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TalkBack / Re: The Surprises Will Remain Spoiled

« on: February 09, 2016, 01:46:50 PM »

I'm in the camp that would prefer these things not be "spoiled", but that's because of Nintendo Directs. (At least when they happen on a regular basis...) Really, I'm just disappointed in the "Nintendo Ninjas" seemingly being unable to keep things under wraps anymore; it isn't the fault of those reporting these things.


Again, this is largely a sentiment born of having Directs. Big announcements are fun, and it'd be great if every Direct was able to deliver on big, surprising announcements. It's what makes them fun to look forward to! It doesn't help at times like this when Nintendo news is near nonexistent, so we fall back on the hope that there is cool stuff happening, that there are reasons to be excited, and any day Nintendo will announce the Direct to end all Directs, giving us our Mario Galaxy 3's and Metroid Primes and twenty new characters for Smash, all in just the intro video to the thing!


So yeah, it sucks when we [eventually] get just another nice direct with a couple of cool things announced, and double sucks when even the "cool things announced" turn out to be old, leaked news... Oh, and it triple sucks when the cool announcement is something the fans have been clamoring for years to have, so it'll probably be presented as something special well past the point it isn't. (For fans are fickle and only a fraction of those excited are so for genuine interest in the thing itself; the rest just want a reason to cheer.)


Modern Nintendo fans want every announcement to be an event! Compare that to a few years ago when the only real event people got this nuts for was E3 itself, and hell, go back a few years further to before all the press conferences were available for streaming/downloading/viewing, ALL THE NEWS we would get was in article, wall-of-text form! (With maybe a couple of screenshots and a link to download a terrible quality trailer from IGN.) And don't even get me started on what the rumor mill churned out back then!

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TalkBack / RE: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 62

« on: July 26, 2007, 02:01:52 PM »

Ok, I haven't listened to an episode of this podcast in several weeks, and I hope they haven't all been reduced to such a juvenile level.  Let me clarify something here:  I'm not out to attack the podcast, though it shall likely sound that way.  I haven't finished listening to it yet, and I'm about to have to go back to class too.  I just had to comment though.  Thankfully Mashiro has already said many of the things I aimed to point out, especially at the ridiculous idea of Nintendo just going "Hey, why don't we just double our size overnight since we have all this money!"  Another thing is the E3 argument.  Seriously, E3 badly needed to be changed, and I loved this years E3 in comparison to previous years. (No, I did not attend myself. I comment as a spectator.)  In years past E3 had become nothing more than a big male-member contest between publishers with ridiculous cost much better served being invested into new games and technology.  The new E3 certainly isn't perfect yet, but it's a step in the right direction.  As to E3 being a "hardcore" event, hardcore being a label I despise as it doesn't actually have any real meaning whatsoever, E3 is an industry event.  It isn't for gamers, whatever label they may fly on their flag.  It is for the industry.  It reflects the industry as a whole, and with the industry growing and expanding into a more mass media acceptance, E3 is going to change in the very same way.  Gaming "journalist" are less important now, and in the future they will finally find just what a niche they have been representing over the years.  E3 is on it's way to becomming a mass media event for the games industry.  You want your uber-"hardcore" game events than hold your own, like PAX for instance.  I wish I had more time to flesh this out properly, but I'm out of time.  I'm sure my rushed response has not come across quite like I would have prefered, but I'll be back in a few hours to clear it up. (and finish the podcast)