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Salmon

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Well, a couple of days ago I remember Play.com had GiFTPiA listed for a 2005 spring release, and yesterday we receive an e-mail from NOE saying this:

"Dear Customer, thank you for your e-mail.

We do have Giftpia listed on our system as being a game coming to the Nintendo GameCube, But we do not have any release date yet.

Kind regards,

Your Nintendo Team"

This is the PAL-version as well, and I don´t know anything about the US-NTSC one yet. Still TBA? Looks strange to me, for not letting this game out in the US as well.

A rumor said that the game will be relased april/may...
 
Giftpia, i think it's actually pronounced as Giftopia.

From what i remember...

It's a bit like animal crossing, but there's a linear storyline to it. As a boy who's missed out on some kind of coming of age ceremony, you start the game by doing community service to earn back the money to host it again. At all times the player character must be fed at the right time, and get home before it gets dark/ your character gets too tired.

There are a lot of references to magic mushrooms in the game too...

That's all i can remember.
 
Wonder if this, Nintendo Puzzle Collection, Roll-o-Rama, Stage Debut, etc will finally see a release to fill the gaps in 2005.
 
Amir0x said:
Well, there goes my interest in it! So long!
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If I said that people developing this title are ex Square people, who made Chrono Trigger, does that affect your interests? :)
 
I sincerely pity anyone who cannot, after spending 10 seconds looking at, reading about, or listening to the music from GiFTPiA, understand why it looks so completely fantastic.
 
Salmon said:
If I said that people developing this title are ex Square people, who made Chrono Trigger, does that affect your interests? :)
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Skip has ex-square people? I know that Brownie Brown are made of ex-square people (the Mana team) but I didn't think Skip were.

Giftpia has amazing music, awesome graphics style, and a novel premise. The characters design work is all by Furi Furi company, a notorious Japanese design firm.

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Salmon said:
If I said that people developing this title are ex Square people, who made Chrono Trigger, does that affect your interests? :)
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The thing can be made by Jesus Christ himself and if it's even remotely like Animal Crossing you can pretty much automatically put it in my garbage bin.

I've had this debate in another thread but Animal Crossing is my choice for most reviled game this generation. I just despise it.
 
bobbyconover said:
I sincerely pity anyone who cannot, after spending 10 seconds looking at, reading about, or listening to the music from GiFTPiA, understand why it looks so completely fantastic.
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I'm really excited about the news, but not so sure that it is a great game. Cool music, great visual art and there seem to be some nice moments, but on a whole people seem to think it's average.

Still, it one of the few games that I will preorder.
 
Amir0x said:
The thing can be made by Jesus Christ himself and if it's even remotely like Animal Crossing you can pretty much automatically put it in my garbage bin.

I've had this debate in another thread but Animal Crossing is my choice for most reviled game this generation. I just despise it.
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Well, if you see AC as a game... otherwise, I think it's quite nice. But as a game it sucks as bad as a movie or a piece of music. Mostly because it's not a game (blame Nintendo for marketing it as such).
 
this would be cool - I thought the premise seems interesting enough and apparently the intro sequence is really neat. Really don't understand how NOE and NOA could have such different releases - why did Europe get Doshin again?
 
daMandus said:
Well, if you see AC as a game... otherwise, I think it's quite nice. But as a game it sucks as bad as a movie or a piece of music. Mostly because it's not a game (blame Nintendo for marketing it as such).
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Well, at its very basic core it is a game. It's just that it has virtually no gameplay whatosever. The vast majority of the gameplay consists of going from one villager to the next in hopes that they will give you a rug you don't yet own. The fishing is just horribly done and the other aspects are just off the wall bad. I mean, couldn't Nintendo create better AI to respond to letters?

You would write:

"Today the weather is nice. I can't wait for the festival next week. I have enclosed a gift for you. I hope you like it!"

And they would reply:

"WOW LOOK AT THAT PRETTY BUTTERFLY COOL OH I HEARD A MALL IS OPENING IN SOME OTHER TOWN UNRELATED TO OURS HEY HERE'S A GIFT... SORRY ITS A WALLPAPER YOU ALREADY OWN BUT ENJOY ^_^"
 
We all know why people who dislike Animal Crossing dislike it. The argument is annoying and played-out enough in Animal Crossing threads, much less threads that have nothing to do with it. Please shut the hell up and allow the thread to stay focused on GiFTPiA, and on the far-fetched but potentially awesome possibility of it finally receiving an English translation.
 
bobbyconover said:
We all know why people who dislike Animal Crossing dislike it. The argument is annoying and played-out enough in Animal Crossing threads, much less threads that have nothing to do with it. Please shut the hell up and allow the thread to stay focused on GiFTPiA, and on the far-fetched but potentially awesome possibility of it finally receiving an English translation.
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But if GiFTPiA is like Animal Crossing that I hope you're prepared for more arguments like that! Because I'll be first in line.
 
Amir0x said:
But if GiFTPiA is like Animal Crossing that I hope you're prepared for more arguments like that! Because I'll be first in line.
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Your blood pressure would remain a lot more normal if you just ignored games you don't like instead of making eight to ten posts in every thread about them.
 
Dave Long said:
Your blood pressure would remain a lot more normal if you just ignored games you don't like instead of making eight to ten posts in every thread about them.
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My blood pressure is always normal. I come to game forums to discuss/debate about games I like/dislike. That's what I do!

I actually enjoy it immensely.
 
Dave Long said:
Your blood pressure would remain a lot more normal if you just ignored games you don't like instead of making eight to ten posts in every thread about them.
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"B-b-but IT'S JUST TOO SIMPLE! Aggh...logic...body...melting..."
 
Amir0x said:
But if GiFTPiA is like Animal Crossing that I hope you're prepared for more arguments like that! Because I'll be first in line.
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Well...it´s not like Animal Crossing then. I mean, just ´cause your running around in a colorful village, doesn´t mean you have to be an Animal Crossing-competitor. This game DO have a point (unlike Animal Crossing and it´s warashibe-like stuff) and it is to grow up.

Just listen to the soundtrack for GiFTPiA:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ngc/ggfj/radio/[01-20].mp3
(yes, just remove the [] and use the right number for a download/listen)
 
Dave Long said:
Your blood pressure would remain a lot more normal if you just ignored games you don't like instead of making eight to ten posts in every thread about them.
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Hey, how else was he supposed to have reached 1,450 posts in under 2 months? ;)
 
Salmon said:
Well...it´s not like Animal Crossing then. I mean, just ´cause your running around in a colorful village, doesn´t mean you have to be an Animal Crossing-competitor. This game DO have a point (unlike Animal Crossing and it´s warashibe-like stuff) and it is to grow up.

Just listen to the soundtrack for GiFTPiA:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ngc/ggfj/radio/[01-20].mp3
(yes, just remove the [] and use the right number for a download/listen)
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I'm 56k, so which tracks do you reccomend listening to first?

I will give this game a chance. I always give a game a chance before I judge it. I just hope that the chores around town are more than just "TALK TO VILLAGER A. BRING PACKAGE TO VILLAGE B. RINSE. REPEAT."

So, I mean, elaborate on the premise. What does the gameplay consist of mostly? I like the fact that there's a point, but what do you do to accomplish your goals in this game?
 
AniHawk said:
Wonder if this, Nintendo Puzzle Collection, Roll-o-Rama, Stage Debut, etc will finally see a release to fill the gaps in 2005.
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NCP: Maybe, I know that they planned to translate it (they did it on parts), but they never released it. Maybe they'll give it as present next year.

Roll-o-Rama = a part of Stage Debut

Stage Debut -> Revolution
 
Shiggy said:
NCP: Maybe, I know that they planned to translate it (they did it on parts), but they never released it. Maybe they'll give it as present next year.

Roll-o-Rama = a part of Stage Debut

Stage Debut -> Revolution
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The Nintendo Puzzle Collection would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO awesome
 
xsarien said:
Giftpia not getting an NA release is one of the great atrocities of this generation.
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But if it's like AC then thankfully it's one of the greatest gifts ever given to us this generation.

The greatest atrocity will always be no Mother 1+2 and Mother 3 for US yet.
 
Amir0x said:
But if it's like AC then thankfully it's one of the greatest gifts ever given to us this generation.
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Eh, well, it's not like Animal Crossing. I don't know where that comes from. Animal Crossing has no point other than to accumulate material goods in a virtual town. I can do one better and do the same in a REAL town, plus have the ability to talk to my friends in other ones. ;)

Giftpia is RPG....ish. There's nothing perpetual about it, and the music IS good.
 
Amir0x said:
Well that's good. We'll see. The music is catchy I listened to some of it.
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You're gonna sit on the fence over an RPG with character designs like that? You have no soul. NONE!
 
xsarien said:
You're gonna sit on the fence over an RPG with character designs like that? You have no soul. NONE!
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Yes, I'm going to sit on the fence. I can't even say I'm anticipating it because the concept is way too vague atm. It might as well be generic RPG 101 with how vague everyone is being describing GiFTPiA.
 
JoshuaJSlone said:
Since when must love for GiFTPiA and Homeland be mutually exclusive?
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It's NOA, they frown on a degree of product overlap (Magical Vacation was canned last second because Golden Sun was still sellling well for example)... likely we'll only get one, and HomeLand looks like the best option. Do the right thing Nintendo.
 
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