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  • You know, until I played F-Zero GX's story mode chapter 5 on Very Hard, I had no idea it was possible for a game to make Battletoads' racing segments look like sane, rational game design in comparison.

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
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You know, until I played F-Zero GX's story mode chapter 5 on Very Hard, I had no idea it was possible for a game to make Battletoads' racing segments look like sane, rational game design in comparison.

Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
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You know, until I played F-Zero GX's story mode chapter 5 on Very Hard, I had no idea it was possible for a game to make Battletoads' racing segments look like sane, rational game design in comparison.

 #35511  by Tortolia
 Sat Aug 30, 2003 5:26 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You know, until I played F-Zero GX's story mode chapter 5 on Very Hard, I had no idea it was possible for a game to make Battletoads' racing segments look like sane, rational game design in comparison.</div>

 #35512  by Zeus
 Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:42 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't know what it is with Nintendo and releasing hard games. The GC is littered with great, very tough games. I like it, but it against industry norm</div>

 #35514  by SineSwiper
 Sat Aug 30, 2003 5:48 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Trying to rid itself of its kiddie image? And screw the "industry standard", which is usually too easy a bar for most games.</div>

 #35515  by Eric
 Sat Aug 30, 2003 6:00 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Nintendo will die with the kiddie image. :P</div>

I like it, aside from Konami, they're the only company out of Japan that makes difficult games nowadays. The Japanese like easy games though, I remember how it was a huge controversy when most of the Japanese kids who bought Mario Sunshine complained...

 #35516  by Julius Seeker
 Sat Aug 30, 2003 6:02 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Some people liked Mario 64 the best in the series, but personally, Mario Sunshine is the only game in the series that I really enjoyed. I liked Mario III and Mario World a lot, and even Mario 1 (it was like the only game, so of course I loved it back when I was 4), but Mario Sunshine is the only real game in the series that I could really get into, it's also probably my favourite adventure game on the console, I like it even more than Metroid, Skies, and Zelda.</div>

I like it, aside from Konami, they're the only company out of Japan that makes difficult games nowadays. The Japanese like easy games though, I remember how it was a huge controversy when most of the Japanese kids who bought Mario Sunshine complained abou

 #35517  by Julius Seeker
 Sat Aug 30, 2003 6:04 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Some people liked Mario 64 the best in the series, but personally, Mario Sunshine is the only game in the series that I really enjoyed. I liked Mario III and Mario World a lot, and even Mario 1 (it was like the only game, so of course I loved it back when I was 4), but Mario Sunshine is the only real game in the series that I could really get into, it's also probably my favourite adventure game on the console, I like it even more than Metroid, Skies, and Zelda.</div>

 #35520  by Julius Seeker
 Sat Aug 30, 2003 6:27 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I seriously think the whole kiddy image thing is a myth made up by PSX.ign.com, because aside from here and that site, I have not heard it anywhere else =P</div>

 #35521  by Julius Seeker
 Sat Aug 30, 2003 7:49 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I think the reason they make games easier is because most casual gamers hate losing or having to do stuff over again. Hardcore gamers often love the idea that there is a very small chance they're going to be able to pass a certain point of the game, but love to keep trying until they do.</div>

 #35522  by VicRattlehead
 Sun Aug 31, 2003 9:25 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>hmmm i can either beat the shit out of cops in enter the matrix, kill germans in WW2 in Mohaa, or i can search the fairy castle for the enchanted hairbrush to save princess sweetnlow from the evil dr. demento. Nintendo games have always been fruity and sugary</div>

 #35523  by Julius Seeker
 Sun Aug 31, 2003 10:14 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I've actually never played a game like that before, you have quite the fruity and sugary imagination.</div>

 #35524  by Tortolia
 Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:50 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Candyland 64, duh</div>

 #35526  by SineSwiper
 Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:28 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Otherwise known as Super Mario Bros.</div>

 #35528  by Eric
 Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:35 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Until Conker did a freakin 180, half the games on the 64 looked like it, ridiculously cute.</div>

 #35530  by Lox
 Tue Sep 02, 2003 1:11 pm
<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yet I'd still rather play Mario anyday over Enter the Matrix.</div>

 #35531  by Zeus
 Tue Sep 02, 2003 8:52 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Enter the Matrix and Metal of Honor are on the GC too</div>

 #35533  by Lox
 Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:20 am
<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>heh</div>

 #35534  by SineSwiper
 Wed Sep 03, 2003 11:22 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>And I'd rather play GTA:VC over Super Mario Brothers.</div>

 #35538  by Zeus
 Wed Sep 03, 2003 12:39 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It took 17 years for a game to come out that you would rather play over SMB. Not bad staying power, I'd say :-)</div>

 #35539  by Eric
 Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:00 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>But now that it's happened, what is Nintendo gonna do about it?</div>

 #35540  by Lox
 Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:14 pm
<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, that's true too. What I'm saying is that the quality of a game is more important to me than the "image" it has.</div>

 #35548  by Tortolia
 Thu Sep 04, 2003 11:56 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'd much rather play the high resolution PC port of Vice City than the PS2 version, so who gives a damn?</div>

 #35551  by Zeus
 Thu Sep 04, 2003 12:35 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, let's move up the scale to Super Mario Bros 3 :-)</div>

 #35554  by Eric
 Thu Sep 04, 2003 2:11 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm still waiting for that jump actually. Celda was fun. :P</div>
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