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  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #156674  by Zeus
 Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:40 pm
For those of us not too-cool-for-school (looks towards Sine and Don), this could be an interesting concept. Basically take Wii Sports except with mini-games themed around other Nintendo games (Zelda, DK, etc).

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/06/05/e ... tendo-land
 #156675  by bovine
 Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:47 pm
Sine and Don are hipsters. Fuck those guys.
 #156677  by Oracle
 Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:21 am
bovine wrote:Sine and Don are hipsters. Fuck those guys.
Hey, comming from the King of Hipsters, it must be true!
 #156679  by kali o.
 Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:56 pm
Nintendo mashing up their 90's character stable into one title with mini-games. Holy shit, revolutionary & UNEXPECTED!!!

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Come on, seriously? It might be a good game but can we stop pretending Nintendo is doing anything more than treading water with pure Nostalgia life saver? All innovation left Nintendo years ago, gimmicks is all that's left.
 #156684  by SineSwiper
 Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:40 pm
See, Kali is a hipster, too.

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 #156686  by Zeus
 Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:07 pm
kali o. wrote:Nintendo mashing up their 90's character stable into one title with mini-games. Holy shit, revolutionary & UNEXPECTED!!!

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Come on, seriously? It might be a good game but can we stop pretending Nintendo is doing anything more than treading water with pure Nostalgia life saver? All innovation left Nintendo years ago, gimmicks is all that's left.
Exactly the opposite, actually. Nintendo is not a "genre king" in anything aside from the platformers (2D and 3D) and even those weren't by design. They basically became the top of those genres by default. If you actually pay attention to their releases, there's a ton of innovation. Now, you may not care about that innovation but it's there. In fact, Nintendo NEEDS to keep doing it, it's what makes them what they are, which is consistently the top selling publisher year-in, year-out. If they were to try to release only sequels/nostalgia, they would just fizzle out.

An article posted by the departed Kupek many moons ago provides an excellent explanation of this: http://www.lostgarden.com/2005/09/ninte ... ategy.html