Quote: A smaller company than its rivals, but one boasting perhaps the world's best game designers, Nintendo's line of attack has instead been to champion creativity over technology. The story has played well to the press; the surprising reality is GameCube has been absent in the birth of most of this generation's innovations.
The gritty urban reality settings and the freedom of play engendered by Grand Theft Auto 3 and its sequels - arguably the most significant creative shift in 21st Century gaming so far - passed GameCube by. Invention and success with add-on peripherals has come from Sony, with SingStar and EyeToy. Microsoft's Xbox Live has left Nintendo for dead in the online and multiplayer space.
This might not matter if Nintendo's AAA-franchises were still delivering peerless gameplay experiences unavailable on other platforms, but Metroid is Nintendo's only top flight franchise to make real progress on the GameCube. While Super Mario Sunshine was fun, it wasn't a groundbreaker in the Super Mario 64 mould. Equally, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is no Ocarina of Time (even leaving aside its controversial cel-shading). The upcoming Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess looks fantastic - but there is such a thing as turning up unfashionably late, even for the most glamorous babe.
Without a significant body of third-party industry support, the game extensions that were enabled by GameCube have failed to take off. The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure, while graphically primitive, makes excellent use of the Nintendo's much-discussed the GameCube/GBA link-up. Little else does. The GameCube's broadband adapter has fared even worse. Phantasy Star Online I&II - and that's it. A multiplayer offering serving up one old Dreamcast game speaks volumes about Nintendo's inability to persuade publishers to back its machine, not to mention how Nintendo often seemingly takes its loyal audience for granted.
Quote:I'm serious. I'm wondering if any Nintendo fans here love the company so much that they would spot them some cash in exchange for a good feeling.
Alternative question: are there any companies you'd just send some money to help out? Personally, I'd subsidize the Dragon Quarter team if it meant a followup in the same vein.
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Maybe it would be interesting if some develloper was demonstrating some ideas about the likes of 3 games and then they proceed by donations as the decide wich one is release. I would maybe send money for the most interesting project. But then again it's stupid because your vote occur when you buy the released game anyway. It would also be shitty in some way because the rich gamers would decide what we play. There's enough rich people dictating our lives already. I'm waiting for a Nbot to completely support and agree with your idea Frost lol
I will have a new 2D Mario platformer on Revolution!
Quote:What's funny about this thread is it actually shows how insane Sega fanboys are. The thread's about Nintendo yet half the posts are "I'd give money to Sega".
Quote:If you sent Sega money, they'd burn it, film it, then email the video back to you.
hi im new, im lazyfatbum's nephew.
im a huge nintendo fan.
i realy like final fantasy game's.
does anyone else wonder what the revolution controllers look like
I talked to the HP tech support guy trying to get some drivers for a computer I am working on. Let me put it this way….
It was like talking to a dumb monkey named Nicholas C. Id offer him a banana, if I didn’t think he’d only stick it up his nose five minutes later. <O:p></O:p>
Supreme Court resignation in as expected, but it's one of the moderates... and I just know Bush will nominate a radical right person. This will probably get ugly...
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