Late Night Consoling

If you have a Gamecube and don't have Eternal Darkness, please go buy it on general principle.

I guess it's true, only room for 2 consoles. I am surprised that microsoft hasn't pulled the plug on the xbox with those recent sales figures from japan. I don't think that it is really arguably that if a system doesn't succeed in japan, it won't succeed here..barely passing the PSONE?!?

It truly cannot be overstated that this was a serious err in judgement on the part of Nintendo from a business strategy pov (oh hell, any pov). Whether Rare was currently putting out enough for nintendo or not, to let them go was foolish beyond all doubt.

The amount of money it would have cost for Nintendo to buy out Rare is far less than what it will now cost them to have lost Rare to MS. Rare will no doubt be reinvigorated working on the Xbox platform and Nintendo will suffer as a result. To even keep Rare in their pocket putting out 1 game a year would have still made it a wise investment rather than give the competition more ammunition. You don't help the enemy gather troops to fight you. I really cannot imagine what they were/are thinking. Someone at Nintendo should really get canned for this.

Holy crap RARE made BATTLETOADS!!!

They just become my favorite game designers of all time.

Battletoads & Double Dragon! Snake Rattle'n Roll! Let them come!

3! GTA:VICE articles unlocked on IGN

Lots of info in these even if you have read all my snips :-)

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/371/371301p1.html
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/371/371584p1.html
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/371/371458p1.html

A look at the GTA series:
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/370/370539p1.html

(LNC REPOST)

Killer Instinct was a horrible series. It's more button masher friendly than Diablo.

Screw that, I want a new Eternal Champions game from Sega

Do the Star Ocean storylines connect, or are they more like FF? I haven't played the previous ones but this one looks like a good RPG to pick up.

Japanese software sales

1 PS2 . Hack//Malignant Variation Vol.2 BANDAI 119,136 (119,136)
2 GBA Super MARIO advance 3 Nintendo 85,403 (85,403)
3 PS2 Marble VS. Capcom 2 new age OBU HIROZU Capcom 49,280 (49,280)
4 PS2 Truth and Mikuni matchless 2 KOE 42,854 (591,093)
5 PS2 J.League winning eleven 6 KONAMI 28,925 (28,925)
6 PS2 Winning mailbox 5 Maximum 2002 KOE 19,225 (19,225)
7 GC Phantasy star on-line Episode 1&2 (modem) Sega 16,615 (80,477)
8 PS2 Project Minerva (ŒÀ’è”ÅŠÜ) D3 pub RISSHA 12,861 (153,462)
9 GBA Sum rye evolution ÷‘ guy strike ENIX 11,863 (11,863)
10 PS A romance is the brightness II of a sword Kadokawa 11,258 (11,258)
11 GC Super MARIOSAN Shine Nintendo 8,993 (600,671)
...
18 XBOX segaGT2002 Sega 4,995 (19,862)

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/url/body?wb_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dengekionline.com%2Fsoft%2Franking%2Franking.htm&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2

XBox screens

Splinter Cell http://www.planetxbox.com/games/screenshots/splintercelle/
Colin McRae 3 http://www.eurogamer.net/content/ss_colinmcrae3
Defender http://www.eurogamer.net/content/ss_defender_x
Dynasty Warriors 3 http://www.eurogamer.net/content/ss_dynastywarriors3_x
Mace Griffin http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMediaPage.jsp?channel_id=73&object_id=16283&adtag=network%3Dign%26site%3Dxbox%26genre%3Dactionviewer%26pagetype%3Darticle&page_title=Mace+Griffin+Screens
MGS2 Substance http://www.eurogamer.net/content/ss_mgs2substance_x
Togue-R http://www.xengamers.com/sections/news/8714/
Vexx http://www.eurogamer.net/content/ss_vexx_x
Yager http://mediaviewer.ign.com/ignMediaPage.jsp?channel_id=73&object_id=17195&adtag=network%3Dign%26site%3Dxbox%26genre%3Dactionviewer%26pagetype%3Darticle&page_title=Yager+Screens

Wow, for ED to sell that poorly is a crime. It was a great game.

Eternal Darkness only sold that many copies???? Holy fuck. That was like the only GC game I'd ever heard about besides Mario. It was so advertised on TV too. Plus pull out ads, etc. And wasen't it in development for like years dating back to the N64? Yikes, that hurts.

Battletoads? Extremely difficult at times? pfft....that damn racing area made me curse all those damn games heh....I am an above aberage gamer and I still can not get the hang of that crap.....

Conker sold 340.000 because it endend up in the bargin bin for $15 while Mario 64 was still selling for its normal price .

ED still hasn't launchend in Japan and Europe

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/products/screens/0,11105,537533,00.html?page=19

that's about the shittiest texture mapping i've ever seen nice view though

Can anyone mirror that PGR2 movie for me?
I can' even play the streamed version from this POS work computer.
pleeeeaaasse! :)

hey has anyone else ever accidently submitted a reivew after they have previewed it? why isnt there another 'preview' button on the preview page. and then you cant submit a second or alter your first. grrr.

I am too old for lan parties?

I was there recently and i brought my atari 2600 and 60 games, and plugged it in.

People were passing by, going "pffft. fuck that. let's play Counterstrike instead."

I dont think anyone will enjoy SOF2 for the home systems if it has the evil aimbot AI issues...

Man, I feel bad for nintendo now. I wanna buy a gamecube and RE and Eternal Darkness just to support the mature theme with them, even though it won't do any good at this point

"What interests you humans so? You realize they're made from my sh--...."

Just started Lunar. Looks to be a good game. Odd battle system though.

No graphical updates for the Phantasy Star Collection == JOY!!

But please, please, please fix one thing:
MYAU FLAPS HIS WINGS PLOUDLY.

Maybe some other oldskoolers will remember this one. :-)

Anybody heard anything about Bloodrayne? I like the looks of it, but I'm still not sure about it overall.

well, sfa rocks, but i wish the fighting system was better. it's Xtreme button-mashing.

Umm... ED hasnt even been released in Australia or Europe yet, so expect the figures to increase.

yes! fucking Blast Corps AND Battletoads! I am blowing a load!

Well Im gonna post this now...cause im bored...KH review in reply...

Eternal Darkness only sold 150k copies?

I thought I remembered seeing it advertised on tv all the time.

Usually, when something gets air time it sells well regardless of quality.

I'm sure it was just a typo, Jason, but since you did it twice, I feel like I have to mention this.
You do know that the game is called 'Fable' and not 'Fables', right?

I swear Im going to shoot my friend, he mispelled the word "cashier" then on top of that, he says it comes with 13 games, when he has a photo with 14(its supposed to come with 14) games! Now hes on vacation so I cant reach him to fix it...

No one is going to buy this :-(

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1383756165

I'm not surprised ED sold so few copies... it doesn't have much for widespread appeal, and it came out before SMS so nobody had GameCubes at that point. :)

Ahh, two-player Battletoads. Every game started with the whole "okay, let's really not kill each other this time" thing, and always closed with frantic red-faced button pressing, and then the loser hits the reset button and storms out of the room. Fun, fun, fun.

As hard as it was (and it was hard -- even with a game genie it kicked our ass), Battletoads had awesome, unrepetitive gameplay. So many different kinds of levels. Truely a great game.

Sequels kind-of sucked, though.

anyone heard anything about dynasty warriors 3 on the xbox?

I am sure Sega's controller will be fun etc etc but let's cut the bs.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE TEKKI CONTROLLER? Not to mention it comes with pedals too! PEDALS! That thing isn't even a controller... it is some remote control missile system that can probably be instantly hooked to any modern piece of military equipment for use in real battle.

That controller has more things to play with than a standard car. I have seen small aircraft with less shit to mess around with. I will be surprised if it doesn't need its own external power supply like that one Voodoo card that was supposed to come out before they tanked.

The manual that comes with Tekki must be more comprehensive than instructions on creating a linux distro. I am so geeked out over that thing that I giggle when I think about it. For all I care they don't even need to pacakage the game. I will just load up Halo and hop in the scorpion and have someone else really control it while I pretend to do so with the Tekki controller.

That thing is fucking religious.

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starfox_adventures_impressions.doc

You know, I didn't think much of the announcement of Rare being sold by Nintendo and bought up by Microsoft. But after having played through the intro sequence with Krystal that sets up the whole Starfox Adventures' premise, an Arwing level, and explored a bit on Dinosaur Planet with Fox McCloud, I'd be lying to you if I said that I was not even the slightest bit saddened by the departure. It's disheartening when this happens, really.

It's really great, fun, stuff so far, and really exudes of polish, considering it originally started as an N64 project. Supporting progressive scan and 16:9, the graphics are truly a sight to behold and reminds you that developers before them have only scratched the surface with what they can do with the Gamecube. And to think that people were saying that Metroid Prime looked better next to this at E3, is unfathomable. Unlike SFA, this one was developed on the the GC from the ground up. I can't wait to see THAT come this November.

In Dolby Pro-Logic II, SFA sounds as good as it looks, though it sounds like some of the sound effects (Krystal's Pterodactyl-friend's mouth blast sound effect, in particular) have been recycled from a Video Game Sound FX Samples vol. 4 CD of sorts. The music so far: bold, dynamic, and cinematic as it should be. There is also a lot of dialogue. They are done well, and albeit cartoony and bubble-y, work here. Clear, too. Impressive for those little GC mini-discs.

In IGN's review ( http://cube.ign.com/articles/371/371929p1.html ), they gave it a 5.0 for presentation, but so far I'm not buying it. If how the intro and premise plays out is any indication of the presentation for the rest of the game, I think they've been smoking something funny. However, you ought to take their word over mine, since the credibility of one who's played an entire game outweighs one who has not.

Anyway, these are my Starfox Adventures impressions so far. It may or may not sway your purchasing decision, but for those eyeing out on a new game for your Gamecube, I hope you found this informative.

Parting words:
It may not be the same Rare staff that brought you some old favorites and others you hated. It is no doubt in my mind, though, that whoever they are, are indeed a talented bunch and will be missed by fans of great games such as SFA looks to be so far. Good luck to them in all their endeavors.

And for those complaining about SFA not having a jump button, please read:
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=5603213

The Fable trailer is just the old Project Ego trailer with a new name... plus it's a lot lower quality :(

YAY LNC ROX THE KOX OFF!