I seem to remember Crazy Taxi 2 being nothing but advertising. "Take me to Kentucky Fried Chicken" they would say. Or "I need to go to the Levi's Store." The first game was great and the second one was all right, but there was still a lot of advertising in both games.
At least we have a more reliable way of saving games. I cant count the number of times that ive lost all of my save data on an NES or SNES cartridge. The last time was with my Final Fantasy 2(IV) cartridge. I got about halfway and lost all of the data. Thankfully i've had better luck with a memory card in this department. At least long enough to finish the game.
There are some NES hacks of a similar nature here.Just run them on your emulator and check them out. Most are just things that change the look of the game but not the game itself. But a few have new levels.
There were a couple of places in my town like this. There was one that had a lot of high-end PCs for playing games with your friends or with whoever happens to be there. The other place was a video game store that also had twelve or so 32" televisions that had just as many PS2s and Xboxes networked together. So you could rent out the place for a few hours, get your friends together and play some games.
While it sounds like a great place for people to get together after school or work, both of these places that i've mentioned have since closed down. I think that a lot of the people that participate in these activities already have the means to do it themselves. They already have the computer or the Xbox for a game of Halo. I just don't think that there are enough people that like to play occasionally but don't have the games or the system and are willing to go out frequently enough to help support the business. It won't have the popularity that arcades had because back then, unless you were rich, you couldn't have a whole bunch of arcade machines at your house. Now you can LAN at home, you can network your Xboxes at home, etc. It's an option we didn't have back in the day.
I thought that it was really cool when Final Fantasy Anthology came out for the Playstation. I played FFV for hours and hours, having a blast with the job system. But when it came to FFVI, I didn't play it as much. I knew that there were some new cutscenes and all that, but i just couldn't handle the load time when I knew how fast the cartridge loaded in comparison.
But when Final Fantasy Origins came out it was a different story. They made more improvements this time around including better graphics. The load times were still there, but it wasnt too bad
Basically, in the case of re-releases of old games, there is a trade off. You have to put up with load times, but at the same time you get a more reliable medium (memory card) to save your games on. I played FFIV for the playstation because i had lost my saved game too many times on the cartridge.
I would like to see the origianl version of secret of mana released for the GBA. The fact that it was a multiplayer RPG it would make a good game that you could link up and play with friends. I remember having a lot of fun playing that game with two other people and all of us being able to control our own character. I have a feeling that this installment won't be quite up to snuff for Secret of Mana fans since it lacks a multiplayer feature
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I Don't know how many have heard it (probably lots) but there was a concert put on by the Tokyo Philharmonic on 2/20/2002. They performed a wonderful mix of songs from the early Final Fantasy games all the way to songs from FFX. It is a fantastic concert. To hear your favorite songs from some great video games performed by a full orchestra is incredible.
I remember seeing a preview for Chrono Cross before it came out. It was playing the song "Scars of Time" with various cutscenes from the game. I thought that it was one of the better songs that I've heard for a video game. I went on to buy the game and subsequently the soundtrack. While the game sits on my shelf now, I still find myself listening to the soundtrack on a regular basis. It's definitely my favorite game soundtrack overall.
Another thing that Nintendo is doing right now is just re-releasing their old NES and SNES games on the Game Boy Advance. Example, the Super Mario Advance games, The re-release of Zelda: A link to the past, etc. Companies can still sell their games long after the console is rendered obsolete. Just look at all of the games for the PS1, PS2, and Xbox that have old intellivision and atari 2600 games. I'm not sure how well they sell, but I have a couple of them for my PS1, and they are pretty nostalgic to me. So in that case, the company is making money from a console game thats 20 years old. Not too far-fetched then for a company like Sony to still make money from a game even if that particular console is succeeded by another "more advanced" console.
....Is to just keep the good games. I have a lot of video games, but this time around with the classics, i just bought the good ones. With the new ones, i just try before i buy. There aren't, in my opinion, enough truly great games to be worried about how to store them.
Gameplay and story have taken a backseat to pretty pictures, bigger explosions, and more T&A. It won't sell any video games to me, but I guess its what the target audience wants for the most part. Gee, I wonder why?
In the Air Force, for example, the future pilots use flight sims to gain valuable experience with flying before trying the $300 million F/A-22. It's basically a video game, and it seems to work (otherwise my guess would be that they would stop using them).
Now I wonder if I could join MI-6 if I showed them my skills with an RCP-90 and a Sentinel Rocket Launcher? ^_^
I believe the thing that seperates good FPS games from great ones is the multiplayer factor. All of the FPS games that i have played get pretty boring after awhile, but with the multiplayer aspect there is always something new. AI tends to be predictable but another human playing against you is quite the opposite. I get bored with halo in single player mode, but when we link up a few XBoxes and play a team game, i can play for hours. A different game every time.
it seems that only things that sell these days are sports games that offer barely anything different from its predecessor, and the more ultra-violent than the last one vice city types of games. There are only a handful of games that i actually own for the three "next-gen" consoles, but there are dozens and dozens of old NES and Super NES games on my shelf that I still play to this day. The fact remains that i still get more enjoyment out of these games then i get from the newer, prettier games that are out now. I agree with the article, i think that as the twenty-somethings get older and the younger kids wise up nobody will care how many things your next console can do.
That seems to be the case with shows that are really good. For example, The Critic, Futurama, and Family Guy (but that's coming back, I hear). I haven't seen this show yet, but i might not, I'd have to find out what channel UPN is in my town. Believe it or not I haven't really come up with a reason to find UPN.
I've used cheat codes in almost all of the games that I've played at one time or another (RTS games, FPS games, etc) in their single player mode. Afterwards, like most people I'm sure, it just leaves you with an empty feeling inside. I can't imagine feeling any different cheating online. Come on. We are taking something that is supposed to be fun and we are sucking the life out of it by cheating and accusing other people of cheating. Its just a game and we are taking it too seriously.
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I seem to remember Crazy Taxi 2 being nothing but advertising. "Take me to Kentucky Fried Chicken" they would say. Or "I need to go to the Levi's Store." The first game was great and the second one was all right, but there was still a lot of advertising in both games.
At least we have a more reliable way of saving games. I cant count the number of times that ive lost all of my save data on an NES or SNES cartridge. The last time was with my Final Fantasy 2(IV) cartridge. I got about halfway and lost all of the data. Thankfully i've had better luck with a memory card in this department. At least long enough to finish the game.
"They say so much, but they never tell you if it's any good."
While it sounds like a great place for people to get together after school or work, both of these places that i've mentioned have since closed down. I think that a lot of the people that participate in these activities already have the means to do it themselves. They already have the computer or the Xbox for a game of Halo. I just don't think that there are enough people that like to play occasionally but don't have the games or the system and are willing to go out frequently enough to help support the business. It won't have the popularity that arcades had because back then, unless you were rich, you couldn't have a whole bunch of arcade machines at your house. Now you can LAN at home, you can network your Xboxes at home, etc. It's an option we didn't have back in the day.
But when Final Fantasy Origins came out it was a different story. They made more improvements this time around including better graphics. The load times were still there, but it wasnt too bad
Basically, in the case of re-releases of old games, there is a trade off. You have to put up with load times, but at the same time you get a more reliable medium (memory card) to save your games on. I played FFIV for the playstation because i had lost my saved game too many times on the cartridge.
I would like to see the origianl version of secret of mana released for the GBA. The fact that it was a multiplayer RPG it would make a good game that you could link up and play with friends. I remember having a lot of fun playing that game with two other people and all of us being able to control our own character. I have a feeling that this installment won't be quite up to snuff for Secret of Mana fans since it lacks a multiplayer feature
Personally, I like this one best
I Don't know how many have heard it (probably lots) but there was a concert put on by the Tokyo Philharmonic on 2/20/2002. They performed a wonderful mix of songs from the early Final Fantasy games all the way to songs from FFX. It is a fantastic concert. To hear your favorite songs from some great video games performed by a full orchestra is incredible.
I remember seeing a preview for Chrono Cross before it came out. It was playing the song "Scars of Time" with various cutscenes from the game. I thought that it was one of the better songs that I've heard for a video game. I went on to buy the game and subsequently the soundtrack. While the game sits on my shelf now, I still find myself listening to the soundtrack on a regular basis. It's definitely my favorite game soundtrack overall.
So THIS is where all of the catapulted cows from "Earthworm Jim" went......
Another thing that Nintendo is doing right now is just re-releasing their old NES and SNES games on the Game Boy Advance. Example, the Super Mario Advance games, The re-release of Zelda: A link to the past, etc. Companies can still sell their games long after the console is rendered obsolete. Just look at all of the games for the PS1, PS2, and Xbox that have old intellivision and atari 2600 games. I'm not sure how well they sell, but I have a couple of them for my PS1, and they are pretty nostalgic to me. So in that case, the company is making money from a console game thats 20 years old. Not too far-fetched then for a company like Sony to still make money from a game even if that particular console is succeeded by another "more advanced" console.
Well, how big of a monkey?
....Is to just keep the good games. I have a lot of video games, but this time around with the classics, i just bought the good ones. With the new ones, i just try before i buy. There aren't, in my opinion, enough truly great games to be worried about how to store them.
I hear that they are taking pre-orders for Duke Nukem Forever- the board game.
Gameplay and story have taken a backseat to pretty pictures, bigger explosions, and more T&A. It won't sell any video games to me, but I guess its what the target audience wants for the most part. Gee, I wonder why?
In the Air Force, for example, the future pilots use flight sims to gain valuable experience with flying before trying the $300 million F/A-22. It's basically a video game, and it seems to work (otherwise my guess would be that they would stop using them). Now I wonder if I could join MI-6 if I showed them my skills with an RCP-90 and a Sentinel Rocket Launcher? ^_^
I believe the thing that seperates good FPS games from great ones is the multiplayer factor. All of the FPS games that i have played get pretty boring after awhile, but with the multiplayer aspect there is always something new. AI tends to be predictable but another human playing against you is quite the opposite. I get bored with halo in single player mode, but when we link up a few XBoxes and play a team game, i can play for hours. A different game every time.
it seems that only things that sell these days are sports games that offer barely anything different from its predecessor, and the more ultra-violent than the last one vice city types of games. There are only a handful of games that i actually own for the three "next-gen" consoles, but there are dozens and dozens of old NES and Super NES games on my shelf that I still play to this day. The fact remains that i still get more enjoyment out of these games then i get from the newer, prettier games that are out now. I agree with the article, i think that as the twenty-somethings get older and the younger kids wise up nobody will care how many things your next console can do.
That seems to be the case with shows that are really good. For example, The Critic, Futurama, and Family Guy (but that's coming back, I hear). I haven't seen this show yet, but i might not, I'd have to find out what channel UPN is in my town. Believe it or not I haven't really come up with a reason to find UPN.
I've used cheat codes in almost all of the games that I've played at one time or another (RTS games, FPS games, etc) in their single player mode. Afterwards, like most people I'm sure, it just leaves you with an empty feeling inside. I can't imagine feeling any different cheating online. Come on. We are taking something that is supposed to be fun and we are sucking the life out of it by cheating and accusing other people of cheating. Its just a game and we are taking it too seriously.