@Giancarlothomaz I'm not sure why people are surprised at demos. We used to have demos in the 90s all the time. Some were magazines you could buy at the store others came in cereal boxes. Key point: Land Before Time Activity Center (A very fun game) was in the form of a demo on some cereal I bought and was 20$ to buy but you could try 2 or 3 activities (luckily the 3D maze was one of them showcasing it's strong points. The funny thing is if you browsed the CD folders you could find the entire music library to play on Windows Media Player including movie files as in game you earned movie clips doing the activites that required a certain amount of 'tree stars' but the clips were freely available on the disc explorer. Even if you don't have the full product.
@Jokerwolf Dude. PC Games used to have demos.. There was this awesome CD Magazine called Club Kidsoft that had lots of software on it (though geared for kids and pre teens). There were only 4 volumes done because it had a crappy keycode system which you had to call them and get an unique code for each game and only get it once. If your computer changed or you lost your game they didn't give it to you again unless you rebought it!
The concept didn't sit well with a lot of people so after 4 volumes it was over!!!! But I loved the exploration as it had activities as well!
@DoomGuyBFG Pretty lame actually. Link destroying hordes in one swing!..............Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! This is reminding me of Lord of The Rings Conquest Horror show. I really want to like this game but the LOTR Conquest has jaded me.
@Jacob1092 Reminder this is NOT a regular Zelda game. Just so you know what your getting yourself into. THIS IS A HACK N SLASH GAME!!!! Think a more lame version of Assassin's Creed.
@IronMan30 The only thing I'm worried about is it's a hack n slash game so the focus will be so much on that we won't be able to see the forest for it's trees. No?
@Tuney Okay. How'd you feel if you couldn't get Super Mario All Stars for the SNES a year later? All you'd get is scalpers charging over priced content (which none of the money even goes to Nintendo) due to it being second hand.
Sounds like none of you were alive during the hype of Lord of The Rings Conquest. God what a disappointment! I hope this game isn't going to the same route!
I love the locations on here but so did the locations of Conquest and it turned out to be a very linear game and pretty repetitive.
You won't be having time to enjoy the scenes as your going to be pushed from one objective to the other I'm afraid.
@psychoBrew You should've seen them in the 90s and 80s. They made Commodore 64 titles though I don't remember which ones exactly but we have a few from a collection we got at Goodwill among others.
They are only a AAA company because the others were bought out or snuffed out (whatever way you like to look at it) when EA kicked people around.
Ubisoft would've been a pipsqueak if we hadn't gone to a globalist mindset.
@SpiderSquid Otherwise phone idiots would lash back. Best please them. You should see how Windows 10 keeps making fonts smaller and smaller after each major update.
I canceled my order. It doesn't even have the DS bonus features!! 60 bucks for a 1:1 ratio? Nintendo is a lot like EA games these days which they are being massively sued.
@Yosher They are like the TSA at this point. People too afraid to go against status quo and question the narrative but except the 'for your safety' BS.
Nintendo actually had the best E3. The only Microsoft game inspiring is their reinvention of their Flight Simulator which they abandoned after Flight X or whatever it was called that was too taxing on computers at the time of release. The rest of E3 each game looked like they came from the same factory just only the weapons different. Though MS had this weird game with phone graphics that had a girl locked in a room trying to escape showing time going bye then it turns out there is a side door that somebody opened at the end of the trailer. I wonder if that's the way out. 3.
There is hardly any reaction topics to this year's E3. I wonder if everyone else thought it stunk to high heaven too. The threads I found are all from 2 to 3 years ago. I was looking at 90s E3 videos and GOD THERE WAS SO MUCH VARIETY and definitely a LOT of reaction.
If NIntendo could do something like the Commodore computers with the Switch it will last long after it's selling point. In Eastern Europe they used Commodore Amiga's even in the Bush II era before going over to pirated XP machines. Those cheap Optiplex machines on Amazon. They are arranged so you cannot change or configure anything. We got two of them to run legacy software and found out none of them have changeable parts so you can't max out the RAM or put a cheapo video card in. You get what you get though Dell does offer wonderful support when something does go wrong. I have a Dell I7 gaming machine but the power supply is chinsy and it isn't SSD. Up to 2011ish computers every 2 years were very different then it's predecessor. Now it's just expensive Alien ware machines for hack n slash at maximum graphics or cheapo computers that barely turn on and all you can do is CAD stuff for students at school or business at work to run as a server. My gaming Dell was actually VERY hard to get.
Finally a game that isn't that phone look with skinny figures and fat heads. Just from the description and 'boxart' it's going to be better then Link's Awakening and the appeal will last long. Link's Awakening will be exciting for the first hour then people will quickly snap out of it and realize they are just buying a 'slightly' upgraded game they may or may not own if not then can grab it for free on a No Intro set now at Internet Archive allowed by Congress.
Dad and I grew up with the Commodore on and to make a long story short that is why games were good in the 90s as most of the programmers at one point or another programmed on it as it was easy to use and you didn't need to spend gobs for a license code but artwork was unique! All in just 64KB of ram on top of ROM. Here's a video that explains how these graphics worked and with the Commodore 64 'bible' within a week you would be good to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfh0ytz8S0k everything the 8 bit guy said is right there in the Commodore programming book. Including the Illustrations of how the 8 bit graphics work on the C64 and ways you can divide it.
It's all true and led to many interesting games and software that made it an actual computer not just a game machine. Jack Tramiel behind it didn't want the image of another game machine. He wanted a tool everyone could use at low cost but open.
Since the mid 2000s we have dumbed down in graphics to this phone sterile look. When lookin at graphics engines to redesign a 90s educational game back in 2010 we saw this one engine that started it but can't remember the name of it that now does most of the Switch games and Steam Indie titles. if you've notice most of these games look very similar though with individual shading/effects to not get in trouble with copyrights but it's all very basic details. It's on par with Hanna Barbara.
Hopefully this game brings some fresh air. Links' Awakening I cannot figure out why fans would want it except those who had seen it already as once the novelty wears off it's going to be like a "lame" 3DS title type of game. A Link Between Worlds was a rip off of A L ink To The Past essentially the same map but lied saying it was a new game.
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Re: Rumour: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity May Be Getting A Playable Demo
@johnvboy Nintendo is way behind the times in this. Remember shareware?
Re: Rumour: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity May Be Getting A Playable Demo
@Giancarlothomaz I'm not sure why people are surprised at demos. We used to have demos in the 90s all the time. Some were magazines you could buy at the store others came in cereal boxes. Key point: Land Before Time Activity Center (A very fun game) was in the form of a demo on some cereal I bought and was 20$ to buy but you could try 2 or 3 activities (luckily the 3D maze was one of them showcasing it's strong points. The funny thing is if you browsed the CD folders you could find the entire music library to play on Windows Media Player including movie files as in game you earned movie clips doing the activites that required a certain amount of 'tree stars' but the clips were freely available on the disc explorer. Even if you don't have the full product.
Re: Rumour: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity May Be Getting A Playable Demo
@Jokerwolf Dude. PC Games used to have demos.. There was this awesome CD Magazine called Club Kidsoft that had lots of software on it (though geared for kids and pre teens). There were only 4 volumes done because it had a crappy keycode system which you had to call them and get an unique code for each game and only get it once. If your computer changed or you lost your game they didn't give it to you again unless you rebought it!
The concept didn't sit well with a lot of people so after 4 volumes it was over!!!! But I loved the exploration as it had activities as well!
Here is the volumes on Archive one of them is an ISO the rest are torrents sadly. https://archive.org/download/club-kidsoft-vol3-issue4 Actually I forgot if you click on the show all you can just grab the .Bin and Cue files but I had to resort to PCEM using a Win98 image from Archive.org. https://archive.org/details/win98se_201801
https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ which Archive.org has the necessary bios chips to make the program turn in.
And you can enjoy your childhood demos and games from Archive.Org again. Most of the titles on Archive.org work on Win98 only.
Re: Video: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Trailer Shows Breath Of The Wild's Hestu In Action
@DoomGuyBFG Pretty lame actually. Link destroying hordes in one swing!..............Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! This is reminding me of Lord of The Rings Conquest Horror show. I really want to like this game but the LOTR Conquest has jaded me.
Re: Video: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Trailer Shows Breath Of The Wild's Hestu In Action
@Jacob1092 Reminder this is NOT a regular Zelda game. Just so you know what your getting yourself into. THIS IS A HACK N SLASH GAME!!!! Think a more lame version of Assassin's Creed.
Re: Video: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Trailer Shows Breath Of The Wild's Hestu In Action
@IronMan30 The only thing I'm worried about is it's a hack n slash game so the focus will be so much on that we won't be able to see the forest for it's trees. No?
Re: Round Up: More Screenshots And Footage Of Super Mario 3D All-Stars
@personauser93 Welcome to the modern education system. Today's peoples are a product of the system now.
Re: Round Up: More Screenshots And Footage Of Super Mario 3D All-Stars
@Tuney Okay. How'd you feel if you couldn't get Super Mario All Stars for the SNES a year later? All you'd get is scalpers charging over priced content (which none of the money even goes to Nintendo) due to it being second hand.
Re: One Of Zelda's Most Iconic Locations Is Returning In Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity
Sounds like none of you were alive during the hype of Lord of The Rings Conquest. God what a disappointment! I hope this game isn't going to the same route!
I love the locations on here but so did the locations of Conquest and it turned out to be a very linear game and pretty repetitive.
You won't be having time to enjoy the scenes as your going to be pushed from one objective to the other I'm afraid.
Re: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Is Getting A Deluxe 'Treasure Box' Edition In Japan
@Jacob1092 Your picture looks like you need hand sanitizer realllly bad! LOL
Re: Immortals Fenyx Rising Sure Does Remind Us Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
@psychoBrew You should've seen them in the 90s and 80s. They made Commodore 64 titles though I don't remember which ones exactly but we have a few from a collection we got at Goodwill among others.
They are only a AAA company because the others were bought out or snuffed out (whatever way you like to look at it) when EA kicked people around.
Ubisoft would've been a pipsqueak if we hadn't gone to a globalist mindset.
Re: Here's Your First Look At The Main Menu In Super Mario 3D All-Stars
@SpiderSquid Otherwise phone idiots would lash back. Best please them. You should see how Windows 10 keeps making fonts smaller and smaller after each major update.
Re: Round Up: More Screenshots And Footage Of Super Mario 3D All-Stars
@BlackenedHalo Hell yeah!
Re: Round Up: More Screenshots And Footage Of Super Mario 3D All-Stars
@Tuney Imagine if Breath of The Wild was for 'limited time only' you'd still be pleased?
Re: Round Up: More Screenshots And Footage Of Super Mario 3D All-Stars
I canceled my order. It doesn't even have the DS bonus features!! 60 bucks for a 1:1 ratio? Nintendo is a lot like EA games these days which they are being massively sued.
Re: Paper Mario Producer Says His Team Has "Almost Complete Control" Over Creative Direction
@Yosher They are like the TSA at this point. People too afraid to go against status quo and question the narrative but except the 'for your safety' BS.
Re: Paper Mario Producer Says His Team Has "Almost Complete Control" Over Creative Direction
@Bobb Sounds like our lovely TSA to me! Nintendo's version anyways.
Re: Paper Mario Producer Says His Team Has "Almost Complete Control" Over Creative Direction
@LinkSword I think he has gone into the naked body scanner at TSA one too many times and it fried his brain from the 'radiation'.
Re: Stranded Sails Channels Zelda And Harvest Moon In A New Open-World Farming Adventure
Correction: Commodore 64 had awful graphics if a game or software was ported from Apple as the programmers didn't use the C64 Kernel. It showed.
Re: Stranded Sails Channels Zelda And Harvest Moon In A New Open-World Farming Adventure
Nintendo actually had the best E3. The only Microsoft game inspiring is their reinvention of their Flight Simulator which they abandoned after Flight X or whatever it was called that was too taxing on computers at the time of release. The rest of E3 each game looked like they came from the same factory just only the weapons different. Though MS had this weird game with phone graphics that had a girl locked in a room trying to escape showing time going bye then it turns out there is a side door that somebody opened at the end of the trailer. I wonder if that's the way out. 3.
There is hardly any reaction topics to this year's E3. I wonder if everyone else thought it stunk to high heaven too. The threads I found are all from 2 to 3 years ago. I was looking at 90s E3 videos and GOD THERE WAS SO MUCH VARIETY and definitely a LOT of reaction.
Re: Stranded Sails Channels Zelda And Harvest Moon In A New Open-World Farming Adventure
If NIntendo could do something like the Commodore computers with the Switch it will last long after it's selling point. In Eastern Europe they used Commodore Amiga's even in the Bush II era before going over to pirated XP machines. Those cheap Optiplex machines on Amazon. They are arranged so you cannot change or configure anything. We got two of them to run legacy software and found out none of them have changeable parts so you can't max out the RAM or put a cheapo video card in. You get what you get though Dell does offer wonderful support when something does go wrong. I have a Dell I7 gaming machine but the power supply is chinsy and it isn't SSD. Up to 2011ish computers every 2 years were very different then it's predecessor. Now it's just expensive Alien ware machines for hack n slash at maximum graphics or cheapo computers that barely turn on and all you can do is CAD stuff for students at school or business at work to run as a server. My gaming Dell was actually VERY hard to get.
Re: Stranded Sails Channels Zelda And Harvest Moon In A New Open-World Farming Adventure
Finally a game that isn't that phone look with skinny figures and fat heads. Just from the description and 'boxart' it's going to be better then Link's Awakening and the appeal will last long. Link's Awakening will be exciting for the first hour then people will quickly snap out of it and realize they are just buying a 'slightly' upgraded game they may or may not own if not then can grab it for free on a No Intro set now at Internet Archive allowed by Congress.
Dad and I grew up with the Commodore on and to make a long story short that is why games were good in the 90s as most of the programmers at one point or another programmed on it as it was easy to use and you didn't need to spend gobs for a license code but artwork was unique! All in just 64KB of ram on top of ROM. Here's a video that explains how these graphics worked and with the Commodore 64 'bible' within a week you would be good to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfh0ytz8S0k everything the 8 bit guy said is right there in the Commodore programming book. Including the Illustrations of how the 8 bit graphics work on the C64 and ways you can divide it.
It's all true and led to many interesting games and software that made it an actual computer not just a game machine. Jack Tramiel behind it didn't want the image of another game machine. He wanted a tool everyone could use at low cost but open.
Since the mid 2000s we have dumbed down in graphics to this phone sterile look. When lookin at graphics engines to redesign a 90s educational game back in 2010 we saw this one engine that started it but can't remember the name of it that now does most of the Switch games and Steam Indie titles. if you've notice most of these games look very similar though with individual shading/effects to not get in trouble with copyrights but it's all very basic details. It's on par with Hanna Barbara.
Hopefully this game brings some fresh air. Links' Awakening I cannot figure out why fans would want it except those who had seen it already as once the novelty wears off it's going to be like a "lame" 3DS title type of game. A Link Between Worlds was a rip off of A L ink To The Past essentially the same map but lied saying it was a new game.