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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Shares Lowest in Over Five Years

« on: June 10, 2011, 05:21:58 PM »

NinSage,


I am retro/old school.  Retro/Old School is also where the money is.  NSMBWii was a system seller.  Mario Kart Wii was a system seller.  There's a reason that some people never bought anything else but Wii Sports--it's because Nintendo never followed it up with anything.  The Wii was supposed to be a return to the old school--but nintendo changed directions as soon as they could.  Nintendo isn't following the market; they're doing something else.  It shouldn't be a surprise that their stock is falling--because the old school has proven many times over that they're not going to follow Nintendo/Sega/Sony/Microsoft.


For the record: Nintendo's stock rose after E3 2006's Wii unveiling.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Shares Lowest in Over Five Years

« on: June 10, 2011, 08:47:59 AM »

I can't speak for investors but I think the Wii was the last Nintendo system I plan on buying for a while.  They abandoned it quickly and never made a good motion control game beyond Wii Sports.  Nintendo didn't make good on the Wii, I doubt the WiiU is going to be any different.

A slew of Halo, Uncharted and G__ of War games await you, my good lad.  May their rainbow of experiences fulfill you like Kart, Galaxy, Metroid, Zelda, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, never could.

Just got rid of my 360 since nothing looked good on the horizon.  what games did I have?  Il-2 sturmovik, BioShock, Mirror's Edge, Skate 2, Beautiful Katamari, Worms, and Bionic Command Rearmed--you know all the most hardcore games for SERIOUS GAMERS. Assumptions, assumptions, ass...


Okay, so there is mario kart wii, the rubber banded racing game that pales in comparison to the DS version.
Mario Galaxy that has the lame limited power ups and linear, boring levels and zero challenge outside of the camera.
Metroid, well there's the gamecube left over. that was okay.  OR the great, story driven, space opera that needs someone to flush it.
Zelda--oh, yeah, the gamecube game (that was passable but nowhere near as good as any other console zelda game).


Retreads and inferior versions of better games?  That's why I should care about Wii?
Where were the awesome motion control games?  Nowhere?
Maybe you like worse versions of old games.... I'm not going to begrudge you for it.  I'm not going to pretend like I'm missing out on something when I'm not and I'm not going to pretend that I'm being served as a Nintendo customer when I'm not.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Shares Lowest in Over Five Years

« on: June 09, 2011, 07:13:26 PM »

I can't speak for investors but I think the Wii was the last Nintendo system I plan on buying for a while.  They abandoned it quickly and never made a good motion control game beyond Wii Sports.  Nintendo didn't make good on the Wii, I doubt the WiiU is going to be any different.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Reveals Wii U Coming in 2012

« on: June 07, 2011, 08:41:05 PM »

I really think sony and MS are breathing a big sigh of relief at this point.


Any word on how much WiinUs will cost?

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Reveals Wii U Coming in 2012

« on: June 07, 2011, 02:15:57 PM »

I must admit I feel nothing good about this new console.  Nintendo was right to make the Wii and it payed off.  Making a 360 with a screen in the controller makes no sense, since the 360 lost out to the Wii.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: RFN RetroActive #18 - Perfect Dark (N64/XBLA)

« on: June 03, 2011, 05:41:17 PM »

While I'm guessing the next episode is already in the can, I remembered a multiplayer trick:  Using a throwing knife on a dead body.  The post-mortem throwing knife would continue to deliver a few doses of poison to a re-spawned player dealing damage and screwing with their vision.  Not as funny (but still funny, read:cheap) was dosing someone with lots of tranq darts or crossbow arrows.


I definitely spent hundreds of hours with the combat simulator.

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TalkBack / Re: Reduced-Price Wii Console Bundle and Nintendo Selects Officially Announced

« on: May 04, 2011, 08:33:03 PM »

removing the game that's synonymous with the system makes little sense to me.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Please come to the funhouse, we want to talk to you. Thankyou.

« on: March 24, 2011, 03:26:59 PM »

HI


I don't really play a lot of new games but like the site and podcasts.  I'm into retro/ design-oriented games (bit trip/ vvvvv/ minecraft) but going back to school for an electrical engineering degree doesn't leave me as much time to game as I'd like to and being a musician takes up what little money I have.  GoldenEye64 is one of the best games ever; River City Ransom is the best game ever.

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TalkBack / Re: River City Ransom Sequel Incoming

« on: March 22, 2011, 10:26:24 PM »

The original was one of my all time favorites (I still have a chunk of a password lodged in my brain).  I didn't like the Gameboy version so I'm anticipating this one with low expectations, but I was pretty giddy to read the headline.  If this turns out to be another hoax I'm going to be pissed.