That was formatted wrong, I wasn't calling the Werehog a step in the right direction, but the game as a whole.

To be honest, this was an old one that was only a few topics down... has been around since 04 it seems.

I'm outright, an atheist and this is going to go a little bit off the beaten path, but eh. If anything I say here offends anyone I apologize, but I'm just going to go on to explain.

Frankly, I'm tired of people outwardly stating that Atheism is a religion, I've seen it said a million times and every time I do... it makes my blood boil. Okay so maybe not that bad, but you get the point.. it happens far too much. The word 'religion' is something that I do not want to be involved with in any way, shape or form... and that's because I feel that the word itself is poison, never mind the actual implication of it. Yes, I do understand that there are many people out there who are hardworking decent people, many of whom will never participate in the faucets of their specific religion that REALLY boil me (..flashbacks to Jesus Camp right about now). My problem does not lie with these people, but with the institution of religion itself.

It's hard to express without aids... anyone here see Religulous? If you haven't, go see it and then you'll pretty much get where I am coming from. I'm not going to go out and tell someone that they should believe what I do though, that's something that turned me away from religion almost entirely. I do understand though, that for some people it is also a coping mechanism... for the people that I love, I would not want to take that away from them.

I guess it boils down to a quote from a Vatican priest in Religulous when asked how to convince people to change faiths;

"You don't, just let people live and die with their stupid beliefs."

Followed by a quote from one of my favorite songs pertaining to the subject;

"It's not for you to say, what every heart should pay... it's another body and soul that isn't your own."

I'm assuming that he wants to make original stories using the rather simple interface of the first two games... although it's quite the undertaking; generally it's easier to do this kind of thing to NES or SNES games.

I was browsing some of the topics on the top here and I just so happened to pass the D-Pad Hero thread and then remembered something that I always like to tell people about whenever I get to a new gaming forum, or hell, just anytime that I know someone who I think might be into the idea.

A demake is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. While a remake takes an older game and makes it new, a demake is the very opposite.. developers take a new game and make it... old again. The great developers site TIG Source decided to hold a competition, and that spawned a great number of them, all coming together at once.

http://tigsource.com/features/demakes/

An added challenge was the subtitle in the name there... they had to be bootlegged, this makes it ultra-delicious for anyone who knows anything about rom hacks or the real bootleg games that existed during the run of the NES. There's some great games there, including;

- A fully functional Team Fortress 2 2D game called Gang Garrison II.

- Point & click Silent Hill called Noiseless Mound.

- Dead Rising redone in 2D as WARNING! Zombie Mall.

Of course, some are a bit better than others.. but even the ones that play poor compared to others.. there's at least a good concept there. Just thought I'd spread the idea to people who may not have heard of it.

Cheers.

You know, this is going to be a longshot, and really it's going to have as much of a chance as a snowball in Hell, but whatever... here hoes.

1. In the short time I've been here, I've identified the boards that I will likely be visiting the most; and they just so happen to be the three that I will be applying for.

2. From my posting history at other places I've become a regular at... yeah, for sure no problem on that. For sure.

3. Once a week? As much as you need... that's not going to be a problem.

The forums themselves are Video Games, Final Fantasy and the TV/Entertainment/Sports combo.

As to why I would make a good mod... I've done it before for various other forums and it's worked out. Another thing... is that I simply always seem to have the time to do something like this, so why not use it to improve something? It takes something to have a forum going that doesn't turn into a big mess...

But right, it's not like this is a job application. I'm not going to spurt out that I know a lot about video games, FF or TV/Entertainment/Sports because it's obvious that those are the areas I'm going in for, the more important thing is that I know what's right and wrong.

I know the topic itself is quite old, but just to throw in what I instantly thought of when I read over it... who cares? And really what does it matter?

Final Fantasy for years has been a marketable game, they made the first one.. it worked so the second one tied in to ride off that success. It's not like Square (and then Square-Enix) only rides off that one success, it's just a way to link together a series of games that may not be connected in specific ways.. but there's always those broad elements that carry over (chocobos, moogles, etc.)

In the end, I don't see it as anything more than an easy way for the fans of the series to follow it around, nothing more and nothing less. Final Fight wasn't the... Final Fight, and the titles really aren't trying to say that. Eh.... I know the post was more about volume of games, but in that respect.. if something works and people want it, why not? Really, why not? I hear people calling for the end of a series all the time... but if it's pleasing someone out there (and it's just not you) then why not?

Wasn't really much of a review, more of an overview of something that we all pretty much know by now.. 'tis quite an old game by now, although you did cover small bits of its appeal...

Originally posted by DarkHyren

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Originally posted by Rasenganfan2

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Nintendo used to be a hard-core gamers rejoice. Now they care to casual gamers. < SNIP > But i think, because Microsoft is the king of caring to hard-core gamers, that they could get Nintendo to make more hard core games.

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first point agreed, second point dont make me laugh.
yes ninty was for real gamers. no xbox isnt.

i seriously want to know of these "hard core gamer" games that xbox supposedly has, try and convince me please, i want to beleive gaming isnt dead or dying.
because all i see is a "family" console (wii), a console for jocks/rapper losers (360), and a console that is a shadow of its big brother (ps3).
and even is 360 does have something, its design flaws shatter the illusion anyway.

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That's a rather glib look at the entire issue though, because your perceptions of the three systems seem to be very thrown off... putting the three consoles into a very, very small area of grouping is cutting out a MASSIVE percentage of gamers, ESPECIALLY with the comments there about the 360 which don't seem to be warranted in the least bit.

While the idea of making the game a direct port to something or other is nice, the developers (or at least one of them, it was in a podcast on FFVII that I listened to once) stated that if it would ever be done, it would have to be a full overhaul.

And they ARE making a PS3? All I've heard was rumors.

...are you kidding me? Strapping a big honking thing onto your head (which would be the difference between a Virtual Boy and the DS) is anything but portable friendly.. think about that for a minute. I don't see people getting anything out of the Virtual Boy that's all that worth it.

There were reasons that it failed, other than the technological nightmare that it was.

Oh dear, that's really friggin' hard to say, to tell you the truth. I've tried pretty much all of them, and they all have their pluses (except for the Virtual Boy.. shudder)... and right now I am REALLY loving my DS.

But I gotta go with the SNES.. by a SMALL margin.

http://fceultra.sourceforge.net/

This is pretty much as top of the line as you get, as far as NES emulators go. Give it a try.

Hmm? That's odd, I have never heard anything of the sort.

Back in 2005 there was a big hub-bub that I remember when they released scenes from FFVII using PS3 graphics, ergo everyone thought an update was being made for the Playstation 3, however nothing came out of that because that wasn't really the intention. Never heard anything official (was the rumor just fan-made?) although to this day people are still making rumbling noises about a remake in this generation.

The current generation, for sure. Why's that? The reasoning is quite simple.

Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have taken great leaps to make the previous eras available to all... Nintendo has opened up its whole history for download (in portions of course, and there's some stuff we won't see granted, but I believe there is something there for everyone) along with the histories of many other systems while Sony has done the same thing with its own historical content, same with the XBOX although that only goes back one generation, to tell the truth.

Along with that you have Sony and Microsoft using their online download services to bring us older games with updated graphics (most times with an option to have the originals there too mind you) and its the classics that get this treatment. It's kind of like filtering through all the crap if you ask me, and I'm still getting the great stuff from today... sometimes there's Anthologies that are entirely worth the purchase, such as the Genesis one released not too long ago.

When I think about the fifth, I have amazing memories... getting my N64 was one of them and before that I had a PSX that I spent a lot of time with. Before that, I remember the day that I got my SNES and even that was a lot of time spent with my father playing video games and the like... so I'm quite cool with the fourth as well. Looking back though, a lot of the stuff that I enjoyed is sentimental only and the games haven't aged well. In this generation, I get the stuff that aged the best along with the best new stuff... works perfectly for me.

The game was getting trashed, pretty much all around by other people I've seen post and critics... but playing the demo on 360 wasn't exactly a bad experience, I was quite enjoying myself.. I've only seen the Werehog gameplay and yeah, it doesn't look amazing.. but it's a step in the right direction... the previews for the new game don't look all that amazing, but the series that it's a part of is more geared towards children I think... I wouldn't put anything against it for that.

Chalk up another vote to VII for me.

It's not that I don't enjoy other games, in fact I feel that others have stronger elements that VII does, but that game.. I spent A LOT of time on that game when I bought it off someone at a garage sale one day, and there was so much variety there.. that's what really hooks me in a game.

It is really hard to say because... well you're putting games in three entirely different genres up against each other so I find them hard to compare.

I didn't really think all that much about Galaxy, but I loved both Mario Kart Wii and Brawl... there's more to Brawl though in terms of content, so I guess I'm going to have to go with that.

I have to go with Mario Kart DS for the all around game. I look back fondly on the N64 version but it doesn't really stand the test of time. The fondest memories will always be with the SNES version... all around there's just more there with the DS that makes it playable to me alone.

There are far too many of them to take note of here, but I've recently realized that PSX emulation is possible on my computer.. so I've been dabbling in that, finding games that I had only read about in magazines and what not.. and others that I'd only touched demos of.. it's quite fun!

Right now I'm playing Suikoden II, Bust-A-Groove 2 and Tomba.