Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

[PumaG]

Anyone watching the launch on gamespot ?

http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/event/uber ... vent&res=1

[Marius]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/gamereview?cid=1951383570&tab=reviews&page=0&eid=-1

Excitetruck is the only game I have played for the Wii and so far I think it is fantastic and this review is pretty in-line with my feelings about the game.

Well, they also criticised Zelda for having a slow start and bad pacing. First time I've ever read that, especially since starting out slow and easy has always been a part of the Zelda-universe.

[supermonkeyworld]

Latest Edge scores taken from gamefront.de:

Zelda Twilight Princess (Wii, Nintendo): 9
Gears of War (Xbox 360, Epic): 8
Final Fantasy XII (PS2, Square Enix): 9
Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo): 7
Red Steel (Wii, Ubisoft): 5
Tony Hawks 8 (Xbox 360/Xbox/PS2, Activision): 8
Rainbow Six: Vegas (Xbox 360, Ubisoft): 6
GTA: Vice City Stories (PSP, Rockstar): 7
Call of Duty 3 (Xbox 360), Activision): 7
Sonic the Hedgehog (Xbox 360, Sega): 3
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Wii, Sega): 7
Guitar Hero II (PS2, RedOctane): 8
Need For Speed Carbon (Xbox 360/Xbox/PS2/GC, EA): 6
Lumines II (PSP, Q Entertainment): 6

NSJ innit.

[HGFB]

How to buy a VC game.

http://www.wii-uk.net/phpnews/news.php? ... s=1&id=194

Definately looks like there's no chance of demo versions. I think Nintendo have missed a trick there. They could easily have made the demo versions just time limited versions of the full game.

[Atty]

How to buy a VC game.

http://www.wii-uk.net/phpnews/news.php? ... s=1&id=194

Definately looks like there's no chance of demo versions. I think Nintendo have missed a trick there. They could easily have made the demo versions just time limited versions of the full game.

I'm not so bothered about the lack of demos on the VC games, but there should atleast be some sort of streaming compilation video of the game in action so you roughly know what you're getting.

[fog]

http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmes ... c=31841555

There are a few other posts from him in the thread.

Claiming to be a writer for the Official Nintendo Magazine. Yeah a really independent opinion

Slating another journalist because he doesn't share the same views while working in an industry which is all about personal opinions.

There are too many egos and not enough characters writing for magazines these days. Bring back Zzapp64.

Wow, talk about prejudice, you don't think a guy working for ONM can have independent and honest opinions? Also, he didn't slate anyone, in fact he said he respects Greg, who wrote the _review_ that he disagrees with. If you read his following posts, the points he makes are good and he seems like a well balanced and honest guy overall.

Sorry but as Bubba says, working for an official magazine he can't be relied on for an independent honest opinion.

He might well be right, in a way I hope he is, but if I had to choose between Official Nintendo Magazine's score of 9 and Edge's score of 5 I know who I'm most likely to believe is nearer the truth.

Anyway I guess we'll find out soon enough

How to buy a VC game.

http://www.wii-uk.net/phpnews/news.php? ... s=1&id=194

Definately looks like there's no chance of demo versions. I think Nintendo have missed a trick there. They could easily have made the demo versions just time limited versions of the full game.

I'm not so bothered about the lack of demos on the VC games, but there should atleast be some sort of streaming compilation video of the game in action so you roughly know what you're getting.

If it's not in there now then I think it's just a matter of time before they add demos and game videos. Connect24 is perfect for that. Downloading a demo to everyone's console through the night would be a brilliant marketing tool and developers will be crying out for that ability.

Love the Mario bit while the game is downloading

EDIT:
GT Red Steel video review.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjjEI5h4clE&eurl=

[Atty]

Yeah. I can understand the lack of demos on there at the moment, since they are dealing with 15+ year old games that they didn't even neccessarily even program themselves (plus they have rather limited space on the SD card which might put them off the idea a bit), but I can't see any reason why, say, a minute long streaming compilation video of the games being played couldn't be activated when you clicked on the picture.

And even if they didn't do THAT, it would be nice to have some sort of full-screen photo album style slideshow of the games so you could atleast see more of it that than one tiny picture of the startup screen.

[Marius]

Whenever an official website or magazine reviews a game for their respective consoles, I always subtract at least one point or 10%.

I still laugh when I think about Driv3r and some of the scores it received

[Governmentyard]

The guys who wrote some of those Driv3r reviews had bills to pay and weren't in a position to tell their employers to get stuffed when they were told what sort of scores they were going to be giving it. When you've worked for best part of a decade to make it in your chosen industry, have responsibilities and dependants, and they put you in an awkward position like that, you would be stupid to walk, however dishonest the publishers are being.

So by all means distrust an official mag (or even just a Future mag)'s opinions and scores, but outside of their paying job remember these guys are no happier about things like the Driv3r review than anyone else is. The involved writers I know have opinions I'd trust way above those I read in Edge.

[Deckard]

The guys who wrote some of those Driv3r reviews had bills to pay and weren't in a position to tell their employers to get stuffed when they were told what sort of scores they were going to be giving it. When you've worked for best part of a decade to make it in your chosen industry, have responsibilities and dependants, and they put you in an awkward position like that, you would be stupid to walk, however dishonest the publishers are being.

So by all means distrust an official mag (or even just a Future mag)'s opinions and scores, but outside of their paying job remember these guys are no happier about things like the Driv3r review than anyone else is. The involved writers I know have opinions I'd trust way above those I read in Edge.

Fine -so they can sign away any repsonsibilty as a "real" journo with the above and any possibilty of credibilty with the public and myself at the same time.

[Rod_S]

The guys who wrote some of those Driv3r reviews had bills to pay and weren't in a position to tell their employers to get stuffed when they were told what sort of scores they were going to be giving it. When you've worked for best part of a decade to make it in your chosen industry, have responsibilities and dependants, and they put you in an awkward position like that, you would be stupid to walk, however dishonest the publishers are being.

I'm pretty sure some of the long-term Edge writers quit over a similar situation, remember when Ste Curran and a couple of others left? I think that was down to some kind of publisher interference/review scores malarky.

Edge make mistakes occasionally but I'd never consider them anything less than credible, I mean look at the alternatives.

[Deckard]

The guys who wrote some of those Driv3r reviews had bills to pay and weren't in a position to tell their employers to get stuffed when they were told what sort of scores they were going to be giving it. When you've worked for best part of a decade to make it in your chosen industry, have responsibilities and dependants, and they put you in an awkward position like that, you would be stupid to walk, however dishonest the publishers are being.

I'm pretty sure some of the long-term Edge writers quit over a similar situation, remember when Ste Curran and a couple of others left? I think that was down to some kind of publisher interference/review scores malarky.

Edge make mistakes occasionally but I'd never consider them anything less than credible, I mean look at the alternatives.

Yeah and it shows why we've got a long way to go on the film and music industry

Over 25 years in and no NME or Viz for us

[teamonkey]

Yeah and it shows why we've got a long way to go on the film and music industry

Over 25 years in and no NME or Viz for us

We've got loads of Pitchforks though.

[GrapeApe]

Over 25 years in and no NME or Viz for us

Its a fair analogy but the NME of today is about as credible as Smash Hits.

[Mark]

The guys who wrote some of those Driv3r reviews had bills to pay and weren't in a position to tell their employers to get stuffed when they were told what sort of scores they were going to be giving it. When you've worked for best part of a decade to make it in your chosen industry, have responsibilities and dependants, and they put you in an awkward position like that, you would be stupid to walk, however dishonest the publishers are being.

I'm pretty sure some of the long-term Edge writers quit over a similar situation, remember when Ste Curran and a couple of others left? I think that was down to some kind of publisher interference/review scores malarky.

Edge make mistakes occasionally but I'd never consider them anything less than credible, I mean look at the alternatives.

I had a mate who worked for Future. Years ago he did the review of a fairly high profile PS One game, and handed it in with a score of 8 out of 10. The review text went on to be used in both Edge and OPSM - tweaked slightly for each. However, Edge changed the score to 7, and OPSM changed it to 9.