Nintendo 3DS: IGN Editors Chime In

Levi Buchanan: I really could not wait to try out the Nintendo 3DS at E3. After spending my allotted 20 minutes with the handheld, I cannot deny the impressiveness of Nintendo's 3DS technology. This really could be a revolutionary machine. The first game preview I saw was Animal Crossing. Watching the world roll at me with real spatial differences between the characters, trees, and ground made me break out in a monster grin.

Iggly! You should have left the story black.

Daemon Hatfield: I was very excited to check out the 3DS, so imagine my disappointment when I found a blurry mess that hurt my eyes. Now, I have a bad astigmatism in my left eye and wear very strong prescription contact lenses. I can only assume my poor eyesight is keeping me from appreciating the 3DS' visuals, because most everyone else had a positive experience with it. But when I look at the 3D screen I see double. If I concentrated really hard I could bring the images together, but I couldn't keep them that way for long. So it looks like the 3DS may not work for everyone.

Why is Hatefiled such a buzz kill?

Who posted this!

Kensuke Tanabe & the Metroid Palm Tree

How can you post an update about a palm tree without making a terrible face palm joke?!

IGN: OK. Let's start with the fact that this is Donkey Kong, versus Metroid Prime. That's a big step, I think. What started that?

Retro: We've been working on this project since April 2008. Prior to that, we were working on experiments for our next project. And as I'm sure you're aware, we had some staff leave, which made us question whether or not the projects we were working on -- these experiments -- were in our best interest at the time. So Mr. Tanabe and Mr. Miyamoto were discussing Donkey Kong Country, and asking "is there a developer around that can do it justice?" And we had just had this issue with the shift in personnel and we were open, so they approached us and asked us if we'd be interested. We couldn't say yes fast enough. That's kind of how it fell into our laps. Actually, it was "Fate" which was the code word for this game since then.

Ugh, those 3 dudes leaving wrecked everything.

Retro: Each level in DKCR contains about three times the detail of an average Metroid Prime 3 room, as far as the texture count and poly count. That has required us to really ramp up our technology to support that. We're playing on the same platform, but with three times the content in any given level.

Wow.

Retro making an RPG?

Retro: I think that we're getting that question a lot. And, really, a good developer makes a fun game. To lock any developer into a genre is, I don't know . . . our goal is to make fun Nintendo games. Very high quality. And whether it's a first-person shooter or an RPG, we welcome any of those challenges. So I get a kick out of reading all these posts that say, "Oh, it's gotta be this FPS DKC." It makes me laugh -- because they've really pigeon-holed Retro as making exclusively FPS-style games. Right?

Ravenprose said:

Cliffy B. - 'I think Nintendo is back'

Cliffy B said:

I think Nintendo's back. Nintendo strayed. Nintendo had an affair with everybody's mum, and now they've come back to the marriage of the Mario and the Kirby and the GoldenEye fans. For me that's good to see, because I dusted off my Wii for Mario Galaxy 2 and I'm hoping to keep the dust off of it.

My Wii is dusty too but that's because I don't dust.  I gets played quite often but the dust still comes.  Need to speak to the wife about that and make her earn her keep.

Doing some updating.

GameXplain

Why Wasn't The Grinder Wii at E3 2010?

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June 17, 2010, 5:21 am

During my appointment to see The Grinder at E3 2010, I was surprised to see that the Wii version wasn't playable at the show. This was pretty shocking to me, and I was actually more than a little disappointed not to be able to play what the developers repeatedly called "Left 4 Dead" on the Wii.

My first inclination at this point was to assume that the Wii version had been quietly canned, and High Voltage Software was just trying to sweep the project under the rug. When I asked the rep on hand whether this was the case, he just started laughing. Apparently this couldn't have been further from the truth.

Through a strange series of events, the Wii debug unit that had the code for both The Grinder Wii and Animales de Muerte was no longer in High Voltage's meeting room, and  had instead migrated over to SEGA's booth. Apparently, the debug unit that SEGA was using to show off The Conduit 2 and Tournament of Legends at its private meeting room had randomly fried itself completely and started smoking right there in the room.

Now, this wasn't exactly a problem in and of itself since High Voltage had its own debug unit there to show off The Grinder Wii. However, once that console reached the inside of SEGA's meeting room, that was the end of anyone's hopes of playing the game at E3. Because SEGA isn't publishing The Grinder, High Voltage couldn't demo the game for anyone inside SEGA's booth. SEGA, on the other hand, needed the unit for all of its behind-closed-doors demos of The Conduit 2, so it wasn't leaving there.

This was somewhat upsetting as I really wanted to see what High Voltage could pull off with The Grinder after a year of work, and even more so after playing the Xbox 360 version of the game. Both versions of the game offer some exciting 4-player co-op (with the potential for many more players, according to the HVS reps), but the difference between a top-down shooter, and an FPS has to be night and day. Still, it was great to hear that the Wii game is coming along nicely and that High Voltage is close to choosing a publisher. I just hope I get to play the game sooner rather than later.

I wanted to see COD black ops wii version. Every year it's the same thing, they show off the HD version and pretend the wii version doesn't exist.

Would it kill them to give a hands on or some screens and video?

robio said:

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