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Nintengasm
Posted on Thursday, June 17 @ 03:54:08 Eastern by Josh_Laddin
I spent a good two hours at Nintendo's booth today, and I could have easily spent the entire day if time allowed. The big N stole the show this year if you ask me.
I used to be a huge Nintendo fanboy (three years clean), but after checking out their booth I felt the old urge to flame other companies rising once again. Everything they showed was sick: revivals of old-school franchises like Donkey Kong Country, Kid Icarus, Kirby, and Golden Sun, slick WiiMotion-Plus accurate swordplay in Zelda: Skyward Sword, dynamic and exhilarating gameplay from a near-complete Metroid: Other M...oh, and a wee little bit of hardware called the 3DS.
Like Duke, I was a bit skeptical of the 3DS despite my history of rabid fanboyism. I expected it to feel somewhat gimmicky and cheap, and I was dead wrong. I'll let the other guys play it cool as they are wont to do, but I was fucking floored. It has amazingly immersive 3D effects without any glasses whatsoever, lets you toggle the 3D on and off with a slider on the fly, all while delivering slightly-better-than-PS2 graphics. Not to mention twin cameras that let you take 3D pictures which you can then implement right into your 3D games. I dunno how they got it to work so well, but it fucking works. My only minor misgiving is that some extreme close-up images are a little disorienting, but you get used to it really quickly.
I haven't been this excited about a new piece of hardware in 15 years. Now please excuse me while i go change my pants.
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I was expecting a Wii type thing - all 'newness' going into the gimmick. But, according to you and a few other sites i've read about it on, Nintendo have actually sort of built the gimmick around the machine, so to speak, instead of the other way around.
if the graphics are as good as people are saying they are, i think i'll enjoy the 3DS.
My only gripe;
Why aren't both screens widescreen?