Super Mario Sunshine Comments by Tom Bramwell

Hey, I've found a converter! But it says I am 3.3 ft and 13.5 stone?!


edit: this one works better. I am 13.4 stone(s?) and 6.36 feet, then. Makes more sense.

Are you perhaps abnormally tall Lou? 6 ft 4" is a lot compared to the average which is about 6 ft now :)

5'11 and 16 stone. A bit tubby.

Ssuellid, thanks for the heads up on the dual carriage way down Nantgarw. Used to cane it down that road driving to school. It used to be 40mph, so will keep an eye out for the 30mph limit.

Pirotic: glad there's light at the end of the tunnel mate, mine seems to be heading toward a black hole atm.

Did anyone see celebrity fit club the other day? That Rick Waller was 30 stone!!!!! That made him 17 stone overweight!

I am still in shock. I hope he never falls on top of anyone else.

I am quite tall, yes, but somehow I don't like the term "abnormally". ;) Maybe something was wrong with the conversion again. In good old continental meters, I am 1.94.

It was the first word that popped into my head, "Are you perhaps taller than all the other lesser folk?"

The 192 sounds about right to me, like I say the average is 5ft11" I think.

Has anybody else noticed that Gamecube stories always get the most comments?

Halo.

talking of which, if no-one else is going to do it...

u gave this game more than halo, u gamecube loving whores. xbox roxors gaycube suxors etc.

ooh, I know the rest of this one.


Ignore the score.

'Has anybody else noticed that Gamecube stories always get the most comments?'

Erm have you missed the Buffy and Money No Object threads? Both over 300...

"Buffy"

Most of that thread was completely off the topic of games as well.

Careful, you'll only set Errol off!

Heh - 52 shines and counting... but then I don't have a girlfriend to worry about at the moment (although working on that too). Sorry to hear about your news Super Stu - like everone's been saying though, you'll get over it. I split up with my fiance this time last year and I'm only just doing something about finding someone else - with all the crap and fallout from breaking up I felt I needed a break from all that relationship garbage :-)

As for Mario - well slap me down if it isn't absolutely bloody great. I just love how there's always something to do and the level of control you have over Mario is just perfect - although whoever it was saying that the FLUDD-less platform levels didn't have as much control as in SM64 obviously is talking out their a*se; the only thing missing is the ability to crawl and who needs that? You've got the super-spinny jump instead!

Well I can see that this is going to keep me occupied in game terms for some time which means I won't have to buy any more games for a while; ultimate result is that I'll have more money for taking this girl I've met out so basically, I'm a happy man.

played blinx yesterday... i have to say i wasn't all that impressed - seemed very slow after playing mario the previous day for 6 hours.

I still enjoyed jak & daxter more than either though :/

Nah - Jak And Daxter's too easy. Bit like a girl I used to know - easy on the eyes and easy to "get on with" but really there's just no challenge. And it's no fun unless it's a challenge.

theres no fun in dying 20 times on the same bloody non-jetpack challenge.....

j&d was too easy though - did it 100% in 2 days.. lol

I'm going to move down from Scotland back down to Wales as soon as I can.

Heh, I got no one to whinge to me when I get an Xbox now.

With all those mountains I'm surprised there's enough falt space to put an X-Box down in Wales.

Keep your chin up Stu and look on the bright side.
Don't think about it as the end of a relationship - more a chance to give your ears a rest for a while ;)

Blinx got 6.3 from gamespot

lol :)

yet more proof that you should never believe the hype that gets thrown around.

duc - I bet your happy about Blinx. Could have been a bad day for the reviewer, Mario fanboy or had a row with the boyfriend for all we know. I dont go by reviews so much, unless its much hyped by at least 5 different sites.

eviltobz - Do you even know how a search engine works?? There are more sites and magazines than Gamespot. Try www.gamerankings.com as it gives you a kinda overview on what sites rated what.

I bought a GC weekened before last for Resident Evil and to be ready for Mario. Mario is a great game but the Camera has got to be the worst I have ever had to deal with since the C64 days. It's ok at the start but some Episodes from like 30 Shines plus are near impossible. There should have been an option so you can run around when the camera is above your right shoulder instead of just standing still.

Still, the next game im gonna shed out money for on my GC is gonna be Zelda.

Which C64 game has a rogue camera?

The only time I've had a real problem is when you are taking on the ferris wheel, but I found a quicker way to get up to the top.

Name a third-person action game with a perfect camera and I'll name you a liar.

Duc, you don't seem to be wanting things to go right for GameCube more than you hope things go wrong for Xbox. That anti-microsoftism is extremely stupid of you.

Time will prove, however, that you'll have no choice but to purchase a Microsoft console-- if you wish to continue gaming, of course.

Oh and here is another new-formed prediction of mine--- Microsoft is going to buy Nintendo near the beginning of the next generation.

Yes, yes, I know that this has all be attempted before. Nintendo's asking price of 25 billion wasn't worth it to Microsoft because all it would do would turn the Xbox into "nintendos next console" which obviously hasn't worked for GameCube. So instead, Microsoft decides to create its own development power by purchasing several small developers for the first generation of Xbox, then purchasing a soon-to-be-defunct Nintendo at the beginning of next.

Rumors have been in OXM about Mario being on an Xbox console as early as 2005. Another rumor in the same magazine is a high-level Microsoft employee talking about how nice it would if Nintendo we're a MSoft first party.

Some other evidence is Micrsoft's willingness to make such huge purchases. Namely Linux cost them 19 billion, and Nintendo's offer of 25 billion will be considerably smaller next time Microsoft goes to the dealing table. Since Nintendo's stock has already fallen 40% this year alone, Nintendo is nearing the market cap of EA. EA is 10 billion strong.

But even more important is Microsoft's cash. Microsoft's profits have followed an almost linear trend. Their 40 billion dollar bank now will be near 90 billion in 2005.

Other evidence comes from the fact that Nintendo willingly sold their most important developer to Microsoft (?!?) and that Microsoft is supporting GBA, as long as their shiny new 1st party developer.

But finally the most important fact would be to consider how important buying Nintendo would be to Microsoft. Their original plan was to release both the XBox and a portable to begin a line of consoles and portables that'll eventually take over the world. Anyway, buying Nintendo would not only assure a victory in the next generation war, but it would immediately score a new monopoly for Microsoft in the form of handheld gaming. One immediate monopoly and the promise of a future one would be quite nice for Microsoft.

So my official prediction is this--- in 1095 days or less, Microsoft will have bought out Nintendo.

And this ISN'T the major-japenese developer the rumors have been talking about. That purchase will likely happen within the next few months.

*sigh*

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Just wait, my friend. Just wait.

Linux cost them 19 billion
Er amongst the rest of the strange pronouncements in your post this is the most weird, Linux is still and will always be open-source, MS haven't bought it and couldn't even if they wanted to.

Whizzo, I suggest a quick Yahoo! search. "Microsoft acquires Linux".

But of course could "never" happen, according to you. Ah. The ill-informed. You've got to love them!

Er do that and the first link with the headline "MICROSOFT ACQUIRES LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM FOR $18 BILLION" is so obviously a joke only the very dim could be taken in. I suggest you go to Linux.org where strangely enough Linux is still, as ever, an open source project...

Lol, or rather ROFL, really ROFL, did you REALLY believe that news about MS buying Linux, Bill?

edit: go to MSLINUX to find further facts

edit: er, some typos and, er, html, and...

The fact that the link has unix humour in it, says it all.

Bill do you believe everything you read?

Send me £200 now to make yourself more intelligent. One time offer, get it now!

Hm, all quiet now on the Western front, huh?

Well, it was a deep hit.

edit: Trying to improve my html skills. Doesn't work the way I want yet. :(

No wonder he wrote so much, everytime he read it back it suddenly became a solid fact. :)

edit: Uncle this may help you out.

"182.93 height and 85.729ish weight :) Check here for conversion rates. I haven't checked my weight for ages although I think it has gone down of late."

201 metres height and 99kg.
er.. 6'7", 218 pounds

No kiddin', Razz? You are taller than me, mate!

edit: thanks, sam. You are a Dashiell Hammett fan, then?

I am indeedy.

Must admit I always preferred Chandler to a degree, but Hammett is ace, too. Not to forget Cornell Woolrich, of course. :)

I'm not as big a Chandler fan, I find his plots too similar and his writing not as page-turningly good as Hammett.

Well, Chandler's plots definitely aren't the best, and they sometimes even make no real sense (Chandler himself admitted that0,) but he was a master of witty, dry-humoured dialogues. But I agree that Hammett is more suspenseful.

I actually based a college project on Chandler's style, before I'd read a word of Hammett. I also like Mickey Spillane, a man who is almost as interesting as the world he writes about.

Oh I thought by the time I'd watched an hour of excellent comedy on BBC2, BGiE would have responded and shown just how ill-informed I really was. Ho-hum.

Coupling & the Office followed by "MS buys Linux" - big LOL! :D

"A moderator who's been out of the country for two days"?

"An off-duty moderator"?

I dunno, what? :P

I've finally got round to opening my gamecube an hour ago... fired up Mario Sunshine... played it for 30 mins, got bored, returning the GC tomorrow. Sorry guys. I've always loved Nintendo, but I think I've grown out of nintendo games. Roll on XBOX.

For some reason the 'ignore BGIE' didn't work.

For once (RE: MS buys Linux), I'm glad it didn't. Heh ;)

"YOUR NOT NORMAL"
You know what. There's just too much to do in the game! Too much to explore, too many tedious quests, its just plain boring and it looks like muck. I dunno... maybe I'll trade it in for Lugui's Mansion.

"Try super smash bros melee,"

I've played it at my mates house. I didn't like that either, it brought back too many bad Powerstone memories.
Er... Can anyone reccomend me a good GC game? I read Otto's comments earlier, I also am not a fan of survival horror, we have similar taste perhaps you can advise me.

Razz, my personal advice would be to get either Super Monkey Ball (the first one) and/or Rogue Leader, if you don't have them yet. Both are gorgeous in their own way, they're great fun and they'll last for quite some time.

I got both Monkey Ball and Rogue Leader at the Euro GC launch and am still trying to finish them. (I'm currently at expert level 8 or 9 in Monkey Ball and completely and utterly stuck on Vengeance on Kothlis (sp?) level in Rogue Leader). Those two are definitely worth your hard-earned cash!

Ciaran, amazing, we seem to be stuck in identical places in SMB & RL. :o

I'd agree those two games are great, perhaps SSX Tricky too if you haven't got it for PS2? Luigi's Mansion and Pikmin are both good (the 'survival horror' thing was, erm, kind of a joke) but I've not had the time to dedicate to them. SMB & SSX are more useful in that respect in that you can pick them up for quick blasts.

As for Mario, I'm going to have a lot of fun with it for a long time, I should think. HOWEVER, I'll never finish it - not even close - I think I'm safe in predicting that already. I simply hate games that won't let you save mid-level, especially when they're full of frustrating platform puzzles that take multiple goes to get past. I don't have the time to sit down and play for an hour at a pop! :p

Sorry guys. I've always loved Nintendo, but I think I've grown out of nintendo games. Roll on Xbox

Yer.. what 20-something guy in his right mind would want to play a "kiddy" mario game when you can play as Blinx the time sweeping pussy cat, Hunt dinosours and stare at virtual women.

sorry, but i've played Sunshine and its by no means designed for kids, its far to difficult for them.

just to bring things back to the MS Linux bit, all the links I saw on yahoo were date June 1998 in the first line of the text. surely thats gotta be a clue...

Whizzo, I suggest a quick Yahoo! search. "Microsoft acquires Linux".

But of course could "never" happen, according to you. Ah. The ill-informed. You've got to love them!

*still chuckling*

heh