Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

pasquinelli · Post by **pasquinelli** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:04 am 0

Rod_S wrote:For all the talk of "something your mother could pick up and play", I know for a fact that my mother would give this about 60 seconds before giving up.

i don't think excite truck is targeted at your mothers demographic. i don't know your mom though.

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 8:38 am 0

I cannot believe just how fun some of these games seems to be. Monkey Ball, Wario, Wii Sports, Zelda, Excite Truck. Suddenly next-gen graphics doesn't really matter as much as it did previous generation of launches.

Most of these games will probably be played while wearing a big grin. Hell, my father will probably love a wii bit of golfing when he visits...something I suspect will suddenly be more frequent during the winter in the years to come

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:04 am 0

pasquinelli wrote:
Rod_S wrote:For all the talk of "something your mother could pick up and play", I know for a fact that my mother would give this about 60 seconds before giving up.
i don't think excite truck is targeted at your mothers demographic. i don't know your mom though.

Exactly, looks like a classic mis-informed case of "Wii is only for the non-gamers". Going by the demo I played, the gameplay in Zelda is in many wasy more complex, yet more intuitive, involving and rewarding than most of the other "hardcore" stuff out there. The fact is that Excite Truck is a deep arcade racing game, pretty much a mix of Sega Rally and Out Run 2, the track design is very clever and the controls pretty much perfect. Shame that's it's coming a bit late to EU. Here's a shot clip of me playing it in case you missed it earlier, absolutely responsive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm48YGmI9Zw

Oh, and Rod, if someone can't hit the ball in Wii Tennis, it's their problem 100%. The timing was a walk in the park.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:17 am 0

pasquinelli wrote:
Rod_S wrote:For all the talk of "something your mother could pick up and play", I know for a fact that my mother would give this about 60 seconds before giving up.
i don't think excite truck is targeted at your mothers demographic. i don't know your mom though.

I meant the Wiimote in general, everything they showed up until Zelda looked twitchy and frustrating, especially Sports. No one watching that feed could say otherwise, we all saw and heard the same evidence.

Zelda did look good if predictable.

fog · Post by **fog** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:32 am 0

Samus wrote:
pasquinelli wrote:
Rod_S wrote:For all the talk of "something your mother could pick up and play", I know for a fact that my mother would give this about 60 seconds before giving up.
i don't think excite truck is targeted at your mothers demographic. i don't know your mom though.
Exactly, looks like a classic mis-informed case of "Wii is only for the non-gamers". Going by the demo I played, the gameplay in Zelda is in many wasy more complex, yet more intuitive, involving and rewarding than most of the other "hardcore" stuff out there. The fact is that Excite Truck is a deep arcade racing game, pretty much a mix of Sega Rally and Out Run 2, the track design is very clever and the controls pretty much perfect. Shame that's it's coming a bit late to EU. Here's a shot clip of me playing it in case you missed it earlier, absolutely responsive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm48YGmI9Zw

Oh, and Rod, if someone can't hit the ball in Wii Tennis, it's their problem 100%. The timing was a walk in the park.

To be fair his comments were based on the Gamespot Live show and that showed all of them having big problems with Wii Tennis and Excite Truck. In fact the only Wii Sports title they got to grips with straight away was the bowling.

So taking Rob_S's comments in context, he's right to imply that the controls might not be quite as pick up and play as has been suggested. He didn't say they didn't work.

EDIT:
Hadn't seen the UK and Europe TV ad yet but I like it. Sony take note.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43fOzrXejjY

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:19 am 0

Just watching it, Wii Tennis (they're using the Nunchaku):

"How do you move your guy?"

"Try the D-pad?"

"While you guys do that, I'll CHECK THE MANUAL!"

"You can't move your guy."

Yep, welcome to E3 GameSpot.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:23 am 0

WOW

After two guys serving in Tennis, someone yells: "BASEBALL!!!"

Good one. Unbelievable.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:26 am 0

fog wrote: Hadn't seen the UK and Europe TV ad yet but I like it. Sony take note.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43fOzrXejjY

the first thing you see is a BIG COW!

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:36 am 0

That Wii advert's really good.

fog wrote:To be fair his comments were based on the Gamespot Live show and that showed all of them having big problems with Wii Tennis and Excite Truck. In fact the only Wii Sports title they got to grips with straight away was the bowling.

I thought Excite Truck looked a bit frustrating with all that crashing into trees they were doing. Then again that guy playing Zelda kept rushing and repeatedly missing a very easy jump over and over so it might just have just been a case of Excite Truck requiring the player take their finger off the accelerate button once in a while.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:47 am 0

You don't even need to take your finger off the button. Jeesh.

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 11:56 am 0

Rod_S wrote:
pasquinelli wrote:
Rod_S wrote:For all the talk of "something your mother could pick up and play", I know for a fact that my mother would give this about 60 seconds before giving up.
i don't think excite truck is targeted at your mothers demographic. i don't know your mom though.
I meant the Wiimote in general, everything they showed up until Zelda looked twitchy and frustrating, especially Sports. No one watching that feed could say otherwise, we all saw and heard the same evidence.

I think it was largely down to the pressure of getting a multi-player game going straight away, with no-one having taken a little time to figure out the controls first. Normally, the console owner will have spent a little time playing a game before inviting Granny or Mum to play, and will be able to advise them accordingly - when you have several people all talking at once and offering different advice about how to do it, things are bound to get confusing.

Still - less than a month 'til we can find out for ourselves

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:19 pm 0

Excite Truck.

"WOW! Real time terrain changing!!!"

Seriously, they've not even bothered to look at the game ever before.

On top of everything else, the other guy was steering Excite Truck wrong, you have to tilt (up and down) the controller to turn, he was doing it exactly how the info picture shows you NOT to do it (left and right). Oh well, the state of the industry.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:20 pm 0

I'm catching up... Watching the GameSpot stuff... That fat git is currently salivating over the new GeForce card...

grue · Post by **grue** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:23 pm 0

Anders wrote:That fat git is currently salivating over the new GeForce card...

That's Jeff Gerstmann, total arsehole.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:25 pm 0

I think it's only natural that there is a certain amount of faffing when people try the Wii games for the very first time, after all it's a new way of doing things. But I'm pretty sure that once people do learn it'll be easy, especially if there's someone around who already knows to tell people "you just do this" and demonstrate a couple of times.

That shower looked a bit chaotic to say the least, no wonder they got it wrong in a few places

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And anyway... GOAT IN!