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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Metroid Prime 3 Revolutionized

« on: June 05, 2006, 04:00:20 PM »

There's definitely going to be more action, if the demo is any indication on the final game.  And probably a lot less backtracking.

The reason that video looks a little stilted is Game Informer encoded it at 15 fps.  The actual game is 60 fps.

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TalkBack / RE:Nintendo of America Promotes Three Executives

« on: May 25, 2006, 03:08:03 PM »

Basically shows you how much Iwata has changed Nintendo and how Nintendo of America seems to actually have a say in things these days.

Example: NCL actually asking Retro what they thought of the Wiimote; Retro Studios coming up with the Nunchuck attachment.

[Ian Sane]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Miyamoto vs Spielberg

« on: May 16, 2006, 08:40:41 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
What is it about Japanese middle-aged men in that they don't look stupid in a T-shirt?  White guys over 40 always look like dorks when they dress like that.

No hairy arms with grey hair.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Wii Website Goes Live

« on: May 14, 2006, 12:11:14 PM »

Yeah, Iwata reads game sites and blogs (presumably in both Japanese and English), so lots of stuff is trickling in.  Also the American executives seem to have more power now, as opposed to the Yamauchi era where they were ignored completely.

[Ian Sane]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:DKJB's Dev Team's New game is.....

« on: May 13, 2006, 09:40:41 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"The fact that EAD isn't developing a Mario platformer for the first year of a new console with a brand new control scheme is just.. weird. It also tells me that the game isn't as important to Nintendo as EAD's other projects."

What ARE EAD's other projects?  Aside from trying to pass off a Cube game as a Wii launch title I mean.

Since the reorganization, they have 4 main teams at EAD, and who knows what else in the fire for DS.

One team is making Twilight Princess/Phantom Hourglass, and another is making Wario Ware.  I think the third is working on Animal Crossing.  No idea what the fourth team is doing.  It's hard to say with the new structure of the place.  And someone's obviously working on all those DS games coming out.  And someone from EAD is working on the Wii Sports games, plus those demos at E3, plus moving towards Mario Kart/Stage Debut or Mario Paint.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:LucasArts expresses interest in bringing a lightsaber game to Wii.

« on: May 13, 2006, 09:33:02 AM »

Iwata today:

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=ethree13&date=20060513&query=iwata

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We really want [filmmaker George] Lucas to think about making a game where this can be used as a light saber. It should be fun.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:HUGE swing to the Wii from the gamer community

« on: May 12, 2006, 09:58:19 AM »

It is a pretty honest sampling of the market, except Microsoft is underrepresented on the site.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Which Wii Games Has Nintendo Already Sold You On?

« on: May 11, 2006, 09:41:01 AM »

Launch Games:
Zelda: TPWii
Metroid Prime 3
Red Steel

I'll definitely get Mario Galaxy and SSB:B when they hit too.

I need to hear more on Sonic and Madden although those two sound really promising.

Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest seem promising too, although I want to read gameplay impressions

Excite Truck, Tony Hawk, and Project H.A.M.M.E.R. sound like rentals right now, although that could change.  I want to see how much depth they have in their final release.

Wii Sports and Wario Ware sound like a blast, but I'm probably not going to pay $50 for them with so many other games coming out I want.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: May 10, 2006, 07:39:08 PM »

Main Theme
http://www.smashbros.com/en/music/mp3/main_theme.mp3

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

« on: May 10, 2006, 07:26:26 PM »

Just when it couldn't get any better...

Guess who's doing music for the game (he did the main theme that you hear in the trailer)?

Nobuo Uematsu!

http://www.smashbros.com/en/music/index.html  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:THe real reason Project HAMMER looks samey

« on: May 10, 2006, 04:34:30 PM »

I love all the goofy, NES or SNES game like plot summaries for the 3 new "coregamer" IPs from Nintendo.  It's pretty obvious the story was derived from the gameplay, not the other way around.

It reminds me of "Ninjas have kidnapped the President... are you a bad enough dude to stop them?"

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Third parties having trouble?

« on: May 10, 2006, 01:40:45 PM »

I've read raves about both Sonic and Madden... probably just depends on the developer.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: ign pans nintendo's e3 conf

« on: May 09, 2006, 07:07:57 PM »

I just watched the 800k version of the conference, and MP3 definitely looks better than MP2... just hard to tell on low quality.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Disaster: Day of Crisis - M Rated?

« on: May 09, 2006, 02:40:04 PM »

It's from Monolith, the makers of F.E.A.R. (I know this site lists Monolith Software, the Baten Katos people, but they're listed as Monolith Soft elsewhere in the press materials).  This Monolith is just listed as "Monolith".

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wii This Summer? Today show just reported it!

« on: May 09, 2006, 03:07:28 AM »

I think an August, very-early September launch makes realistic sense at this point, considering what we've heard.

I don't think a June/July launch makes sense in the States.

[Ian Sane]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Two SquareEnix games for Wii... is the 2nd Dragon Quest?

« on: May 08, 2006, 10:56:40 AM »

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
Deep down I hope title number two isn't Dragon Quest.  That will sell like gangbusters in Japan but I would personally prefer an RPG that North Americans will actually want to play.  The Dragon Quest games play like they're still on the NES.

Dragon Quest moving Wiis like gangbusters in Japan = a lot more third party support from Japan = a lot more games in the US

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Nintendo Gaming / Two SquareEnix games for Wii... is the 2nd Dragon Quest?

« on: May 08, 2006, 10:25:51 AM »

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/705/705607p1.html

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Time Magazine demos Wario Ware, Tennis, & TP for Wii!

« on: May 07, 2006, 12:18:02 PM »

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/3623/timemag0az.jpg

A screencap of the Lexis Nexis page with the article, for the two doubters left.

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Nintendo Gaming / Time Magazine demos Wario Ware, Tennis, & TP for Wii!

« on: May 07, 2006, 10:34:59 AM »

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1191861-1,00.html

Now up on Time's site!

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: A Wii little problem

« on: May 06, 2006, 07:18:51 AM »

So far:
- Final Fantasy: CC
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
- Camelot RPG
- Pokemon Wii
- Untitled RPG from a "well known RPG Studio"

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Nintendo Gaming / Call of Duty 3 to Wii

« on: May 05, 2006, 04:50:44 PM »

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/705/705438p1.html

Hooray!

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Nintendo Gaming / One Piece: Unlimited Adventure announced in Weekly Jump

« on: May 05, 2006, 04:46:08 AM »

http://img120.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc151&image=25588_img20060505193615.jpg
http://img109.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc20&image=25593_img20060505193631.jpg

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: The Price...

« on: May 04, 2006, 09:18:58 AM »

Considering the Cube is going to be sold at $80 and still will make a profit for Nintendo and retailers, and knowing what we know about the Wii not being an exponential increase in specs, I'd be very disappointed if the console was over $200, unless the final secret was something really mindblowing.  Especially considering the 360 premium system is supposed to drop to $300 this winter to counter the PS3's launch.

I assume the console will be around $100 max for Nintendo to produce + $30 max for the controller (assuming $50 is the max they could viably market extra controllers at).  Their costs may be even less than that.  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:DS release date

« on: May 04, 2006, 04:28:20 AM »

Gamespot phails... the price is $129.99

http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=9124

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Nintendo Gaming / Rayman Raving Rabids to be Wii launch title

« on: May 03, 2006, 07:58:48 AM »

http://www.revo-europe.com/news.php?nid=9066