Infendo Radio #71 is on time this week!
Saturday, August 25th, 2007 at 2:42pm by Blake
Hey everyone, Scott and I are happy to bring you this week’s showing that discusses mucho topics, including Wii surpassing 360 sales, EA on Wii, New Game Get!, News from the frontlines, This week in gaming history, graphics predictions, and a discussion on why Infendo hearts Nintendo.
Hope you enjoy!
August 25th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Good show. The live chat room was nice to until the spammers came.
August 25th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Yeah the chat was good. Also, you missed out 2 cents in 60 seconds. Fes sent it to you while you were recording
August 25th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
nah, I just didn;t have it in on time. its my fault. I’ll try to make another one for next weekend. They can choose to use this one I sent or not. I’ve just been so damn busy with webcomics upon webcomics… and a bit o’ life too, i guess….
August 25th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Wow, so a confession first, I take notes during the podcasts so that I can remember everything I want to comment on, and I have a lot this week, for both Scott, and Blake, as well as the podcast in General;
About the gamelink cable, I even felt nerdy asking my own cousin to play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with me! But later in life I found a guy who loved gaming, and we played Four Swords until Gannon…when all of a sudden his SP battery died…I finished the game later without him, but nonetheless our deciding to play the game together went a lot like Blake’s story of the Jersey guy.
Concerning the GB games on the Virtual Console. I would personally support an expansion pack that could download games to the GBA that sits in the GBA slot…maybe call it the Virtual Handheld?
@Blake I think a lot of Nintendo haters may have buyers remorse for their console of choice, and therefore decide that everything Nintendo makes is crap. How would you feel about an Okami coming to Wii, both graphically and control-wise as our next big visual stunner? Lastly, LittleBigPlanet is a game to watch for a PS3 owner, check it out if you havent already. (and keep on trucking on Super Metroid…I promise it only gets better from there.)
@Scott The magic you feel about Nintendo polish to the games that it makes, and that feeling. I have heard that one of the translations of the name “Nintendo” means, “take care of all the details and heaven will take care of the rest.” Assuming this translation is solid, even the company name resides in amazing attention to detail, and some sort of divine help…so yeah Nintendo magic. Secondly I think that people who were there for the beginning of the video games industry (myself almost excluded…I was born in ‘86, but have two older brothers who were playing games much earlier) feel the same way the older generation does about the movie industry, I had an older professor who spoke the same way about movies as people who have been gaming for a long time do about games. I think our ages movie industry is gaming.
Okay, hope you enjoyed what I thought and look forward to your responses Great show guys!
August 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Wow, I can’t believe you guys run a Nintendo site and have never played Super Metroid. It’s on numerous top 10 lists of greatest games of all time and considered the pinnacle 2D sidescrolling shooters and game design for a reason. Yes Scott, do yourself a favor as a Nintendo fan and a gamer and play Super Metroid.
August 25th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
News from the front lines + Tank (Cowboy Bebop theme) = a whole new flavour of win
August 25th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Great show, keep up the great work.
Blake, I think you had trouble finding people to play Gamecube because it really was considered the kids’ console. It was truly one of the biggest reasons I didn’t buy one at the time and eventually sold my N64 while in college. There was just something about the games that came out for the N64 after Ocarina of Time that made me loose interest. It was about the time of the Pokemon popularity explosion and the time when the PS1 and then the PS2 gained in popularity.
Thinking I was “too old” for Nintendo by then I had no desire to get a GameCube and the cell shaded look of Winder Waker really solidified my decision at the time. I think what you ran into is that people like us, who grew up playing Nintendo for years, are all about the same age and at that time “we” all thought we were too old to play Nintendo anymore, it was time to move on to the more “adult” systems. It didn’t help either that I met a girl who eventually became my wife and I gave up on all gaming in general.
Although the Wii is a hit in it’s own right, one thing that I personally see as an advantage for Nintendo is timing. The Wii came just as I was getting over my idea that Nintendo was for kids and I imagine there is a sizable subset of Nintendo’s customers who are just like me.
Before I was even really aware of what the Wii was going to be, I had picked up a GameCube off of eBay in early 2006 after playing a bit of Mario Kart Double Dash with my brother-in-law. I was reminded of just how much fun Nintendo games were. After a nearly five year hiatus, I’ve now played through Wind Waker, Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime and I’m still working on Prime 2.
Anyway, the Wii arrived at a time where a number of people who grew up on Nintendo and may have later abandoned Nintendo are now old enough to have changed their mind. When E3 2006 came I was starting to pay attention. Seeing what the Wii would be I got really excited. I loved the idea and I knew I could get my parents and in-laws to play as well. I managed to pick up a Wii in late December and I’ve been enjoying it since. With a young child in the house, I don’t get a lot of time to play so most games last a long time.
August 26th, 2007 at 12:52 am
I bought the GameCube in 2002, my Freshman year of college. The first two years of college I mostly played games by myself (Wind Waker, Prime, Sunshine, misc EA Sports titles, and Smash Bros).Everyone else in the dorms seemed to be playing Halo.
However, in my Junior year, I was with a new group of roommates, and we all got extremely hooked on Double Dash. We literally spent almost every night the first semester playing that game. We had our own leaderboard and a Mario Kart championship belt. We eventually got several others in the dorm playing with us too. It has been the greatest multiplayer experience I have had to date with video games.
August 26th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Super Metroid laid the ground work for the graphical style of the GBA Metroid games.
August 27th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Scott is right: Picross is a blast!! Go get it…
On Jack’s editorial piece, and my history with gaming systems: I’ve truly enjoyed enormously all systems I’ve purchased, including recently the PS2, but Nintendo systems have some kind of continuity to them that makes you come back again and again.
Having said that, there is no “winner” in my mind, just great games in each system, all with very different styles. And that’s a good thing!
August 29th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
You make me very mad Scott Johnson. You in very big trouble!