Easily best game ever made. Now, I'm sure that I must have done a similar thread to this before, but what the hey, twice around we go!
Favorite Dungeon: Very hard--they're all so good--but probably the Forest Temple.
Least-Favorite Dungeon: Water Temple.
Favorite Theme: Boss music.
Favorite Boss: Bongo-Bongo!
Least-Favorite Boss: Mirror Link... or Ganondorf.
Favorite Site: Hyrule Castle Town... I love hanging out there during night time.
Best Character: Me.
Favorite Memory: The first time playing it (out of 8 times), right after you beat the Dodongo's Cavern, and I appear with a few other Gorons, and give the player a big, warm Goron hug... haha, I'm swell.
Quote:Why wait so long to release a new installment of Mario? The wait is frustrating players everywhere...
Mario is and always has been a concept title from his birth. We are always looking for new ways of playing with him, manipulating him, to create something new and unique. We're in the midst of preparing something special for his future, something never before seen. You'll understand when you see it that we can't quite release it right away. The new Mario game will surprise many people. Give us the benefit of the doubt. I think we'll present you with a new way to have fun. There's even a new character by his side.
Mario 128 will be released for Revolution then?
Yes, of course! It's no surprise, but of course we will rename it, obviously. That won't be the only surprise of next year though. We based the Revolution around this new type of game. Mario 128 played a large role in the Revolution's conception, much like Mario 64 in it's time. But we won't just be focusing on Mario. We're working on some very impressive games which push interactivity to the max. Games of a new era.
The new Zelda, it's not really good news that...
Please allow me to interrupt you by saying that you will have to be patient, really. This will be, without a doubt, the last Zelda game as you know it in its present form. I worked on it personally, moreso than Wind Waker! I haven't invested as much into any game as I have this one. Our goal was to make the best Zelda game ever. The most rich/satisfying and melancholy. We've really improved it in just a few months. Everything's coming together much quicker. We may have some last minute ideas...
You're going to move it to Revolution?
No, it is a Gamecube title.
In any case, you want to preserve the air of mystery around Nintendo?
We will be revealing many details soon. It's true, we do like surprises (laughs). While our gamers are sleeping, we're busy thinking up new ideas. But while they're playing - we're playing as well.
New preview. It's looking great... this and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance are clearly the big holiday titles (Mario Golf and Mario DDR... eh...), and both look like they'll be pretty good games that are definitely worth getting... sure, it doesn't make up for the lack of Zelda, but it's not like we've got nothing good coming this holiday season. :)
Batallion Wars: Great cartoony graphics that capture the spirit of the AW games quite well... and the action/strategy gameplay looks pretty cool too.
Fire Emblem GC: Mediocre graphics that do not live up to the GBA graphics... I wish they'd either gone 2d or made them look a lot better. Both in qualityy and, more important, in style... the gameplay shine through obviously, but still, it's somewhat dissapointing. Still a must-buy though...
Quote:Although the release date of the PlayStation 3 remains a closely guarded secret, Sony has been less reticent in drumming up developer support for the nascent format. This afternoon session at the Game Developer Conference Europe event in London was relatively short on new information but provided a useful overview of the system architecture and the development tools Sony intends to provide for its developers.The sole speaker for the session was George Bain, the Developer Support Manager at SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) Technology Group. He started by giving a quick recap of the PlayStation 3's technical specifications, apparently using figures taken directly from press releases originally released at E3. Bain joked about the description on one of his slides, describing the new console as a “system utilizing the Cell processor with super computer like power”, but insisted that despite the marketing spiel the description was accurate.
After running through the statistics for the Cell processor and NVidia's RSX GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), Bain paused to discuss the new controllers in more detail. He reiterated that the new boomerang designs were concepts only and were not necessarily representative of the final retail models. He clarified too, that the odd numbered limit of seven wireless controllers per console were a product of the way in which Bluetooth 2.0 operates, where the console itself is considered to be the eighth device in the network.
In answer to a later question from the audience Bain admitted that the wireless signal could be interfered with by another nearby PlayStation 3 console and in those instances where many consoles would be close by, such as at a LAN party, it would be necessary to default to using wired controllers via the console's USB ports. It was also mentioned that keyboards, mice and other devices could also be used as games controllers but that Sony would always insist that any game could also be controlled with the default controller.
Bain also touched upon the PlayStation 3's removable hard drive, confirming that Sony did consider it an important peripheral, but saying that the company had not yet decided its price, its size or – most importantly – whether it would be bundled with the console or available only as a stand alone extra.
Moving on from the basic technical specifications of the PlayStation 3, Bain referenced the Cell Broadband Engine documentation recently made public by IBM and Sony. In doing so he emphasized the impressive bus speed of greater than 200GB/sec or 25.6GB/sec for each device, making for an external bandwidth faster than current high specification PCs.
Concerning the individual SPEs (Synergistic Processing Elements) of the Cell chip, Bain emphasized that it was no longer necessary to program in assembly language to achieve superior performance, although this did still exist as an option. In response to an audience question it was also confirmed that although each Cell chip will feature eight SPEs this was purely to guarantee seven working elements – even if the eighth SPE did work it would be fused during the manufacturing process and could not be used in any way.
As Bain began to move on to the topic of actual development techniques for the PlayStation 3 he quoted the famous Spider-Man line of “With great power comes great responsibility”, in apparent reference to Sony's determination to provide as much technical support as possible to developers. As Phil Harrison had said earlier in the day, he acknowledged that the PlayStation 2 had proven difficult to program for and assured the audience that Sony had learnt its lesson. Bain suggested that this was one reason for using NVidia's graphics technology, since it would enable the use of more widely familiar APIs. OpenGL ES, described as a lightweight subset of OpenGL, was being used for the same reason and was part of what was explained as a very different approach to graphics when compared to the PlayStation 2.
Although no PlayStation 3 development kit was present at GDC Europe, Bain did show a few slides from the E3 duck demo before moving on to the topic of development tools. This was perhaps the most interesting aspect of the session with a major SDK update promised that would include all existing PlayStation tools as well as fully licensed versions of physics tools Havok Complete and AGEIA's NovodeX. These will be available free to use for developers and will require no additional licensing fee to publish games using the technology.
After admitting that the early versions of the PlayStation 2's default compiler were “rubbish”, Bain also indicated that SN System's new compiler would also be included in the SDK, along with support for (but not free licensing of) Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3. He emphasized that the Unreal Engine 3 demo shown at E3 was “real” and proceeded to display some new screenshots using the engine which if they were, as claimed, real-time were certainly on a par with the kind of imagery seen in the infamous E3 Killzone demonstration.
Bain ended the session by encouraging the attendees to register as PlayStation 3 developers, suggesting that current PlayStation developers talk to their local third party account manager and that those European developers new to the PlayStation range should visit the SCEE developer website or the more general SCE site.
Quote:The DS has to date now sold 3,015,894 units in Japan since its launch. This year's sales have now surpassed the huge number of DS consoles sold last year (when the DS sold almost one and a half million units in its first five weeks).
Once again, the DS outsold all other consoles in Japan this week, selling nearly double the amount of PS2s (the DS sold 57,313 units, the PS2 - second place in the hardware charts - sold 27, 161). In comparison, the PSP sold 20,322 units.
Overall, the PSP has now sold 1,652,728 units in Japan since its launch, meaning the DS has sold 1,363,166 units more. A cause for celebration, although the situation is quite the reverse in the USA, and it remains to be seen how the DS will fare against the PSP in Europe now Sony's handheld has reached these shores.
We'll have the full Japanese hardware and software charts up soon.
I want a list. Not just any list, a comprehensive list of ONLY reasons why the band Nirvana and their music suck. If you have something good to say about Nirvana, please keep your thoughts to yourself.
I'll start.
- They are way too overplayed, I am tired of hearing the same 30 Nirvana songs on the radio, it is time they came out with some new material.
- Kurt Cobain was holding Dave Grohl back.
I was approached on my way into Walmart today by some kid asking for Hurricane Katrina donations. I replied, "Sorry kid, I don't support hurricanes.", and walked inside.
What I should have said was, "Sorry kid, I don't support hurricane RELIEF.", because I don't. In fact I do not support any form of charity. I do not feel bad about not caring about affairs that do not concern me directly, and thus do not donate. I believe my only obligations are to my friends and family
The individual's responsibility is to himself, the government's responsibilty is to the people. If they need me for hurricane relief, the government will MAKE me help out.
This is my GoldenEye homage thread, because we all know that there'll never have been a game worthy to touch the ground where GoldenEye hath trodden! So, let's pull up a few chairs, sip got cocoa, and remember the good old days when GoldenEye was on every TV screen across the country, and Nintendo still had a sizable portion of the industry under its belt!
GoldenEye was the first console game I ever beat, believe it or not.
Favorite Multiplayer Character: For years, I would ONLY play as Bond... more recently, Russian Infantry.
Multiplayer Level: Complex or Stack
Weapon: Phantom
Single Player Level: The Archives!
LEAST Favorite S-Player Level: Easily, Control Center. That's the only level that I could never beat in OO-agent... thus, depriving my of the Egyptian level. All because Natalya had to go on and die one me every time.
Level music: All the music is great, but the theme to The Train Depot is the best.
250,000 puppies homed in the first week. Oh, and Advance Wars is not doing too badly either...
VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY GOES TO THE DOGS – LITERALLY
REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 1, 2005 – With sales of a quarter of a million units in its first week of availability, Nintendogs™ is not only America's hottest-selling video game, but the best-selling new game franchise ever for a portable system.
Retailers already are reporting that Nintendogs, made exclusively for the hand-held Nintendo DS™, has sold out in numerous locations across the country, and Nintendo will deliver more shipments as soon as possible. The three versions of Nintendogs and the DS unit itself consistently rank at the top of Amazon.com's best-selling list of all video game products.
"Nearly 15 percent of all DS owners bought Nintendogs in just a week, a virtually unprecedented adoption rate for any title on an established system," said Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing. "And it's also helping sell new DS hardware. Coupled with a price drop to $129.99, retailers are reporting DS sales up between one and a half and three times previous levels, and last week DS comfortably outsold our portable competitors."
Nintendogs lets owners train and care for lifelike puppies using the DS system's touch screen and microphone. It became a cultural phenomenon in Japan and launched in the United States on Aug. 22.
People who like traditional hard-core video games have plenty to enjoy as well. Retailers also report that the new Advance Wars®: Dual Strike military strategy game for Nintendo DS has become one of Nintendo's top sellers.
The worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its popular home and portable video game systems. Each year, hundreds of all-new titles for the best-selling Game Boy® Advance SP, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems extend Nintendo’s vast game library and continue the tradition of delivering a rich, diverse mix of quality video games for players of all ages. Since the release of its first home video game system in 1983, Nintendo has sold more than 2 billion video games and more than 353 million hardware units globally, creating enduring industry icons such as Mario™ and Donkey Kong® and launching popular culture franchise phenomena such as Metroid®, Zelda™ and Pokémon®. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Western Hemisphere.
For more information about Nintendo, visit the company’s Web site at http://www.nintendo.com.
