This device looks rather cool to me. I have no need for such a device myself but it is something I'm interested in. The ability to play a PS2 game while your recording your favorite show on the same device sounds kick ass. 24x DVD burning sounds crazy, I doubt it will work that fast.
I was also confused by the name of PSX. I always refer to the original Playstation with that acronym.
As someone said Ico is way over-rated.
Some games belonged on the list some games didn't. Gamespy seems to really like those top 25 lists.
Sly Cooper sold well enough to get the Greatest Hits title. Doesn't that mean something around 400,000 copies. How can they say "Nobody played it"
Where I work we have a strict "No Outlook Preview Pane" rule. I can't believe a company of programmers had this happen to them with such a simple avoidable error.
Jeeze, I really hate to keep harping on it but Outlook is the devil.
Someone likes Greg Kasavin's weekly Gamespotting editorial. Seems it shows up every Sunday night like clockwork.
That's ok I like them too and always read all the Gamespotting columns. Check out Alex Navaro's column this week...he is just learning the ways of Microsoft it seems.
But I trendily digress, the article is very true. I picked up Unreal Tournament back in early 2000 and it was my first foray in the online world. It was fun being a newbie playing on Heat.net but soon that went belly up and I had to switch to the in-game server browser. Boy was I in for a surprise with the raw talent at playing UT those guys had! You would think playing everyday for hours on end for many years and you might be able to compete.
Nope. After playing for 3 years I finally gave the game up because I still couldn't compete with the 'elite' guys. Those guys are so insane and rightly called freaks.
I still and always have loved Nintendo systems and games....but this guy is more out of touch than I could have ever imagined.
I can't believe someone in such a high position at one of the world's leading video game company is so clueless about why Sony is doing so well. DVD player? Huh? So your saying they sold 60 million PS2s because it came with crappy DVD playback? I think not. Sony is doing well because they have great 3rd party support, a really strong string of 1st and 2nd party developers and backwards compatibility with PSX games. Not to mention they have ALL of the Japanese RPGs. It seems it's pretty obvious to me that Japanese love their RPGs more than anything. I think there is mabey one RPG for GameCube and it doesn't even use the traditional Final Fantasy formula the Japanese love so much.
I concur. I know my Gamecube library has many more Nintendo titles than not. I have some Capcom games. Ikaruga bears the Atari logo though....but that was just the publisher.
Why would anyone choose a 3rd party game if they have Nintendo games to pick from?
Yes indeed, Nintendo's games are so good it kills the 3rd parties.
Jeeze Valve must feel a bit stupid right now. They have been so very adamant about their Sept. 30th release. Now just a few short days away they decide to delay it.
I am looking forward to Half Life 2 and I was really hoping to have played through it before Knights of the Old Republic comes out. Oh well, Sept. 30th was nothing more than a dream anyway.
As for Valve credibility, I don't think they ever had mine to begin with. Sure I can think of ONE game they made that I liked. Hell, I can't even think of any games by Valve besides Half Life. Until I see a phenominal Half-Life 2 or something else, Valve will just be a one-hit-wonder.
"Well duh!" -Thats the first thing I thought when reading the headline.
The article did have an interesting point I had not thought of before. The media cannot put blame on the parents because it's those same parents that are watching the news and keeping the advertisers happy. Any news station would risk losing a large percentage of it's viewers if it openly blamed those same viewers for the news it was reporting.
Perhaps this has been painfully obvious to most that this is why the media doesn't place blame on parents, but I had never really thought if it before.
We are at a transition point right now. A large majority of parents have never and have no interest in playing video games because they are "for kids". However you see a very large percentage of people in their early 20s and 30s...and everything inbetween, playing a lot of games now. These are the people who will be the parents of the next generation and they will be much more informed about games and which ones are approiate to children.
I've always liked the 'closed' games better than the 'virtual sandboxes'
Sure the sandboxes have a cool novelty but it gets old fast. You really need balance...you shouldn't pick one or the other. Also, as stated above some where computers just aren't ready to do open-ended properly. Once you play GTA3 or what have you for a few hours you find it's not so open-ended. Sure there are a bunch of streets to pick to drive down when doing a mission, but you still have to adapt to and get to know that games rules. It is no where near as 'open-ended' that everyone thinks it is.
Mabey when developers stop using invisible walls to push the player in the right direction...then we can talk about trying to make something open-ended.
....was Earthbound on the SNES. It's a very solid RPG that really throws a curve with it's content. You can tell the developers had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs when making this game...the "New Age Retro Hippy" anyone? How about the Runaway Five? That cool little Blue's Brothers style band. Everything about Earthbound was so different than any other RPG of it's time. It's no wonder it didn't do so well...people don't like different. As I recall it came in a monsterous box with the Official Nintendo Players Guide bundled with the game.
I hope Nintendo decides to release their upcoming Mother1+2 on the GBA in the US, I've long since lost my SNES cart and would love to be able to play the first game in the series.
This is some of the best news I've heard since Castlevania was announced for the PS2.
I have many fond memories of staying up all weekend with a friend trying to beat Mega Man games. Damn, the original sure was hard! I think that one took us a few weekends.
I'm very happy they decided to release this on the Gamecube as well as the PS2, although it's not too big a surprise. Capcom has been very good with GameCube support. Their games are some of the only must-haves besides Nintendo developed games.
Now we just hope for a Mega Man X compilation somewhere down the road...if your listening Konami, give us a sweet Castlevania set...the one for the PSX doesn't count.
I have been playing Galaxies since a few days after launch and have had very little problems. Perhaps I am lucky. The forums really do make you want to hate the game though. It's nothing but page after page of whining and screaming funny words like "nerf" and "role-playing"
If I was on the fence about Galaxies and went to the forums to check things out about it, I would definatly not buy it after reading them. Then again, I'm about to cancel anyway, I don't recommend it. Wait for World of Warcraft.
I agree about The Wind Waker. It is such a fantastic game with some really good pacing until the Triforce quest.
The should have just made a dungeon to go through to get the triforce. I would have prefered that over the fetch quests. They only did that so they could boast that the game has more hours of play.
I have the same feeling about Nintendo as you. Nintendo is becoming the Apple Computer of the console industry.
Nintendo games are the best of the best and few people realize it. The Gamecube is still perceived by the general public as being the least powerful console of the bunch. Just a few months ago a friend of mine bought a PS2 and asked me if I would have gone with that or an Xbox. I suggested Gamecube, he said "Yeah, but isn't that less powerful than the PS2?"
It's been beat to death so many times, but Nintendo still has a lot of work to do with it's image.
While I play PC Games most...and loading times can get long sometimes, I also play my Gamecube a lot. From the offerings I've seen from Nintendo, loading times in games are just sloppy programming. Most of the games made by Nintendo have almost zero loading time. Metroid Prime, Zelda and F-Zero are great examples of this. The longest load time, which the player is not active, is probably about 3 seconds.
The article does not imply to take out the "pause" feature of a game altogether.
He is saying that games like Baldur's Gate, which you must pause the game in order to have any chance of giving out your commands in time, should be paced a little better so it's unnecessary.
For those unfamiliar with Baldur's Gate when in battle you can pause the game and give your characters orders while the game is paused. They will execute them when you unpause.
Hey now, I really loved the Virtual Boy....I think I was one of the 3% of people that could play it without my eyes hurting though.
Mario Clash is one of the best games Nintendo ever put out.
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I was also confused by the name of PSX. I always refer to the original Playstation with that acronym.
As someone said Ico is way over-rated. Some games belonged on the list some games didn't. Gamespy seems to really like those top 25 lists. Sly Cooper sold well enough to get the Greatest Hits title. Doesn't that mean something around 400,000 copies. How can they say "Nobody played it"
Jeeze, I really hate to keep harping on it but Outlook is the devil.
That's ok I like them too and always read all the Gamespotting columns. Check out Alex Navaro's column this week...he is just learning the ways of Microsoft it seems.
But I trendily digress, the article is very true. I picked up Unreal Tournament back in early 2000 and it was my first foray in the online world. It was fun being a newbie playing on Heat.net but soon that went belly up and I had to switch to the in-game server browser. Boy was I in for a surprise with the raw talent at playing UT those guys had! You would think playing everyday for hours on end for many years and you might be able to compete.
Nope. After playing for 3 years I finally gave the game up because I still couldn't compete with the 'elite' guys. Those guys are so insane and rightly called freaks.
I still and always have loved Nintendo systems and games....but this guy is more out of touch than I could have ever imagined. I can't believe someone in such a high position at one of the world's leading video game company is so clueless about why Sony is doing so well. DVD player? Huh? So your saying they sold 60 million PS2s because it came with crappy DVD playback? I think not. Sony is doing well because they have great 3rd party support, a really strong string of 1st and 2nd party developers and backwards compatibility with PSX games. Not to mention they have ALL of the Japanese RPGs. It seems it's pretty obvious to me that Japanese love their RPGs more than anything. I think there is mabey one RPG for GameCube and it doesn't even use the traditional Final Fantasy formula the Japanese love so much.
Why would anyone choose a 3rd party game if they have Nintendo games to pick from?
Yes indeed, Nintendo's games are so good it kills the 3rd parties.
I am looking forward to Half Life 2 and I was really hoping to have played through it before Knights of the Old Republic comes out. Oh well, Sept. 30th was nothing more than a dream anyway.
As for Valve credibility, I don't think they ever had mine to begin with. Sure I can think of ONE game they made that I liked. Hell, I can't even think of any games by Valve besides Half Life. Until I see a phenominal Half-Life 2 or something else, Valve will just be a one-hit-wonder.
The article did have an interesting point I had not thought of before. The media cannot put blame on the parents because it's those same parents that are watching the news and keeping the advertisers happy. Any news station would risk losing a large percentage of it's viewers if it openly blamed those same viewers for the news it was reporting.
Perhaps this has been painfully obvious to most that this is why the media doesn't place blame on parents, but I had never really thought if it before.
We are at a transition point right now. A large majority of parents have never and have no interest in playing video games because they are "for kids". However you see a very large percentage of people in their early 20s and 30s...and everything inbetween, playing a lot of games now. These are the people who will be the parents of the next generation and they will be much more informed about games and which ones are approiate to children.
Sure the sandboxes have a cool novelty but it gets old fast. You really need balance...you shouldn't pick one or the other. Also, as stated above some where computers just aren't ready to do open-ended properly. Once you play GTA3 or what have you for a few hours you find it's not so open-ended. Sure there are a bunch of streets to pick to drive down when doing a mission, but you still have to adapt to and get to know that games rules. It is no where near as 'open-ended' that everyone thinks it is.
Mabey when developers stop using invisible walls to push the player in the right direction...then we can talk about trying to make something open-ended.
I hope Nintendo decides to release their upcoming Mother1+2 on the GBA in the US, I've long since lost my SNES cart and would love to be able to play the first game in the series.
I have many fond memories of staying up all weekend with a friend trying to beat Mega Man games. Damn, the original sure was hard! I think that one took us a few weekends.
I'm very happy they decided to release this on the Gamecube as well as the PS2, although it's not too big a surprise. Capcom has been very good with GameCube support. Their games are some of the only must-haves besides Nintendo developed games.
Now we just hope for a Mega Man X compilation somewhere down the road...if your listening Konami, give us a sweet Castlevania set...the one for the PSX doesn't count.
It would really suck if you have to buy a Gamecube to get this sweet new bonus disk with Zelda II. One of my favorites.
If I was on the fence about Galaxies and went to the forums to check things out about it, I would definatly not buy it after reading them. Then again, I'm about to cancel anyway, I don't recommend it. Wait for World of Warcraft.
The should have just made a dungeon to go through to get the triforce. I would have prefered that over the fetch quests. They only did that so they could boast that the game has more hours of play.
Nintendo games are the best of the best and few people realize it. The Gamecube is still perceived by the general public as being the least powerful console of the bunch. Just a few months ago a friend of mine bought a PS2 and asked me if I would have gone with that or an Xbox. I suggested Gamecube, he said "Yeah, but isn't that less powerful than the PS2?"
It's been beat to death so many times, but Nintendo still has a lot of work to do with it's image.
While I play PC Games most...and loading times can get long sometimes, I also play my Gamecube a lot. From the offerings I've seen from Nintendo, loading times in games are just sloppy programming. Most of the games made by Nintendo have almost zero loading time. Metroid Prime, Zelda and F-Zero are great examples of this. The longest load time, which the player is not active, is probably about 3 seconds.
The article does not imply to take out the "pause" feature of a game altogether. He is saying that games like Baldur's Gate, which you must pause the game in order to have any chance of giving out your commands in time, should be paced a little better so it's unnecessary. For those unfamiliar with Baldur's Gate when in battle you can pause the game and give your characters orders while the game is paused. They will execute them when you unpause.
Hey now, I really loved the Virtual Boy....I think I was one of the 3% of people that could play it without my eyes hurting though. Mario Clash is one of the best games Nintendo ever put out.