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"Gamecube for Kids?"

Its got me thinkin... Check it out..post back your response to it...
http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=1928

DeltaJava wrote:
> Eternal Darkness, for the GC. That's what the developers said,
> anyway. Ok, so one game. But the evidence will grow.

Well, Soul Reaver on the PSX and DC has NO loading times... so if u are good at programming then u can avoid them. DOA2 has no loads in game on the DC either.

Anyway, I think the eternal darkness thing is just so that the developers can counter claims of huge loading times by saying "We did it on purpose!" ;)

NiGHTS!

Eternal Darkness, for the GC. That's what the developers said, anyway. Ok, so one game. But the evidence will grow.

errr... on what games.... on what consoles...

in some games u don't want loading times... in others u need a pause.

NiGHTS!

NiGHTS! wrote:
> who cares about the thing a game is stored on. Ok, there is a debate
> over Carts vs optical format... but to compare DVD and CD is
> pointless. If games need any extra space then they can use more and
> more CDs/DVDs... without adding to the game cost!

The ONLY thing
> that should matter is loading times... and the fact is that NO ONE
> has actually seen a GC game's loading times... so we shall wait and
> see

NiGHTS!

But... in E3, developers, including third party ones, have said that they need to a0rtificially slow down their loading times inbetween screens because the transition between rooms, for example, were too quick.

Thank you.

who cares about the thing a game is stored on. Ok, there is a debate over Carts vs optical format... but to compare DVD and CD is pointless. If games need any extra space then they can use more and more CDs/DVDs... without adding to the game cost!

The ONLY thing that should matter is loading times... and the fact is that NO ONE has actually seen a GC game's loading times... so we shall wait and see

NiGHTS!

Besides, in lots of games for the PS and PC, the Games were only about 80MB added with FMV and Music to fill the CD.

And if compression does cause a loss in quality then games like Zelda and Perfect Dark hid it very well.

Games like that were huge and if Nintendo and Rare can cram all that into a miniscule cart, God knows what they'll pull off using disks that hold about 50 times as much...

DeltaJava wrote:
> And that's why the GC uses mini discs thingys for their games. SO
> there.

bang on my man :)

And that's why the GC uses mini discs thingys for their games. SO there.

well sega has a whole load of games but with them people think about the company first so they go out of stock.