Helmsly

I think this is brilliant.

You don’t think that in all the countless interviews with Reggie, Perrin Kaplan, Miyamoto and Iwata over the past month or so and all the hands on previews and questions from all the worlds gaming press across the 3 days at E3 earlier last month , that not one person asked what was under the flap? The question came up quite a few times and whoever was being asked was always deliberately coy about it. Like its already been said, most people knew it was just going to be the SD memory cards but the speculation started when it was hinted that there could be more then just memory card slots under it. It’s the fact Nintendo felt the need to be so secretive about something so trivial.

Quoted for truth as they say. I mean really…SD memory cards? This could have been revealed at E3. I know Nintendo just hold back things knowing the internet will be rife with speculation and although I suppose that’s good for gaining interest on the Wii , when whatever it is finally revealed its such a let down and a bit anti climatic. The console will be out in less then 6 months and so will the PS3 so its very unlikely at this stage anything can or will be copied. Just spill yer guts Nintendo.

I hope rather then just having Snake in different colours when more then one person picks him they have different outfits from past Metal gears. Like his sneaking suit from Metal gear solid 1 and the Tuxedo. Also I wonder if they will bring back the trophies this time or have a whole new type of collectable (I can’t think anything better then trophies though)

Y'know it does beg the question: What was the point of keeping something like that a secret? Whats the next secret - "The Wii will come with a power adaptor!" ?

Figured as much. How boring though. A time machine would of been awesome:bouncy:

Probably Mario 64 as the first N64 game and Streets of rage as my first megadrive game. Snes game will be Mario RPG OR secret of mana if Square enix annouce support for the VC at launch

Great choices here already I thought I’d add a couple more: X-men Arcade game. Another scolling beat’em up. I didn’t read Xmen as a kid but this was a lot of fun to play with a friend. Best part for me was when a boss walked onto the screen and started announcing how they where going to destroy you” you could sharply interrupt them with a punch in the face sending them flying. Excellent. Aliens vs Predator arcade: Released by Capcom back in 1994. This really was great, you could pick from 2 human characters Major Dutch Schaefer or Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa and two Predator characters in a walk along beat em up against the Aliens. I remember this being very difficult, I never got past level 3 and chances are that was mostly down to putting in far too much money.

Yeah don't like that Logo too much myself or the price point. Surly the last thing any gaming magazine wants to do is raise its price when less and less people are buying magazines.

I hope they rerelease a N64 pad for the Wii, because the Retro pad thing looks like it will be fine for nes and snes games but terrible for n64 titles. If they where to release a N64 pad though, I'd like the analog stick to be like the Gamecubes stick (fatter and shorter) then the N64 one. All my N64 controllers analog' sticks have sunken in and lost a fair bit of their response.

Sorry to double post but theres two gameplay video's up at Youtube!

I’m not trying to be contrary here but I honesty prefer the ‘before’ screenshot. What game is that from btw?

Theres no game I want more to be made then Shenmue 3 , but with Shenmue online coming out on PC, they could re release the two originals on pc. Maybe if sales where good they would start thinking about the third game.

The game seems to look closer to Tony hawk pro skater 3 (first TH game on the cube) Their almost the same graphically. Then again theres a good 4 months to go until its finished.

I wonder if Sega wil ever release the two shenmue games on PC.

I agree, a lot of people didn’t want to commit to a Nintendo console after the N64 because we didnt know how well supported it would be. A lot of people got stung with the N64. They paid a lot of money for a great console when it came to Nintendo games but they didn’t come out every month. in between we had very little in the way of decent third party games with only Rare filling in the blanks. Rare going to Mincrosoft (even if rare seem to suck now) probably didn’t help matters. It also didn’t help matters that new Gamecube titles where £40 but the very same game would but £30 on the ps2. I also noticed that when a game came out on all 3 consoles, for some reason the GC version would be out a few weeks after the Xbox and ps2 versions sometimes later. For example, Lego starwars only came out a month or so ago for GC but everyone else got it Last year. In fact it was already on the PS2's platinum range late last year. On top of that if any of those titles had online options , they would be taken out of the cube version. One last thing, it sounds ridicules to say this now since so many people own DVD players and how cheap they are, but the gamecube really could of done with DVD playback. At the very least they could of released this here:

Why does this game look so awful though? Its not even Gamecube standard.

yes. and the Playstation 2 the "greystation poo" They certainly showed those Sony fanboys eh? Eh?

Official Site (Japanese) updated today with some more screenshots: More here: http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/

Fresh Famitsu scans: http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/8022/66452superpapermariof914r9zf.jpg

Neo2046 at GAF posted some scans from the latest Famitsu magazine.

ahhh Crap I only just saw this and I've missed everything. And I have enough points for a game too. Agreed.

IGN weekly episode 11 came out last night and it has a section on Super mario galaxy with Matt Casamaaina playing and talking you through the E3 demo thing. I didnt know you could slow stuff down until I saw this video. http://media.games.ign.com/articles/693/693580/vids_1.html

Check the link in my other post, they just added a couple of PW tracks.