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From a review of "Pikmin" on IGN:
"That said, it becomes extremely important to take care of your Pikmin because of the tight 30 day schedule. Unfortunately, in game time each day is only about 15-20 minutes long depending on cut-scenes and pauses. So in the main adventure only amounts to about 10-12 hours of gameplay. This is perhaps Pikmin's biggest flaw. It rushes you through these lush environments forcing you to complete the game in about 10-12 hours. Ever worse the last two of the five environments are absolutely spectacular, packed with puzzles, and we need not spoil the awesome last boss for you. Why is that a bad thing? Simply because you don't want it to end. Pikmin is such a fresh, new kind of experience and you are rushed through it."
So it forces you to finish in about 10hrs?
Balls to that.
I think I wasted my money on a Gamecube to be honest, Star Wars is good but I've done it and the Monkey Ball thing is simplicity itself.
And nowt being released I want.
That'll learn me to ignore my instinct and return to my own vomit.
"That said, it becomes extremely important to take care of your Pikmin because of the tight 30 day schedule. Unfortunately, in game time each day is only about 15-20 minutes long depending on cut-scenes and pauses. So in the main adventure only amounts to about 10-12 hours of gameplay. This is perhaps Pikmin's biggest flaw. It rushes you through these lush environments forcing you to complete the game in about 10-12 hours. Ever worse the last two of the five environments are absolutely spectacular, packed with puzzles, and we need not spoil the awesome last boss for you. Why is that a bad thing? Simply because you don't want it to end. Pikmin is such a fresh, new kind of experience and you are rushed through it."
So it forces you to finish in about 10hrs?
Balls to that.
I think I wasted my money on a Gamecube to be honest, Star Wars is good but I've done it and the Monkey Ball thing is simplicity itself.
And nowt being released I want.
That'll learn me to ignore my instinct and return to my own vomit.
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Strafex wrote:
> Then again, I didn't think that it was my type of game until I played
> it...
>
>
> It doesn't really rush you, you do have plenty of time.
> You just don't have all the time in the world, which is what I'd want
> from this type of game.
>
> I hope Shigsy ammends this for the sequel.
I hope not! Yeah maybe 60 days or whatever but if he removes the time limit then the time management aspect a vital part to the game will be gone... it will then be far too easy.
> Then again, I didn't think that it was my type of game until I played
> it...
>
>
> It doesn't really rush you, you do have plenty of time.
> You just don't have all the time in the world, which is what I'd want
> from this type of game.
>
> I hope Shigsy ammends this for the sequel.
I hope not! Yeah maybe 60 days or whatever but if he removes the time limit then the time management aspect a vital part to the game will be gone... it will then be far too easy.
Goatboy wrote:
> Pikmin is rubbish.
> I haven't played it and therefore am eminently qualified to place my
> opinion.
>
> Soldier of Fortune 2, however, rocks.
Pikmin is probably the greatest Cube game out, it is incredible.
> Pikmin is rubbish.
> I haven't played it and therefore am eminently qualified to place my
> opinion.
>
> Soldier of Fortune 2, however, rocks.
Pikmin is probably the greatest Cube game out, it is incredible.
Then again, I didn't think that it was my type of game until I played it...
It doesn't really rush you, you do have plenty of time.
You just don't have all the time in the world, which is what I'd want from this type of game.
I hope Shigsy ammends this for the sequel.
It doesn't really rush you, you do have plenty of time.
You just don't have all the time in the world, which is what I'd want from this type of game.
I hope Shigsy ammends this for the sequel.
Somehow I doubt that Pikmin will be Goatboy's kind of game.
Pikmin is rubbish.
I haven't played it and therefore am eminently qualified to place my opinion.
Soldier of Fortune 2, however, rocks.
I haven't played it and therefore am eminently qualified to place my opinion.
Soldier of Fortune 2, however, rocks.
*obtained
savatt1668 wrote:
> As for GTA3 on X-Box, it was due to arrive, but I think the recent
> deal Sony made has put it in limbo. The 4th one will be PS2
> exclusive, but its hard to tell whats going to happen with the 3rd one
> for X-Box, afterall, its already out on PC.
No GTA (any version) will appear on Xbox or any other console apart from PS2 until October 2004 at the very earliest, due to an exclusive license abtained by Sony.
> As for GTA3 on X-Box, it was due to arrive, but I think the recent
> deal Sony made has put it in limbo. The 4th one will be PS2
> exclusive, but its hard to tell whats going to happen with the 3rd one
> for X-Box, afterall, its already out on PC.
No GTA (any version) will appear on Xbox or any other console apart from PS2 until October 2004 at the very earliest, due to an exclusive license abtained by Sony.
Dringo wrote:
>
> Do you know me at all? Probably not, so therefor you won't get the
> whole Nintendo rules thing with me.
Sorry if I misjudged you, I was answering the posts you made, quite simply.
Maybe if you didn't have such a big ego then you would understand that not everybody on here will automatically have read all of the posts that you have made in the past and know all of your opinions on every subject discussed here.
;)
>
> Do you know me at all? Probably not, so therefor you won't get the
> whole Nintendo rules thing with me.
Sorry if I misjudged you, I was answering the posts you made, quite simply.
Maybe if you didn't have such a big ego then you would understand that not everybody on here will automatically have read all of the posts that you have made in the past and know all of your opinions on every subject discussed here.
;)
As for GTA3 on X-Box, it was due to arrive, but I think the recent deal Sony made has put it in limbo. The 4th one will be PS2 exclusive, but its hard to tell whats going to happen with the 3rd one for X-Box, afterall, its already out on PC.
I got Doom 3, Quake 4 and Red Faction 2 from an E3 list.
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