Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:43 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:Also, looks like the guys controlling it just fine

Must be using the D-Pad.

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:49 pm 0

Planetgamecube has posted impressions of Metroid Prime 3

http://www.planetgamecube.com/impressio ... rtid=11483

Again, it's generally positive and mentions that you can quite quickly adjust to the new setup, but worryingly they go on to say that the pointer stopped responding several times during the demo and they needed to re-center their aim so it could calibrate itself again.

Oddly, of all the hands-on impressions I've read of any Wii game, MP3 included, this is the first mention I've read of the controller suddenly not responding. Maybe it's just the result of a bug in the demo, or due to interference from the large number of these controllers in close proximity to each other.

Here's hoping that it's something that can be prevented, rather than it being some kind of inherent design flaw in the technology.

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:22 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:Also, looks like the guys controlling it just fine

He looked he didn't have a clue what he was doing to me. I hope that's just the player rather than the game. If not they've managed to turn Mario the acrobat into Mario the seizure patient

Graphics looked hard to tell vs the cube to be honest, but it's good to see 16:9

nyarla · Post by **nyarla** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:30 pm 0

It's a girl.

Her playing looks just like mine when I first pick up a game.

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:44 pm 0

nyarla wrote:It's a girl.

Well i did wonder, but i thought i'd go with the flow

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:10 pm 0

a) You see him playing ,with the remote, not D pad

b) Not a clue? Donna how you recon that...she didnt get "stuck" at any point, seemed to move the charecter smoothly and precisely.
Didnt have to repeat any moves.

Nope, looked like pretty smooth controll-wise imo.

As for seizure ....hu? looked very abstract...but hardly rapid changes of scenes, or overly bright.
Could always pretty clearly see what was going on. (at least in terms of players, enemys ect...maybe not nesscerly in terms of objective)

As for cube vs this....it is hard to tell, but Id say its better because this has nice shader effects I dont remember on Sunshine.

Al · Post by Al » Wed May 10, 2006 10:54 pm 0

chub wrote:Official site has ESRB date of birth check on the games video. Year dropdown starts at 1920 and ends at 2004! lol

Targetting both older gamers and newborns are we?

I bumped into an old collegue today and in the course of talking about Nintendo and E3 he mentioned that his daughter (born February 2004) is a pretty good Nintendogs player. She can take the dog for a walk, play frisbee and the like, both with her fingers and with the stylus when it takes her fancy. If she ever gets stuck she just powers off the DS and boots it up again!

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:34 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:a) You see him playing ,with the remote, not D pad

'twas a joke i believe...i guess goatboy had the same trouble on mario ds as i did with the touchscreen.

Darkflame wrote: b) Not a clue? Donna how you recon that...she didnt get "stuck" at any point, seemed to move the charecter smoothly and precisely.
Didnt have to repeat any moves.
Nope, looked like pretty smooth controll-wise imo.
As for seizure ....hu? looked very abstract...but hardly rapid changes of scenes, or overly bright.
Could always pretty clearly see what was going on. (at least in terms of players, enemys ect...maybe not nesscerly in terms of objective)

the graphics are great. 'seizure was just referring to the erratic way mario was moving around, which is pretty much explained by nyarla's observation that she looked like a noob

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Wed May 10, 2006 11:45 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:As for cube vs this....it is hard to tell, but Id say its better because this has nice shader effects I dont remember on Sunshine.

Looks waaay better than Sunshine if you ask me. I'm all giddy over it

Nintendodragon · Post by **Nintendodragon** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:01 am 0

Alarm wrote:
namor7 wrote:Super Mario Galaxy vid up at Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8TwAyIdKI0

Wow
Niice!

I am very excited about this. untill yester day i didnt even think about a new mario... and now its all i can think about...

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:02 am 0

Ditto

I can't get over the Little Prince moon

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:04 am 0

namor7 wrote:
Darkflame wrote:As for cube vs this....it is hard to tell, but Id say its better because this has nice shader effects I dont remember on Sunshine.
Looks waaay better than Sunshine if you ask me. I'm all giddy over it

Hehe, yeah but you also think Austin Montegos and 80's brick phones look great

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:08 am 0

Roobarb wrote:
namor7 wrote:
Darkflame wrote:As for cube vs this....it is hard to tell, but Id say its better because this has nice shader effects I dont remember on Sunshine.
Looks waaay better than Sunshine if you ask me. I'm all giddy over it
Hehe, yeah but you also think Austin Montegos and 80's brick phones look great

And kudos to your memory

Nintendodragon · Post by **Nintendodragon** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:16 am 0

I really like the way as he gets closer to a planet/moon, the gravity takes over rand pulls mario in and then as tehre is no up in space the camera flips so its the right way... a truely 3D environment.

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:24 am 0

Joystiq's impressions are nice.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/10/wii-i ... io-galaxy/