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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 346: In These Days of Graphics

« on: August 12, 2013, 12:12:09 AM »

Great episode guys, here are my thoughts.
 
1.- Pikmin 3: Yeah I get that Nintendo is finally learning about the HD era. But I think they were swimming in the pools of money they had during the Wii times instead of having paying more attention for the development efforts that take (AAA 3rd party studios use hundreds of employees). For comparison, Sony took the money from PS3 and their saving, and started buying new studios and employers in order to be prepared for the PS4. As a results they have massive amounts of expert employees working on PS4 games that I bet will have lots of content.
But man, now that we have WiiU Nintendo will not be able to avoid the big talk about quantity, quality and price. I think, compared to many AAA HD games, Pikimn 3 IS EXPENSIVE!!!...I like Pikmin 3 but we the gamers that have been playing HD games for the last 6+ years will agree that Nintendo's Pikmin 3 is not up to the standards of what other AAA 3rd party games offer. For example, in the WiiU a game like AC3 or COD BO2 you have online multiplayer, massive (way longer than Pikmin) story modes, and several other modes. While Pikmin 3 gives you a game that you can quickly finish in under 10 hr and off-line 2 player multiplayers....sorry Nintendo but despite the reviews, this game SHOULD NOT COST 59..99 PERIOD...I'm a die-hard Nintendo fan but I don't think I should give them an easier look than I do to any other massive 3rd party franchise!...the only Nintendo games I'm playing are VC games...and that's cause of nostalgia and how so much expensive are the original old games compared to VC.
I guess this criticism agrees with that comment of one of you said that, compared to other multiplatform games, this game is not on par. Nintendo has to worry about their games big time. It's not just about fun and gameplay anymore, but also content. We need online, we need length, we need better developed stories. I feel sorry for them for not giving them enough time to adapt, but it was their decision to hold that long to come to HD, and their games WILL BE COMPARED AGAINST AAA 3rd parties!...sadly I also see myself playing more games from 3rd parties multiplatform games on the WiiU than Nintendo games...and that's bad for Nintendo...now I'm even dubious about what's gonna happen with Smahs Bros....we know there won't be story mode....and again it probably won't be a mayor difference from the previous SSB.
 
2.- About Wii-remote o the WiiU: stop complaining about the controls, the Wii-Remote Pikimn 3 rocks...lazy people will never try hard to adapt (evolve)...but those like me who did try hard now can't stop using motion controls (I can't play COD in Play Station anymore). I feel like there are a vocal minority of gamers that think that we have to stick in the old control scheme that never evolved. I feel like I'm in the liberal sides of things, I like to experiment new controllers, new ways to play. Since I'm also a PC gamer it is more easy for me to adapt to motion controls than a gamer that only uses a dual analog and nothing else.
 
3.- This years Club Nintendo's prizes were even worst than last years....oh man I was super disanointed and I lost any hype to Club Nintendo....I've been following the rewards and stuff for more than 2 years now, and it was exciting just at the beginning. The inly time it was so-so exciting was when they offered Super Mario RPG and Star Fox 64 for 300 coins or so....I wasn't a Club Nintendo platinum member when they offered the Hanafuda card, I wish they had them in offering...other than that Club Nintendo sucks.

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TalkBack / Re: Art Academy: SketchPad Review

« on: August 09, 2013, 02:47:37 PM »

This is what I call Miiverse art...or a art inspired by recreation of art (if you forgot the name of this infamous Spanish paint...google Ecce Homo)
 
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYIHAAABAADKUKFaImipLg

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TalkBack / Re: The Wonderful 101 Demo Live on European and Japanese eShop Now, New Trailer Released

« on: August 09, 2013, 11:48:18 AM »

I really liked the Nintendo Direct presentation of this game....I´m not into these type of kid-looking games, but the presentation was just spectacular, so I will try the trailer (although I had no intentions to buy the game).
I can understand Japanese getting hand on the demo and games first...but why Europe?...Europe has been very bad for Nintendo, they do not deserve this exclusives 1st....the way I see it is that the markets who support the games and consoles better should get this things first. That's why I never complain against Japan...but Europe?....meh, they only care about PS there.
 

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TalkBack / Re: 18 Games from European & Australian Devs Coming to Wii U eShop

« on: August 07, 2013, 04:33:02 PM »

I heard that the 3DS is getting a creepy Japanese game in which all the characters have huge boobs...in the Western world that definitely makes the cut over the 18+...but I would add a "creep alert"

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TalkBack / Re: Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Review

« on: August 07, 2013, 04:28:58 PM »

Interesting to see a different review between the European and American contributors.
 
I find the difference between a 9 and 8 huge though...it means it's a game worth buying but not comparable to any other entry in the series if you go by 8. I find the humor quite nice actually, for me is closer to a 9 than a 8, only annoying thing it's the tutorials. I wonder what's the age of the American contributor. I find that younger generation are less and less inclined to wait, read, grind in videogames. When there is little or subtle tutorials ppl end up asking "why metroid can't crawl?", when there is too much, ppl think they don't need them.  I think Nintendo needs to provide a way to shut down the tutorials or spend lots of time in development thinking how to bring back the Super Metroid-like tutorials...but that takes cleverness and time...you want to add another 6 months of development in a already delayed game?

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TalkBack / Re: Go On Tour With Mario Golf in this Month's Club Nintendo Rewards 

« on: August 05, 2013, 08:56:41 PM »

after last month's epic Club Nintendo Lineup of games (super Punch Out, Star Fox 64)...this month's sucks! I hope we get something decent on the WiiU VC...cause I want games and wanna use my coins!

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 344: Attack of the Literal Lyrics

« on: July 28, 2013, 08:59:03 PM »

About the last part of the show guys. That question about Nintendo staying old, that Miyamoto should go, that Yamauchi should die.
1.- I'm south American, then I'm a westerner, The entire world knows how the USA has influence it in all types of markets. So why wouldn't we value (in a global point of view) that a relatively small country (size) still contributes to the world in a meaningful way. We know how good animators they are, we know how good making videogames they are. The also make ok cars and electronics. So let's respect their decisions and their culture. If people feels they are taking bad decisions, if Nintendo disappoints you...you are feel to leave, to grow up. Nintendo has demonstrated that they can create new fans over and over. I am one of them, during college and grad school I didn't play Nintendo at all, I was raised playing the NES and SNES...then I grew up and enjoyed other things in life, and when I missed video games I started playing FPS on PC. It wasn't until the last years of the Wii when I was feeling some nostalgia and bought a used Wii...and man I loved motion controls...I loved playing FPSs with the Wiimote, I was supper happy with the VC too. Nintendo will be fine, it doesn't need a sudden change of company culture.
2.- From the consumer point of view, these are a great years for videogame consumers. The key word is DIVERSITY, and the 3 top console manufacturers are aiming to different consumers. I like that. If the dude who wrote the letter about Miyamoto is disappointed...then buy and stay playing other consoles!...I left Nintendo for some 8 years and came back, happier, richer and willing to spend more money in Nintendo.
3.- Let's don't forget, the entire Nintendo videogame history is filled with cheap old hardware. Every single console they have launched was developed under Gumpei Yokoi moto "sell consoles made with 5+ years old hardware". and they have done well. They OWN the handheld market (they pretty much invented it), and they have up and downs with the consoles. So many successes have reinforced this moto, that they can do ok with old hardware, as long as they squeeze every single bit of power from that machine. And Nintendo still maintains their "Seal of Quality" and the majority of their games. So please Nintendo stay the same. I would be happy with a couple of new IPs (Monolith may help them into this) but keep giving me the old franchises and keep learning and changing at the same slow pace. As long as every new console has better HW than the old ones, they are fine.
P.S: Nintendo is a slow pace company period. MS and Sony are so fast paced in adopted new technologies that their machines are getting closer and closer to PCs...then I can argue why Sony or MS don't go 3rd party and create software for PC?

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 95: Mother Mother

« on: July 28, 2013, 04:55:51 PM »

As I said a few times, there are ways to compete with piracy outside of pricing it for free. With movies and music, I dont pirate because Netflix and Music Unlimited make things easy for me and offer a reasonable price. With VC games, all Nintendo is doing is taking a ROM, making sure it runs right, giving it off-TV play, and releasing it for 5 dollars. I can already play emulated games on a DS and emulated games on my TV, so all you're offering me is paying 5 dollars for the exact same thing I can get elsewhere for free. If Nintendo added some kind of concept art or bonus features or included the Earthbound guide, that's when the VC games feel like something more than "just a ROM that costs money".

But see, here's the problem. YOU find the pricing of Netflix convenient. But I have met ppl who don't, who think their library is pretty crappy and still download movies through piratebay, and there are tons of website that offer series or movies streamed for free. Those site are there cause there are a "market" of ppl willing to get stuff for free. Therefore what I want is for you to realize that this is your own preference, there is a line to be drawn, and I think that line is drawn by the market. If Nintendo's pricing sucks (and all what that involves, quality, how cheap was to convert the game, etc.), then they will suffer the consequences. Music has been stored in computers for a while now, most of the 10 bucks CD are samples from music stored digitally, and I bet the cost won't change that much in the future. Cause when things become digitally most of the cost are on the service (servers, network, etc) but most is on THE INTELECTUAL PROPERTY!! (workers at Nintendo)...that's what you are paying. Modern copies of 50+ years old books don't become cheaper with time either, a hard copy may cost 100 bucks or more, once they scan them (big deal right?) and make it accessible to you they lower the price a bit and that price stays. Similar to Nintendo, SNES cartridges are expensive, but now the give you a ported working version of the ROMs for a cheaper price, that the market likes, otherwise ppl wouldn't buy them.
Imagine if we wouldn't pay intellectual property. Name a game, music, creator that can create originals every single day....it's impossible. So what they do is, create something, and wish that something keeps feeding them (copies) until they manage to create the next big thing that will keep them bringing food to the table. Of course this example is oversimplified, but divide those 10 bucks for all the development cost and money that workers of Nintendo, who go through periods in which they create nothing, deserve.
 
- BTW I agree with the digital account problems though, for me that's a huge turnoff from Nintendo to people who are technologically savvy. Everyone knows that it is not rare to have hardware problems, and with Nintendo you are exposed to lose hundreds if not thousands of dollars cause their archaic system.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 95: Mother Mother

« on: July 28, 2013, 02:49:25 PM »

-About Eartbound's online guide...
I think this is an issue with the Internet Browser. It is definitely a thing they can fix with a WiiU update. It would be cool that loading times get faster and that the browser doesn't reset back to zero when one goes back to the game. They need to assign some RAM from the WiiU to the Internet browser to save whatever one was doing and decrease the switch time between the browser and any game one is playing.
 
BTW: stop with the spoilers about Earthbound and the other Mother games guys!!...I'm just playing Earthbound and never played the other Mother games.
 
- If Earthbound WiiU sales make Nintendo happy. I bet we will get Mother 3. They know they can charge even more for the extra translation. But I don't think a serious company would pay ppl who did the translations for free. I bet they would hire their own ppl, maybe even those who translated Mother 2...I think that team did a pretty good job.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 95: Mother Mother

« on: July 28, 2013, 02:36:48 PM »

I couldn't get the idea of he guy saying something about emulating Nintendo games vs selling them on the eshop.
 
1.- Emulated games are always free....so the only way for Nintendo to compete with is putting their games on eshop for free? Emulating can't be stopped.
 
2.- Nintendo gonna make money of their intellectual property through eshop anyways. Maybe a 5 dollar Earthbound will make more costumers  than a 10 dollar Earthbound...but as long as it sells a minimum projected from their own policies (including costs of porting the old games without glitches). It's ok for them. So I don't get who's losing in this argument? Nintendo is winning if they are selling more than the minimum...and in the case of Earthbound they are selling lots of downloads, consumers who have been waiting for this title are winning cause they are buying it. The only "maybe" is speculating about how many more ppl would buy the game if priced cheaper. But then Nintendo would expect to sell more units in order to achieve their $$$ target.
 
3.- While I was in college and had more money I also downloaded for free lots of stuff. But made myself the promise to buy things once I started working, which I've been doing successfully. I think that's ok, Nintendo maybe losing money with VC in ppl who's in highschool, College, etc. But I think Nintendo is selling lots of games through ehsop both in 3DS and WiiU, so I don't think they are worrying about that.
 
4.- The way Nintendo price their games is a topic of discussion. But certainly the numbers are in their favor, ppl buy their games man. The top selling games on the eshop are Nintendos!...only when ppl stop buying their games is when a price drop is expected.
 
5.- Why do I think some VC SNES classic are priced 8 bucks or more? To me is just intellectual property. Similar argument can be made when buying music. You pay 15, 20 dollars for music made decades ago, despite the change in format. Sometimes publishers made an effort and remasterize the old albums, but you can still find almost 100% copies of music now in CD format still costing more than 10 dollars. You can also drive a parallel with piracy and emulating. Everyone knows how to download music for free...yet still itunes makes money charging for music. In the case of Earthbound...that game sold pretty poorly in the West. So besides Miiverse petitions Nintendo had no assurance of how many copies they would sell through WiiU eshop, so in a way they were taking a risk, plus making sure that the game run smoothly on a VC (remember guys, some ports have been delayed on the WiiU cause of problems with the hardware...like D&D Chronicles of Mystara), and giving you the official Earthbound guide (gamepad optimized) online.
 
OMG I wrote a lot...but kudos to you guys for a good discussion (although a bit slow).