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[The Omen]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:IP Resurrection Predictions! (Tension breaker)

« on: May 05, 2006, 07:34:51 AM »

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Originally posted by: The Omen
Solomon's Key!  I play this game all the time on my NES, and it would truly fit with the new Wiimote.  It's a cool little puzzle game.  Anyone else know this game?  If so, then you too know it's perfect for a rebirth on the Wii.

 I know that it was a game that severely needed a save system of some sort.  I never did get very far, and it was such a pain to have to work through the puzzles I'd already solved every time that I gave up very quickly.  It was fun, though.

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

« on: May 05, 2006, 05:58:24 AM »

Pokémon Treize

edit: Was that a clever enough Gundam Wing reference?

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General Chat / RE:Original Star Wars Trilogy coming to DVD!

« on: May 05, 2006, 05:09:21 AM »

I just found out and rushed here to see if anyone had posted it.  This has made me very happy.  Funny I didn't notice it here sooner, though.

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Lucas is a total dick to be putting the new cuts on the DVDs as well. I figured he would just make all the fans double dip and have to buy both versions but he's being an even bigger prick by making their first purchase redundant.

Well, at least those of us who waited are actually less screwed, not that I ever wanted to buy the new versions at all.  I, too, thought this would have to wait until after he died, but I guess even billionaires can be swayed by greed.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:IP Resurrection Predictions! (Tension breaker)

« on: May 04, 2006, 01:46:07 PM »

I was just looking at a list of old Nintendo games, pondering which ones could be improved by the remote, when I found Mario and Wario.  I had forgotten all about this game.  It's essentially a puzzle game in the same vein as Lemmings, only instead of a horde of mindless critters, you guide a blinded Mario.  It was played using the SNES mouse, with which you controlled a fairy who interacted with elements in the environment.

Now imagine that instead of a point and click interface, you actually used the remote to affect things more directly.  For example, you might have to turn a crank to raise a bridge, or use a rope and pulley to lift something, or cut a rope to drop something, or fan a fire to burn something, or get Mario to hit a switch at the same time you do.  What you could do would depend on what tools were available to you in a given level.

Who'd develop it?  Well, Game Freak did the original, so they might as well do this one.  They've shown that they still have what it takes to develop non-pokemon games with Drill Dozer.

2d or 3d?  I'm not sure.  guiding Mario through a 3d environment without being able to control him directly could be cumbersome, but puzzles using the remote would probably be better in 3d.  I'll say 3d, with set paths for Mario to follow so you don't have to worry about getting him lined up just right to not walk off the side of a bridge.

The only problem is that I don't really expect an announcement at E3, or a return of this game ever, for that matter, but you got me thinking.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: A slightly different E3 Wii topic

« on: May 04, 2006, 11:57:43 AM »

Not that I'm interested in a juggling game, but you can't do that trick where you and a partner toss a dozen or so knives to each other while some terrified audience member stands between you when you're by yourself.  A game could simulate your partner and the terrified audience member.  It could also let you juggle with a partner online.  It might be a fun minigame.

[trip1eX]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:I just had a thought.

« on: May 04, 2006, 06:22:54 AM »

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Originally posted by: trip1eX
If your game doesn't have need of the pointer then there is no need for the bar.    Hence some demos didn't have the bar.

What I was trying to get at is that I don't see any reason that the sensor bar has to be put someplace visible.  It would work just as well hidden inside a cabinet.

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Or the end of the wiimote could have a sensor that measures the size of your TV automatically (basically detecting brightness and using some image edge enhancement type calculations) and it's placement relative to the position of the wiimote in 3d space.

Coincidentally, that's something I was just about to posit here.  It seems unlikely, but not impossible.

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Originally posted by: KnowsNothing
Not sure if that made sense =s I mean, say I moved the controller an inch, then the cursor on the screen would move one inch. For most screens I wouldn't have to use anything more than wrist movements, but if I were playing on a huge theatre screen I would be swinging around like a monkey.

An inch of movement is an inch of movement.  The size of the TV would only matter if the remote was being used as a pointer.  You wouldn't have to move any more to control your jetpack in Pilotwings on a 100" screen than you would on a 20" screen, but you might get quite a workout in Red Steel.

[Kairon]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Game News and Rumours

« on: May 04, 2006, 06:01:48 AM »

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Originally posted by: Kairon
And seriously, how many of you garden? Do you think Miyamoto made Pikmin for YOU?

Pikmin isn't about gardening.  It's about controlling an army of ant-carrots in a battle against time and ant-carrot-ivores.  It was inspired by a garden, but that doesn't mean it's a game for gardeners.  Considering how much I liked Pikmin, yes, I'd say Miyamoto made it for me.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Interesting read....Wii, 1up, and Pilotwings!

« on: May 03, 2006, 11:56:28 AM »

It was easy to miss, but this has already come up in the Game News and Rumours thread.  I can't keep up with all the new posts, either.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Game News and Rumours

« on: May 03, 2006, 11:42:27 AM »

How 'bout Iron Chef: The Game?  You get a random ingredient sprung on you, then a set time limit to create a certain number of dishes.  Then the game could use its massive database of ingredients and cooking techniques to calculate flavors, textures, and appearance, compare that to people's preferences (perhaps even the preferences of a large variety of AI judges), and give you a score.  Then if you got a higher score than the AI Iron Chef, you would win the people's ovation and fame forever.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:I just had a thought.

« on: May 03, 2006, 11:32:02 AM »

I've been wondering if the bar even has to be by the TV.  Even with the sensors surrounding the TV, the system still needs some way to know where the screen is in relation to them.  Unless the sensor bar has to be placed at the bottom corners of the screen exactly, which is unlikely if it's a solid bar instead of two separate units as originally shown, then a one-time calibration in the system menu would seem to be necessary.  It would be as simple as touching the remote to the screen's corners and pusing a button, and would only have to be repeated if the bar or TV moved.  To make moving the bar less likely, it might be a good idea to put it somewhere where it wouldn't be nudged accidentally, which wouldn't be right next to the TV.  Attaching it to the wall would be more foolproof, or it could at least be put behind the TV with the dust bunnies.  Since it's presumably used to triangulate/trilaterate the remote's relative position to the sensor bar, it could be anywhere within range, in any orientation, and the math could be done to figure out the remote's relative position to the TV just as easily.  It might affect accuracy a little, especially if it were in line with the remote.

I haven't done the math to see exactly how possible all this is, but it seems like there are enough points for 3D positional calculations.  Points A and B are in the sensor bar, and because it's one piece, they are a known distance from each other.  Points C, D, and E are in the remote, and likewise a known distance from each other.  We can use the timing of radio waves to get the distance from the points in the remote to the points in the sensor bar, which should be enough information to calculate the exact position of the remote (including rotation if the points in the remote form a triangle) relative to the sensor bar.

Does anybody see a problem with this?

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TalkBack / RE:Ubi Soft Reveals E3 Lineup

« on: May 03, 2006, 10:57:15 AM »

It's Rayman's Bad Fur Day!

Nothing too surprising, though I guess it's kind of new to play an assassin during the crusades.  I wonder if getting hopped up on hashish will affect the gameplay.

Here's hoping that Free Radical game isn't just for consoles that have a 3 in them.  I'd like to try a TimeSplitters game with the nunchaku.

Ian:  Marketers will use any minor tweak of language to claim to be first at something.  They're probably happy to use the FPA description for Metroid.  Either that or they're assuming Retro is recycling some of the old Gamecube code (which they probably are; no sense wasting all that effort), so it's the "ground up" phrase that makes them "first."

[KDR_11k]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Game News and Rumours

« on: May 03, 2006, 06:34:30 AM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Wariovania?

Warioid!

[Strell]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Speculation: Wii logo movie reveals final secret

« on: May 02, 2006, 08:33:05 AM »

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Originally posted by: Strell
Then there's this really odd "twisting" of the i that I haven't really figured out...

That was just the i looking over its shoulder and motioning for its friends to join it.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Rumour: Nunchuck to have Dual 3D motion sensing

« on: May 01, 2006, 01:28:22 PM »

The IR could also be for the DVD playback function, but do we even know for sure that window is for an IR emitter?

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

« on: May 01, 2006, 01:20:43 PM »

Guess what I just got in the mail!

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Dear Amazon.com Customer,

We've noticed that customers who have purchased Mario Superstar Baseball
are also interested in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the
GameCube. For this reason, you might like to know that The Legend of
Zelda: Twilight Princess will be released on May 15, 2006. You can
pre-order your copy by following the link below.

Of course it's not true.  I'm guessing the placeholder date in their database is May 15, and now that it's May, their automatic email system sent out this notice to anyone it figured might be interested.  I wonder what kind of feedback Amazon will get if a lot of people believe them and get disappointed.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: uh-oh: Nintendo reconsidering Wii?

« on: May 01, 2006, 11:18:14 AM »

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Then call it the UK in England, the CA in Canada, etc. etc.

Or just call it the *.  That's the wildcard character, so everyone could call it whatever they wanted.

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TalkBack / RE: IMPRESSIONS: Mario Kart Arcade GP

« on: May 01, 2006, 06:49:13 AM »

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Dr. Mario Virus – Attaches a virus to your opponent. This causes his screen to blur and him to slow down. The virus can be passed on if the infected kart bumps into another kart.

Oh, that's good.  I like that.  How do you target someone with it?  Do you leave a capsule on the track for someone to run into?  I nominate that and Metal Cap (or Mushroom, if they must) for the next Mario Kart console game.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Game News and Rumours

« on: May 01, 2006, 05:47:39 AM »

I haven't seen Dodgeball or Wedding Crashers, but I know it's in Family Guy.  That's the same episode in which Peter learns an important life lesson about electric pencil sharpeners.

Back on topic, is there any tidbit about what the 2nd Retro game could be?  They had several projects that got canceled to make Metroid Prime, including an RPG, I think.  I'd like to see what kind of RPG they'd make.

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NWR Feedback / RE:PlanetWii

« on: May 01, 2006, 05:14:15 AM »

I noticed that planetn.com is registered but not being used.  That one expires August 7 of this year.  Maybe you can manage to snag it.

[Artimus]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Email Nintendo and tell them you HATE the name!

« on: April 29, 2006, 08:25:44 AM »

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Originally posted by: Artimus
To be honest, Revolution isn't the right name for what they want. Wii was the right idea, it's just the totally wrong word. I think they should've called it the "Zii" or the "Glockenspiel" or the "Kui".

How 'bout the Nii?  N for Nintendo, same double i symbolism, sounds like knee, which is perhaps the least sexual body part.  They can use the same logo, too.  Just pick up the i on the end and use it to chop off the W's arm (and then, if you've already made the Monty Python reference, it could claim it was only a flesh wound).

I'll say again that my objection to the name is not based on love for the name Revolution, which I long ago accepted would not be the final name.  The codename is never the final name.  Everyone who does prefer Revolution can take comfort that the model number will be REV-001, at least.

31 Flavas:  I for one never thought the PSP would be able to beat the DS.  I'm amazed that it's done so well.  Also, I don't recall the people claiming otherwise basing their opinions on the name, but on the power of the hardware.  This isn't the same.

[KDR_11k]

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TalkBack / RE:EA Confirms Accelerometer Rumors

« on: April 29, 2006, 07:28:04 AM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Termin8: Just so you don't misunderstand anything, whenever Nintendo used a "gyroscope" they really used accellerometers. People only called them gyroscopes because that's a term more people understand.

Clearly they don't understand it, or they wouldn't be calling accellerometers gyroscopes.  

One thing about the controls seems unclear.  In one quote, he says you point at the intended receiver, and in another, he says you hold down the button for that receiver.  The first way sounds like a better way to me, but if it can't tell which receiver you're aiming at by the angle of the throwing motion, then pointing at him and then throwing might be too slow, and the buttons would work better.  I wish IGN had asked for clarification when he contradicted himself there.

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NWR Forums Discord / RE:Which announcement would cause the biggest Ian Sane post?

« on: April 28, 2006, 11:34:18 AM »

In light of recent events, and after much thought, I think the following announcement would cause a rant of truly epic proportions:

Major third party publishers have begun to announce the cancellation of support for Nintendo's next generation console.  When asked, they universally claimed it was because of the official name change.  "We just can't publish an M- or even T-rated game on something called a Wii," said one anonymous source.  That sentiment was shared by others as well, such as the developer who claimed, "Nintendo is obviously aiming for a different target market than we know how to serve.  What that target is, I can't say."  When asked for comment, a Nintendo representative stated, "Wii understand that Wii is not for everyone.  Wii have a assembled a Dream Team of developers dedicated to providing innovative and fun ways to play with Wii's incredible new features."

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii

« on: April 28, 2006, 06:22:31 AM »

Regarding Siemens:  First of all, it's a surname.  Second, nobody says "semens" when talking about semen, so it's not a complete homonym.  Third, if they ever did have to cross that hurdle, they did it over 100 years before I was born.  The company is older than my great-grandfather would be if he were alive today.

Google is a better comparison, but I still think it fails.  Google is a homonym of googol, which means 10^100.  The name connotes bigness, which suggests success.  Also, as a mathematical term, it's suited to the very nerdy and scientific business of search engines.

Wii, on the other hand, is a homonym of we, which is the first person plural pronoun.  It is clumsy to use it as a noun in speech.  I cringe every time I have to say "Wii is" because it feels like "we is."  We is not comfortable sounding like a dumb hick.  We's accent does that already even without bad grammar.  

What really flabbergasts me though is that Nintendo is fully aware of the problems with the name, but went ahead with it anyway.  A good name doesn't have to mean anything, really, but Nintendo stuffed this one with so much meaning that it doesn't make sense without its accompanying speech.  I don't want them to change it back to Revolution.  I never expected that to be the final name.  I really wish they would come up with something better, though.

I don't like the logo, either.  It's bland and generic.  Like the name itself, it doesn't stand on its own without an explanation.  The ad campaign shouldn't have to waste time explaining what the name and logo mean.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii

« on: April 27, 2006, 01:16:10 PM »

For the record, I don't dislike the name because it sounds like pee.  The first thing I thought of was "wee little man," actually.  I've tried talking about it, and it just feels wrong.  The juvenile humor can't be staved off regardless (although this name is practically inviting it).  It isn't immediately obvious how to pronounce the name.  I read some of the comments on Slashdot, and half of them thought it was pronounced "why" at first.  That's actually a pretty big flaw in the idea that it can be pronounced in any language, since in English at least the letter i is not pronounced "ee" most of the time.  

Nintendo packed the name with symbolism, but it isn't immediately clear what that symbolism is.  The ad campaign shouldn't have to waste time explaining the name.  It should explain why you should want the product.  It is simply a bad name all around.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Revolution no more-Nintendo Wii

« on: April 27, 2006, 12:41:56 PM »

Just a reminder to make sure everyone is giving their opinion due consideration instead of jumping on a bandwagon.  I would have addressed it to someone in particular if I meant it that way.