things. hence first person shooter. however, it is also largely an exploration game and doesn't play like a traditional fps in the sense that there are no level objectives, and other things that make fps's linear. but to say that an fpa isn't an fps, is like saying an action-rpg isn't really an rpg cuz it doesn't use turn based battles.  maybe this is a discussion for a new topic. but initially this has to be the  proof that the rev is ideal for fps, bcuz at it's core mp3 is an fps, just a modified one and if it doesn't make amazing use of the nrc and the nunchuck skepticism will rise to all new heights (and i bet you'd be first in line).

the games are very well modified. it really isn't right to call it an fps, bcuz it is so much more, but at the core it is an fps, like you wouldn't a human cells right? but cells are what allow our body to be a body, and to live, we are cells, but we are so much more than that, that we call ourselves humans (that might be a bad analogy but you can get the point).  i love the metroid games i beat the first one 3 times (and i still couldn't get 100% completion cuz i suck and don't use gamefaqs unless i'm stuck and after an hour of trying on my own i still can't get passed something) and i'm working on beating the second one for the third time.

someone said that there weren't any glitches in the mp series, i found one. in the second one, in one of the rooms where you use the sonic visor (is that what its called my memory is kind of shot) to find those points that are keeping a certain door locked, i shot two of those points, left the room, went and did a whole bunch of other stuff, came back, shot the last point, and the door wouldn't open. i had to start a new game, i spent 8 hours trying to figure out how to get past that point without starting a new game, i was pretty pissed and took 2 weeks off before starting a new game. but that was probably more my fault, but i still feel the game should have allowed for it.

[couple]

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:UGO Fails at marketing...

« on: March 03, 2006, 08:02:40 AM »

Hey I like her, she looks like my ex, the both have the same stupid air headed i don't know what the hell you're talking about kind of smile. except holly is missing a couple of things that really attracted me to my ex. actually the only two good things about her.  

[Ian Sane]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Best system launch ever?!

« on: March 03, 2006, 07:56:25 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane<brIf they make Metroid Prime 3 a first person shooter I won't buy it.  If I could somehow sabotage the sales of such a title I would.  Anyone who wants Metroid to play like Halo isn't a real Metroid fan and doesn't deserve to have the franchise ruined to suit their tastes.  If you don't like Metroid then tough sh!t.

Huh? unless you're being technical and think i should have put fpa's? cuz i don't know if you noticed but the first two in the prime series were in first person. so why wouldn't the end of the trilogy also be in first person? and nintendo doesn't make generic games from what i've seen, they might get a little stir crazy like the water pack in sunshine (although i liked it just cuz of how much you could mess around with it).

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: March 03, 2006, 06:28:47 AM »

they could always make the sticks fold into the system,  i don't think it would be too hard, you pull up on the stick to unlock it from control status, and it fold neatly into a slot designed for it, also thinking nintendo would utilize the clam shell design the sticks wouldn't have to be tall, and could possibly have little nooks built into the top half of the portable to hold them while folded. I don't think the old games would cut into the sales of new games, all the people who didn't buy a gc until last year (and allowed nintendo to beat out the 360 in terms of sales) i don't think nintendo was too worried about them buying only old games. if you buy a system, no matter what system you want new games for it.  and i don't see why they could update the hardware some, imagine if they used the hardware that they used to show off mp3 at e3. o that would pretty sweet. since it was just beefed up gc hardware, and supposedly (and hopefully) doesn't compare to the capabilities of the rev.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Best system launch ever?!

« on: March 03, 2006, 06:11:43 AM »

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Also everybody sits here and bashes PS3.3^0 for being more of the same, I wont get into how stupid THAT argument is here, but i will say then you turn around and say that More Metroid, More Zelda, More Mario, More Smash Bros tahastw hta will draw people in ?!?! I Dont get yo guys. face reality. NIntendo IS still a good compnay BUT tehre are game makers out there who are JUST AS GOOD who havent yet confimred anythign for the system. We have a noce potentila launch lineup shaping up but Nintendo cant win over NON Nintendo fans with Nintendo franchises.

I agree you can't bash the ps3 people are gonna buy no matter how crappy it is. Although I must say that it does have some superb games. Also I agree with you on the point of nintendo releasing their old franchises, why the hell should they release their highest selling games ever? How could that possibly make people want to buy their system? especially when mp3 is going to be the proof of their claim that the rev is best system for fps's why would they release that game? And there are so many game makers just as good as nintendo, which is why no on wishes they had nintendo's franchises, which is why no jumps at the chance to make games for their old franchises. Nintendo should stop making mario games, i mean come on, after no one like sunshine, and super smash bros? why release that? wasn't it the one the highest if not the highest selling gc game? why would they put that kind of crap on the rev? and make it online? man nintendo has no sense of business strategy.

(psssssssssssst. it's all lies)

Seriously though, I don't think the rev will initially beat out the ps3, it has no choice to but to beat the severly lack luster 360 launch, but be reasonable the ps2 was the biggest last gen, so sony would obviously have the biggest fanboy base, there are tons of people who can't even fathom getting a different system besides a ps3. even though everyone I know who had a ps3 is currently on their 3rd system. but still the ps3 is going to have the best launch, and nintendo's best hope is to be a closer 2nd this time around, or overtake them in the long run. And everyone is a nintendo fan who has played video games whether they know it or not, cuz nintendo is everything video games. how many people are gonna say, wow that new zelda looks great, or man i miss playing mario, and this one looks like a serious contender, everyone loves and recognizes nintedo's franchises, and once mp3 gets ooodles and ooooodles of love people will know samus's name like they know their own.

Edit: I screwed up the quote thing, so i fixed it.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:The Revolution: the good, the bad, and the ugly

« on: March 03, 2006, 05:55:48 AM »

I have good rev-anxiety. Like, omg i can't wait for this to launch, omg i can't wait for this to launch.

also i think i might have to say that no news is also good news for the rev. look at ps3. a lot of news about it has been bad. not all bad obviously, but the only "bad" thing reported about the rev is no HD, and that is depending on who u talk to.  

[animecyberrat]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: March 02, 2006, 12:27:08 PM »

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Originally posted by: animecyberrat
I dont know, Nintendo is so stuck on this 3 pillar stuff they just might make a new GB sooner than that. I seriously doubt it will ever be a protabel GC though, but I can see them maybe using the same disks butit dont have to be compatible with GC games, I mean Playstation and Saturn both used standard CD but they are at all compatible.

I believe the difference would be that the GC and PGC would run on the exact same hardware, just of different sizes, while the ps and saturn used completely different kinds of everythings, cpus, gpus, and all that good stuff. it wouldn't make too much sense to just totally cut the opportunity to launch with hundreds of games already developed and (for the most part) loved.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:The Revolution: the good, the bad, and the ugly

« on: March 02, 2006, 12:20:29 PM »

I really wish you guys hadn't brought out the LAN capabilities of the rev, in all the arguing i totally forgot about that, and now that you reminded i'm going through even more rev-anxiety. Thanks a lot, I hope you guys have insurance, cuz you're gonna need it to cover my bills.  

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:Revolution not a "next generation" console

« on: March 02, 2006, 06:45:27 AM »

we trade more with canada than with any other country. Canadians win! although there are some fine mexican mamcitas but not a majority.  

[MY TITLE KEEPS RESETTING HELP]

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:Change the title of the person above you!

« on: March 02, 2006, 06:40:59 AM »

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Edit: I got beat to a suggestion for pale  


MY TITLE KEEPS RESETTING HELP hoping this catches someones eye who can do something about it instead of posting again.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:New Gameboy

« on: March 02, 2006, 06:38:09 AM »

hmm the more i think about this the more i think it is plausible, although i'm still leaning towards it not happening. the next gb really isn't due for awhile, by that time who knows how far technology will progress, it could leap and bound in the next 6 months for all we know. so in a couple years who knows what'll happen, bcuz surely we're not talking about the next gb apearing until at least e3 2007, and then maybe coming out 2008 or 2009. imagine if nintendo bitch slapped us all with the new gb this year. i think i'd pee my pants.