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You [Ian]...everyone notices when you are here...and not here.
Yes I certainly notice it. I like it better here when he's not.
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I swear, it's so hard to find logical, intelligent, rational and passionate dissenting opinion nowadays.
Passionate, maybe. Don't know about those other three.
I don't know where this "respect" for Ian comes from. Probably his seniority as a poster here, which is a nice gesture but misguided. He used to have my respect as the "annoying guy who unfortunately has a point." Now he's just "annoying." And it got to that point because of this one trait that I
CANNOT STAND in people. He holds disingenuous opinions just for the sake of argument.
Remember those lengthy diatribes about how Nintendo never makes an original game nowadays? To the best of my knowledge here are the original games that Nintendo made, commisioned, and/or brought over from Japan for the first time, for GBA/Cube.
Pikmin
Animal Crossing
Eternal Darkness
Fire Emblem
Advance Wars
Custom Robo
Geist
Odama
Drill Dozer
Batallion Wars (Totally different)
Chibi-Robo
WarioWare (If he thinks it is even similar to the Wario Platformers, he is nuts)
Cubivore (Nintendo made it, although Atlus published it)
Golden Sun
Baten Kaitos (They published the second installment, so I'm counting it)
It's not a gigantic amount, and I'm not saying they are all great, but that's goodly amount. However, I dobut Ian owns or played or rented or tried or read about or even followed up upon a vast majority of these. Usually when asked he'll dig out a website or magazine review (the same he says he didn't listen to in 2003) and say "it doesn't appeal to him." Oh dear, original games not appealing to him? Hell I thought he'd be ALL OVER Drill Dozer. I mean hell, it's a platformer, from Nintendo, that doesn't have Mario in it. And the reviews say its great! So where is he? Probably somewhere else bitching that Mario is in a another game. He talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk, so to speak.
In contrast check out the original games for just the DS (again commission/published/made by Nintendo):
Clubhouse Games
Magical Starsign
Trace Memory
Hotel Dusk
Nintendogs
Brain Age
Magnetica
Meteos
Elite Beat Agents (or Ouendan, either version)
Trauma Center (HA HA! Published by nintendo in the UK)
Polarium
DS Air
True Swing Golf
Electroplankton
Big Brain Academy
This doesn't even include the stuff that may or may not be localized like Project Hacker, Band Brothers, Touch Panic, Tingle RPG (same reason as Wario Ware), and that Mech Pilot game that I can't pronounce. Even better Mario has only shown up less in DS games, AND Nintendo has the lion's share of third party support with most of the big hitters, AND they are the number #1 handheld in the world, AND the franchise games are some of the best games in the series, if not THE best, which most if not all of the magazine and website reviewers concurring. Some feature the inclusion of Online gameplay for the first time, which has been a MAJOR bitch point for Ian that has been resolved.
So is Ian all over this platform like a Ugly on a Gorilla? Is he hailing in a new Golden Age of Nintendo that follows the advice he gave before? Is he at least not bitching so much? HELL NO. He STILL bitches that Mario is in another game. HE STILL says that these games do not appeal to him, writing some off as "tech demos" like a damn PSP fanboy for god's sake. He holds some of Nintendo's newer original titles AGAINST Nintendo by saying they are forgetting Nintendo's hardcore fans. Gone is the 2003-2004 version of Ian where he wanted Nintendo to make and secure certain games that would increase their marketshare and image, even if he didn't find those games appealing. In comes the 2005-2006 version of Ian with his new outlook on Nintendo that requires them to cater to his selfish want and demand, while attempting to be a demogogue for the hardcore Nintendo fans he used to say were "misguided" and "hurting Nintendo."
I don't care what his opinion of Nintendo is, but
I AM SICK OF THIS. I am tired of him running circles in his Anger Loop(tm), and I hate it when he turns every single thread in which he posts into a goddamn Nintendo's Mistakes History lesson. I hate it when he holds disingeunous opinions, only to discard them when he can no longer argue with them, favoring the opposite viewpoint for maximum argument. It is boring. It is tiresome. The record has worn down from your playing your bitchy whine-fest over and over.
DERKA DERKA MUHAMMAD JIHAD.
Topic: The Case Against Ian (Read 19802 times)
