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11/19/2007 8:58:27 AM

any word if they're gonna add super mario all-stars or are they just gonna milk me to buy all the marios individially

i would like to have smb3 with the snes graphics

11/19/2007 9:25:44 AM

I picked up 3 copies of GH3 at the B2G1 sale at TRU this weekend.

Gonna sell 2 of em on eBay, keep the other. Getting paid to buy GH3.... sweet! (for some reason GH3 Wii bundles are going for >MSRP on eBay).

Run, don't walk. The sale ends Wednesday.

11/19/2007 9:52:40 AM

^^I'm 99% sure that they're gonna milk them individually and then release All-Stars at an inflated price somewhere down the line (maybe 1-2 years). Hell they might even break up the All-Star versions and release them as stand-alone games.

11/19/2007 10:05:50 AM

well, they've already released them all individually now (have they released Mario World yet?), so 1 year or 2 sounds about right... Wii's 2nd anniversary maybe?

I dont think they will break the game up, they have mostly left all the VC releases intact (for better or worse). I don't think they will charge an inflated price, either.

11/19/2007 12:19:53 PM

Hard to believe that this has been out a year and its still a bitch to find.

11/19/2007 12:31:53 PM

Yesterday I used the ToyRUs deal to purchase Assassin's Creed, Super Mario Galaxy, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Pretty good deal I think.

11/19/2007 12:53:47 PM

Assassin's Creed for Wii ZOMGCOPTER!!!!


just kidding, I know it was a misake in TRU's special. Wish teh PS3 version were eligible

11/19/2007 2:19:10 PM

I don't think that they will release allstars anytime soon, much less at 800 points.

and to FanatiK, yes Mario World is out. Been out for a Very long time now.

^^^ and will only get harder, me thinks, until after Christmas.

11/19/2007 2:38:31 PM

anybody know if amazon.com is going to do that contest/drawing thing like they did last year? my aunt is looking for a wii but no luck yet.

11/19/2007 3:42:40 PM

http://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071120/FEATURES01/711200324/1004/MTCN0303

Quote :

"Ralphie Parker of A Christmas Story, patron saint of toy gun owners, how deep would your passion burn for Nintendo's new Wii Zapper, despite your unyielding mom? The toy in question is a new accessory for the Wii game console. It's not a controller but a gunlike cradle designed to hold the Wiimote and Wii Nunchuk, increasing players' accuracy in shooting games. The Zapper is white and elegant, all sleek curves and shiny surfaces. It is futuristic in the way that Star Wars is futuristic, a sort of retro-future that will never happen and already has. The Wii Zapper, with its snub nose and smooth grip, is the prettiest submachine gun ever sold. If that's what it is. Is it a gun? "We don't think it even really looks like a gun," says George Harrison, Nintendo's senior vice president of marketing. He offers an alternative concept: "It's a utility that allows for more diverse styles of play." Certain parents disagree. In a recent New Jersey Star-Ledger online survey, one grandparent responded to news of Zapper by writing, "Why don't they enclose an application to the NRA in every box as well? . . . The marketing person who came up with this brainchild of an idea should be fired." Certain kids salivate. "I think it's going to make it feel like you're actually holding a gun in real life," says Jonathan Moreira, 16, who has been awaiting the Zapper (which went on sale Monday for $19.99) since he saw it advertised at a gaming conference in July. "It'll change everything about FPS" (first-person shooting, for you non-gamers). Says Damian Crisafulli, 14, who is fluent in Nintendo: "You may only be buying a piece of plastic that reshapes what's already there, but it comes with a free game. Plus, it's a cool tool for game developers to build in, plus you get to shoot zombies in REUC (Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles)." People who say it promotes violence are, he says, paranoid. Permissiveness ebbed and flowed Last month the city of Springfield, Mass., sponsored a toy gun buy-back, offering free ice cream to the 50 children who relinquished squirt guns and fake laser pistols. The history of objections to toy guns is almost as long as the history of the toy, from Rose Simone, concerned Chicago citizen, who organized toy-gun-burning bonfires in 1934-35, to state senators in New Jersey who are stumping for a statewide ban on selling imitation firearms to those younger than 18. Toy guns, in the forms of sticks, scraps and the always-reliable thumb-and-forefinger, have been around about as long as the real thing, which debuted in the mid-14th century. Toy guns, in the form of things you could go out and buy, arrived much later. After the Civil War, weapons factory owners realized that no war meant no profits. Light bulb! Replace the bullets with sound-making caps! Those guns were loud, but they didn't shoot anything. That joykill was fixed by harnessing pneumatic technology to make air rifles that blasted ball bearings of .18 inches (a size halfway between B and BBB shotgun shot, hence the BB gun). In 1888, the floundering Plymouth Iron Windmill Co. in Michigan decided to include a BB gun as a freebie with every farmer's order, and in two years, Plymouth had shut down windmill production and was making 50,000 Daisy Air Rifles a year. Most were for adults. Back and forth, parental permissiveness, parental anxiety. With World II, guns were patriotic again, even in play, but the horrible assassinations and body bags of the '60s changed that. Sears and Bloomingdale's stripped toy guns from their Christmas inventories in 1968. Dr. Spock reversed his pro-pistol position in 1968, discouraging toy gun play. In 1983, along came Ralphie in A Christmas Story, pleading for the Red Ryder BB gun of yesteryear."

11/20/2007 4:15:15 PM

So... I don't have a link right now cuz I'm lazy but I just read a news story about a guy who got back from 1 year in Iraq and found a Mii on his Wii created by some dude who had fucked his wife while he was gone.

She was already busted, and had admitted that she kissed the guy 'once', and it was a one time deal yadda yadda. He checked his Wii and saw all the times they had played Wii bowling together. Dude even created a Mii, lolz.

He filed for divorce.

IM IN UR Wii FUCKN YUR WIVEZ

and

I thought this system was supposed to bring families together

[Edited on November 20, 2007 at 4:21 PM. Reason : dd]

11/20/2007 4:19:24 PM

psh...you want a gun?


now thats a gun!

11/20/2007 4:20:00 PM

or better yet




Bazooka ftw.

11/20/2007 4:21:05 PM

How about the fucking Chainsaw controller from Resident Evil (4??)

11/20/2007 4:22:27 PM

i played medal of honor 2 online using the wii zapper and it was surprisingly nice. i actually had my best game ever using it, though i've probably played 10 games total, so thats not sayin much.

11/21/2007 1:47:49 AM

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/wii.re-just-friends/soldier-uses-wii-to-catch-wife-doing-up-down-left-right-a+b+a+b-with-another-man-325071.php

here's the link to the story

11/21/2007 10:32:17 AM

ah the old time festivities of mixing politics with video games.

i love the holidays.

11/21/2007 12:45:00 PM

Just got the Zapper thingy...its nifty.

11/21/2007 6:43:12 PM

you play any moh2 with the zapper online? i like it a lot. i just hate that it takes so many bulets to take somebody down. nothin to do with the zapper, just a gripe about the game itself. i followed some guy around half a map shootin him til he finally died.

11/22/2007 9:13:35 PM

I got a Wii today to give as a present!

I haven't read this thread in a while - but do you know that Nintendo is going to start putting a Wiimote cover in the package? So if you bought one before - you can put your serial in the website and they will send you one? Just a heads up if no one has posted it (though I'm sure someone has somewhere)

Has anyone tried the Wii Sports pack? I haven't seen it before today - but it's extenders for Wii Sports like the tennis racket etc? The Wii version seemed way too big, but the Game Stop version was smaller and didn't seem too cumbersome - but I wonder if it helps at all

11/24/2007 3:05:20 AM

^yes, we know about the remote covers. also, the attachment things for wiisports aren't necessary, kinda cumbersome, and make it more likely that you'll hit someone/something else. i wouldn't waste your money.

11/24/2007 10:30:31 AM

freakin amazon had wii's for $79 if you participated in a voting thing with them..

and if you did, they randomly select 1000 people to give them a change to buy it.

must be nice.

i missed the voting by a few hours.

11/24/2007 10:32:32 AM

so technical question.
I just bought an HDTV. it's 720p and I don't have the composite cables yet.
I set the wii options to widescreen 16:9 and then set my tv to STRETCH so it fits the whole TV. I put in Legend of Zelda and all three squares look like squares in the set up before you start the game.

Now Mario Galaxy and LoZ when played fit the whole screen.
MoH Heroes 2 and RE 4 do not. Theres still a fair amount of black on the sides.

Do only Nintendo games fill the whole screen? wtf?

Do the composite cables make a huge difference? 480i -> 490p.

Do the cables solve the MoH and RE4 problem?

thanks

11/25/2007 4:51:30 PM

super paper mario and Metroid Prime 3 also do the same thing where it doesn't fit all the way. I guess this is a normal thing.

11/25/2007 5:12:43 PM

That's not the case with mine.

11/25/2007 5:21:52 PM

^ what games are you playing that look fine that I listed above.
do you have the composite cables?

11/25/2007 6:16:58 PM

they are component cables that provide 480p.

the composite is for 480i

11/25/2007 7:27:47 PM

so the DS demo channel went live in Japan, meaning it might go live here soon

11/27/2007 8:32:37 PM

hence the word might lol

[Edited on November 27, 2007 at 9:38 PM. Reason : but yeah, I hope so.]

11/27/2007 9:38:10 PM

so i rented strikers, not bad. pretty fun.

and hitman 2, which i havnt played yet.

11/28/2007 12:28:06 AM

Hitman 2 is on the Wii?

That game is like 6 years old. For the PC at least.

11/28/2007 11:20:37 AM

yeah, it was suppose to come out a while ago, but was pulled off the shelved beause it was toooo gruesome, so they detuned it a bit.

11/28/2007 11:32:22 AM

I think you're referring to Manhunt 2.

11/28/2007 11:33:29 AM

oh wait, yeah, haha manhunt 2.

yeah thats the one i rented.

[Edited on November 28, 2007 at 11:55 AM. Reason : i watched hitman movie the other day]

11/28/2007 11:55:23 AM

i have a free game rental for the month of nov. and another one for dec. what game should i go rent tonight?

i have:
super paper mario
zelda twilight princess
super mario galaxy
wii sports
wii play
guitar hero iii

i have played:
raymond raving rabbids
marvel ult alliance
sims 2 pets
lego star wars (on ps2)

11/28/2007 12:05:30 PM

Anyone have any news on Wii Ware? I think that's the channel they're planning for downloadable games + such.

Hopefully they/Activision will get their heads out of their asses and release Guitar Hero song packs on it. PRETTY PLEASE.

11/28/2007 12:23:35 PM

strikers is a pretty fun game.

i was debating between strikers or fifa 08

11/28/2007 12:40:43 PM

Let me know what your opinions of Manhunt 2 are, I was definitely gonna get it up until they had to cut out the content.

11/28/2007 12:41:48 PM

i was hesitating to rent it just because of the detuned content..

but there wasnt much at blockbuster.

11/28/2007 12:50:27 PM

new wiis are selling in the mid 400s on ebay. might have to sell mine

11/28/2007 12:58:59 PM

hah

11/28/2007 1:01:28 PM

http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/wii/zack_and_wiki_quest_for_barbaros_treasure looks awesome...play that and let me know if i should buy it

11/28/2007 1:42:43 PM

BUY IT, IT'S THE SHIT

11/28/2007 3:12:37 PM

So will Dr. Mario be playable online? When I was a kid, I used to play that game all night until I was delirious from sleep deprivation. I dunno why; I never seemed to like similar games as much.

11/28/2007 6:43:14 PM

Quote :

"http://www.gamerevolution.com/review/wii/zack_and_wiki_quest_for_barbaros_treasure looks awesome...play that and let me know if i should buy it"

The game is fantastic. In terms of length, it took me about 20 hours to go through all the levels (the same amount of time it took me to finish Metroid Prime 3). More stuff opens up after you beat the game. I haven't done all of that yet, though.

11/28/2007 7:28:37 PM

I'm thinking it might be worth it to sell my year old wii right before Xmas then get a new one after. I wonder if I could actually turn a profit on it.

11/28/2007 8:23:43 PM

hmm, ok well manhunt didnt go so well with me. im not a fan of those types of games, like RE4 and stuff.

its cool though, but not my thing. so dont base the game off of what i posted.

good graphics and curse words and blood. every which way you swing the wiimote and nunchuck is a different hit. kinda cool.

11/28/2007 8:51:50 PM

^^What would be the purpose of that?

11/29/2007 11:30:24 AM

^They're selling for mid $400s on ebay again

11/29/2007 11:35:20 AM