abstract alien
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Ill be avoiding the internet like the plague around the week of e3. Well, that's the plan anyway.AceBandage said:IGN will spoil some big surprise just hours before E3 starts...
Just like last year.
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IGN Posts Up More Project Cafe Hardware Power Rumors
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herzogzwei1989
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ReBurn said:
I remember that issue!
Cow Mengde
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From The Dust said:
What leak? All we knew was that is used some kind of Pica 200 chip but beyond that, we know jack shit.
herzogzwei1989
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I hope detective-GAF gets cracking on trying to uncover everything about Cafe, I also wish Panajev was around and posting in this thread.
AceBandage
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neoanarch said:
It's no different from a guy recording a game to watch it later and not wanting to know the score before hand.
abstract alien
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You speaking for me, or yourself? I would rather find out about it during the e3 conference :^pneoanarch said:
AceBandage
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neoanarch said:
No...
Not at all.
It's much more exciting to see a game announced that you didn't know about with full video and screens and such, than just "OH LOL! RETRO MAKING DONKEY KONG!"
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Now I am sure they will reveal Donkey Kong Country Returns 2 for the new console at E3.
abstract alien
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No, its not the same...not for me. If that is what you like though, then its all good.neoanarch said:
From The Dust
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I need this shit live. pre-recorded isn't fap material for me
abstract alien
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Sign me up for the live fapage bandwagon as well.From The Dust said:
herzogzwei1989
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TheGreatMightyPoo said:
Noooooooooooo. I so totally do NOT want Retro to be working on DKCR2.
Anything but that.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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herzogzwei1989 said:
I just can't see them abandoning a very well received game that did well in sales.
So many ideas left untapped from the first one though it was excellent.
_Alkaline_
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herzogzwei1989 said:
Yes let's hope they're not working on one of the best platformers of the last decade.
herzogzwei1989
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_Alkaline_ said:
I just didn't care for DKCR. Would it be so bad if Retro was working on new IP?
herzogzwei1989
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donny2112 said:
I hope so...is Retro large enough?
donny2112 said:
Even counting contractors and office staff, Retro Studio only has 68 employees listed here: http://www.mobygames.com/game/wii/donkey-kong-country-returns/creditsherzogzwei1989 said:
I'd suggest that they might even need to increase in size just to make one Cafe game at a time, or at least notably increase their outsourcing.
Edit:
Yeah, they're only hiring six new employees right now, so I would say they are definitely targeting only making one Cafe game at a time.
Lupin the Third
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herzogzwei1989 said:
I didn't hate DKCR, but I didn't like DKC1-3 enough to give DKCR more than a brief play. It's reasonably fun but the difficulty curve gets a little too steep too soon for my tastes. (I like collecting everything on my first playthrough if possible, you see.)
Grampa Simpson
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or blow on it.AniHawk said:
herzogzwei1989
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I'm still just awe-struck at what Nintendo did with Twilight Princess and the first Galaxy. Those two games turned me from being a SEGA fan into being a Nintendo fan. It happened on hardware only 1.5x faster than a GameCube.
Now imagine what Nintendo could do on hardware that is many, many times more powerful. It boggles my mind.
Now imagine what Nintendo could do on hardware that is many, many times more powerful. It boggles my mind.
herzogzwei1989 said:
those games heavily rely on good level design. zelda can be significantly improved if they use the extra power to make a seamless overworld (which has been their goal since oot). mario 3d isn't going to change because of hardware power alone. it's going to need good ideas.
Pandora's Tower looks nuts! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYymZ69_7A
Should be worth the wait.
Coming out next week!!! 26/5 in Jap
Should be worth the wait.
Coming out next week!!! 26/5 in Jap
Monty Mole
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Indeed it looks awesome but how is it Cafe related?dwu8991 said:
Smiles and Cries
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AceBandage said:IGN will spoil some big surprise just hours before E3 starts...
Just like last year.
Chances are high for this since Nintendo goes a day after Microsoft and Sony
I would think something would be leaked a few days early if not the day before
Smiles and Cries said:
Absolutely. In fact, it's always Nintendo who's responsible. Nintendo always gives a big exclusive to some newspaper/outlet the night before the event. If you want to avoid having surprises ruined, 24 hour internet blackout. Me? I want leaks tomorrow. They're going to come, so the sooner the better.
SneakyStephan
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dwu8991 said:
Looks like a ps2 game but whatever.
herzogzwei1989
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uchihasasuke said:
I am aware of that.
Has this been posted?
http://www.develop-online.net/news/37732/Develop-Source-Wii-2-pad-adds-camera-system
herzogzwei1989
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luffeN said:
we're inching closer
I think I know what Nintendo want to use the camera for:
Facial emotion recognition
Such as controlling a game with your face. Smile for joy, display teeth for anger etc. You could imagine a game were you would just sneer with your face to scare off enemies or something.
This would be SOOO Nintendo and would also bring in the casual audience
Facial emotion recognition
Such as controlling a game with your face. Smile for joy, display teeth for anger etc. You could imagine a game were you would just sneer with your face to scare off enemies or something.
This would be SOOO Nintendo and would also bring in the casual audience
radioheadrule83
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klier said:
Actually I think it does mean something...
the overworlds in the 3D Zelda's have been incredibly barren and desolate compared to the intricate and well designed maps of the better 2D games. I often think of all the cool touches in the overworld of A Link to the Past, and while nearly all of them are done in dungeons in the 3D games, they're not done on the overworld map:
- Dropping off of Death Mountain in dark world, to land on an otherwise inaccessible cave entrance... swapping between dimensions to get to inaccessible areas, draining waterways and flooding others...
- Other areas that are inaccessible until you get a certain power up
- Graves that roll back
- Prayer stones to find, that give you the Quake, Ether and Bombos medallions
- Unnecessary items to find such as the ice rod, the cane of Byrna, the magic cape
- Hidden heart pieces in more natural cave entrances - in hollowed out trees, behind vines, under waterfalls -- not just under giant rocks!
Of course, you could consider Kakariko Village, Lake Hylia and Death Mountain etc to be a part of the overworld in Ocarina of Time, but they're not... its not seamless, and Hyrule Field is just an overworld hub for them.
The higher performance will allow them to blur the distinction between overworld and dungeons and villages.
Now imagine that bigger, more joined up world having a physics system evolved from Wind Waker, realistic wind effects having a real influence on everything in the world, a truer lighting model (return of the mirror shield plz), actions having more visible consequences, destructible environments, procedurally animated enemies and NPCs... how you can wrap up all that new functionality in new puzzles and dungeon structures. If they use the extra power wisely, they can make the overworld innovative and seamless again, and maybe just maybe they'll hold a candle to the overworlds in the 2D games.
BlackNMild2k1
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Suzzopher said:
None of that is new info though. But more confirmations is always good.
edit: Actually, I think the most interesting part was this:
BlackNMild2k1 said:
Because it shows that the developer doesn't know anything and hasn't seen it, just is reporting what he has heard/hopes/thinks.
disap.ed said:
Also missing serious screen size and resolution, also tremendously expensive.
The front-facing camera was in the very first day of leaks. Develop chooses the least discussed element of that leak and runs with a story to grab clicks off people who weren't paying much attention at first!
SpokkX said:
It wouldn't work very well though - lighting, angles, skin tone, hair in face, heavy-ass controller with a screen in it going to be resting in the lap most of the time - and as with the Vitality Sensor, Nintendo don't want to release something which doesn't work for even 1% of the userbase.
Amazing that we are still stuck with that first round of rumors as the only credible information.
Holy Order Sol
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MYE said:
I'd add myself to that list.
BlackNMild2k1
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dwu8991 said:
I don't know what resolution a .3MP camera supports, but I would hope that Nintendo would use a camera that supported 1080p resolution since that is resolution the system supports.... unless the camera stuff will only be displayed on the controller (but that would be incredibly short sighted).
BlackNMild2k1 said:
.3Mp is VGA - 640x480
It wouldn't be that short sighted if the camera wasn't for full-screen video, but instead for small video textures. In fact, that would be pretty useful. Obviously, the higher the resolution, the better, but there would still be a great deal of usefulness to a VGA camera in a 1080p game (where the image wasn't required to be huge).
-paste your face onto your Mario Kart Kart.
-show each player's face on the HUD to denote which player is where
-auto-generate Miis
-send video messages in a window whilst also playing an online game.
-scan pokemon cards
Heck, even the brand new iMac with it's 'HD FaceTime camera' only does 720...
lwilliams3
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radioheadrule83 said:
Good post. The developers already stated that it will be one of the goals for Zelda: SS, so I can see them going in that direction for the inevitable Zelda Cafe. On a similar note, I hope for Nintendo to also use the higher performance to make an advanced version of the NPC system that MM has.