October 2008
31 posts
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battery man from mother 3 could be one of prince's...
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Animal Crossing: City Folk is overpriced
Nintendo in an effort to get casual gamers to like Animal Crossing have invented Wii Speak to go with it. Which is basically a microphone that sets on top of your TV. This is not to be confused by the soon to be announced Wii See. Okay so I made that up but it’s coming.
Why couldn’t Nintendo combine a camera and microphone into one product?
Anyway the price on Animal Crossing:...
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wii woes
The score average for Wii Music on Metacritic is 61. While I’m sure Wii Music sells will be incredible, it’s another example of a Wii game doing terrible critically but awesome on store shelves.
Nintendo has kind of turned into that atypical Hollywood studio that produces atrocious movies that sell lots of tickets and popcorn, and I’m not the only person who thinks so.
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sony marketing makes interesting decisions
Sony PR Rep One: We should advertise LittleBigPlanet on a Nascar car.
Sony PR Rep Two: Great idea! Nascar fans will love LittleBigPlanet in between watching their favorite Nascar seasons on Blu-Ray.
Sony PR Rep One: Exactly! Call Gamestop too! I want them to do it!
Sony PR Rep Two: I already did.
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mother 2 boxart
Compare the above to the below.
While Earthbound’s box art isn’t bad; Mother 2’s box art just seems so much more epic and more of Itoi had in mind.
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zomg! prince dog!
An Etsy seller has crafted a really cool dog costume based on Prince from Katamari Damacy.
via Wonderland
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“[Shigesato Itoi] has voiced Mei and Satsuki’s father, Tatsuo Kusakabe, in...”
– The Wikipedia article on the writer of Mother 3.
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the japanese have all of the fun
When the Japanese get LittleBigPlanet, they’ll have the option of buying a hella good deal. They’ll get a chance to purchase the LittleBigPlanet: Dualshock 3 pack for $79.99 and that saves them about $30 since both the controller and LBP would retail separately for $110.
Also, watermarks are annoying. Please stop using them, Play Asia.
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littlebigproblems
What happens when you put too much faith and excitement into a game? You run the risk of being disappointed and while I’ve been having an absolute blast with LittleBigPlanet, some glaring issues have been warding me away from it for the time being.
1.) The strain of the servers is terrible. My girlfriend and I did not play online once yesterday.
2.) The lag in create mode because the...
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starmen.net's halloween funfest 08
Starmen.net is holding a pretty cool Mother/Earthbound art contest involving Halloween. They’re giving some pretty cool figurines away along with some certificates to Fangamer.
Here is my submission:
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awkardness in mother 3: mr.t and lucas?
A strange man who looks like Mr.T approaches Lucas and gives him a map of the train tracks. He also warns him of the dangers of trains.
Awkward.
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With Magypsy - from Mother 3
print advert for chrono trigger is awesome
I was scanning through my last issue of Game Informer (that I’m not going to renew) and I saw this incredibly minimal ad for Chrono Trigger on the DS. By far one of my favorite video game ads I’ve seen in a while.
Photo courtesy of GoNintendo.
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if you come across this on the ground, pick it up...
The limited edition Mother 3/Gameboy Micro pack is selling for around 250 clams on ebay and that sucks.
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harshness in mother 3: fassad and salsa
The cruel Fassad commanding Salsa the monkey to dance while threatening him with electrical shock if he doesn’t comply.
Even harsher.*
*See previous post.
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harshness in mother 3: duster and dad
After Duster returned from a night of theft, his Dad called him a moron and a terrible thief for stealing the wrong thing.
His old man even broke what Duster returned with into irreparable pieces.
Harsh.
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a note on the littlebigplanet delay
As you may or may not know, LittleBigPlanet was delayed one week because a Muslim video game forum/group said that a song in LBP’s soundtrack called Tapha Niang by Toumani Diabate was terrible because it contained lyrics from the Qu’ran and according to the Muslim religion, the Qu’ran and music aren’t meant to be together.
This has caused Sony to delay the game a week so...
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good game get! bitgenerations: digidrive
Recently through an ongoing sale that Play Asia is having I decided to pick up bitgenerations: Digidrive for the GBA and a good decision it was! First the game boxes for bit generations series are cleverly designed and absolute cute. They’re much smaller than boxes we have here in the states and the graphic design is something that Nintendo must’ve outsourced because while nerdy and...
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earthboundearthboundearthbound!!!!!!!!11
The Earthbound/Mother fever has struck me hard since the fan translation for Mother 3 was completed. In fact my girlfriend is in on the action too since she’s currently using her awesome internet to download us over a gig of Earthbound tunes. I’ve been playing the game for about three hours now and so far it’s I can give it nothing but praise. I’ve been so excited that...
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Mother 3 fan translation available!
After Nintendo made it clear they weren’t going to bring Mother 3 (Earthbound 2) to the states, the crazies at Starmen.net took it upon themselves to do a fan translation and after two years, they’ve completed it and today it launched.
I for one and extremely excited about the game and have already purchased one of these to play it on. Once I get started with the game, I’ll...
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The New Playstation Network TOS Hates You
“You authorize and license SCEA a royalty free and perpetual right to use, distribute, copy, modify, display, and publish your User Material for any reason without any restrictions or payments to you or any third parties.”
Sony has updated their PSN terms of service obviously in anticipation of the release of Little Big Planet. While I think the above TOS quote is corporate bullshit...
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marvel vs. capcom 2
PS3 Fanboy is reporting that a poster on the NEOGaf forums has discovered Marvel VS. Capcom 2 is coming to the Playstation Network by looking at the ESRB backlogs.
My girlfriend and I have played the Dreamcast version extensively and it’s our favorite 2D fighter, however it’s a burnt copy so getting a chance to buy an HD version of the game for the PSN would be awesome. I also...
Final Fantasy III Boxart
Absolutely awesome Yoshitaka Amano boxart for the Japanese NES version of Final Fantasy III.
Photo courtesy of Rising Stuff.
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linger in shadows
I purchased Linger in Shadows last night for $2.99 on the Playstation Store. I’ll have you know that it’s very confusing when thinking of a way to describe the concept behind Linger in Shadows. It’s not really game, nor a tech demo, as much is it as an interactive short film.
According to Plastic (the group behind Linger in Shadows), Linger in Shadows is simply an interactive...
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let's talk about the Playstation typeface
People including myself have continually mocked Sony for letting Ken Kutaragi throw a tantrum over how he wanted to have the Spiderman font as the typeface of the PS3 logo even though Sony’s designers told him it was a bad idea. Gone was the cool PS2 and PSP logo and replaced in ugly Spiderman font was the Playstation 3 logo and for that I kind of loathe Kutaragi.
However, I forgive the...
why you need to play little big planet or at least...
I try not to classify myself as any type of gamer, but if I were to name the two stereotypes that games filter themselves and each other into, it would be casual and core. The core gamers playing games like Call of Duty 4 and the casual gamers playing Cooking Mama. You could say those are two gaming extremes, but the problem is not with the games themselves, it’s how most gamers approach the...
...and reggie said, ds!
Joke inspired by Tiny Cartridge.
let's make a list! six brief reasons why the...
1. The “i” in DSi embarrassingly copies off of Apple. It’s 2008, I thought that ended at least in 2005.
2. It’s more expensive. Why is it more expensive?
3. Those cameras could come in a Happy Meal. Less than a third of a megapixel? lolwat?
4. The DS just went from ugly to not so ugly to really ugly.
5. The screen size increase is laughable. 3 to 3.25.
6. Music...
Nintendo Jumps On Pink Ribbon Band Wagon and...
Nintendo doesn’t surprise me with the release of this ugly Nintendo DS Lite. I can’t believe people still buy into this pink ribbon bullshit with Campbell’s soup cans and batteries.
Here are the details on the DS Lite:
Nintendo will donate $5.00 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure for each Limited Edition Pink Ribbon DS Lite handheld gaming console sold, with a guaranteed...
famitsu reports that a klonoa wiimake on the...
Klonoa is one of my favorite platformers and now a Wiimake is coming to the Wii! Awesome! Although I’d much rather have it on the Playstation Network…
Heres to hoping a Tomba remake is next!