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Comment on How Nintendo keeps turning back the clock and finding success by Gcruler1

Gcruler1 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:59:40 +0000

I agree with Rollin. The Gamecube did not have Nintendo in a “dead” zone. The Gamecube was great. I’ve only found one Wii game good, and that Galaxy, but thats becasue I had played and beat and loved Sunshine. I may not have a Wii, but my friend does, and I have played every single of his games. From Pikmin to Twilight Princess. I play Carbon on the Wii and on the Cube, the Cube version was way much better, and easier to navigate. Smooth Moves was boring and was just out there, making no sense. They tried to make it funny in a no sense way, but didn’t work. Twilight Princess in general was no fun. I mean a wolf? Thats like turning Mario into a fire ant! Brawl had cool effects and great characters (Captain Olimar and Delfino Plaza), but Subspace Emissary was boring. I mean Tabou or whatever, made no sense. Even thought I beat him both times on the two player mode (friend died and I was on Link, my best character)The Battles were slow moving, unlike Melee, which is why Brawl did better. People expected of that from Melee: they didn’t get it. The N64 and GCN were two back to back all around awesome systems. The SNES and NES were back to back good too! I think Nintendo should go back into production of the N64 and GCN, Microsoft to technology like software, but could still stay in video game production. Sony, hell, I think they should stick to making Tv’s and computers, not video games. But hey, Im only 14, and everyone thinks different.

Comment on How Nintendo keeps turning back the clock and finding success by Rollin

Rollin — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:38:17 +0000

My, how unoriginal.

First of all, those GameCube titles you mentioned weren’t extreme innovations. Water pack, cel-shading, and a vacuum? Terrible examples. Secondly, people do not play Nintendo games to reminisce. On the GameCube, they did that because that’s where Nintendo’s marketing focus was, on their own Mario/Zelda/etc games, and the little else that was on offer didn’t really catch fire. In other words, Nintendo fans hadn’t much choice to do otherwise because 3rd parties weren’t really around.

Thirdly, Nintendo isn’t back “on top” because of their franchises. If you look at the charts, their non-games and mini-game offshoots are what’s brought them their profits. DS is a much bigger contributor to this swell, but Wii is also a benefactor of this strategy. Of the Wii games you mentioned, only 3 have sold enough to support your point: Mario Party 8, Brawl, and Wii Sports — apart from the mega-marketed Brawl, all of them casual-centric titles. Feel free to correct me, but those are the only ones that have sold past a million.

You seemed to contradict yourself a little bit. You say that this innovative streak is what killed Nintendo in the last generation, but now it’s good because it’s familiar? Mario was never unfamiliar, fludd or no fludd, and the Wii controls don’t make anything more familiar to anybody. Have you played Mario Galaxy? Pretty different from Sunshine, which was already different from the 64 version. Galaxy and Twilight are definitely not “middle-of-the-road” titles, btw.

And in my humbly expert diagnosis, no Wii titles that i have played have been addictive in any way.

How old are you, 17? You need to spend less time on Nintendo message boards and more time eavesdropping on real industry discussions. There’s no need for you to be aggrandizing Nintendo when they’re already at the top of the sales charts.

Comment on The changing demographic of the gamer by Autosave Podcasts Ep. 3 & 4: Home Theater Systems; Plus explination for the lack of posts « The Auto Save

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:21:44 +0000

[...] I plan on continuing my “Changing Demographic of the Gamer” discussion that I started here and continued in podcast form here. Also, I plan on purchasing Grand Theft Auto IV this coming [...]

Comment on Organization Anyone? by hardcore gamer

hardcore gamer — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:09:36 +0000

sounds like a pretty bad experience.

i know some of the guys at getgosu.com

the site looks like crap right now, but they are working really hard to finish off their software that runs 100% organized/seamless/perfect online tournaments of games like hl2 and counter strike

Comment on Contact The Autosave by Cody Raterman

Cody Raterman — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:10:16 +0000

Nerd here.
My good friend Owen Beutler and myself often discuss creating our own video game - “Gangland” - online, multiplayer, massive maps (in co-op with google maps for city streets and newspapers so you can literally read the news while in game .. if in twin cities, pick up the onion at a stand and its todays issue .. ) oh, and murder, murder, and violence. the servers reset every month and switch to different cities. can only save what you have in your wallet pants and shoes.

anyway. If (you) could create a video game, what would your idea be?

Comment on How Multiplayer Should be Done. by mtown

mtown — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:57:09 +0000

Multiplayer CoD4 really is simply amazing. I’ve leveled up to 50-something and I haven’t even touched the single player missions one time yet. I want to play the single player mode, but every time I start up the game I know I’m only 15 seconds away from a frantic multiplayer battle and I always end up hitting the “online play” button over the “continue campaign” button.

Comment on Xbox 360 Intercoolers - Yay nor Nay? by Spelling Police

Spelling Police — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:33:10 +0000

What’s with web publishing these days? Seriously, do people who run spell checks just hit ‘change’ without looking at their article’s context? Weather? Come on! Whether!!!! This article loses (yes loses no looses) credibility from the first sentence!

Comment on Xbox 360 Intercoolers - Yay nor Nay? by par

par — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:36:37 +0000

this is why i hate microsoft:
360 should be a great machine, but since Microsoft using cheap part to lower their cost of the machine. Now all the problem rise for the one who pick 360. we shouldn’t have to worry about all of this overheating thing, if this machine is well design and well build with a good parts. they should be ban from making game console

Comment on Xbox 360 Intercoolers - Yay nor Nay? by Max

Max — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:30:12 +0000

The Nyko Intercooler EX male power plug is metal so it will not melt. The best position for the console is horizontal because it leaves the most vents open and it is more stable. Microsoft says not to use it because it isn’t made by them. Making their own Intercooler would show that they made a mistake. (More then already) They will not do it for that reason. It is absolutely needed if you have an older system or if you want to play for more then an hour before turning off the console.

Comment on Xbox 360 Intercoolers - Yay nor Nay? by 3ROL

3ROL — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:10:39 +0000

could you give us the picture of how to avoid heat loop etc? many thanks