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"Nintendo has no competition"

Whilst Xbox and Playstation 2 owners agrue over which is the better driving game, GT3 or Project Gotham Racing, and whether Dead or Alive 3 will seem like such a great beat em up when Virtua Fighter 4 is released, Gamecube owners will stand alone, knowing that they've got the best deal for them.

For we will have Luigi's Mansion, and the Xbox and PS2 have nothing to compare with it. Jak and Daxter? That's SO Banjo Kazooie! Hello, last generation 3D adventure anyone? Oddworld Munch's Oddysee then? Don't make me laugh! Luigi's Mansion may be a short game (some might even say it's as short as Metal Gear Solid 2) but it's something a bit different, isn't it? I don't see any Xbox or PS2 owners looking forward to waving a torch at ghosts and sucking them up with a vacuum cleaner, do you?

When it comes to this type of game, Nintendo simply have no competition. They keep on pushing the bench mark, so if some one else wants to develop this type of 3D adventure game, it's not going to match up to what Nintendo offer. You don't believe me? Has any other console had a game to match Super mario 64 yet? No, and that's 5 years old.

What about the adventure RPG hybrid game that we all know as Zelda, anything out there to match that? Again, no, we have the true RPG's, such as the Final Fantasy's but they lack in the action, and we have the adventures, but they don't match Zelda in terms of character progression and quests. The only game that looks set to follow in it's footsteps is Star Fox Adventures, but that's being developed by a Nintendo 2nd party anyway, and has evolved to feature plenty of traditional shooting levels too.

Those copycat kart racers keep on flying out of developers doors, don't they! We've even had Muppet's karting away. We'll I'm sure you all know that there's a new Mario Kart on the way, and no doubt it will go beyond all we've seen before. It won't just be another novelty racer, like the previous installments, and all of the imitators, it'll have plenty of innovations about it. And in 3 years time we'll still see games copying that on multiformat shelves.

But the thing is, for Nintendo's games, there's no competition.

Luigi's Mansion / Mario Sunshine, which developer will bring a game like this to the Xbox or PS2?

Mario Kart / Donkey Kong Racing, you really think anyone will be able to beat that?

Star Fox Adventures / New Zelda, no contest.

Developers don't even try to beat them, they just take from it, and rather than trying to innovate themselves, produce an inferior version.

You like this type of game? Either you buy a Gamecube, or you play Rayman.

If you like realistic racers and beat em-up's on the other hand, choose between a PS2 and an Xbox.

I would really love to paint my room blue, and drill the PS2 to the wall... I could glue the controllers on, and stick the games on with double-sided tape...

It'd look good, you have to admit.

I need to sift through the launch games to find one (other than Luigi and Monkey Ball) I want... I might get ISS2, because i'll be giving my PS2 to a mate for a while... but then again, I could get a better game and wait for PES 2002.

Hmmmmm..... time to look, I think...


Adios!

Well, the best console you say, best games, eh? Pah!

Nah, don't worry, I'm a true Ninty, too, So you can just look at me as another bloke who can back you up in arguements.
As soon as I get my 'Cube, the PS2 will be collecting dust, I tells ye.

All you Ninties rule!
:-D

Well, when you put it that way, Nintendo DON'T actually have any competition!! Well said! :D

I agree with you, but i'm sure there will be many people on here later who strongly dissagree with you still - even if you have proven them wrong.

I Think that Super Monkey ball PS2 "rumour" was never actually confirmed...

Strafex wrote:
> And seeing as the likes of Namco and Sega are develloping for the Gamecube, we
> get the realistic fighters too!

So there! :-P

Sure the Xbox might get
> Halo.
But the Gamecube has plenty of "almost as good as, if not better
> than" FPS's on the way in the form of Turok (I know it's multiformat but
> it's still an FPS that GC players can play) and Die Hard.

look of those games though...

Nintendo have the first person shooter market wrapped up basically, yeah Turok, Timesplitters the two grweat multiformat titles mixed with Nintendo only Perfect Dark 0, Metroid and Die Hard and does anyone know anything about shoot to kill?

And since when was Monkey Ball coming to the PS2?

And Meka is right in so many ways that i bet he doesn't realize, but i'll just be repeating what i have been saying for the last year if i told you why.

After playing Banjo, DK64 and especially Conkers bad fur day, Jak and Daxter just seemed crap compared to them. It just seemed to be too fony. Coudnt connect with them characters at all...

I'm Captain Camp.

Grix... has someone hacked into your account, or did you employ that tagline in your own free will?

Please say the former!

I can't wait to play Mario Sunshine. It looks so good... Teh game in total, not just the graphics... they don't look too good from the screenshots. But Rick Powers from Planet GameCube, assured Mailbag readers that the game looked good.

I wonder how Metroid is doing...

Strafex wrote:

"Meanwhile, the Gamecube is the only one getting the multiplayer likes of Monkey Ball, Soccer Slam, Smash Brothers and Mario Kart."

Ah, Monkey Ball is coming to PS2 pretty soon, I think. Bonus informed us all in his completely unbiased topic on the PS2 forum. :0)