Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:46 pm 0

Mat T wrote:Picked up my Wii today from work.

FUCKING TOPS!

Off to play Zelda.

Nice!

Please return with impressions.

grue · Post by **grue** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:51 pm 0

Mat T wrote:Picked up my Wii today from work.

FUCKING TOPS!

Off to play Zelda.

If you play it before the 8th of December your dick will fall off.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:53 pm 0

IMHO there is no such thing as a perfect game, which is what a 40/40 score implies!

I think 40/40, or 100% or whatever should mean:

"Perfect as far as it was possible to make in the given development time".

After all, the perfect-perfect game would be infintely long, infintely varying,infinte genras, and a constantly adaptive difficulty level

(all wrapped up in a nice story that puts it all together seemlessly).

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My main problem with TWW was it was too repedative.

Zelda stands above every other game genra mostly because your rarely doing the same thing more then once or twice.
Most RPGs its battle, level, battle, level, story, battle, level repeat.

Zelda stands far from these because each room of every dungeon is something new. The weapons arnt about "same again, but stronger", the items all have different properties that reactive with the game world differently.

So TWW's repedativeness really felt going against the grain of what zelda was for me. Sure, it was fantastic still in many ways.
But if it was shorter, like Beyond Good and Evil, it would have been much better.

oxo · Post by **oxo** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:53 pm 0

well I was playing Wii Sports all evening yesterday and my dick is
very much still intact!!

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:37 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:
IMHO there is no such thing as a perfect game, which is what a 40/40 score implies!
I think 40/40, or 100% or whatever should mean:

"Perfect as far as it was possible to make in the given development time".

After all, the perfect-perfect game would be infintely long, infintely varying,infinte genras, and a constantly adaptive difficulty level
(all wrapped up in a nice story that puts it all together seemlessly).

Hence my comment that there is no such thing as a perfect game

I think games should get a 40/40 if there is really nothing that could be done any better, thus being the pinnacle of the genre and as such as close to perfection as can be obtained.

Best not involve development time though - for every game lovingly developed over a long period of time there are some utter cack ones that just sit in development hell for ever

Cheers

Bubba

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:48 pm 0

oh, sure.
But that means they have even less excuse.

I guess, purhapes, review scores could be based relative to the manhours spent on it.
While this might seem more disconnected from the end-expirence, Id say small teams making a good game deserve more praise then a huge team with a massive budget, that ends up with a game just as good.

Im not sure what the ideal review system would be, but I know the current one cracks a bit at the seams.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:59 pm 0

So you're saying something has inherently less worth the more people that work on it?

Not sure I can agree with that.

grue · Post by **grue** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:02 pm 0

Flabio wrote:So you're saying something has inherently less worth the more people that work on it?

Not sure I can agree with that.

I can only understand it as long as more people dictate less risks taken. Or something.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:03 pm 0

Day Four. My last of these types of posts because I think you've probably heard enough and they are a bit spoilerific - I apologise. Finally got the wife to play Tennis last night and we were on it for over an hour. It is, frankly, a blast. Totally playable, enjoyable and although you don't need Ivan Lendl type swings to hit the ball, you find yourself throwing everything you've got into it. It's hilarious.

The dog was totally confused watching us fling ourselves around the front room. I've perfected top-spin forehands and they're deadly.

The wife is left-handed and has a back-hand that I usually miss. We're evenly matched and our games were always close. Also got the hang of Bowling and it's also fabulous.

Also booted up Ikaruga and Soul Calibur II (GC) and both worked flawlessly. Plugged the Wavebird into the front port (the back one didn't appear to work) and it's fine. You do appear to need a GC memory card to save games, the Wii memory or SD card don't register. So if like me, you're gonna pick up a few el-cheapo GC classics, get a memory card whilst you're there. If you didn't play RE4, now's your chance. Also worth noting is that your Mii character profiles can be saved to the Wiimote. So you can take your Wiimote around to a friend's house and upload your character. Very cool and reminds me of the DC VM unit a little. The Wii also internally mails you a note about your gaming habits, like a gaming diary.

All-in-all, the Wii is frighteningly good. Even my firmware problems haven't destroyed my initial feeling for this machine. Like Sega's DC, it feels like there's been some thought, care and love gone into it, like the mission was to create a purist entertainment device with the focus on video gaming. No extra fluff really that doesn't somehow add something. You are all going to love launch day. If you've never bought a Ninty console before, this is the one to get imo.

Gokou-Dragonspirit · Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:26 pm 0

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGG!!!! *Wan't it to be the 8th soooo badly*

By the way, if anyone wants a PS3 (heh, yeah, right) and has Â£2000 to spare, the CEX outside Cardiff train station has one. Oh and it's only the 20GB version lol. My it's a big ugly thing, shiny, but appears to about as portable as a PC tower....

Mele · Post by **Mele** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:32 pm 0

2K !!!

Man i would love to see what plonker brought that and give him a big

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:37 pm 0

There's a CEX in Nottingham city centre, their window is always full of drastically over-priced tat but their 2nd-hand games are usually worth checking out.

grue · Post by **grue** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:39 pm 0

Gokou-Dragonspirit wrote:AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGG!!!! *Wan't it to be the 8th soooo badly*

Me too. I won't even order my monthly books from amazon (I'm ordering more than 100euros worth of books each month since I quit smoking) to save money for the Wii day.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:39 pm 0

Mele wrote:2K !!! Man i would love to see what plonker brought that and give him a big

Anyone who buys it probably considers Â£2k not that much money.
I doubt it'll be someone pissing away a mortgage payment.

Gokou-Dragonspirit · Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:42 pm 0

Mele wrote:2K !!! Man i would love to see what plonker brought that and give him a big

Well, as the guy in the shop said when I laughed at it, some idiot with too much money will buy it...

It's rather sad how little money I have left, I've overspent my budget on my girlfriend for xmas, and the Wii will probably put me overdrawn, but oh well, my next loan installment comes in in January, just gotta stay alive untill then