BanYa =D

2 years 4 months ago

"Banya is one of the most underrated groups in videogames. They can be as awesome as any other composer from any other music game, but they're also more versatile and can actually compose and play any genre (unlike other more overrated composers and groups, like Naoki or all those guys who make the music for Dance Dance Revolution and all the Bemani games).

They actually need to compose music for other kind of games (or release albums) so everyone can know how great they are. Their remakes of classical songs (like Winter, Canon D or the very known Beethoven Virus) are a proof of their excellence."
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If you could create an anime-based game...

2 years 4 months ago

"For the guy who made the first post:

Hokuto no Ken and Guilty Gear are NOT creations of Sammy. The team responsible for the games is Arc System Works. Sammy (and more recently, Sega) only distributed their games but they had nothing to do with the development of them. And before someone comes with a "but they distributed all the games"... heck no, that's also wrong, the very first Guilty Gear game for PSOne was distributed by Atlus.

Going on-topic... I would really like to see a Saint Seiya game, but more similar to what Dimps did with Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 or the other studio with The Budokai Tenkaichi games. The 2 PS2 games of Saint Seiya are highly horrible (Hades one is more playable, but has less selectable characters :/ ), and being a total fan of the series I would really like to see something way better, in terms of gameplay, graphics (honestly, how can they make a game that looks like a 2nd gen Playstation 2 game?) and even number of characters. You have lotsa Athena knights (the 5 main bronze ones, some silver ones, the 12 golden ones, even the extra knights from the anime), Asgard's seven god warriors, Poseidon's seven marine generals, Hades' main specters (Radamanthys, Minos, Aiacos, Lune, Pharaoh, Valentine, Myu), Abel's scarlet saints, Lucifer's fallen angels and etc. Seriously, they have a lot of material to work with... they did it with Dragon Ball, why not with Saint Seiya? :/"
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Thoughts about E3 press conference

2 years 4 months ago

"All the conferences were HORRIBLE in all possible aspects. Totally uninteresting, absolutely boring, they didn't show anything new at all and a very large and dissapointing etc.

Microsoft... heck, they practically only showed Halo 3 and a Halo 3 edition of the XBox 360 (which looks pretty, in my opinion). Where are the other games? Where was Blue Dragon? Why didn't they show anything about Bioshock or those other (much more interesting) games they are gonna distribute?

While Nintendo made their conference the least boring of them (Reggie is a free source of laughs himself) and Wii Fit is a very interesting idea (the best thing shown in E3... sorry, but Metal Gear Solid 4 can go to hell), out of that they only showed things everyone would be expecting from them (including a Mario Kart with online functions). They could have shown more.

And sony... oh my god, Sony. Seriously, I know they kinda took a better direction by not acting like pedant idiots and just saying really stupid stuff like "It's Ridge Racerrr!" or "Five hundred and ninety nine U.S. dollars"... but seriously, only showing a lot of trailers that we could have easily watched on the internet for free and without having to listen to Kaz Hirai or that guy from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe? My, that's far from being a conference. It was just a damned showcase.

Worst E3 of them all. Easily."
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl

2 years 4 months ago

"As far as I remember, Brawl has been confirmed to have online play. But I also remember there would be only online between 2 people, not 4. Of course, maybe they will change that or not, but I would rather wait for something more official to be announced in the Smash Brawl blog, confirming if the game will feature online play (and if so, how many players will support) or not.

Of course, Nintendo knows of the potential this game (in terms of sales) if they feature such function, but I guess they would also want to offer something that works decently, without problems like enormous ping, lag or etc."
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Game franchises that need to die... and why?

2 years 4 months ago

"Eh... Resident Evil 5 won't be released for the Wii. It'll be released only on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

The title you're talking about is Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles, which will play very different to Resident Evil 5.

I don't understand why the Mario hate. I would agree on the fact that all those Mario spin offs (Mario playing football, Mario playing basketball, Mario playing on a board) should die or be frozen, but the Mario platform games are excellent, and they're still the best in their field."
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[Anime Chat] Lucky Star

2 years 4 months ago

"I can't still understand why Kagami ended up being the most popular Lucky Star character. While I don't deny that she's too cute and all her rage attacks are funny as heck, but she's still very "normal" and your typical arrogant girl from high school that always has good notes.

Oh, and by the way, Konata's dad is too scary, and I can't believe Konata is actually conscious about it.

SPOILER (click to view)

He buys the ero games... and shares them with Konata.

He still stalks high school girls.

He was all "omg" when he met Tsukasa and Kagami for the first time. He even shouted "oh my god, you're Rin's sister!", hahaha.

After watching how Konata's mom was, you can't help but thinking "this guy is a total pedo". Kona's mom looks like loli, easily, and she's also short, like Konata, and they're practically identical, except for the beauty spot in the face. In some way, you can say Konata's mom is a loli milf, hehehe.

I can't wait to see episode numer 13. I heard a new character is introduced in it."
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Hi hi. I'm Kahru :3

2 years 4 months ago

"^___^ Welcome aboard.

I'm pretty sure you'll like the place :3 Specially the manga and video games section ^^"
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Metroid

2 years 4 months ago

"Played Hunters for DS. It may be a bit confusing the first minutes, but it's fun ^^ It has some of the best visuals you can ever encounter in the Nintendo DS.

Only problem it has is... it totally lacks the "exploring" feeling of the traditional Metroid games. It's more like a "run and frag" game."
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Forums expanded

2 years 4 months ago

"Bantam, Dias, a small suggestion:

May it be possible to see also some expanded subforums for Video Game Pad? In example: Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Classics, Arcade, etc.

Thanks for the changes. Forums look more organized now ^^"
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl

2 years 4 months ago

"Check the Brawl blog. They updated it with some explanations about the basic attacks, with the 4 different control schemes.

Nothing special or out of the extraordinaire, but if you're curious about how you're gonna attack with the Wiimote or the Wiimote + Nunchuk, you should give it a read."
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl

2 years 4 months ago

"In my desperate attempt to revive this thread (once again), the Smash Brawl blog has featured a lot of interesting things:

-You can customize your controls, your settings and stuff... and, in some way, now you can keep such configurations in a profile you can create (naming it the way you like, of course).

-Wario's moves include the motorcycle he uses in Wario Ware (yeah, same thing from the first Brawl trailer)... and the fart is for real! You can use Wario's gasses to attack your enemies, and the attack becomes more powerful the more you let time pass without using it.

-Assist Trophies... you can say it's an alternate form of the pokeballs, but instead of seeing Pokemons getting out of it, you see other Nintendo characters aiding (or attacking) you. Samurai Goro and a Nintendog are the first 2 assist trophies confirmed.

-Bowser. Maybe the Bowser update by itself wasn't that exciting (even though he has some new moves)... but his Final Smash was outstanding: He can transform into Giga Bowser!
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Halo 3

2 years 4 months ago

"I stopped caring about Halo after the first time I watched Halo 2 in action. I was dissapointed because there wasn't such a big difference between Halo 1 and 2 (for some people it may be a good thing, but in my case I was expecting too much) and Bungie made some weird decisions with some weapons (the pistol, from being very useful and great to use in Halo 1, because total and absolute crap in Halo 2).

I watched the Halo 3 beta once... and seriously, I hope Bungie isn't thinking about releasing the game with such low-standard graphics (for this generation, at least). After the very satisfying experience I had (gameplay and graphics wise) with Gears of War, that Halo 3 thing was an insult :/"
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Rival Schools Fans Here

2 years 4 months ago

"There can't be a Rival Schools thread without me posting in it (yes, now you can imagine why of my nickname).

Rival Schools is one of my favorite games of all times, and my favorite fighter from Capcom. When the original Rival Schools: United by Fate arcade game was released, it was a giant success in my city and you could always find players to play against. It was really amazing and the competitive level was incredible (oh, and don't worry, people didn't like to use infinites or that kind of crap). My teams always had one of these characters:

-Kyosuke (yes, one of my favorite fighting games' characters, he has some of the most interesting chains in the entire game).
-Hyo (even though his sword launcher was kinda overpowered: too fast, high priority and stuff).
-Akira (her gameplay based on poses was fun, even though it made things harder for her sometimes).

It was fun to see how some people got pissed because you could counter their double team attack with just a throw.

I'll talk about Project Justice in another post."
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Good news

2 years 4 months ago

"The Zero no Tsukaima second season thing has been known for months (even there was an official announement about it) so that's old news.

The Haruhi second season thing is, for now, just a rumor. Dude, after Kyoto Animation is done with Lucky Star, they're going to make an anime of another Key game, Clannad, and as far as I remember they haven't made any announcement about a second season (which, considering the success of the original Suzumiya Haruhi show, may have high chances to appear in a future).

Finally, I'm gonna make you a suggestion: Don't use blogs as sources for news. Most of the times, their information is highly unreliable. I'd suggest you to wait until it's announced in more established and serious sites or sources, like Newtype, Animedia or etc."
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The "Rebuild of Evangelion"

2 years 4 months ago

"It's so funny (and pitiful, at the same time) to see how they can still take milk from the cow. Specially since the cow has aged and, being objective, isn't as good as it was years ago.

Meh, I'm not expecting anything from this Rebuild of Evangelion thing. In fact, I don't think I would even give it a chance, considering that I watched the original Evangelion 10 years ago and I had enough with that, I don't need any more exposure to the concept, it bores me completely and all that philosophical and religious crap all its fanboys always excite about... I find it totally useless, out of place, overrated and made as a smoke screen just to catch the attention of people over a series of giant robots."
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Do you think they're remaking FF7 for PS3?

2 years 5 months ago

"I totally ignore what you're talking about, dear sir, specially because Final Fantasy 11 and 12 have been available in the market for more than one year. Or maybe you made a typo.

And I wouldn't mind about a Final Fantasy 6 remake on the DS, as long as it's as good as the Final Fantasy 3 one."
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Do you think they're remaking FF7 for PS3?

2 years 5 months ago

"Now we're getting somewhere. Final Fantasy 6 is the only Final Fantasy game that does really deserve to have a remake, specially because, as a game, it's way more complete and overall better than any Final Fantasy chapter:

-It has a huge cast. 12 characters, plus the extra characters you temporary can use during the game.
-Each character has its own relevance in the plot. All of them are developed individually and there's a balance in the importance of all the characters, they have their respective importance in the overall plot, and that's something Final Fantasy has failed to achieve in 7 and the following games (all centered in ONE main character, and the rest of the characters only get some spotlight of attention for some minutes).
-All characters are different from each other. Seriously, the "generic characters" thing from the rest of the Final Fantasy games (for Playstation 1 and 2) annoys me, specially because there's not a real difference between them (except, maybe, their limit moves). Final Fantasy 6 features 12 different characters in gameplay, each one with their own skills and abilities' growth.
-Its magic system (espers system) is way more simpler to use and raise than the other systems featured in FF (materia, junction, sphere grid...).
-It's a really epic game. It didn't need full motion videos and that kind of crap to show you how an epic and amazing story must be executed. I even dare to say that a ridiculous (yet funny) event like Ultros' totally chaotic intervention in the opera is a way more superior moment than any stuff from any other "modern" Final Fantasy.
-The best musical score of all Final Fantasy. Sorry, but as much as I liked Liberi Fatalli and A Winged Angel, none of them is even near to that master piece that's the song for the final battle against Kefka (Finalle Toccata, I think it's called... I don't clearly remember).
-A big etcetera.

FF7 can sink and I wouldn't give 2 craps about it, but a Final Fantasy 6 remake would be something I'd pay attention to."
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Metroid

2 years 5 months ago

"Metroid Prime isn't exactly a First Person Shooter, specially because it's not focused on destroying enemies, taking care of your ammunition and all that stuff, but more focused on rough exploration and slow-paced action. It doesn't follow the standards of more modern First Person Shooters' gameplay.

Game has a first person perspective, but it hasn't lost its exploring and adventure feeling. That's why it's more like a First Person Adventure game (like Morrowind, Oblivion and similar, with their respective distances and differences)."
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Metroid

2 years 5 months ago

"Metroid Fusion was such a surprising 2D sequel, I never expected Nintendo to make one of those again, and even though the lack of Gunpei Yokoi (R.I.P.) in the direction of the game is noticeable, the game is one of the best things ever programmed for the Gameboy Advance.

The things I really liked from this game were:

-The feeling of the Metroid games was kept in this.
-The game improved greatly, narrative wise. Now you can understand what the heck is going on, and all the explanations from Samus really help you get more into the game, understanding a lot of things about that base, Samus' new suit and her past as a bounty hunter.
-Creative new weapons. The ice missiles were such a curious way to solve Samus' new issue with Ice attacks (play the game and you'll understand why I'm saying it). Plus other new stuff.
-Your new enemy, represented by the SA-X, a replica of Super Metroid's Samus (not sure if it's the same sprite, though).
-Excellent boss battles, as usual... including some old school fights with some classic enemies (not gonna comment more details).
-They managed to keep all the moves from Super Metroid with a more restricted Game Boy Advance button configuration.

Things that really made me say "what the...":

-A too big difficult level. I didn't have problems beating this game, but I'm pretty sure that people that started playing Metroid with this game had such big problems trying to beat this. Specially when you encounter SA-X or some fights with the bosses.
-The game became more linear. It has secret zones and all, but they're kinda obvious to find, and the structure of the levels don't allow you to make a lot of exploration."
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl

2 years 5 months ago

"I wonder why no one mentioned the latest update in the Smash Brawl blog. And it was a totally unexpected thing: Zelda has been confirmed to be in this game, with her Twilight Princess look.

... but that also brings more questions:

Why is she now a brunette, when she was blonde in practically al Zelda games?
Will her movelist be the same as in Smash Melee, or it will receive significant changes?
... will she still be able to transform into Sheik? Considering that now she's the Zelda from Twilight Princess, such change wouldn't make any sense at all. I guess Nintendo would consider to make Sheik a completely different character."
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Metroid

2 years 5 months ago

"Metroid Prime is excellent, too. From what I can tell about it, the developers tried their best to achieve the same balance in difficult level from Super Metroid, and... well, even though the final result is good, considering that the formula applied for this game was new for the series (first person adventure gameplay), that added some more difficult to the game. Of course, the final result worked in a magistral way, and we got the best game for the Gamecube (in my opinion of course).

I don't know why they decided to increase the difficult level in Prime 2 Echoes. I don't complain that much about it, but it made the game less newbie-friendly and kinda more frustrating, even for Metroid veterans."
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Kimi ga Nozomu Eien - are you human?

2 years 5 months ago

"Since I never cared about Haruka and Mitsuki, I didn't cry over the first episodes (I was SHOCKED and surprised, more like "... oh my god, I didn't see this coming).

The rest of the episodes did make me feel kinda sad about some of the characters, though... specially the poorly Akane and her problems that came after Haruka's accident. She was a way more moving character than the rest of the cast, in my opinion, specially because her sadness and anger came from factors that were out of her control and she had to pass through some hard things so she could finally realize it.

... so yeah, you guessed right. Akane is my favorite Kimi Nozo character."
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