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Re: Vote: Pick Your Favourite NES Games

Deathgaze

10. Wizards and Warriors III (Least favourite)
9. Mega Man 2
8. The Legend of Zelda
7. Castlevania III
6. Battletoads
5. Super Mario Bros.
4. Contra/Probotector
3. Punch Out!!
2. The Legend of Zelda II: Link's Adventure
1. Super Mario Bros. 3 (Favourite)

Re: Square Enix Teases New Projects on Anniversary Website

Deathgaze

@ljinkakidd I've just done extensive research and this is what I found out. Square was doing fantastic before hand. But when Spirits Within bombed they lost the vast majority of their money. However. The merge was planned before Spirits Within. FFX got Square well and truly back on their feet. But then Sakaguchi left to make movies and sold his 51% of the Final Fantasy brand to Square. The merge happened after Sakaguchi left and Square got back on their feet. Enix refused to merge with them in their initially money crisis.

Re: PAX Australia is Sold Out

Deathgaze

@Luigifan141 Honestly?

Australia's seasons are the opposite of that in the northern hemisphere. Then it's winter for you, it's summer for us and vice versa. When it's autumn for you it's Spring for us and vice versa.

Then again there are plenty more moronic comments above thinking everywhere has summer in July.

Re: Square Enix CEO Resigns Ahead of Financial Losses

Deathgaze

@DePapier I think Sony is a better example. High price but quality higher end systems. Not to mention they use standard media storage, not silly Wii U discs. They also have Japanese and American developed games. While Nintendo is 99% Japanese made games.

Re: Square Enix CEO Resigns Ahead of Financial Losses

Deathgaze

I've loved Square since the SNES days but my god have they done almost nothing right recently.The last good thing they did was develop The World Ends With You and the remake of FF4, but they barely promoted it and gave FF4DS such a short print run. Before that there was FF12 which people seem to either hate or love it. (I personally love it) And before that was FF10.

I'm glad this happened. Maybe now they can get their flagship franchise, Final Fantasy back to it's former SNES and PS1 glory status. Stop focusing on phones and ports. Don't announce things so early. Localize games people want to PAL regions and North America (Type-0, Bravely Default for example). Online FFs - At least don't make them part of the main series if they have to exist. And a whole ton of others.

Re: Feature: Nintendo Life's Staff Favourites - NES

Deathgaze

@rezyac There's a difference between aged and aged poorly. I'm not defending Zelda at all saying it hasn't aged badly. Simply put I said he word doesn't hold much merit considering he wasn't around at the time.

I love popping in my original Zelda, I think it's a great game still to this day and an absolute classic. Yeah sure it's aged some-what-poorly in my opinion, but so has 99% of the NES library.

Re: Corecell's ChronoBlade is Now Called AeternoBlade

Deathgaze

@retro_player_22
I admit, I know just about everything there is to know about Nintendo, Sony and Square, but not so educated on Sega and what have you. I may be wrong, but out of the titles you listed no other made an impact on the gaming community such as Chrono Trigger. The game still holds up today as one of the best games of all time, if not the greatest. It's an arguable point. Chrono Cross though is one of Square's titles. And more or less a spiritual successor to Chrono Trigger.

Re: Nintendo Hints At An Additional Platform In The Future

Deathgaze

It could be a long shot here, but...

Anybody remember the hype building up to the DS? Nintendo stated that the DS was NOT a successor to the GameBoy, but merely it's own thing. So, maybe we will be seeing a new GameBoy? One screen, no touch screen. Just pure gaming. "GameBoy II", I like that name.

Re: Balloon Fight On Wii U Reportedly Running At 50Hz in Europe

Deathgaze

There's no point to this. Heck. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just give every region the same version of the game? On PCB boards the lockout chip was external to that of the ROM chip, so it's not anything to do with NTSC VC titles won't run on PAL and vice versa.

Nintendo you never seem to get everything right, why?

Re: Rumour: Today's Nintendo Direct To Focus On Wii U Virtual Console

Deathgaze

@hiptanaka But that's what I don't get, why is it a huge selling point? I've kept all my Nintendo consoles and handhelds since the NES and GameBoy in the case that I would want to play it, why can't people just seem to hold up to systems as oppose to throwing them out the second the successor system is released? Nothing beats playing games on their intended system with the intended controller. We should only get remakes of games that have not aged well. In which case should just be a handful NES and a fair chunk of the N64 library being early in their era.