I love you, James Jones. <3

I just thought I'd pop in and say that I actually really enjoyed the Chest-chasing levels in Rayman Origins. They were some of my favourites in the game in fact. I played those levels in the same manner I would approach Bit.Trip Runner.

-Zelda WW: Whoa you guys are getting old or have been playing too many games for too often too long.

I'm 30 btw, but I had a gap of 6 years were I did not play many games, and those I played were PC like starcraft and battlefield. So I wasn't tired of anyting, even though I was a Nintendo fan since childhood till I went to college.

I think the new adult-hardcore gamer (25+) are driving this gaming era towards boring linear games, sometimes hand holding games were there is little or no exploration, very little open worlds (thanks GTA and Arkham city for their existence!) were there is little or no explanation are applauded anymore.

Which brings me to Zelda WW. It was released while I was in college, having no much interest in gaming, I thought the cartoonish style, plus my friends talking bad about it, very important in my decision not to play it, in fact I never owned a GC (my last Nintendo console was N64). Then back in 2010 I bought a Wii, and loved it, I loved skyward word, xenoblade, and all those long games!....and now I finally played WW and loved it!

Since then I can't stop gaming, I'm very happy with family-oriented Nintendo, their games, etc. My problems with them are the online and account system. Problems that everyone agree on.

Man, I hear this topic about length, and linearity over and over among my generation. Yeah we are busy, we have kids, but come on, don't be lazy, challenge yourselves, otherwise Sony and company will drive the gaming industry into boring movie-like games, full of quicktime events were there is some interaction (press circle button, now, press triangle now!...meh!) but no challenge at all! In fact even Nintendo the last 5 years has been adding ridiculous hand-holding, presumably to help casuals, ADHD people, and busy adults to finish their games!...the standrads are going so low, almost in every industry now, even in college with cheap earned grades!...

Please Nintendo, I want more open worlds, more exploration, more "boring" tasks, etc. Please Warner, more games like Arkham City (although I don't want copies of the previous games, like Origins). I only wish Rockstar would make games for WiiU!

-Agree with the VC console stuff!; It can't be forgiven, there are no excuses!: It take a couple of interns at Nintendo to do the porting of NES and SNES games to the WIiU. This is the ultimate cheap or dumb mentality from Nintendo! It probably cost very little money and it generates them lots of revenue at those expensive prices! Don't they want our money?...I think they don't wanna us to like VC or the WiiU!...wtf with all the NES games!...most of the games have aged pretty bad if you ask me! They ARE inefficient! Besides on an HD TV the NES games don't even look like and CRT...they graphics feel like washed-out!

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Thank you to James for providing a rational counterpoint to why Nintendo would release the Wii Mini.  The complaint of "customer confusion" being a problem is a overstated heavily, I imagine, and there's a tidal wave of backseat "business experts" on the internet who think it's causing some mass hysteria by having both a model of the Wii and Wii U on the shelf at the same time.


I have the feeling that the Wii's virtual console is going to be the most comprehensive digital classics service we'll ever have from Nintendo, unless they decide to go a monthly subscription route at some point that's universally compatible with ALL Nintendo consoles.  Given how slow they've been coming out, I wonder how profitable these releases really are for Nintendo.

here, now arrest Johnny

http://puu.sh/5f8C2.png you never fail to make me smile on a weekly basis.

Great episode, though I should point out that NIS brought over Sakura Wars, not XSEED.


Nintendo also allowed Sin & Punishment 2 to exist.  It was completely out of nowhere when it was announced but I stand by my statement that it was Nintendo's best move in years.

I know. I misheard him during the recording and thought he was talking about Senren Kagura. I played (reviewed?) and enjoyed Sakura Wars.

I think Metroidvanias work best when they're in a new series or a massive step in an existing one because then you don't know what to expect, which parts of the environment that you ignored before suddenly turn out to be important to your abilities. With regular sequels you often see similar or identical abilities pop up so you already know what certain elements of the world are good for or what kind of move you'd need to get past a gap. That makes it the most interesting so seeing lots of one-off games in that genre is a good thing (though it depends on how much those games actually follow the genre, some call it Metroidvania if they make a maze and hide key cards far away from the door they open, Metroidvanias should give the upgrades some gameplay utility beyond simplyovercoming specifically designed obstacles). Also nice is when a game includes a new game plus mode where you get some completely different abilities that radically alter your path through the game. Some of the portable Castlevanias come to mind but Bunny Must Die probably has the most developed mode of that type.

Hello everyone. I´m new on this board and i like the podcasts a lot, very good work!

Will there be a podcast relating to the nindendo direct?

Greetings from Germany  :cool;

Good posting.

But Rockstar North for me is a huge overrated company, boring games.