A bit of an unusual crappy relationship
Me and you, we used to have a great relationship. You used to provide me with months of entertainment, frustration, satisfaction and enjoyment. But then you changed, for the worse. You started getting sloppy, and not caring. About 8 years ago, you really didn't care about your appearance, and what was on the inside was slowly changing too. You had small flaws slowly entering into view, and you didn't care about them, you were happy with them.

Me and my friends, we saw these, we didn't like them, and we tried to tell you but you didn't listen. And then, 4 years ago, you abandoned all pretense that you had anything good left in you, and abandoned me and my friends for a new crowd, a crowd of whores and pimps and those with more money than sense. You whored yourself out for them, taking anything they gave you and using it, all the while, leaving me and my friends out in the cold, ignoring all the good times we'd had together. Things degenerated from there, you became known as a joke, a laughing stock, capable of taking and using any old shit without a care in the world, just to please your new friends. Your new audience, as it were.

I would say it started to change about a month ago, when you announced that you were going back to an old favourite, and I was cautiously optimistic. Maybe this could be the big break for us, the thing that got me liking you again, but now, now I've just read something horrific about your re-imagining of the old favourite.

"We were fortunate enough to work closely with Nintendo to make the game accessible even to ‘first time’ shooter players by providing different control schemes for the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. Some of the control schemes use auto-aim (like the original N64 game did) and there’s one where you don’t even have to point at the screen with the Wii Remote... We have four different difficulty settings; three of them use regenerative health and one of them does not"

Why Nintendo, why?! There wasn't an auto-aim in the original Goldeneye, there wasn't regenerative health, you're just taking a shit all over my fond memories of that game with this rerelease. We used to love you before you abandoned all pretense of being a good gaming company and just outright went for cash, using fucktons of shovelware as a licence to print money. And yet... I still play on your old consoles. I still remember the good old days of Mario Kart, of Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, of accusing friends of looking at my screen, and I look at the Wii and I think - that's shit.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 12:48, 11 replies)

It did too have auto-aim on N64
If you shot vaguely in the right direction without pressing the R button to target, it would find the nearest bad guy and hit him 90% of the time - I think that's what they're talking about. Maybe that's only in Agent/Secret Agent? (I've been playing an emulator version recently, can't remember what settings I've been using though).

Nintendo have always been a bit child-friendly, but there's some good stuff in there too (Super Mario Galaxy 2 is great fun). I think you are expecting too much from this relationship, and I don't think Nintendo are expecting it to be exclusive. You can screw an XBox 360 on the side if you like.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 13:18, closed)

this ^^

( Bamboo Steamer, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 13:29, closed)

Maybe its just me
I've played it to death on 00 Agent setting, and there was no auto-aiming on it. Could be the settings.

I've got no problems with being kid-friendly, as long as its in moderation. That way, you at least stand some chance of improving, and it's not a complete cakewalk. Same reason why I don't like QTEs in games, it just takes the fun out of it by being able to press X and then A) have the room explode and destroy everything, and B) not die in the process. All the time. Same with regenerative health, taking any element of strategy out of the game. Where's the fun there?

Also, yeah, I'm screwing an Xbox 360 and PC on the side. And a Dreamcast too. And a Megadrive. I am a filthy consumer whore.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 13:48, closed)

Dirty!
I've got a casual thing with a Wii, but I'm thinking of marrying my PS3, as long as it's open-minded enough to accept the occasional lapse.

And agreed about a challenge being important. I generally prefer a human opponent. As long as we're playing by the same rules, there's always a challenge then, even with "casual" games.

Don't write off Goldeneye. I reckon the settings with no auto aim or regenerative health will be hard enough to keep you entertained.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 14:02, closed)

Right
My entire family seemed to have moved onto playing the PS3 most of the time (A few lapses to the Wii when I feel like playing Zelda or using the emulator to play one of my Gamecube games like Eternal Darkness etc etc).

A bit about the new Goldeneye (Just read an interview with one of the main guys on the project while on my dinner break today) The game has totally done away with all gadgets used in the original game, DK Mode is also a no no and each multiplayer character will have their own special move (Oddjob will be able to throw his hat from the look of it- I hope that this is a joke).

Will still buy it anyway because its release date is close to my sons birthday and he will more than likely want to see what all the hype is about.

The sad thing is the rumor that Rare have a fully working version of an up to date port of the original and are not allowed to do a thing with it.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 14:47, closed)

That additional info of the game makes me cry
Get the original game for your son, don't give him the new game otherwise he'll wonder why everyone was raving about such a shit game.

I know there's been talks of getting it ported to the 360 but Nintendo have said no repeatedly, where's the news about the fully working up to date port of it?
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:40, closed)

There was certainly an auto-aim option in multiplayer.

( SigmaX0 Dear Die Hard. You rock!, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:14, closed)

NSMB was a good game
as well as the mario galaxy games. Even paper mario for the wii was good. Anything non-mario and non-zelda seems a waste though. There's the rare exception. Blazing Aces 2 was great fun with the nunchuk controller, although not an amazing game. No More Heroes was fun, want to try the second one. I haven't tried the Red Steel or Metroid games yet. Madworld looks entertaining. Punch Out was great. The original Raving Rabbids games for wii were good fun but the new ones are crap.
The Wii is definitely not exclusive relationship material though.
(Turtlenuts, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:13, closed)

It used to be that the non-Nintendo games were ace
Blast Corps, any Rare game, etc etc. Nowadays, like you said, they're a rare exception.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Mon 25 Oct 2010, 15:42, closed)

I loved Blast Corps!
(Turtlenuts, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 18:55, closed)

Far
Too nerdy
(lemonadegame, Tue 26 Oct 2010, 1:10, closed)