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Title: X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: KnowsNothing on May 21, 2004, 12:41:29 PM
In other news, Sony drops down to third in the console race and pigs learn how to grow hair through their nostrils at exponential rates.

ARTICLE, MON

First paragraph pisses me off. >=O  They say there are no surprises this E3 the sentance before they mention the new zelda.  tell, me did ANYONE predict that one?

You can go ahead and let this thread die I suppose.  I just wanted to share.  
Title: RE:X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: mouse_clicker on May 21, 2004, 12:47:38 PM
Paragraph in question:

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LOS ANGELES -- With strong lineups for all its systems and the debut of its new handheld platform the Nintendo DS, Nintendo's E3 showing this year certainly isn't lacking in luster. The GameCube may not have any shocking announcements or surprise titles, and we didn't have a chance to play the new, more mature "Zelda" game we glimpsed at the press-conference, but we're not at all disappointed with what we did get our hands on.


It is indeed quite puzzling, although I don't think the article downplayed Nintendo at all. Still, though, I wonder who wrote it.
Title: RE: X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: Ian Sane on May 21, 2004, 01:03:45 PM
Many members of the press knew about the new Zelda before the show so it wasn't technically a surprise for them.  I think it's kind of arrogant for them to weigh "surprises" against their own secret insider info since to most people at the conference it was a surprise.  Gamespy for example totally downplayed the impact of the new Zelda since they knew about it already which is as ridiculous as peeking at your Christmas presents ahead of time and then complaining about no surprises.

Anyway aside from the oddity of not treating the new Zelda as a surprise this article is mostly positive about the Cube.
Title: RE:X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: Uglydot on May 21, 2004, 04:42:10 PM
Uglydot says he doesn' t care.  Nintendo put out fun games.  Nintendo announced an interesting system.  Uglydot is happy.
Title: RE: X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: KDR_11k on May 21, 2004, 11:54:38 PM
What's Nintendo supposed to do? Shoot the people who leak the info and the ones that received it? Sorry, but Don Yamauchi retired some time ago.
Title: RE: X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: KnowsNothing on May 22, 2004, 04:19:54 AM
I wasn't saynig Nintendo should do anything......The most I ws saying is how I have an extreme dislike for X-Play. =p
Title: RE:X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: mouse_clicker on May 22, 2004, 08:05:35 AM
Actually, I love X Play: they're unbiased, fair, informative, and funny. That's why I was worried when TechTV and G4 merged, because I was afraid X Play would get the axe (like Call For Help did ).
Title: RE: X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: ThePerm on May 22, 2004, 12:59:29 PM
yeah, that poor guy...first they make him switch shows...then they cancel his new show...hopefully he will return to the screen savers.
Title: RE:X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: Oldskool on May 23, 2004, 11:55:12 AM
And besides Halo 2 and Fable, both of which we already know about, what did Xbox have?
Title: RE: X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: Infernal Monkey on May 23, 2004, 03:23:38 PM
A sucky multiplayer mode in Conker.
"FUN BUCKET?"
Title: RE: X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: KDR_11k on May 23, 2004, 09:23:09 PM
Breaking:
Microsoft wants to buy out Reggie!
A Microsoft official was quoted as saying "We can't let Nintendo have any good stuff, we must buy everything until they fail"! He then went back to feeding virgins to his pet demon. This announcement came shortly after people in a discussion on PlanetGameCube complained about the XBox' lackluster lineup for the next year.
Title: RE:X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: Oldskool on May 25, 2004, 10:03:11 AM
Right, I'm going to "retrieve" Reggie.

Time to break out the ole' Master Sword.
Title: RE:X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: Phatal on May 25, 2004, 12:14:31 PM
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Originally posted by: Oldskool
And besides Halo 2 and Fable, both of which we already know about, what did Xbox have?


I enjoyed the game Knights of the Old Republic.  
Title: RE:X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: BrianSLA on May 25, 2004, 08:48:35 PM
>> And besides Halo 2 and Fable, both of which we already know about, what did Xbox have?  <<

JADE EMPIRE, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, Unreal Championship 2 ( voted by Xplay to be best online shooter or something like that last night ), The Chronicles of Riddick ( supposedly the best looking Xbox game ), that Band of Brothers type game , DOOM 3 ( only the Xbox version got shown at E3 ), Mercenaries ( that got another Xplay E3 award ), Star Wars: Battlefront ( another Xplay award ), Star Wars Republic Commando ( another Xplay award ), FULL SPECTRUM WARRIOR ( this is definitely one I want. Designed specifically for the Xbox and funded by the US Army to act as a squad simulator / trainer. ).
Destroy All Humans, etc.
Just look at the E3 awards nominees, the Xbox has alot in almost all categories.
Title: RE:X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: The Omen on May 26, 2004, 02:08:22 AM
Let me rephrase that question:  What did Xbox have that would force me to buy it>?  A lot of those games will come out for my PC.  
Title: RE:X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: evil intentions on May 26, 2004, 08:21:42 AM
Xbox does have better graphics than your pc...
Title: RE: X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on May 26, 2004, 11:43:43 AM
... yeah, when your pc sucks.
Title: RE: X-play sez: Nintendo had no surprises this year
Post by: Infernal Monkey on May 26, 2004, 06:16:38 PM
Stunt Race FX on Super NES has better graphics than my PC. Maybe Nintendo should call the people from X-Plaaaaay out at the next E3 and go "HEY HEY HEY HEY SECRET SURPRISE FOR YOU" and give them a whoopee cushion and hat.

"SO SURPRISED! 5/5"
"THIS WHOOPEE CUSHION TOOK MY BREATH AWAY, THEN PUMPED IT BACK OUT IN FARTY FORM 10/10"