12 Today @ 12:07 am July 23, 2007, 2:30 pm
 | The Anything Thread
Oh no, it says it right on the packet. It's insane, I mean I've already bought the chocolate, they don't need to convince me to eat it. What else would I do with it?
The Anything Thread
Dove? That's mad... Well I guess Galaxy doesn't really have any more to do with chocolate than Dove actually... Has Dove started claiming that the shape of chocolate can affect the way it tastes yet then?
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They sell Galaxies at TESCO? O_o
Nintendo conference
Yeah, Partners in Time was nowhere near as Superstar Saga I thought...
And I'd much rather Nintendo were releasing new games (Since they don't seem to have been releasing any for ages) instead of gluing Wii controls onto old GC games. Jungle Beat's the worst one, since it won't even use the bongos. I think pretty much every reviewer on the planet agreed that using the Wiimote instead of Bongos for DK Jet Race was a TERRIBLE idea...
Nintendo conference
In a completely shocking announcement Nintendo have announced at their annual press conference that they're going to begin literally rehashing old Gamecube games and giving them Wii controls. They're not even bothering to pretend they're new games anymore. Wonderful!
Along with this new-found honesty they announced a few actual new games, such as Prope's (Yuji Naka) Let's Tap. The official site has a message from Naka which apparently reads something like "I've been making games for 25 years. At last, I've made a game that can be played without holding a controller"
Yeeeeeeeeah... You read that correctly. Theories are that you'll somehow play the game with your foot, with the Wiimote lying upside down on the floor...
There's a few other interesting sounding games, Mario & Luigi 3, Sin and Punishment 2, a Final Fantasy Wii game that literally looks like a DS game. There was, however, almost a whole second of footage of this:
I was getting a bit worried since there doesn't seem to have been any mention of it for almost a year but I guess it does still exist
So, Megaman 9...
Yes, because timing can prevent you being killed by an enemy that jumps out of a pit when you jump over it.
OH WAIT-
I don't mind games being difficult, but they have to at least be possible the first time. The game seems like it's just trying to piss me of on purpose. Enemies that come out of nowhere with no way of you knowing they exist unless you've already been killed by them have nothing to do with skill. Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe are hard, and I love it, but they aren't designed by complete bastards.
I don't see how going back to the old, practically impossible, style and shitty graphics gives it a more 'general appeal'. Your average casual gamer isn't going to be able to get past the first level, and that's if they even both trying after the first time an enemy they didn't know about jumps up and rapes them. And THAT'S if they don't ignore the came completely because of the way it looks. A shitty 8-bit style is not going to get people who judge a game by how it looks in the first five seconds to like it. And yes, most casual gamers do do that. The only reason the Wii has done well is because of the controller.
As for them being more popular, that's just because people stopped playing games. Arcade games died out because no-one really wanted to play them anymore, and if we believe people like Reggie the number of 'gamers' started decreasing after the 80s. It doesn't mean the old ones are better.
In any case, just because something is more popular, doesn't mean it's good. The Call of Duty games sell millions and they're terrible, I can't see why anyone likes them. Same with awful movie tie-ins and other horrible generic FPS games.
Basically what it comes down to is that Megaman 9 isn't a game for Megaman fans. It's a game for people who played Megaman on the NES and haven't played it since because they got bored of it. People who maybe USED to be Megaman fans, but aren't anymore. It's designed to play on your nostalgia and make you think it's better than it actually is. Thankfully I only started liking Megaman after it actually got good, so I seem to be immune...
Edited by Megadanxzero, 02.10.2008
So, Megaman 9...
To be honest Megaman 8 and (The real) Megaman 9 are the only good ones. All the NES ones are terrible and most of the SNES ones are not quite as bad, but still pretty bad.
And I thought it was called Rockman and Forte in Japanese (Though I never understood why). What's Dark Falz?  ;;
Edit: Ooooh, I get why he's called Forte now... Forte and Gospel... Very clever. I think I prefer Bass and Treble though. When I first played it I though it just meant the french word for strong 
Edited by Megadanxzero, 02.10.2008
So, Megaman 9...
Absolutely fucking terrible... The movement is just shit, why does it not move as soon as you press a direction? The enemy placement is stupid and often ends up catching you as you jump over a gap, without any way for you to know before you do so, and obviously killing you. There's no way to avoid it. It's not 'hard' it's just stupid.
Not to mention the fact that it looks shit. The 360 version isn't even HD, it's just upscaled and it looks horrible. That and Megaman has none of the old powers he's had for like... 15 years.
In any case the DLC is a complete piss take and even if for some reason you do find the trial fun (You insane person) I say everyone boycotts it until they release all the DLC for free ,since it all should have been in the game in the first place... In the mean time I'm gonna play the REAL Megaman 9 (Megaman & Bass) instead
Edited by Megadanxzero, 01.10.2008
Another "Where Did Everybody Go?" Topic
That would be awesome! Besides, going outside FTL...
Another "Where Did Everybody Go?" Topic
Yeah, I never had one of those... I just had several 'posting on forums' periods instead
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