Square just knocked a bunch of games down in the last few months to the Greatest Hits lists
I believe I read a press release that in Dec, the following games are going to be moved to GH as well.
Xenogears Final Fantasy Chronicles Vagrant Story Final Fantasy Anthology (?)
I know that final fantasy 7 - 10 are on the GH list, and Kingdom Hearts was moved to that as well recently.
This is pretty sweet since the only games that were on this list for a long time where the ones done by Square when Sony was their publisher in the states (before Square EA was formed)
Well the only reason that the sound etc is different for Japanese Zelda II is because that was originally for the Famicom Disk System attatchment. All you pick up from that is an additional sound channel I believe, which is noticeably different, but its not that big a deal.
Besides, they eventually converted that one to cartridge in Japan along with Metroid and other FDS games.
If the world was ending the next day wouldn't you be making the best of the situation? At least thats what one of my friends pointed out when I said I didn't explain the overly long party/sex scene in reloaded, aptly titled "Celebrating Humanity" or something like that in the DVD.
In terms of the series degrading, I'm probably seeing Revolutions this weekend, but it's to be expected. The original was fresh, original and hadn't been done before. To try and top that along with the percieved expectations people have for the sequels is crazy.
To quote The Matrix "It's going to work, because no one's every done this before". 'nuff said. That's why the 1st rules, and everyone hasn't liked the rest.
I'm sure if this was actually implemented, that the developers would at least have some sort of limit to things...
You know, things like gravity and such have to still apply. There has to be a reason why in Real Life (TM) people aren't running around with larger-than-life proportions.
Granted it's a game, but still at what point does the psuedo-reality become a complete unreality?
Gee, only cause it was created 6+ years ago...
I highly doubt that Sierra would think that they could actually sell this game with 6+ year old graphics, and minus the original designer (who's been on hand for the entire series).
I applaud Sierra for kicking one of the coolest guys in the industry while he's down.
Not having read the article yet (silly 56k connection), there are a few tips I can offer for anyone into this sort of stuff:
1) PC Games - Try running a CD Player app on older games that use Red Book. You can get some good stuff through this (Total Annihilation, Half-Life, Carmageddon) however you don't have any track titles to go with, which is a pain.
2) PC Games - A lot of newer games are using files on the hard drive for music. Look for.ogg,.mp3,.wav in the game directories. Also, if the game uses propriatary formats search for plug-ins to things like Winamp to see if you can get a plug-in for that format.
3) Playstation Games - Some of these used Red Book as well, so pop them in a CD Player and check it out.
4) In terms of imports, Animenation (http://www.animenation.com) carries a decent selection of game soundtracks from Japan at pretty decent prices. Also, if there's been a domestic release (as it seemed like some companies started doing a few years ago, yet stopped doing so) they will probably have it as well.
Check the nintendo website... Their press release for this price drop also mentions Metroid Prime and others hitting Greatest Hits.
Basically 1/2 the games available for bundle are now $30. Do the math = you come out $20 richer than before.... Unless you get a mem. card. Then you're par for the course.
There's still a chance the market could flop over like a bunch of fish...
A LOT of people are starting to look at the industry now... Why? Because it is making money... Not only that, it has grown during America's recent depression/recession/bubble burst/whatever. The industry makes more than hollywood.
This is probably the same reason why MS got into this in the first place.
And now we have more systems hitting the market? We got the N-Gage poised to flop, the phantom in vapor-land, and i just heard about something else new but i can't remember the name at all right now.
My point is: Before Nintendo, the market flopped due to 2 things. 1) Too many systems = too many options for consumers. 2) Too many clone games = not enough original titles.
If Nintendo has to montior what's being developed to ensure #2 doesn't happen, so be it. I'd rather have a system with 400 original games, than 1,000 games that are all ripoffs of other games.
And unless we get more companies like MS trying to force their way in, #1 probably won't happen for a while, unless Nokia's N-Gage actually turns out to be useful and fun in some strange way.
You're kidding right? The system has only been here for a year and a half. The next system is still a ways off. Xbox2 is still only on the drawing board, with ATI and Nvidia having just gotten done with battleing for the GPU on that.
Just because a system announces a price drop that doesn't mean something new is on the horizon. Heck the price dropped two summers ago to its last current price ($149).
If you read the press release on nintnedo's website it's obvious this is a pre-emptive holiday drop.
Either way, for me the question is which color to get.... Platinum matches my GBA, but Black matches the PS2 which it'll sit next to or on top of.
Yep.
Look at it this way. Cube = 64's 4 player ports + SNES-ish Pad Design + Optical Discs (which is why the 64 lost in the first place). Throw in GBA paraphernilia (link cable and the player) and you got probably Nintedo's most robust system to date. And there's a network adapter coming at some point according to the information on Mario Kart Double Dash
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That'd be ironic if it was L'arc-en-ciel...
Didn't they do a track for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within?
Eh...
These guys often differ on things by quite a large margin...
IGN raved about FF X-2, while Gamespot seemed only slightly impressed by it.
Go figure.
Apparently it also scored a perfect 10 in Famitsu when it was released... a really hard feat for a game to do.
Square just knocked a bunch of games down in the last few months to the Greatest Hits lists
I believe I read a press release that in Dec, the following games are going to be moved to GH as well.
Xenogears
Final Fantasy Chronicles
Vagrant Story
Final Fantasy Anthology (?)
I know that final fantasy 7 - 10 are on the GH list, and Kingdom Hearts was moved to that as well recently.
This is pretty sweet since the only games that were on this list for a long time where the ones done by Square when Sony was their publisher in the states (before Square EA was formed)
Anyone else notice a sharp increase in these? Up until this week I hadn't recieved any in about this month.
In the last week I've had to block about 15 of these.
Besides, they eventually converted that one to cartridge in Japan along with Metroid and other FDS games.
I agree... You'd think they would've adapted the N64 controller to have a Flash port or something.
My question is how are the women being portrayed?
There's a big difference between booth babe and fellow gamer.
Given the way M$ markets this thing, I'm going to bet on the booth babe angle. Of course I could be wrong.
Yeah, that rings a bell.
Last time I've had to recall that was High School history class.
This was supposed to be a reply to the first thread. My bad.
Flash version of "The Octopus"? (I think that's the correct term for the muck-raking book on meat-processing in the 30's?)
If the world was ending the next day wouldn't you be making the best of the situation? At least thats what one of my friends pointed out when I said I didn't explain the overly long party/sex scene in reloaded, aptly titled "Celebrating Humanity" or something like that in the DVD.
In terms of the series degrading, I'm probably seeing Revolutions this weekend, but it's to be expected. The original was fresh, original and hadn't been done before. To try and top that along with the percieved expectations people have for the sequels is crazy.
To quote The Matrix "It's going to work, because no one's every done this before". 'nuff said. That's why the 1st rules, and everyone hasn't liked the rest.
And another market bites the dust!
Honestly, so how much money is Bill gonna throw at this market to muscle their way in?
I'm just waiting for the day when we see "Micro-mobiles" on the streets. Or at least in the autoshops given their track records on other products.
I'm sure if this was actually implemented, that the developers would at least have some sort of limit to things...
You know, things like gravity and such have to still apply. There has to be a reason why in Real Life (TM) people aren't running around with larger-than-life proportions.
Granted it's a game, but still at what point does the psuedo-reality become a complete unreality?
Gee, only cause it was created 6+ years ago... I highly doubt that Sierra would think that they could actually sell this game with 6+ year old graphics, and minus the original designer (who's been on hand for the entire series). I applaud Sierra for kicking one of the coolest guys in the industry while he's down.
Not having read the article yet (silly 56k connection), there are a few tips I can offer for anyone into this sort of stuff:
.ogg, .mp3, .wav in the game directories. Also, if the game uses propriatary formats search for plug-ins to things like Winamp to see if you can get a plug-in for that format.
1) PC Games - Try running a CD Player app on older games that use Red Book. You can get some good stuff through this (Total Annihilation, Half-Life, Carmageddon) however you don't have any track titles to go with, which is a pain.
2) PC Games - A lot of newer games are using files on the hard drive for music. Look for
3) Playstation Games - Some of these used Red Book as well, so pop them in a CD Player and check it out.
4) In terms of imports, Animenation (http://www.animenation.com) carries a decent selection of game soundtracks from Japan at pretty decent prices. Also, if there's been a domestic release (as it seemed like some companies started doing a few years ago, yet stopped doing so) they will probably have it as well.
Sarcasm just doesn't fly well on Fridays i guess.
Wow.... That's a really slow post time, considering Matrix news.... This has been on their site for like 4 days now?
/. system now ;)
I have lost all faith in the
So its the Famicom Disk System Mk 2?
Interesting... Of course they won't get the really good games, cause the biggies like Ogre Battle 64 are kinda on the large size
*Bzzzt* Wrong....
Check the nintendo website... Their press release for this price drop also mentions Metroid Prime and others hitting Greatest Hits.
Basically 1/2 the games available for bundle are now $30. Do the math = you come out $20 richer than before.... Unless you get a mem. card. Then you're par for the course.
A LOT of people are starting to look at the industry now... Why? Because it is making money... Not only that, it has grown during America's recent depression/recession/bubble burst/whatever. The industry makes more than hollywood.
This is probably the same reason why MS got into this in the first place.
And now we have more systems hitting the market? We got the N-Gage poised to flop, the phantom in vapor-land, and i just heard about something else new but i can't remember the name at all right now.
My point is: Before Nintendo, the market flopped due to 2 things. 1) Too many systems = too many options for consumers. 2) Too many clone games = not enough original titles.
If Nintendo has to montior what's being developed to ensure #2 doesn't happen, so be it. I'd rather have a system with 400 original games, than 1,000 games that are all ripoffs of other games.
And unless we get more companies like MS trying to force their way in, #1 probably won't happen for a while, unless Nokia's N-Gage actually turns out to be useful and fun in some strange way.
Just because a system announces a price drop that doesn't mean something new is on the horizon. Heck the price dropped two summers ago to its last current price ($149).
If you read the press release on nintnedo's website it's obvious this is a pre-emptive holiday drop.
Either way, for me the question is which color to get.... Platinum matches my GBA, but Black matches the PS2 which it'll sit next to or on top of.
Decisions, decisions....
Yep. Look at it this way. Cube = 64's 4 player ports + SNES-ish Pad Design + Optical Discs (which is why the 64 lost in the first place). Throw in GBA paraphernilia (link cable and the player) and you got probably Nintedo's most robust system to date. And there's a network adapter coming at some point according to the information on Mario Kart Double Dash
I know that for a long time Nintendo was giving Mario All-Stars away for free via a mail-in for anyone who got Super Mario World with their system.
BTW, what's this FUD?