Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:32 pm 0

marf wrote:Sorry if this has been touched on in the preceding 646 pages but has anyone got Endless ocean and is it good?

No need to read through all the pages in this thread; just use the Search function:

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=68899

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:38 am 0

Guys NitroBike is out soon, can be pre-ordered here for Â£18.

http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstor/prod ... ode=NW0166

RRP seems to be Â£40 elsewhere but I am not sure if that is correct, either way I think you'll be hard pushed to find it cheaper than Â£18.

Here's a gameplay vid.

http://wiinintendo.net/2008/01/08/nitro ... lay-video/

I think it's looking quite promising, I think the fun to be had from this will revolve around good turbo use.

Also :

Battalion Wars 2
No More Heroes
Geometry Wars Galaxies
Zak & Wiki

All seem to be due out very soon.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:58 pm 0

I like the look and feel of this - de blob

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/844/844908p1.html

merman · Post by **merman** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:58 am 0

Nintendo dominates first Japanese sales chart of the year - all the top ten are Nintendo titles, and 25 out of the top 30 are Nintendo. Three PS2 and two PSP titles make up the remainder!

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=32050

1. Mario Party DS (DS)
2. Wii Fit (Wii)
3. Wii Sports (Wii)
4. Final Fantasy IV (DS)
5. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
6. Wii Play (Wii)
7. Dragon Quest IV (DS)
8. Prof Layton and Pandora's Box (DS)
9. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii)
10. Mario Party 8 (Wii)

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:11 pm 0

Nice to see more Wii games in the top ten than DS games.

Fil · Post by **Fil** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:26 pm 0

So out of 30 titles 25 are Nintendo and 5 are Sony? By my calculations that makes it 5:1

The Caffeine Kid · Post by **The Caffeine Kid** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:52 pm 0

Fantastic. The whole top 30 are for machines I own, and not a single PS3 game?

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:38 pm 0

Shame Mario Party DS is a pile of cunt, really.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:58 pm 0

Goatboy wrote:Shame Mario Party DS is a pile of cunt, really.

If only it was.

KidQuaalude · Post by **KidQuaalude** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:20 am 0

disciple wrote:Guys NitroBike is out soon, can be pre-ordered here for Â£18.

http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstor/prod ... ode=NW0166

RRP seems to be Â£40 elsewhere but I am not sure if that is correct, either way I think you'll be hard pushed to find it cheaper than Â£18.

Here's a gameplay vid.

http://wiinintendo.net/2008/01/08/nitro ... lay-video/

I think it's looking quite promising, I think the fun to be had from this will revolve around good turbo use.

first review i've found :

Nintendo Power - 35%

The makers of Excitebike 64 return to the motocross circuit with a disappointing wreck of a Wii game.

[Feb 2008, p.89]

ouch. personally i'm waiting for excite truck 2.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:57 am 0

Smash Bros Brawl just got a perfect score in the new Famitsu. Of course, the game has been delayed another month in the states till late March, and still doesn't even have a European release date.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:07 am 0

Ack, cheers for that.

Finger hovering over cancel button.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:46 am 0

KidQuaalude wrote:
disciple wrote:Guys NitroBike is out soon, can be pre-ordered here for Â£18.

http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstor/prod ... ode=NW0166

RRP seems to be Â£40 elsewhere but I am not sure if that is correct, either way I think you'll be hard pushed to find it cheaper than Â£18.

Here's a gameplay vid.

http://wiinintendo.net/2008/01/08/nitro ... lay-video/

I think it's looking quite promising, I think the fun to be had from this will revolve around good turbo use.

first review i've found :

Nintendo Power - 35%

The makers of Excitebike 64 return to the motocross circuit with a disappointing wreck of a Wii game.

[Feb 2008, p.89]

ouch. personally i'm waiting for excite truck 2.

Fuck's sake. They gave Excite Truck a great review as well.

Nintendo Power - 85
My balance issues aside, Excite Truck delivers a fresh racing experience that emphasizes strategy over speed. [Jan. 2007, p.110]

peter_cushion · Post by **peter_cushion** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:21 pm 0

From The Onion

BROOKLYN, NYâ€”Nearly 50 percent of 26-year-old paralegal Philip Jenkins' encoded long-term memories involve button combinations, game-playing experiences, and spatial-cognitive maps of various levels and worlds from Nintendo's line of video-game consoles, a team of neuroscientists reported Tuesday.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/ha ... s_memories

chub · Post by **chub** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:17 pm 0

peter_cushion wrote:From The Onion

BROOKLYN, NYâ€”Nearly 50 percent of 26-year-old paralegal Philip Jenkins' encoded long-term memories involve button combinations, game-playing experiences, and spatial-cognitive maps of various levels and worlds from Nintendo's line of video-game consoles, a team of neuroscientists reported Tuesday.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/ha ... s_memories

"On Friday, we showed Mr. Jenkins a series of images meant to elicit memories of times of great pain and confusion in his life," Holbrook said. "The first two events that came to the fore of his psyche were an incident in late 2000 when the screen froze just as he was about to set a new 'best lap' record on Wave Race 64, and his great-grandmother's funeral."