I love Wipeout. I still have the first four games in the series.

The PSP one is really nice, but it's not much different from the previous ones. Not enough to change your mind, at least.

fun. its like dig dug meets same game. i played the original for dreamcast at the play on! MSI exhibit, but i couldnt find it for dreamcast so i got the GBA sequel.

Curious to see how well they ported this over.

Alright, seriously, does it get more badass than this when the words "dark knight" are a common staple in the games script?


Differences:
noticeable graphical touch up on some of the sprites, most notably rosa's.
improved sound.
ATB bars.
Nearly a complete text re-write, guessing because the snes translation was so shitty.
probably based off the hard type version, though I can't tell.
touch ups on the face graphics and they're not included in text bars as well.

Any word on God of War 2? God, i wish games could leak...that makes no sense, but still...

Games do leak sometimes, but it's much harder to use than just playing files on your computer... Halo 2 leaked a couple weeks early back in '04. I got to play it a bit, and that's pretty much the only time I ever played that game.

God of War 2 should be awesome, though. I'm about halfway through the original right now. I waited until it was $20 to pick it up.

Mother 3 ROM leaked two days before it came out in japan.

So did i...Then i finished it in like, a week...It's quite addictive, the sequal should be absolutely amazing. i'm replaying the first one now on a harder setting.

Beat Syphon Filter last night. One of the better games for PSP, though that isn't say a whole hell of a lot at this point. Here's my review.

I've gotta beat Kingdom Hearts II by Sunday so I can write a review for the school paper, so I've been focused on that for the last two days. It's pretty awesome; I just completed the Pirates of the Caribbean level, which was fairly faithful to the movie (you know, except for Donald/Goofy/Sora showing up, and that big Pete guy, and the occasional Heartless attack). The only thing I noticed was that you didn't really see the blood when the chick's hand was cut, and Will didn't put the gun to his head when he threatened to kill himself. But I supposed that's to be expected in a game designed for all ages.

I can't wait to get to the Tron level. I think it's still several hours off, though.

so has there ever been anything officially said on a redone or new Earthbound? Seriously, probably my all time favorite game.

Yeah, it came out a couple days ago in Japan, and don't expect it to ever be released here.

Nintendo is basing it's marketing off of the poor sales of it's predeccessor ten years ago, not realizing it's become the biggest cult game of all time.


I remember when Earthbound came out. Nintendo was banking on it to break the RPG genre here in America. Obviously, things didn't go as they had hoped.

What he said. Except I do think they'll bring it over here; Nintendo's been very solid recently about bringing over RPGs for the GBA.

Derek - Didn't I give you the strategy guide for that game like... four years ago?

yeah dude, still have it. the scratch and sniff cards in there still smell. weird.

Used to be a gamer until the motherfucking bitch-ass movers stole my fucking Playstation 2. Fucking asshole shitbags. Seriously, I want to fucking murder those ass-biting cock-gobblers.

Seriously? That's really shitty, dude.

The PS2 just dropped to $129, so you might want to consider picking up another one. You could probably get a used one for a solid $100.

Chances of Mother 3 coming here are like 50/50 probably. Though with no announcement from NOA about it at all and the fact that they never ported over the Mother 1 and 2 collection for GBA (which would've been EASY MONEY for them, considering they already have translated both of them) it's not looking good.

I mean, if they're too lazy and unwilling with earthbound to not even port over finished games, what chance do we have for them to translate a NEW earthbound game and bring it here?

I totally see where you're coming from, but I also look to the recent releases of Tales of Phantasia and Final Fantasy IV Advance for GBA as examples of why a U.S. release of Mother 3 is likely. Most importantly, both of those games were published by Nintendo, despite being developed by major third-parties. Nintendo wants to keep the GBA platform viable (despite the DS) long enough to launch the next Game Boy (which is, supposedly, a different line than the DS). With many GBA games being kid-friendly or based on licensed properties, I think they're realizing that they need to focus on a wider audience.

That said, I'd put it at about 70%. Each year that passes, we're getting stranger and stranger games, ones that we wouldn't otherwise expect to make it to the U.S. Even though Earthbound didn't succeed a decade ago, I think it has a much better chance in 2006. An announcement at E3 seems likely to me.

I have my fingers crossed, believe me, but the fact that they didn't port over a game that would've taken a week or so to localize is a grim sign.

You were playing FFIV Advance, right? Pretty awesome?

I never really played the SNES ones, so I may pick it up before my Italy trip this summer. I'll almost certainly have a DS Lite by then, unless they fuck up and push it back (it should really be out by late June).

It's probably worth it, I dunno, it's one of the best games ever and all, but nostalgia might be blinding me, i played it when it was still relatively new. like 12 years ago or so. Well, not new, but not old.

I played the new Perfect Dark for Xbox at my friends house and let me just say that

a. I forgot how much I missed, and how great the multiplayer for N64 was
b. I can't believe I remembered the old names, and 2nd functions of all the guns, and actually got upset when a gun wasn't the same in the new version

A lot of fun.

Perfect Dark Zero was alright. I thought it was pretty good when I had it, but I think I was blinded a bit by the hype. I'd give it a 7/10, probably. Not a killer app by any means, but worth playing.

Yeah, we're still trying to fight with the moving company to get reimbursed. The timing really sucked because I bought my first new game in months (MLB 06: The Show - hey, i like it) and I had just gotten 10 games into franchise mode. And of course, to ease with the packing and moving that game , along with all of my memory cards, was in the box with the PS2. So now I have to but a new PS2, new controllers, new memory cards, a new game, AND completely start from scratch on all my games.

Sounds like someone needs to be murdered.


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You know how to reach me.

I'd imagine that's a tough thing to prove. Good luck.

I only played a little bit of The Show, and it seemed pretty decent. Certainly much better than MLB 2K6, but it didn't seem to be up to the greatness level of MVP.

Lesson being, don't use E-Z Movers... very shady company.

The driver kept trying to make my girlfriend tip them before they finished unloading the truck and told her she should tip each mover like five times more than what the company told her over the phone. They told her the average tip was $10-15 per mover, but the driver told us we needed to give them $40-$50 per person. It was just a really shady situation because they kept asking her for the money before they would finish unloading the truck. I think they decided to steal the thing once they knew they weren't getting that crazy kind of tip. Ugh, just pisses me off to think about it.

nazi scum.

Now back to your regularly scheduled gaming thread. This has motivated me to hook up the N64 though, unfortunately WWF No Mercy is the only game I have left for it.

There are some really classic games for the N64; unfortunately, most of the great ones are still fairly expensive ($15+).

Ogre Battle 64.

Doom II.

Needs more SS Wolvenstein Officers and more Horst Wessel Lied.

Nothing like killing Nazis.

i have every n64 ever in ROM format. maybe ill throw them up on slsk

One of my favorite N64 games was Neon Genesis Evangelion (Import). In retrospect, it probably wasn't that great, but it was definitely the best game based on the series... and that was good enough for me.

i want an emulator just to play final fight. nothing more, nothing less.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009UUQG...glance&n=468642

^^^^^
Yeah, I totally just saw this and will pick it up soon. I mean, Street Fighter and Final Fight together at last. And I think they have Ghouls and Ghosts on there or whatever that game was with Lance who would lose his armor if he was hit. That game was cool.

I've never played Earthbound but I loved playing as Ness in Super Smash Brothers Melee. I never mastered him or anything and I think he was one of the harder characters in the game to play as. But his moves were really fun and with a little bit of luck and skill, I could put on a pretty impressive showing with him once in a while.


Whoa, I'm kind of shocked that I never knew about this. I expect that I'd find it disappointing, though.


I had Final Fight for GBA and it was a pretty faithful translation. Multiplayer was superfun, though my friend had to get a copy of it for himself too (I think) and then we had to get a link cable.

Actually, it's a really cheap game and terribly frustrating at times. I guess I just like the look of it a lot more than, say, Streets of Rage or the later versions of Double Dragon.

Now you would, yeah. Back when it came out (Spring 2000?), I thought it was the hotness. You basically played through the series; mostly battles with the angels, though there were some other gametypes in the missions. Each difficulty level above Easy had an additional level that included the scenes from End of Evangelion, and the final, complete ending had decent video footage from the end of the film. Oh man, thinking about how awesome that was (at the time) pumps me up, haha.

I ended up selling it a year or two ago for $50-60.

It was an import? Was it all in Japanese?

I don't remember seeing very much impressive-looking video on the N64. At least nothing much better than the cutscenes in Goldeneye.

Yeah, it's a Japanese import. I shelled out $90+ for it initially.

The video in Evangelion 64 was animation from the series/movie, but shown as a significantly reduced framerate. Yet, I was impressed, so it must have been somewhat decent.

It wasn't too hard to figure out, really. Some things are in English (like in many Japanese games), and knowing the Evangelion lore is a big help.

Sausage - IGN has screens of both FFV and FFVI for GBA. The screens are nothing special, but hey, now the games are real.

http://gameboy.ign.com/

I remember playing that Eva game for N64, the ROM anyway, couldnt figure out the controls so i stopped playing.


Oh cool, thanks for the link duder

so is that capcom classics for the psp worth getting? final fight is a classic, and so is 1941. but are the controlls good?

Nintendo Revolution is now named Nintendo Wii, worst console name I've ever heard. Wonderswan, eat your heart out.


http://revolution.nintendo.com/

Place your bets now: How long until the clever wordplay of Nintendo Wii (pronounced "we") wears off?

I give it a week. Then people will go back to calling it the Revolution. That'll teach Nintendo. Bastards.

I kinda like it, actually. Like they said, it's the same all over the world, Wii.
It'll stick, just you wait.

What were wii thinking.



lol

I don't think it is that bad, but if they weren't going to keep the "Revolution" name, they should have called it the "Nintendo RS."

I just read that SONY will loose around a billion dollers when they launch the PS3. It will cost around $800 to make one and sell for $450-$499.......same problem microsoft made with the first xbox. stupid.

Nothing out of the ordinary. Companies don't make money off hardware sales. It's been like that for as long as I can remember.