Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:48 pm 0

I always thought GTA3 was a massive pile of shit, personally, but clearly from the sales and the billion-or-so identical sequals, everyone else would disagree.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:49 pm 0

Did you ever play Vice City Atty? Wonderful story, great map, awesome cars and bikes - I much preferred it to San An and 3. I guess it might just not be your kind of game though

Cheers

Bubba

supermonkeyworld · Post by **supermonkeyworld** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:55 pm 0

Atty wrote:I always thought GTA3 was a massive pile of shit, personally, but clearly from the sales and the billion-or-so identical sequals, everyone else would disagree.

You're not the only one, I've played 1, 2, 3, VC, SA, and I can't honestly say they appealed to me that much, give me Katamari any day.

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:13 pm 0

Bubba wrote:Did you ever play Vice City Atty? Wonderful story, great map, awesome cars and bikes - I much preferred it to San An and 3. I guess it might just not be your kind of game though

Cheers

Bubba

Was Vice City the 80's one? I think I played that a bit, it seemed better than the others, but it still had the same basic and (imo) tedious structure and aiming felt just as crappy as always. I must admit, I didn't play it for too long so maybe I'm being too harsh. Still, I suspect it's just not really my thing.

But, who knows - I liked the original GTA, so maybe some future installment of GTA will be more fun for me.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:50 pm 0

WipeOut was the PS1's killer app for me.

supermonkeyworld · Post by **supermonkeyworld** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:53 pm 0

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/angry-nint ... 217153.php

This is great, it manages to sum up everything I feel about the current situation.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:57 pm 0

Atty wrote:Was Vice City the 80's one? I think I played that a bit, it seemed better than the others, but it still had the same basic and (imo) tedious structure and aiming felt just as crappy as always. I must admit, I didn't play it for too long so maybe I'm being too harsh. Still, I suspect it's just not really my thing.

You should play it on a PC. The mouse takes all the shit out of aiming with that arse of a PS2 joypad.

Beer Monkey · Post by **Beer Monkey** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:06 pm 0

If the Wii is just benefiting from short-lived hype right now, it's the most impressive short-lived hype I've seen.

Today, a week after launch, 100 people lined up at my local Best Buy to try to get a Wii. Unfortunately, only 52 systems arrived. Fortunately that was more than the 12 that was promised, per each location, for today.

Ask a Gamestop manager what they get more calls for, Wii or PS3 availability. I have, and the answer is Wii by a huge margin.

This is wild.

grue · Post by **grue** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:21 pm 0

Maybe it's the fanboy in me (although I own many different consoles) but I see the graphics of PS3 & 360 and they don't make me tick.

On the other hand I can't stop thinking about that 2-p pong game.

The Caffeine Kid · Post by **The Caffeine Kid** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:24 pm 0

I'm glad that "big better faster more" graphics is stopping being the holy grail of a lot of gamers. I want a game to be fun, goddamnit, and something I can pick up and play for 5 mins or 5 hours depending on my mood, and if the kids will leave me in peace.

Is it the 8th of December yet?

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:29 pm 0

The Caffeine Kid wrote:I'm glad that "big better faster more" graphics is stopping being the holy grail of a lot of gamers. I want a game to be fun, goddamnit, and something I can pick up and play for 5 mins or 5 hours depending on my mood, and if the kids will leave me in peace.

Is it the 8th of December yet?

I'm not impressed by graphics etc, but neither am I impressed by gimicky
controllers and kiddy games. What I like are good stories in games - storage capacity of the game media and hard drives are a good thing to me.

If the Revolution (Wii is still such a stupid name to say) hadn't had that stupid controller, I might be more interested. Either that or I'll get one and use the wavebird if I can.

fog · Post by **fog** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:52 pm 0

grue wrote:Maybe it's the fanboy in me (although I own many different consoles) but I see the graphics of PS3 & 360 and they don't make me tick.

So the likes of fl0w, Viva Pinata, Lego Star Wars, GW2 and Space Giraffe do nothing for you?

Anyone that makes such a sweeping statement is making about as much effort to find something a bit different as the person that says all Wii titles are a bunch of novelty mini-games.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:19 pm 0

fog wrote:
grue wrote:Maybe it's the fanboy in me (although I own many different consoles) but I see the graphics of PS3 & 360 and they don't make me tick.
So the likes of fl0w, Viva Pinata, Lego Star Wars, GW2 and Space Giraffe do nothing for you?

Anyone that makes such a sweeping statement is making about as much effort to find something a bit different as the person that says all Wii titles are a bunch of novelty mini-games.

No disrespect but Id like SG if it was just ASCII characters flying about - I tend to agree though as its a long time since I booted up a game just for some graphics

(Im currently replaying OOT)

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:25 pm 0

Beer Monkey wrote:If the Wii is just benefiting from short-lived hype right now, it's the most impressive short-lived hype I've seen.

Ahh come on now. The PS2 sold out at launch. So did the 360. In fact, it's probably a bad omen for a console to *not* sell out at launch.

Like I said, this time next year will be a far more interesting time...

Cheers

Bubba

p-saurus · Post by **p-saurus** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:26 pm 0

Beer Monkey wrote:If the Wii is just benefiting from short-lived hype right now, it's the most impressive short-lived hype I've seen.

Today, a week after launch, 100 people lined up at my local Best Buy to try to get a Wii. Unfortunately, only 52 systems arrived. Fortunately that was more than the 12 that was promised, per each location, for today.

Ask a Gamestop manager what they get more calls for, Wii or PS3 availability. I have, and the answer is Wii by a huge margin.

This is wild.

We had more than 100 for the 45 systems we got in at the BB store I work at today. No first party accessories but everyone seems to be buying Zelda and most buy another game as well. I want a Wii but I think I'll wait until May when I'll have some time to play it.