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Advance Wars |OT| What's an airport? (Wii U VC)
- Thread starter SolVanderlyn
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I'm sure there'll be an option for either.
It'll be like having my Gameboy Player all over again.
ProtoCents
Banned
How's the emulation on this guys? The screens released by Nintendo look a fair bit darker than the screens in the OP.
Edit: Oops. Thought it was out for some reason today. I guess we'll know by this time next week.
Edit: Oops. Thought it was out for some reason today. I guess we'll know by this time next week.
It's not that I don't think the games not worth that I was thinking about Nintendo's pricing in general. The conversion from $ - £ would make it £4.80, why should we have to pay an extra couple of quid??
Nintendo are massively struggling over here in the UK, they should try and be a bit more value for money!
Blargonaut
Banned
I just caught that "What's an airport?" reference now, nice OP 
Oh Andy..
Oh Andy..
I'm glad this is coming to North America virtual console too, awesome series.
I'm very slowly working on making a game for Steam/Wii U inspired by Advance Wars and its sprite style, but the mechanics will probably be different enough that I don't know if the audiences will overlap.
I think the sprite work for Advance Wars is great too, though I wasn't quite as much of a fan of the Days of Ruin diagonal unit and slanted map style.
I'm very slowly working on making a game for Steam/Wii U inspired by Advance Wars and its sprite style, but the mechanics will probably be different enough that I don't know if the audiences will overlap.
I think the sprite work for Advance Wars is great too, though I wasn't quite as much of a fan of the Days of Ruin diagonal unit and slanted map style.
You and me both, brother. You and me both.
Trolling Colin in maps where he can't spam infantry is the best feeling in the world.
Bad aspects of Advance Wars 1:
Good aspects of Advance Wars 1:
- AI being able to see through fog of war is BS. I thought I was going crazy, but nope, it just uses wallhacks to see you.
Good aspects of Advance Wars 1:
- It has the original version of Max in all his muscled glory before his powers got toned down. When you get tanks and bombers rolling with his CO power, things will be DESTROYED.
Ahh, I see, apologies. Yeah, even with tax on top we're losing out there.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I didn't expect them to convert the link cable vs. into an online vs. (and they didn't) but I completely forgot that you could just pass a single cart around for multiplayer. And that's still in. Couch multiplayer has returned!
I still haven't even started AW2 even though I've had it for years. I just start up the first one whenever I need some AW. Tonight I'll give it a go thanks to this thread reminding me how much I loved AW.
As Sami, naturally.
Sami was always my favourite character. If anything nobody being like her was the only thing I didn't like about DoR. Everything else I loved, I especially adored the way the CO unit feature worked.
Be glad you didn't get the EU Dark Conflict version -_-
How well does the multiplayer work? Passing the Gamepad around seemed like it might get tedious after a while.
Only ever played Dual Strike (amazing) and Days of Ruin (somewhat less so) before now - this is terrific. And man alive, that crunching menu music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl-5CSTW8V4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl-5CSTW8V4
Oh I do, I just forgot the name here. Is it better in the US version?
I preferred the narrative in Days of Ruin compared to Dark Conflict - not only is the humour, dialogue and the naming convention better (seriously, Artillery is now called a Mech Gun?), but some subtle cues relating to the plot are changed. For example, the first time you meet Waylon in Days of Ruin, The Beast's theme is played, but in Dark Conflict it's Design Time instead.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Well the unit names are not literal translations of the Japanese versions and are consistent with the rest of the series e.g. Mech is Mech rather than Bazooka.
As for the script. Take a look yourself. Most people would say DoR is better. I think the DoR version has some occasional forced humor but there is more characterization with accents and stuff (Waylon certainly comes off a bit more Texan than Finn). I forgot if there was a strangelove reference in the one of War Room (seems like there should be at least one, especially as you can't fight in there...if you're going to force humor it is too obvious not to).
My favourite part of the War Room in Days of Ruin was this:
Compare that to this in Dark Conflict:
That PS in the Days of Ruin dialogue is a small change, but it makes a huge difference in creating a humourous situation with Brenner - O'Brian (ugh) just looks like a weaksauce commander in comparison.
PK Strawstorm
Member
If you look deep into the background of the movie Mr. 3000 and enhance, enhance..., you can maybe make out me and my friend playing this game in Miller Park all night while getting paid to be extras.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Just got around to buying this and it finished downloading, this will be my first advance wars(though I own both battalion wars) so I cant wait, they really did scan the booklets and its awesome.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Doing the field training, I have my headphones plugged into my gamepad and I'm really liking the music that's playing, kinda surprised it isnt talked about more.
There's a variety of decent music in the Advance Wars series, and some of it is actually very catchy.
Well my mate was coming over for a bit so I decided to throw the £4 (700yen) for Advanced Wars 1+2. Played a quick match with him and it reminded me how much I love these games. Gonna be playing this a lot I think! I never finished the second one when I was younger and never even played the first. This time though <3
atomic moth
Member
Try not to use that word.
Fun game though.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Having a strategic plan fall exactly into place is such a satisfying feeling, that feeling when you know you will win
RMS Gigantic
Member
I like my battleships in bulk.
Why capture the enemy HQ when you can isolate the enemy and shore bombard them until you win?
Fun fact: at least six of the battleships in this image were used for shore bombardment when invading Green HQ on the main peninsula. Bombers were used quite heavily as well.
Even when three factions were in play, I maintained naval supremacy from the center of the map westward; even then, I sicked a few cruisers on some Blue submarines early on because I knew that Green didn't have any ports, which means that I was the most probable target for those submarines. Eventually the Blue AI and I reached an agreement not to attack each other until Green was taken care of; a half dozen battleships, a quarter of a dozen bombers, and 2 transport choppers (not counting earlier losses) later and I managed to gain map control thanks to repeated battleship salvos and strategic use of bombers. From there, I decided to just have fun by destroying Blue's isolated units and then bombarding that home island until every unit was destroyed.
I won the battle in 100 days on the nose.
Why capture the enemy HQ when you can isolate the enemy and shore bombard them until you win?
Fun fact: at least six of the battleships in this image were used for shore bombardment when invading Green HQ on the main peninsula. Bombers were used quite heavily as well.
Even when three factions were in play, I maintained naval supremacy from the center of the map westward; even then, I sicked a few cruisers on some Blue submarines early on because I knew that Green didn't have any ports, which means that I was the most probable target for those submarines. Eventually the Blue AI and I reached an agreement not to attack each other until Green was taken care of; a half dozen battleships, a quarter of a dozen bombers, and 2 transport choppers (not counting earlier losses) later and I managed to gain map control thanks to repeated battleship salvos and strategic use of bombers. From there, I decided to just have fun by destroying Blue's isolated units and then bombarding that home island until every unit was destroyed.
I won the battle in 100 days on the nose.
POWERSPHERE
Banned
God this is great to play again.
DUFFMCWALIN
Member
Awesome OT. I hope more people will get to try AW. Its one of my desert island games as well.
Pretty much nailed my feelings as well.
If anyone plays Eagle in this game you are an asshole lol. Strike twice my ass.
Has much I like playing with Sami (infantry & mech forever!), I love Olaf's theme.
RealDeadOne
Member
Wow, fantastic OT for a 13 year old game, better than most new release ones!
I first played this series on DS after first playing Fire Emblem, and I felt really sad whenever units died because I was so used to getting attached to them, like to the point that I would actually get really mad at the enemy.
You really can't win wars in this series without "breaking a few eggs" so to speak, which is what sets it apart from FE.
I really hope the choices of Metroid Fusion and Advance Wars are supposed to be hinting at future releases... (Yoshi's Island would be the only way they can cash in on New Island since the SNES version can't currently be emulated for some legal reason).
I first played this series on DS after first playing Fire Emblem, and I felt really sad whenever units died because I was so used to getting attached to them, like to the point that I would actually get really mad at the enemy.
You really can't win wars in this series without "breaking a few eggs" so to speak, which is what sets it apart from FE.
I really hope the choices of Metroid Fusion and Advance Wars are supposed to be hinting at future releases... (Yoshi's Island would be the only way they can cash in on New Island since the SNES version can't currently be emulated for some legal reason).
lolez2matt
Member
Why japan gets a pack of both games and us just the first one?
Starwolf_UK
Member
That is how they got it on GBA, they also had to wait about 3 years for that*. Why? 9/11 kind of shelved the game over there, then the sequel came out was forgotten, then a year and a half after that, this finally came out. I feel for this VC release they could have easily cut the games up (I'd imagine it is your typical staple 2 ROMs together stick some sort of loader at the front) but Nintendo decided to respect the original release.Why japan gets a pack of both games and us just the first one?
*-It is better than what happened with Days of Ruin which only recently got a release. A digital Club Nintendo reward at that.