September 14, 2009 - Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat, where IGN's Matt Casamassina, now editor-at-large, joins exec editor Craig Harris and editor Mark Bozon, all of whom waggle their way into your hearts. Or so we hope. (As always, we will have Levi Buchanan on a future episode, which will surely be monumental and glorious.)

This week's topics include:

Matt's departure from the team to become editor-at-large
No genuine explanations for not podcasting in a month
The newish Nintendo Team structure
Scribblenauts review
Dead Space Extraction review
MySims Agents impressions
Wii price drop

And all sorts of other stuff.

Plus, we answer a bunch of listener mail. Remember, you can e-mail us your questions.

 

 

summary to be posted later, check nintendoeverything.com

 

every time this is posted, the op ALWAYS forget to include the download link or link to the original article (not the nintendo everything summary), and it's a pain having to look for it myself.

could you please post the original link/download link when do post these podcasts?

look for it yourself

http://wii.ign.com/articles/102/1024533p1.html

i sure hope no one calls the wii stupid in the podcast :P

I wonder if its the last one with Casmassina...

posting so I can come back later when the summary is live

When the reviews are posted I'm gonna edit my post.

Considering listening to this one..

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IGN changes

- Matt leaving the Nintendo team, will be editor at large
- Craig will be the executive editor of the Nintendo-side
- Bozon says the life of a gaming journalist is horrible – work late hours, deal with shovelware
- Matt wanted to do something that he could put more time into
- He’ll still be the Nintendo specialist, he’ll be there when it makes sense (ex: For a Metroid game)
- Matt will also be around for the Nintendo Voice Chat podcast
- Team structures IGN visitors have observed will see changes
- More people will be doing Wii stuff
- Will be able to be more specific in the future

Scribblenauts

- Craig has the review ready
- Matt played it for 8 hours of the way to Germany
- When he played it at E3 he thought it would be the game of the year, etc.
- Since then he thinks it’s a good, nearly great game
- Some control issues that are unavoidable
- Puzzle-based game, write words to solve puzzles
- 10s of 1000s of items
- A lot of fun finding new ways to solve puzzles
- Control issue: He’d try to touch an object, touch the wrong one, then it’d get stuck behind him, etc.
- Other than that he had a good time with the game, but Matt wishes they ironed the control issues out
- Can be frustrating when controlling Maxwell – Might want him to move a step but instead he’ll go a few feet
- Bozon’s take is that the wonder you initially see is insane, then when you get into some of the other puzzles, people will run into issues
- A lot of kids will just assume that it’s awesome
- Craig isn’t giving it a 10
- Matt, Craig would still recommend it highly to anyone
- But can’t turn a blind eye to the controls
- Tremendous first step if you look at Scribblenauts as a big series
- Comes out this week

Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story

- Craig gave the game a 9.5
- He thinks it’s the best in the series
- Similar to the first 2 games
- He loved the GBA title
- Craig isn’t a huge RPG fan
- Battles are user-controlled (need to watch the game, hit buttons at the right time)
- Always action going on
- Can play as Bowser
- Was disappointed with the second game because it pretty much took everything from the first game and spread it over 4 characters – This one is different
- Highly recommended
- Nintendo packaged the game with simple boxart

Wii price drop

- Leaked Toys R Us ad shows the Wii may get a price drop
- Matt thinks it’s inevitable, especially when you look at the NPD data
- Wii doing well but it’s not doing 600-700K
- Seems like the right time
- $50 drop will jazz up the market again
- It does look like it’s going to happen, looks legit
- Nintendo keeps saying they’re not going to do it
- We know TGS is on the horizon, have heard a few things that Nintendo is planning to make some announcements

Dead Space Extraction

- Matt and Bozon are at the same level
- Matt believes it’s really atmospheric, well presented, visually stunning, runs well, controls tight, loves zero-g
- Sound cuts out when you hear heart beat
- More story than in the original
- Matt likes the focus on the story
- Start you off as characters who are going to die
- At any moment you’ll play as a new character
- Matt’s favorite part is dual hack and defend mode
- Can turn shaky cam all the way up or off
- No online connectivity
- Matt and Bozon both like the game

MySims Agents

- Probably going to be the most polished of the MySims games
- Part investigator/MySim
- Start off as small time detective, first big case to discover what happens to a girl’s dog
- 2 people will say it’s their dog, need to look around for clues to find out whose dog it is
- More interesting to Matt than the other MySims games
- More of a platformer
- Fixed camera, Matt likes it
- It’s been okay, he’ll wait and see how it plays in the end
- He hasn’t played the DS version

Wii/DSi shop updates

- Nintendo was late with issuing the Nintendo Download today, Craig wonders why
- Craig saw the DSiWare stuff, Art Academy seems cool – Cool way of teaching you ways of how to draw again – 800 points
- Oscar in Toyland screams European platformer – Hopes to have the review done by next week
- 2/3 games that came out on WiiWare are online compatible
- Flipnote Studio one of the reasons why you should buy a DSi

NHL 2K10

- Surprisingly good
- Bozon hasn’t had a chance to play online yet
- The game comes out tomorrow
- MotionPlus support
- WiiSpeak online
- Won’t review it until he plays it online

TMNT: Arcade Attack

- Controls like a 2D brawler but it’s in 3D
- Still pretty fun but it’s not absolutely fantastic

TMNT: Smash Up

- Matt or Craig will probably review it

- Craig is going to see You, Me & The Cubes tomorrow

Reader questions

- Zelda trailer rumor is guessing news at this point
- Technically possible for patches but Nintendo doesn’t like people doing it (ex: Wii Sports Resort)
- Scribblenauts has 2 save files
- When Retro Studios said that “you” will be excited for Retro’s next game, he was referring to gamers in general, not Matt specifically – Matt got the impression that whatever they’re working on is going to be more focused on multiplayer (don’t read into it too much)
- DS isn’t true multi touch – Can touch in 2 diff. locations but it won’t know exactly where that second touch is
- Tony Hawk Ride doesn’t use Balance Board because couldn’t get as much accuracy according to Activision
- Guitar Hero 5 Wii version is getting Bozon’s nomination for best music game of the year unless something blows it away – Matt says the tech is good
- Upconverting probably not a good idea on Wii


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Wasn't it happening on Sept 16th? The London Event I mean.

OT: One of the worst podcasts in a while.