Did anyone here ever pick up their GameCube by the handle and carry it over to their friend's house like it was a lunchbox? Nintendo seems to really like this idea that everyone is constantly packing up their console and setting it up at different locations, like it happens so frequently that the entire console must be tiny and include a handle.― Karl Malone, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 10:16 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
esp funny given how many nerds at the time were willing to lug their entire pc rigs to lan parties
― qualx, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/9_volt88/status/836974155954274304
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
bwahahaha
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
I want a switch :(
― softie (silby), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
fuckin nintendo, with their desirable prods
Nintendo has had a great track record with properly functioning hardware right? The Gamecube memory cards were dodgy sometimes and my Nintendo DS died after several years but they're generally great.
PS2 had one of the best game libraries ever but never forget how fragile that thing was in any version. I think PS3 and the first two XBoxes were also unreliable.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
not gonna lie i loved the little gamecube handle even though i never used it
still afraid this will flop badly
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
the first two open jingles here play in my head all the time; i'm gonna be real and say i never heard the third one till i just opened this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctYQ08gxkqA
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
Nintendo hardware being good was one of the things that made them win in the 80s when everyone else was failing. They started a program to fix broken consoles back when it was rare to do so, and this assuaged the fears of retailers still reeling from the video game crash. Personally I've never had a Nintendo product fail on me and this includes systems i found used that kept playing games for years.
Bring on the big budget Zeldas/Marios! They need to just keep pumping them out, every couple of years. Those two games alone look way more impressive and fun than anything from the Wii/Wii U generations.
Basically, they need games.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
There are reports of latches on the joycon breaking if you drop them.
Front-loading NESes all broke. SNES is fine besides the discoloration. N64 is great. Gamecube memory cards break from heat. Wii remotes needed condoms because people were idiots. Gameboys are immortal. DS and 3DS have shoulder triggers that become unreliable after time, and the hinges on the DSlite would break.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
met some teens who are super into playing smash bros on the cube
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
there was a p convincing video going around by some nintendo fanboy about how this is really just a soft launch for the console and the 'real' release is the holiday season where there will possibly be a price drop and also mario. the logic being that that's essentially what happened with the 3DS a few years ago
it'd be nice if that were true cause if this flops and stays flopped like wii u this then yikes
wld post video but on phone at work
― qualx, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
dont all consoles kinda do that
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
i want this. can i just go to a store and buy it?
― just another (diamonddave85), Thursday, 2 March 2017 01:28 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 6:44 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they certainly don't drop their price within 8 months of release
vid here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f457Q3p1EU
literally forgot it was a fucking puppet. idk.
― qualx, Thursday, 2 March 2017 02:31 (seven years ago) link
"There are reports of latches on the joycon breaking if you drop them."
hate to be a nintendo fanboy but there was just one report and the giantbomb guys followed it up to specifically say they dropped it on concrete... so yeah, they will break if you break them. on concrete.
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 2 March 2017 10:01 (seven years ago) link
catastrophic news for this nintendo enthusiast
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/06/03/hardcore-gamer.jpg
― I am Socutus of Butt. Resistance is futile. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 March 2017 10:24 (seven years ago) link
Zelda reviewing well, 98 metacritic so far
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 2 March 2017 11:13 (seven years ago) link
"The best Zelda there’s ever been, and very possibly the best video game ever made."
Took a look at metacritic. Yeah, it's reviewing very well. Wow. My brother is buying it tomorrow, guess I know how I'll spend my weekend.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 2 March 2017 11:36 (seven years ago) link
yeeeep pretty hyped to play this tomorrow.
http://dystify.com/images/banner01.png
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 2 March 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/1/14778316/nintendo-switch-cartridge-taste-test-dont-lick-it
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:18 (seven years ago) link
i mean im sure zelda is really good but this is the kinda of praise that EVERY zelda game gets initially
― just another (diamonddave85), Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:32 (seven years ago) link
i played one of the recent ones for wii - it was like a zelda rpg? idk you run around a bunch following directions and fight these huge mobs of soldiers and i don't remember there being any puzzles and it was multiplayer? it kinda blew.
― Mordy, Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
Skyward Sword got a lot of criticism for the motion controls (and there was a lot of back and forth if the reviewers even understood how they worked) and the sheer amount of info text/tutorials.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link
Which put me off and I couldn't be bothered after the first hour.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
I never figured out the motion controls. Bought it with my little brother, I have still not made it past the first dungeon :(
― Frederik B, Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link
Mordy, sounds like you played Hyrule Warriors which was a Dynasty Warriors game with Zelda trappings.
I loved Skyward Sword motion controls and all, looking forward to the new approach too though
― Iain Mew (if), Thursday, 2 March 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
i don't wanna switch
― dollar general (am0n), Thursday, 2 March 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link
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― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, March 2, 2017 8:45 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The third main criticism was how linear it was, and/or how there was nothing to explore.
― Evan, Thursday, 2 March 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
I would mind that too much. I was mainly scared off by the long cutscenes and hearing that every time you load the game up and get rupees (money) it tells you what they are every time. I might give it another shot someday.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 March 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
rupees (money)
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 2 March 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
Just in case someone hasn't played Zelda or doesn't remember.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 March 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
it's only what currencies used by like 1/3 of the planet are called
― mh 😏, Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
how is he supposed to remember that without a tutorial screen
― qualx, Thursday, 2 March 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link
OoT is supposedly the highest rated game ever, yet I find it painful and uninteresting. This though, looks right up my alley.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
I look forward to my trip to India in which I'll cut grass, smash pots and bump into trees and lug those huge rupees around in my brown cloth bag.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
the best two zeldas are still in this order lttp > ocarina
― Mordy, Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjQefYbFFYo
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
3.38 for the payoff
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
The payoff is that if you ask Nintendo, they say "Yeah they taste terrible on purpose"
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
so far i've seen game reviewers:
drop the Switch on concretepunch the controls out of the holdereat Switch gamecards
did these people eat paint when they were kids?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
no way, the first NES game is number one.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
idk if it's better than lttp but you're right it is better than ocarina
― Mordy, Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
They ate Mario Paint when they were kids.
― jmm, Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Re: Zelda - Critics seem to like the part where you have to forage for food and cook yourself a meal to heal yourself (or something)? Yeah, I wish MarioKart made you spend time at the mechanic between races.
― DJI, Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
lttp is the best zelda game, the one ppl r complaining abt upthread isnt real
― lag∞n, Thursday, 2 March 2017 22:54 (seven years ago) link
Blasphemy I know but I found A Link To The Past tedious too often, although I have fond memories of parts of it. I love Link's Awakening but the Zelda series is a rare example of me mostly preferring the 3d games. Ocarina is my favourite.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 March 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
i need to replay LttP. i loved it when i had it but i almost can't seem to go back to it. like Super Mario World, it feels almost too perfect.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 2 March 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
I think Super Mario World is a vastly better game.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 March 2017 23:20 (seven years ago) link
Twilight Princess was fucking epic
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 2 March 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link