The Gamer's Quarter

[Scratchmonkey]

From my friend Bill Harris' blog, Dubious Quality, quoting an anonymous source:

[simplicio]

fucking marketeers.
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"Worlds turn the new machine to thee. To thee. Though, thine the new machine space."
-Kurt Schwitters, 1919

[Scratchmonkey]

It would be nice if they were actually called marketeers. I could get behind that.

Not that it matters to me since I still can't find one.

[Winged Assassins (1984)]

And there has to be three of them.
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[Shapermc]

[dmauro]

I guess I don't mind since I'm all set with Kororinpa.

[Scratchmonkey]

[Isfet]

interesting. yea, there doesn't seem to be much going on at the moment, and Smash Bros. is the only thing i'm really interested in at the moment (and it doesn't even appear to be very Wii oriented). i guess we still have a while to go.

if they're holding back titles, then i guess that means the next year or two might be really interesting?

[Crazy Bacon Lips]

One can only hope.

[B coma]

Yeah, I still haven't seen them in stock in my area. People called me crazy for waiting in line the night prior to launch!

Ahem.

[Cycle]

You should all move to Australia. I bought one off the shelf a couple days after launch and they are all over the place now.
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[simplicio]

Yeah, I've hardly touched mine lately, but I'm pretty certain the only top-notch games available are Excite Truck and Kororinpa, with nothing looking good in the near future.

If I remember to tomorrow I'm selling off Super Paper Mario to buy that new Taito collection, and switching my Mario Party 8 preorder over to Bioshock.

And I don't even have a working PC right now.
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"Worlds turn the new machine to thee. To thee. Though, thine the new machine space."
-Kurt Schwitters, 1919

[antitype]

I might like to pick one up some time later this year or early next. We're still expecting No More Heroes to be interesting, yes? Or at least of us who liked Killer 7.

I mean, I expect to be having the most fun with my PC (I just played a demo of the Lost Planet port — not bad!), but a Wii might be something fun on the side. I'm pretty sure I don't care about Nights 2, I definitely don't care about Mario Party, and I'll probably never play Twilight Princess at this point, so it'd be nice if there were some more "Ooh I want to play that" games for the console. Excite Truck and Kororinpa look like they're worth checking out, but they're certainly not the sort of games I'd dish out $50 for. The VC doesn't interest me at all — I've got my own archive of emulated games (and a few real ones, yeah).

I guess it doesn't matter. I'll most likely end up finishing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. after I'm done revisiting Panzer Dragoon Saga, and then in a few months I'll be playing the hell out of Bioshock, the Orange Box, and later on Left 4 Dead. I certainly won't need a Wii until at least next spring... When is NMH due out, anyway?
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[Ethoscapade]

NMH is probably not going to be localized until early 2008 but we can always hope; in the meantime, yeah, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head with "all the big titles are insufferably boring and all the great one-off games don't really seem to be worth the money although what is "worth the money" anyway.

i kind of wish i had four wiimotes because mario party looks fun. i do know (exactly) three other guys with wiis, if ever it came to that - i don't think it will, even if i could borrow a copy of the game for free from (gainful summer) work.

on my wii, i can play bomberman, gunstar heroes, street fighter 2, star fox 64, wii sports, or kororinpa. that software cost me a grand total of less than sixty-five dollars, and despite being violently unwilling to buy any more wiimotes i can still play all of those games multiplayer, be it with nunchuck or wavebird or hotseat. the only other games i see myself much wanting this year are smash bros and galaxy, unoriginal choices and hardly wii-requiring as they may be, although hell if i don't expect to be surprised at least once in the holiday season as i so often am.

and i really can't say the console is doing so badly (it's been around for six months remember; the oldest PS2 game i still own - ico - didn't make it out for nine) in light of all that.

[helicopterp]

I'm at least moderately interested in the Resident Evil 4 port. But, yeah, the only thing in the forseeable future that will actually compel me to buy a Wii is Mario Galaxy.
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[Shapermc]

Yeah, No More Heroes, Dragon Quest Swords, Mario Galaxy, and Umbrella Chronicles are what have me mostly interested in playing on the Wii right now. Then you have the , SD Gundam, Dewey's Adventure, Opoona, NiGHTS and RE4-wii as secondary interests which I'm paying attention to. There are a few games off in a distant third that are on my radar like Metroid, Harry Potter, Manhunt 2, Boogie, and Harvest Moon Wii. And we're all still holding out hope for the vaporware title Sadness.

On top of that I still don't have Excite Truck.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[Mister Toups]

I'd honestly rather companies spend time polishing their games instead of rushing them out of the door. This doesn't bother me that much. I can find other ways to spend time if there aren't any HOT NEW VIDEOGAMES out to play.
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where were you when nana komatsu got a wii?