Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:27 am 0

The USA rom has been around the torrent sites for a few days now and yes it is bloody good

Who needs conventional button controls any more ?

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:32 am 0

Deckard wrote:The USA rom has been around the torrent sites for a few days now and yes it is bloody good Who needs conventional button controls any more ?

Me for one - I detest the stylus control, it feels awkward and the stylus gets in the way.

Still, I'm sure I'm in the minority on this so just think of me as an old moaning luddite.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:58 am 0

Dpad controlls wouldnt work for PH, it would be a different game.

Who needs conventional button controls any more

Well, they are still needed, depends on the game and genra.
Different controlls fit different games.
The DS (and Wii) went though a "lets make everything new controlls" stage in their lives.

They are now settleing to a "what fits the game" style thinking.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:05 pm 0

Order your remote jackets now - new remotes to come with jackets from mid october.

http://wii.nintendo.co.uk/22686.html

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:19 pm 0

It's happening here as well? Interesting... I just filled out the US form earlier this morning for them...

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:38 pm 0

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/2686.html

The codec videos where Snake discusses his opponents are more than a little weird...

arbster · Post by **arbster** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:48 pm 0

Flabio wrote:http://www.gametrailers.com/game/2686.html

The codec videos where Snake discusses his opponents are more than a little weird...

Some of the funniest things I've heard in a videogame for quite a while. The Yoshi comments are great. I'm looking forward to this game more and more.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:41 pm 0

HOLY CRAP!!! @ the new SMG vids from JPN official site:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rmgj/action/index.html

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rmgj/action/action.html

Here's a good place to DL the vids:

http://www.gamersyde.com/news_5241_en.html

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:54 pm 0

chub · Post by **chub** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:43 am 0

Which way is up?

Jamesac · Post by **Jamesac** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:41 am 0

"Up" would be the arbitrary direction determined by how Mario's feet are planted from one moment to the next, with no real relation to camera positioning or standard Earth-based preconceptions.

James

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:14 pm 0

Has anyone played MySims on the Wii? It just got a rather good 8/10 review on Eurogamer (The DS version got 6/10)

fog · Post by **fog** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:57 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Has anyone played MySims on the Wii? It just got a rather good 8/10 review on Eurogamer (The DS version got 6/10)

Yes I have and I rather loved it

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=5 ... start=8765

It lacks the Animal Crossing element of needing to dip into it every day and it's a bit more linear but while it lasts (and it seems to be quite big), it's fun.

And when I say it's linear, it doesn't have a story and set tasks as such, but you do need to build houses and furniture that appeal to different people for your town to expand. However within that structure there's plenty of room for experimentation.

As I mentioned in my previous post it's nothing like The Sims and if you're looking for that sort of depth then it's not for you but if you're after something more like Aminal Crossing then it's definitely worth a look. My niece, who played AC daily for months and months, thinks it's the best thing ever and had none of the control issues I was worried about.

Now that all refers to the Wii version. The DS version is a much much simpler affair and a bit of a let down after playing the Wii version.

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:30 pm 0

BTW, the remote jacket form is a little flaky on Firefox, but is happy joy on the evil IE.

Ordered now.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:25 pm 0

I'm liking MySims so far although to a diabetic it could throw you into a sugar coma.

One thing I do like is the items you build don't have to be perfect matches to the blueprints. Just "close enough" which means you can do a typically British half arsed job and still get paid