Nintendo fucks Europeans up the ass for the umpteenth time.

[Cruelty]

i was talking about nintendo's OWN franchises, bro. i've never played no more heroes, btw.

nearly every nintendo-owned franchise is turning more family-oriented, and it's deterring to people who want quality games that actually hold your attention for longer than the gimmick lasts.

 

[handsome lamb]

Being ignored by the Japanese isn't really something to get upset about

lolol
this is the truth

Oh you WOULD say that, being an American and all.

Would you still be saying that if America was constantly getting ignored by Nintendo instead of Europe?

lol.

(hint: we do)

Nintendo chooses to continue holding events at Toys R Us stores even though there's now a simpler way of distributing items-- Wi-Fi Mystery Gift. They could give out event items to players worldwide and everyone would be happy, but for some reason they don't. What I want to know is, what IS that reason?

Why would they spend time and effort developing a new and more efficient method of doing events, and then just stick to the old, heavily flawed method?

maybe because pokemans are less special if everyone has them.

What's this? A Wii game that looks like a 360 game?

and it runs like absolute shit.

(and still doesn't look like a current XB360 game.)

 

[Olivia]

Hey guys, there's always action replay, too bad we Europeans don't have gameshark. D=

 

[Cruelty]

do they even still make gamesharks anywhere? i thought AR was the only cheat device now.

 

[mawk]

Shigesato Itoi stated in an interview that he currently has no plans to work on Mother 4. When asked if he might develop games outside of the Mother franchise, he looked thoughtful for a second and stated that "[it was] out of the question for now."

Personally, I find Itoi's testimony just a little more believable than Kojima's assertions that there would be no MGS4. (MGS5? I f'get.) After all, Itoi's in his fifties now, and I think he's starting to look into a more relaxed work schedule. It's also quite possible that Mother 3 was just the end of the line plotwise -- I see potential for a sequel, but that doesn't necessarily mean there'll be one. Then again, I'm a hopeless hopeful fanboy, so~

hope springs eternal~

Less Wii hatins in the thread plz. This isn't "console duke 'em out." While I agree that the Wii's playing fare is on average lighter than that of the 360, I've never really thought that there was a discrepancy between the quality of their respective games.

(I am inclined to note, however, that the Wii never tends to melt itself or suffer fatal system crashes.)

(Also man what are you talking about Prime was an incredibly competent FPS. I'm sure if you compare it with Halo it seems rather lackluster, but Halo shouldn't be taken as a standard for FPSes anyway.)

 

[___]

Halo is garbage!  GARBAGE!  Kiddies raised to think Halo is the epitome of FPS need to get a fricking PC and play any of the dozens of FPS games that leave Halo a smoking pile of debris in any measure it can hope to compete in.  Aaagh.

As for Mother 3, fuck 'em, the rom hack is around 80% done right now, give them a few more months and then do what every fan of Japanese RPGs that they don't deem us worthy to play does: get a copy of the ROM and hack it, play it on emulator.  Until then play some classic not-released-in-english RPGs like Metal Max Returns, Seiken Densetsu 3 (Secret of Mana SNES sequel), the SNES Dragon Warriors, or even play through some superior translations of Final Fantasy 1-6... yadda yadda...  We don't need them!

Anyway I totally understand you guys being upset about this, even though I could give a damn who gets a copy of a special pokemon.  What you guys should be doing though is writing angry letters to Nintendo, not angry forum posts they'll never read.  Nintendo has a tendency to ignore them, but at worst it will have the same effect as bitching here, and at best it might wake them up a bit.  Grassroots baby.

 

[OdioOmnus]

the wii is an underpowered piece of shit machine

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What's this? A Wii game that looks like a 360 game?

I don't mean to insult the Wii but the anti-aliasing judging from that screen is absolute crap for a next-gen game. Iunno, it doesn't look much like a 360 game to me.

EDIT: I'm not trying to bash the Wii's graphics, I'm just trying to say that if you want to prove the graphics are good choose a screen that doesn't suck.

 

[mawk]

Halo is garbage!  GARBAGE!  Kiddies raised to think Halo is the epitome of FPS need to get a fricking PC and play any of the dozens of FPS games that leave Halo a smoking pile of debris in any measure it can hope to compete in.  Aaagh.

Personally, I'm neutral about Halo. Played it a couple times, wasn't so enthralled as the people who got me to play it were but faked it for good measure. To me, Prime was better, even if it didn't have the Halo series' vehicles, huge explosions, variety of weapons, and supposedly nude (but anatomically lacking) holograms for the people who really love their games. What I was saying, though (in magnificently convoluted language,) is that most 360-babies take Halo as the epitome of what shooters should be and raise other FPSes to those standards, which is kind of strange considering things like Bioshock which share the genre but none of the testosterone-fueled lack of subtlety -- that's where "lackluster" came in, by the way, since a lot of shooters are lonelier than Halo and come with less sweet explosive glory for the unequivocally good protagonists.

A guilty little part of me hopes that Mother 3 never gets officially localized. Part of it is that this way I get it instantly for free, but another is that I'm scared of what Nintendo's localization teams might do to it. They're not exactly well-known for awful translations, but Mother 3 held a lot of "heavy" material (death, grief, light-hearted homoerotic humour) that they might want to shave off the top just to give it an E rating. I trust Mato with this game more than I do Reggie.

And when the downloads of the translation patch reach a number that would surely have left Nintendo swimming in profit had they chosen not to disdain the tiny giant, we will sit and laugh and enjoy our strawberry tofu in the gentle rain.

 

[Marcus]

still waiting for mother 3

 

[Yeyinde]

and it runs like absolute shit.

(and still doesn't look like a current XB360 game.)

I don't mean to insult the Wii but the anti-aliasing judging from that screen is absolute crap for a next-gen game. Iunno, it doesn't look much like a 360 game to me.

EDIT: I'm not trying to bash the Wii's graphics, I'm just trying to say that if you want to prove the graphics are good choose a screen that doesn't suck.

Screenshots never do justice for Nintendo games. Especially old screenshots. Now videos do do justice.

 

[Ryuzaki]

Hey guys, there's always action replay, too bad we Europeans don't have gameshark. D=

We DO have Gameshark, it's just illegal or something.

About that Wii game that looks like an (old) X360 one: Graphics are one of the LEAST important things in a game unless your a vain self-centred git. I'd rather play something like Space Invaders than CoD4 for example. As long as it has decent gameplay and a decent story, graphics don't matter at all. This will sound weird, but I don't look at graphics. Think about it for a minute. I hate it when people say 'Oh this game looks so realistic, I'm gonna buy it!' I ask them why and their reply is, 'Cos it looks realistic.' THEN GO OUTSIDE! If you want realism, don't play games. If you want enough realism, but still some fantasy, watch a movie. This is why I don't have GTA4, and I'll never have it. The main selling point is its graphics. Sure, it probably has a decent storyline but it's 'key' feature is its graphics.

 

[OdioOmnus]

This is why I don't have GTA4, and I'll never have it. The main selling point is its graphics. Sure, it probably has a decent storyline but it's 'key' feature is its graphics.

Actually its main selling point is the sandbox gameplay, and to be honest it's quite a lot of fun once you get over the shallow characters and overabundance of mini-gameplay features that take practically half the game to explain.

 

[Cruelty]

This is why I don't have GTA4, and I'll never have it. The main selling point is its graphics. Sure, it probably has a decent storyline but it's 'key' feature is its graphics.

no. the big selling point to gta4 is the fact that it is hyper realistic city environments, incredible voice acting, great writing, extremely addictive gameplay, pick-up-and-playability, great online multiplayer, a seemingly endless city to explore, tons of extra shit to do.. wtf. what jackass has ever said that graphics are what make gta4 awesome? The incredible visuals are just a plus. GTA4 is incredible on every single level imaginable.

you will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER play a game with a city environment as realistic as gta4.

most everynody who says 'lol graphics isnt important' now-a-days is just desperate to defend nintendo, because theyre the only ones still stuck in 2002.

play your fucking wii, and leave the real games to the big kids.

 

[Samboy]

Everyone needs to settle the hell down, and think of us Australians. We get our games after New Zealand, for christs sake.  :dead:

 

[Dopples]

play your fucking wii, and leave the real games to the big kids.

No More Heroes says hi.

 

[OdioOmnus]

play your fucking wii, and leave the real games to the big kids.

No More Heroes says hi.

Because everyone dreams of playing as a weeaboo wielding a lightsaber.

 

[Dopples]

play your fucking wii, and leave the real games to the big kids.

No More Heroes says hi.

Because everyone dreams of playing as a weeaboo wielding a lightsaber.

If that's all you think No More Heroes is about, you really need to play it.

 

[OdioOmnus]

I have played it and enjoyed it, but to call it the pinnacle of maturity is a major overstatement.

 

[Dopples]

I have played it and enjoyed it, but to call it the pinnacle of maturity is a major overstatement.

I never stated it was mature, I was stating that it was an actual game, which is what cruelty assumes that the Wii lacks.

 

[DeM0nFiRe]

The discussion on games owned by their respective console's franchise: Nintendo owned franchises own the crap out of Microsoft owned franchises, who cares if they are family oriented? Zelda is a crapload more fun and a crapload more innovative than Halo any day and every day of the week.

As for Nintendo events not in australia, it was said before but ignored apparently:
Nintendo of AMERICA decides what events go into AMERICA. Nintendo of EUROPE decides what events go in EUROPE. Don't complain to americans because your branch screws you over whine to them.