Also, it would seem that they are doing the "console exclusive thing again. Vader on PS3, Yoda on 360, and squat for Wii. (Fact is, companies are really not interested in the massive overhauls they'd need to do to the games on those platforms to get them to play on the Wii.)
Remember when I suggested that EVERY world should be featured in the Kingdom Hearts series at least once, from like every fictional thing ever devised? I seem to recall someone fervently shouting in a mad pitch that there's no way George Lucas would just do something like that. Well, doesn't seem so crazy now does it?
Because I have PH now so that thread is outdated. :)
Yesterday
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Sunset Riders (Genesis)
ESWAT - City Under Siege (Genesis)
Space Invaders (SNES)
Dead Or Alive (PSX)
Yoshi's Island DS (DS)
$15 for the first four, $11 for Yoshi's Island DS.
Today (from a place I hadn't been in before...)
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Redjack: Revenge of the Brethren (PC CD) (complete, in box, sealed)
Descent: Freespace (PC DVD version) (disc only)
Claw (PC DVD version) (disc and case only)
PowerSlide (PC CD) (disc and case only)
$25 for all four. The place had a few more good (PC) games -- complete in box: RoboSport (Maxis), HardBall 5, X-COM: Terror from the Deep, and MetalTech: EarthSiege, and others (including boxed versions of X-Wing (floppy version) and Rebel Assault II, but I have those games already... from collections and not original boxes, but I have them...), and disc/case only: SimIsle, SoulBringer, Heroes Chronicles (forget which one of them), Amazon Trail II, and a couple of others, but I just got a few.
SNES
Japan: 17.17m (11% decline from previous gen)
America: 23.35m (31% decline from previous gen)
Other: 8.58m (0.002% increase from previous gen)
N64
Japan: 5.5m (69% decline from previous gen)
America: 20.6m (12% decline from previous gen)
Other: 6.75m (21.3% decline from previous gen)
GC
Japan: 4m (27% decline from previous gen)
America: 12.8m (38% decline from previous gen)
Other: 4.8m (29% decline from previous gen)
That really shows how huge the SNES-to-N64 collapse was in Japan. No other transition comes even close, though overall sales decline every time but one. It's also interesting how much Sega hurt Nintendo in the 16-bit race, while in Europe Nintendo was flat... though I think Sega's European sales were definitely above Nintendo's.
In the US, the N64 was actually Nintendo's biggest success of its post-NES consoles by this reckoning, given that it ended up with only a 12% decline while the SNES and GC both dropped over 30% from their predecessors. Of course that doesn't tell the whole story, given that 23 million was enough for the SNES to win the US while 20 million put the N64 at half of the PSX's ~40 million sold in the US, but that looks pretty good compared to the GC's 38% decline competing against a system that again sold over 40 million. Even so though, with 62% of its worldwide sales in the US, the GC was much more successful here than anywhere else.
What is chilling is that the xfiles creators made a tv episode based on the idea that there would be a plot to hijack airliners and smash them into skyscrapers in new York city in the Lone gunmen pilot months before the events of 9/11; Its like the guy who wrote a book about a sinking ocean liner called the titan just a few years before the titanic sank.
Did anyone else get this? Holy krap the last levels are hard and before you say go to gamefaqs this is a small effort at generating some convo
brief review:
visuals: not blow you away awesome but better than GC. Lots of care in the effects and tiny details like the bump mapping look great. In general, nice to look at. The increased draw distance (nearly infinite) comes with a price: pop-up. It's rare but it happens. Explosions look CGI, really well done and of course there's more on screen, bigger armies and larger battles.
Sound: I dont have my surround sound hooked up so i'm just in stereo. They had fun designing the sound and incorporating the wiimote speaker, there's satisfying sounds of reloading in the battleships that just beg to be admired and the aural effect of ambience has been increased. Something I keep noticing on Wii with its sound in games is the dynamics of position and distance. Think of a car driving by you or hearing a train pass you, yunno how it changes in pitch and depth? I heard it in MP3 and SMG as well and BWii is no different. Play it with the music off to get the full effect. Your army talking shit back and forth is back too. After using an assault vet to take down a bazooka vet and hearing him say "Stay down!" you cant help but smile.
controls: odd, takes some getting used to. There's absolutely no learning curve with the controls, you're just thrown in (which is kinda nice), once you get used to it though it becomes second nature.
Gameplay: I love it when a well made game can make you feel like a genius when you figure something out and accomplish a victory, BWii tells what to do but not how to do it so much as hint as it. In some levels it leaves things open to go explore and in others it's very linear. It's a good mix. The AI is increased and the rock, paper, scissors mechanic is in full swing but has been made more detailed and dynamic. Subs can dive to avoid all enemy fire (except for subs and frigates), frigates themselves are anti-air but automatically switch to depth charges when near a sub. It's all very polished and perfected, if you lose some of your men it's entirely your fault since you can "perfect" the level with practice. At first, you'll die all over the place but once you get it down, you'll wipe entire armies out without having to join the fight. It is real-time Advance Wars in every way, much more so than the first BW. Major downside (imo) is that you cant point to a location and send your troops there, something you could in the first BW. However there is a new command called Guard, point at a friendly location and hit A, they dig in and secure the location... pretty cool. No local multiplayer and I haven't tried wi-fi multi yet but I hear it's a lot of fun. The ability to control units from the map screen, as far as I can tell, did not make it in to the final version
Presentation: Think of every great war film. Make it a cartoon. Throw in british humor. Now make it feel like you're playing war with the most interactive toys ever made and you have BWii. What's also nice is that you can unlock concept art and a gallery to get info on units and view the models. Sometimes the voices are questionable in their ability to offend, I cant help but think as a designer and making General "Ah-Qira" (get it?) sound like a bad Japanese impersonator and how well that would go over with... yunno, Japan. But everyone is made fun of evenly, including the Western Frontier (guess who they represent) with making comments of shock and awe and being overbearing assholes and the Anglo Isles commanded by a semi-retarded Gretson - "I say I do believe the Solar Empire is launching an offensive, wot. Care for a tea? *chandelier lands on the table as the house is bombed* Right..." It's great stuff and of course lighthearted.
If you like strat, buy this. If you liked Pikmin, buy this. If you're looking for something like a third person shooter, avoid it - it's an AAA strategy game through and through.
I'm not giving away the surprise till I'm closer to the finish line....
But me and Ryan are cooking up something HUGE for Tendo City.
Involving the following......
More .net then alcohol in Britney Spears.
Even more .net still.
TovenNet servers
TovenNet SQL server.
TovenNet SMTP server
TovenNet POP3 server.
15 Meg's of bandwidth per user, per session.
A lot of sleepless nights.
A lot of Grilled chicken and sausage gumbo soup..
Some TV turned down low...
Microsoft AJAX 2.0
Me giving up my job to become a clown stripper who performs at parties for the hopeless and ugly people because I'm the best they can get.
Even more sleepless nights...
Death to my kittens.
The end of pie
More Adult Swim
New StarTrek episodes
The following smiles....
:what::disgust::woah:
But not this one...
A lot of anime
The biggest thing to hit the net since email.
This smiley...
Followed by enormous release..... Then gas.
Keep checking the TendoCity Portal Page and keep looking for subtle changes. That's all I'm going to say for now, except this is my gift to the web and TendoCity for all 2008 and IT WILL BE HUGE!
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