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Nintendo Game Cube On (Limited) Preview In 12 Cities
psxndc writes: "Nintendo has set up "Cube Clubs" at various US cities that allow you to go in and play (mainly first party) Game Cube games. Cube Clubs exist in Boston, San Francisco and Minneapolis, with plans to run in a total of 12 cities. I went to the Boston one today. Most games were disappointing, but Rogue Leader and suprisingly Luigi's Mansion were a lot of fun. More info on Cube.ign.com. A recap of the SF one is also there." Anyone else with first-hand reactions from this?
I mean, how can you can compete with the PS/2? The damn games are beautiful and I have never seen a PS/2 demo unit non functioning unless the store unplugged it cuz of some idiots hanging around too long! :) I saw the Oddworld game at a EB on the Xbox.....worst thing I have seen in years! It looked like a 16 bit unit to me. I mean, really, they have a full COMPUTER in the thing an no deballed thing like a PS/2 or Gamecube. The Pentium III 700 should resoundly kick butt. But, Oddworld looked ugly and the shots I have seen of that car game that are going around suck too. MS better have some better games then these two cuz SUCK! Granted, that doesn't mean the games suck. I have played the worst and the best over the years. Some of the best looking games suck when it comes to game play. The same token, some of the worst looking ones were damn fun.
Gorkman
I'd consider that more a harbinger - MS is now bringing "DLL hell" to your living room. Games are dynamically linked against system libraries in flash ROM on the system, so if they ever upgrade those libraries there's a very good change they'll break or introduce bugs to older games. Both Sony and Nintendo do 100% static linking of the OS and system libraries so they're immune to such hijinx.