Topic: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 173

[vudu]

YOU FORGOT RADIO TRIVIA, JERK.

[ShyGuy]

Maybe if somebody played RAD Racer music then maybe I would. Maybe.

did TYP play it and I missed it?

[vudu]

Yes.

[yoshi1001]

Maybe if somebody played RAD Racer music then maybe I would. Maybe.

did TYP play it and I missed it?

Earlier this year. It's so bad.

[jrlibrarian]

Great show as always guys.
 
It was nice to hear Chris again, and the retro game collecting segment was very interesting.
 
Your Pokemon section propelled me towards one goal by next September (PAX Seattle). My goal is to compete in the Pokemon Tournament and actually do well. Some of my friends and my brother own copies, so I've started transferring everything to my game, and I'll rent HG/SS from Gamefly and do the same thing. Are you guys still planning to do a panel at my PAX? It would be great if your panel, this tournament, and the Jonathan Coulton concert were all on the same day.

[Jonnyboy117]

On that day, you shall become... "srlibrarian".

[adadad]

I think there's a distinction to be made between withdrawing from games entirely and withdrawing from modern gaming culture. Right now I'm in a period where aside from listening to podcasts such as RFN I have no particular interest in keeping my finger on the pulse of current game releases. Currently I devote my gaming time pretty exclusively to the N64; Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Mischief Makers and Rayman 2 recently. There just isn't enough time to keep up with the culture, and more importantly, to spend adequate time with the games themselves.

Despite having put in literally hundreds of hours with Goldeneye, both when I was young and now, I have never mastered the single player missions, so it's my aim to complete them all in their ball-wrenchingly hard 00 Agent form. The dedication required to accomplish this pretty much excludes any lengthy or dedicated games from my roster, but I'm greatly enjoying this approach - playing like a poor wretched child who can only afford one new game per year. It makes for a refreshing change!

[NWR_Lindy]

I find that the rapid rate at which great games are being released makes it impossible for me to keep up.  I'm becoming less and less interested in new releases as a result.  It's a kind of paradigm shift for my gaming habits, really.

I always try to keep my new business to Nintendo stuff, but lately there hasn't been much NEW stuff I've been playing on Nintendo platforms.  Even Virtual Console has dried up, until this week.

[NWR_DrewMG]

I've been playing Majora's Mask this week like crazy.  I think I put about 7 hours into it last Saturday while my wife was studying for a final.  I'd forgotten how great that game is.

Aside, and a few DS games I'm playing for review, I'm actually kind of surprising myself with how much more my Wii has been played recently than my 360.  I did play through Arkham Asylum (more like AWESOME asylum) and I still play NCAA 10 pretty frequently, but really that's about it on my 360.  I've got a pretty thick stack of Wii games I've been playing through including but not limited to A Boy & His Blob, Deadly Creatures, Little King's Story, HotD: Overkill, Wii Sports Resort, and Punch Out!!. 

I do want to play through Assassin's Creed 2, but not until I finish the first one.

The HD game I want to play the most right now is on PS3 (Uncharted 2), and I won't be buying one of those for awhile.

[Jonnyboy117]

The main reason I have been playing so many games, including new releases across several platforms, is that I listen to so many gaming podcasts! My "queue" of games, just like movies on Netflix, grows faster than I can churn through it.

[Halbred]

You know, I hate 1000 Wii Points sitting there after I got NyxQuest, and last night I got Star Fox 64 after hearing Jonny recommend it on an older episode of Radio Trivia Podcast. And hell yeah, it's fun. I don't really care for the dogfight missions, though. I've always had trouble with the Fortuna Star Wolf fight.

So what did I do? I just rescue Falco on Cornett and then head to the Y Nebula.

[KDR_11k]

I find that the rapid rate at which great games are being released makes it impossible for me to keep up.

CASUAL GAMER!

[noname2200]

You know, I hate 1000 Wii Points sitting there after I got NyxQuest, and last night I got Star Fox 64 after hearing Jonny recommend it on an older episode of Radio Trivia Podcast. And hell yeah, it's fun. I don't really care for the dogfight missions, though.

I agree wholehearedly. It's a great game, but the rails portions are much tighter, and therefore more fun, than the free-roaming sections. The only time I cared for the latter was during the Independence Day level, and even that one doesn't measure up to the on-rails levels.

[kraken613]

I sunk SO many hours into the multiplayer dogfighting in Star Fox 64.

[NWR_Lindy]

CASUAL GAMER!

Casualcore, baby.

[Stratos]

I find that the rapid rate at which great games are being released makes it impossible for me to keep up.  I'm becoming less and less interested in new releases as a result.  It's a kind of paradigm shift for my gaming habits, really.

I understand this. I keep getting more and more games I have not even booted up once and it's gotten to the point I don't even want to buy new games because of my untouched backlog. And when I actually find an evening/morning/day/moment to play something I just can't motivate myself to do it because I'm afraid I don't have the time to sink into some of these quality games.
I tend to prefer opening up my DS to play New Super Mario Brothers or one of the GBA Fire Emblem games than boot up my Wii.

I have not even booted up RE4, Muramasa and Prime Trilogy and I've only played a number of other games just a few short times.
It may be that I'm in a different life-stage where videogames are playing more of a small roll. Perhaps I just need to stop working 6-7 days a week and enjoy life.

[D_Average]

I realized last month I've bought over 100 games in the last two years.  I thought it was around 50.  So I've tried to slow down as well.  Obviously theres a large stack I still need to finish, so I'm trying to concentrate on those for now.  Just gonna buy MX vs ATV Reflex this holiday as I'm a sucker for those games.  I'll gonna try to wait for Spring for the newer releases to really drop.