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General Gaming / RE:Virtua Fighter 5 for 360!!!
« on: December 21, 2006, 10:37:16 AM »
Yeah it seems that SEGA keep messing up their little beloved mascot. I WAS really hoping that THIS Sonic, on XBOX360, would have righted all the wrongs of the past 3D incarnations of same. But I was wrong. Don´t know what is happening to Sonic Team, but to me this sounds like a serious blow to their credibility!

As for Sony losing yet another exclusive is good news indeed. It´s like Dreamcast striking back at Sony from the grave, hopefully forecefully enough to give them some serious karma for their involvement in the death of the beloved little wondermachine from SEGA.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Can the Wavebird wireless controller be used on Wii?
« on: December 21, 2006, 10:25:30 AM »
Just a quick question to you Wii experts:

Can I use the fabled wireless Wavebird controller made for GameCube on Wii?

I read somewhere that Nintendo had acknowledged that there was indeed space enough for the special plug to fit into the compartment on Wii where the GCN joypads go in.

Anybody in the know here on this Forum, would you please enlighten me?

Thanks!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Is the Wii remote really so unreliable in Zelda: TLP?
« on: December 18, 2006, 05:49:52 AM »
Wel, I am happy to read so many positive feedbacks on the Wii controls.

All thats left to do now is to buy a Wii and Zelda which I intend to do.

Nintendo rocks!

And so do you, Reggie! Reggie? Oh, there you are! I just wanted to...aaarrggh...???!!??....
....NO...DON´T do that......................   .............

I am speechless! He just took my name and kicked my butt! So now I am nameless with a big shoestamp on my behind. I think he was wearing a Mario-shoe. Yeah, big freaking Mario shoe stamp there.
Well, I guess that is common practise with fearsome Nintendo Presidents. I just hope he won´t also take the names of Iwata and Miyamoto. Because then they will kick HIS butt!!!!!!!! And take his name, and give it to somebody else! Muhahahaha!

Well, Reggie. We still love you the way you are. You really kick the competitions butts! And that was about time for somebody to do just that!  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Is the Wii remote really so unreliable in Zelda: TLP?
« on: December 10, 2006, 06:03:22 AM »
OK, thanks!

I actually asked EB Games about when they were going to put up a demo station to try out the Wii, and they said within a couple of weeks. So that is perfect. I was really beginning to get worried about Zelda and Ninty in case they had a bad control issue with a game I and many others have wanted since we completed Ocarina of Time on N64. Buy that seems to not be the problem. Thankfully.


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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Games control for Metroid Prime 3 on Wii
« on: December 10, 2006, 05:22:28 AM »
No spam. It was just me or my computer who somehow managed to get a completely strange headline for that topic. But this has just been corrected.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Is the Wii remote really so unreliable in Zelda: TLP?
« on: December 10, 2006, 05:15:27 AM »
I just want to know something from those of you who currently have a Wii with Zelda: TLP in your home. And that is:

Is it really such a hassle to get Link to use his sword in combat situations, as I have read many places in the reviews of said game? I mean, I don´t want to buy Zelda: TLP on Wii IF the remote doesn´t respond PROPERLY when I am attacked by enemies! I also head that the same situation applies to when Link needs to defend with his shield. The worst thing I know in a game is when I am attacked, and being unable to get the controls to work like they should. Pretty much sounds like a porting problem.

Right now I am planning to completely drop buying the new Zelda game on Wii, get it for GameCube, and wait for Metroid Prime 3 and Mario instead and then buy it there.

Any of you who can convince me to do otherwise? Is the swordplay really so unreliable on Wii? Wouldn´t it feel better to just stick to playing Zelda on the platform it was originally created for, and expect a better experience with a Zelda game created from the ground up on Wii in a few years?

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Nintendo Gaming / ordbogen.com
« on: December 10, 2006, 05:08:54 AM »
Has any of you ever tried playing Metroid Prime 3 in any gameskiosk at any games exhibition anywhere? Just asking because it seems that RETRO may have a better gamescontrol for that game, than Nintendo has managed to get for Zelda: TLP!

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General Gaming / RE:Why isn´t anybody discussing Banjo-Kazooie 3?
« on: December 09, 2006, 10:01:19 AM »
I agree to that. Stupid gamedesign is something which has parted me from many games before - quickly!

Well, we will just have to wait and see if once-mighty RARE can finally get it right with Banjo-Kazooie 3. I sincirely hope they can, since I will soon buy an XBOX360 with the upcoming HALO 3. And I would of course love to add a number of other superb titles to my games library - apart from the already godlike HALO 3!

I always loved the beautifull, lush worlds with sweet music that BK offered, and so I have very high expectations for the 3. game in that series. I think that nomatter how disgruntled fans of BK ever has been, they will always love to see what the next game in the series has to offer. So sharpen up, RARE! We are a lot of people who would like to see the BK universe again and set in completely new, exciting, bigger and better surroundings. And this time with USEFULL purposes......behind ITEM-collecting, mind!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did RARE hear this? RARE? Are you there? Hellooo?  

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General Gaming / RE:The worth of PS3, your opinion?
« on: December 01, 2006, 11:33:00 AM »
BOTH the fanboys and Sony.

But I really don´t think that Nintendo ever wanted to thwart SEGA. I believe in Nintendo as a company with a healthy competition spirit, and not a cut-throat attitude! Everything they have done so far seems to indicate that.

To be a strong competitor is one ting (Nintendo), but to simply not respect, or not care about your competitors, and act like you own everything, and care nothing for others in the business - that is quite another! And I think Sony they are act like that. I have also heard Sony say many times "We don´t care!" about this and that related to the consolebusiness. They probably also don´ t care about the fact that they have once more copied Nintendo´s controller design, or about launching a console to the market which is so expensive that it is nearly possible to buy BOTH a Wii and an XBOX360 for the demanded sales price of one PS3! And which one console cost so much money to develope games for that I wonder how the makers of the games ever rake in any healthy profit! Maybe they also just don´t care?    

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General Gaming / RE:The worth of PS3, your opinion?
« on: November 30, 2006, 03:50:04 PM »
I agree that SEGA made some serious mistakes, which all cost them dearly. Stupid management (i.e. "I am in charge, and so I make the decisions, and YOU SHUT UP!") has always been the reason why talented people left companies for better places to work, and I am sure that is what happened at SEGA. Yes, there was the few famous people like Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Yu Suzuki and Yuji Naka left whe they had merged with Sammy, but that isn´t going to be enough.

I think that a combination of over-confident management, and employee dissatisfaction caused key-developers to scram, and thus leaving leaving SEGA as an empty shell. Only a shadow of it´s former great self! Could THAT explain perhaps why Sonic has been boring, dull ever since they went into 3D with the Blue Hedgehog? Or "forgot" to re-invent the old cherished franchises that had brought them so many fans? Or took half a decade to bring out the sequel to SEGA Rally 2...on a Sony console exclusively? It´s kind of ironic that they got to develope games for Sony, because a lot of disgruntled SEGA gamers when over to Sony when they got ENOUGH of SEGA and their flopping consoles! So the SEGA fanbase was split between Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft consoles and remain so to this day. I can vividly imagine developers having shivers running down their spines at the thought of the implosion they were witnessing at SEGA!  

However, I am STILL mad at Sony simply because they took such huge advantage of the sinking SEGA, instead of thinking like Nintendo does: encourage creativity in the industry and HELP SEGA, and NOT just think crudely in terms of money! Nintendo has taken the initiative to help a lot of people see the right way to make games, and this, I believe, has saved the industry from an inpending crash! But Sony will probably never understand that! To them it´s not games, creativity as much as it is hard, cold cash! And THAT is where the gaming spirit dies. So I am eternally gratefull that we have Nintendo today!

They are truly...the King of videogaming!!!!    

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General Gaming / Why isn´t anybody discussing Banjo-Kazooie 3?
« on: November 27, 2006, 06:03:57 AM »
I just checked the last 100 topics in this Forum, and nowhere did I see any members discussing the new Banjo-Kazooie 3 game coming for XBOX360! Apparently, and without my knowledge, this game was announced several months ago. Hasn´t anybody noticed?

There is a really cool video, showing for the first time what Banjo and Kazooie looks like at a much higher resolution, and with thus a lot more detail on the characters. Truly, this is going to be awesome when it comes out! Way to go Rare/Microsoft!

The preview with accompanying video´s is found

HERE

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General Gaming / RE:The worth of PS3, your opinion?
« on: November 27, 2006, 05:29:42 AM »
I can understand why they are pushing that Blu-Ray player. They are an entertainment company, so it makes perfect sense to them to do so. Still, I believe it will be the cheaper HD-DVD that wins! Blu-Ray will be Sony´s next Betamax! That aside:

I wouldn´t EVER buy a PS3 even if it cost $99!

I have despised Sony since they contributed to killing the SEGA Dreamcast, which I found to be the best machine I had ever played on then. Better than the PS2 in terms of hardware design, graphics and controller. I vividly recall the Sony fanboys celebrating "the death of Dreamcast" and swore to the mighty Gaming God that I would shun Sony forever, and await the time where they would pay for the damage they had inflicted on the videogameindustry by throwing SEGA out of the consolebusiness. SEGA are missed by many to this day, as they were the ones who should have been in there with Nintendo. So I shifted my attention to Microsoft and XBOX, and XBOX360, and have concentrated on only Nintendo and them ever since.

If the Wii had the graphics of the XBOX360 you say? I would then be willing to pay whatever price Nintendo asked for it, and which day I am sure will come in the next generation where they have mentioned they will go all-out for HD.

 

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Gamespot Zelda Review
« on: November 21, 2006, 09:50:37 AM »
IGN gave Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess a 9.5 score out of 10! In their video review of that game, Matt Cassamassina calls it the best Zelda game ever, stopping short of calling it perfect which in his opinion it just is not. This is thanks to some issues with the graphics in certain places in the game (it was originally a GCN game, and that shows he says), and because of the ingame music which he feels needed to be fully orchestrated, where it is instead mostly in the form of MIDI.  

Still 95% out of 100% is a damn high score and fully deserved I believe allthough I haven´´ t got my Wii yet and so haven´t had a chance to play the game so far. Anyways, OOT got 98% when it came out in 1998, so IGN is placing this new game almost on the same level as it´s spiritual prequel, and I have seen recently just how highly Nintendo values IGN. Now, that is not just because IGN is being nice to Nintendo, but more probably because Nintendo feels that 1) IGN gives games fair and honest reviews (which I have witnessed myself countless times that they indeed do), and 2) because IGN is now the biggest online entertainment website in the world giving Nintendo advertising power here more than anywhere else on the internet. So who cares what GameSpot thinks about the new Zelda game?

Everybody in this world who plays Nintendo games knows how many prizes, and awards, and what not Nintendo has received for excellency in gaming content, and in particular for the Zelda-series games since the first such game. So therefore we know we should ignore that kind of negative exposure of Nintendo´s Hero of Time!

I KNOW their review is dead wrong, and that the guy who reviewed is most probably a hater of Nintendo or something. So that means we don´t have to give a hoot what review score he has now gone and given it, because the very numbers in his review score tells more about him than about the game itself. Period!


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General Gaming / RE:Are we Nintendo fanboys for life?
« on: June 21, 2006, 03:35:35 PM »
Yes! That was the magic words!

The Spirit of Gaming!!

And...this is where Sony have failed and Nintendo Succeeded.

Hmm... Spirit of Gaming. That must be that thing which makes Nintendo games feel so fresh and exciting to play!

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General Gaming / RE:and I thought Sony couldn't sink any lower...
« on: June 21, 2006, 03:07:49 AM »
It´s going to be even funnier to see how good they will try to become at hiding their copycat tendency in the future!

I have heard others change the name "Sony" into "Phony" and "Playstation" into "Haystation". Well, the name Phony does seem to fit them extremely well right now, doesn´t it? I see them as a kind of company who are afraid of Nintendo because Nintendo has the upper hand, always had so, in game creation. And now where Nintendo got the hardware right, and the third-party support right, they have more reasons than ever before to fear the big N! So...what are you going to do Sony?

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General Gaming / RE:Are we Nintendo fanboys for life?
« on: June 20, 2006, 03:39:23 PM »
Yeah, the guys with the big money and big ambitions are a greedy bunch and it shows more often than not!

Fortunately, they never will get to push out Nintendo. They tried, but they failed. Now, where it´s time for revenge, it´s more like Nintendo who is going to push them (Sony/Microsoft) out. So, while I agree with you that it´s a shame that local shops are forced out because of bigger corporations moving in, I think it´s a joy to see how history teaches us the lesson that whenever there is downs in life, there is always bound to come the up´s as well. So the bright side is that Nintendo has just proven that they can withstand any attempt to destroy them, having constantly reinvented itself over the years and made various wise business moves which safeguarded the company (they bought up all of their stock some years ago, in order to prevent hostile takeover)

That is why I will always be a Nintendo fanboy! For me my relationship to Nintendo is one of trust, loyalty and excitement. Trust, because I know they will always give me the best games to play. Loyalty, because they are worth being loyal to having time and again proven themselves able to deliver the entertainment that rocks my life, and even changed it in various ways thanks to the content of the games. Excitement, because of the feeling I get from playing their games. A feeling no other gamescompany has ever been able to make me feel.

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General Gaming / RE:My Sony Rant, Consolidated
« on: June 09, 2006, 03:30:12 AM »
I couldn´t agree more!

PSP bears living testimony to what Nintendo has said all along: bigger and better graphics is the wrong path to follow, gameplay is king! But you really can´t blame Sony for it. Afterall, they are a consumer electronics manufacturer, so they will always strive to go in the direction they are going. And that is where the battle is decided, or, has already been decided! In Nintendo´s favour!




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General Gaming / RE:My Sony Rant, Consolidated
« on: June 08, 2006, 04:31:43 PM »
Iansane,

by saying they didn´t deserve the topspot, I meant that on the basis of what games they had on their platform, the level of gaming perfection in them and the value to the gamers who played them VS what was found on Sony´s platform (rubbish in my view). I know that this is very much a matter of personal taste, but if you look at all the prizes Nintendo has received from all kinds of places applauding, rewarding, worshipping and what not them for their excellent games, it certainly says a thing or two about who is the very best in terms of sheer gamesquality. So strictly platforming-wise, I maintain that Nintendo deserved the topspot anyway, because despite Yamauchi´s lack of diplomacy and following consequences Nintendo remained unbeatable in terms of dedication to games and perfected games as a result.  I´d say that earned them the topspot, which they didn´t get because there wasn´t enough of them (games) in those days.

But, now where they are about to become far more popular than at any time since the NES and SNES days, it is clear that they are the best in terms of gaming innovation and perfection. Just looking at The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess makes me once again say to myself what they say themselves about themselves: nobody can make games like Nintendo can!

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General Gaming / RE:My Sony Rant, Consolidated
« on: June 08, 2006, 10:54:38 AM »
Smash_Brother:

THANKS for your excellent topic on Sony´s obvious flaws and near total lack of appeal!

I couldn´t have put it better myself. It is GREAT to see a topic which so well hammers Sony down where they belong. They never deserved the topspot in the industry anyway, but it is only now where Nintendo finally deliver the long-awaited hardware and software hammerblow, which we all knew they were capable of, that the contrast between them and Sony stands out so clearly. May Nintendo soon claim the topspot for eternity, so that the industry will be full of creativity and progress benefitting all both young and old who love to play games.

Here´s a small poem:

It takes a great amount to create something perfect
But it takes only a small amount to make something imperfect
It´s all in the amount of love and dedication, or lack of same, put into what is created
The one who invests much effort and passion into his endeavour all of the time creates great things overall
The one who invests little effort and has little passion into his endeavour creates insignificant things overall
For lack of anything great, the insignificant may be chosen for a while
And in order to maintain his hold on his position, he will carry on as usual
But when the great one returns, the insignificant one will be deselected
For now he is seen as just that: insignificant in the comparison
Only one remains great all the time: the one who practises ceaslessly, learning from mistakes faster than any other.
Eliminating faster than less productive counterparts the flaws inherent in all learning beings, making his triumphant and unstoppable re-entry into leadership



   

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Nemo_83:

Thank you!

THAT was the BEST videogame video that I have EVER seen! Sony´s now getting what they deserve, oblivion!, and Nintendo what they deserve - reinstatement as the marketleader!

Incredible how cool it looks as all of those people just simply IGNORE Sony´s stand and zip right by it like a naughty bunch of schoolchildren! Hahahahahahahahahaha - haaaaah!!  

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Even if competitors throw al that dirt in Nintendo´s face, it will only show one thing: they are afraid of something!

Otherwise they wouldn´t have to bully Ninty. The whole problem from the start was that Nintendo dropped down from the heights of the throne of videogaming, thanks to their N64 flop, and Sony rushed in to take the top spot after them, with Microsoft smelling the money and eyeing the number two spot. Now, the DS is a huge success, with the PSP struggling just to make even because it doesn´t have any games worthy of mention, and Microsoft are going to launch their own handheld very soon.

But nomatter what these competitors do, Nintendo can´t be dismissed as "a sparkling innovation" or worse designations since they started videogaming and therefore is having the sharpest edge of all the drawn swords. So, knowing this, and being afraid (of course you will NEVER get them to admit it), there is these vicious attacks by Ninty´s two competitors not only fighting for the topspot, but also to squeeze out Nintendo altogether, no doubt wishing they can do to Nintendo what has already been done to SEGA. According to them there can only "be two companies" in console gaming (this is what I have heard over and over, and it has got to be coming from somewhere inside their HQ´s).

They are just fools, however, who lose money on all of their efforts, and maliciously refusing to bow out for the reason that they "have to" look good in the publics eye thus maintaining their selfesteem and pride. The sad truth about them is that they not very profitable at all, because they have chosen the path of advanced graphics that cost fortunes to develope into games, with the cost of any such game running into tens of millions of dollars, and a general public not willing to pay much more at retail for said games. This spells deficit to me.  

So Nintendo´s two competitors who so strongly fights for the two top spots (to stay there that is), have not only Nintendo to worry about, but also their own financial backyard to be concerned for as they keep moving along into their own financial downcoming foolishly believing that they will eventually make it down the road. All the while watching Nintendo going the exact opposite direction of where they want them: Up!

So they can bully all they want, ridicule all they want. Nintendo has always had its loyal followers, and gained even more with the DS, and are to gain yet again more with the Wii. All the while making a profit on everything they do. So Nintendo goes only one way all of the time: UP And the other two is going only one other way al of the time: DOWN.

That is why they keep on squealing so much, and bang on their empty barrels that their "big money" can buy them. In Nintendo´s bank money keep trickling in, but in their bank money keeps on trickling out. So nomatter how long they keep on trying to hurt Nintendo, they will only be hurt themselves as Nintendo CAN afford to KEEP on going for as many generational cycles as is needed before they are again the number one in videogaming, something the other two cannot afford. Not with how they throw money around. You can say that Microsoft has very deep pockets indeed, so of course the first of the two to go at any time in the future will be Sony.

But eventually, if Microsoft keep on being bad, they will in one way or the other go out too. I trust in the workings of Nature and in the Law of Karmic pay-back. This has always worked (I have personally seen and experienced it do so all of my life), and will always continue to do so. No religious bs, just plain fact about how the Universe fights back on those who do harm to others for their own selfish reasons. The Universe demands BALANCE, and that there shall be once one of the two bullies have left the videogame market.

If I am not completely mistaken, the God who runs everything (as I believe it) does not approve of videogame companies who make a living off of corrupting the hearts and minds of the young by launching mostly violent videogames to the market, saturating everything with it, and not caring about it.

It has already been proved (IGN) that violent videogames (and movies) have a direct (!) influence on peoples behaviour to the negative making them violent themselves. Already now there is laws that have been made to curb the influence of such games in several countries around the world, in several US States. So Sony and Microsoft do not care what their games do to people who play them, but concerned parents and a large segment of the rest of society does. And so there will be one further problem which the two bullies will have to worry about: the people pressure! People will not tolerate the violence in games, if, and as has been proven, it hurts their loved ones on one way or the other. This sentiment will grow every day from now on. At any one time in the future it will become big enough to squeeze out gamemakers who make such games. So imaging what appeal the Microsoft and Sony machines will have to people, once they see that such games will have nearly been removed entirely from their games systems library! There wont be much left which can compete with Nintendo. It is clear by then, if not already, that Nintendo will stand out as the clear winner. Because they can entertain people, without also corrupting the hearts and minds of those who play on their machines. That is the winner of the future videogame market!!




 

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Email Nintendo and tell them you HATE the name!
« on: April 30, 2006, 08:42:21 AM »
THIS article over at SPONG says a lot about this discussion in this forum, and the same discussion elsewhere. Any negative attitude towards the name "Wii" on the internet is not shared similarly on the street where people are asked about the same.

R-E-A-D:

The real truth about peoples reaction to the Wii-name

I hope that this article will effectively end any further discussion about namechanges. There aren´t going to be any.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Email Nintendo and tell them you HATE the name!
« on: April 29, 2006, 09:45:44 AM »
"It's time I stopped talking about this. It's irrelevant. Nothing I say will change what Nintendo is going to do. Might as well just wait and pray that E3 offers some more explanation, like that Wii is an abbreviation for something interesting or what they plan to do, or that they have a billion dollar ad campaign ramping up."

Right about that, Smash_Brother!

When people play Metroid Prime 3, Legend of Zelda: TLP, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, Red Steel they will become less hostile towards the name of the machine. Following E3 Nintendo will launch a cool advertising campaign which will make a lot of cynics a lot more comfortable as they hear and see the name in use by real gamers from around the world. The gaming revolution has started to roll... Next, I predict a situation where many people who already own an Xbox360, and who have been drooling over the current and upcoming Zelda media will dash out to the local gameshop on day one of Wii´s release and snap up a unit plus Zelda, Metroid Prime 3 and Red Steel. Their sheer astonishment at the ease of play with the Wii, and the awesome games, will spread like wildfire as the talk of towns everywhere and people will drop the issue with the name and carry on playing away and enjoying Nintendo´s revolution. It is truly astounding how people are capable of accepting odd things, once they find out that the same things are great no matter how strange they seemed at first!

One example, is the BMW car. Bayerische Motoren Werke has changed the design of their 3, 5, and 7 series repeatedly, and I have watched this ongoing design row over the past 20 years. When they got to their latest design of the three mocel classes, I nearly almost thought I was never going to like BMW cars again. They just appeared that strange. But now, after some two years of looking at the new design, I have become used to it, and I can see the reason why they changed the design. Simply to match the vibe of the times. So as with design of a car, it can be the same with the construction of a name. Nintendo must have hauled in heavy duty advertising experts to coin that name. But in half a year when it comes out, people will have already become used to it. Think of it as seeing ahead of times, and catching a future acceptable public perception of a given marketable product. I think a lot of companies are doing like that these days.

Fairytale story? No ways, mates! DS´ name was also criticized, but when people got to play it they went wild. Wait untill you see what happens with Wii!  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Email Nintendo and tell them you HATE the name!
« on: April 28, 2006, 11:28:01 AM »
"Nintendo needs to utterly divorce themselves from the whole Sony and Microsoft marketing style of "cool" and reach out to new people the way they reached out to me with the NES and Mario... the message should be, "buy this console to have some simple fun". Forget about "cool". Forget about catering to the whims of an increasingly jaded and elitist mindset. Give my brother a reason other than a pathetic desire to be "cool" to buy their console."

Paladin, I couldn´t agree with you more. If Nintendo was all about being cool in the minds of these so-called "cool" gamers out there, we would have lost Nintendo a long time ago. Ninty has struck the right vibe by calling their console by that name, and local translation issues concerning actual meaning of it are...well...local!

Let Sony and Microsoft dry up their pockets in an effort to attract the most gamers, rolling out huge advertising campaigns. Nintendo was never about that. For Nintendo QUALITY goes before quantity, and so for them it´s  way more about an educated gaming population that appreciates great games carefully crafted over time and infused with love, than it is sporadic "cool" gamers and average "cool" (read: crappy games made by big name developers like EA, where you pay more for the name than the actual game content) games made with speed out of greed for more and more money coming from maximum number of hardware units dumped onto the market.

I really see Nintendo as the only one left standing within two to three generations, simply because they are the most profitable company of the three, with the other inevitably becoming forced to make compromises down the road as their cash reserves starts to dwindle, and their investor standing follows suit. The more money they blow on advertising, the more money they are forced to rake in, and if they don´t rake them in they post losses! That is exactly what both Sony and Microsoft have been doing on and on for many years! And they are bound to post yet more, as the gamedevelopers will rather quickly gather around Nintendo for the simply reason that it will be both easier and cheaper for them to make games there! This will impose a direct bearing on the whole of the videogame market to the better for gaming overall. Nintendo spend their money wisely, and this is the legacy left behind by the great father of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi! That is why they can afford to continue to stand up!, while the others are forced more and more down by their exaggerated spending craze!  

Nintendo has already significantly lowered the costs of gaming production, enabled easier gameplay than ever, and have already shipped over 1000 (!) developer kits to game developers already! Now if THAT is not evidence of a clear winner down the road, I don´t know what a winner is!

Nintendo has always given me the best games there is to play, so good in fact that I found it hard to find anything that was as good on the other two consoles, so I have no reason to believe that a name which at first seem odd, will change any of all that!    

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General Gaming / RE:"Oblivion" gets 4 1/2 yawns on a scale of 5
« on: April 25, 2006, 09:24:25 AM »
Capamerica,

I find your experiences with Oblivion interesting, because unlike Stabbalot you did indeed find the faults that I mentioned I had heard of. Incidentally, I have also SEEN those slow-down problems (in a video demo), and when I saw it, I  felt very bad indeed. For the sake of pure interaction with a game world, intuitive IMMERSION in it, such slow-downs should simply not be there in the first place! I also sampled Oblivion in an EB games shop, and the level I played was inside some underground area with lots of rats and a few goblins. The level I saw with the slow-down, was outside in a field where there was an Oblivion gate, and the slow-downs were there every 20-30 seconds. It looked awfull. When a game does that, I totally lose my immersion in the gameworld, like being hauled out of a good dream by some disturber of sound sleep or something, that is how it felt to me. So basically I don´t care about that game, nomatter how big it may be. Too big for proper hardware handling if you ask me! Nintendo would not have relased such a game to the market, but rather have optimized it again, so  that such issues were fixed right then and there, ironed out good and proper, and only then released to market.

That is why I said Bethesda should learn from Nintendo (concerning gameplay issues).

 

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