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- doshindude, on 06/04/2009, -12/+108That is so stupid.
- boberto, on 06/04/2009, -4/+88Did anybody honestly expect online play for this? It's Nintendo, remember.
- thisismydigg, on 06/04/2009, -1/+65stop reminding me that i don't have friends nintendo
- jtbndy, on 06/04/2009, -7/+70I think the lack of online support for their titles and hardware is really going to come back and haunt them down the road. If not this generation, next generation for sure.
- chockster, on 06/04/2009, -6/+55I don't care. Am I really the only one? I only ever pictured playing this with all my friends in the living room with me.
It's like Mario Party. Great fun with all your friends round... if you played it alone you'd just be sat there in the room alone during that "shake the paint can and look like you're bashing one out" round. Sounds kind of grim. - bgres07, on 06/04/2009, -6/+36What a terrible move for the Big N. The multiplayer is going to make this game, and people who don't have other people that they can play with in their place of residence aren't going to buy this. I definitely will not be getting it now, because it won't be any fun if you can't just jump in with three other people anytime you want.
Big, Big mistake on this one. - foofightrs777, on 06/04/2009, -4/+33I graduated college. I don't live in a dorm anymore. It's a lot more difficult to get my buddies together to game now that we all live scattered off in different directions. This is why we need online play with voice chat.
- gcnaddict, on 06/04/2009, -11/+38No. Nintendo, you WILL add DECENT online play to SMB.
Revolutionary, my ass. I'm tired of SSB's current online play mode. I'm tired of the fact that every game which would've been 1000x more fun online is finding itself castrated by the hands of Nintendo. Metroid Prime 3? Super Smash Bros. Brawl (you can't call its current mode "good"), and now this. It's a sack of crap.
Add a damned online lobby and let people play their games online the way it's meant to be played, not by this crap random-matching friend-coding method which involves the game freezing half the time when it all could've been avoided by letting people pick their own games.
Microsoft now has a better control interface in the works and Sony and Microsoft both have better online play, and all Nintendo can think about is pulling another gimmick to make a quick buck. I don't know how I thought Nintendo would make fun, worthy online games. Clearly, it hasn't happened.
The only use my Wii now has is for the occasional game of Brawl, but my friends always bring their PS3s and 360s so that we can play a larger library of games which are much more fun online because Nintendo sucks nuts at taking advantage of the future.
/rant - EliCompton, on 06/04/2009, -0/+25Yeah, the internet is going to be huge someday.
- Coffeedemon, on 06/04/2009, -0/+21It could be done. I remember playing hours of Goldeneye on a 20 Inch tube TV. Wasn't the best but it was all we had and we liked it. Nothing wrong with providing the option.
- baldr, on 06/04/2009, -1/+22You're right. nintendo thinks online play is a fad. something that they can indulge the player with every now and again but not something that is going to be an expected necessity in future games.
They are dead wrong.
and the longer it takes them to move in the direction of being able to easy communicate and play with friends online, the more it is going to hurt them in the long run. - alexforcefive, on 06/04/2009, -0/+17We also had to walk 6 miles uphill in the snow to get to our N64s... :D
- ArcadeJunkies, on 06/04/2009, -2/+17Surprise!
- MattNF, on 06/04/2009, -2/+17In the E3 Roundtable Discussion with Miyamoto, he said the Wii was not powerful enough to handle online in this game. I ***** you not.
- sorepheet, on 06/04/2009, -5/+20About as stupid as the fact that 4 people can't play L4D co-op in the same living room?!?! Or how my two roommates play Halo Wars in different rooms of the house on two separate TVs and talk to each other over their headsets? Yeah it is an oversight, something that could be remedied in time for a fall launch. I think this idea of having to own multiple systems and games in order for a bunch of people in the same house to enjoy multi-player is just as annoying.
- barcardi, on 06/04/2009, -3/+18Ive never understood why people instantly dislike games that don't have online. Its pretty obvious that its meant to be an old school throw back, with actual friends and neighbors in the same room with you screaming at you.
Ahhhhhhhhh goldeneye.
Anyhow i see room in today's world for both online and in room play. - SkippyDoorknob, on 06/04/2009, -0/+14Levels and powerups are different.
- DanteDefiance, on 06/04/2009, -5/+19YEAH! GUNS AN SPLOSIONS ARE FOR BIG DICK PEOPLE LIKE US!!
- Chebsi, on 06/04/2009, -0/+14It's not a port.
- chaosblade77, on 06/04/2009, -1/+14That's pretty much what I was thinking too. This is kind of game just doesn't seem like online play could match the fun of local multiplayer. Sure, the option would have been nice, but I never would have touched it.
- kinseyincanada, on 06/04/2009, -1/+13Nintendo is so successful because they are targeting the average person. The average person does not care about online play.
- monkeyrun, on 06/04/2009, -3/+15am I the only one who enjoys having friends over to play games?
- gahmahn, on 06/04/2009, -3/+15I'd say this generation. If their is no online play I'm not buying it.
- inactive, on 06/04/2009, -0/+11I can't wait for online gaming to become popular.
- CoreyHalliwell, on 06/04/2009, -1/+12Golden Eye was amazing! but it came out in what? 1997? 96? It's 2009 man Online gaming is standard now. If you want to bring friends over, thats fine. But i expect online play now.
- wesleyzero, on 06/04/2009, -0/+11I'm pretty sure he was mocking the fact that you ripped on Nintendo and offered games that primarily feature big guns and explosions as the better alternatives.
- Purin, on 06/04/2009, -0/+10If you knew how bad Nintendo's online play really was, you'd think of this as a blessing.
Smash Bros. is a nightmare to play online. - cpeumr, on 06/04/2009, -2/+12FTA: The processing limitations are a continuous problem that developers have been trying to deal with since the 8-bit era and continue to deal with in the current times too.
Apparently Microsoft and Sony seem to have overcome the limitations to include online play. Perhaps if Nintendo had added a bit more horsepower, this wouldn't be an issue for them either. - sremick, on 06/04/2009, -0/+9The lame excuse almost upsets me more than the fact that it's missing.
If The Conduit can do online, a 2D sidescrolling platformer can on the same hardware. - DanteDefiance, on 06/04/2009, -0/+9SHUT UP GAYWAD!! I BET YOU WANT TO SUCK ON MY DICK AND WATCH ME ENJOY IT CAUSE UR GAY.
- tdogg241, on 06/04/2009, -2/+11I find it hard to believe that a 2D platformer pushes the limits of the Wii processing power to the point that online play wouldn't work. In fact, I don't see how this game could push the processor any more than SSBB did, and that had online play.
Whatever. It still looks like a fun game, but since I'm getting rid of my Wii I won't be playing it. - inactive, on 06/04/2009, -2/+11This doesn't exactly seem like the kind of game I'd want to play online anyway. I mean, it sounds like it could be really fun playing with some friends on the couch, but seems you'd lose that charm in online play and most like end up with a bunch of griefing bastards anyway, without the benefit of being able to smack them, either. Normally, I get irritated with Nintendo's lackluster online support, but in this case I understand 100%. It just would not be the same experience - it looks like the kind of game that'd be great for parties and whatnot, but eh, if no one else is around, I think you'd be better off with single player anyway.
- RiotHeart, on 06/04/2009, -1/+9Except it is mainstream
- sremick, on 06/04/2009, -1/+9Right, because Zelda Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime Corruption are "party games".
- sremick, on 06/04/2009, -1/+9If the game had online, no one would be forcing you to use it if you didn't want to. Meanwhile, those who DO would have the option.
- Hartley1942, on 06/04/2009, -2/+10Its been haunting them since Gamecube, dont kid yourself
- giveer, on 06/04/2009, -5/+12 I wouldn't have expected online play for a Mario Bros game ever. I'm not too sure why this is so tragic.. Galaxy 1 wasn't online either. Sure, online is interesting, but I don't remember the last time I played a localized 2 player mario game never mind an online one. I'm more confused why Wii Sports wasn't online at launch or something relatively awesome like that. I've never played an online Sonic game for example either (is there one?) - I would never expect there to be. Excitebot, Call of Duty: WaW, Smash Bros etc etc are all online and that seems on the right track enough for me.
- novablast, on 06/04/2009, -1/+8No, but not everyone has their gaming friends in close proximity to their residence anymore. If the most fun from the game comes from multiplayer, and I can't get my friends together often to play, I don't have a lot of incentive to get the game as it would be sitting on my shelf a lot.
- MindStalker, on 06/04/2009, -2/+9I'm starting to think Nintendo's online "strategy" is absolutely intentional.
1) They are catering to the soccer mom crowd.
2) The soccer mom crowd, if they have an Xbox360 its also not connected up to the net because they don't know how, their kids might eventually connect it up once they get old enough.
3). If you produce a online system that is amazing and the soccer mom hears they need to get their system online to properly play Wii Fit, the will be upset because they are missing out on what their friends have, they tell their friends, arg, this Wii sucks, I can't get it on the Net.. - mr138, on 06/04/2009, -1/+8I call *****. A brand new 2d mario co-op game, and you're not buying it because it doesn't have online multiplayer?
- novablast, on 06/04/2009, -0/+7This is not referring to Mario Galaxy 2, this is referring to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which emphasizes coop play.
- Coffeedemon, on 06/04/2009, -1/+8Maybe they should take some of the billions of dollars you guys have given them and make it better??
- EquesArdor, on 06/04/2009, -1/+7I see the emphasis on family play as a good thing. I know that I'm going to be having fun with my wife and daughter playing games like this.
Besides, the internet is for porn. - GodsTwin, on 06/04/2009, -2/+8You surprised? It's Nintendo.
- foofightrs777, on 06/04/2009, -1/+7You mean the Sega that brought us online play in 1999? The Sega that had a broadband online play solution by 2001-ish? We're talking about the Sega that let you use a kb/mouse to play Quake 3 Arena online right? The one that released and still releases the very popular (and yet currently crap-tacular) Sonic series.
No, Sega's hardware business fizzled out for a few reasons. 1. Rampant piracy on the Dreamcast. 2. The dilution of the brand and undermining of consumer confidence in Sega due to the Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn fiascos. 3. The Sony Playstation 2.
You should check out an article one of my friends wrote for IGN. It's long but a great read.
http://retro.ign.com/articles/974/974695p1.html - MorpheousMarty, on 06/04/2009, -2/+8I would say Nintendo doesn't like money, but they are rolling in it. I'm not at all surprised; I was waiting for this announcement. Nintendo talks so much about revolutionizing the market, but they are so stubborn on what is arguably the the biggest revolution in gaming: the Internet. Whatever, I'm already resigned to the fact that the Wii is a local multi-player console. I still have fun, but I still feel cheated. The thing came with wifi, I would like to use it for gaming other than the virtual console. 3rd party support is good (since they let them ignore friend codes), but Nintendo isn't a 3rd tier game maker and they should be making the on-line experience as good as all their other experiences.
Oh well, at least their single player games make up for it, and the local multi-player is pretty awesome (Smash, Wii Sports etc) - DrFrizzy, on 06/05/2009, -0/+5You can design the game either for online or for same-room multiplayer, but it'll obviously change all the decisions you'd make. Why are people so goddamn bitchy about Nintendo?
- digitul, on 06/04/2009, -5/+10way to keep dragging 10 steps behind nintendo! but hey, the fanboys will eat it up with a smile
- StANTo, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5L4d has splitscreen for the PC
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.p ...
It was going to happen on 360 but technical issues hung them up. - wesleyzero, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5Point taken.
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