Toadofsky
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Sorry for double posting, but for those of you that don't want to play with Motion+ (I'd like to give it a shot in this game), here's something for you Dolphin emulator users...
http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/showthread.php?tid=20167
Keep in mind, this is NOT 100% perfect, not yet at least.
I have a copy of Skyward, but haven't tested it due to not having an IR sensor for the Wii Remote and such. Anybody that tries this config do share your thoughts or opinion on it.
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Found a copy of the accompanying album for the game, some great stuff in there.
Too bad Twilight Princess didn't have orchestrated music, definitely would have scaled up the epic-ness a bit. Though it wouldn't have helped all that stupid bug collecting in the areas overwrought with Twilight...
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the main theme is actually an arrangement of zelda's lullaby backwards
I listened to where somebody put the actual song in reverse. Thought that was pretty clever, but I hope they don't keep using that as an excuse for not coming up with new good music. Of course, I don't expect them to knock it out of the park every time...
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yeah they really touted the soundtrack being orchestral which is good but then it turns out that half of the music is bad anyways
I finished this a few minutes ago and I've decided that it's more or less as good as twilight princess
I haven't really listened to much of the soundtrack to this new game. I've only heard the main theme they've been playing and it's good, but it just doesn't really scream OMG! like some of the other songs I've heard. I'd say that since Kondo's involvement was minimal in this game, that's probably the reason (though I'm once again, probably mistaken). Somebody was talking about how good some sand temple's music was, but the one I heard wasn't that impressive, not to me at least.
I listened to some of the songs performed at the Zelda concerts and they were really really good, other than the wailing fanboys in some of them.
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Dolphin?
No. It isn't GPU reliant very much at all. If anything, it's CPU reliant. A modern CPU clocked at around 3.5GHz will get you a maxed out 30FPS in Skyward Sword, maybe a dip or two here. 4GHz intel processor? forget about it, 60FPS Mario Galaxy @ 1080p glory.
The only reason Zelda only gets 30 FPS is because that's what Nintendo hardcoded it for. Galaxy 1&2 are a beautiful 60fps the entire time.
From what I've read, if you want to get some of that 4XAA rendering a Graphics card helps a bit. But I'm sure I'm mistaken on some part of that. I also wouldn't mind taking a crack at those texture packs I've been seeing, especially for Luigi's Mansion and I think the Wind Waker has one also.
The reason I'm wanting a good card is to at least play other PC games that I'll eventually get to playing, Arkham City possibly being one of them.
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Yeah, same here. Last time I checked Nintendo was joining the fun with the likes of Sony, EA, Capcom and Square (among others).
I find it hilarious that Microsoft quietly backed out of supporting that bill because they could stand to get into trouble themselves. Of course, ask them to even use any sort critical thinking on this vague bill would be like asking them to make their next console affordable.
As far as seeing who else is on the list, it doesn't surprise me. EA Capcom and Square would more than likely try to use that bill as a means to kill used games. I wouldn't be surprised there would be legal loophole for them to be able to do it somewhere in there.
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Doesn't matter if OCR makes no money or profit. An IP is still copyrighted, and the companies can protect it or not protect it as they see fit. If a company dubs OCR as a threat to their IP for any reason, that company has the right to ask DJP to remove anything related to, or based on, what they own the rights to. They don't need a reason beyond "Because I said so."
And they will use that excuse. Don't be surprised if Nintendo and Square were to both ask for all their remixed music to be taken down.
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The image of jurassic park came into my head,
just the image of information bursting out even after they have this bill out would be amazing to see.
This act just reeks of 1984 style totalitarian state.
Control and manipulate what you can and can't do.
Really can't wait until the "old money" as toadofthesky put them, become extinct.
Won't necessarily happen, a major economic crash would have to happen, even then, just like a cockroach, I think the old money would survive a nuclear holocast. Companies operate as a corporate hive mind. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a company making profit, nobody has ever said that on either side of the political pond. The WAY they go about making profit is the problem. The MENTALITY is the problem.
The hive mind these corporations have is that they must make profits NO MATTER THE COST. It doesn't matter if they're stripping people of their freedom, or their rights. It doesn't matter if they're pulling the rug from under people's feet, or strapping them with debt. It's all money money money. Hey, I like money too, but anybody can tell you just from watching the way this world is going, that it corrupts oh so easily.
Getting back on topic, major businesses/corporations still seem to struggle in a technological world that consistently outpaces them, and they're tired of trying to keep up. They want to be the ones who write the rules, not the consumers. This is why we have $80 cell phone plans with access to the internet, and then be stricken with a 2gb limit. This is also why companies decry used game sales when the quality of their games speaks for themselves.
I'm really not trying to sound like an OWS protestor here, because I've had these thoughts for years before people starting protesting...
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That article's last few quotes just proves my point.
Big businesses FEAR small business because they don't want them taking their money/customers. They don't want competition. Why do you think they push for such ridiculous bills? Because they want CONTROL, COMPLETE CONTROL.
This is somewhat off topic, but I'd like to point out this little slice from a website I frequent often, THE-GHETTO:
http://www.the-ghetto.org/content/used-video-games-the-new-software-piracy
BOLD text is my edit....
In the face of declining music industry profits, the Recording Industry Association of America has pushed for mandatory FM radios in cell phones* and sues the hell out of people who download their music for free through the internet. They do this to control distribution. Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T? They oppose net neutrality. They want a world where internet service provides can set up tiered pricing plans and turn that series of tubes into cable television. Where you pay an additional five dollars for the privilege of accessing YouTube. Comcast, Time Warner, and AT&T want to control distribution.Why does Microsoft respond to the most financially successful period in the history of computer gaming (the late nineties) by releasing a video game console? Because the personal computer is an open-source platform. Anybody can make a game for the personal computer. At the turn of the century, “creating a closed-source platform and convincing people to make games for that platform” seemed like the only way Microsoft could charge companies for distribution and licensing fees on a Microsoft operating platform. And I’m sure Bill Gates spent the years after Steam’s release jamming an icepick into his eyeballs. By the time Microsoft responded to Valve’s wunderkind with Games For Windows, the product felt so irrelevant and poorly designed that it had a “Bush Did 9/11″ feel to it, as if it was deliberately designed to distance people from computer games and towards their Xbox 360. Microsoft created the Xbox as a means to control distribution.
Why would Activision CEO Bobby Kotick state that he is interested in developing versions of Guitar Hero where the software does not require a gaming console?* Where the software and the hardware come as a single package? To circumvent the distribution policies of a Microsoft or a Sony. Where Activision has to pay a fee to those companies every time a copy of Guitar Hero is sold on either one of those platforms. Activision wants to design their games so they can circumvent the distribution process. Activision wants to control distribution.
Why did Blizzard Entertainment code Starcraft II without any offline functionality? (“Connect to the server and tell the server you want to play offline” does not count.) It wasn’t piracy. People will get around that eventually. It was to make sure that the South Koreans and Western tournament organizers cannot create televised Starcraft tournaments and play the game without paying licensing fees. Blizzard wants to control distribution.
Why do companies fling themselves at an unproven startup like OnLive? In a market that is already saturated with the means for playing the software? Because it would give developers and publishers peace of mind. A fourteen-year-old prodigy couldn’t hop on the internet and charter for assistance in how to unlock and distribute the data on his copy of Call of Duty 9. Because there would be no copy. In a world where OnLive is the only dominant gaming platform, that kid wouldn’t have an easy means of getting access to the data. The companies who support OnLive want to control distribution.
Controlling used game sales is a means of controlling distribution. And like all of the actions above, none necessarily provide for a better product. Hell, it hasn’t been established that they provide for a more profitable product. If those decisions had transformed video games into the Silicon Valley Casino, we would not be talking about controlling the distribution of used video games. And controlling the distribution of video games will not make for a better or more profitable product.
I rest my case.
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I'm really glad someone brought this up. The legal implications are terrifying.
If congresspeople do not understand how bad this would be for not just the Internet, but the American economy, they should be committed to a mental asylum.
Congressman/women don't understand because they live in a bubble. Some of the questions they posed at Google were downright ridiculous. They don't understand how technology works, or how its business works. This is why USA is so far behind in education, technology, and pretty much everything else other than in pouring money in military tech.
Think about it: someone files a complaint -- perhaps frivolously because they just disagree with a site or its content -- and in all likelihood, the site would then be blocked and its finances choked off while the complaint is investigated.
The site has five days to argue against it, which is a split second in the legal world. As for the claims of damage to the American economy: completely overblown.
The vagueness of the bill is intentional. That way, if a company or politician doesn't like an article that calls them out, or is whistle blowing them, they can get it shut down without a hitch. There's no other way about it. Just imagine all those sites that give an honest review of the next "BIG" shooter from EA or Modern Warfare, no honest journalism would exist. Not that it really does anyway.
The majority of the people who pirate are not the ones who are going to say, "gee, now that I can't download it for free, I guess I better go down to Wal-Mart and pay full price for it." They just won't watch/listen to it!
The RIAA wants the rest of the economy to suffer immensely so that they can see a marginal rise in their already obscene profits.
This bill is essentially what I have told others for years when this stuff like this tries to come into play. It's "old money" that has refused to go along with the directions consumers ARE GOING. They'll die off before they'll change, or they'll go through it kicking and screaming. The movie rental chains is a good example. Did you guys know that Nintendo is supporting this bill? I even e-mailed them a letter over expressing my dissatisfaction with them. Will it deter them? Not at all. They're "old money", who haven't gotten with the times and will only do so kicking and screaming.
Piracy for small companies, nay, for most that are affected by it, sucks. But it's something they have to accept and live with. Throwing money at the problem doesn't make the problem go away. Of course, Congress hasn't learned that lesson and probably won't.
This bill is, for all intents and purposes, the nuclear option for the recording industry. They want to make websites strictly liable for anything that happens thereon. That will kill the Internet. Period.
They'd rather kill the internet than go along with it. They're essentially asking for Government protection. Oh wait, that' giving them more control! The same thing they've been decrying for the past 4 years that there's TOO much already.
I really don't think that the president will do anything to VETO it. A grand majority of politicians are the same, bought and paid for. One side decries that there's too much regulation, and the other side tries to make bills that they know won't ever pass, so that they can complain the other side is stifling the economy.
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Once I have a proper PC rig, I'll be invested into playing this new Zelda.
For the time being, I'll be finishing up Super Mario 3D Land and finally getting my hands on a copy of Solatrobo...
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I passed on Cave Story 3D because I've played Cave Story enough. I just don't care for that game anymore. I really like the art-style, especially the WiiWare version of the game. But I'd rather pick up Mario 3D Land (which I'll be doing tomorrow).
I also have to get Solatorobo, and see how good it is.
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this game starts really good but then gets really bad around the halfway mark
I'm having trouble determining if it's because of the bad influence of the bad games the later stages are based on, or if it's because Sega has never understood how to make a Sonic game's difficulty scale without making it really frustrating
both options sound plausible
This IS Sega we're talking about here.....
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Okay...
That's what you get when people are riding the coattails of his death and doing a poll where they include him for some odd reason. It's not a surprise that people would take the bait.
IMO Steve Jobs is kind of a sweat shop master of suck but what do I know?
Let the fallout settle and then all this Steve Jobs bs will be history :J
Not if fanboys have their way, they'll be putting up altars in his honor.
Jobs must be laughing in his new caterpillar form. Or maybe laughing as one of those foxcon employees going mad.
Too Soon?
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Lara Croft wasn't relevant again until Legend. That's when I started caring about her once more. Now, the same basic appearance and prince of persia styled gameplay got old. However, I'm super stoked for the reboot which changes up her look quite a bit, different gameplay and a new story. Thus making her relevant once more. At least to me.
Sonic is still sonic. If he's not in a Sonic 1 clone or some mediocre 3D game, he's in some game no one cares about like Spinball or Sonic Battle. Mario's in the same party games, sports games etc. Megaman I can't really say since he's my most hated game character.
Tomb Raider, Ninja Gaiden, Mortal Kombat, Civilization etc are still relevant series in my opinion because they actually change, evolve and improve and let the past be the past. Rather than shove the same games from 10-20 years ago with slightly better graphics down our throats. Sports games being the worst offenders of that.
I might just be a bitter jack ass though. I don't like Zelda, Final Fantasy, Call Of Duty, Chrono Trigger, or Halo either.
Honestly, I have nearly no interest in the upcoming Tomb Raider, just looks like it's mimicking everything else with cutscenes and quick time events ala Uncharted. Legend was a proper return to form. This new one just gives me vibes of Other M, which was an absolute disaster.
Back on topic, I'm thinking about picking this game up once it's a bit cheaper on Steam, gotta pay a few bills before I do. At least going and using canyourunit.com said I'd at least be able to run it at minimum specs.
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For a second, I thought you all were talking about communities related to web pages, if that was the case, I'd put Destructoid front and center.
As far as any game related communities go, eh, they all have their good and bad sides. The problem is that everyone anywhere focuses so much on negativity as a means to draw attention to themselves.
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PONIES BRONY MUSTANG EMBLEM lS DONE!!
Paint was lightened. Emblem was finished, gonna work on the mane now.
Jeremy Clarkson would never allow that in there, unless he blamed Hammond or James May for bringing it in.
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you should like get some paint
Duly noted dude.
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I just recently got a SNES mini (the actual Nintendo console, none of that FC TWIN Turbo stuff). And if I can get the Super NES Advantage joystick I'm shooting for on Ebay, I'm thinking about custom painting them. I've got an old dead SNES that I'm going to test, but I was wondering if anybody here has done this? What sites do you recommend to read on the procedure for it? Any help or links is much appreciated...
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edit: erm, uh, moving on, i guess...just saw the other posts.
That's okay, not trying to start one of those PC iz bettah dan consolez crap. I've just found more benefit with my PC is all (and now it's hooked up to my television
).With regard to PC building, like I said, I don't know much into that factor, so I'll take your word on that (which like I said, it may have more convenience for some than others).
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Nah, I've said my piece over it. No need to get into a deep discussion in another thread over it...
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pretty lol, toad. if by dumbed down, you mean a 350$-400$ unit that can play current-gen games with stunning graphics (albeit not quite as nicely as a 1200$ computer can do it, but way better at 1080p than even a decent system for new games) as well as legally stream TV, browse the web, and use social media features, all while requiring you to support game developers instead of undercutting them by buying used and supporting GameStupid?
SOUNDS TERRIBLE.
I've given up on consoles mainly because they're just a much more controlled PC by their respective makers. Does that mean I'm not willing to give game makers their share? Where did I say that? I guess if you think I'm implying that.... fine.
I love whenever somebody makes a mere mention of disliking companies punishing gamers for buying a cheaper copy of their game, they immediately think you're against companies getting their fair share. Guess what? I'm not, but I'm against them constantly trying to play the victim card. David Cage proclaimed he could have gotten more sales with Heavy Rain if gamers didn't buy them used. What he won't say (and what most gamers will), is that he would have sold more if he made a BETTER GAME that wasn't just a $60 Dragon's Lair that is barely half as good. And that's my issue with that talk.
If you make a game that can get mass appeal (which often applies to good marketing), instead of pandering to a small group and proclaim how you're "pushing the medium", and sell a ton of copies of your game, you have little reason for complaint. Used games aren't going anywhere, the same as piracy. They're an unfortunate side of the entertainment industry, and the sooner those industries accept it, and try to better themselves so as to get more sales, than they wouldn't be in the mess they're in.
If I'm not mistaken, you can get a fairly decent PC built nowadays to play these games today with the same amount of money you'd pay in the long term with a console. Granted, not everybody is willing or able to do that, and I wouldn't hold that against anyone.
And as far as streaming television legally, there's plenty of devices/websites that do it just as good as consoles, if not better (I didn't say I was against consoles doing it). Social features like Facebook are better used on PCs and phones. I've yet to see any good convenience for Facebook on XBox, other than for Microsoft to have another bullet point to their Gold Membership.
If you like consoles, fine. I've reached my entertainment with them.
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I was thinking about that whole two month period when you couldn't play on PSN because it was hacked, but yours is also good.
Microsoft just made a deal between Comcast and Verizon on their TV services to do streaming on the XBox. So yeah, anybody saying that their primary focus is on games, need only watch this years E3 to prove my point.
I don't have a problem with them adding these features, really I don't. But it's become obvious the current game business model is not doing them any favors now.
Your next gen is going to be a console that will require every game to be registered, and you won't be able to buy used (not without paying a fee). So essentially, it'll just be a dumbed down inferior PC, just labeled as an "entertainment experience".
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The only rapper that I'll ever accept to do this is Mega Ran, lately anything else I've heard hasn't been anything I've liked.
I'm not against them sampling, it's just what they do....
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
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I was just pointing it out is all. I'm more inclined to use the motion controls for the emulator anyways. It's just an option for those that DON'T want to use the standard is all.