Nintendo Goes Online!

SmoodCrooznSmoodCroozn Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22310Members
<div class="IPBDescription">No, Really</div> <a href='http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/11/168219&from=rss' target='_blank'>http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...168219&from=rss</a>

Well, not for the cube, but for the Revolution and DS. Even better news as it is FREE, and hopefully have a better interface than Sony. DS will have some odd games like NintenDogs, Electroplankton and Animal Crossing (will be online), while cube owners can look forward to the new Zelda, and boy does that look sexay!

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  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Muahahaha! Nintendo: Type-R
  • ChronoChrono Local flyboy Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18989Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Talesin+Mar 13 2005, 10:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Mar 13 2005, 10:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Muahahaha! Nintendo: Type-R <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    haha that gave me a good laugh thanks for that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    glad to hear they are finaly going online but some how i doubt they will pull it off
    the GC was supposed to have alot of online games but nope didnt happen
  • EverwatchfulEverwatchful Join Date: 2003-11-17 Member: 23084Members
    i am so glad nintendo ds is going online, being a proud ds owner and all <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
    Wasn't the cube online? I remember seeing a modem type thingy hardware addon for the cube in Virgin Megastore it was made by nintendo as well.
  • Invader_ScootInvader_Scoot Join Date: 2003-10-13 Member: 21669Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-V MAN+Mar 14 2005, 04:59 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (V MAN @ Mar 14 2005, 04:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Wasn't the cube online? I remember seeing a modem type thingy hardware addon for the cube in Virgin Megastore it was made by nintendo as well. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Only for two games, and those were both PSO games. Both required a monthly fee I believe.
  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    edited March 2005
    I read the keynote speech. Deducting the customary 50% rethorical-crap-charge I bring against any big commercial announcement, it was still closer to my thoughts on gaming in general and what gaming should become than anything else I have heard in the last twelve months. I sincerely hope they manage to pull this off.
  • Invader_ScootInvader_Scoot Join Date: 2003-10-13 Member: 21669Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    I'm just glad that my DS will finally be getting some use with this new online system for it. Right now there really aren't many good games for it yet.
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Invader Scoot+Mar 14 2005, 06:09 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Invader Scoot @ Mar 14 2005, 06:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm just glad that my DS will finally be getting some use with this new online system for it. Right now there really aren't many good games for it yet. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Say, do you think that with that wireless router that's supposed to be in the DS, that if you are in a hotspot, and someone is close enough to access you but not be in the hotspot, that you could provide internet to him?

    Would that work?
  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    yeah it was just PSO episode I & II, and PSO episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution that were the GC onliners unfortunately and as nem says they were monthly fees (plus it was too much hastle to get a keyboard).

    I hope ninty fufils it's new online-view in <b>all</b> countries... I'm sick and tired of having perfectly good netgames denied to me just because I live outside of the US/Japan ><
    "hey we've got this resident evil online game... think the europeans would want this with the online parts still in? naaaahhhh... Lets remove them from most other games on the PS2 while we're at it if we even bother giving them a version of it at all" ~fume~
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Geminosity+Mar 14 2005, 07:34 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Geminosity @ Mar 14 2005, 07:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I hope ninty fufils it's new online-view in <b>all</b> countries... I'm sick and tired of having perfectly good netgames denied to me just because I live outside of the US/Japan >< <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    There are places outside of america? Mah pa shown me a map once, he done. When I done lookit the map, I saw that outside o' the border it t'was jus the 7 seas and it said "HERE BE DRAGONS". Mayhap I shud ask pa again.
  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    You need the broadband adapter for the gamecube if you want to link two cubes up for 8-player Double Dash, too, if I recall. Could be wrong.
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Sweet, free online with my DS? I just hope my Condo Building is a hotspot! I wonder what's going to be the nearest hotspot. Wouldn't the DS need some updating for the net connection?
  • raz0rraz0r Join Date: 2003-07-24 Member: 18395Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Liku+Mar 15 2005, 04:45 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Liku @ Mar 15 2005, 04:45 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Sweet, free online with my DS? I just hope my Condo Building is a hotspot! I wonder what's going to be the nearest hotspot. Wouldn't the DS need some updating for the net connection? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    If you had a wireless router, you could always connect using that. Probably

    I always knew Ninty would do this sometime.
    As long as they pull it off, i'm sure as hell not complaining
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    edited March 2005
    As far as I'm concerned, it all rests with Advance Wars: DS. I'm only going to bother getting a DS when AW:DS comes out, and it's probably the number 1 game I'd play online.
  • SuitePeeSuitePee Join Date: 2004-11-18 Member: 32857Members
    Advance Wars.
    Online.
    With the DS.
    OMG I MUST HAVE THISS DEVICE!!

    <runs>
  • AlcapwnAlcapwn &quot;War is the science of destruction&quot; - John Abbot Join Date: 2003-06-21 Member: 17590Members
    If the new advance wars has online, i might actually go out and pick up a DS.
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    Then again, everyone will play with Kanebi, most likely.
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Snidely+Mar 15 2005, 08:16 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Snidely @ Mar 15 2005, 08:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Then again, everyone will play with Kanebi, most likely. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Thing is, most of the other generals aren't that good....

    I mean, take Sami, Frikkin useless usually.
  • Invader_ScootInvader_Scoot Join Date: 2003-10-13 Member: 21669Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Kanebi is too expensive! As nasty as his name is, <i>Sturm</i> owns Kanebi. His superpower rofls the other team.
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Invader Scoot+Mar 15 2005, 09:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Invader Scoot @ Mar 15 2005, 09:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Kanebi is too expensive! As nasty as his name is, <i>Sturm</i> owns Kanebi. His superpower rofls the other team. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    What? The thinly disguised Nuclear Bomb <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    Sturm doesn't really count as a fair CO in AW2. He's <i>blatently</i> cheap. You should only be able to beat him when the AI is controlling him (see: Missile Plains, War Room map). It's like saying that you can beat Flak, but the other way around; you should never lose to a Flak. He sucks.

    My beef is that he's way too good for his cost. His infantry is better than Sami's, his tanks are better than Max's, his artillery is only beaten by Grit, etc. etc. His high defensive power, by contrast, softens specialist COs' advantages, and his awesome troops can make the most of his opponent's weaknesses.

    The only flipside is that CO powers which knock off 2hp really hurt him.
  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    I actually used andy a lot... I love being able to mass repair when the going gets tough <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    I'd go sammi more often but the extra troop power is hard to measure in usefulness... I've had battles where it's a waste of space and ones where it's won me back from the brink of defeat (I fended off a mass attack that destroyed all my stuff by mass producing troops and killing the tanks off with numbers... in the end I routed them and reclaimed my bit of the map. Heck how I loved those multiplayer games ^^ ).
  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    I never really got to play much multiplayer, sadly - I don't know any gamers interested in strategy games. ):<

    I can see Sami, Colin etc. being much better when grades don't matter, though. They both rely on mass troops to be effective.
  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    Only real downside to the multiplayer was waiting while everyone else takes their turn... the more players there are the worse it gets :s

    We played a lot of 3 and 4 players which while fun could take a while.
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