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Title: I've just seen Post by: Bogus Dave on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 01:51:31 Michael pook and charlie common platt woooooooo!!!. Pook went to give me a high five and miss, he's now my favourite player ever. I understand what fatbury see's in him. I guess you can turn this into a lnt, so what all the rest of ya'z been up to?????????????????????????????????????
Title: I've just seen Post by: Simon Pieman on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 01:58:38 I've been playing around with some tactics in football manager. Hopefully Malpas is doing the same right now.
Title: I've just seen Post by: Bogus Dave on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 02:03:45 Playing football manager? I'd hope he'd be doing some actual coaching thinking, rather than playing a game
Title: I've just seen Post by: Simon Pieman on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 02:17:00 Quote from: "STFC dave" Playing football manager? I'd hope he'd be doing some actual coaching thinking, rather than playing a game Everyone knows that you learn everything to know about football management through a computer game Title: I've just seen Post by: Bogus Dave on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 02:19:05 Its true. Its so true
Title: I've just seen Post by: flammableBen on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 02:32:06 I've found it hugely amusing that my humorous naming of a character in Zelda: Link's Awakening, has worked out in brilliance.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/Photo03221751.jpg It also shows of how awesome my GameBoy player on my GameCube is. Go Nintendo! Title: I've just seen Post by: Bogus Dave on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 02:33:03 pah
sony>>>nintendo Title: I've just seen Post by: flammableBen on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 02:36:45 Depends where you're coming from. Sony made better consoles in the PS1 and PS2. However Nintendo make ace games, where as Sony don't make any games. They occasionally publish one I think?
Title: I've just seen Post by: Bogus Dave on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 02:39:26 Nintendo had the classic mario and zelda, but did they really have anything else worthy of note? And nintenod didn't have as broad a product range as sony, o could focus their attentions more on on specific market
Title: I've just seen Post by: flammableBen on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 03:29:05 To address your first point, there are a few others apart from Mario and Zelda. Metroid is a good example, although the recent ones have been developed by a different studio.
Nintendo have always gone for the seal of approval system, as in they've been very controlling on what was released on their consoles. This worked brilliantly on the Nes and to an extent the Snes, because after the North American Video Game Crash of 1983 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash) people were fed up of substandard arcade knock-offs which were prevalent on the early 80's machines. There were two things that fucked them over on the N64. The first one was using cartridges over cds. Nintendo and Sony had been working on a CD upgrade for the Snes. That didn't work out for whatever reason, and the technology behind it ended up being the PSX. Whilst for some reason Nintendo stuck with cartridges for their next system. Might not sound like a big deal, but it meant that they lost one of their biggest game markets in Japan. The big issue? Square. Final Fantasy VII sold near 1 copy per Playstation in Japan. Later on it didn't end up doing to bad in the rest of the world. Japan's a relatively small market compared to Europe and N.America, but there are other issues with cartridges. Mainly that they are rubbish for storing video and sampled audio, and the big factor is that they are expensive to produce. Whilst Nintendo were playing quality control on the N64 games, Sony were letting anybody produce whatever shit they wanted for the Playstation. Which worked out brilliantly for Sony, there was a lot of shit, but they were already advertising for an older market. A market which didn't get their games for Christmas, but went out and bought them for themselves. But don't get me wrong, Your average game on the N64 is better than the average game on a Playstation. The playstation has some proper really bad games, whilst the N64 only has some fairly bad ones. But Nintendo failed to get out of their Quality Assurance loop and let developers fuck about and do something original. Saying that, Mario 64 is the best game of that generation of consoles. It's near perfect in so many ways. And it's only 8mb big, which to me seems like the most amazing thing ever. I've waffled into a bit of video game history, and somewhat forgotten the point of what I'm trying to say. It was probably that the PS3 is still a bit shit, a year on. Which is shocking. Title: I've just seen Post by: Bogus Dave on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 10:13:49 Woah, i was only messing. I haven't a clue really. Sorry
Title: I've just seen Post by: Sussex on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 10:18:51 Snow. Grounds to wet for it to settle though. :(
Title: I've just seen Post by: Red81 on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 11:24:15 Quote from: "flammableBen" To address your first point, there are a few others apart from Mario and Zelda. Metroid is a good example, although the recent ones have been developed by a different studio. :mrgreen: Alright Ben?Nintendo have always gone for the seal of approval system, as in they've been very controlling on what was released on their consoles. This worked brilliantly on the Nes and to an extent the Snes, because after the North American Video Game Crash of 1983 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash) people were fed up of substandard arcade knock-offs which were prevalent on the early 80's machines. There were two things that fucked them over on the N64. The first one was using cartridges over cds. Nintendo and Sony had been working on a CD upgrade for the Snes. That didn't work out for whatever reason, and the technology behind it ended up being the PSX. Whilst for some reason Nintendo stuck with cartridges for their next system. Might not sound like a big deal, but it meant that they lost one of their biggest game markets in Japan. The big issue? Square. Final Fantasy VII sold near 1 copy per Playstation in Japan. Later on it didn't end up doing to bad in the rest of the world. Japan's a relatively small market compared to Europe and N.America, but there are other issues with cartridges. Mainly that they are rubbish for storing video and sampled audio, and the big factor is that they are expensive to produce. Whilst Nintendo were playing quality control on the N64 games, Sony were letting anybody produce whatever shit they wanted for the Playstation. Which worked out brilliantly for Sony, there was a lot of shit, but they were already advertising for an older market. A market which didn't get their games for Christmas, but went out and bought them for themselves. But don't get me wrong, Your average game on the N64 is better than the average game on a Playstation. The playstation has some proper really bad games, whilst the N64 only has some fairly bad ones. But Nintendo failed to get out of their Quality Assurance loop and let developers fuck about and do something original. Saying that, Mario 64 is the best game of that generation of consoles. It's near perfect in so many ways. And it's only 8mb big, which to me seems like the most amazing thing ever. I've waffled into a bit of video game history, and somewhat forgotten the point of what I'm trying to say. It was probably that the PS3 is still a bit shit, a year on. Which is shocking. Title: I've just seen Post by: Bushey Boy on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 11:36:19 They lasted a long time, they were ice skating at 3pm and holding hands, this video will do teh rounds ha ha!
Title: I've just seen Post by: blinkpip on Sunday, March 23, 2008, 11:50:10 Ben, can you play that Link's Awakening on PC? I only got it on Gameboy and gameboy colour, but it's one of my best game ever, it would be good to play it on PC.
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