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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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hmhmhmhmhm! why did dringo snap?
So you think Nintendo's connectivety campaign is based solely on unlocking new levels and other extras in GBA and Cube games? You really are a complete retard if you do.
That was just a starter, a little extra for those who owned a GBA, used for getting a couple of bonuses in Prime, Rayman and the like, as well as a map in Zelda.
But like I said, that's just an extra for those who happen to have games that link up. Ever played Pac Man Vs? I'm guessing you haven't, because so far you've shown no kind of knowledge as what Nintendo are actually trying to achieve. Despite its simplicity, it's easily one of the best multiplayer titles I've ever played. Hours seem to pass thanks to the simplistic, genius fun there is to be had. Find me a better offline multiplayer game on the XBox and you deserve a medal of mighty proportions.
All you need is a GBA, a link cable and some friends. Games like FF: CC may be hugely inaccesible, but this is what was intended. Easy, fun, brilliance. Saying Nintendo stole these ideas shows what an utter mong you are, adding to your pile of ill-informed opinions that mean absolutely nothing.
The Cube is the most reliable console. The controllers are work of design genius. Connectivety, however you may look at, is brilliant when you can use it properly. The GameCube is a success. Second worldwide, a brilliant back catalogue of games as well some truly awesome ones still to come and an attmept at innovation shows that Nintendo's current generation attempt is no disaster. Nintendo are stupid when it comes to business, but your opinion really is a heap of steaming dung.
That was just a starter, a little extra for those who owned a GBA, used for getting a couple of bonuses in Prime, Rayman and the like, as well as a map in Zelda.
But like I said, that's just an extra for those who happen to have games that link up. Ever played Pac Man Vs? I'm guessing you haven't, because so far you've shown no kind of knowledge as what Nintendo are actually trying to achieve. Despite its simplicity, it's easily one of the best multiplayer titles I've ever played. Hours seem to pass thanks to the simplistic, genius fun there is to be had. Find me a better offline multiplayer game on the XBox and you deserve a medal of mighty proportions.
All you need is a GBA, a link cable and some friends. Games like FF: CC may be hugely inaccesible, but this is what was intended. Easy, fun, brilliance. Saying Nintendo stole these ideas shows what an utter mong you are, adding to your pile of ill-informed opinions that mean absolutely nothing.
The Cube is the most reliable console. The controllers are work of design genius. Connectivety, however you may look at, is brilliant when you can use it properly. The GameCube is a success. Second worldwide, a brilliant back catalogue of games as well some truly awesome ones still to come and an attmept at innovation shows that Nintendo's current generation attempt is no disaster. Nintendo are stupid when it comes to business, but your opinion really is a heap of steaming dung.
Nowhere did you say that Nintendo stole it or that they forced you to pay for it.
You don't need a GBA to use your gamecube, whereas you need a VMU to work your Dreamcast with any effectiveness. The VMU is an extremely poor device. No games offer any sort of secondary function from the VMU on the Dreamcast. It's nothing more than a screen on the controller.
Secondly, the GBA's main function isn't to be a link up for the GC. It has a back catologue of well over 1000 games (probably more like 10,000). You do not have to spend £150 pounds to have a link up on a GC, and if you do you are an idiot. Mainly because if all you wanted was a link up it would cost you around £40-£50.
Have you ever played Final Fanstasy:CC? Zelda? Rayman 3? Splinter Cell with a link up? It doesn't sound as if you have. Heck it doesn't even sound as if you tried to use your VMU for anything more than an expensive memory card. That's all it was. It did NOTHING else. Get that through your tiny little eyes and store it in your brain, and if you can't do that then be quiet.
You don't need a GBA to use your gamecube, whereas you need a VMU to work your Dreamcast with any effectiveness. The VMU is an extremely poor device. No games offer any sort of secondary function from the VMU on the Dreamcast. It's nothing more than a screen on the controller.
Secondly, the GBA's main function isn't to be a link up for the GC. It has a back catologue of well over 1000 games (probably more like 10,000). You do not have to spend £150 pounds to have a link up on a GC, and if you do you are an idiot. Mainly because if all you wanted was a link up it would cost you around £40-£50.
Have you ever played Final Fanstasy:CC? Zelda? Rayman 3? Splinter Cell with a link up? It doesn't sound as if you have. Heck it doesn't even sound as if you tried to use your VMU for anything more than an expensive memory card. That's all it was. It did NOTHING else. Get that through your tiny little eyes and store it in your brain, and if you can't do that then be quiet.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahah TGMBloke really did try to say that the VMU was better than the GBA.
That alone makes me disregard all of his other statments entirely.
That alone makes me disregard all of his other statments entirely.
Xbox is sh*t at offline multiplayer. None of the games I've bought recently even support split screen - sys**tem link or Live, no simple split screen.
Whereas my Cube happily lets me play 4 player classics like Monkey Ball and SSBM.
Whereas my Cube happily lets me play 4 player classics like Monkey Ball and SSBM.
Silicon Knights has gone?
OFFS, Nintendo really do have no sense at all.
Utter utter mongs. Really.
OFFS, Nintendo really do have no sense at all.
Utter utter mongs. Really.
Super Monkey Ball remains one of the best multiplayer games ever.
But it does have the multiplayer odd-bods too:
Phantom Crash
Wrath Unleashed (multiformat)
Gladius (multiformat)
Battle Engine Aquila
JSRF
Deathrow
Gun Valkyrie
Phantom Crash
Wrath Unleashed (multiformat)
Gladius (multiformat)
Battle Engine Aquila
JSRF
Deathrow
Gun Valkyrie
It's got some of the best multiplayer games out there:
Smash Brothers Melee
Soccer Slam
Timesplitters 2
It's just the Xbox multiplayer titles are in with western fashion so you've got more people to play against.
I've not had a decent opponent at Smash brothers Melee ever.
Smash Brothers Melee
Soccer Slam
Timesplitters 2
It's just the Xbox multiplayer titles are in with western fashion so you've got more people to play against.
I've not had a decent opponent at Smash brothers Melee ever.
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