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Being a die-hard Nintendo fan is not easy you know. Every morning I get up, bow to my Gamecube, kiss all my joy pads and religiously study the manuals of all my Nintendo games (SNES. NES, N64, Gamecube and Gameboy). Every piece of negative news I spin into a positive light, I do it so well, Nintendo should hire me as their PR wizard.
But I’ve had enough. Nintendo you are one ******* stupid bloody piece of ****. That’s right it is I, the legendary Dringo, he who can not be slain by Playstation and starves off the threat of the X-box who is saying this you proud ******. What the hell are you playing at? I’m a WESTERN NINTENDO FAN, I don’t get all those ******* titles from Japan with the words Giftipia or Animal Forest printed on the side. And the ones I do get, Doshin the ******* Giant, turns out to be a pile of utter toss.
Every time I spin some negative news article into a positive light but why? Who’s the idiot now ah? You cut second party ties with a certain Left Field, Left Field (NBA courtside and Excitebike 64) are your sports developer; they make your sports games. But oh look you don’t REALLY need them now SEGA has gone multi-format with their sports range. So remove them, who cares. Oh well look at that, less than a year later and SEGA cancel all their sports titles for the Gamecube. WOOPS! Now whom can you turn to? That’s right NO ONE, I have noticed you are now making your own mature sports games (the upcoming Legend of Golfer) but it’s too late.
Ah yes Nintendo, now onto Rare Ware. My previous status was that “they’re crap anyway” and that “they lost Nintendo money”. ********, you ARE dumb aren’t you Nintendo? Want to know why they didn’t make you much money in the year before you sold them? Because they didn’t ACTUALLY release any bloody games! Rare Ware are an unresponsive developer but they were your other half, they are more than Silicon Knights, Left Field, HAL etc... put together. They made Banjo, Conker, Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong and Perfect Dark… all of these are BIG Nintendo releases, well they would have been if you hadn’t ******* sold them! Look at this, your sales aren’t up to scratch! Could this be down to a certain absence of a company that made half your AAA titles? It nearly forced me away, but then that was okay, at least you have Retro Studios and Silicon Knights.
Oh Sympathy where have you gone.
First off you crush Retro Studio’s. A bit of a re-shuffle was needed, EAD’s help was appreciated on Metroid Prime. BUT did you really need to destroy the 4 teams that were there into 1? Raven Blade, that racer and that football game WAS exactly what Nintendo Gamecube lacks. A decent footy game, a decent exclusive racing title and a mature action RPG. But you cancelled them. Did you really have to scrap all those games?
And now modern day. The one that made me snap. I love Silicon Knights. True they are hardly a true example of Nintendo (prefer cinematic gameplay and adult games) but that was the point. Nintendo you’ve told me time and time again how you want to be more “adult” and Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes are YOUR most mature games. And you cut ties with the company behind them? Too Human can now return to the PS2, which it was originally coded for, and you’ve lost yet another special western developer.
I know Nintendo. You have loads of second parties, some I never even knew about including that new sports developer SETA (ever heard of them? No neither have I). But Rare, Silicon Knights, the full Retro team and Left Field could have all pushed Nintendo in both Europe and America. You would have defeated Microsoft and competed more fiercely. But instead you try to get exclusives from other companies that simply do not sell. Capcom are having to cancel their plans to keep Viewtiful Joe and Killer 7 exclusive and cannot wait for the Resident Evil deal to expire. Namco are doing okay but that’s because they hardly support Nintendo as much as they support Sony. SEGA have been drifting away ever so slowly, remember the Virtual Fighter RPG and the sonic series were once exclusive to Nintendo. They are both now lost.
So tell me Nintendo, who do you have left to sell your product to the western world? You don’t have Rare, you don’t have Silicon Knights, you don’t have Left field. Christ you don’t even have Capcom anymore. And in fact you’ve even lost Dringo, your most avid supporter. Sure I love Zelda and Mario, but I’m a western gamer, I have western needs and the only western game you actually make is Metroid Prime, and I don’t even like it.
Maybe one day you’ll acquire some killer, high profile companies such as Capcom, Midway or Free Radical Design. But in the mean time I need to raise funds for an X-box. After all a western Nintendo fan needs his Rare.
Dringo.
But I’ve had enough. Nintendo you are one ******* stupid bloody piece of ****. That’s right it is I, the legendary Dringo, he who can not be slain by Playstation and starves off the threat of the X-box who is saying this you proud ******. What the hell are you playing at? I’m a WESTERN NINTENDO FAN, I don’t get all those ******* titles from Japan with the words Giftipia or Animal Forest printed on the side. And the ones I do get, Doshin the ******* Giant, turns out to be a pile of utter toss.
Every time I spin some negative news article into a positive light but why? Who’s the idiot now ah? You cut second party ties with a certain Left Field, Left Field (NBA courtside and Excitebike 64) are your sports developer; they make your sports games. But oh look you don’t REALLY need them now SEGA has gone multi-format with their sports range. So remove them, who cares. Oh well look at that, less than a year later and SEGA cancel all their sports titles for the Gamecube. WOOPS! Now whom can you turn to? That’s right NO ONE, I have noticed you are now making your own mature sports games (the upcoming Legend of Golfer) but it’s too late.
Ah yes Nintendo, now onto Rare Ware. My previous status was that “they’re crap anyway” and that “they lost Nintendo money”. ********, you ARE dumb aren’t you Nintendo? Want to know why they didn’t make you much money in the year before you sold them? Because they didn’t ACTUALLY release any bloody games! Rare Ware are an unresponsive developer but they were your other half, they are more than Silicon Knights, Left Field, HAL etc... put together. They made Banjo, Conker, Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong and Perfect Dark… all of these are BIG Nintendo releases, well they would have been if you hadn’t ******* sold them! Look at this, your sales aren’t up to scratch! Could this be down to a certain absence of a company that made half your AAA titles? It nearly forced me away, but then that was okay, at least you have Retro Studios and Silicon Knights.
Oh Sympathy where have you gone.
First off you crush Retro Studio’s. A bit of a re-shuffle was needed, EAD’s help was appreciated on Metroid Prime. BUT did you really need to destroy the 4 teams that were there into 1? Raven Blade, that racer and that football game WAS exactly what Nintendo Gamecube lacks. A decent footy game, a decent exclusive racing title and a mature action RPG. But you cancelled them. Did you really have to scrap all those games?
And now modern day. The one that made me snap. I love Silicon Knights. True they are hardly a true example of Nintendo (prefer cinematic gameplay and adult games) but that was the point. Nintendo you’ve told me time and time again how you want to be more “adult” and Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes are YOUR most mature games. And you cut ties with the company behind them? Too Human can now return to the PS2, which it was originally coded for, and you’ve lost yet another special western developer.
I know Nintendo. You have loads of second parties, some I never even knew about including that new sports developer SETA (ever heard of them? No neither have I). But Rare, Silicon Knights, the full Retro team and Left Field could have all pushed Nintendo in both Europe and America. You would have defeated Microsoft and competed more fiercely. But instead you try to get exclusives from other companies that simply do not sell. Capcom are having to cancel their plans to keep Viewtiful Joe and Killer 7 exclusive and cannot wait for the Resident Evil deal to expire. Namco are doing okay but that’s because they hardly support Nintendo as much as they support Sony. SEGA have been drifting away ever so slowly, remember the Virtual Fighter RPG and the sonic series were once exclusive to Nintendo. They are both now lost.
So tell me Nintendo, who do you have left to sell your product to the western world? You don’t have Rare, you don’t have Silicon Knights, you don’t have Left field. Christ you don’t even have Capcom anymore. And in fact you’ve even lost Dringo, your most avid supporter. Sure I love Zelda and Mario, but I’m a western gamer, I have western needs and the only western game you actually make is Metroid Prime, and I don’t even like it.
Maybe one day you’ll acquire some killer, high profile companies such as Capcom, Midway or Free Radical Design. But in the mean time I need to raise funds for an X-box. After all a western Nintendo fan needs his Rare.
Dringo.
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The Cube is a nice piece of kit, it boasts a some pretty amazing games (Zelda comes to mind!) but if you look at it business wise, it's only appeal really extends to the "hardcore" gamer, and faithful Nintendo lovers alike.
It's just the fact that as long as there is 3 consoles in this market, there will always be fanboys and heated debates on which is better. The PC is kind of overlooked, its status is rather unknown, you don't have to bother with the whole "xbockz iz huge, i cud houze my mum in it!!1! cube is better!" remarks.
It's just the fact that as long as there is 3 consoles in this market, there will always be fanboys and heated debates on which is better. The PC is kind of overlooked, its status is rather unknown, you don't have to bother with the whole "xbockz iz huge, i cud houze my mum in it!!1! cube is better!" remarks.
How? The GameCube is a platform completely different to the PC. I agree about the Xbox and PS2 being a bit pointless if you have a top end PC but the Cube, no.
I didn't say the PC had any advantage over each console, I was just stating you can miss out on all this Console Wars thing and stick with the stability of the PC platform
Ahh right, care to tell me where I can buy Nintendo games and some of the quality Capcom titles for the PC that are exclusive ot the Cube?
I sold my Gamecube and Xbox last year.
No more worries, no more hassle, just get a PC.
Sorted!
No more worries, no more hassle, just get a PC.
Sorted!
Split screen would be crap on Rainbow Six 3, you need the whole screen for a game like that.
Alright, alright.
But it's simply lame when games like RS3 and PGR2 don't have a split screen mode included. As I said, and then highlighted,'none of the games I've bought recently' - It surely can't be that much effort.....
But it's simply lame when games like RS3 and PGR2 don't have a split screen mode included. As I said, and then highlighted,'none of the games I've bought recently' - It surely can't be that much effort.....
I think we should probably be thankful that discs were used for the Gamecube, although I do miss the old cartridges. So secure, and they didn't break if you chucked them at walls. Ah, frustration in gaming at its greatest comes with cartridges.
Yeah...
Anyway, however, the discs Nintendo have used are needlessly different from PS2 and Xbox, which is no doubt one of the negative features on a third party developer's mind when developing multi-format games. Perhaps the discs are more secure/better for what the developer has in mind, but I'm pretty sure most of them would rather just have everything done the same way. Saves time and (possibly - don't quote me on this) saves money, which is especially appreciated if you're EA, pretty much the main developer.
Yeah...
Anyway, however, the discs Nintendo have used are needlessly different from PS2 and Xbox, which is no doubt one of the negative features on a third party developer's mind when developing multi-format games. Perhaps the discs are more secure/better for what the developer has in mind, but I'm pretty sure most of them would rather just have everything done the same way. Saves time and (possibly - don't quote me on this) saves money, which is especially appreciated if you're EA, pretty much the main developer.
The disc capacity isn't a huge problem but it needs sorting out. It's the reason why they didn't allow Dolby Digital for the system and why a lot of games have compressed audio delivering a less than satisfying experience. However the sheer amount of quality games I own for the Cube makes up for that fact and as much as I enjoy all my technical shiznits with 60HZ, Dolby Digital and Widescreen options you simply can not beat some of the gameplay on offer this time around from Nintendo and other 3rd party companies developing exclusively for the Cube.
Obviously Nintendo will have to release a follow up console, if only to get the multi format games, but I bet you that it will not very different at all.
The gamecube architecture is extremely impressive, and I'm sure that they'll maintain it to some level, mainly because it is so much more efficient than the PS2 and Xbox, which are extremely wasteful in terms of processing power.
Microsoft are toying with using less memory for their new operating system Longhorn (stupidest name ever by the way), and so they'll probably be trying very hard to get the Xbox 2 to be as efficient as possibly, and possibly taking their cue from Nintendo.
Perhaps the only thing that really needs changing is the capacity of the disks so that some games which are 2 discs on PS2 can be ported realistically.
The gamecube architecture is extremely impressive, and I'm sure that they'll maintain it to some level, mainly because it is so much more efficient than the PS2 and Xbox, which are extremely wasteful in terms of processing power.
Microsoft are toying with using less memory for their new operating system Longhorn (stupidest name ever by the way), and so they'll probably be trying very hard to get the Xbox 2 to be as efficient as possibly, and possibly taking their cue from Nintendo.
Perhaps the only thing that really needs changing is the capacity of the disks so that some games which are 2 discs on PS2 can be ported realistically.
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