Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:53 pm 0

Heehee, Zelda turns dark and twisted very early on. Love it.

Even my wife took over the controls last night and was a spin-attack demon. Best game I have played, oh Christ, maybe ever. We had to drag ourselves away from it last night. I also worked out if you drive through water in Excite Truck it cools the engine down, hence turbo-tastic. The Scotland tracks are particularly good for this.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:04 pm 0

Yak wrote:...That's a *sheep's* baa in the Goat In game, not a goat's baa!

For Goat's sake, Jeff. You'll give some people here a heart attack.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:05 pm 0

Quick question for anyone who's played Wii Sports Tennis:

If you take a swing at the ball and connect, is it possible to play a bad shot - i.e. hit the net, or knock it long or wide? Or does it always land in? (OK, two quick questions then).

It's kinda relevant to something I'm working on, so any info would be appreciated.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:24 pm 0

Mark wrote:Quick question for anyone who's played Wii Sports Tennis:

If you take a swing at the ball and connect, is it possible to play a bad shot - i.e. hit the net, or knock it long or wide? Or does it always land in? (OK, two quick questions then).

It's kinda relevant to something I'm working on, so any info would be appreciated.

I'm pretty sure I've hit the ball out of bounds but don't think I've hit the net yet. Like Golf, I think it registers the speed of your swing. One thing I did seem to do last night was a power-serve but have no idea how I managed that.

Tennis, despite not feeling totally in control, is huge fun. Golf is my fave at the moment, once you learn to hit the ball properly it's totally engrossing.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:38 pm 0

Mark wrote:Quick question for anyone who's played Wii Sports Tennis:

If you take a swing at the ball and connect, is it possible to play a bad shot - i.e. hit the net, or knock it long or wide? Or does it always land in? (OK, two quick questions then).

It's kinda relevant to something I'm working on, so any info would be appreciated.

Yeah, you can definitely hit the ball way over bounds, and also to the net.

And fog, the Famitsu scores are by four different individuals, and x out of ten, just like Charlie suggested.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:44 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:One thing I did seem to do last night was a power-serve but have no idea how I managed that.

If I've understood correctly, power serve is done by hitting the ball at the absolute top of the throw. Gaf thread about Wii Sports is a joy to read, so many reviewers seem to have missed a lot of small touches in these games.

Also, Red Steel continues to divide people all over:

Edge gave it a 5, IGN 6, GameTrailers 7.8, CVG 80, Famitsu 9/8/9/8, NGamer 90, many GAF people are enjoying it a lot, but at the same time stressing that it has an extremely steep learning curve. Interesting stuff..

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:52 pm 0

Zelda The Twilight Princess (Wii, Nintendo): 9 / 10 / 9 / 10 - (38/40)

I wonder why they think its worse then Wind Waker :-/
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fog · Post by **fog** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:15 pm 0

Samus wrote: And fog, the Famitsu scores are by four different individuals, and x out of ten, just like Charlie suggested.

Thanks both

I'd assumed it was the usual Graphics, Sound, Playability system.

I like the idea of 4 different reviewers especially when as you say certain games appear to divide opinion so much.

Interesting vid that shows the Sensor Bar is not really sensing anything
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/21/tv-re ... ensor-bar/

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:02 pm 0

Samus wrote:
Mark wrote:Quick question for anyone who's played Wii Sports Tennis:

If you take a swing at the ball and connect, is it possible to play a bad shot - i.e. hit the net, or knock it long or wide? Or does it always land in? (OK, two quick questions then).

It's kinda relevant to something I'm working on, so any info would be appreciated.
Yeah, you can definitely hit the ball way over bounds, and also to the net.

And fog, the Famitsu scores are by four different individuals, and x out of ten, just like Charlie suggested.

Ta for the info, Samus and Geeza

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:31 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:I wonder why they think its worse then Wind Waker :-/
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Visual style. Windwaker looked much more Japanese than Twi does.

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:54 pm 0

Meh. TP has much tougher competition than TWW ever had. Okami? FF XII? DQ8? Next-gen consoles? Zelda being up against this kind of muscle and still scoring 38/40 is impressive as hell. And let's not forget that it's more or less a sequel.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:26 am 0

More HD Wii rumours (from Go Nintendo):

Rumors continue to circulate that the Wii will see an HD update sometime in its lifespan. Nintendo will not confirm/deny this, but they have been making some interesting statements. First up is a portion of a Reggie Fils-Aime interview from USA Today. We posted on this a few days ago.

â€œTough choices about not including a DVD player at the start, tough choices about not including high-definition capability at the start. Thatâ€™s because we wanted a mass-market price, and we believe the market will validate those decisions come launch day on this Sunday.â€

Now Game Informer got in touch with Nintendo to discuss this comment, and a Nintendo rep answered with this statement.

â€œ(paraphrasing) Microsoft was able to patch the Xbox 360 to support 1080p. After all, Nintendo has already released a patch to allow Wii gamers to transfer game saves to SD cards.â€

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:30 am 0

At best it'll be an upscaling patch, although personally I can't help but wonder if the GPU used is even capable of outputting an HD signal. Given that the Gamecube was the only console of the previous generation that couldn't output an HD signal then I honestly have to question whether it'd be an update in the software sense or a hardware update later in the consoles lifespan. Either way, you'd be looking at 480p rendering resolution.

Cheers

Bubba

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:53 am 0

Sounds like a nintendo rep not knowing a darn thing to me :p

Marius wrote:Meh. TP has much tougher competition than TWW ever had. Okami? FF XII? DQ8? Next-gen consoles? Zelda being up against this kind of muscle and still scoring 38/40 is impressive as hell. And let's not forget that it's more or less a sequel.

And Wind Waker wasnt more or less sequal?

Also Okami =\= Wind Waker
Fantastic visual style, but not as deep as youd hope.

Also, Id argue that stuff like FFXII and DQ8 also had equilivent level games at that time.
(for that mater, Imo, Beyond Good and Evil blows Wind Waker out the water. Allthough without TWW first would BG&E exist how we know it?)

The main point is TWW got 40/40, TP has 38/40, regards of competition that implies TP is worse then WindWaker.
For that to be true (which, it could be), they need to justfy and say why they ducked those 2 points. (or, those two reviewers would have to explain why they ducked a point).
I assume they did, which is why I am hoping for a translation at some stage

(and I hope its not some lame like "not HD" -1 point!!!!" )

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:55 am 0

Bubba wrote: Given that the Gamecube was the only console of the previous generation that couldn't output an HD signal

PS2 does 720p ?
Dreamcast was the same as Gamcube at 480p