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Late Night Consoling
by jason bergman, Nov 27, 2002 8:30pm PSTUnless there's a particularly great amount of news over the next few days, this will be my last LNC until Monday. So let me wish you all a happy (and safe) Thanksgiving. If you're planning on buying gifts for your friends or loved ones on Friday, be sure to check back here before you head out for my Holiday Buyer's Guide, which covers every major platform, from PC to GBA and everything in between.
  | Dragon Quest/Warrior VIII Revealed? It looks like those rumors about a GameCube Dragon Quest may have been just that...if this story at Games Are Fun is to be believed, next week's issue of the Japanese comics anthology Shonen Jump apparently has the first details of Dragon Quest VIII, and if the rumors are true, it will be a cel-shaded PS2 exclusive. A cel-shaded Dragon Quest (that's Dragon Warrior here in the US) would actually be really cool, assuming series stalwart Akira Toriyama (best known as the artist behind Dragonball Z) is involved again. Also rumored is Dragon Quest Monsters 3 for GBA, which isn't much of a shocker. Thanks karen sympathy for the tip. |
  | History of Panzer Dragoon The first portion of a new article called The History of Panzer Dragoon is online tonight over at GameSpot, looking back at some of my favorite games of all time, and a great series all around. Only the first two installments are online at the moment, with the rest set to be posted next week (which is sort of a shame). |
| EQ PS2 Preview Also up at GameSpot tonight is a preview of EverQuest Online Adventures, based on the author's experience with the beta test that's currently underway. |
| Kojima's Insane GBA Game Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima's new Game Boy Advance game has been revealed...and it's a nutty one. The game's title is roughly translated as Our Sun, and the cartridge will contain a solar panel that will "absorb the energy from the sun and use it in the game." Considering the fact that it's impossible to play any GBA game in anything but direct light anyway, this seems like a bizarre notion. More info should be released soon. |
 | TimeSplitters 2 Map Making Site Eidos has posted a new site with tutorials on making your own maps for TimeSplitters 2. Several tutorials are online now, with more, and sample maps promised in the near future. |
| Ura Zelda Revealed Tokyopia has posted screenshots and details from the bonus disc that was sent to people who pre-ordered Nintendo's new GameCube Legend of Zelda title. The disc has The Ocarina of Time and Ura Zelda, and shots from both are up at the site. |
| Pokemon Advance Preview Pocket.IGN has posted a new preview of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire, based on their impressions of the Japanese versions of the game that have just shipped overseas. |
| | Misc. Screenshots GameSpot's got a ton of new shots tonight...they've got new shots from Unlimited SaGa and Silent Hill 3 for PS2, new shots from Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis for the GameCube, and a ton of shots from Final Fantasy X-2, although most (if not all) of them have been seen before elsewhere. |
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Thanks for bringing that new Rygar game to my PS2 instead of that volleyball game.
XOXO,
My Documents
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4:14 44%
and please, no unmarked spoilers for the poor saps who still haven't finished it yet
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We got to the end of Sonic 2 (I was using tails as the scout/human shield) and lost in the last fight. Didn't feel like playing throgh that one again. Beat forgotten worlds (a game we always remembered fondly but never got to play much.) Beat Golden Axe 2 a few times (Played it normal, then once we looked up the lots-of-mana cheat, it was a whole new ballgame) Got just a few levels into Altered Beast.
Games back in those days really had no story and were very short, but the nostalgia factor makes it worth replaying them once in a while. What a fun night.
Funny thing is that we were raised on nintendo. We were anti-Genesis fanboys to the extreme. But it's still great stuff. Maybe in the next few days we'll play some secret of mana or something.
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Based off of the impression I got from the demo, I am anticipating Panzer Dragoon Orta to be a masterpiece. Additionally, gamespot has been doing some cool stuff recently. I just about hate all of their reviews, but the special content they get seems to be quality. I might just subscribe. The Splinter Cell interview they did was quality.
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ObTopic: NHL 2K3 kicks ass. And EGM thought so, too.
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http://www.xengamers.com/sections/news/9284/
"...Allegedly, shares of Square have risen steadily for the past ten days, closing up more than 50% in the days preceding the merger announcement..."
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Otogi movies (2)
http://www.fromsoftware.co.jp/top/soft/otogi/download/index.html
Thousand Land screens
http://www.xengamers.com/sections/news/9286/
APEX screens
http://www.teamxbox.com/news.php?id=3884
Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter screens
http://www.teamxbox.com/news.php?id=3881
Yager screen
http://yager.thq.de/images_de/screenshot_5281_large.jpg
http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/Mapmakersite/Index.htm
The European version of the TS2 Map Maker site actually seems totally complete (all the tutorials, even Story Mode, are there), might want to change the link to that.
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dragon warrior 7 is a repetitive, ridiculously long, boring stale pile of crap (over 100 hours minimum!! but its all boring!!). its so bad that it has killed my faith in the series. whatever they do with 8, im not expecting much. but i still have hope...
whats my point? i dont know. i guess i was hoping that this being a gamecube game, enix might have been forced into making something special due to the fact that there arent so many rpg's on gamecube and the user base is smaller, but being a ps2 game, they will just do what they did last and make a substandard rpg, while relying on the huge installed user base of the system and the name dragon warrior to give them their 30 million copy sales.
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Oh, and please don't bother with Majora's Mask. I *HATED* that game...I don't consider it much of a Zelda game at all.
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/me wants an xbox with live