 msanis
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Dec 22, 2001 20:49 |
i think i played powerstone 2,on my cousins dreamcast but only for a little while......the graphics were good but it was in 2d (it was seen on the side like ssmb in other words) if it was the same game. anyway that game was cool i'd still play it if could, but my cousin gave his dreamcast to his girlfriends brother.......anyway like i said it may not be the same game but if it is i'd recommend it to you.
i bet this post was a stupid one....well maybe...
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MintMan
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Dec 22, 2001 22:12 |
I do believe that SSB:M is supposed to be 3-D. I just think certain portions of the Adventure mode are 2-D.
I mean, it isn't the platform stuff of the original SSB, and it still has the 4 player option.
And what is wrong with 2-D fighting? I prefer 2-D to 3-D. Half the time in 3-D fighting games, you're just trying to face the other person. In a fight, you're always facing the opponent. You don't turn blindly away and punch at the air next to him.
Besides, only in 2-D games can you get that cartoony DarkStalker graphicitiness, which is some of da best stuff ever!
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 Camo
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Dec 23, 2001 4:16 |
No, Powerstone is a 3D fighter game but the graphics are fairly cartoony, I have been trying to find some pics for you guys but having no luck, and if you have a dragon slayer sword 4 times the size of your charicter its not hard to miss an enemy, and if thats too hard just jump into a submarine or tank or somthing and blow the sh_t out of them!
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writer77
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Dec 23, 2001 18:55 |
SSB:M is in the side view like it was in the old game. The graphics are 3D, but the actual fighting in the game is done pretty much just as though it was a 2D game.
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 Camo
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Dec 24, 2001 9:06 |
In other words, its still the same game, just looks cooler!
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 msanis
Posts: 454
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Dec 24, 2001 11:33 |
it's not the same game. the game has the same fighting system but that doesn't make it the same game, one thing is from what i heard all the characters have new attacks, 2nd there are new levels, 3rd a whole bunch of new features, and lets not forget all the new characters.
also i heard this version has a litle more strategy to it because you have to push buttons at the precise moment for the attack to do more damage, also to be able to deflect attacks.
that basically makes the game alot better than the original...
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Camo
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Dec 24, 2001 18:45 |
So its SSB is the equivalent of Street fighter II and SSBM is the equivalent of Street Fighter Alpha II ?
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writer77
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Dec 24, 2001 23:20 |
Well, I don't know. I remeber playing Street Fighter II, but not Alpha. But if Alpha was pretty much the same as the old one, with new levels, new ways to play, new characters, and better graphics, then for the most part, yes. But SSB:M is still worth the money it costs, even if you have the old one. Mostly because those old 64 controller joysticks made it hard to run.
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Camo
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Dec 25, 2001 21:44 |
Well I suggest instead of spending all that money to get SSBM just try to find somwhere that you can get with 3 of your est mates, have a beer, and play Powerstone2 Considering the DC is only like $50 straight from sega its worth it, I dunno how much pads and games are though, cause here in Australia its hard to find DC stuff and if you do, it will most likely be a rip off price! But everything you need you could probobly get for about $200 to $300 but SSBM with 4 pads and a GC would cost over a thousand bucks! and your still playing old style 2D fighting!
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MintMan
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Dec 26, 2001 14:31 |
Face it Camo: a Dreamcast isn't worth so few games. Someone is better off spending their dough on something that will be useful in the near future.
Dreamcast, with it's plummeting prices, would only be worth it when it drops even further than what it is currently. I recommend buying a used bundle off of someone on-line. I'm sure you could get some killer deals on it from eBay if you really wanted to.
SSB:M, from what all the people of my haunts praise, seems like it would be worth it more.
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writer77
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Dec 26, 2001 16:30 |
Yeah, I think GameCube is easily worth the money it costs. Dreamcast, on the other hand, isn't going to get new games, at least not very many. And I actually didn't buy the 'Cube for SSB:M. I mostly bought it for Luigi's Mansion (Which is a cool game), my brother just happened to buy that game.
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Camo
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Dec 26, 2001 23:48 |
Actually just recently Bomberman Online was released, although I dunno if its in AU yet, I was trying to find it for Xmas but had no luck at all.
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 MadGoblin
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Dec 27, 2001 6:53 |
I wouldn't say that Dreamcast isn't worth the price. $50? C'mon, that's like buying a new game for any of these new systems (if not less), and with Virtual On, Skies of Arcadia (voted best RPG for its year) and ... um, other stuff (can't ... think ... brain distracted ... by cookies), I would say it's well worth the money.
... just well worth it after the purchase of a Game Cube.
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Camo
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Dec 27, 2001 7:00 |
Yeah, you tell em Mad Gobbo!
Dream machine is the beast, and my bets say the only one who owns one of them besides me around here is Madgoblin, see the Dreamcast its hole life has been beyond under rated, and only the owners of them know there true power. Hell, most games are better then your PS2 and the GC and Xbox don't really have any games, even on the "graphics" side of things I think the DC beats the PS2... I decided this after playing Shenmue ;)
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MintMan
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Dec 27, 2001 12:57 |
Uh, actually, Camo, MG doesn't have a DreamCast. Hel, we aren't gonna blow our money on that when we have other systems to be getting!
And no, it doesn't have better games than other systems. Why? Because its gaming library is the sole reason the DC flopped. Soon after it came out, Sega announced that it was going to leave all of the gamemaking to other companies. What they didn't anticipate on is mostly sports games comin' in from that point on.
Granted, it has some really cool games, but when you compare it to the available or up-coming pool that other systems have, there is no comparison.
You must also factor in that the Dreamcast will never have new games made for it. PS2 has Final Fantasy; GCN has all of its classic Nintendo glory; X-Box has... only DOA3. Yeah... other systems rock....
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Camo
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Dec 27, 2001 22:03 |
He don't? Well sega made a few games for the DC, and the ones I have played by Sega twipe up more then any sony or 64 game. Mainly sport games? Wel I dunno how many games you guys play on your consoles, but I have not played one sport game on the DC unless you classify racing as sport, then make it one sport game :P and I lost the enjoyment of Final Fantasy after I saw FF8, The fighting style, the graphics, the Cid's in every episode, it just doesn't get to me any more.
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MintMan
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Dec 27, 2001 23:18 |
Well, if you'd know anything about FF, Cid has been in practically every one (I can't remember quite when they added him; he's kinda like Wedge -- they hafta put him in somewhere as a running thing). And FFXIII was frickin' sweet. About 99% of those who didn't like it were just FF noobs that came at Six or Seven and expected the same sort of Japanese wackiness -- the realism is what deterred most of them. Well, that, and they said the plot was too complicated, although it was probably about the same complexity as Seven.
And although you may not have that many sports games for it, that is all that was made at the end of its run for that is what destroyed it, and yes, racing is considered a sport. Well, as long as it is realistic.
You live is Australia, tho', so I don't know what games reach you down there. I know the British Commonwealths sometimes don't get games that sell poorly in Japan and The States, and seeing as how they were the DC's downfall, you probably didn't get a lot of them.
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Camo
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Dec 28, 2001 1:14 |
I played a little of FF9 at my mates place, I thought it was a bit babyish so I gave up, but if it does have a story as good as 7, then I might go try it out again, but the first part looks like a cross between Conker and Bandicoot after the discovery of an ancient castle where the use of turn based battle is all that is known.
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MintMan
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Dec 28, 2001 14:51 |
"Babyish?" The bloody 'el you talkin' 'bout? It was far from.
FFIX rocked. Some call it the best FF ever due to its fantastic plot and character development, not to mention the ability system. Then, most others consider it just another FF; there was one flaw to it. Time. With only about forty hours to complete it in the first run (that's only ten hours a disk!), Nine is one of the shortest FF's ever. I have no doubt that it would have surpassed Seven if it had only been longer, but, it wasn't.
And whatever is wrong with turn-based fighting? Granted, classic DragonWarrior style sucked, but as long as (as we have discussed before) it has some initiative regulator, Turn Based can be quite good or even vital to a game! RPGs were meant to be slow-paced in the action department. You are supposed to be able to walk away from the controller at almost any time -- even in the middle of a fight!
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writer77
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Dec 28, 2001 23:07 |
FF IX was easily one of the best ones out there. Although I never really did like FF XIII to much. I hated having to stop to stock up on magic and having to work to fasten the summoning of the GFs. Ugh, I've always hated standing around and building up for the next level, even though that's one of the most important things in all RPGs. I guess I did like the fact that the opponent's level was the same as yours. I didn't have to stop to gain experience much, just had to waste time stocking up on magic.
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