Late Night Consoling

Final Fantasy IX was horrible. I didn't even need to play it to know how bad it was; I could tell based just on the characters and summon spells (and what I heard of the story).

I know I'm late to the party here and I'm just reiterating, but whatever...

Zelda: 70 hours? Ugh. When I hear that I envision tons of 10-20 minute horse rides acrossed green rolling hills just to go talk to some random guy, digging for "treasure" in hundreds of marked spots, and pushing huge numbers of blocks around for hours on end.

Personally my ideal RPG is Fable length only with tons of side quests to do in case I'm totally addicted to the game. I also enjoy replaying games and making different decisions the second time through. In fact I'd say that I usually enjoy replaying a game through a second time more than the first, since I'm much better at working the system.

I would love to tackle Wind Waker again but every time I get the disc out and put it in the drive, the animation where Link pulls up a box from underwater, opens it and pulls out some crap object like a blue rupee plays through my mind. At that point I always shudder and put the disc back in the jewel case.

Alec, any idea why GameInforme's webpage never seems to have screenshots/videos up after 24 hours or so? It's really goddamn annoying.

Those Arc the Lad shots are already gone.

I'm thinking the '2-3x bigger' could be a mistranslation, in the sense that maybe they literally mean the world is 2-3x larger in size than OOT. I say this because the 70 hour figure was thrown around for OOT quite a bit too, so maybe it's an """""estimated""""" (lolz) 70 hours but the actual game length is equal to OOT (which I think took most people nowhere near 70 hours).

Wait.. People complain that games are too long now? I thought the only reason games were expected to be shorter is because of all the new high end artwork that's expected and takes a lot of time.. These 20 hour games feel like they're over before they really get started.

Hell, I say bring the 70+ hour games! Give me a game that's fun, and I'll play it for hundreds of hours, even with singleplayer games.. I don't even want to think about the number of hours I spent in Diablo, Diablo 2 (both with almost no multiplayer due to B.net's lack of security), or Morrowind.

Rockstar: "150 hours for GTA:SA!"
Everyone: "Totally rad!"

Nintendo: "70 horus for Zelda!"
Everyone: "Oh no, it's gonna suck!"

WTF?

Frankly I think a game less than 70 hours is kind of a waste. Not that I have lots of time to spare, but shit, I love my long RPG's!

Underwater area in Zelda. :( Man, I almost always resent it when I'm forced by a game to go through some underwater annoyance-fest slow movement obscured vision and goddamn FISH MONSTERS attacking from all angles. I hate fish monsters! Argh! Nasty buggers they are! (Was so damn nice to finish HL2 and realise I hadn't fought a single aquatic beastie, hehe.)

Hopefully they'll not make it as bad as I fear.

Come on, Alec, you know as well as any of us that've played many console RPGs that the developer's claimed "play time" is always pretty close to being a blatant lie.

Black Magic?

http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/490/490849/imgs_1.html?fromint=1

What's ironic about the next XBox development kit being a G5?

brushed aluminum = teh win in my book

Ive got the fever for the flavor of an XBOX 360! WOW I just cant wait to see this thing after all the speculation and the rumors! Is it white, is it gray, is it a square with a circle, is it conclave, is it slim, is it fat? Will it have this or will it have that will it be tall or P>H>A>T?


ALL OF THE ABOVE BABY!

Lies!

Alec got his idea for last night's post from my post the night before ( http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9931989 ).

Also, I am infact the center of the universe. Well, me and Zaphod Beblebrox (who says the universe can't have 2 centers!)

that jackie chan clip is more entertaining, funny, realistic and truer to the game than Van Dam's street fighter movie

hey alec...that video is from one of Jackie Chan's movies called City Hunter

does no one know aobut it?! its a good comedy/action movie

70 hours my ass. Didn't they say something similar with OoT?

You took the words right out of my keyboard Alec with that N64 joke.

Red vs Blue Containment Walkthrought as well as their Halo Hump-Day challenge.

http://www.redvsblue.com/archive/download.php/?id=637 (Hi-Res walkthrough)

http://www.redvsblue.com/archive/download.php/?id=640 (Hump-Day challenge)

Wow, the Wrestlemania 21 game for the Xbox sure is fucked. It won't connect to Live.

Someone contacted THQ, and they said they'd issue a downloadable patch..

..before realising that they can't do that if the game won't connect in the first place.

Oh man. Glad I burned out on wrasslin' a year ago :D

What about
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/86/3381/640/button.jpg
from Gamem8ker's blog

nyc people:

i guess the pokemon store wasn't doing well enough?

Oh shit that new zelda shit looks sweet.

And That Xbox360 shot looks pretty weird, looks WAY too much like the G5?