darksnowman

Hey all! Ive just completed this about an hour ago, what a game! A great and complicated political, racist story... good tactical gameplay, lovely cutscenes - poor in game graphics - but that didnt matter because I kept playing and playing. It took about thirty hours and Id add a good few onto that to account for all the restarts I had to do. I thought I was pretty thorough in this but your archer guy, Shinon, didnt rejoin me and ** MILD SPOILER ** there were two other "??????" on the artwork list at the end... hmmm. Anyhow, twas my first Fire Emblem and it comes greatly recommended.

Last summer I got some games on the cheap like Second Sight, Soul Calibur and Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tomorrow. They were all like a fiver each, new. I love summer bargains!

Can I ask what CSS is? Annoying games, Metroid Hunters... Ive not played this in ages. Ive not had any anger from the one player game - but Ive barely played it at all. What it was was one night I actually had the chance to play online, no one that Ive added in Animal Crossing were on so I played Hunters. Some random totally murdered me relentlessly, I couldnt see him. He took me out in one shot. I was rippin and didnt know what to do to rectify the situation and win.

Chun Li and just keep jump kickin em into the side of the screen, trapped. We did a Street Fighter fest a year ago on some Playstation rerelease my friend bought and a guy who's not really the most prolific of gamers shamelessly discovered and used this tactic. Disgusting but if you need to use it Bardyboy then go for it.

Yeah I think everyones just about covered it. Its hard to be total hardcore to the extent of owning all consoles. I mean, Im just Nintendo in my buying, but not the extent that Im blind to the fact that there are decent games on other computers. I would consider myself hardcore because I like games, I have done for quite some time, I research whats coming and whats hot and whats not... I look below the kiddy exterior/ incredibly cool exterior to find out how the game plays and what kind of experience it provides. Im finding less and less time to actually put into my gaming nowadays but I still keep up to date with whats happening and all. For the record, I got all hundred and twenty stars in Mario 64 but not many more than the required amount in Mario Sunshine. Im pretty sure I completed F-Zero X on every mode... but Ive not done everything in GX...

Ten Eighty's a great game... though Im yet to complete and unlock everything in it. I think its overshadowed by SSX nowadays though, I have both Ten Eighties and SSX 3 an On Tour and I think that those two SSX games have a lot of good stuff in them that Ten Eighty is missing. I think the trick system in Ten Eighty is much more realistic but I wish Nintendo had thought of having the whole mountain feel the way SSX has. As for you Fire Emblem hunters, I have it and Im not selling! You shoulda bought it when it came out!

Obviously it depends whats available at the beginning but games I dont have and would like to get on it are Zelda II and the NES Marios as Ive never had the opportunity to buy Mario Allstars - though I played it and loved it. Id've bought Super Mario 3 for the GBA if it wasnt so dear! Also, being the sucker I am Id like to atleast get DKC III again, if not the whole trilogy.

Aye the DS is a wonderful little machine... I think with looking at it we could even go as far as to say that Nintendo arent changing and adapting with the market, theyre changing and adapting the market. If you see what I mean. As for the price of cartridges, £30 was an absolute bargain in the mid to late N64 days when at the beginning they were £50 - £60 and I even saw Turok 64 a few days after its launch at £70! An absolute joke yet somehow I still managed to build a great collection of N64 games... to take it back one more step, Im pretty sure that even Donkey Kong Country cost a similar price, but thats really stretching my memory... wasnt it £60?

Im disappointed to see that its all looking to be for Sony, however isnt it a testament to how the tide is changing away from them that we can feel genuinely let down by this? I actually did expect one of the games announced to be on some kind of Nintendo console. Still, only time will tell... and really, (wasnt it pedro who said it?) do we honestly need to see so many Tales of games released at once? ... overkillage?

Yeah, so speaking of using the controller in some way, how about it just being as simple as being able to point at and select the cards in battle?

conzer and gigaplay: Im just saying that Im from Ireland and the mags are readily available no hard feelings though chaps!

What about the chances of the game sticking with Kalas or do you think it'll change from world to world like Final Fantasy?

If you go into the GameCube forum you may have noticed Ive been posting recently in the Baten Kaitos thread. If you've been there in the past you may have noticed I posted in the Tales of Symphonia thread. I find I dont spend much time in the Wii section here, its all just speculation. Yeah, its fun to speculate but still, Im just waiting out for some more facts to be released before I dive the full way in. I was just in the Tales of for Wii thread and that got me thinking. Were pretty starved of RPGs with Nintendo, the RPG love seems to hit the handhelds more than the home consoles. Baten Kaitos then is a new RPG series with a prequel coming to GameCube this year... unlike Tales of, Baten Kaitos is Nintendo exclusive for the time being. So what I want to know is if/ when they bring this to Wii what do you want to see? We'd be happy to see a Tales of Symphonia sequel/ prequel with the same characters but would we want this with Baten Kaitos seeing as were already awaiting a prequel? Lets get some ideas flying about!

So generally we'd all be excited about a new Tales of game on Wii? And we'd be all the more excited if it was related to Tales of Symphonia somehow?

I voted Duke. Im interested in Red Steel if it turns out good. I cant get into Metroid games. Ive got Duke for PC and N64 and got a great amount of play and fun out of Duke 64 and some online fun on the PC - though the N64 controller is the best controller to date for shooters... I do expect Wii to change this however

Yeah thats what you gotta do, Ive learned to do that too. I been tyring to listen to everything thats been said to fully experience the game... I find however that I skip through the sections when Mizuti speaks.

I try not to compare them... but thinking about it Ive got least play time from Gold, completed the Pokedex in Red and gave it a whole lotta hours aswell... then theres the latest generation thats taken alot of stick. However Ive put alot of energy into Ruby and found it a very good game. Lots to do and some very cool new Pokemon. I voted for the Ruby/ Sapphire generation because I also own Emerald, Coloseum and Gale of Darkness so that must mean Ive found it to be a special time to be playing Pokemon.

conzer, theres not much problem finding the Official Nintendo Magazine here and strictly speaking I find myself living in Ireland. However my side still works in pounds and is commonly known as Northern Ireland whereas I think you mean you have problems getting it in the Republic of Ireland? I might get the first issue of this but I been getting the Official mag since its relaunch and I dont think with having the web theres any need for buying the both!

A nice opening post there seamus. One thing thats stuck in my mind from it is what you said about Iwata becoming top man and the subsequent release of the GBA SP. I never thought that there was a connection between the two until now... the way you make it sound that Iwata took over and instantly began turning the tide and I think that the GBA is as good an example as any. I got my GBA when it came out, it was kinda biggish, a strange GameGear type shape and the screen could be difficult to see... being blinded by the gaming goodness I could get from it I overlooked these small problems. Then like you say came along the Iwata and the SP, I never drew that particular parallel before... but its a rather interesting one. Weve seen that Nintendo are adapting themselves with the super sleek Wii and the DS (both versions, I have no problems with the design of the original!) but to think that it began with the little SP is a bit of a weird thought for some reason. I like it though.

Ive got back to this while having a brief pause from Baten Kaitos. Its needed the getting back to cos I was only on mission two or three! Then in one sitting, what do you know but the game becomes unputdownable and Im up to like mission ten atleast now. Its my first Fire Emblem game and its great... I kept hearing the graphics are fantastic in this but in my opinion they coulda done with some work to some characters - the pirates looked horrendous. One other thing is maybe the running patterns coulda been smoothed out a bit? The directions people run can be very angular. All in all its a great game and Im definitely thinking seriously about getting one or both of the GBA games now... the only thing is Im using my time to game to the max at the minute and get caught up with these games and I dont know how much longer Ill be able to do this... so much to do and so little time!

Thanks for that konfucious, I knew it would be something simple like that - isnt it always? Ive got things happening again. Anyone remember Wazn? That place was exhausting even me, all that trudging through the snow. It was cool at first but it was so slow! Anyway the place was very nice and the music was kinda sad in the castle, kinda reminded me of Links Awakening. Now Ive got it saved in the Empire. Im a few floors up the place and found a save point in Geldoblames throne room so I took the opportunity to save it and turn it off. Tis a good game though, theres no doubting it.

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Ive not watched it but when I saw BNP the first thing I thought of (and thought this thread was related to) was the Parisian bank, the BNP! Duh!

Aye, something nice and new and different for the nice and new and different version of Pokemon to be released on the GameCube? Gale of Darkness is a game I need to get back to, and this Pokemon chitchat is making me wanna go and get battling with Eevee in it...

Is that all his head or some strangeness thats grown out of his skull? Im no Final Fantasy hater but, man, Ive no idea who he is or which FF he comes from, any backstory for us commoners?