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RE4 update w/SPOILERS:



All right, I've rescued the girl and we're on our way out. We've just gotten off a ski-lift and have entered a building with the big, bald boss with the goatee. I gave him a rocket in the face but he splits in two. Very difficult so far and I had to sell my hand gun and machine gun to buy health spray to fight with him. That just leaves me the shotgun. I'm stuck, but for some reason getting stuck in this game is nowhere near as frustrating as it would be in another game. The struggle must continue...
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Try shooting the explosive barels in the room while the Chief is near them.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Try shooting the explosive barels in the room while the Chief is near them.


Thanks! I'll give it a shot.
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So has anybody here played Mario & Luigi: Superstar Sage for the GBA (I hope I didn't ask this a month ago, but I don't think I did)? It's not an incredibly hard RPG, but it's just so much fun! Honestly, it's the closest I've come to watching a continuation of the old TV series, where the Mario Bros. work as a team. And back in the NES days, when game narratives were limited, it was really the old DiC cartoons that shaped my image of the Mario universe.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
So has anybody here played Mario & Luigi: Superstar Sage for the GBA (I hope I didn't ask this a month ago, but I don't think I did)? It's not an incredibly hard RPG, but it's just so much fun! Honestly, it's the closest I've come to watching a continuation of the old TV series, where the Mario Bros. work as a team. And back in the NES days, when game narratives were limited, it was really the old DiC cartoons that shaped my image of the Mario universe.


SuperStar Saga is a frickin' awesome game. Too bad the sequel had to be full of those blasted continuity-complicating babies. (How can Mario be an Italian plumber from Brooklyn if he knew Princess Peach as a baby?)

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
So has anybody here played Mario & Luigi: Superstar Sage for the GBA (I hope I didn't ask this a month ago, but I don't think I did)? It's not an incredibly hard RPG, but it's just so much fun! Honestly, it's the closest I've come to watching a continuation of the old TV series, where the Mario Bros. work as a team. And back in the NES days, when game narratives were limited, it was really the old DiC cartoons that shaped my image of the Mario universe.


SuperStar Saga is a frickin' awesome game. Too bad the sequel had to be full of those blasted continuity-complicating babies. (How can Mario be an Italian plumber from Brooklyn if he knew Princess Peach as a baby?)


Yeah, I have no idea how far I am into it (don't want to know, so don't tell me), but I just did that quest where Luigi was hypnotized into thinking he was Mario. That was hilarious. Honestly, Chaltab, the whole Brooklyn-transplant thing has never been mentioned in any official game as far as I know. It was just the cartoon/movie that did that. We just accept it as canon because it's a much better backstory than what the games present. But since I don't have a DS, I haven't played Partners in Time anyway.

Oh, and Tiptup, that was the funniest thing I've seen in a while. I love it. I'd seen links to it on YouTube forever, but I never clicked it because I didn't realize what it was. Thanks for that gem. Have to watch them all now.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Honestly, Chaltab, the whole Brooklyn-transplant thing has never been mentioned in any official game as far as I know.


Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr--Granted, I don't think "Brooklyn" is specifically used, but it's clear that Mario lived on Earth before he went to the Mushroom World.

And College Saga? That was freaking crazy. The best Final Fantasy parody ever.

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Yeah, the way I see it (and probably you too) is that Mario lived on Earth (Brooklyn) during the events of the Donkey Kong games. Sometime after that, Mario switches occupations from a carpenter to a plumber, either joining his brother Luigi or bringing him along for the ride. Then, during or after the events of Mario Bros., Mario and Luigi discovered a warp pipe to the Mushroom Kingdom, setting up the events for Super Mario Bros., and the rest is history. But either Nintendo has retconned those early games, or we are meant to assume those early games take place in the Mushroom Kingdom or surrounding fantasy land, or (another theory I've heard) that they were born in the Mushroom Kingdom but, as infants, found their way to the real world, and were adopted by their Brooklyn parents.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Nintendo fans are no strangers to continuity backflips. Just look at the "Zelda" series.

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Well, that's less retconning and more continuous series of prequels with nearly-identical stories. ^_~

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Twilight Princess is one huge retcon about the Origin of the Dark Mirror for Four Sword Adventure.

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Well, I'll probably never play Four Swords Adventure, and I stopped playing Twilight Princess a while ago (and even if I get to that point, I probably won't recognize the retcon, having, like I said, never played Four Swords Adventure), so what I'm sure is a brilliant inside joke is lost on me.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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The Super Mario Bros. cartoon series and many of the other, older story ideas were based upon ideas thought up in america. For instance, Toadstool was actually princess peach in Japan. I think we just discussed how the Goombas weren't mushrooms and that sort of thing. I like Super Mario World 2's ending since it shows how the Mario brothers were delivered to their parents (who lived in a mushroom house) by the stork.

Otherwise, yeah that Final Fantasy parody is great. I really like how they edited the movement to be jumpy like oldschool game animation and I'm impressed by how closely they were able to get people to mimic the movement styles.


In other news, I played the Ninja Turtles arcade game on Wednesday. It was awesome to play it after all these years. That game is a classic.

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself.  It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Well, I'll probably never play Four Swords Adventure, and I stopped playing Twilight Princess a while ago (and even if I get to that point, I probably won't recognize the retcon, having, like I said, never played Four Swords Adventure), so what I'm sure is a brilliant inside joke is lost on me.


No, not a joke, just pointing it out. Why did you stop playing TP?

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I don't know. It wasn't really a conscious decision. I stopped in between the Master Sword and the desert thingy. I think I just got too tired of the endless number of stupid things to collect and just stopped playing. Before I knew it, I was on a really big Mario kick and was playing my NES while my Wii collected dust (that thing collects dust faster than any console I've ever seen before... and because of the smooth white surface, it sticks horribly).

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Before I knew it, I was on a really big Mario kick and was playing my NES while my Wii collected dust (that thing collects dust faster than any console I've ever seen before... and because of the smooth white surface, it sticks horribly).


This is something I've heard about the Wii that kinda frightens me about its long-term chances. That it is a system that seems to be very cool at first, but one gets tired of it and moves on after a while. I don't have one, and can't seem to find one anyway, but I used to really want a Wii, now I'm not so sure.
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No, I'm not necessarily saying that. I wouldn't say I have a short attention span, but I do go through interest phases, where I totally obsess over one of my interest for a period of time and then it gradually dies out and is replaced by something else. When I first decided I had to have a Wii (right before Thanksgiving), I got on a very big Zelda kick, and I played all my Zelda games over the course of the next two or three months, doing nothing else video game-wise. And about the time I got to the point I mentioned on Twilight Princess, I finally got tired of Zelda (and for the aforementioned reason). Soon after, my interest turned to classic video games (Mario in particular), so I broke out my NES and SNES.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Don't forget that a Wii has basically a Gamecube built into it as well. I've been playing Metroid Prime 2 and the Zelda OOT Master Quest on it this past month (in 480p with the component cable ) while I wait for new Wii games to come out.

I'm not a big golf fan, but Tiger Woods might actually be fun to play on it. I'll probably rent it first and see how it is.

My Projects:
[Holiday Special Hybrid DVD v2]
[X0 Project]
[Backstroke of the West DVD]
[ROTS Theatrical DVD]

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I just got Mario Party 7 for my birthday after a several year Mario Party hiatus (play one Mario Party, play 'em all, right?). But I'm having a lot of fun and have introduced my girlfriend to Mario Parties 1 and 2. It really brings me back to being 13 years old again when my friends and I would get together and play Mario Party and Super Smash Bros. together, and my N64 controllers slowly died... sigh. All of us used to have raw palms minus a layer of skin due to all the controller spinning games in the first Mario Party. Ahh, memories!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Nintendo is doing extremely well this time around. The Wii's user base is growing to the point where it will be large enough to ensure its long term success even if its new controller ultimately fails. However, I think the controller is great and probably won't fail. Really, its only problem is how the it has no killer application to make it necessary for gameplay yet. At the moment it's mostly just fun to swing around and mimic real-world actions with. I want to see new ways to control a game that are so intuitive and superior that I won't want to use any other kind of interface.

"Now all Lucas has to do is make a cgi version of himself.  It will be better than the original and fit his original vision." - skyjedi2005

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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Nintendo is doing extremely well this time around. The Wii's user base is growing to the point where it will be large enough to ensure its long term success even if its new controller ultimately fails. However, I think the controller is great and probably won't fail. Really, its only problem is how the it has no killer application to make it necessary for gameplay yet. At the moment it's mostly just fun to swing around and mimic real-world actions with. I want to see new ways to control a game that are so intuitive and superior that I won't want to use any other kind of interface.


I agree. I think Chalt's point is well received about Twilight Princess basically being GC Zelda II. Once Mario Galaxy comes out the Wii's success will grow exponentially, and it's already doing well. Follow that in a year or two with Wii Zelda and it's a lock to make this generation's race VERY close, with PS3 bringing up the rear. I'm waiting to see how The Sims Wii does. I'm thinking it could be somewhat of a killer app, as well as Super Paper Mario. I had someone at EB Games tell me that all their employees have reserves in for that and MP8. I don't think Nintendo has anything to worry about, and by the next gen they'll be ready to embrace Hi-Def which will keep them around for quite a while longer. I think the future of Nintendo is very bright indeed.
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Super Paper Mario is actually my second most anticipated Wii game by a long shot--the first being Brawl. Galaxy looks fun, but I'm afraid Nintnedo will make the same mistake they did with Sunshine and focus too completley on on little microcosm of the Mushroom Universe.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
I just got Mario Party 7 for my birthday after a several year Mario Party hiatus (play one Mario Party, play 'em all, right?). But I'm having a lot of fun and have introduced my girlfriend to Mario Parties 1 and 2. It really brings me back to being 13 years old again when my friends and I would get together and play Mario Party and Super Smash Bros. together, and my N64 controllers slowly died... sigh. All of us used to have raw palms minus a layer of skin due to all the controller spinning games in the first Mario Party. Ahh, memories!


Man, the same thing happened to me!

Okay, the minigame was the one where you sit on a bicycle, and you spin the control stick to pedal the bike and power a light bulb before a Boo attacks you. I had read somewhere that the easiest way to beat it (being about 10 years old, my motor skills weren't the best) was to hold the controller on its side and spin with the palm of the hand. So I did, and I tore a huge chunk of skin off of my palm. Never played another Mario Party game since.

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Yeah, I actually just played that game a couple of days ago (and I can actually consistently beat it now), but I've found a better way to do it. I don't know if it spares my controllers any more than the palm, but it certainly spares my hands. Rather than using the center of the palm, I use the area of my hand just below the thumb. It seems a lot tougher. It's never hurt me at the very least. Nintendo Power once suggested putting a sock over your hand. Honestly, I've never been as worried about my hand as the controller. My hand will heal. The control stick won't.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.