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I played the Skies of Arcadia for GC, it was great. I'd love to find it on dreamcast.
So, no need for memory cards, right? there's no huge item I need to play dreamcast beyond the standard cables and controller, is there?
I did notice this thing on wikipedia: the VMU? That little video thingy you stick in the controller. What's up with that?
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About Phantasy Star Online... It can be played offline, right? As a normal RPG?
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So I went to a Cash Converters today, and I found what I was looking for: a Sega Dreamcast. It was $40 with all cables, and a controller, and as for games I found Namco Museum ($5), a GT racing game ($5) and Phantasy Star Online (2, I think, for $7).
But then, I thought.
Is it worth it?
I honestly don't know. I haven't heard much about the dreamcast, but I always thought it would be neat to own one.
But in your opinion, is it worth it, and if I get it, what games should I look out for?
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No Sigourney Weaver was the ship's computer i.e. the voice you heard announcing the rogue robots. Auto was done with MacinTalk, at least according to Wikipedia.
I would have lol'd so hard if it was weaver who did Auto. (I thought it was Otto, but whatever.)
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Both. I'm open to any experience that can challenge me...and would good in a portfolio. =)
I've got a couple album designs I was going to try my hand at, I'll see if I can get you a sketch of the designs.
In the meantime, I thought it would be cool if you were to take those OCRemix album arts and, instead of a white background, make the background a screenshot or artwork of the game (Like Metroid, for instance) with the title of the game in there somewhere. The hard part would be keeping the transparent headphone in the background, but it would look cool.
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Well, I promise, I want to remain true to the original. I still want this in pixels and as a side scroller. My only change would be to flesh out the story of the first Mario Bros title and to visually interpret what the world and characters may have looked like through real eyes. No true horror, no big scares. I really want this to give off the "Men in Black" type of comical hysterics. Sure, Goombas are gonna get squished, but not with gore. Perhaps slimy goo, but still in a Ghostbusters kind of "Eew."
Heh heh, sounds like fun.
I'd help, but I'm lousy when it comes to game design. i tried my hand at game maker, but I was never really able to figure out jumping and gravity.
I might be able to help with the story a bit, but not for the next couple of weeks; I'm REALLY bogged down with tons of stuff right now.
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Nice.
I wouldn't mind doing some album art for people.
Dude, you should.
Do you mean OCRemix albums, or albums for anyone?
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Anyway, my opinion on the "next format" is an odd one. I feel that since USB Flash Drives are dirt cheap (18 bucks for a 2 gig drive) they could conceivably be used to store read only data.
You've got a compact item that can replace any aspect of the CDs. It's portable, you can have a portable player, and while the data rate is not the best, it will improve over time.
Then you can also buy a bunch of "blanks", download music and boom you can have "physical copies" of downloaded material.
That actually makes a lot of sense.
Maybe they could supply "blanks" as you say, and they could be specially designed to copy, organize and arrange your music/movies etc.
for example, having special drives for a particular artist or movie company. At the rate technology is going, it won't be long before we see 10 gig drives for $20.
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This is cool stuffs.
Wasn't there a thread a while back that made album art for individual OC remixes? Or am I making that up?
THAT would be cool
Honestly, this is neat. But I already went through the trouble of organizing all the songs into Game Albums and searched for album art for each game. Now how do I incorporate these...?
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I think it's been said, but I and other people enjoy having the physical videos, too. It's kinda cool to look at your rows of videos as you decide which one to watch, or flip through those pearly white Wii games.
The Virtual console games, while cool, are disappointing in this area: there is no physical reassurance that I bought the game, instead only a little picture on the screen. I think the same applies for videos: in most people's minds, a "hard copy" is never a bad thing to own. I can think of several times I've lost tons of stuff on my computer (Like movies in iTunes), but owning the physical copies made it easy to copy again.
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Wow. That was truly impressive.
It's almost scary to think that if third parties dropped off, the PS3 and 360 would die nearly instantly.
I entirely agree. Fun is what's important in video games, and people just don't seem to get that anymore. The gamer market is being flooded with gramers (Check out 'Nametags') who only play halo and madden, and care more about being cool with powerful hardware than having fun.
Like you said, that's why Nintendo is constant.
You guys should check out Game Overthinker. Run a search for his videos; they deal a lot with these kinds of issues. In one episode, he explains why Nintendo fans are so crazy over the success of the Wii and he points out the flaws with the 'hardcore' audience's opinion that games like mario and zelda are 'gaaaaay'.
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Right about now, Blueray does mean nothing.
Around 2012, it will become a more important medium. That's what this format war was about.
Blu-ray doth bringeth the end of the world in 2012.
lol.
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Bluray won a meaningless war against HDDVD.
HDDVD was never the true enemy. Most people predicted its demise before the war even began.
Bluray will never, EVER win the war against standard DVDs. Now that they have been adopted, people are not simply going to abandon them to another new format that pretty much also demands the purchase of a brand new, very expensive television set as well as sound system just so they can spend even MORE money rebuilding the collection that they already started on DVD.
No, it is much too early for a new format.
No kidding.
I remember, maybe about 6 or 7 years ago, when Monsters Inc. was still new, we didn't get a DVD player until my mom won a monsters inc. DVD from a radio show. Then we went all out on a nice, 27" tube TV (It was great at the time) and a surround sound system, and we've been satisfied since. Just having to pay over $500 for a new player and over $1500 for a TV to enjoy the new movies on just doesn't seem worth it. Besides, I can think of few movies where I am perfectly satisfied NOT being able to see every nuance of the guy's face.
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Guitar Hero 3 had an awkward sense of timing between single notes and hammerons because of that window. The fact that the hammer on window was retardedly big also made it too damn easy.
What's the problem with the hammer ons? GHIII was the first one I played, and I got used to the hammer ons in it, now you're telling me they were off? I thought the hammer ons in Rock band were weird, not the other way around.
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I HATE the Rock Band guitars.
YES. I can't stand them either.
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No vocals on created tracks is fail though. And Activision hasn't been very supportive on the DLC front, much less in providing a variety. This is a wait and see IMO.
So vocals are in, though. cool.
But imagine how hard it would be to get vocal recording done right. First, you'd have to sing on tune all the way through, then the game would need to figure out what pitches you're singing and translate them into more general pitches. That doesn't sound easy, and if you can upload your songs online (You can, can't you?) just imagine what could go wrong.
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I'd love to see some concept art, could you post some?
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I don't know about you guys, but from what little I've heard, it sounds amazing. Being able to create your own songs? Wow, just wow.
This looks WAY better than rock band. I've played rock band, and I own Guitar Hero III and I prefer GHIII because of the higher difficulty, and just overall better built guitar. The rock band ones seem a little, unresponsive? Plus I still can't figure out how to do hammer ons in rock band.
So the drum kit also looks great, 2 raised cymbals and three drum pads. Any word yet on a microphone?
Discuss, post pics, links or anything relevant.
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Reminder: Deoxys Event at Gamestop this weekend and next weekend.
Is EB Games a subsidiary of Gamstop? Because I've never seen a gamstop in canada, but there are certain items in EB games that say gamestop... 0.o
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Really, isn't that what you do with remakes, you see the original one first and see what changed with the new one? Isn't as fun the other way around, I say.
That's very true. After all, I can't say I would've been too joyous over pkmn firered except for the fact that I played the crap out of red and yellow, and now, even after I've finished the elite 4, every time I pop in firered it's like a total nostalgia explosion. FF4 DS also looks great in that respect.
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Some of the ones "Haley" trades you seem pretty awesome, but... is it worth the $10 to me? Not really.
If I go on another breeding spree later, maybe I'll need the space, but it's just so lame... even if you do get "unlimited" Mew with every purchase. I hear it takes about an hour to restart Ranch, "reupload" your 1000 pokemon or whatever and get another Mew. Sheesh...
Actually, if you mean remove and re-install ranch, it's probably closer to...a week? every time you fill the ranch to max capacity, it takes a day before the ranch is rebuilt to sustain even more pkmn.
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Lol, I guess I'll pick up the original too, even if I want to get TS sometime in the future ;p
I kinda like the 'gritty' style lower quality graphics have; the PS1 and DS have that style, and it definitely sets a mood.
I didn't realize they overhauled the game THAT much: Redoing music and cutscenes? That seems a little, what's the word, disrespectful to the original?
I'll grab MGS for PS1 next time I see it, then. It would feel good to boot up the old box, anyways.
BTW, MGS3 is for PS2, right?
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Sweet, thanks.
I guess twin snakes is the best place to start then, considering I don't even have a PS2
I'll get a PS2 someday; hopefully then I can play the rest of the story, then get a PS3 sometime and play MGS4.
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A while back I found the PS1 version of MGS at my EB games for $10 bucks, but I didn't get it because I wondered if it was worth looking for the GC version instead. They're the same game but the GC has more 'stuff' and better graphics, so do you think I should get the GC version instead?
I've become very interested in the MGS games, and I'd like to try them but I want to start from the beginning and get the whole experience.
P.S. Is it true that the GC version includes the original MG for NES?
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Sweet.
So, I got the DC, and it's pretty neat. I like the little VMU, but the batteries are dead so it can't work on its own. I'm gonna get some new ones soon.
I Started playing PSO, but it's really weird. Not much of a story yet, but it is fun, so I'll play it some more. I huess the online service is long gone now, huh? too bad.
Man, I still can't get over how funky the controller is, lol.
So now I just have to keep a look out for some games, which won't be easy.