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Nintendo Gaming / Wii isn't hardcore enough

« on: October 19, 2007, 09:57:40 PM »

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AY: Ah, the Wii. Wiiiiiiiiii... Silent Hill Wii. Can we do it? Will players like it?

WN: Yeah! There's a lot of potential there, using the remote as a flashlight, or a knife...

AY: Yeah, there's potential.

WN: But no plans.

AY: No plans. The Wii user isn't a hardcore user.

You know I'm getting pretty friggin' sick of reading crap like this. First, Gamecube was just for kids and the market share was too small. Fine, I can buy that to some degree. Now, Wii is destroying everything in its path everywhere in the whole world, it's not hardcore enough for X game or Y user. Not that I'm dying to get some Silent Hill on Nintendo hardware, I just think it's ridiculous that there's still a debate about whether to support the platform.

I'm beginning to think that Nintendo just plain can't win. So while they're not necessarily just for kids anymore, they're not hardcore enough for certain games. Not hardcore? What the hell does that mean? Wii has the largest install base. Based on that alone, its the safest bet. Release a good game then see what happens.

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Nintendo Gaming / Super Scope (SNES)

« on: August 06, 2007, 05:48:20 PM »

I just bought one of these whilst trying to round out my SNES collection. The set is in really good shape, complete with rubber eye piece, battery door, and non-yellowed IR receiver. My question: Is it supposed to be so horribly inaccurate? I tried it on Metal Combat and the Super Scope 6 game and it decides when it wants to hit/fire. I followed the instructions in manual. I used new batteries, tried it on a regular CRT television and there are no fluorescent lights on.

I really wanted to try Yoshi's Safari.....

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General Gaming / Can anything save Sega?

« on: August 01, 2007, 08:46:31 PM »

Ok, well the easy answer is no, but I'd like to try and find a better solution.

I think Sega's biggest problem is that after going 3rd party, they realized that their name meant more than the games they put it on. They've whored Sonic out, like Nintendo has with Mario. The difference is that Sonic is in sh*tty games and Mario, for the most part, is not. When you play Mario Party 457, there's a good chance that, even if not terribly original, it's not a buggy mess of a game.

Sega should start by regaining some respectability. That can begin that by making good games again. Ok, that's obvious. There's a certain way they should go about that. They should consider pooling their talent into one or two teams and let them create content, whether it be old or new franchises.

The old Sega made some classics and many of them never got the attention they deserved. Take, for example, Panzer Dragoon Saga. Here's a game that was almost unanimously praised and Sega, not only released it at the very end of the Saturn lifespan, but only printed roughly 20,000 copies of the game in the US. I'd love to play the game but it's rare and expensive. If remade (well), I think a game like this would help Sega a lot. The old fans would eat it up and it could gain a whole new audience. It'd have to be on the right platform. Panzer Dragoon Orta made no sense on Xbox. There were like 7 Xbox owners who gave a damn that a new Panzer Dragoon game was being made. That's probably just poor Sega management. I think the series, including Saga, would be perfect on Wii, but almost anything seems perfect on the system.

I could go on, but I'd like to hear what you guys think. Is Sega a lost cause?

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General Gaming / Does anyone collect videogames?

« on: July 08, 2007, 08:00:45 PM »

It's my current "hobby" which hopefully won't go down in flames like other past interests in wrestling and anime, among other things.

On the bright side, I bought King of Dragons at a flea market yesterday for $7.

On the horribly awful other side, I continually get my ass kicked on ebay... because f*ck ebay. I just lost a Sega Genesis and 32X (with the boxes and 11 games) by $1 in the last 3 seconds.

It's an expensive past time, but for some reason, I can't keep myself from wanting more. There's something about owning old hardware, a piece of gaming history, that's so enticing. I really don't know what it is.

I just started seriously collecting and I've kicked myself for selling off some old rare titles (Ninja Gaiden Trilogy and Dracula X on SNES are at the very top of that list). What I want to start off with is every version (discounting color variations) of Nintendo and Sega consoles and handhelds, plus major peripherals like the Gameboy Player. I'm considering NeoGeo and 3DO, but I've decided that I don't care for Atari or anything pre-NES. I have a LONG ways to go.....

So, does anyone else collect? What are your collections like? I'm not asking to trade or buy or anything. I just thought I'd share my story and wondered if anyone wanted to share theirs.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Corrupted Gamecube memory card caused by WiiConnect24?

« on: June 26, 2007, 11:10:10 PM »

On Monday, I find that my 1019 Gamecube memory card save files became corrupted. I lost all my saves from:

Super Smash Bros. Melee
Eternal Darkness
Phantasy Star Online
Metroid Prime
Viewtiful Joe
Skies of Arcadia Legends
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Super Mario Strikers
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Resident Evil 4
The Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition
Beyond Good and Evil

There goes 6 years of "work." I thought it might have been my Wii, but my internal flash memory is fine. I still have all the channels and my Wii saves. I tried my GCN memory card at Game Crazy and the card itself was corrupted and would no longer save data. It's not even an old memory card either since I got it last July. It sucks that I lost all my saves, but on the bright side, the manager of Game Crazy replaced my memory card free of charge and I didn't even buy it there. He's just a nice guy.

Here's the thing. A friend/coworker of mine said that the same exact thing happened to his SD card and GCN memory card and he thinks that it was probably from the Wii getting too warm. I had noticed that the Wii gets warm, almost hot, when WiiConnect24 is on which is why I turned it off a few months ago. I just turned WiiConnect24 on again and left it on since last week to add a few coworkers and exchange Miis. I didn't have a problem with using Wii for Gamecube games before and certainly never with Gamecube so I do think this whole mess was related to turning WiiConnect24 back on. Maybe it just fried the card.

I've asked everyone I know who has a Wii and only my one friend had encountered a similar problem. Everyone else leaves their memory cards in there and they work fine. Has anyone else encountered something like this? Is it possible to only have the console access the internet while it's actually on? Yes, technically WiiConnect24 means the console is "on," but you know what I mean.

And by the way, this was the second time out of 2 times I've called Nintendo Customer Service in which they've failed completely in helping in any way possible. The first was the cracked DS Lite hinge AFTER they announced that fixing it was free. The service rep told me to send it in with, I think, $25 even after I explained that I just read that it was a manufacturing defect and that Nintendo would replace it for free AND that I was still under warranty anyway. $25 was apparently the discounted repair/replacement price for the cracked hinge. This time the service rep told me that I should probably just buy a new GCN memory card though she sounded new. I guess I should have asked to speak to someone else. I've heard nothing but great things from Nintendo Customer Service, but goddamn, they're 0 for 2 from my experience.

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Nintendo Gaming / Metal Gear on Wii (not an announcement)

« on: May 31, 2007, 07:00:43 PM »

In this article, there is a rumor of a Metal Gear title on Wii.

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Konami is also in talks with Nintendo to bring a Metal Gear Solid game to the Wii. MGS4 would obviously have to be slimmed down if the chose to port the title to Nintendo's console.

Hideo Kojima has mentioned previously that his team is working on a Wii title, one that appears to be separate from his Project S collaboration with Suda 41. Of course, it could be an entirely new title. If it is Metal Gear, I highly doubt it'd be MGS4. I don't want a gimped version of MGS4. If I want to play MGS4, I'll get it for 360 (not a typo).

A complete retelling of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake with new 3D designs would be nice. However, my dream Metal Gear game would be: Metal Gear Liquid, obviously a Liquid Snake origin tale. There's more than enough back story (often hinted at in the original MGS) to support a whole game and then some. An exclusive Metal Gear of this kind with intuitive Wiimote controls could potentially be bigger even than Guns of the Patriots.

Then again, ports of Sons of Libtery and/or Snake Eater with waggle tossed in to call it "new" is also a possibility, but I want a new game dammit.