Just found out there actually is one difference between the original Metroid in Metroid Zero Mission and the Classic NES version. (No, I was NOT dumb enough to actually buy the classic version when I HAD the GB version, but I know someone who was :D.)
Namely, unlike in the version in Zero Mission, they actually found a way to let you save without having to die just like in the original. Now, with Zelda 1, Zelda 2, Metroid, and Kid Icarus too I believe, when you pause the game you can press up and A at the same time to get to the save menu without having to die. Heck, in Metroid you can get in situations where it's impossible to die and yet you are stuck. First read about it in the Zelda 2 instruction booklet under saving. They even kept this intact in their incarnations on Gamecube. On GBA, there's only one controller though. So, in Metroid Zero Mission's version, as I feared, it was gone completely. But, apparently they just mapped it to controller 1 in the Classic version (actually, instead of up and A, you press up and select). So, you can save without dying in classic, but not the one included in Zero Mission... Well, doesn't that suck... Oh well, there isn't a death counter and so long as I keep the deaths low enough I can still get the best ending... Still, I gotta quit every now and then, and sometimes I like to save if I'm afraid I'm actually going to die so I can avoid adding it to the counter. Still, I suppose it's minor.
In fact, it honestly doesn't really deserve it's own thread, not even here...
This didn't work out the first time I tried it, but per the suggestion of A Black Falcon, I'm going to try it again.
To enter, post what character you want, which weapon you want to use (if you don't know the name, a description will do. If no weapon is picked, the characters original weapon will be used), and if you like you can choose a skin too. You can pick any one of the 25 characters in the roster, but the only console-specific character available is Link. Heihachi and Spawn fans need not apply. Once we have enough to stage a tournament, I'll do one-on-one battles in a bracket formation in the Battle Theater until we have a winner.
All battles will be best 2 out of 3 and be held in the Mansion Library stage.
So, sign up!
<b>EdenMaster</b> - Cervantes - Falchion
<b>Dark Jaguar</b> - Link - Great Fairy Sword (I mean, Black Rose Sword...)
<b>A Black Falcon</b> - Seung Mina - Soul Edge (Complete)
<b>Great Rumbler</b> - Nightmare - Soul Edge
<b>Sacred Jellybean</b> - Voldo - Manus & Ayus
<b>Nick Burns</b> - Astaroth - Thanatos
Small game made by some Japanese person in their spare times.
Izza shooter!
Differenter, it's like as the enemy is alive.
Okay, enuffa that. So's, you fight a boss over and over again, only depending on how you fight, it evolves. Also, rather than limited lives, when you die it greatly impacts the time left to defeat the boss. Normally there is plenty to kill the boss, but each death means you have to speed up the process if you don't want a game over. Also, there's this cool aiming feature. When you press a certain button an adjustable shot zone will appear. You can change it's size and aim just by moving, and to keep it fixed just hold down the fire button. Makes for some good strategy to counter the evolving boss.
For the DS, Xenosaga and Baten Kaitos. No other details yet... (Gamespot)
Oh yeah, and they released Mr. Driller - Drill Spirits for DS (in the US.). Also on the DS front, it's selling really well -- 90% of the initial shipment of 500,000 has sold. They're forcasting 5 million sales by the end of March. Sony? When the PSP comes out in Japan this month, they'll only have 200,000 available...
For the GBA, Ace Combat Advance, Klonoa 2, Pac-Man Pinball and Mr. Driller 2.
Quote:Today, Namco sent out a press release outlining its handheld line up. Besides including the already released--and reviewed--DS titles Ridge Racer DS and Mr. Driller Drill Spirits, the announcement revealed a trio of new titles for the Game Boy Advance--and one very old one.
First up is Ace Combat Advance, a handheld cousin to Namco's successful Ace Combat series for the PlayStation 2. The game casts players as a greenhorn pilot in the United Air Defense, an air force battling "an evil worldwide economic superpower" called General Resources Ltd. Ace Combat Advance will sport 10 planes in its pint-sized virtual hangar and offer 12 missions. The game is due in February 2005.
Also coming in February 2005 is Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament, another scaled-down spin-off of a PS2 game, Klonoa 2. Both games feature the same "floppy-eared protagonist" Klonoa. However, the GBA version is a side-scrolling adventure set in five worlds that combine "platform, puzzle and adventure elements," according to Namco. As one might expect in a game called Dream Champ Tournament, Klonoa's goal will be to be come the Dream Champion by snatching up the most stars, sun, and moon fragments within a limited duration of time.
Another title due in 2005--though Namco doesn't specify when--is Pac-Man Pinball. The first pinball came to feature the company's emblematic character casts the round protagonist as the ball itself. In order to "rescue" them, players will shoot Pac-Man at other characters from the Pac oeuvre, like Ms. Pac-Man. Standing in his way will be his traditional enemies, the ghosts Blinky, Inky, Pinky, and Clyde. Pac-Man Pinball will also sport several mini-games "to keep the action fresh," in Namco's words.
Namco's fourth "new" GBA title isn't new at all. In Japan, Mr. Driller 2 was a launch title for the handheld back in 2001. It will make its stateside debut four years later, sometime in 2005. The puzzle game features the titular hero facing off against a female competitor, Anna Hottenmayer, in three contests--Mission Driller, Endless Driller and Time Attack Driller--where they must drill the maximum amount of blocks to win. Mr. Driller 2 also has Game Link functionality, allowing for competition between two GBA-owners.
According to Toho, this will be the LAST Godzilla movies ever made, of course they said that before and 20 years later they started making more again, but anyway. They're pulling out all the stops for this one, cities all over the world get destroyed, nearly all the Godzilla monsters come back [even the lesser known ones], and Godzilla [get this] fights with AMERICAN Godzilla [who's CG!!]!!! It's just now being released in Japan so it'll still be sometime before it comes out on DVD. I can't wait to see it!
I was looking at some satellite data when I came upon this strange image. It looks like some sort of weird alien.You can see the beady eye, the sharp teeth and extended jaw. Weird, huh!
And in case anyone's wondering, he's about to eat Texas.
I dreamt that beanjo and EM were coming over to my place for a party or something. It's weird that EM was there since I've never seen his picture before, but he was there and looked a bit like Derek and LL. Beanjo looked like he did in those pictures (though in normal man clothes). Anyhow, beanjo had to drive for two and a half hours to get to my town, and halfway through my dream I found out that we couldn't get together for some reason (it involved my younger brother), but I hesitated to cancel since beanjo was already on his way here. Anyhow, just in case I made a bunch of food for them (eggs and bacon or something like that), and then sometime after that we were all at this weird shopping center/ranch, talking about playing some Donkey Konga (I only brought one bongo with me) and Four Swords. We never did get to play any games there, but we did hang out and talk about stuff.
Just the latest of many such occurances in Austrailia and New Zealand, a game banned from sale (in this case Postal 2's expansion). So you say "that'd never happen here!" ... but it could. Listen to what Senator Leiberman is saying, he says that free speech should be curtailed if it's stuff like this that is so bad... scary. Yes, Postal is extreme (and a bad game), but still... it doesn't take games that go that far to get banned there, I'm pretty sure...
On a related note, about a week ago the group Media and the Family released their yearly report card on the gaming industry. It was shown on C-Span last Tuesday night or so. I happened to be watching TV at the time and ran into it right at the beginning and watched the thing (you can watch it too, on the C-Span webcast link I link below)... it was interesting. I found myself disliking Leiberman's (he was there too) position all over again, but what the guy from Media and the Family was saying was much more reasonable (and interesting). He talked a lot about "bad" content for kids, but did not support federal action to make some games illegal. He focused on enforcement of retailers' blocking children from buying games (very interestingly, when they sent clearly underage children to buy games in retail stores while 50% of boys could buy M-rated games only 8% of girls could -- clear sexism on the part of the clerks and a interesting result...). He definitely also talked about the developers themselves and the rating system, but they pretty much support the ESRB rating system, with the exception that they think that a lot more games should be getting AO ratings instead of Ms (since AO is really unused and their opinion is that it should either be actively used on games that are "worst for childeren" or abandoned)... but really my description of their opinions won't do the job of explaining what they are saying all that well. Instead, I recommend that you watch it yourself. What, go wish for it to show up on C-Span? Nope. Just watch it. C-Span webcasts a lot of stuff. But watch it soon, because I don't know how long they keep stuff (after it's been on C-Span)...
Link to the C-Span video segment (realmedia streaming video link -- did anyone else know that C-Span has a full webcast of all three of its channels? And video of past C-Span segments?). 55 minuites. http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?R...ge1=Submit
Hmm... to attract more people to this post (and to watch that video), at the end they have a video segment they've put together with clips from various "offending" games. The most interesting part is that they've got footage from two ... adult ... games that managed M ratings: The Guy Game and Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude. That is, footage of the worst parts. Including nudity. Yeah. And this was played on national (cable) television... probably in primetime too... kind of goes against their message... :)
NIMF report website (for those who are morally opposed to watching videos or with whose pitiful bandwidth don't want to wait for it to download -- but be aware that the video is a lot more interesting)
I was looking and I need sites that have job listings for the game industry. Since I'm finally wrapping up my degree, I figure might as well try to work for a game company which would kick ass. Any sites you could list to help me out would be appreciated. Thanks :)
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