Quote:Skip Ltd's self-proclaimed "Alternative RPG", Giftpia netted a Gold Award with an overall score of 35 (8,9,9,9). The reviewers said that though initial impressions showed the game was for children, it offered nice puzzle elements, great characters and a wonderful score. It's similar to Animal Crossing since players can dig, collect, and fish. In this unique RPG there are no experience points, and the theme is to "grow up".


Side Note: Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken gets a 34 (9,9,8,8) and and the reviewers praised the very friendly tutorial system. It stays true to the series and features great characters and scenarios.

Fucking idiots.

http://people.ucsc.edu/~arvin/crappy_dust2.mpeg

Some people take games to seriously.

(warning you will laugh till your ass bleeds!)

From Games Are Fun:

Quote:Capcom cans 18
Reuters revealed today that Capcom has cancelled 18 titles. According to the press agency, Capcom lost a lot of money during the 2002-2003 fiscal year due to the poor sales of games like Resident Evil 0, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, P.N.03, Chaos Legion, and Clock Tower.

... What's wrong with you people?

Anyway, as a result, the company has put a stop to titles they feel have very little financial potential. There's been no word on what they are, but, certainly, if they're important games that have been talked about at length, their absence will be conspicuous. We'll have more soon.
Source: Reuters

Posted by Soul4ger on 4.18.2003

Nozomi would rub your incredible meatless legs if it didn't interfere with her quest for the almighty Bachelors of Science degree.

Congrats old man :)

Oh my god

Maybe all of Carl Lewis's Olympic Gold's should be taken away...just like Ben Johnson's? My oh my how corrupt the Olympics were...(and still are, in some cases)

See-throug (not-cel-shaded) lakes...and giant rooms full of numbers...this is pretty strange; take a look at it:

http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?a...em&id=4244

...here are the codes for Action Replay; this is where you can see descriptions of the other weird test areas to explore:

http://www.codejunkies.com/article.asp?c...l=1&i=5466

At least that's what CNN said. :D



The Smoking Gun

From CVG:

Quote:SECRET RARE RACER REVEALED!

More retro grave-robbing from the UK developer as Xbox is set for a reworked version of Donkey Kong Racing - we've got the hot details inside!

18:47 Rare is currently working on an Xbox racing game called Sabre Man Stampede, we can reveal. The last piece of the Rare puzzle? For now, possibly, but after months of speculation it would appear the last major in-development Rare title has been unearthed.
After Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo, Ghoulies and Conkers Online, there was of course one title left of the five which Rare and Microsoft promised for the end of 2004. The obvious absentee from this line-up is a racing game, but, as everyone knows, Rare was working on a racing title for GameCube before its acquisition by Microsoft - Donkey Kong Racing, sequel to the brilliant Diddy Kong Racing on N64.

While Nintendo owns the rights to Donkey Kong, it was fairly obvious the game would resurface in a different guise. But who exactly is this Sabre Man guy? The dude out of 8-bit classic Sabre Wulf, a fully reworked version of which is already in the concept stages for Xbox.

It's likely Rare will have simply switched IPs, retaining the core of Donkey Kong Racing for its Xbox racer. Whether Sabre Man Stampede will appear at E3 is uncertain, since the developer has several other key titles to exploit. But we'll keep you posted on all the latest Rare news in the run up to the show.

Johnny Minkley

From CVG:

Quote:NINTENDO REVEALS GAMECUBE STRATEGY

Anti-online focus reconfirmed, bundling issues and more as NOA's George Harrison speaks

16:30 Nintendo of America senior vice president of marketing ("top brass," if you will) George Harrison has revealed some intriguing details regarding Nintendo's future strategy, in an interview with CNN.
One of the most promising revelations was that Nintendo is seriously looking at introducing a bundle later this year featuring GameCube and Game Boy Player. The add-on, of course, gives access to hundreds of handheld titles, dramatically increasing the range of software available to potential owners.

Furthermore, Harrison reaffirmed Nintendo's stance regarding online gaming, stating that he believed it was still "probably a few years away" as far as GameCube is concerned. Boo! But Harrison was keen to emphasise that this E3 would be a huge year for third-party development for the console, as opposed to in-house software, and it's widely expected that link-up software - both GBA/GC and GC via LAN - will form the backbone of Nintendo's E3 line-up.

In potentially more disturbing news, Harrison revealed that, in response to complaints over the difficulty of Mario Sunshine, "Shigeru Miyamoto agreed with criticism that the game was too hard. The word has since come from up high to make games less challenging," writes CNN. "We're trying to go back and make sure we don't let technology alienate players," said Harrison. "We want to make games that are accessible to everyone."

In other Nintendo news, the company has announced it is establishing a new R&D unit in Japan to "develop unique games for Nintendo's hardware platforms, adding to the depth and breadth of Nintendo's first-party game library.

More when we have it.

Johnny Minkley