Chrono Trigger wasn’t made for Nintendo???
I want a Wii, but they’re still too expensive. I’m getting one for college no matter what, though; I must play Super Smash Brothers Brawl.
A couple of quick points:
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This game is being developed by KOEI, the same people that make Dynasty Warriors games. Nintendo has no developmental involvement.
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KOEI is also releasing a Samurai Warriors game for the Wii later this year, as well as a first-person Dynasty Warriors title. It’s not like they’re only making one kind of Wii game ever.
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This is not the first RPG to be released on the Wii. Fire Emblem: Goddess of the Dawn was recently released in Japan. You know Fire Emblem, the series about wars and death and all that decidedly non-baby stuff? Dragon Quest Swords, what looks to be the largest budget Dragon Quest title ever, was also announced at E3 2006.
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Seriously, it’s KOEI. No one ever cares what they do.
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Re: “Nintendo is not a company known for adult RPGs”. You’d be right, if not for Baten Kaitos or the longer-running Fire Emblem series. Hell, I’m playing through Baten Kaitos Origins right now and it has a better story than most Final Fantasy games in the last ten years.
It was made for the Super Nintendo, but it was made by Square (before their merger with Enix) with no input from Nintendo.
Baten Kaitos was made by, I believe, Namco. And as far as America is concerned, Fire Emblem is a relatively new series. Yes, it’s “adult”, but it’s not as well known as other series’.
Untrue on both counts. Baten Kaitos was made by Tri-Crescendo and Monolithsoft, the first game being published by Namco. The second game was published by Nintendo with the same development team. It’s not technically Nintendo in that they themselves didn’t develop it, but if we’re condemning them for a game released on their system that they didn’t develop, then the opposite should also apply.
The first Fire Emblem game was released in 1990, over sixteen years ago. The series has only recently come to the United States in 2003, yes, but it’s not “new” by any stretch of the imagination. As for how well it’s known, Fire Emblem: Monshō no Nazo (Mystery of the Emblem) on the SNES in 1994 is one of Nintendo’s best selling games ever. In a Japanese poll, it was ranked the 68th best game to ever release. For perspective, every Fire Emblem game released in America has sold better than its American counterpart. It may not be Final Fantasy, but it can’t be discounted so easily.
Whoops, that’s what I get for typing too fast. The bolded portion should read “Japanese” counterpart.
- Capcom are doing a Res Evil exclusive for the Wii - Umbrella Chronicles:
Dear god, please let them have the chainsaw as a controllable weapon - the wiimote is just perfect for it
- Rockstar have already announced that they’re going to do Manhunt2 for the Wii. If Nintendo have been ok with that (simulating a throttling using the nunchuck lead?) then really how do you see GTA as being an edgy move?
As a longtime Playstation fan, I am deeply ashamed to admit that I am as well. Think there’s a support group we could join?
Anyone who says Nintendo is for kids doesn’t realize that many things that look “kiddy” aren’t necessarily for kids. Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson are cute-looking, but their cartoons weren’t designed for kids (even though a lot of kids like them, too). And the Japanese in particular are very big on cute (kawaii)- Pac-Man may be cute, but his game is still fun to play today. And Nintendo is very good at making cute characters which star in good games- especially characters based on things that aren’t necessarily cute in real life. Who in their right mind would consider an overweight Brooklyn plumber with a mustache cute in real life?
I’m already there. It’s not as painful a conversion as you might think. We’ll even help you make a Mii for your membership card photo. 
Given that they still go for around $350 on eBay, I’d be surprised if one sits on the shelf for longer than a few hours. Listing something on eBay is a pretty easy way to make $70.
No kidding. Lou Albano anyone? shudder
Oh my, that’s hilarious. I love Perry Bible Fellowship.
looks more like south park
I’m a “Playstation fan” in the sense that I was a happy owner of the PSOne and PS2. Now I’ve got a Wii. Ultimately I identify as a gamer, and I go where the games I think I’d like to play are. I’ll fully agree that the Wii game library is pretty thin for the moment, but we all do have to remember that it’s only been out for a handful of months. I’m quite happy with Godfather: Blackhand (as noted above) and Tiger Woods 07. Opoona hardly looks like something I’d be interested in playing, but it seems silly to impugn the whole console based on that.
Bolding mine.
Wrong. I loved playing Romance of the Three Kingdoms and like games (Nobunaga’s Ambition, Shingen the Ruler, and Genghis Khan) when I was young. Every time I download an emulator, I get those games. I’m contemplating buying a Playstaion 2 JUST for Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX. Look online and you’ll find forums with people dedicated to those games. For a while, they abandoned English in their games and only came out with ones in their native tongue. I’m glad to see them back in the fold.
Aren’t we forgetting the Zelda series? Sure, it’s not a true RPG, but I’ve always categorized it as one.
Meh. That seems like so much empty verbiage.
I am intrigued by the interface but unless you and I have radically different concepts about what constitutes a “hardcore” videogame, it’s never going to cut it. It’s kind of neat for “arcadey” diversions, and I like that it encourages a little more activity – but it’s very limited by design. It will never be satisfactory for a proper sim or even a fully-featured RTS or FPS.
I want hot-keys up the ass, me. (Then again, this has always left me out of the console demographic.)
Sure, he says the Wii will appeal to “hardcore” gamers – but what do you expect him to say? “Nah, our machine is for lightweights.”
In the next breath (as the interview is edited,) he goes on to say “At Nintendo we really look for the right theme or the right subject or the right content that really matches the Wii’s unique interface to really bring that to the mass market in a way that is new and interesting for them,” which is really all they can do., isn’t it?
The original Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the first computer games I’ve ever played - back in the days my brother and his friends would all gather and have 8 hour hot seat sessions at our house every weekend, and a single game campaign can go for months - all this with extremely primitive graphics and lots, I mean lots, of number pushing.
Long story short, KOEI had been around for longer than most imagined, and they do make great games - although I certainly hope they’d one day ditch the practice to create a great IP and then sell it to the ground (ROTK is at its 11th iteration and Dynasty Warriors is fast approaching that number)… so seeing something original from them is always welcomed.
As for the whole thing about Nitendo being kid oriented, I honestly don’t mind a change of scenery after beating down hookers with a baseball bat for the umteenth time. Violence gets old, you know, and lately I’ve been seeing the use of blood and gore as a way to cover up poor game design and general lack of polish, which as a trend is pretty disturbing to me.