The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.ve3d.com/default.aspx?newspa ... 9news">All these Gamecube perks make me not mind never getting a N64...</a>

If this Zelda news is true and happens here...sweeeeet.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Sounds way too good to be true! Seriously though, if they released that game for full price I would buy it at full price. Though I would probably prefer an updated version like the one we saw earlier.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>No fucking way! Alright, I'm getting a Cube, just a matter of when...</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Nice. I'll be in on that if it's true. Hell, I'm probably getting Zelda anyway. I'm so glad I bought my GC. :)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>If that's true, Nintendo will earn their forgiveness from thousands of fans who bought their N64's primarily for the 64DD Zelda . Including myself.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://cube.ign.com/articles/377/377223p1.html">I WANT</a>

Oh my, I WANT! Here's a good link from IGN on the same topic</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>[whimper]</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Problem is, you have to own all the systems now, there's just too many good games for each. Was the same in the DC-N64-PSX era</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Not necessarilly the Xbox. PS2 will have most Xbox games anyway. And what you can't get on PS2 that Xbox has, Gamecube more than fills the gap. Besides, who has time for three systems nowadays?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Not really. For the most part, all of the XBox/PS2 games that I really want are being ported to PC. There's exceptions, but not enough to warrant buying more hardware.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You don't have an Xbox, yet you claim it doesn't have any good exclusives? That all the "good" games are on the PS2 as well? That the Cube "fills the gap"?

Heh...enjoy your Cubevore, faggy Animal crossing, old ass Rogue Leader, "rumors" of forthcoming games and poor quality ports. Me, I'll be playing online, getting top rated exclusives, best versions of cross-platform games...and "filling the gap" with my PS2.

Even my ten year old cousin and 8 year old sister are too embarrassed to buy a gamecube. Nintendo is synonomous with "dorky" and they have lost their majority market...ie; toddlers. Good news for us Xbox/PS2 owners...as it means Nintendo is well on it's way to becoming a Software-only house.

KO-</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You're still a video gamer, but concerned about the hit your image might take if you had the "dorky" system. I find that goddamn hilarious.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Actually, I have a feeling that MS is going to throw in the towel and go back to World Domination on the PC front.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Do bad PC ports of Squaresoft games count?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>I never said "xbox doesn't have any good exclusives". I said "PS2 will have MOST xbox games anyway".</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>FFX being one of those few exceptions I mentioned.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>We won't get that... it's just not fair, goddamn it.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>XBox has some pretty kick-ass exclusives too, like Gotham Racing, Halo, Munch's Odyssey, not to mention the better of the ports, like Silent Hill 2. There's quite a number of great games for it too</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I've seen the same attitude here before. I don't get it at all.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I just don't like playing too many PC games, I prefer them on console. NOt to mention, for me, there are too many games for each I don't want to miss out on</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>No chance. They're in for the long haul. If the next XBox doesn't do well, then MAYBE they give up. But they've already got a pretty good userbase in America and a pretty decent on in Europe</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Umm, no. Nintendo is as strong as ever with the children gamers, mainly because the PS2 and Xbox has shiet for kiddy games. It's the 'Cube's popularity with the older gamers that's surprising</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>For me to buy a console I have to see a strong variety of titles I won't be able to get elsewhere and are actually enough to justify paying for the hardware. Gamecube has that, PS2 and XBox do not. I don't have the resources or time to branch out to multiple consoles, so I choose one.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>They suck in Europe and they suck HARD in Japan. Plus the above essay...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Care to quote me?

I find the majority of Gamecubes exclusive wacky-jap "lineup" to be quite trite and unappealing...true. And I did say "dorky", but you are twisting my wording (that or I worded it poorly)...

What you are trying to twist around is that I find that it's target audience (kids) find the system "uncool"...which is amusing, but hardly surprising. "If it for us, we don't want it".

I'm hardly concerned about image...whichever console you choose, your ass still widens through inactivity.

KO-</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Because that viewpoint seems the consensus among that age group from my actual REAL WORLD experiences...it could be 'just my area' but rarely is such a phenonomon localized...it generally represents a failure (in this case, on Nintendo's part) in marketing and direction.

*shrug*

KO-</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You said what I'm saying you said....because I say so.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Fair enough</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>SH2, Konami took the fog/grain out of the game. Plus they made it longer. Despite that, the first game was still better.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The PC port of SH2 looks great...1600x1200 resolution, the ability to save anywhere, etc...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Get the PC. Just don't get the Xbox. =8^P</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That has been my attitude for a while - wait until the consoles are reasonabley mature, pick one, stick with it. Then Metroid... and now Zelda...</div>