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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'

« on: December 17, 2009, 12:00:19 AM »

http://wii.ign.com/articles/105/1055789p1.html

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I especially had to facepalm at the guy from IGN Guides who says he's planning on trading in his Wii version of Silent Hill for the PS2 one...when the game was built for the Wii.

... and the wii hardware is significantly more powerful/better than the PS2 (I'm not exactly a graphics whore, but PS2 games are just generally ugly, despite the vast amount of effort that developers put into it).

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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'

« on: December 16, 2009, 08:43:04 PM »

Did I mention, Twilight Princess rules!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda

« on: December 16, 2009, 07:41:05 PM »

They want Link for dinner.  Those monsters.

Dunno what they're thinking -- link may be a soft and tender little morsel, but there's hardly any meat on him!

Now Epona, on the other hand...

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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'

« on: December 15, 2009, 08:22:20 PM »

But, I am obviously the minority in that group.  It seems any article the critiques the Wii ends up in this thread and is immediately declared a troll.  Obviously, no system is perfect, so can anyone here point me to an article that strongly critiques the Wii in a non "pathetic" manner?

I've not watched the podcast (and have no intention of doing so), but remember that peoples' judgement is based on more than just the immediate artifact -- these things don't exist in a vacuum.  In IGN's case, we've all seen them behaving like grade-school kids with unusually large amounts of facial hair for many years, with the "nintendo guys" constantly acting like they were forced by management into covering the wii when they'd reallllly rather  being hanging with the big kids (wait, we're not kids!!!) and play awesome muscled dudez on the xbox, not a system for babies like the wii!!!1!

It's like the comic-book guy on the Simpsons -- it's not that he's always wrong, strictly speaking, it's that he's an annoying **** who constantly twists the truth to support his silly and banal agenda...

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 15, 2009, 07:12:52 PM »

1899) Miyamoto captured my gaming heart and soul in an NES cart. As far as I know, they haven't offered to sell it back to me on the Virtual Console yet.

Hmm,  maybe I can get it!

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 15, 2009, 03:55:31 AM »

1902) Never having to read a game manual

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 15, 2009, 01:19:01 AM »

1906 - The music; nuff' said

1905) 'nuff said too

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda

« on: December 14, 2009, 10:52:32 PM »

pfft, whatevs dudette. Have fun playing with your ancient joysticks I'll be shooting **** with "pixel-perfect" aim in TEH FUTURE

OTOH, you'll waggle when you walk!

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 14, 2009, 10:49:49 PM »

1909) Nothing is more fun at parties than mocking IGN and Matt

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 14, 2009, 08:47:07 PM »

1914) Love repeatedly talking to all the villagers to find out where to go next

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda

« on: December 14, 2009, 07:00:24 PM »

It may have started as a GameCube game, but Nintendo made it clear that the Wii version is the main version (the definitive version, if you will).

I'm sure they tried hard to make the Wii version good too, but the GC version was extremely polished -- the GC controls, in particular, were darn near perfect.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda

« on: December 14, 2009, 03:15:28 AM »

I played TP on the gamecube, and loved it -- I thought it was by far the best zelda so far.  Loved "twilight" (such a different feel compared to normal hyrule), loved Midna, loved the wolf-form, loved the more realistic and dramatic princess (who actually seemed like a real person in TP instead of a symbol), loved the graphics, loved the game. 

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 13, 2009, 10:26:52 PM »

1934) Controllers easily washable

[This, actually, is true]

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 13, 2009, 10:17:34 PM »

1936) Because Nintendo (unlike, for instance, Sony) actually thinks about, and does user-testing of, their controllers

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda

« on: December 13, 2009, 10:13:22 PM »

I don't miss TP at all.
AT. ALL.

Yes, we know you didn't like TP.  Because you've said so about 8,000 times on this thread alone.

We get it.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 12, 2009, 09:54:30 PM »

1961) Midi tunes!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: New Wii Zelda

« on: December 12, 2009, 09:53:39 PM »

Zelda does change quite a bit from game to game, even if it keeps much of the formula as well.  The people whining that it doesn't are obsessing over the bits that stay the same while ignoring the huge parts that don't...

You'd have to be a complete moron to think TP is just an "OOT retread", and yet people keep moaning that...

I put it down to "Matt Casmassina syndrome" -- some people just love to whine, and they'll latch onto anything that they think gives them an opening to do so.

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TalkBack / Re: Wii, DS Top Sales in November, NSMB Wii Hits 2 Million

« on: December 12, 2009, 08:18:30 PM »

Most people buy Nintendo's consoles for Nintendo games and nothing else.  That's why virtually any Nintendo-published title will sell and sell and sell (even if it's Wii Music), because it's pretty much accepted that if you buy a Nintendo system you're golden if you stick with Nintendo's own games.  They're always the safe bet.  Third-party titles get zero exposure and are usually pretty iffy in quality anyways, so I don't blame consumers for not picking them up.

Maybe (I dunno) that's true for the Wii / in the U.S., but it's certainly not true for the DS...

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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'

« on: December 12, 2009, 06:46:51 PM »

Not to mention the bizarre contention that Matt knows something...!

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General Gaming / Re: The PATHETIC state of the gaming 'media'

« on: December 12, 2009, 04:43:20 AM »

I dunno about Matt Casmassina, he's the IGN "nintendo guy", but every time I see something from him, it's bitching and moaning -- you'd think he was Ian Sane!

I got the feeling he got forced onto the nintendo beat, and doesn't really like it ...

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 12, 2009, 02:59:36 AM »

1979) Can't count backwards

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: December 12, 2009, 12:37:13 AM »

4.2 million?! Am I reading that right?

Why wasn't the game on the Wii

'cause the wii is for kids, not for marvelously manly muscled men like game developers.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 12, 2009, 12:30:20 AM »

1982) Bigger Marios instead of bigger muscles

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General Gaming / Re: Sony getting hit Hard lately

« on: December 11, 2009, 10:21:04 PM »

GEM = Gimme Extra Money!

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: 2000 reasons your are still a Nintendo fan

« on: December 11, 2009, 10:20:06 PM »

1985) Zeltards and Celtards!