So...

While we're on the subject of once hard games becoming easy...

Metroid. I just beat the first one. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played. And it features something quite interesting: A final boss that can't attack, but can still kill you.

As for TP, I don't see why everybody hates it. I loved it. Especially all of the references to OoT, and just seeing how much it's changed since OoT. It's one of my favorite Zelda games.


Oh, and congrats on having the perfect girlfriend Amaster!

OMFG! I just had the most utterly epic dream ever! It all started with me somehow being transported onto a Star Trek ship - a really damn big one, too. Suddenly, the ship comes under attack. There's a lot of confusion, and me running to get to one of the more secure decks (and stabilizing a few components of the ship on the way), and then suddenly, everything turned into Super Smash Bros... just everything! Characters from everywhere started dropping in - it was just utter chaos. I mean, just... It starts out with a few familiar faces - Princess Peach, Zelda, Snake, Ice Climbers, and it starts expanding to Mega Man, the Joker, Spawn, etc., going all the way to characters like Ronald McDonald and Thomas the Tank Engine. Everyone was fighting over some ultimate power or something.

Joker, though, really seemed to have a leg up on the competition. After dispensing of Ronald McDonald in a thoroughly gruesome manner, these five immortal dragons show up, and they're just utterly huge and have the power to take down starships. Sonic the Hedgehog manages to defeat one by leaping into its mouth and hitting the spot from where it generates these enormous energy blasts, and then Joker simply traps another in a Pokeball and blows up the Pokeball.

Hell, at one point even I ended up getting in on the action, realizing that I wasn't merely a spectator, but another competitor in this metaverse-spanning battle. However, I ended up getting taken out by the Angry Video Game Nerd. He ambushed me in a bathroom, we fought, he detonated a bomb ripping a hole in the ship's hull, which nearly sucked me out of the ship, but I managed to hold on to a railing long enough for the ship to seal off the hull breach. We fought some more, and I was gaining the upper hand when laser fire from ships battling outside hit a large glass window next to us, causing us both to be sucked out into the vacuum of space.

The battle raged on, and eventually, it was decided that the each of the survivors would be merged with one other, thus leading to them gaining new powers. Joker ended up becoming merged with Batman, which was unfortunate because Batman was the only one with any chance of taking him down, and this led to everyone else agreeing to team up in an attempt to stop him. Eventually, Joker then bonded with the ship's computer and one by one, eliminated everyone else.

After it ended, the whole thing started up again - and this time, I realized it was like some incredible combination of game and movie, because I got to choose a character to control - this time I chose Snake, and proceeded to sabotage key systems on the ship. It was just incredible, because it was like this epic movie, only you had complete freedom, and everything you did changed the ultimate outcome, so you could play it over and over again and each time have a completely different story.

Ugh, wow, I just really wish that dream didn't have to end.

I got all of the heart containers in AlttP, and Twilight Princess. I've gotten 18/20 hearts in OoT, and 16/20 in MM. I think I have 17/20 in WW.

I got all the hearts in every game except Majora's Mask (and PH 'cause I never played it). I think I got 18 or 19 in Majora's Mask; there were just a few that were too difficult for me.

rock_nog: Whoa, that's awesome! Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get the same dream tonight.

On the subject of HCPs, the only game even tried to get them all in was TP. Well, I got full hearts in PH, but they used full heart containers not peices. And I might have in the original Zelda, I can't remember.

Except for the CD-i's which I didn't play, the only game I did not get all the HCs (and HCPs) was PH, but I hated that game, anyway.

I honestly don't see why everybody hates PH. It might not have been like the other Zelda games, but it's still a fun game.

Minish Cap was the last good Zelda game. After The Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventures, and Minish Cap, I was loving the direction the series was going. I was really hoping for a sequal to The Wind Waker to be made for Gamecube&#8212;when TP was announced, I was like D:<!!

Then they finally made a sequal for the Wind Waker, but it looked like crap and it was on that shitty handheld, DS. Ewwww, I like the DS even less than I like the Wii. FFFFFFFF- Rage.

I love the DS and the Wii. I'm a sucker for neat controls. 😊

Dude, Rock Nog, that sounds like the most awesome dream ever!

(Sudden curiosity: what does your name mean anyway?)

TP "sucks" because it could have been so much more. It is the new OoT, but unlike OoT, it doesn't have the awesome gameplay to back up the hype. TP's largest design flaw was the stupid choice to allow players one locked door, and one key at a time. This made for very linear dungeons. The second game killer was bosses. Next time, gimme a boss the looks awesome AND does more than one and a half hearts of damage through the whole battle. The only redeeming factor was the overworld (which is the only category it has OoT beat). It was fun to explore only for the novelty of it since god knows you won't be needing all the HCPs and rupees. It was also the first 3D game to have a lot of enemies in the field like the old games. OoT lacked a variety of enemies in the field. Oh, and who is the asshole who programmed the rupee pick up system? I hated having to go back and get rupees from chests? (I'm the kind of person who gets all of the chests from a dungeon). ... "Let's put it back for now, ok?" - NO BITCH I'M NOT PUTTING IT BACK, OK?

TP had it's sidequests, but the game just felt too mainstreamed, and seemed to lack that charm OoT, and AlttP has. In recent years I have lost a lot of respect for Miyamoto.

PH was a piece of shit through and through. I fucking hate every thing about that piece of shit. Literally everything sucked about that game. Every. Fucking. Thing. It is NOT Zelda. No matter what.

If this is the future of Zelda, I'm going to kidnap Miyamoto and Aumona, wear their skin into Nintendo's HQ, and direct a Zelda game right. God damn.

Tobias_Daboi wrote:If this is the future of Zelda, I'm going to kidnap Miyamoto and Aumona, wear their skin into Nintendo's HQ, and direct a Zelda game right. God damn.

Aonuma* ;]

TP might have had faily linear dungeons in terms of keys, but does that mean they're linear. Some are still very easy to get lost in. Plus, it makes more sense. Why is ever lock in the dungeon the same? It makes more sense for each door to have one key. As for bosses, they were easy, but so much fun. I don't want a hard game, I want a fun game. Which is porbably why I like PH. Easy as possible, but I still liked it. And you got to admit, PH had awesome bosses.

Amaster42 wrote:Dude, Rock Nog, that sounds like the most awesome dream ever!

(Sudden curiosity: what does your name mean anyway?)

Every gamer's worst nightmare has come true for me.

The corruption of a memory card =o

It all started about a month ago. I was going to play Windwaker, and my first save was corrupt. I didn't care since I had a copy of it, and I was playing a different one anyway. I deleted it, and it was fine. A bit later, it said my Master Quest save was corrupt. I took the memory card out, and blew in it, and put it back in. It worked. This happened again, and even a few times with TP. Each time, removing the card would fix it. The other day, I backed up my valued saves to another memory card (It is a tiny 56 block card, so I had to choose carefully.)

So, today, I go to play master quest. Same shit, different day. But this time, removing the card did not fix it. It seemed permanently corrupt. I loaded my back-up, and it too was corrupt. I went out and bought a new memory card, and copied it again. Corrupted. I tried it on the Gamecube. Corrupted. I even let it reformat my memory card (ultimately deleting everything else I didn't back-up). Even after reformatting, the save would always end up corrupting the second time I loaded the game. The weird part is, it corrupted the new card.

So, I really have no idea if it is the system not writing things to the card properly (explains multiple games) or if it is the game itself (since MQ is thoroughly fucked) or if it is the card not writing properly. Each circumstance getting ruled out results in another one popping up. It happens on the Wii and Cube, multiple memory cards (even after reformatting) and with several games. So, what the fuck?

EDIT: Scientific process would imply it is the game itself. It is the only non-variable per platform, and memory card. But, other games corrupt too. Maybe Master Quest initiated it? But it started with Windwaker.

What about the long, uninteresting story behing your old names. That one line in your sig has been driving me crazy with curiosity.

Edit: Same time post. Tobias, I had a similar problem with Master Quest and Melee. It's a certain type of memory card. If it helps, I think a save file for Sonic (whichever one was the first to have Shadow) can corrupt it. That's how mine got corrupted.

...Rock nog, that dream sounded like it was freaking awesome.

😞 The last dream I remember was me being Light from Death note (working with the "task force" who KNEW I was kira). We randomly ran around, until I went into a subway station, and got busted by

Spoilers for those who didn't finish the anime
[SPOILER]N[/SPOILER].

So now having everyone onto me, I tried to explain that I was NOT in fact trying to rule the wolrd, and was just trying to provide a fresh start, and being caught meant to me that my task was done, and I would stop. ...Naturally, they didn't believe me, and I began to run for my life. Fortunately, I had some weird kind of hookshot thing, that I was able to use to latch onto stuff, and it helped me escape the 50 some-odd cops coming down corridors and stuff. And then, I got out onto the street, and managed to hook myself to a bus, and hid beneath it as it rolled away.

*insert fade to black here*

Next thing I know, I'm looking at myself form a 3rd person perspective in an appartment. I hear a nknow at the door, pull out a pistol, and open it to see Misa and some crack pot looking doctor. Apparently, to avoid being caught again and avoiding meeting the business end of a *insert death penalty here*, I had requested a complete alteration of my identity, right down to a new face and a total memory wipe. Unfortunately, since I was a wanted man, I had to hae the procedure done in a random hotel room. My already low enthusiasm took an even deeper dive when The doctor injected the lnock-out-juice, and I realized he totally missed putting the bandage on the right spot. The last thought I had before conking out was "oh gosh, I'm trusting THIS guy with this?!? Oh I 'm so screwed."

Fortunately it seems it worked....minus the fact that I also lost 90% of my verbal skills along with my other memories.

...I miss having awesome dreams. I haven't had any in a long long time. Instead I have to run for my life, and get my head re-made by a questionable doctor. 😞

Heh, I absolutly love the Death Note manga, but the anime lost my respect and became an object of ridicule after "I'll take a chip...and eat it!".
Still hilarious though,

Fine, Russ, you really want to know? Way back in 2001, I joined this forum under the name "weirdguy." I hung around for a while, but in college, got distracted. I came back after a long hiatus to discover that my old username had been deleted, so I created a new one, macweirdo42. That lasted for a few years, but I eventually lost interest in AGN again. This time, my username wasn't deleted, but I lost my password, and the e-mail address to which the password was attached. Thus, I created my third and current username, rock_nog.

Oh, interesting. How did it get deleted?

Hm. So, a Sonic Adventure 2 save can corrupt data?

EDIT:
I do have a seven-year-old save from that game that has been torn to pieces with action replay codes. It has some sentimental value (being my first GC title) so I'd like not to delete it. Do you have a source, or any valuable links for this kind of information? I'll Google around. I just sucks since I lost all of my other saves in reformatting the card. I backed up all Cube Zeldas, and Melee, and some Sonic games (which may be my downfall). I actually forgot to back up Prime 1, and 2. Prime 1 is awesome, and I'd definitely play it again, but I'll probably never beat Prime 2 again.

Moosemunch is the SHIIIIIT.

What's moosemunch?

Edit:

Hm. So, a Sonic Adventure 2 save can corrupt data?

Well tomorrow, I'm going to reformat the 1019 again. I'm going to save MQ, and see if it corrupts after the first time. If it works for a while, I'll bring over my TP save (90+ hours, and you bet your balls, I won't be doing THAT again for a while). I guess I didn't back-up Melee either. Also, Mario Sunshine had files A, and C corrupt. After re-inserting the card, only A was corrupt. Maybe it is the connectors too? I'm going to clean it. I'm also gonna try and reformat the new card I bought. If the MQ save corrupts both of them with nothing else on them, then it has to be the game, or the Wii.

I also read that leaving the system on stand-by as opposed to the Cube's hard turn-off can fry the cards after a while. Well, I always turn my Wii off all of the way since I don't really like the whole stand-by thing. I've never felt too good about it.

So, 146 Emblems, 200+ Melee hours, 30+ Metroid Hours, and 50+ Mario hours are all gone for ever. Let's not even talk about Wind Waker, or Majora's Mask, or either of the Sonic Adventure OR collection games :[

Tis a sad day. The Melee and SA2 really bother me. Those were some of my first cube games, and I had hours and hours of fun with them, and now those saves, and first memories are gone. Any new file will never have that novelty.

EDIT: I wish you could just transfer cube saves to the Wii, or at least an SD card.

russadwan wrote:What's moosemunch?

Edit:
I have two memory cards. On one of them, the save file will always corrupt the memory card, and every game except Sonic is corrupted. It works fine on the other one though. The Gamecube has a weird memory system. Then again, it was Nintendo's first attempt at using memory cards.

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My sympathies, Tobias. I know how it feels. (ok, not corrupted memory card, but still...I've lost a lot of save data before, and it is always a depressing moment).

And modsbannit, I really hate my dreams now. I was having this retarded dream about being a bond villain running away from 007 and it eventually gave way to some stupid space drama involving little demi human imps.

...and the worst part is, I wanted to find out what happened next, so I turned off my DS (my alarm) without thinking. Result? I got up too late to eat. I had to eat breakfast during my first break at work (9:00). ...I was really hungry up until then.... >: (

I'm feeling kind of tired. Two finals down and one to go. Life Science, hopefully it's the easiest of today. My other two finals were like someone asking me to jump across the ocean. Hopefully it felt the same way for everyone else.

I had a strange dream last night. Me and my friend were hiking up this mountain near where we live. In real life, there is a large cliff rising oput of the top of thr mountain called Haystack Scramble. Here's the wikipedia page on the mountain:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Si You can sort of see the cliff from the picutes. It's the left most cliff rising from the top of the mountain.

Anyways, when we got there, rather than the normally dangerous trail leading to the top of it, there was an indoor roller coaster leading to the top. Well, I use the term "roller coaster" loosly. It was a small large sled that went across the ground, and the only way to stay on was to hole the handle in front of you. After the dangerous trip on it, we arrived at the top.

The top was strange. It had a roof, and rails along the side, like an observatory or something. We looked down at the beautiful views below. The President was coming to town for some reason, and we could see his limo arriving at the town hall. Suddenly, I noticed a group of tanks outside the town. "This can't be good" I said. A voice behind me said "Not it can't". I turned around, and Mewtwo was standing there (like I said, I have strange dreams). He unveiled his plans to assasinate the President, then leaped down the mountain in a jump (it's about a mile high), and ran towards the town hall. My friend and I raced down the mountain.

We reached town just in time to see the town hall explode. The President cam running out. Mewtwo ran out after him, grabbed him, and ran off.

Everything after this is sort of a blur. I remember trying to get a group of people together to stop him, but it's so hazy that I really can't remember much. Shame, it was an awesome dream.

phattonez wrote:I'm feeling kind of tired. Two finals down and one to go. Life Science, hopefully it's the easiest of today. My other two finals were like someone asking me to jump across the ocean. Hopefully it felt the same way for everyone else.

Well, I have a final at 8:00 in the morning on Thursday, so you're not alone. At least my two finals today weren't that bad, even though they were back-to-back.