Whole crapload of Famitsu scans (mostly cool DS stuff)

[OB1]

There's Advance Wars GC (which is looking mighty fine), Touch! Kirby: The Magic Paintbrush (literal translation), some new Mario Kart pics, Animal Crossing which looks really cool with that lower perspective, and some other stuff.

source: forums.gaming-age.com

[OB1]

Some more!


Geist:


Boy I hope Geist turns out good.

MP2 and the GC-exclusive Chibi-Robo! (some sort of RPG with a main character that I've seen somewhere before):


A new Sim Tower, simply called Tower:


Also, Star Fox is now Star Fox Assault. I was wondering when they were going to come up with a full name. Took them long enough.

source: Games Are Fun

[Great Rumbler]

I want ALL of those games...yes, even the Harvest Moon game.

[OB1]

Doesn't Animal Crossing look great with that lowered perspective? Now there's a sky! Woo sky party!!

[big guy]

i love harvest moon

[OB1]

And I love pancakes.

[A Black Falcon]

Nice... I want some of those. Not Animal Crossing or Geist, but I'd like Kirby, Advance Wars, Metroid... hmm, Tower. Strange, why port that to the GBA? D-Pad on games designed for mice stinks!

[Great Rumbler]

*hits ABF for not wanting Geist or Animal Crossing* Sorry, I just really like those games.

[OB1]

And yeah I just noticed that Tower is for the GBA. It would be perfect for the DS, dammit!

[A Black Falcon]

I know, I at first thought it was DS and was saying 'that's nice, not as good as a mouse but it works', when I saw the GBA logo... ack...

[Great Rumbler]

Towers would still be fairly easy to play on the GBA.

[A Black Falcon]

No, it wouldn't. It needs a mouse badly. I mean, you COULD get SimCity 2000 for GBA, but it sounds horrible...

[Great Rumbler]

Towers on the GBA would be nowhere near as hard for GBA as Simcity 2000 would be. All they have to do is set it up so that you move the cursor within a grid since you're looking at a flat cut-away of the building and all the rooms are squares or rectangles.

[A Black Falcon]

SC2k for GBA flattened the terrain... yup, no hills or anything...

[Great Rumbler]

Which has nothing to do with what I just said.

[A Black Falcon]

As in, it was severely compromised. Okay, SimTower might not get quite as bad, but it's still definitely problematic in comparison...

[big guy]

sim tower would work fine on any system with any control scheme. it's a very basic idea and all you're doing is placing rectangles, one at a time. fun game tho.

is that what you're talking about?

[Great Rumbler]

That's exactly what I'm talking about. Simtower is a lot less complex than Simcity.

[A Black Falcon]

Okay, that is true, and the 2d plane will help it, but still...

[Great Rumbler]

:shake:

[OB1]

GR pwns ABF again! Bubba you are on a roll here! *claps for Johnny*

I know, I at first thought it was DS and was saying 'that's nice, not as good as a mouse but it works'

WTF? The stylus would give you more precision than a mouse would. Silly PC fanboy.

[Great Rumbler]

GR pwns ABF again! Bubba you are on a roll here! *claps for Johnny*

*bows*

WTF? The stylus would give you more precision than a mouse would. Silly PC fanboy.

Yeah, I'd think it would since you'd be manipulating things by actually touching the screen itself.

[A Black Falcon]

WTF? The stylus would give you more precision than a mouse would. Silly PC fanboy.

I am quite used to mice. I've never used a stylus. Hence I prefer the one I am used to and know works perfectly for such games.

[Great Rumbler]

If you've never used a stylus then how do you know it wouldn't work as well?

[A Black Falcon]

Because. :p

... okay, I could also mention the much smaller screen as a reason for that...

[Great Rumbler]

... okay, I could also mention the much smaller screen as a reason for that...

:shake:

[A Black Falcon]

Anyone who has ever played a game knows that larger resolutions help. Especially when the difference is that dramatic... in a case like this it'd make a huge difference.

[Great Rumbler]

:shake:

[A Black Falcon]

How would you get a picture in your mind of the scale of the tower with such a tiny viewpoint? It'd be so limited! And when you opened the menus it'd either cover the screen or have only one screen for the view and the other for menus... sorry, you need more than a head-shaking smilie to make an ounce of sense overall.

[Great Rumbler]

:shake:

How would you get a picture in your mind of the scale of the tower with such a tiny viewpoint?

Maybe a little function called "zoom"?

[A Black Falcon]

And make it too small to actually be able to do anything...

[Great Rumbler]

That's why you can also zoom IN and see things up close...

[OB1]

Haha, you're on a roll here, Johnny! You're pwn'ing him non-stop!! *cheers for GR*

I am quite used to mice. I've never used a stylus. Hence I prefer the one I am used to and know works perfectly for such games.

There's a reason why computer artists use stylus drawing tablets and not mice, Brian. Think about it.

[A Black Falcon]

Do you really need precise drawing to be able to play SimTower? I mean, if it were Klik & Play sure, but SimTower?

[OB1]

Uh, that comment was to give you an idea of how much more precise stylus' are than mice.

[A Black Falcon]

Precise sure, so for drawing they're better. But for just selecting options? I don't know, mice are fine... and using a mouse doesn't cover most of the screen with your hand... :)

[OB1]

Yes mice are fine, but stylus' are better and more precise. And you don't draw on the monitor with a drawing tablet, which would be the only reason why it'd be cumbersome. The DS touch screen is small, in case you forgot.

[A Black Falcon]

We are talking about the DS here, so when you draw on it you won't be able to avoid covering part of the screen with your hand, which is what I said...

[OB1]

... that's the dumbest point I've heard yet.

*imagines Brian trying to draw something on a piece of paper, cursing his giant hands for obscuring his view*

[A Black Falcon]

Anyway, isn't it all academic when SimTower is coming for GBA and not DS?

But I definitely think that games like SimTower would work better on PC than on the DS...

[OB1]

No, just about any game would work better with a touch screen than a mouse.