Yes, but under the direction of Miyamoto. If he wants something done, it gets done, much like any other director. He makes sure his babies are treated exactly how he'd like them.
And I said Square-Enix, not just Square. Square deviated from their formula BIG-TIME at PS1 later years/PS2 launch with the Bouncer, Einhander, Bushido Blade, and a bunch of other non-RPG games. Square-Enix on the other hand gives us FFXII, Dragon Warrior 8, and FFTA which was basically the same game as FFT.
I wish they'd make Radical Dreamers into more than a text adventure and release Chrono Trigger, Radical Dreamers and Chrono Cross as one game, completely repackaged, but I know I'm asking for way too much.
I strongly doubt that FFXII will push anything to a new frontier, aside from the classic (read 'old') FF style of play. It will still be nothing more than a "press-X-to-advance" movie, just like FFXI was. Square-Enix is (in my eyes) the type of company that finds a formula that works and repeats it until it no longer works, rinse, lather, repeat as necessary.
Call me a Nintendo fanboy, but I much prefer the design elements of the Mario RPGs where it is possible that I can avoid damage based on knowledge of the enemies attacks and the skill of the timing, and also deal more damage based on the skill of timing, as opposed to pressing a button and seeing how much damage will be dealt this time.
I wish more RPGs would have actual gameplay tied to them so I can play the game, rather than watch it.
As large as those textures look, a RAID might be necessary, definitely for striping. Before I bumped to 1GB of RAM, it took me like 2-3 minutes to load a single UT2K4 map+players... closer to 5 minutes for Onslaught to load the vehicles. I'm up to a 1GB now and it still takes close to a minute. 2GB would be better, but it still loads a lot into the paging file. If you could stripe the paging file, it would do wonders for load times. I tried disabling it and Windows cried constantly that it wasn't big enough.
Why 4 drives are needed, I'm not sure. RAID5 all the way!!! Get striping and who needs mirroring when you have parity!
I thought that Wind Waker was great. It was a refreshing change of pace from the Zelda series, with great graphics and gameplay.
Don't care what anyone says, Mario Kart: Double Dash is the best in the series.
Super Smash Bros: Melee, Wario Ware, Inc., Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, and Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures are some of the best multiplayer games I've played in a long time.
Eternal Darkness is the perfect Resident Evil killer.... until RE4 comes out.
Ikaruga is an extremely challenging, but still fun game.
Viewtiful Joe is awesome. Enough said there.
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour is bounds better than the original. And Mario Tennis GCN is looking the same way.
I'm not quite sure exactly why you need a DVD burner, 24" monitor, or whatever the nVentiv things are (presumably cooling system?). The game will run extremely well with the other components you listed.
I would like to believe that gameplay is the #1 draw, but the sad fact is graphics are pushed over gameplay. Look at a lot of Xbox games. So many of them have terrific graphics with bad gameplay. Sony has even gone as far as to not give the greenlight to 2D games because they "aren't as pretty" as 3D games. Nintendo seems to be the only one to push gameplay over graphics, but their gameplay idea is for everyone to be able to pick up and play it, which sometimes draws the more hardcore gamers away from them.
It's all a matter of opinion. I feel the GCN has the best games, followed by Xbox, then PS2. I seriously don't see many games on PS2 that warrant a purchase of the system.
I wouldn't say it would be fair. Linux and Windows are running on the same hardware. This is a test to see whose OS is taking better advantage of the AMD64 processors. Seeing as the Apples use a PowerPC processor, it would be completely different testing procedure.
Please let those icons be less than an inch square. That's one pretty large area to miss with a stylus. I'm right-handed, and I can do that pretty easily with my left hand. Not quickly, mind you. But as long as I focus on what I'm doing, I can hit it every time.
Before you start trolling, I won't even tell you to RTFA, just look at a picture. The article has at least 10 pictures of the DS, all with 4 face buttons, a directional-pad, and a touchscreen, along with two shoulder buttons (not pictured).
And, besides, Picto-Chat has a touchscreen keyboard with some decently sized keys on it. Please research before you troll.
As we all know, Christmas is that mystical time of year when the ghost of Jesus rises from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living! So we all sing Christmas Carols to lull him back to sleep.
I understand it's a Tom Clancy game. Even so, it was a French/French-Canadian publishing house that made it all work, so NK might as well call Quebec and France Warmongerers, too. Since they're obviously supporting the idea by having one company produce a game with anti-NK sentiments.
Not to try to get into a political discussion/argument about Vietnam, but the reason we [as a country and a military] got our butts handed to us, is because we didn't use the full force of our military, for fear that China or Russia would ally with North Vietnam and bring nukes into the equation. At least that's what the secretary of defense under LBJ claims. He said the war was an attempt to bleed the will of the North Vietnamese.
The reason you and others are against convergence devices is because there hasn't been a decent one yet.
True. But I like the size of my GBA screen. But I wouldn't like my phone to be that large. And I wouldn't want my gaming screen any smaller, as it may cause more eye-strain than it already does.
And I don't know about you, but I paid less for my GBA than I would have for my phone if it hadn't come free with a 2-year service agreement. That pretty much killed any problems about the real estate to buy two devices.
Why would they do that? Nintendo has no business making cell phones. I'd rather have two gadgets that each do one separate thing well, than one that does two things mediocre.
Unbelievably, any person with a PC and an Internet connection can now logon to the NSA's website and print out the blueprint for NSA s Security Enhanced Linux software.
So we'd rather have the non-NSA approved Windows running on our computers? If the NSA believes it is secure enough to keep their sensitive information from being breached, I would think it would be secure enough for my porn.
Just because the NSA partially developed it, it doesn't mean there's NSA secrets and threats to our national security.
I'm tired of people saying this. Whoever said it was original? They said it was innovative for console games. And it sure is. I've never seen a console game use a touchscreen. I've never seen a console game with two screens. And don't you mention the Game and Watch, Game.com, or some stupid Tiger game. They don't count as console games if there is no actual animation, as far as I'm concerned.
I'd like them both left standing. Competition usually brings out the best in all competitors.
But I don't think the PSP will fare well because it seems like Sony is hoping people will buy movies for their PSP, so they can only play them on their PSP, or whatever home entertainment device Sony pimps to them. I don't think people will dig that. And I think that will be a very bad thing for Sony.
I don't believe I'm a pervert for finding them attractive. After all, I'm not having sexual fantasies about them. That, and I'm only 3.5 years older than them. Which, if I had, in some crazy way that I'd never think of, hooked up with them in my home state of Delaware before they were 18, it would have been legal because of the "at least 16, but no more than 4 years difference" age of consent law.
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Yes, but under the direction of Miyamoto. If he wants something done, it gets done, much like any other director. He makes sure his babies are treated exactly how he'd like them.
And I said Square-Enix, not just Square. Square deviated from their formula BIG-TIME at PS1 later years/PS2 launch with the Bouncer, Einhander, Bushido Blade, and a bunch of other non-RPG games. Square-Enix on the other hand gives us FFXII, Dragon Warrior 8, and FFTA which was basically the same game as FFT.
I wish they'd make Radical Dreamers into more than a text adventure and release Chrono Trigger, Radical Dreamers and Chrono Cross as one game, completely repackaged, but I know I'm asking for way too much.
That is correct, sir.
I must have missed the complex story of XI while I was playing it. I must have been forced to hack through the levelling treadmill.
I strongly doubt that FFXII will push anything to a new frontier, aside from the classic (read 'old') FF style of play. It will still be nothing more than a "press-X-to-advance" movie, just like FFXI was. Square-Enix is (in my eyes) the type of company that finds a formula that works and repeats it until it no longer works, rinse, lather, repeat as necessary.
Call me a Nintendo fanboy, but I much prefer the design elements of the Mario RPGs where it is possible that I can avoid damage based on knowledge of the enemies attacks and the skill of the timing, and also deal more damage based on the skill of timing, as opposed to pressing a button and seeing how much damage will be dealt this time.
I wish more RPGs would have actual gameplay tied to them so I can play the game, rather than watch it.
Probably for the same reason I didn't renew my free "subscription" to MSN -- because the store would not let me walk out with my laptop without it.
As large as those textures look, a RAID might be necessary, definitely for striping. Before I bumped to 1GB of RAM, it took me like 2-3 minutes to load a single UT2K4 map+players... closer to 5 minutes for Onslaught to load the vehicles. I'm up to a 1GB now and it still takes close to a minute. 2GB would be better, but it still loads a lot into the paging file. If you could stripe the paging file, it would do wonders for load times. I tried disabling it and Windows cried constantly that it wasn't big enough.
Why 4 drives are needed, I'm not sure. RAID5 all the way!!! Get striping and who needs mirroring when you have parity!
I thought that Wind Waker was great. It was a refreshing change of pace from the Zelda series, with great graphics and gameplay.
Don't care what anyone says, Mario Kart: Double Dash is the best in the series.
Super Smash Bros: Melee, Wario Ware, Inc., Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, and Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures are some of the best multiplayer games I've played in a long time.
Eternal Darkness is the perfect Resident Evil killer.... until RE4 comes out.
Ikaruga is an extremely challenging, but still fun game.
Viewtiful Joe is awesome. Enough said there.
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour is bounds better than the original. And Mario Tennis GCN is looking the same way.
I'm not quite sure exactly why you need a DVD burner, 24" monitor, or whatever the nVentiv things are (presumably cooling system?). The game will run extremely well with the other components you listed.
Did GTA3 or Vice City even have gourangas?
I would like to believe that gameplay is the #1 draw, but the sad fact is graphics are pushed over gameplay. Look at a lot of Xbox games. So many of them have terrific graphics with bad gameplay. Sony has even gone as far as to not give the greenlight to 2D games because they "aren't as pretty" as 3D games. Nintendo seems to be the only one to push gameplay over graphics, but their gameplay idea is for everyone to be able to pick up and play it, which sometimes draws the more hardcore gamers away from them.
It's all a matter of opinion. I feel the GCN has the best games, followed by Xbox, then PS2. I seriously don't see many games on PS2 that warrant a purchase of the system.
Oh yeah. I guess I'm just a little stupid early in the morning.
I wouldn't say it would be fair. Linux and Windows are running on the same hardware. This is a test to see whose OS is taking better advantage of the AMD64 processors. Seeing as the Apples use a PowerPC processor, it would be completely different testing procedure.
Please let those icons be less than an inch square. That's one pretty large area to miss with a stylus. I'm right-handed, and I can do that pretty easily with my left hand. Not quickly, mind you. But as long as I focus on what I'm doing, I can hit it every time.
Before you start trolling, I won't even tell you to RTFA, just look at a picture. The article has at least 10 pictures of the DS, all with 4 face buttons, a directional-pad, and a touchscreen, along with two shoulder buttons (not pictured).
And, besides, Picto-Chat has a touchscreen keyboard with some decently sized keys on it. Please research before you troll.
Didn't you read the article this weekend?! Nostalgia isn't all it's cracked up to be!!!!!
As we all know, Christmas is that mystical time of year when the ghost of Jesus rises from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living! So we all sing Christmas Carols to lull him back to sleep.
I understand it's a Tom Clancy game. Even so, it was a French/French-Canadian publishing house that made it all work, so NK might as well call Quebec and France Warmongerers, too. Since they're obviously supporting the idea by having one company produce a game with anti-NK sentiments.
Not to try to get into a political discussion/argument about Vietnam, but the reason we [as a country and a military] got our butts handed to us, is because we didn't use the full force of our military, for fear that China or Russia would ally with North Vietnam and bring nukes into the equation. At least that's what the secretary of defense under LBJ claims. He said the war was an attempt to bleed the will of the North Vietnamese.
The reason you and others are against convergence devices is because there hasn't been a decent one yet.
True. But I like the size of my GBA screen. But I wouldn't like my phone to be that large. And I wouldn't want my gaming screen any smaller, as it may cause more eye-strain than it already does.
And I don't know about you, but I paid less for my GBA than I would have for my phone if it hadn't come free with a 2-year service agreement. That pretty much killed any problems about the real estate to buy two devices.
Why would they do that? Nintendo has no business making cell phones. I'd rather have two gadgets that each do one separate thing well, than one that does two things mediocre.
Unbelievably, any person with a PC and an Internet connection can now logon to the NSA's website and print out the blueprint for NSA s Security Enhanced Linux software.
So we'd rather have the non-NSA approved Windows running on our computers? If the NSA believes it is secure enough to keep their sensitive information from being breached, I would think it would be secure enough for my porn.
Just because the NSA partially developed it, it doesn't mean there's NSA secrets and threats to our national security.
I'm tired of people saying this. Whoever said it was original? They said it was innovative for console games. And it sure is. I've never seen a console game use a touchscreen. I've never seen a console game with two screens. And don't you mention the Game and Watch, Game.com, or some stupid Tiger game. They don't count as console games if there is no actual animation, as far as I'm concerned.
I'd like them both left standing. Competition usually brings out the best in all competitors.
But I don't think the PSP will fare well because it seems like Sony is hoping people will buy movies for their PSP, so they can only play them on their PSP, or whatever home entertainment device Sony pimps to them. I don't think people will dig that. And I think that will be a very bad thing for Sony.
But Sprite cannot compete with Hank's Orange N' Cream soda. You definitely will not cringe about making a float!
I don't believe I'm a pervert for finding them attractive. After all, I'm not having sexual fantasies about them. That, and I'm only 3.5 years older than them. Which, if I had, in some crazy way that I'd never think of, hooked up with them in my home state of Delaware before they were 18, it would have been legal because of the "at least 16, but no more than 4 years difference" age of consent law.