Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:24 am 0

bloid wrote:Components that work differently to how you expect, secret key combinations and meaningless icons ahoy!!

Sounds just like a lot of in-house editing tools I've used over the years

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:24 am 0

Orangy Tang · Post by **Orangy Tang** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:32 am 0

Flabio wrote:
bloid wrote:Components that work differently to how you expect, secret key combinations and meaningless icons ahoy!!
Sounds just like a lot of in-house editing tools I've used over the years

But at least then you can go and hit them with a big stick and say "how the heck does this work?".

Until they leave that is, then some poor bugger gets stuck with trying to maintain it.

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:40 am 0

Orangy Tang wrote:

Until they leave that is, then some poor bugger gets stuck with trying to maintain it.

Yeah, but try it when the company decides not to bother maintaining it, but you still have to use it (not technically gaming related, but seems apposite).

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:53 pm 0

Hey: Virgin are doing Bomberman Land: Touch! for a mere Â£7.99 instore. I snapped one up at the weekend - 8-player wi-fi Classic Bomberman ahoy!

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:36 pm 0

Is the euro ninty site down at the mo? I have it as my homepage to

for daily star points, but no joy on most of the UK/Euro bits of the site...

The Caffeine Kid · Post by **The Caffeine Kid** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:52 pm 0

Ghostbiscuit wrote:Hey: Virgin are doing Bomberman Land: Touch! for a mere Â£7.99 instore. I snapped one up at the weekend - 8-player wi-fi Classic Bomberman ahoy!

Good bargain there. You got it for 1 penny less than us.

We got ours for Â£8 from Tesco Jersey - dunno what it's like though cause it's gone away for one of the kids for Xmas.

merman · Post by **merman** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:59 pm 0

Portland wrote:Is the euro ninty site down at the mo? I have it as my homepage to for daily star points, but no joy on most of the UK/Euro bits of the site...

Was down for maintenance when they closed the forums, but was up again earlier today...

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:02 am 0

The Caffeine Kid wrote:
Ghostbiscuit wrote:Hey: Virgin are doing Bomberman Land: Touch! for a mere Â£7.99 instore. I snapped one up at the weekend - 8-player wi-fi Classic Bomberman ahoy!
Good bargain there. You got it for 1 penny less than us.

We got ours for Â£8 from Tesco Jersey - dunno what it's like though cause it's gone away for one of the kids for Xmas.

It was also Â£5 online, but this seems to have gone up to a tenner now. The single player game isn't the most exciting thing in the world, but pleasant enough. However the classic Bomberman multiplayer is as ace as it ever was. Not taken it online yet, but single-cart play was played far more than it should have been at the weekend.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:21 am 0

Can anyone else confirm whether or not Tiger Woods 08 on the DS is the bees knees? I quite like handheld golf.

Jimmy T. @ · Post by **Jimmy T. @** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:07 am 0

GeeZa wrote:Can anyone else confirm whether or not Tiger Woods 08 on the DS is the bees knees? I quite like handheld golf.

Yes, it's very good indeed; I've not had too much experience of handheld golf - other than Vijay Singh on my phone; but if you've played any form of videogame golf in the past, you'll master the basics on this in no time. It's just really well put together - plenty of varied courses and additional features and it's quite pretty (for the DS) to boot, too.

chub · Post by **chub** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:48 am 0

Jimmy T. @ wrote:
GeeZa wrote:Can anyone else confirm whether or not Tiger Woods 08 on the DS is the bees knees? I quite like handheld golf.
Yes, it's very good indeed; I've not had too much experience of handheld golf - other than Vijay Singh on my phone; but if you've played any form of videogame golf in the past, you'll master the basics on this in no time. It's just really well put together - plenty of varied courses and additional features and it's quite pretty (for the DS) to boot, too.

I think it's very good too. I got Touch Golf ages ago, and played that quite a bit, but so far I think this new Tiger Woods one improves on that in many areas. It's certainly nice having 3D in both screens, but you can aim with the 2D overhead map if you want to. The swing action is similar, but there is also a boost which helps you get out of the rough and do long tee shots if you need to. Putting is a bit tricky, as there's none of that putt preview 'show exactly where the ball's going to go' stuff in this version.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:40 am 0

Samus wrote:No More Heroes trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVHwL0hA ... ed&search=

Fantastic trailer, still a bit puzzled about the game, hope it delivers!

I thought this was Japan only, is this now getting a US/EU release then?

chub · Post by **chub** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:52 am 0

disciple wrote:
Samus wrote:No More Heroes trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVHwL0hA ... ed&search=

Fantastic trailer, still a bit puzzled about the game, hope it delivers!
I thought this was Japan only, is this now getting a US/EU release then?

It seems there will be a US release in February next year, but no European release date as yet. The Wikipedia page mentions a publisher for the EU release though (Rising Star Games), but I don't know where that info came from.

marf · Post by **marf** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:59 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:Can anyone else confirm whether or not Tiger Woods 08 on the DS is the bees knees? I quite like handheld golf.

Having not played any other handheld golf games my opinion may not matter much, but this game is really quite good. I might prefer it to some of the console verisons I've played. Looks nice too. EA stepped up their game for this one, it really doesn't feel hacked out.