Late Night Consoling

someone care to spoil when you get the other nozzles?
or do you need to find secret switches like the ! boxes?

regarding Sam and Max: It's definitely not IM's new console game. From the press release... "hit the road again first quarter 2004 in a long awaited adventure comedy sequel for Windows PC from LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC"

It's a pretty short press release, but Lucas SPECIFICALLY states that it's a Windows game, and makes no mention of consoles whatsoever.

Ok, I have been playing Mario Sunshine for WAY longer than I should be (I need to be up for work in 6 hours).

It fucking rules

I don't get complaints about the difficulty. The control is damn near perfect. Trick jumps are great, and you really feel a sense of accomplishment incorporating them into completing your objectives.

Man, first Eternal Darkness, now this. Bring on Metroid and Zelda!

I almost shit my pants when I saw the "Ikaruga GC Only" bit, thinking this meant no Dreamcast version. I was about to go mental but read the rest of the post first, so I won't.

I'm sure everyone wanted to know that, and that the couple of hundred bytes my post has added to the download of this page has been a worthwhile download.

/me bows.

I purchased Mario today, and I have 9 shines right now (well, ten if you count the ten blue coins i have in my possession, waiting to be traded in).

Packaging is nice, the manual is very clear, definitely useful if you're wondering how best to perform a sprinkler move, etc... The disc is cute!

Opening cinematic looks nice, voice acting is pretty bad. Luckily characters don't speak too frequently. FLUDD's vice is particualrly heinous in cinematics. The story won't win a Pulitzer Prize, but it is decent so far. I'm appreciating the fact that the flavor of this game is a bit different from previous Mario games.

Controls are spot-on. I was acclimated to the waterpack in seconds. Jumping feels very responsive, and there's a great variety in the moves Mario can pull off. People complaining about things being too difficult may not be using the hover-nozzle enough, it really helps relieve the stress of long distance jumps. I may not have crossed the "difficult" threshold in the game yet though, so I don't know how hard its gonna get. =)

Graphics are stunning. Water effects look great, and the draw distance is spectacular. The screenshots most certainly didn't do this game justice. Framerate has been solid too.

Music is awesome at times, slightly tiring at other times. I was kicking durian fruit around delphino plaza, and i just about lost my mind over that soung, but i may have just been getting frusrated at yet another durian kicked into the water.

Boss battles are rocking, and I just can't stop playing! I just wanna see the next level. I'm particularly enjoying the levels without FLUDD. I dunno, they look so cool, and its fun trying to do jumping puzzles without hover capabilities.

This game is fucking awesome so far and worth every penny. The minor gripes I have aren't really a big deal at all and are majorly offset by the massive amount of fun I'm having. I love shigeru miyamoto.

A yes or not answer will do since I haven't played it yet:

Is Bowser in Mario Sunshine? I like him :D

any ico news is > *

My take on Mario so far, I have about 10 shines and 9 blue coins. The game is fun over anything, and that's what I want in a Nintendo game. I get chills when that stupid FLUDD talks, because it's so bad, but it's definitley a Mario title. There's just something about the guy, the fun, kiddy stuff that keeps games FUN which is why I started playing in the first place. I just hope there's some different locales besides the beach maybe in the later levels? Anyone care to spoil a teeny bit?

I knew a girl from school whose last name was Turok. It's was a pretty common "Americanization" of a longer Polish name where I came from.

I'm thinking of getting a PS2 for light gun games...but there are so many guns to choose from.

I'd really like one who's slider works like coin-op Time Crisis II. Those things were fantastic.

Any suggestions?

I like the Final Fantasy series but I couldn't care less about FFXI on my pc. I just have this vision of like the PC FF8 graphics and gameplay with 200 other people and paying monthly for it. ugh.

You know what, I would name my kid Turok. Its only for a year, and it should be real easy to change a year later. I would just call him by his real name anyway. Not like the kid would care anyway, since all he can do is poop.

Its $10,000 you can start off with for his education.

Xbox bits

Dead to Rights reviews
(8.2/10) http://www.gamingworldx.com/xbox/DeadtoRights.shtml
(8.7/10) http://www.mgon.com/reviews.phtml?id=143941&language=en&rel_system=13

Buffy review (8/10)
"...does an absolutely amazing job of bringing nearly every aspect of the show to life. Plus it has a clever combat system that even non-Buffy fans should check out."
http://www.elecplay.com

Madden 2003 review (4.5/5)
http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/mag.dyn/Reviews/2409.html

NCAA 2003 review (8.9/10)
http://xbox.gamezone.com/gzreviews/r20201.htm

NFL Fever 2003 reviews
(3.5/5) http://www.avault.com/consoles/reviews/xbox/review_temp.asp?game=fever3&page=1
(3.5/5) http://www.gamesdomain.com/xbox/reviews/NFL_Fever_2003.html

NHL Hitz 2003 review (B+)
http://www.xengamers.com/sections/reviews/8415/

Enclave review (83%)
http://www.alloutgames.com/Reviews/enclave.html

Halo 2 preview
"One of the few things I thought Halo was missing was bots. I asked Parsons if they'd be included this time around. He wouldn't say either way. He would only smile and repeat Jason Jones' statement, that this time he "gets to do everything he wanted to do.""
http://www.elecplay.com

Malice preview ("a playable build is still a ways off in the distance" hmmm)
http://www.gamespy.com/previews/august02/malicemulti/

NAMED TUROK that would suck

bad games too, 1 was good.

i grabbed mario sunshine today and i have been too busy with other crap to play it yet .. all this talk is making me horny. mario is hot!

Didn't I read somewhere that Sega said the next Sonic game will not be an "adventure" title?

http://www.xengamers.com/sections/interviews/7995/

"I think we're going to stop the “Sonic Adventure” series at 2 for the time being. We want to do something different for the next title in the series. We are working on a number of Sonic games now, including ports of older titles. We'll be able to announce these in the near future. "

Hey all,

I recall hearing about a Sonic compilation, but was it for Gamecube or XBox? My friend's kids are so into Sonic they run around pretending to be Sonic and Tails so I figured they'd love to revisit the Sonic roots.

18 shines. Very good stuff. Also, a fair bit more difficult than Mario64. At least, it ramps up difficulty much more quickly than M64. But it's very good.

Mario is great btw. Been playing it this afternoon. I love it. Typical mario fun with some new fun stuff watergun, hover, speed and rocket etc......fun stuff

-The SAMe

Ive been playing Mario and I have to totally agree with the camera issues that so many reviews have brought up. TERRIBLE! TERRIBLE! TERRIBLE!

It almost ruins the game for me.

the new gta looks alot like the old one in terms of gameplay, but it's probably for the best. I mean they even reused some of the same sounds. graphics do seemed improved enough, though. personally I loved zelda64 much more than the other one

Jason,

You've been playing Eternal Darkness anymore? Please tell me you are beginning to accept the game for the masterpiece that it is. :)

turok was a fun game...but it was that good :(

hello!

when is the tokyo show? i live there and i wouldnt mind check it out so if someones know the dates and place of the venue ...

Thanks

GamespyDaily posted a few weeks ago that Infinite Machine went tits up (closed down). Is this not true?

I just read that SOCOM review and I'm really looking to get it now...

LoL what the fuck is the point in naming your kid turok, you can call him whatever you want anyway and then just change the legalities after a year

Sam and Max sequel. Order has been restored to the universe!

/ V

A new Sam and Max? Woot!

Sonic on Xbox? I wonder if we'll get the Sonic collection too, including Sonic CD.

What was Sonic CD anyway? Was it like the regular Sonic for genesis? I think I only played the first one but liked it quite a bit.