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MilesVor

MilesVor

Belgium

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MilesVor

#1

MilesVor commented on Europe Now Receiving Club Nintendo Stars For A...:

Sadly the EU Club Nintendo Shop is like a barren wasteland. I'm sitting on 8000+ stars and there's like nothing worthwhile to get. Well, there's like the Mario Galaxy soundtracks, but that's old. Everything on there is old. It's still selling protection sleeves for the loving DS and Wii controllers. DS mind you, not DSi or 3DS.

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#2

MilesVor commented on GoldenEye 007 Multiplayer Took Just Six Weeks ...:

@machomuu Same here. Might be, partly, because some of us grew up as single children, or with non-gamer siblings. And with my friends, I would go to cyber cafe's to play multiplayer shooters in LAN, so splitscreen multiplayer wasn't really that attractive.

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#3

MilesVor commented on GoldenEye 007 Multiplayer Took Just Six Weeks ...:

@Towels You have to take into account that the development was troubled. Nintendo originally wanted to release the game at the same time as the movie, but due to all kinds of issues the game got delayed and released almost at the time of the sequel. Nintendo being anal as they usually are were probably afraid that a troubled and delayed game wouldn't be up to their standards.
Besides, no one expected the game to be so critically acclaimed and commercially successful. So in most people's mind, it was a whole lot of trouble and money for a simple movie license game.
Not to mention that the game's delay was for a big part due to Nintendo not being satisfied with the game. It's always cool to praise devs for their efforts and curse publishers, but not all companies are EA; you can be sure that a huge part of why the game was so good was due to Nintendo's relentless perfectionism. Nearly every external studio that has made a game for Nintendo (paid by Nintendo, not just released on a Nintendo console) has had radically better output with Nintendo oversight than without.
It's trendy and fun to flame Nintendo because of their past with online infrastructure and third parties, but let's not forget that, taste aside, Nintendo games have always been and still are at the very top quality-wise. No single studio in existence is able to consistently deliver quality the way Nintendo does. It's mindbogging. People like to forget/ignore.