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Shacknews Holiday Game Guide
rosewood writes "Shacknews' Jason Bergman, aka loonyboi has his 'Holiday Buying Guide 2002' up and ready to read. PC, Gamecube, PS2, Xbox, and Gameboy Advance and over 70 games are covered! You can also look up how other games have rated each game at Shackreviews."
Not every game is touched on in-depth, but it's a great resource to narrow down the choices for that special gamer in your life.
I have forwarded the link to Santa.
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In other news....
- Wired released their holiday gift guide.
- ThinkGeek releases their holiday gift guide
- Tom's Hardware releases their holiday gift guide
- Scientific American releases their holiday gift guide
- Popular Mechanics releases their holiday gift guide
- Business 2.0 releases their holiday gift guide
- Anime Weekly releases their holiday gift guide
- Hello Kitty World magazine releases their holiday gift guide
and finally....
- Slashdot releases their holiday gift guide
Yes, but do they have a review of nethack or moria or any other rogue-like?
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Does this mean that Nethack nor nogue was ever ported to the Gameboy?
"You can also look up how other games have rated each game at Shackreviews."
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if'in we can get tha games to compare each other with themselves, why cant we get OSs to do that??
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Yes they do.
Although, I'm a bit disappointed that they don't have Angband.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
Macintosh owners play games, too. In fact, a guide like this would be of more value to Mac gamers. Mac games are harder to find, so if you want to buy a game for a Mac user, you probably can't rely on your local CompUseless sales droid to know what's hot and what's not.
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If this game is a let down I'm never playing another computer game again. Well I am joking, but seriously, this is like botching the Final Fantasy series erm.. or the Civilization series...hmmm
Well lets hope they dont fuck it up!
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I'll probably get yelled at from the ps2/xbox fan base but screw it, both systems are lacking in any real innovation. I only need so many fps and run-n-gun games. The cube has one of the best and original video game lineups in years, and I hope people can see that.
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Check out Game Rankings for some overviews of scores only. This can help weed out the trash on each system, and highlight some great buys.
I'm a Nintendo fan myself so here are some resoucres I have found helpful:
Planet Gamecube - Great news, reviews, and info
IGN Cube - lots of Insider-only material, but decent reviews.
N-Sider - They update very infrequently, but their reviews and editorials are insightful and some of the best I have seen.
My own GC picks (in no order):
Metroid Prime
Timesplitters 2
Super Mario Sunshine (you should have this already!)
Super Smash Brothers: Melee (same here)
Super Monkey Ball 2
Eternal Darkness (although it was released a while ago)
Pikmin (this one as well)
Animal Crossing
Sonic Mega Collection
But if you don't have one yet, buy a Gamboy Advance! It has many, many excellent titles, and is portable!
I'm glad there's something for me on the list. Adventure games Syberia and The Longest Journey ring a bell so maybe I'll try them out this year. I started with Wolfenstien and Doom, went through Quake etc, but then games just got too violent for me. I remember a Game mag edition where every ad was for a violent game, bragging about 'exit wounds' and 'blood and gore'. All I could think was what a waste of good graphic programming talent.
Although I never cared for MYST (that flat screen, jump forward thing gave me a headache) I'll take the clones. I really liked Riven. The gaming was a bit weak, but some of the puzzles were pretty good, and the scenery was amazing for it's time. And what ever happend to 7th Guest? That's more my kind of game, although I could do without the raunchy videos which really spoil it as a family game. I just got Harry Potter for my niece, and after setting it up for her, I wanted one for myself. More my style. You get the levels, the graphics, the secrets and the puzzles. Harry can climb and jump and swim, etc, but he sort of runs around with magic wand and makes the monsters disappear. Def more my style.
At least post biased, non-evidence backed stuff like this in the proper place.
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Is it just me, or does there seem to be a lack of quality PC games lately. I used to go into my local Software Ect. and instantly find half a dozen games that I just had to have. And now when I head in I'm lucky if I find one. Maybe I'm just getting old. Kind of sucks... graduate college, get good job, can pay for more games than before, and don't want to.
The funny thing is... my Fiance who *doesn't like video games* has found several in the past year that are good for her.
Have there been any real good stratedgy / tactical games out lately?
It does not belong on that list. Thats why its not there. That game is cheesy and terribly short. We bought it yesterday and beat it in 5 hours. It has its nostalgic moments and the flying castle is one of the coolest scenes I've ever seen... but I could have rented it over a weekend, and saved $45.
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Advance Wars
Metroid Fusion
Golden Sun
Tactics Ogre
Eye of the Beholder - if you like throwback games, it's really similar to the old D&D Gold Box game.
The GBA is a great system, IF you can get enough light to it. On a plane, the little overhead lights work great for lighting up the screen. If you're willing to modify your GBA you can install the Afterburner backlight mod.
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Is there anything that truly catches your imagination? It used to be EQ, or Quake 3. I just tried UT3K, and well, it is nice.
That is all I can say about it. It is nice.
The last game I bought and was into was RTCW. Is this the end of PC gaming as we know it? Is our road that of being console unit's bitch?
The problem, as I see it, is that there is no game that caters to the PC's strengths. Nothing that makes me want to play, for lack of a better phrase, addicts me.
What would bring PC gaming back to the heady days of Doome, Civ2, Quake 3 and UT, when we ruled the roost? What would make something interesting?
Apparently it will not be out. I can't help but wonder how many folks will buy new machines just to play this game at a decent frame rate. I might buy a new PC after Christmas, though that's more because my current machine is past it's prime.
I'm getting "that special gamer in my life" a basketball, football, soccer ball and tub of Slim Fast.
Okay, I know they're not required to mention every game that is coming out, but gee, you'd think they would mention Shrouded Isles, the first expansion to Dark Age of Camelot.... I mean, EQ is basically releasing the super-mega-LotR size-gotta have it-wanker version of their game, and it gets a plug....
feh...
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
If you liked those cool "Game and Watch" games from the 80s, like Cement Factory, and Octopus, and the rest, you may want to get a GBA.
When I was at E3 this year, Nintendo was showing off this cool card-reader thing which hooks into your GBA, which reads entire games off of trading cards and stores them in memory. So you can buy a pack of trading cards, and get the G&W version of Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, etc.
They also offer Pokemon cards, but Slashdotters are *way* too cool for that crap, right?
Look for an old Dreamcast if you don't have one. I just bought one myself a few weeks ago and I can't stop playing it. There's tons of fun games for it and they are dirt cheap. Most of the games I've found have been around $15CDN.
I highly recommend it.
Chances are that most trigger-happy fps players will hate Metroid Prime. It's not hyped because it's a standard FPS, but because it's a new game of the Metroid series (and actually succeeds in conveying a similar gameplay to the older 2D version).
Also to pretend that GC games are only appropiate to kids is a major fallacy. A game does not need a rating of Mature to be enjoyable.
Besides, if what most people call "adult games" are in fact new instances of "Quake3 nth-clone" or "Famous Name's Hyped Sport", then I'm very happy playing kiddie games, thank you.
The ENIAC Demo Competition
ugh.
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Why buy new games when you can play old ones (Neverwinter Nights) in a new way.??
... you've been browsing too much pr0n.
All you'll be getting a sack full of Daikatana demo CDs.
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Ho ho ho.
Check out metacritic, it's similar to Game Rankings, and it has a really nice interface. In addition, it provides "meta-reviews" of other things like music, videos, etc.
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is Mario Party 4. Yes, it recieved ho-hum reviews, but man is it a blast to play with friends (and family)... the kind of game anyone can play, because the controls are simple.
I went to a house party last night and the main entertainment among us mid-twenty year old's was Mario Party.
The "Domination" mini-game is a blast for rapid fire button mashers. I watched someone last night score 142!
...Is ancient! Why don't they make a Kirby PC game? Cute little guy! Simply cute! I just wanna HUG him! (Who'd want to hug a "modern" game character?)
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The whole game sets itself up in a big way for a sequel.
There isn't one.
There probably isn't ever going to be one.
I played the whole way through without knowing that, and it set me up for a major disappointment. It was a lovely game, though.
Check out the community for a list of what's hot...
I have found that one of the best resources is GameFAQs
They carry "Top 10 FAQ Pages" and "Top 10 Message Boards" for the site, including individual "Top 10" pages for each platform. Not to mention FAQs that can give you an idea as to the story line (more FAQs generally means a larger fan base)...
The problem with the "Top Selling Games of the Month/Week" is that if everyone has already bought a game (i.e. everything they are releasing is crap), then the top selling game might be mediocre at best.
If you want to know what games ppl are playing, this is the source. There are also reviews from real ppl that actually played the games (not some "reviewer")... If you're interested in a title, check here first.
Yeah, and it's a shame that they don't mention or have screenshots of Nethack:Falconseye. Probably the best looking mod while keeping the formula exactly the same.
Trust me. Those tubs of Slim Fast only last two days or so. 4 at the most.
So you want "Linux for game cube". You didn't specify "Nintendo" or capitalize "GameCube". Thus, any generic "game cube" is OK.
First of all, a "game cube" with a similar architecture to Nintendo's, the Power Macintosh G4 Cube, can run Yellow Dog Linux.
This roughly cube-shaped gaming PC and this even smaller PC can probably run Mandrake.
Now, if you're looking for Linux on a Nintendo GameCube console, you're out of luck: that's the only one that can boot only from a completely proprietary storage medium. There's currently no way to get homebrew code to run on the thing. If it could boot off one of the ports on the bottom (like the GBA can), the situation would be somewhat different.
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Why don't they make a Kirby PC game?
Nintendo doesn't make PC games. If you want to play Kirby on your PC, then buy a GBA, an MBV2 cable, and Kirby for GBA. Then space-shift the game to your PC (mb -1 kirby.gba -w 300) and enjoy in VBA.
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I hate it when they use fake people as reviewers...
you're assuming that there are any games worth anyone's attention on teh lunix.
Assuming you have the appropriate cartridges and cart readers, you can run almost all NES, Game Boy, Super NES, Sega Genesis, and Game Boy Advance games on Linux through emulation.
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one of the things i enjoy about my gamecube is that my girlfriend plays games with me. in fact there are a lot of games she likes a lot. part of the problem with the xbox lineup is that for her, there isn't much that she would like to play. the ps2 is the only real competition to the gamecube for games she enjoys playing (both as a team/competition or single player).
/. crowd's ability to socialize beyond their computer?).
this is a general problem with the gaming industry, that is, ignoring girls, who i see as a huge untapped market potential. i know a LOT of girls who dig games. it is unfortunate there aren't more interesting titles targeting girls (and i don't mean barbie titles) and women gamers as the gaming audience is expanding in age range. i'll bet you know a few girl gamers too (or am i underestimated the
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but do they have a review of nethack or moria or any other rogue-like?
"The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" has been ported to the GBA platform. That should be similar enough to the rogue clones to pacify you until somebody ports one of the more popular roguelikes.
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UT3K?? Wow, you must have a pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-release!
I want UT802K. In UT802K, you control Precious Moments people who have just learned that they have been bred as food for hordes of RMS-monsters for centuries.
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This list is lame. The Sims Online is horrible. Any list recommending this "game" can not be trusted.
Are there any good 2 player games?
I have the ps/2. I got baldur's gate dark alliance and my gf and I had alot of fun playing it together. I finally got her hooked on a game. great, something we can both enjoy. But I can't find any other good 2 player games. there are sports games and fighting games, neither of which appeal to her.
rpg style works, adventure style works.... I havent had any luck. am i just on the wrong platform? do some of teh other platforms have better options? After reading through some of the other posts the gamecube sounds pretty good (i LOVE zelda and metroid sounds good). Do they have any good 2 player games?
any ideas?
Linux would take the gayness out of gamecube, that's for sure.
looks like gaming horizon has just posted theirs. http://features.gaminghorizon.com/holguide_index_2 002.html
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