Strange Cookie

Hey everyone! My post in another topic led me to this: let's bring back a topic so often used you couldn't sell it for newt in edible form to a poor, hungry homeless chap at a garage sale. I was wondering, if you had to choose one single moment in your personal gaming history, one moment of utter delight and amazement, one gobsmakking moment you just know you'll carry with you for the rest of your gaming life... you can see the question coming from miles away... what would it be? My personal favorite has to be in, rather unsurprisingly, Ocarina of Time. The first time Link jumps to the future, and you leave the Temple of Time. Hyrule in ruins... The deserted marketplace... The mumbling zombies... The foreboding circle at the top of Death Mountain... The hovering castle above the lava... The darkness... And worst of all... Ingo running Lon Lon Ranch... How did it all come to this... Cheery start! :P

Just to answer the question, though: No, Alan Wake is now a Microsoft Studios-product, so consider it Xbox360/PC exclusive.

Here's my view: Good graphics is a "nice to have". Good gameplay is a "need to have". I agree that graphics can enhance the gameplay-experience, but it's doesn't "make" it. Think the "Mardi Gras"-scene in Hitman: Blood Money. The amount of people onscreen is staggering! It really gives a sense of scale, but if the gameplay had sucked, no amount of graphical trickery would have saved that mission. On the subject of style over polygons: think of Free Radical and the amazing job they did on the Timesplitters-series and Second Sight! Not very high on polygons but definitely high on style and animation! The best game-experience I ever had was in Ocarine of Time, when I first had to behold a Hyrule in ruins after I arrived in the future. The lonely marketplace, the mumbling zombies, the flying castle, the darkness... It was relatively low-tech, but even today no amount of polygons, normal-mapping, self-shadowing or fancy shader has made a more memorable scene. Even to date it sends shivers up my spine... I tried to make a point somewhere, but I lost myself halfway there. :wink:

Hey everybody! It's been a long time since I've been here! Fresh from the grave with a new identity to boot! You may remember me fro... Oh, nevermind. You won't remember me anyway... I've got a question. We all know Wii wil be backward compatible with GC-games (Hooray! ). I was wondering, if you play a GC-game on Wii, will you be able to save your game on the internal flash memory of the Wii or do you need a GC-memory card in the suplied slot? My common sense says: no, it won't, because the GC-emulator won't recognise the Wii's internal flash memory as a storage device. But than again, my common sense is't always that reliable or sensible. A penny for your thoughts? Or rather: a pat on the back. Yes, I'm a cheapa$$. :wink: