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Nintendo Gaming / I just rented Eternal Darkness
« on: April 16, 2003, 02:31:21 PM »
Grey Ninja - check out Edgar Allen Poe as well (note the Poe quote at the beginning of ED).  His horror stories are really creepy and bugged out (Cask of Amontillado anyone?), and many of them are quite short.  I'd suggest buying an Edgar Allen Poe collection, Forty-Two Tales Including The Fall of the House of Usher being my favorite.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / No wonder M titles aren't selling
« on: April 15, 2003, 09:03:25 AM »
Yeah, I've never understood Nintendo's commercials.  Most of the time they barely even show the game.  The Super Mario Sunshine commerical was idiotic, and the Metroid Prime commercial wasn't as cool as it should have been.  But then, we've been dealing with this issue since the Nintendo 64, and they've switched ad agencies since then.  It must be a conscious effort on the part of Nintendo to NOT have cool commercials.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / I just rented Eternal Darkness
« on: April 15, 2003, 08:57:19 AM »
I'm in the same boat as Omen72, I bought it a few months back for $19.99.  I always knew it was reviewed very highly, but I couldn't afford to buy it when it was new.  When I saw the cheap price I had to get it, and man it's among the best $20 I've ever spent.  ED sucked me in and just would NOT let go.  I haven't played a game that rabidly for a long time.  I really think it's the best game on the GameCube.

silks


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Nintendo Gaming / Ikaruga out tomorow anybody exited?
« on: April 15, 2003, 08:52:07 AM »
Ikaruga is a title I'll buy once it hits the $19.99 plateau (like Eternal Darkness - I bought it at gamestop.com for $19.99, what a steal).  Should be an amazing game though.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Shells, baby, shells
« on: April 14, 2003, 04:37:54 AM »
But you wouldn't have to muck around inside the console.  It would be a shell that would go around the console, then you could snap/screw it together.

If they can design the Wavebird they should have no problem with this one.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo lowers profit expectations... again
« on: April 13, 2003, 08:19:09 AM »
So what if Microsoft lost a lot of money.  They can afford it, and they're now beating Nintendo.  And just like Nintendo, they're a healthy company - because they make some much money they have a larger margin of error.

For the fiscal year ending March 2003, Nintendo wanted to sell 10 million GCs.  They only sold 5.6 million, missing their target by 44%.   So they've sold 9.4 million total when they really wanted 13.8 million.

Overall, Nintendo definitely isn't in dire straits.  GBA is making money hand over fist and they're still making profits.  It's just really frustrating to watch them sit there and scratch their heads about why their consoles aren't selling when they're supposed to be the industry veterans that know how to make games better than anybody else.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Shells, baby, shells
« on: April 12, 2003, 11:13:02 AM »
Yikes, didn't know that people were so sensitive about the color of their GameCubes.  Don't take it personal y'all  

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo lowers profit expectations... again
« on: April 12, 2003, 11:03:40 AM »
I don't really know what people have against GTA 3...that's a REALLY fun game.  Its gameplay is as good as anything Nintendo has ever released.  Everyone tends to get hung up on its content, but if the gameplay sucked it wouldn't be the hit that it is.  If GTA is selling just because of its content, why didn't games like Postal sell like crazy?

silks

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General Gaming / Who's going to E3?
« on: April 11, 2003, 08:31:43 AM »
I refuse to call Rick Powers a man.  

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Shells, baby, shells
« on: April 11, 2003, 08:30:01 AM »
Yeah, but your GameCube is still that dorky purple color.  I'm talking full customization here.

Heck, Nintendo could even have an art contest to see who could paint the best shell.  You could have celebrity artists paint a shell, sign it and then auction it on eBay and give the money to charity.  It's a fantastic idea.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo lowers profit expectations... again
« on: April 11, 2003, 08:25:40 AM »
Really, if Nintendo had all the EAD titles AND games like Metal Gear Solid, Halo, GTA and some killer RPGs, who could stop them?  Really?  A racing game to rival Gran Turismo would be nice too.

It would also be nice if Nintendo designed their controllers to be more amicable to fighting games...one of the strengths of the PS2 is their standardized controller design.  Sure, Nintendo's controllers are always ergonomic marvels, but their wacky layouts are too geared towards 3-D platformers.

MOUSE_CLICKER - Sure, the GameCube has sold alright, but since the market is so large now the popularity criteria has changed a little bit.  The GameCube is in third place behind PS2 and XBox, consoles from two companies that didn't have anything to do with video games prior to 1995.  That's pretty sad.  Nintendo has definitely fallen behind the times and it's really hitting them hard now.  Saying you're going to sell 10 million GameCubes and then only selling 5.6 million is embarrassing.

silks


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Nintendo Gaming / Why not a wait a while for the second zelda?
« on: April 10, 2003, 11:59:32 AM »
Why not just put the whole Zelda world on the shelf for a while and do something different?  Start a brand-new series with new characters and some edgier content.  Retain the Zelda gameplay, but make the content closer to something you'd get from a Square Enix RPG.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Shells, baby, shells
« on: April 10, 2003, 11:50:29 AM »
(Moving this over from GameCube Discussion)

Everybody loves the fact that the Cube comes in different colors.  Well how's this as an idea for the next console?  Sell it in default black, but have a detachable outer casing that you could replace with new "shells" only sold on Nintendo.com. That'd be brilliant. You could have any color of the rainbow. Nintendo could release new shells to commemorate key game releases, like a solid gold shell with a TriForce symbol on it to commemorate the release of the next Zelda game. Just like the Metroid Prime emblems that were packaged with the Prime bundle in Europe, only taken to the next level.

silks

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General Gaming / Who's going to E3?
« on: April 10, 2003, 11:42:42 AM »
Lord knows I try to avoid that Rick Powers kid whenever I go to E3.  I keep running into him though, especially at the Nintendo booth and during interviews with Denis Dyack  ;-D

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo lowers profit expectations... again
« on: April 10, 2003, 11:29:01 AM »
Yeah cubedcanuck, I don't get it either.  Nintendo seems to make everything look so difficult these days.  They try to be so different that they're slowly turning their consoles (consoles, not the GBA SP mind you) into niche products.

PIAC - Howsabout this...sell the next console in default black, but have a detachable outer casing that you could replace with new "shells" only sold on Nintendo.com.  That'd be brilliant.  You could have any color of the rainbow.  Nintendo could release new shells to commemorate key game releases, like a solid gold shell with a TriForce symbol on it to commemorate the release of the next Zelda game.  Just like the Metroid Prime emblems that were packaged with the Prime bundle in Europe, only taken to the next level.

Now THAT would be cool.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo lowers profit expectations... again
« on: April 10, 2003, 06:16:09 AM »
EXACTLY.  I totally agree Perfect Cell.  The Gamecube has become the Dreamcast in terms of mainstream appeal.  Much like the Dreamcast appealed mainly to Sega fans, the Gamecube is so quirky and has such a limited variety of games that it appeals mainly to Nintendo fans.  

The GBA SP, on the other hand, is a huge mainstream success.  The other day, a co-worker of mine that couldn't be a more casual gamer walks into my office, shows me his brand-new GBA SP and says, "Look what I got".  It really amazed me.  While the GBA SP has buzz all over (I've seen it written up in Maxim, Wired, MSN.com, CNN.com), the Gamecube is an afterthought.

Sadly, what really needs a makeover is the Gamecube.  People can't take it seriously when it looks like a lunchbox, no matter what color it is.  For its next console Nintendo needs to color it black, and design it so that it looks like a slick piece of stereo equipment.  The public would eat that up.

As for GTA not having a deep plot...sure, it wasn't War and Peace, but it least it was a refreshing change of pace.  It touched a genre that hadn't really been explored before and presented it in a unique way.  You gotta admit that nobody had even come close to the "immersive real world" stuff on a console before GTA 3.  Sure, it was done on PCs long ago, but it was always with D&D/fantasy content that just doesn't appeal to the mainstream.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo lowers profit expectations... again
« on: April 09, 2003, 10:21:40 AM »
Responses:

COUCHMONKEY - Vice City is a total rehash, I'll agree with you there (and that's why I don't own it).  But I'd say that Grand Theft Auto III is the title that REALLY started selling PS2s, and like Metroid Prime, it was the first GTA to go 3-D.  So even though it was the third in the series, it was essentially a brand new gaming experience.

As for Mario Sunshine, sure it was the first Mario game in six years, but its gameplay was virtually identical to Mario 64.  Sure you had the FLUDD and all that, but at its core it was Mario 64 all over again.

Pikmin and Animal Crossing?  Two more cutesy-looking games that were embraced by hardcore adults and 10-year-old kids, but shunned by teenage males.

Better marketing would help tremendously, but I think overall Nintendo needs to be more unpredictable.  They always tend to tell the public what they want instead of listening to what they want and giving it to them.  "You don't need DVD-ROM, all you need is our 1.5GB Mini-Discs".

MACSHIT - by "Clearly targeted at little kids" I mean "the story is dumbed down so that a child can understand it".  For example, compare the story of Metal Gear Solid 2 to Wind Waker - I think the target audiences differ a little bit.  Not that I want Zelda to turn into MGS, but for once could Link show maybe a little emotion?  Maybe have somebody close to him die, causing him to want revenge?  A little rounding out of his character?  Something a little different from the "Ganon comes back (AGAIN) and kidnaps a female relation (AGAIN)" story they do EVERY time?  Zelda is like a fairy tale - as a kid you like fairy tales, but when you're an adult you want something a little more meaty.  Without a good story backing it all up the gameplay is just a meaningless exercise to me.

That's why I loved Eternal Darkness - I was playing the game to find out how the story ended.  The story MATTERED.  With Zelda, you know how the story ends: you go through your eight dungeons, beat the bosses (and all the bosses probably take three hits to kill), then you fight Ganon (and he probably changes form a few times), your rescue Zelda/sister and that's it.  What's the point?  Where's the surprise?

MARIO - hahaha, I can't wait for Mario Thumb Wars.  Mario Spear Fishing should be pretty dope too LOL

I think my overall beef is that Nintendo needs to get off its high horse.  They aren't making their games to be displayed in the Smithsonian as paradigms of video gaming, they're making their games to be played by teenage males.  If teenage males like Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Halo, why not make some games like that?  What's WRONG with that?  Don't sit there and infer that the buying public is stupid and low-brow because they love those games and buy them like hotcakes.

I'm not asking for porn, I'm asking for games that have deeper plots and themes that appeal to adult audiences.  We shouldn't be thankful and appreciative when Soul Calibur 2 is released for Gamecube - it shouldn't even be an issue.  Game releases like that should be a given.

I'm not saying Super Mario Sunshine and Zelda: Wind Waker suck, because they don't, but games in that vein are practically ALL that Nintendo has been releasing for the last six years.  Compare the variety of games on SNES to N64 and Gamecube...it's downright depressing.

silks

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo lowers profit expectations... again
« on: April 08, 2003, 06:02:24 AM »
It's all about games.

Hate to say it, but Nintendo needs to release something that can one-up Halo.  That could have been Metroid Prime, had they actually had a brain in their head and worked in some killer multi-player deathmatch.  Don't get me wrong, Metroid Prime was amazing, but once I beat it I put it on the shelf.  Mind you I don't own Halo, but I guarantee if I did I'd still be deathmatching my buddies on a regular basis.  Heck, I still play TimeSplitters 2.  And don't even get me started on how Nintendo dropped the ball as far as online goes.

Nintendo is no longer cutting edge.  They're known as the company that makes cartoony, Disney-type stuff and shoves Mario and Zelda down your throat.  Rehashed game after rehashed game.  I'm the biggest Nintendo mark out there and even I'm getting tired of Mario and Zelda.  Mario Sunshine is Mario 64 with better graphics just like Wind Waker is Ocarina of Time with better graphics.  Gameplay is exactly the same and doesn't offer anything different.  Both of those franchises are getting stale, and frankly I wish they would just retire them.  That's heresy but it's my honest opinion.  Why do you think everybody loved the new look of Link at Spaceworld 2000?  Because that was something hip, that was something new.  Then we get Wind Waker, a game that's exceptionaly but basically aimed at kids.  I'm far from a kid anymore and that's why I enjoyed Eternal Darkness a million times more than Wind Waker...ED's story wasn't dumbed down so that "everyone" could enjoy it (read: so that 10-year-old kids wouldn't get confused).  Yeah, Wind Waker uses the cool cel shading, it sold a million copies, but come on people - it's all been done before.

Gee, Nintendo is losing money because of PS2 titles like GTA.  DUH.  Never would have imagined that.  Your company losing money because your competitor outsells you 10:1 and has cooler products and a cooler image?  Astonishing.  Still, Nintendo seems content to sit back and say, "We're losing money because the buying public is stupid, and they don't appreciate our works of art".  Whatever Nintendo.  Can't wait to play Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Pachinko, Mario Poker, Mario Swimming, Mario Freestyle Skiing, Mario BMX, Mario Othello, Super Mario Moonshine, Mario Kart 8,  Zelda: The Sleep Inducer, and maybe you could throw in yet another Kirby sequel, 1080 sequel, F-Zero sequel and Donkey Kong Country sequel.  Oh, you're already working on those?  Great.  Excuse me while I move to PS2 and X-Box, where they actually make new games because they don't have 50,000 franchises to fall back on.

silks (drinking gallons of Haterade)

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