Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:40 am 0

Trailer for Suda 51's next! (He's the guy behind Killer 7 and Contact)

It's called 'Heroes', it's a Wii exclusive, and besides the awful voice acting it looks wicked!

http://www.thewiire.com/news/371/1/Hero ... nd_Details

http://www.4colorrebellion.com/archives ... r-for-wii/

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:44 am 0

Trauma Centre is a launch title? OK, that's sold it already for me. I cannot wait to cut out tumours in widescreen and my wife totally loves the DS game. Trauma Center and Zelda on launch day, not bad at all.

zbandito · Post by **zbandito** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:56 am 0

Rage; Sorry, it really wasn't something personal. In fact, I can't help but notice that you quoted the part where I pretty much said exactly that and yet you still took offense! Well, I'll admit it perhaps was hastily composed, and I've been trying to think about what it is exactly that I was trying to say. I guess what I meant, or felt, has a lot to do with a few big 'C's -- Copyright law, Commercialism, Corporations, Capitalism, Consumerism.... etc.

The part about public domain really hits it on the head. Anyone know what the original duration of copyright law was? I know it's been extended multiple times, often with Mickey Mouse as a reference as to the virtue of the extensions. In this light, the part of my rant where I talked about ripping NES carts to the Wii is really sort of just a fanciful aside -- what about the 20 year old NES roms that a society that isn't so controlled by the "big C's" might be able to freely and legally load onto their Wii's (in some crazy alternate universe where NES games are now public domain)? Can't one see some virtue to that sort of societal maturity? There are other bonuses too; hacks of NES carts would work, as well as indy games and enthusiast roms, and you could develop your own NES game and play it on the Wii... Sure, Nintendo might have something like Live Arcade and cheap devkits that allow some smaller developers to publish, or perhaps even eventually develop a homebrew scene, but that's really a fundamentally different issue than copyright law.

Given the stated advantages, and not really seeing much value to society (aside from corporate Nintendo's bottom line) in a world where you can't legally format shift a 20 year old NES rom and instead have to repurchase it for every hardware iteration you wish to legally run it on, I can't say I agree with a seemingly wholehearted enthusiasm for continually purchasing and repurchasing SMB1, nor owning every version and color of a GameBoy (for different reasons, but that's a different ramble for a different day). But anyway sorry if I pissed ya off.

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:33 am 0

zbandito wrote:Rage; Sorry, it really wasn't something personal. In fact, I can't help but notice that you quoted the part where I pretty much said exactly that and yet you still took offense! Well, I'll admit it perhaps was hastily composed, and I've been trying to think about what it is exactly that I was trying to say. I guess what I meant, or felt, has a lot to do with a few big 'C's -- Copyright law, Commercialism, Corporations, Capitalism, Consumerism.... etc.

Yeah, sorry about that.....I was having a bad day and your post kinda rubbed me up the wrong way. We're all cool

Its not as though I actually disagree with you on many points, but the tone of your post got my hackles up.

Anyway, lets move on, eh?

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:51 pm 0

Excellent art style in Heroes, a clear step up from Killer 7. Hope they put a good game in it.

Here's a straight link to the high quality DL.

That voice acting is too much, or maybe not, let's see how camp it all turns out

grue · Post by **grue** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:25 pm 0

Lucasarts joins us

http://wii.ign.com/articles/720/720398p1.html

During the Q&A session, a younger gamer took the microphone and asked if the company would be showing support for the newest motion-controlled Nintendo console. Sansweet's responded simply by stating the likeness between the Wii controller and a lightsaber, followed by a statement that LucasArts would be supporting every next generation system.

Bring it on!

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:35 pm 0

Reports that the Wii uses DS style game specific friend codes: http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/f ... 188173.php

Not sure what to think about this - major lack of community that's for sure. And means it'll be a right arse when you want to play someone you met in one game at another. But as long as the WiFi supports WPA or I can get a network USB dongle for all of 50p then I'll be happy

Wonder if they'll implement a contact list MSN / Jabber style at a later date to communicate with folks.

Cheers

Bubba

grue · Post by **grue** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:06 pm 0

Bubba wrote: major lack of community that's for sure.

If by community you mean 13-yearolds with newly enriched vocabulary then give me friend-codes any day

zbandito · Post by **zbandito** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:33 pm 0

They could do some kind of combination where there are game specific codes, but you have the option to also grant a player access to your general buddy list (where you can give them access to any other game codes)...

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:32 pm 0

grue wrote:If by community you mean 13-yearolds with newly enriched vocabulary then give me friend-codes any day

No, I mean being able to see what your friends are playing. In fact, the unified concept of a platform helps avoid this kind of cocksuckery.

Cheers

Bubba

Flojomojo · Post by **Flojomojo** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:15 am 0

grue wrote:Lucasarts joins us ...Bring it on!

Dang. Another single well-done Star Wars title induces me to buy a Nintendo platform I might have otherwise skipped.

Assuming, of course, it's well done. I must admit that I'm more partial to spaceships than lightsabers. I'd like a massively multiplayer X-Wing game (that isn't Jump to Lightspeed).

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:21 am 0

Wii will have opera, as will DS, so just make a note of a player's username and switch to your browser later to contact them via the inevitable community websites that will spring up for that very purpose.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:22 am 0

Wii will all have friend codes on hereand that should be a lot of folks to play with. Imagine when we all have perpetual online Animal Crossing towns?

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:49 am 0

Yeah, not that much of a problem really. Just somewhat perplexed as IMHO having an identity across multiple games is a good thing. Imagine meeting someone in your animal crossing town and inviting them for a quick spin round on Mario Kart... Having to enter a different friend code for each game would also get pretty annoying assuming there are *lots* of online enabled titles...

Ho hum.

Cheers

Bubba

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:43 am 0

Right on, Bubba. Friend codes suck. End of story.