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Nintendo should do a mochup of that for April Fools day I was only referring to its environment (which, as overly-detailed as it was, I felt was nowhere near as atmospheric or dazzling as Prime 1), and its story. [spoilers] (Although, as I'm about to explain, there's not much of a story, so go ahead and read this anyway!) Way before you even see the ice-themed guy's ice-copter in the lava part of the jungle planet, it's incredibly obvious you're going to have to go to three vastly different-coloured planets to defeat the three one-dimensional hunter characters who have *gasp* become corrupted with phazon! I'm wondering why the heck those guys turn evil (oh wait it's because Phazon is an evil substance right??), meanwhile Samus remains completely sane, and maintains the unwavering trust of the Federation and several giant brains. Waking up from a coma was a nice touch, but then all of a sudden "oh hai samus here is your godly weaponry kthnxbye". Three bounty hunters go insane and run amok with poweful phazon weaponry - meanwhile the fourth hunter (Samus) wakes up from a coma and must immediately test out her new phazon weaponry, if I recall correctly, in the FREAKING CHAIR SHE WAS LAYING COMATOSE IN. You know, just to make sure that if she goes insane and runs amok like the three others, she's gonna have enough firepower to defeat a small army. I'm serious, the cartoon shows I watched as a kid had far more depth than this. The stories in Metroid Fusion and Prime 1 were FAR better in every way. Although I will give it credit for one thing. After the silly "ok lets go in a wormhole and have a space battle for no reason" part, I felt the story couldn't get any worse... and then as you travel down deeper into Phaze, it just keeps getting worse! But then I started fighting Dark Samus, and realized "holy crap they didn't even TRY..... THIS BOSS FIGHT IS SOOO AWESOOOOME!!!" And then I blew up a giant brain and the planet exploded into rainbows or something and all was well ^____^ True story. That last boss was pretty challenging too and took me several tries, best part of the game! [/spoilers] Yep, I totally agree, but I wasn't too excited by its story unfortunately =( Yaay! I think I already posted here the story of how I beat the "second battle" in one hit. Funny story: I shot a bomb arrow The end.

Zelda: The Feather Clock: The Clock. It's a game about an anime about a farmer who buys a Zelda feather clock that plays some sort of Zelda music collection mega-pack 3 times an hour. Three days later the moon crashes to the earth and you have to harvest it, and inside the moon you find the game that HideousBeing posted a trailer for. And it looks like I'm far from the only person who's thought of a deep Zelda game plot that takes place in the present. (Mine's better though ) Since the clock likely has as much to do with Metroid as it does with Zelda, I'll throw my two cents in here too: Although Zero Mission is my favourite Metroid gameplay-wise, Metroid Prime really had that "truly innovative and fresh" feeling for me that OOT had for many. While Majora's Mask felt new and fresh to me as well (and a very creative deviation from the rest of the Zelda series), Metroid Prime 2 felt like a cross between Metroid Prime 1 and Hollywood movies (in a VERY BAD way). Metroid Prime 3's story and atmosphere I felt was even more throw-away, and the game overall was (pardon the pun) a PRIME example of the suckiness of today's Nintendo console installments. But while Metroid Prime 3 had its moments of fun challenging combat, Twilight Princess had nothing to offer in terms of challenge (unless you count the optional Cave of Ordeals). I've posted this before, and I'll post it again: the latest generation of Nintendo games treat you like a 5-year-old who's watching a bloom-filled kids' show with a nonsensical or predictable plot that's supposed to be epic, and you're never supposed to get a game over or go the wrong way because that's not part of the epic story, and any shmoe who plays the game has to be able to get to the epic bloom-filled ending with little to no thinking or challenge. Except you have to play it for 18 hours or else people will think it wasn't worth their money. Notable exceptions are Super Paper Mario (for the lols and the crazy story), the Purple Coin challenges from Galaxy, and Galaxy's soundtrack - those actually WERE epic. The other thing that characterizes the bad games I'm ranting about is that they have nearly zero replayability. Meanwhile I'm still playing Super Metroid and random NES titles over and over again. Ok I'm done ranting now

Any more submissions yet? I'm still considering starting mine

If I was interested in making music, I would ask where/when the song would be played, and the answer might give me a much better idea of what kind of song to make. But I'm not, so I won't ask =p At first I assumed the budget question was referring to the prizes and such on the site... is it?

Maybe I'm too critical of my own stuff, but I think the original OCR text looks a lot nicer. Maybe things look a lot nicer when NWG is there

You may be wrong, but didn't Spiderman 3 get almost as much in the box office for some reason? Looks like the current record belongs to... Titanic The key to failure is to try to please everybody.... so I guess the key to success is to please everyone but Adam_Slight?? I enjoyed the Dark Knight a lot, despite its imperfections.

Hmm, now I have to figure out if you're kidding or not. For me this movie is the pinnacle of "so bad it's hillarious". Then again, I only watched the first 3 quarters or so... Are you kidding me?!? Both of those movies are great! I tend to stay away from movies I know are going to be bad, so I haven't watched a lot of REEEALY bad movies. The only movie I've rented that I couldn't finish was "Eight Legged Freaks", but I really can't say it's a bad movie because I didn't finish watching it.

So... does this mean it's not too late for me to start?

I'm not much of a remixer (my chance of getting on this site any time soon is.... rather small), but I loved Oracle of Ages and I just found out about this project (from your sig!) I haven't found the time to make any music in a while now, but I may consider contributing one of these months, if you'd like. Also, bump!

Hellz yeah and I posted it here too, but I didn't get a response I hadn't seen/read anything about it until now though. Wonder if anyone else here noticed the remix...?

Cover art is also by SoulinEther (in addition to dish & me) [Edit] Haven't heard every song yet, but amazing stuff so far!

Aha, found it! I still like wingless's cover the best =) http://www.thewingless.com/reservetank_front.jpg http://www.thewingless.com/reservetank_back.jpg (seems the track list on the back cover is a bit out of date though)

I didn't think you were going to use that cover art! Here's the full-sized one if you want: http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/7795/blindcover3be2.jpg Can't wait to listen to it!

Sounds like you did it almost exactly like this: That is almost EXACTLY what my solution looked like. Though I think my point-to-the-left thing was a little more to the right. I did it this way though: Everybody wins!

In other words, I think you're mistaken =p It seems possible that parts of the original song could have been sampled, much in the spirit of a traditional remix. This was probably cleared up a while ago though, so I'll shut up =)

It's like REMOVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING A ReMix that's quite great! It's like rhyming STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUFF And this song really sucks! Haha, is this a "favourite removed remixes" thread in disguise?? =p I haven't heard the Dr. Stewart remix for a while now, but I think the Cossack remix (this one, right?) has a little more arrangement of the main melody than the Dr. Stewart mix had - but the main melody in the original Dr. Stewart song is so simple, changing it at all would create something arguably too DISTANT from the source tune. That said, I highly prefer the original Dr. Cossack song to the remix, and I like the Dr. Stewart original and the remix about equally... ok, maybe I like the remix a little more. Such fantastic source tunes!

It doesn't let me load from any level I want, so I don't know which level 3:4 is... can you give a screenshot? Also, this calls for a thread merging! I missed the other one because of the incredibly vague thread name... I guess I'm not the kind of guy who checks out every thread to see what great Flash games might be inside, so thanks for posting this one

Great concept, great execution! I just beat the demo. Do you want opinions/suggestions about the game, or about level 3:4? As for the game, it did a fantastic job of making a puzzle look daunting, and then making it actually fun to play, and playing beautiful music when you finally start to get it. My only critisisms are: High/Medium graphics options ran kind of slowly (and Low was ugly), and the use of PURE primary/secondary colours wasn't too hot (but maybe it was neccesary to get a good-looking glow effect??) As for Level 3:4... umm, tighten up the graphics a little bit. I hope they have another game they need designed ^__^ [Edit] I would have also liked the volume changes to be more gentle - I'll make sure to email them about that =D And about the slowness... I'm using an old-ish computer, and I don't think I have the newest Flash player installed ><

It doesn't make a bit of difference guys; the balls are inert. I agree with what you're saying about The Last Samurai... but I'm not so sure anyone's implying that it didn't make sense - only that it's very unlikely, or a huge coicidence, or just difficult to believe the concept at first. I don't know a lot about Dragonball, but to me the characters don't look like Dragonball characters without the correct hair. It didn't look like the trailer contained anything like Dragonball-style combat either, aside from the charging energy stuff in their hands. But that explosion near the start looked bang on! (I'm not kidding, despite the near-unavoidable pun)

Yep. Not to mention all the spelling and punctuation mistakes. For all we know, she's telling her buddies "Hey, look at this idiotic email I got!" I haven't played MGS either, but come on, BAD graphics??? This is clearly an immature and poitless feud, and so I must go!

A next metal gear is you! A next metal gear... is... SPARTA!!! The two i's suggest that it's MGS for the Wii. The i in the last circle is upside-down because MGS is full of exclaimation marks. And the Power symbol (which is on the Wii) is a hint that MGS will appear in the next issue of Nintendo Power. And what colour is the Wii's power light when the power is on? Green! AND, what do they say about a next metal gear's power level? It's OVER THREE SIXTY!!! Therefore it is clearly NOT three sixty, and since it's also not PS3, then it must be Wii. But yeah, it's probably 360 or iPod. Metal Gear Solid Thing. They're really not revealing much...

AAAAHH Don't click those links, they lead to the first page of the thread, which has about 200 embedified videos!! Oh, nevermind, seems my browser is able to handle it just fine =)

What's this, an opportunity for shameless self-promotion?!? Oh even better, it's LAOS! Haha, some of that was pretty good I would consider buying that shirt too If you're interested in poop though, I've made some quality stuff myself. Here, you can have these first three for free *opens up his trenchcoat and it's full of poop* Actually, I try to be pretty original with my "poop-esque" videos, and have been getting nothing but great reviews. It's like "poop for people who think 90% of poop is a waste of time". While I do enjoy random clips with no structure or flow, I try to give mine a bit of a story, and a touch of epicness. They're a tad long, but if you watch any of them you HAVE to start from the start of the video, or you'll have NO IDEA what the heck is going on! So far I've kept it very "family-friendly" too. Except there's a few "innapropriate" words in that alternate ending video. [Edit] All these embedded videos in this thread are actually slowing down video playback >< DJP, you gotta help us! Ima turn these into links. DAMN it's hard to turn these into links! >< Over Nine Thousand Toasters: http://you tube.com/watch?v=Kq_mk9QisP0 Over Nine Thousand Toasters II: The Evil Faces of The King: http://you tube.com/watch?v=lVohCC2-K8c The alternate ending of Over Nine Thousand Toasters II: The Evil Faces of The King: http://you tube.com/watch?v=lfh-ZZPZPCA I'm working on #3 right now, it's looking like it'll be better than the other two. Within the next week I'll be releasing a trailer for it. Yes. A trailer.