The best 2D platformer, in my humble opinion has been Yoshi's Island 2, for the Super Nintendo. The game changed the Mario formula, by having you place as Yoshi, carrying a baby Mario on his back. When you got hit, instead of dying, baby Mario would fly off and if you didn't catch him within 10 seconds or so, he'd be captured by enemies.
The game itself was gorgeous, the first SNES that really had a really different art style (outside the crappy Donkey Kong country games), as it sported this pastel/children's story book look. The puzzles were classic Miyamoto (read: subtle yet fun) and the game had the charm of Mario 3 and Super Mario World. It had the great aspects of the Mario series, but added a new twist to the whole affair. It was probably the one of the last great games for the SNES - unfortunately it came out at the same time as Donkey Kong Country 2 and it didn't get noticed much. I ended up renting it and wishing I had bought YI2 instead of DK2. The joke's on Rare now though; YI2's on the GBA and a whole new generation of gamers are enjoying it - DK2's not on the gba (I heard some talk of a port) and Rare's with Microsoft.
There have been some other great 2D games (Castlevania, Metroid, though they're not really platformers in the truest sense), but to me, Yoshi's Island 2 has been the pinnacle.
"The next season of The Simpsons is in doubt as the voice talent is on strike due to a pay dispute. Fifteen seasons of some of the greatest prime-time TV around seems worth the money to me.."
Don't you mean 6 and a half seasons of the greatest prime-time TV around?
La Pucelle isn't a sequel to Disgaea, it was created and released before Disgaea in Japan and they're unconnected (though Pucelle is supposed to make a cameo in Disgaea, I haven't seen her).
I liked FFTA as much as my commentary is worth. It wasn't as grand as FFT, but I did like the graphics and battle system. It had its bad points, but I loved it and played it all the way through.
As for the GBA, I am playing Tactics Ogre now, and FE and Mario and Luigi are slated next on my list.
As for Square screwing up FF, yes kinda. FFX-2 is a directy sequely and it's not that great a game, but FFX was a reasonable successor to the FF series. My only major compliant was FF8, which blew hard, but my favorite has been FF6. I was like you, not caring much about a new FF title, but since FF12 is being made by the the team from FFTA and being set in more or less the same world, I'm letting my self get excited about it.
A large part of why Bush isn't interested in that issue is that he's driving hard to win Hispanic voters (along with Jeb) in Flordia, which for both parties is a key battleground state.
Anyone know if there are plants to bring 5 over here to the U.S.? With DQ8 coming out later in the year and Final Fantasy 12 being pushed back for DQ, I really need my RPG fix.
It's not 72 virgins in a sexual sense, they're supposed to viriginal in character, as girls were often described in medievial (heck up to Victorian) times.
The American revolution was more about taxes than freedomes too.
P2P could be an important way of distributing information in the future, but if these type of scare tatics continue P2P won't be able to develop into that.
Maybe this will show the people who were commenting on this article that on the subcontient we can make games too. It's not a creative process that only the West can do.
Wow, my folks are from Bangladesh and imagine my suprise in seeing this on the games site (I'm not used to seeing "Bangladesh" and "video games" in the same headlines. However, people with the money do play a lot of games there though). Us Bangladeshis are feeling left out, as the Indians and Pakistanis are currently in a fervor over the cricket games, so this is really interesting.
My family's an upperclass one, but my uncle who was about 20 at the time wanted to run off and join the army - he had to be kept under lock and key so he wouldn't go.
Historically, it's very important to me and all Bangladeshis (it happened 30 years ago, but you wouldn't know it in Bangladesh - its still very emphasized over there.
I'm not an FPS fan but I will be giving this game a look over.
I thought about Atari, and that actually is a cool name. But Ketsujin? From this guy? Puh-lease.
For guys not in the know, atari is a term from the Chinese/Japanese board game go when a piece is in danger of being captured. It's like "Checkmate" in English.
This isn't like outsourcing tech support or even office software. Games are inherently creative things and I think there will be a quality issue, real or percieved, with games made like this. I'm not saying games can't cross cultural bounds, but what kind of heart can an a Malaysian put into GTA game set in New York? (Just an example, I don't like GTA).
Heh, if I was running things, I'd outsource all video game making to Japan, I'd much rather play Japanese games then 90% of the crap that comes out here (relax! a joke kinda - among my favorite games are TIE Fighter, X-Wing, Dungeon Master, but nearly everything coming out here seems to be Tony Hawk games, FPSes, and RTSes).
Frankly, Nintendo probably would have disappeared a few years ago without the GameBoy. And there's no doubt that Nintendo is only a fraction as powerful as it was when the GameBoy was released - back then, the NES was the top selling games system in the world.
How does crap like this get modded up? That's complete B.S. Nintendo has been doing extrememly well with the Gamecube, running an Apple like service (more niche than the mainstream player, but a rabid, active fanbase and a quality product). While the Gameboy has certainly been a cash cow for Nintendo, that's like saying "Microsoft would have died a few years ago" after Windows 98 S/E and Windows Millenium came out. Yes, the Nintendo 64 had a bumpy road, but a huge number of big selling, critically acclaimed games out for it, including Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time (considered still one of the greatest games of all time by the gaming Bible Famitsu). Nintendo still sold an obscene amount of N64s; eveyr highschool/college clique I knew back in the day had at least one or two people with a Nintendo 64 and Goldeneye.
Nintendo still sets a lot of the tone for the industry, they're still being ripped off a lot conceptually (Mario 64/Zelda clones?), and they're still a profitable company. They're not as powerful as they were before, but neither is IBM, Compaq/HP, or anyone in the PC side of things.
Nintendo would not have been gone, because even if it isn't the 800-lb gorilla it was back in the days of the Nintendo/Famicom and Super Nintendo/Famicom, the gaming industry is big enough to cater to 2 or 3 players today, especially when considered globally.
"Nintendo would have been dead a few years ago" is just as ignorant as "Apple is dying".
I think you're referring to Bicentennial Man, which was indeed based on a story of the same name. I'm not sure what other collections it's appeared in, but it's most defintely in Asimov's Robot Visions short story collection.
And what exactly is with the idea of giving something back to the website that makes your way of life possible? Pretty damn typical of anti-Slashdot comments on Slashdot - demand everything, give nothing, and complain about it.
Being a genius is one thing and it can get you ahead in life, but it's nothing if you can't deal with people (look at Jobs and the Woz, for example).
Even in modern programming, no one man can tackle enormous projects - we break things into functions and into parts and put them together.
Being ethnically different, "smart" (so said my K-12 schools, but college makes me doubt it), and by nature and culture alternately shy and arrogant, I've had to work to A) get to know people and B) work with them instead of going off on my own.
I say you give him group assignments where he has to work with other people (programming seperate functions in a larger program). Also, for kids, the great equalizer is video games - I've been playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for a while and that game really emphasizes team work and people talking together.
Comic Book Guy : Someone has mixed an "Amazing Spiderman" in with the "Peter Parker - The Spectacular Spiderman" series. This will not stand.
Woman: Pardon me, but I wish to tender a serious cash offer for this stack of water damaged Little Lulus.
CBG: Huh, "A" that is not water, it is Diet Mr. Pib, and "B" I... (CBG turns to look at the woman) Ohh... Err... Tell me, how do you feel about 45 year old virgins who still live with their parents?
Woman: Comb the Sweet Tarts out of your beard and you're on.
There are several unlicensed hentai games for the Gameboy Advance. Tsuki no Hime comes to mind. It seems to be one company putting them all out for the GBA.
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The best 2D platformer, in my humble opinion has been Yoshi's Island 2, for the Super Nintendo. The game changed the Mario formula, by having you place as Yoshi, carrying a baby Mario on his back. When you got hit, instead of dying, baby Mario would fly off and if you didn't catch him within 10 seconds or so, he'd be captured by enemies.
The game itself was gorgeous, the first SNES that really had a really different art style (outside the crappy Donkey Kong country games), as it sported this pastel/children's story book look. The puzzles were classic Miyamoto (read: subtle yet fun) and the game had the charm of Mario 3 and Super Mario World. It had the great aspects of the Mario series, but added a new twist to the whole affair. It was probably the one of the last great games for the SNES - unfortunately it came out at the same time as Donkey Kong Country 2 and it didn't get noticed much. I ended up renting it and wishing I had bought YI2 instead of DK2. The joke's on Rare now though; YI2's on the GBA and a whole new generation of gamers are enjoying it - DK2's not on the gba (I heard some talk of a port) and Rare's with Microsoft.
There have been some other great 2D games (Castlevania, Metroid, though they're not really platformers in the truest sense), but to me, Yoshi's Island 2 has been the pinnacle.
"The next season of The Simpsons is in doubt as the voice talent is on strike due to a pay dispute. Fifteen seasons of some of the greatest prime-time TV around seems worth the money to me. ."
Don't you mean 6 and a half seasons of the greatest prime-time TV around?
Or as we lovingly refer to it, the Pax Simpsona.
If Mars is Terraformed, I demand we institue Captain Murphy's Martian Law...
"I dub thee Sir Phobos, knight of Mars, beater of ass.
But really, who wouldn't rather be a Knight of Mars, beater of ass?
Murphy: Under Martian law, doctors and other wizards are forbidden!"
La Pucelle isn't a sequel to Disgaea, it was created and released before Disgaea in Japan and they're unconnected (though Pucelle is supposed to make a cameo in Disgaea, I haven't seen her).
I liked FFTA as much as my commentary is worth. It wasn't as grand as FFT, but I did like the graphics and battle system. It had its bad points, but I loved it and played it all the way through.
As for the GBA, I am playing Tactics Ogre now, and FE and Mario and Luigi are slated next on my list.
As for Square screwing up FF, yes kinda. FFX-2 is a directy sequely and it's not that great a game, but FFX was a reasonable successor to the FF series. My only major compliant was FF8, which blew hard, but my favorite has been FF6. I was like you, not caring much about a new FF title, but since FF12 is being made by the the team from FFTA and being set in more or less the same world, I'm letting my self get excited about it.
A large part of why Bush isn't interested in that issue is that he's driving hard to win Hispanic voters (along with Jeb) in Flordia, which for both parties is a key battleground state.
Anyone know if there are plants to bring 5 over here to the U.S.? With DQ8 coming out later in the year and Final Fantasy 12 being pushed back for DQ, I really need my RPG fix.
Classic Western bigotry.
It's not 72 virgins in a sexual sense, they're supposed to viriginal in character, as girls were often described in medievial (heck up to Victorian) times.
The American revolution was more about taxes than freedomes too.
P2P could be an important way of distributing information in the future, but if these type of scare tatics continue P2P won't be able to develop into that.
Maybe this will show the people who were commenting on this article that on the subcontient we can make games too. It's not a creative process that only the West can do.
Wow, my folks are from Bangladesh and imagine my suprise in seeing this on the games site (I'm not used to seeing "Bangladesh" and "video games" in the same headlines. However, people with the money do play a lot of games there though). Us Bangladeshis are feeling left out, as the Indians and Pakistanis are currently in a fervor over the cricket games, so this is really interesting.
My family's an upperclass one, but my uncle who was about 20 at the time wanted to run off and join the army - he had to be kept under lock and key so he wouldn't go.
Historically, it's very important to me and all Bangladeshis (it happened 30 years ago, but you wouldn't know it in Bangladesh - its still very emphasized over there.
I'm not an FPS fan but I will be giving this game a look over.
I thought about Atari, and that actually is a cool name. But Ketsujin? From this guy? Puh-lease.
For guys not in the know, atari is a term from the Chinese/Japanese board game go when a piece is in danger of being captured. It's like "Checkmate" in English.
Who said I was a Westerner, genius? :)
Even if it was, the fact that you're trying to pick me up on slashdot would mean a "No way."
said Vange, president of Ketsujin Studios
Did he outsource the name too? Man, it's so annoying when Westerners use Japanese to sound cool.
This isn't like outsourcing tech support or even office software. Games are inherently creative things and I think there will be a quality issue, real or percieved, with games made like this. I'm not saying games can't cross cultural bounds, but what kind of heart can an a Malaysian put into GTA game set in New York? (Just an example, I don't like GTA).
Heh, if I was running things, I'd outsource all video game making to Japan, I'd much rather play Japanese games then 90% of the crap that comes out here (relax! a joke kinda - among my favorite games are TIE Fighter, X-Wing, Dungeon Master, but nearly everything coming out here seems to be Tony Hawk games, FPSes, and RTSes).
Now I have an excuse not to RTFA!
take the discussion to the next level
They got to second base?
Frankly, Nintendo probably would have disappeared a few years ago without the GameBoy. And there's no doubt that Nintendo is only a fraction as powerful as it was when the GameBoy was released - back then, the NES was the top selling games system in the world.
How does crap like this get modded up? That's complete B.S. Nintendo has been doing extrememly well with the Gamecube, running an Apple like service (more niche than the mainstream player, but a rabid, active fanbase and a quality product). While the Gameboy has certainly been a cash cow for Nintendo, that's like saying "Microsoft would have died a few years ago" after Windows 98 S/E and Windows Millenium came out. Yes, the Nintendo 64 had a bumpy road, but a huge number of big selling, critically acclaimed games out for it, including Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time (considered still one of the greatest games of all time by the gaming Bible Famitsu). Nintendo still sold an obscene amount of N64s; eveyr highschool/college clique I knew back in the day had at least one or two people with a Nintendo 64 and Goldeneye.
Nintendo still sets a lot of the tone for the industry, they're still being ripped off a lot conceptually (Mario 64/Zelda clones?), and they're still a profitable company. They're not as powerful as they were before, but neither is IBM, Compaq/HP, or anyone in the PC side of things.
Nintendo would not have been gone, because even if it isn't the 800-lb gorilla it was back in the days of the Nintendo/Famicom and Super Nintendo/Famicom, the gaming industry is big enough to cater to 2 or 3 players today, especially when considered globally.
"Nintendo would have been dead a few years ago" is just as ignorant as "Apple is dying".
I think you're referring to Bicentennial Man, which was indeed based on a story of the same name. I'm not sure what other collections it's appeared in, but it's most defintely in Asimov's Robot Visions short story collection.
And what exactly is with the idea of giving something back to the website that makes your way of life possible? Pretty damn typical of anti-Slashdot comments on Slashdot - demand everything, give nothing, and complain about it.
Being a genius is one thing and it can get you ahead in life, but it's nothing if you can't deal with people (look at Jobs and the Woz, for example).
Even in modern programming, no one man can tackle enormous projects - we break things into functions and into parts and put them together.
Being ethnically different, "smart" (so said my K-12 schools, but college makes me doubt it), and by nature and culture alternately shy and arrogant, I've had to work to A) get to know people and B) work with them instead of going off on my own.
I say you give him group assignments where he has to work with other people (programming seperate functions in a larger program). Also, for kids, the great equalizer is video games - I've been playing Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for a while and that game really emphasizes team work and people talking together.
Comic Book Guy : Someone has mixed an "Amazing Spiderman" in with the "Peter Parker - The Spectacular Spiderman" series. This will not stand.
Woman: Pardon me, but I wish to tender a serious cash offer for this stack of water damaged Little Lulus.
CBG: Huh, "A" that is not water, it is Diet Mr. Pib, and "B" I... (CBG turns to look at the woman) Ohh... Err... Tell me, how do you feel about 45 year old virgins who still live with their parents?
Woman: Comb the Sweet Tarts out of your beard and you're on.
CBG: Don't try to change me baby.
There are several unlicensed hentai games for the Gameboy Advance. Tsuki no Hime comes to mind. It seems to be one company putting them all out for the GBA.
;)
Don't ask me how I know
About as interesting as a "neutral" Britney Spears vs. Paris Hilton article.
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