Yashi's Uland: 6 Golden Flags Amerocoo

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More than slightly pissed off, they didn't have much after ONE day at Toys R Us... Figured I'll just pick up Mario and Sonic at the Olympics somewhere else, and pick up Mario Party DS at Toys R Us.

All they had was Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Super Mario Galaxy, and several of those crappy games... I was thinking about Ninjabread Man though. :|

Picked up the Wii zapper today after finding out that Rock Band isn't coming out here till December 20th, oh and I live all the way in Canada which is soooo far away from the US.

I'll try not to go on a rant here.

Therefore I decided to buy a Zapper seeing how I still have no money after saving the cash for RB and the only game that I haven't beaten in my library yet is Umbrella Chronicles which I will apparently be playing for the next month.

Moving on, the thing aint too bad. It really doesn't seem to make a difference in gameplay seeing how you still have to use the on-screen crosshair to aim, but I just like gun type accessories, so while it may not improve the game it doesn't break it either which is a plus for myself.

The Wiimote/Nunchuck are a bit of a pain to get in and out of the contraption and will definately detur you from jumping from game to game unless you own two Wiimotes.

Also for anyone who has a rechargeable battary pack for their controller that increases the grip size even by a fraction, the controller doesn't seem to fit in the housing. So be prepaired with a fist full of AAs again if you want to use this add-on.

Overall though, if you're interested in it and have got $20 to burn, go for it. Otherwise the only other incentive is for Zelda fanboys who I'm sure have probably got their hands all over this thing for the crossbow minigame.

I'll probably get the Zapper when I get Ghost Squad.

Seriously, I'm anticipating tons of fun squirting bikini clad women with water guns.

Umbrella Chronicles is a rail shooter. Beware.

Uhhhh... why did you feel the need to state that? CAPCOM has been saying that it was since they announced it a year ago. Anyone who thought it was otherwise is an idiot.

Lukage gets five dollars every time he states the obvious. It's his job you see, but it's all kept in an imaginary bank he keeps in the second knuckle on the ring finger of his left hand. He'll protect it with his life if he has to for the treasure troves contained within would boggle mankind into a stupor only matched by prolonged exposure to the feeling of being completely smothered with laundry fresh from the dryer. Fucking bastard. :mad:

Everyone sane is buying Umbrella Chronicles for Rebecca and Jill anyway. And if not that (fags), then surely for Rei Wong.

Just wanted to point out an obvious fact myself.

Fact 1.) Rebecca's voice actor is not the same as 0's actor.

Fact 2.) Rebecca's voice actor is the same person that does Hinata in the English version of Naruto

Fact 3.) Rebecca's voice actor SUCKS!!

Unfortunately I don't get paid when I state obvious facts however.

No.
Never.
DON'T!

You're only allowed to buy games by UFO Entertainment if you're Infernal Monkey or you're also a collector of cash-grabbing utter garbage because it's a quirky hobby and you plan on making goofy reviews of it.

Why anyone would even think of buying that fucking game I'll never know. Just because the developers made a pun in the title doesn't excuse the game from being shovelware. It's the exact same game (levels, gameplay systems) as Anubis 2 and Rock and Roll Adventures, just with a different skin. There's no story (I'm not exaggerating, I've heard they don't even tell you the plot in the game, they just plop you right in). It's 3 levels long. It will last anyone about an hour before the credits roll.

It actually angers me that Nintendo allowed this developer to publish their games here. The mere fact that these scum-sucking games exist brings down the Wii's overall image. I'd rather have less games come out for the Wii than many ones that deserve ratings of 1-3 out of 10.

I was kidding. :3:

Like hell I would ever waste my money on half-assed shit like that. As for Anubis II, I'll ask the same question Gamespot did.

You mean there was an Anubis I?

Just preordered two Super Famicom Wii controllers and the Super Mario Galaxy OST. =)

You can too! =D

http://www.ncsx.com/2007/111907/ncs1119u.htm

or http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-...n-70-2f4f.html if you prefer play-asia but their preorder isn't available yet.

Some recent magazine (EGM or Game Informer, not sure which, thumbed through it at the store) had an article on this very topic. According to industry insiders, the fact that bad, low-budget games exist for a system only means it's doing very well. If Nintendo can afford to give stuff like Ninjabread their official Nintendo Seal of Quality, they're obviously making more money than they know what to do with. It's the same with the DS: Nintendo actually owns so much of the hand-held market they can afford to let barely passable games like Bratz or whatever get released without worrying about losing their market position.

Oh, horray. I was hoping one of those sites would eventually stock those. Thanks for the heads up Acer.

No prob, Skills. Got the news from Kotaku. Had to share it before the place gets overwhelmed with orders.

Skills. A quick check of your last fm reveals that your music taste is so shithouse, that not even the highest bitrate in the world would save it from sounding awful.

I guess it's either crappy music that sounds great or great music that sounds like crap. Alas, a lose-lose situation. :(

RAB, you do know that by saying that you transcoded your ENTIRE library, you risked the ire of 99.95% of the members at this board, right?

It was EGM, and it was meant to be a joke, I think. The reason why you're seeing so much shovelware on Wii so early in its life (and not on PS3/Xbox 360), is because these shovelware developers are just porting over their games from PS2 to Wii. Currently, PS3/Xbox 360 development costs are too costly for shovelware developers to mass release their crap on.

Also, the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality was removed years ago; it's now just the Official Nintendo Seal, to authorize that a game has been licensed by Nintendo.

Oh like there weren't some crap games with the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality on them.

I used to think the seal meant that game was absolutely guaranteed to at least run on Nintendo hardware. It certainly didn't mean the games were all just that good, right? I mean, Nintendo didn't have a staff of game critics on-hand to review every game before it's release or anything - at least not from a *quality* standpoint. The name change was probably to assuage any confusions from that.

It very well could have been a joke, I'm not sure, but it did make a good point. There just seems to be more shovelware per capita on a system that's doing very well, even if it just means it has that much more software available for it. Like you said, the Wii is relatively easier and cheaper to program for, *and* has a larger user base of several demographics, so I'm not surprised more people are just throwing whatever they can program onto it.

I wouldn't hold out for Ninjabread Man 2: Shuriken Shortcake anytime soon, though.

Hmm, didn't see anybody talk about this (maybe because it's only available in Japan right now) but Nintendo launch the Everybody's Nintendo Channel.

Here's a nice video demo:

YouTube Video

It's a nice little feature and I can't wait when it launch in North America.

Good on Nintendo for looking at Xbox Live and realizing that people enjoy free videos that advertise games.

Now when will they let us download free demos?

Probably never. Not with the amount of space they've given us. I barely have enough room on my Wii as is and I'm not even using all the channel slots. Running out of space also puts a lovely handicap on the Internet Channel since it limits your cache. I wonder how this new channel will react to the lack of space on my Wii. I really want SD or HDD expansion support. :(