also, I haven't seen this movie in many years (at least 6 years ago), but at the time my impression of Will Smith was solely as the Fresh Prince of Bell Air and I was shocked by his performance.
See the movie Six Degrees of Separation and discover for yourself that Will Smith is an incredibly talented actor. He just usually uses his talent to make very mainstream movies.
The reward for saving people was having them appear in your gallery of saved people.
This does not seem like much, but the character's all have a little profile and some of these are hilarious, including a janitor that fights crime at night.
No major film is released as NC-17. Kill Bill Vol 1 had a long scene edited to be in Black & White soley to avoid an NC-17.
No major game meant to be profitable is going to be released as AO. The same religious conservatives and "watchdog" groups that threaten to boycott any theaters showing NC-17 films will raise a rukus over any AO game.
Sad though, as in principle I firmly believe in ratings like AO and NC-17. Occasionally, I want to go to see movies intended for adults only, such as Crash, which was NC-17 and recieved a limited release.
I've got KoF 98, 99, 2000, and 2001 for my Dreamcast and I find myself playing them more often than my copies of Street Fighter Alpha 3 or Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.
Honestly, SNK's Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves is my favorite 2-D fighter, but KoF 98 and (surprisingly) 2001 rank high up there for me.
I definitely love the Street Fighter series, but King of Fighters is just as loved, and most importantly, more frequently played, at least by me.
I think you'd find the KoF fanbase to be extremely strong in Asia, and from what I can gather, Mexico.
Mars Matrix is one of the greatest shooters ever made. Go visit the message board of www.shmups.com and try to insult Mars Matrix; you'll be laughed off the board.
The graphics are not the best, but the gameplay escalates it into the top tier of vertical scrolling shooters, up there with Ikaruga, ESP.Ra.De, Dodonpachi, Radiant Silvergun, and Strikers 1945 Part 2.
It's also one of the hardest games ever made. I've put in at least 30 hours of play and I can occasionally get to the fourth level on 1 credit. Amazing game.
Takumi's Gigawing 2 is also excellent, especially for it's orchestral soundtrack and overwhelming bullet swarms.
perhaps if you were less interested in being a dick and more interested in being informative, you would have made it clear what you were talking about right from the get go.
I didn't ask you to take my word on it, I asked you to read some reviews and find out for yourself that almost every cross platform game looks best on xbox, then on the cube, and then on the ps2.
at this point, i'm just curious to see how many more times you are going to respond...
way to ignore everything and just repeat your opinion. my point is that the performance figures you quoted are OBVIOUSLY wrong, since the Xbox is way better than the PS2.
well, you're ignoring the plain facts then, go read ign.com's multi-platform reviews of soul calibur 2 or splinter cell.
the figures you've cited are from a site called "psxfreaks", i'm sure they are unbiased. What Sony claims the PS2 can do and what it's real world performance is are radically different beasts.
Please admit that the Xbox's hardware is far better than the PS2's... and then explain how your "facts" can be right when it's clear that the Xbox should be stronger.
btw, I have no gripe with the PS2's library of games, it's the clear leader. I'm buying one soon, and I've bought PS2 games to play at friends' houses, including the (possibly-best-game-of-all-time) Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution. But it's blatant fanboy-ism to claim that the PS2 more powerful than the GC.
There's only one area where the PS2 is more "powerful" and that's capacity of the individual data discs.
If that was truly the case, why do gamecube games, on the whole, look significantly better than PS2 games?
Any figures you cite that show the PS2 to be more powerful than the Xbox are to be considered extremely suspect.
Consider this: Splinter Cell is on all three platforms. The Xbox version is the most graphically intensive. The Gamecube version is slightly pared down from the Xbox version. The PS2 version is radically pared down. I've seen comparison screenshots and the PS2 version is significantly more simple, because the hardware couldn't handle it.
Yeah, and, uh, how is Square going to make any money off of FF XII on xbox, when the Xbox is a total and utter failure in the Japanese market?
I suppose that FF XII being exclusive on the Xbox would cause an incredible number of Japanese to buy an Xbox solely to play it...
FF games tend to be in japan for a good 6 months at least before coming to America, simply because they take a lot of effort to translate. The amount of money spent on development of FF XII is probably huge as well. So I don't see FF on Xbox making any financial sense unless Microsoft gives Square an incredible amount of money.
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I was not aware of this.
also, I haven't seen this movie in many years (at least 6 years ago), but at the time my impression of Will Smith was solely as the Fresh Prince of Bell Air and I was shocked by his performance.
See the movie Six Degrees of Separation and discover for yourself that Will Smith is an incredibly talented actor. He just usually uses his talent to make very mainstream movies.
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...you can't just hold a bat to someone's head and have a slight change in finger pressure kill them.
Each character in Virtua Figher 4 has about 100+ moves.
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i'm under the impression they are all sold separately.
I'm mostly just interested in the Phantasy Star 1, Phantasy Star 2, Phantasy Star 4 and Space Harrier remakes myself...
Judge each Sega Ages release individually.
Golden Axe has had a solidly negative reception, but this is not the case for Phantasy Star or Space Harrier.
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i can't mod you up because I've posted in this thread, so i'll just say this: effin' hilarious.
The "AC, are you OK?" put the post over the top into greatness.
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The reward for saving people was having them appear in your gallery of saved people.
This does not seem like much, but the character's all have a little profile and some of these are hilarious, including a janitor that fights crime at night.
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No major film is released as NC-17. Kill Bill Vol 1 had a long scene edited to be in Black & White soley to avoid an NC-17.
No major game meant to be profitable is going to be released as AO. The same religious conservatives and "watchdog" groups that threaten to boycott any theaters showing NC-17 films will raise a rukus over any AO game.
Sad though, as in principle I firmly believe in ratings like AO and NC-17. Occasionally, I want to go to see movies intended for adults only, such as Crash, which was NC-17 and recieved a limited release.
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Overhyped by who then?
I've got KoF 98, 99, 2000, and 2001 for my Dreamcast and I find myself playing them more often than my copies of Street Fighter Alpha 3 or Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.
Honestly, SNK's Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves is my favorite 2-D fighter, but KoF 98 and (surprisingly) 2001 rank high up there for me.
I definitely love the Street Fighter series, but King of Fighters is just as loved, and most importantly, more frequently played, at least by me.
I think you'd find the KoF fanbase to be extremely strong in Asia, and from what I can gather, Mexico.
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Mars Matrix is one of the greatest shooters ever made. Go visit the message board of www.shmups.com and try to insult Mars Matrix; you'll be laughed off the board.
The graphics are not the best, but the gameplay escalates it into the top tier of vertical scrolling shooters, up there with Ikaruga, ESP.Ra.De, Dodonpachi, Radiant Silvergun, and Strikers 1945 Part 2.
It's also one of the hardest games ever made. I've put in at least 30 hours of play and I can occasionally get to the fourth level on 1 credit. Amazing game.
Takumi's Gigawing 2 is also excellent, especially for it's orchestral soundtrack and overwhelming bullet swarms.
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The makers of the Matrix have said for years that it is NOT a matrix-within-a-matrix.
This is fairly common knowledge, and not, imho, a spoiler.
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perhaps if you were less interested in being a dick and more interested in being informative, you would have made it clear what you were talking about right from the get go.
care to explain it then, slowly and in detail, so that I might understand?
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Um... they doubled their installed base.
Every gamestore owner I've talked to has told me the Gamecube is flying off the shelves, selling better than it ever has.
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Still are?
Did you miss the news that they doubled their market share already?
the xbox is now in third place.
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I didn't ask you to take my word on it, I asked you to read some reviews and find out for yourself that almost every cross platform game looks best on xbox, then on the cube, and then on the ps2.
at this point, i'm just curious to see how many more times you are going to respond...
way to ignore everything and just repeat your opinion. my point is that the performance figures you quoted are OBVIOUSLY wrong, since the Xbox is way better than the PS2.
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well, you're ignoring the plain facts then, go read ign.com's multi-platform reviews of soul calibur 2 or splinter cell.
the figures you've cited are from a site called "psxfreaks", i'm sure they are unbiased. What Sony claims the PS2 can do and what it's real world performance is are radically different beasts.
Please admit that the Xbox's hardware is far better than the PS2's... and then explain how your "facts" can be right when it's clear that the Xbox should be stronger.
btw, I have no gripe with the PS2's library of games, it's the clear leader. I'm buying one soon, and I've bought PS2 games to play at friends' houses, including the (possibly-best-game-of-all-time) Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution. But it's blatant fanboy-ism to claim that the PS2 more powerful than the GC.
There's only one area where the PS2 is more "powerful" and that's capacity of the individual data discs.
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it's not subjective when it's widely acknowledged that it's:
Xbox > Gamecube > PS2
and when the polygon counts in games like Soul Calibur 2 and Splinter Cell bear this out.
I mean, you seriously thing the PS2 is more powerful than the Xbox? That's what your figures said, and that's simply ridiculous.
as for the rest of your comment, you're simply trolling.
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If that was truly the case, why do gamecube games, on the whole, look significantly better than PS2 games?
Any figures you cite that show the PS2 to be more powerful than the Xbox are to be considered extremely suspect.
Consider this: Splinter Cell is on all three platforms. The Xbox version is the most graphically intensive. The Gamecube version is slightly pared down from the Xbox version. The PS2 version is radically pared down. I've seen comparison screenshots and the PS2 version is significantly more simple, because the hardware couldn't handle it.
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Frankly, what are you talking about? Performance issues?
The Gamecube is way more powerful than the PS2, most importantly with none of the jaggie aliasing problems nor the atrocious load times..
Yes, most of the time those 2 issues are no longer a big deal on the PS2 but it took a lot of developer cleverness to do it.
Yeah, and, uh, how is Square going to make any money off of FF XII on xbox, when the Xbox is a total and utter failure in the Japanese market?
I suppose that FF XII being exclusive on the Xbox would cause an incredible number of Japanese to buy an Xbox solely to play it...
FF games tend to be in japan for a good 6 months at least before coming to America, simply because they take a lot of effort to translate. The amount of money spent on development of FF XII is probably huge as well. So I don't see FF on Xbox making any financial sense unless Microsoft gives Square an incredible amount of money.
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MegaMan Network Transmission is the new Gamecube game right?
that's in there, inexplicably in the related games section.
actually, a lot of those were mentioned in the other related games section.
as for a puzzle game, sure, why not!