Nintendo Fanbase Stupidity General - Rants on the explosive fanbase

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Does Nintendo have a bad fanbase

  • Yes

    Votes: 915 93.2%

  • No

    Votes: 67 6.8%
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If you think about it, Nintendos really the Disney of videogaming. Their used products always cost way too much, they get away with a lot of shady practices, they both obsess over their IPs and hunt down fan works, both have insane fanbases that idolize them far too much, then you have the Mickey/Mario similarities...except Mickey doesn't sound stupid.

While we're at it, as someone whos repaired a few NES systems, I think they're actually a pretty lousy console. My old SONY Betamax and Sega consoles didn't require annual pin replacements or disassembly. They're not indestructible either, I killed one by accident from the using the wrong power cord since Nintendo couldn't be bothered to label their systems. For whatever reason some of our videogame stores sell these for $100.
 
Dark Emporer Dood said:
If you think about it, Nintendos really the Disney of videogaming. Their used products always cost way too much, they get away with a lot of shady practices, they both obsess over their IPs and hunt down fan works, both have insane fanbases that idolize them far too much, then you have the Mickey/Mario similarities...except Mickey doesn't sound stupid.

While we're at it, as someone whos repaired a few NES systems, I think they're actually a pretty lousy console. My old SONY Betamax and Sega consoles didn't require annual pin replacements or disassembly. They're not indestructible either, I killed one by accident from the using the wrong power cord since Nintendo couldn't be bothered to label their systems. For whatever reason some of our videogame stores sell these for $100.
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it's really funny because you'd think that anyone who really wanted to play NES games for the nostalgia would know that there have to be better ways to play NES games than buying an overpriced piece of hardware, used, from the 80s.
 
Dark Emporer Dood said:
While we're at it, as someone whos repaired a few NES systems, I think they're actually a pretty lousy console. My old SONY Betamax and Sega consoles didn't require annual pin replacements or disassembly. They're not indestructible either, I killed one by accident from the using the wrong power cord since Nintendo couldn't be bothered to label their systems. For whatever reason some of our videogame stores sell these for $100.
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That ZIF 72 Connector was a novelty to make the NES more like a VCR than a video game console when Video games at the low point from the video game crash. It was a poor design in hindsight but tri. The bigger BS is the NES Toploader they made at the end of the NES with just a RF output only. Nintendo couldn't make a decent NES for the western market.
 
Billy_Sama said:
That ZIF 72 Connector was a novelty to make the NES more like a VCR than a video game console when Video games at the low point from the video game crash. It was a poor design in hindsight but tri. The bigger BS is the NES Toploader they made at the end of the NES with just a RF output only. Nintendo couldn't make a decent NES for the western market.
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Just makes me glad that I never plunked down $80-$130 for a top loader, didnt the original Famicom have its controllers wired into the system or something screwy?

I find most of the modding stuff a bit silly, imo, if you want a reliable NES system just buy a Rasberry Pi, stick it into an old NES shell, and save some money and time.
 
Dark Emporer Dood said:
Just makes me glad that I never plunked down $80-$130 for a top loader, didnt the original Famicom have its controllers wired into the system or something screwy?

I find most of the modding stuff a bit silly, imo, if you want a reliable NES system just buy a Rasberry Pi, stick it into an old NES shell, and save some money and time.
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The original Famicom had controllers wired but with a port for additional controllers. It also had a microphone gimmick used in some games but dropped in the NES.
Video game systems in the 80s were designed to be cheap and not high end entertainment equipment. For what people ask for NES games these days and the dubious quailty of NES games, a Rasberry Pi, Modded NES Classic, or an Everdrive is the way to go.
 
Billy_Sama said:
That ZIF 72 Connector was a novelty to make the NES more like a VCR than a video game console when Video games at the low point from the video game crash. It was a poor design in hindsight but tri. The bigger BS is the NES Toploader they made at the end of the NES with just a RF output only. Nintendo couldn't make a decent NES for the western market.
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Fair play to Nintendo, they'd offer to mod your top loader for you if you complained to them about it back in the day. Those systems are worth bank now.
 
whatever I feel like said:
Fair play to Nintendo, they'd offer to mod your top loader for you if you complained to them about it back in the day. Those systems are worth bank now.
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I always look in the outputs of any Toploader I come across to see if they had been modded by Nintendo. I do have a Toploader myself but never had the time to mod the outputs on it.
 
round robin said:
This pretty much encapsulates my issues with the new AC games. The first game actually felt like a life stimulation, but every subsequent game has stripped the village and its occupants more and more of their agency and personality. The newest game just feels like a glorified photoshop. The series became all about sharing your "look" and your house with randos online. Its basically just a big art pad. That wouldn't be so much of an issue but it makes the game so incredibly boring and tedious because every day of play is spent gathering resources so you can create the "perfect village/island."

Tl;dr the series started sucking when they started ignoring the "animal" part of animal crossing.

I want my friendly village life sim, god damn it.
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never played the original on gamecube. But I noticed papi sound exactly the same as ozzie like despite the different specie they're the same character. I think hopkins is the same too but didn't talk to him much.. It just make them very uninteresting cute decoration. What the point to talk to them if they have all the same dialogue?
 
Just wandering said:
never played the original on gamecube. But I noticed papi sound exactly the same as ozzie like despite the different specie they're the same character. I think hopkins is the same too but didn't talk to him much.. It just make them very uninteresting cute decoration. What the point to talk to them if they have all the same dialogue?
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That's always been true of villagers of the same personality type (Papi, Ozzie, and Hopkins are all the lazy personality) but because the writing has gotten so lazy it's more noticeable that they say the same things because there's less variation in the villager dialogue.
 
Arlo needs a break.

So first Arlo is upset that theres no Nintendo games or news. Now he says hes been working too hard and needs a break because...he hasn't been doing anything?

I get this is more a general youtube stupidity thing but you'd think he'd take advantage of a supposed lull in Nintendo content to take a vacation or chill out. But how he describes it he hasn't really been doing much anyways?

I dunno I just find the idea of a muppet who just plays animal crossing and regurgitating Nintendo news being so stressed out hilarious. Hope his weekend trip helps but damn dude it's just Nintendo news.
 
Awaiting the Nintendo community’s inevitable implosion because there was no Smash, Mario Kart, Mario 35th, etc..

Obviously Shantae is joining Smash tomorrow. ;)
 
-4ZURE- said:
Awaiting the Nintendo community’s inevitable implosion because there was no Smash, Mario Kart, Mario 35th, etc..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=B9kGt_psPDQ
Obviously Shantae is joining Smash tomorrow. ;)
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There's a rumor tied to this that claims we'll have a normal direct on the 28th. It got the Indie Direct right so there's something going for it. Of course, I want another Partner Showcase so we can have a repeat of the spergout that happened last month.
 
Dark Emporer Dood said:
If you think about it, Nintendos really the Disney of videogaming. Their used products always cost way too much, they get away with a lot of shady practices, they both obsess over their IPs and hunt down fan works, both have insane fanbases that idolize them far too much, then you have the Mickey/Mario similarities...except Mickey doesn't sound stupid.

While we're at it, as someone whos repaired a few NES systems, I think they're actually a pretty lousy console. My old SONY Betamax and Sega consoles didn't require annual pin replacements or disassembly. They're not indestructible either, I killed one by accident from the using the wrong power cord since Nintendo couldn't be bothered to label their systems. For whatever reason some of our videogame stores sell these for $100.
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It's worth noting that a lot of shit that the NES required as extra cartridge hardware (Scanline counter, character ram etc) was already included in other 8-bits such as the Master System (Although the famicom came out earlier).
It's also worth noting that the western NES is a hacked together POS with tons of weird shit either due to the market or ideas never expanded on. For instance, a couple of cartridge pins were moved from the cartridge slot to the expansion slot (For the never released western disk system). This meant that western carts couldn't have extra music chips like what sunsoft and konami did in japan.


 
Coolio55 said:
It's also worth noting that the western NES is a hacked together POS with tons of weird shit either due to the market or ideas never expanded on. For instance, a couple of cartridge pins were moved from the cartridge slot to the expansion slot (For the never released western disk system). This meant that western carts couldn't have extra music chips like what sunsoft and konami did in japan.
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Was the disk thing supposed to go underneath? I remember there being a really loose box and some other bits in the bottom center that I had no idea what they were for. On at least one system I cut the edge of the heat sink just to make it easier to separate it and the motherboard, its not like these systems ever run hot.

They're junk and finicky, but at least they're easy to re build. I'd just never pay more than $30 for one.
 
Dark Emporer Dood said:
Was the disk thing supposed to go underneath? I remember there being a really loose box and some other bits in the bottom center that I had no idea what they were for. On at least one system I cut the edge of the heat sink just to make it easier to separate it and the motherboard, its not like these systems ever run hot.

They're junk and finicky, but at least they're easy to re build. I'd just never pay more than $30 for one.
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Yeah, you've just described the expansion port.

The reason they moved the line-in is because the western cartridge port was tucked away internally and wouldn't support the fuckery the japanese one required in order for some disk system functions to be possible. Technically there IS still a cart audio line in but it requires the expansion port circuit to be completed so no dice outside of homebrew adaptors.

Here's the Japanese disk system for reference:
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