Anyone else LIKE GC & GBA connectivity idea?

[Kidnemo]

That's cool, much better business to not make a gameboy the required controller.

[Omni]

I don't think it's right that one of those fairy dudes in Wind Waker tried to make me feel bad for not owning a GBA.

Screw that.

[MonsterMash]

Originally posted by Kidnemo
That's cool, much better business to not make a gameboy the required controller.

Indeed. Unfortunately the article made it sound like the multiplayer wasn't a lot of fun without the GBA as controller. Basically not having a GBA takes away the ability to do stuff you otherwise could do - RPG stuff like item management.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

Yeah, basically all the action management is done on the GBA so that it doesn't have to pause for all four players whenever one wants to switch something around. Unfortunately, this means that when somebody without a GBA picks up a new item/spell/whatever, it's automatically swapped with one of their old ones with no control and no ability to swap back. The really need to work out a way for those without GBAs to manage that stuff - perhaps a tiny pop-up menu in the corner of the screen. I definitely applaud the concept of keeping the game going at all times, but not at the expense of control.

Of course, this won't be a problem for me - no one I'd be interested in playing this with is one of these non-GBA-having freaks anyway.

[Drewbacca]

Not needed? My interest for this has returned.

[Diff-chan]

GC & GBA connectively is a shallow, stupid gimmick.

Tetra's Trackers is the stupidest thing at E3, bar none. Do you know what's 2nd stupidest? 4 Swords GC.

This crap needs to go away.

[Blaine]

Originally posted by diffusionx
GC & GBA connectively is a shallow, stupid gimmick.

So is Cel Shading. Doesn't really 'change' anything, it just looks different. There are some good cel shaded games (and it's hard for me to admit as I'm thoroughly sick of the fucking technique).

Gimmicks are always bad, they add variety and variety is good.

And at least so far the games that do use it are actually benefiting from it. Like Madden...that was a stupid use of the GBA, you can see replays. Oooh. But downloading NES games from Animal Crossing is awesome, in my opinion that justifies the cost of the cable alone.

It seems like they're trying new things with gameplay that you couldn't do split screen, and since Nintendo sucks and doesn't have decent Online yet, this is a good thing.

Honestly, 4 swords and CC sound like they'd be very good with the GBA because you have that element of secrecy and..well..deciet against the other players. And that will make for a fucking entertaining Tuesday night (another game like that, check it ou, M.U.L.E. for a variety of obsolete computers).

I'm not trying to change your mind or anything, just it seems like a lot of people keep repeating the 'gimmick' line like anyone is saying it's not. It is. Still can be cool.

I don't know, I guess what I'm trying to see is why the people who aren't liking it, are really not liking.

From my point of view Nintendo isn't trying to force anyone to buy anything. It's more of a capatalizing on people who own both and they're probably hoping that if they can come up with some fun games people will ante up (oh no, not good games, god forbig ).

At the end of the day, you don't have to buy any games ever from anyone and if you want Pacman that's a choice. You may have to buy an GBA if you don't have one to do it. Very similar to a lightgun. More expensive, hell yeah, but when all is said and done it's also twenty times more useful.

There's a whole hell of a lot of very cool and original things that can be done with this. I'm looking forward to it.

I don't really care if anyone else is, but I'm just interested in why, if anyone can share.

[LOL]

No one is arguing the merits of such a linkup system, as we can obviously see what Nintendo is trying to accomplish. The argument here is that we just don't give a shit, no matter how often we're told that we should think otherwise.

[Blaine]

Originally posted by omfgninjas
The argument here is that we just don't give a shit, no matter how often we're told that we should think otherwise.

"I don't care" isn't an opinion. It's a lack of opinion.

"You wanna go to the movies or burn your sister with matches?" "I don't care". You could do either, you could do neither, doesn't matter.

"It sucks" is an opinion. There's a difference between apathy and negativity.

I'm not telling anyone what they should think because I don't care.
I am, however, interested in why someone thinks it sucks/is lame/ whatever, if for no other reason than it's something to talk about.

[Drewbacca]

Originally posted by Blaine
"I don't care" isn't an opinion. It's a lack of opinion.

"You wanna go to the movies or burn your sister with matches?" "I don't care". You could do either, you could do neither, doesn't matter.

"It sucks" is an opinion. There's a difference between apathy and negativity.

I'm not telling anyone what they should think because I don't care.
I am, however, interested in why someone thinks it sucks/is lame/ whatever, if for no other reason than it's something to talk about.

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