Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

[Atty]

Maybe Nintendo could get the online shop system run by a charity

$8 for an old ROM that's had nothing done to it whatsoever? You're fucking joking.

That's pretty much what I it would be, really. I really wasn't expecting anything less than the equivalent of under a fiver £5 for a snes game. NES and N64 are pretty much where I expected them to be, too. It's a rip-off, but no more of a ripoff than I expected.. The big question is, are we UK lot going to be paying the equivalent prices, or are they just going to swap the dollar sign for a pound sign and make us pay £5, £8 and £10 a pop?

[fog]

Sure hope the game play and controls are amazing in Zelda , the graphics look pretty dreadfull. Is there no improvements on the wii version compared to the GC visual wise.

Have faith mele nintendo wont let me down

Zelda looks pretty dreadfull? Seriously? A lot of the Wii stuff really does look terrible but you surely can't accuse Zelda of that. It's easily the best looking Wii game from what I've seen so far.

The big question is, are we UK lot going to be paying the equivalent prices, or are they just going to swap the dollar sign for a pound sign and make us pay £5, £8 and £10 a pop?

The prices are already steep. If they do the direct $ = £ conversion on the VC stuff as well then I'd seriously consider concelling my pre-order.

That's a huge rip-off considering what you pay on XBLA for original stuff.

[teamonkey]

The big question is, are we UK lot going to be paying the equivalent prices, or are they just going to swap the dollar sign for a pound sign and make us pay £5, £8 and £10 a pop?

The prices are already steep. If they do the direct $ = £ conversion on the VC stuff as well then I'd seriously consider concelling my pre-order.

That's a huge rip-off considering what you pay on XBLA for original stuff.

I don't think they're greatly unreasonable prices, but they're well out of impulse-buy territory that XBLA games are. There's probably a handful of games that I'd be happy to pay that amount for if they played well on the Wii, but not that many.

[GrapeApe]

Sure hope the game play and controls are amazing in Zelda , the graphics look pretty dreadfull. Is there no improvements on the wii version compared to the GC visual wise

Must say I find that a bit hard to agree with, have we really been that wowed by plasticy normal maps and shiney graphics that we can't appreciate gorgeouse texture work and sublime art direction when we see it?

Zelda EASILY holds its own against a lot of the next-gen stuff doing the rounds, solid art direction will allways win out against souless pretend realism.

[RageMatrix]

Its not the graphics, its the gameplay.

Honestly, I don't recall anyone ever saying that the GC graphics were rubbish and the Wii will have better graphics than that - even if not by much.

Wind Waker had great graphics, as does Paper Mario 2, but thats more to do with art direction than shiny-shaders.

If graphics are that important to you, I'd say you're probably in the wrong thread

[Gokou-Dragonspirit]

How can you say Zelda looks rubbish?! It's absolutly beautiful. And I agree, it looks alot better than most 'next-gen' stuff, because it looks like it was made with real love and attention to how it looks. The same applies to RE4 on the GC which I only recently got. My housemate was playing Condemned on the 360, and despite it's fancy lighting and bump-mapped walls, it didn't have a tenth of the effect that some of RE4's dark and creepy areas have. The problem was, while the bump-mapping looked cool, it looked like just that, cool bump-mapping, not a real decaying crack den.

[betamax]

KORORINPA

That's either going to be really fucking annoying, or ace. It looks ace. Here's hoping.

So it's not just a rehash of Super Monkey Ball without monkeys then?

[Samus]

KORORINPA

That's either going to be really fucking annoying, or ace. It looks ace. Here's hoping.

So it's not just a rehash of Super Monkey Ball without monkeys then?

I think it's Marble Madness you're looking for

Anyways:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... feed&hl=en

[Mele]

Its not the graphics, its the gameplay.

Honestly, I don't recall anyone ever saying that the GC graphics were rubbish and the Wii will have better graphics than that - even if not by much.

Wind Waker had great graphics, as does Paper Mario 2, but thats more to do with art direction than shiny-shaders.

If graphics are that important to you, I'd say you're probably in the wrong thread

I think my problem is not that wii has limited graphical capabilities compared to the xbox360 and ps3 , I'm cool with that as I think nintendo is trying to do something different witch I applaud. It is that this incarnation of Zelda is geared to more realistic graphics , I agree wind walker has stunning graphics with amazing style and imagination.
Certain textures and graphics look fine but look at the ground for example its flat and horrid. For a game that is trying to give us a more adult gritty Zelda it just doesn't seem to be the best way of using the wii.

I'm getting used to this in terms of realism now , so yeah I do think some of the graphics on zelda do come acroos as dreadfull now

[oxo]

well for me its not about how real/great the graphics look.
As far as Im concerned roll on the 8th December when I will be
able to sit in front of my TV with a big grin on my face, waving my
arms around like a complete pratt and best of all.....HAVING FUN!

[Rod_S]

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It's PS1 o' clock!

[Alarm]

Peter Molyneux wishes he could develop for the Wii:

Is the Wii something, under different circumstances, you’d like to explore?

I’d love to play around with it. You know, it’s a pure design challenge and the biggest change you can make in a designer’s life is changing the controller and not thinking about ‘oh we’re not going to put this on the X button and that on the A button’ - but having to do a complete re-think is quite an exciting challenge and something I would’ve loved to have got my teeth into, yes.

http://computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=148566

[Bubba]

Zelda looks pretty impressive. But if the Wii had a GPU and CPU in the ballpark performance range of the 360 or PS3 then it could look somethign truely breathtaking.

While art direction is vital, having more processing power for graphics and combining it with that fantastic art direction is just as important.

Cheers

Bubba

[RageMatrix]

I'm getting used to this in terms of realism now , so yeah I do think some of the graphics on zelda do come acroos as dreadfull now

I think "dreadful" might be a little unfair. I've seen the videos of this moving and it actually looks charming. I don't think they're going for a gritty realism thing at all.....its just as stylised as Wind Waker was.....just in a different way.
I think just because the graphics aren't as cartoony as Wind Waker, you're under the misplaced assumption that Nintendo is going for realism this time around.....and I just don't think thats the case. My opinion, of course.

[Deckard]

Zelda looks pretty impressive. But if the Wii had a GPU and CPU in the ballpark performance range of the 360 or PS3 then it could look somethign truely breathtaking.

While art direction is vital, having more processing power for graphics and combining it with that fantastic art direction is just as important.

Cheers

Bubba

Aye and some ideas always help too - just look at the PSP VS DS for that argument to play out