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Mighty Dicktron posted:The secret that no one told anyone about that gen is that the Gamecube was actually nearly as powerful as the Xbox was, a lot of its hangups actually came from the low storage space that the miniDvDs it used to store games. Honestly the GameCube's biggest problem was it never had a super awesome flagship title, in fact the vast majority of games for it were pretty forgettable. The N64 opened up with Mario 64 which literally defined an entire genre, then followed by Mario Kart which defined another genre, Goldeneye which needs no introduction, Ocarina of Time which defined a third genre in 3D and Banjo Kazooie which basically defined the Metroidvania genre in 3D. There's nothing wrong with the GameCube, its a perfectly good console from a hardware perspective. But following on the N64's act it does not compare favorably at all. The only Gamecube game I actually remember (like, at all) is Wind Waker which, while excellent, isn't enough to hold the console up on its own. Neruz fucked around with this message at 08:56 on May 24, 2014 |
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Neruz posted:Honestly the GameCube's biggest problem was it never had a super awesome flagship title, in fact the vast majority of games for it were pretty forgettable. The N64 opened up with Mario 64 which literally defined an entire genre, then followed by Mario Kart which defined another genre, Goldeneye which needs no introduction, Ocarina of Time which defined a third genre in 3D and Banjo Kazooie which basically defined the Metroidvania genre in 3D. None of that has anything to do with the hardware and not at all what's being discussed!! The Gamecube had a lot of marketing, exclusivity, and sale problems yeah, which everyone knows.
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Mighty Dicktron posted:The secret that no one told anyone about that gen is that the Gamecube was actually nearly as powerful as the Xbox was, a lot of its hangups actually came from the low storage space that the miniDvDs it used to store games. And even that was arguably a benefit; Nintendo seemed to put a lot of priority on shorter load times, and the Gamecube's load times were great.
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Cleretic posted:And even that was arguably a benefit; Nintendo seemed to put a lot of priority on shorter load times, and the Gamecube's load times were great. Flow of gameplay is super important to Nintendo; they want their games to have as little breaks in that flow as possible which means load times should be short to nonexistant.
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May 24, 2014 09:00
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Part of the reason why Nintendo stuck with cartridges for so long was because loading off of separate hardware is infinitely faster than loading off of a disc, literally every other benefit of discs aside, cost to produce included. Nintendo really loves fast loading times.
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May 24, 2014 09:01
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Well when you don't value a player's time, you get loading screen messes like Sonic '06. 
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May 24, 2014 09:06
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Even when the load times could be pretty bad (like in the first Metroid Prime,) they'd always make sure there was mitigating factors like the doors hiding loading screens. At least you could still look around and shoot things, you know?
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May 24, 2014 09:08
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Crono Trigger for the Playstaion. Loading times that made it unplayable, for every combat.
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Mighty Dicktron posted:Even when the load times could be pretty bad (like in the first Metroid Prime,) they'd always make sure there was mitigating factors like the doors hiding loading screens. At least you could still look around and shoot things, you know?
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There's an invisible trigger to start loading the next room. Shooting the door just makes it turn gray and doesn't start any loading. It will load as soon as it opens, though.Azriel Odin posted:I can't help but wonder what "LuigiOnMarioParts" actually is. Besides a strange innuendo, but that's probably not it.  I'll give you a hint: it's a reused asset from the first game.
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Suspicious Dish posted:There's an invisible trigger to start loading the next room. Shooting the door just makes it turn gray and doesn't start any loading. It will load as soon as it opens, though. Is it from the big 8-bit sprite galaxies?
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Bruceski posted:Crono Trigger for the Playstaion. Loading times that made it unplayable, for every combat. do you mean Chrono Cross?
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TomBosleyExp posted:do you mean Chrono Cross? No, they released Chrono Trigger with FF6 on the PS1 and the load times utterly ruined them.
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TomBosleyExp posted:do you mean Chrono Cross? There was a port of Chrono Trigger that I think came bundled with Final Fantasy 7. It had FMV anime cutscenes and 10 second load times for every single fight. The entire screen would freeze during the loading and it was the most obnoxious thing. e:f,b also it may be FF6 instead?
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It was Final Fantasy IV that got rereleased with CT as FFChronicles. Which back then confused people that had discovered it as II? Unless I'm misremembering. In any case, yeah, load times were sucky, but I'm guessing most people might've just put up with it if they had already been playing other PSX games or had never played the SNES version. Still, I think as a kid I was more tolerant of load times and didn't really mind them.
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Bruceski posted:Crono Trigger for the Playstaion. Loading times that made it unplayable, for every combat. Ometeotl posted:No, they released Chrono Trigger with FF6 on the PS1 and the load times utterly ruined them. Final Fantasy Anthology has FFV and FFVI.
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Bah, close enough. They had awful load times, too, anyway.
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I can remember my playstation getting slower and slower, until I couldn't play any RPG, because fights just never loaded. Just endless fight music.
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I beat FFV and FFVI on the PSX in spite of the load times. I am a shell of a man EDIT: Luigi.
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  Part XXXIX - World 5 Green Stars Baldurdash / YouTube (guests: Psychedelic Eyeball & Ragny)
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May 27, 2014 23:50
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There's a cool new LP of Mario 3D World if you guys want to see a Mario game that's even better than Galaxy 1 & 2: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3636101
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Hedrigall posted:There's a cool new LP of Mario 3D World if you guys want to see a Mario game that's even better than Galaxy 1 & 2: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3636101 Yeah pretty much everything Ragny said about how he wants the green stars to be is how they are in 3D World.
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That last green star was the last one I found when I played the game. I went and did all the rest when it stumped me. It's wayyyyyyyy out of the way.
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Watching the green stars is actually making me want to play through this game again more than the original videos then for some reason. Maybe because these go by so quickly it's hard to remember many of them.
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May 28, 2014 01:43
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Since ArgonMatrix is gone from the thread I guess there's nothing wrong with posting this.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Since ArgonMatrix is gone from the thread I guess there's nothing wrong with posting this. Whatever happened to him anyway? I miss his stuff. This is pretty cool either way. Especially that crazy gravity manipulation at the beginning. It would never have occurred to me that you could do that.
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Canada actually has a desert in BC! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okanagan_Desert
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Improbable Lobster posted:Canada actually has a desert in BC! It's not a "real" desert - it's actually semiarid steppe. 
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ElTipejoLoco posted:It was Final Fantasy IV that got rereleased with CT as FFChronicles. Which back then confused people that had discovered it as II? Unless I'm misremembering. I actually had no idea the load times were 'bad' and played that as the first time I played CT.
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Diabetus posted:
By the way, what's Betus's favorite beer? Boo Moon Belgian White. Super disappointed you didn't even allude to that. Such a cash money pun.
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Araenna posted:I can remember my playstation getting slower and slower, until I couldn't play any RPG, because fights just never loaded. Just endless fight music. ...it took 20 minutes to load the save menu  I hadn't saved in like two hours and I was like "holy gently caress no please" and I just kept it running in hope that it would work.Saved that poo poo aaaaaaaaand didn't go back to it again so what was the point I ask myself Also holy gently caress yes Psych and Ragny are in this one, this gon be gud.
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May 28, 2014 05:06
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You know I can help you with that fire buttass situation.
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Everyone of fanfiction.gov agrees, Luigi has a really hot butt.
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Psych, you really should do more Luigi voice acting, that was great. I wonder whether it's possible to get that Shiverburn cloud star with a very well timed triple jump... on ice that's being bombarded with meteorites.
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Wonder if Slowbeef's gonna have an announcement in his next video appearance....
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I also wondered if he would announce that he's having a baby in the middle of someone else's LP about adult space Marios but realized that would be dumb and he'd most likely stay on topic and announce it in the middle of someone's Yoshi's Island LP.
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Babeef.
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I am not going to drop any big news in the Mario Galaxy 2 LP. Twitter is obviously the place for that.
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Man, that was a great World 4 video, can't wait to see World 5....... waaiiiiiit.... On another note, I had a dream last night that I was buds with Diabetus and was hinting at him like "Man, sure would be awesome to commentate over a diabetic guy playing Super Mario Galaxy 2"
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KamenZero posted:On another note, I had a dream last night that I was buds with Diabetus and was hinting at him like "Man, sure would be awesome to commentate over a diabetic guy playing Super Mario Galaxy 2" That's when the spider with your mom's head started singing Queen, right?
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