*paitiently twiddles thumbs until Revolution comes out*

*wipes drool off mouth*

*gives napkin to Capt. Ido Nos*

What a great system.

*paitiently twiddles thumbs until Revolution comes out*

*wipes drool off mouth*

I personally don't see how nintendo has survived all these years, they've made so many mistakes... DS is the latest one, don't get me wrong, the DS I had was fun for a while, but why don't they use the touch screen for something practical? Like an inventory in an action RPG?
The biggest problem I have with the DS is that the games they make lately focus waaaaaaaaaaaay too much on the touch screen, I think the touch screen can be a pain, I like my push buttons.

Other mistakes nintendo has made: Making too many "kid" games, N64 Cartridges (hard to develop high-end games on a cartridge), Gamecube minidiscs (no DVD player? crud!). IMHO nintendo should stick to gameboys and give it up with the home consoles.

See the light nintendo, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 will best the Revolution, history will repeat itself once again.

Nintendo isn't building a system to compete with those systems. They're building an affordable system to compliment them.
Yes, I know that the gamecube didn't have a DVD player. There's a reason, you can buy DVD players.
Yes, the graphics aren't great, graphics aren't everything. One of my favorite games of all time is TankWars. It was a dos game with wonderful 16 color graphics. Until Smash Brothers Melee, it was probably my favorite multiplayer game of all time.

At the risk of sounding like a Nintendo fanboy, I still like Nintendo and plan to buy the Revolution when it comes out.

Granted, Nintendo has made a lot of mistakes, but they wouldn't still be around if they didn't offer something that Sony and Microsoft don't.

and what is it that they offer? Certainly not better games IMO, SSB was just weird, neither me or any of my friends like it very well, Mario is great, provided it's an actual Mario adventure, which are few and far between.

XBox IMO had the best RPG ever (fable) they most definetly had the best shooter (Halo).

Playstation 2 controlled the best Fighters (Tekken, Virtua Fighter) The best platformers (Jak and Daxter and the sequels Jak 2 and Jak 3).

Gamecube had Mario, and that's about all I was interested in, other than sonic, who has now gone multiplatform, as well as super monkey ball, which is also multiplatform now,
there is next to nothing Nintendo has to keep me interested.

That being said, I probably won't post anymore in this thread.

Cyberki-something, I couldn't have said it better myself.

But I'll just say that Halo is incredibly overrated, and is most certainly not the greatest shooter ever.

*lifts eyes to heaven*

At last! Someone who has seen the light!
I knew someone who claimed that he would look at the grass in Halo and forget that he was playing a game. Poor kid. He must have had a terrible sampling of grass in his life.

Right-o. Although you should probably note that the Legend of Zelda games aren't RPGs.

That's always confused me...what exactly are Legend of Zelda games? I think of them as action RPGs since it plays out like a lot of them (So many items to collect, power ups, etc.) except for leveling up Link.

The correct genre, I believe, is "Action/Adventure".

In practice, it seems like the genre Zelda gets labeled with is... Zelda. It's not quite an RPG, but people tend to think of it as one. It's not quite perfectly an action-adventure, but it gets called that too. But if you ever see a game with a formula similar to Zelda, almost instantaneously, it gets called a Zelda clone.

Though not always, thankfully. And occasionally un-thankfully. And let's not get into bad indie movies.*

*Someone once posted a link at another message board to the homepage of an indie movie that screamed "Zelda ripoff!" pretty badly. The hero was named Link, the princess was Saria (not Zelda, but awful close), and the villain was called Vaatir. Hua boy.

Yep, that's on the GameCube.

And I see your trailer, and raise you one 30 minute gameplay video.

Um...Super Mario RPG was on the SNES.

Just to let you know.

O RLY?

Hmm. It seems my source of information was faulty.

**kick four-year-old**