The idea of ranking the Zelda titles is cool, but this article lost me here:
"Zelda did a lot of things right, but I just can’t get past the early NES graphics. I’ve never played it, and, due to the roughness of the graphics, I just don’t see me ever playing it, when I can get my classic Zelda fix with Link to the Past instead."
This was the moment that the article stopped seeming like a something from a professional site and starting sounding like ...
Yes, but the name "Wii 2" doesn't come from Nintendo at all. It's not a code name, like the Revolution. It's just what gamers/journalists are calling the hypothetical system.
Since it hasn't officially been announced, it has no official name.
Exactly what I thought when I read this.
Fantastic.
These screens look distinctly like Mario 64 to me. Mario's hat is even missing in the lower left shot.
I'm imagining a game that is like SM64 but with more emphasis on flight (thus the return of the raccoon tail).
But who knows.
The key phrase: "allowing all Legend Of Zelda lovers to celebrate this together."
This makes me think of some kind of cross-platform plan, since the emphasis is on "all" and "together."
Maybe some kind of link-up feature for OoT3D and SS? Or a simultaneous release of both games? Or some kind of downloadable package that's available on both the Wii and 3DS?
Still love this game. Has some of the greatest replay value of anything on the Wii, and a more balanced, inventive racer than Mario Kart.
It didn't get the respect it deserved from Nintendo, critics or consumers. Such a shame.
I wonder when we are going to get Rune Factory Oceans. I guess it doesn't matter, because I'm not even through year one in Frontier
Yes, PS3 and Wii.
I would be interested if it had a big open world and wasn't on-rails like the original. The Wii has enough rail shooters.
The limitations in the original game made sense, given the hardware, but they would just be a cop out on a system that has shown it can handle Monster Hunter Tri.
Doom. Half-Life. Mario 1/3/World/64. Ocarina of Time. Final Fantasy I/VII. Civilization (pick one). Starcraft/Warcraft/Diablo.
Hell, even the original Metroid has had a greater influence on gaming than anything on that list. (The only exception being Metal Gear Solid.)
Did this guy just start playing games in 2003? These are (mostly) good games, and a few of them, like LBP, are truly great games, but to imagine that they "changed the world" while ig...
I'd guess August 2011. But then I honestly though we'd see it by Christmas 2010, so who knows.
This does leave the Wii release schedule pretty bare for the first half of the year though. Can't they at least localize Xenoblade to tide us over?
Yes, but Titanz says that it's great news for Nintendo, not great news for gamers, or whatever.
I'm sure Nintendo is pretty pleased to have 11 of the top 20 games.
Although I'm sure they're less pleased about having their profits decline from last year.
This surprised me too. I had no idea that Reach had outsold NSBWii this year.
Also, what exactly are people disagreeing with in your comment? That Halo and Nintendo had big sales this year? That's pretty indisputable. I'm confused.
Ok, first of all, unless you're talking about scientific laws, nothing is "just how it is." Assessing the quality of video games is (at least partially) subjective, and ranking them in order to determine a game of the year is even more subjective.
It's the failure to understand the very basic distinction between subjective opinion and innate, natural truth that leads to most of the idiocy on this site.
Second, what does the age of a franchi...
Oh god, hip hop gamer show. These guys excel at sensationalizing non-stories.
Of course Nintendo is nervous. Sony is nervous too. The launch of a new piece of hardware is a big deal, and, regardless of how much planning and market research you do, it's always a risk.
That said, both the DS and PSP are building on established, successful brands, so I don't think either company is terrified.
That's not possible.
Unless Nintendo is publishing it, they can't keep it from being localized.
(Well, I guess they could, if they really tried hard to kill it. My point is that they can't choose not to localize a game they didn't publish in the first place.)
Also, I'm not convinced The Last Story isn't coming. Those quotations sounded awfully evasive to me. I'll believe it when Nintendo straight up says "we&#...
Oh god, Pachter.
Let's be clear what it means to say that Wii sales are down: It means it's only selling even with (or a little more than) the competition most months.
That's not ideal for Nintendo, but it's not bad at all to be selling even with more power consoles this late in the Wii's lifecycle. To say that it has declined to the level of its competition only underscores how well it was selling before.
Pretty far from ...
I don't know about the battery life, but I think you're probably right about the price of the system and the games.
Either way, can't we wait a few days to find out for sure before jumping to conclusions and writing articles about how we won't buy a system based on unverified information?
This article is also full of spelling and grammatical errors.
Oh, and on a "you're entitled to your opinion, but 'jesus!'" note:
Oracle of Seasons/Ages out-ranking Ocarina of Time. Wow. Just no.