Is Paul Pressler Captain of the Submarines Again?

[Curious Constance]

Mario, Luigi, and Nintendo in general will always hold a special place in my heart.

All other game systems can burn.

 

[Curious Constance]

I just bought my son the Nintendo Classic Mini.

It's so little and adorable!

 

[Rich T]

Video games are surface level trash.

That just shows you haven't played the right video games. There are RPG games as deep as good novels out there. And, looking at the games that *are* all surface fun... how is that any different from a ride on a coaster?

 

[Rich T]

Mario, Luigi, and Nintendo in general will always hold a special place in my heart.

All other game systems can burn.

There are good, non-violent games on the other systems, but it's only the norm on Nintendo. Nintendo right now seems to be the only entertainment company still so thoroughly devoted to proving that games can be fun and captivating without being dark, cynical and violent. And I love them for that. They are the old-school Disney and Willy Wonka (Wilder, not Depp) of the gaming industry.

 

[Rich T]

Yeah, there's similar circumstances with super mario rpg as well. Until the day square-enix says to nintendo, "hey we want to make super mario rpg 2 with you", it will never happen.

Things seem to be thawing there: Square-Enix let Nintendo put Cloud into Smash Bros... and there are rumors Geno could be next.

 

[Disney Irish]

That just shows you haven't played the right video games. There are RPG games as deep as good novels out there. And, looking at the games that *are* all surface fun... how is that any different from a ride on a coaster?

Some MMORPGs have fan bases as deep as Disney. Some even turn into a social meeting place.

Tror is just missing out

 

[Phroobar]

Splash mountain is a popular e-ticket.
Nemo is a somewhat popular maybe c or d ticket, at best.

Splash Mountain gets special treatment because its an e-ticket? Whatever.
The lines for Nemo seem pretty long to me. It looks popular to me.

 

[Rich T]

Some MMORPGs have fan bases as deep as Disney. Some even turn into a social meeting place.

Tror is just missing out

Well, to each their own, but... yeah... games are just going to keep getting bigger (holding back Ready Player One reference with great restraint).
Speaking of MMORPGs, a group of (real world) friends and I pretty much lived inside World of Warcraft for the first six months of its existence, exploring the fantasy world of Azeroth together. It's over, I'd probably never spend that much time in a game again, but... y'know something? Those six months were INSANELY FUN!

 

[The_Mesh_Hatter]

Do the shooting gallery. It will relieve some of your stress. Then take a nice ride on the Columbia. Watch them shoot the canon and then head downstairs to check out living conditions. Ride the Mark Twain on the top deck and wave at all the peons in line for POTC. Then take the rafts over to TSI and explore the caves. Canoes can be skipped unless you like padding lazy tourists around the river by yourself. Total time would be about an hour out of your day.

Don't forget the Tower of Terror GOTG:MB. It's Totally Rad!

This sounds like my perfect day. However I’m all about the bottom deck of Mark Twain. The vignettes unfold the way they’re meant to and sight lines aren’t ruined from that level

 

[Disney Irish]

Well, to each their own, but... yeah... games are just going to keep getting bigger (holding back Ready Player One reference with great restraint).
Speaking of MMORPGs, a group of (real world) friends and I pretty much lived inside World of Warcraft for the first six months of its existence, exploring the fantasy world of Azeroth together. It's over, I'd probably never spend that much time in a game again, but... y'know something? Those six months were INSANELY FUN!

WoW is how my sister met her husband. Its the wedding I talked about where they dressed up as WoW characters.

I played WoW for awhile up until Cataclysm was released, but then got busy with work and never went back.

 

[Phroobar]

WoW is how my sister met her husband. Its the wedding I talked about where they dressed up as WoW characters.

I played WoW for awhile up until Cataclysm was released, but then got busy with work and never went back.

I was never one for MMORPGs like WoW. Too much socializing. I preferred shorter game play like ones from arcade games and my Atari. But then again give me a ready good JRPG, you won't see me for weeks.

 

[Disney Irish]

I was never one for MMORPGs like WoW. Too much socializing. I preferred shorter game play like ones from arcade games and my Atari. But then again give me a ready good JRPG, you won't see me for weeks.

You played AD&D didn't you....

 

[SuddenStorm]

Splash mountain is a popular e-ticket.
Nemo is a somewhat popular maybe c or d ticket, at best.

What are you talking about?

The Submarine Voyage was an E Ticket when, ya know, E Tickets were an actual thing. So it's technically more of an E Ticket than Splash Mountain is (not that it wouldn't have been an E ticket if those were still around when it opened).

 

[Rich T]

WoW is how my sister met her husband. Its the wedding I talked about where they dressed up as WoW characters.

I played WoW for awhile up until Cataclysm was released, but then got busy with work and never went back.

Cataclysm ruined WoW for me. Seeing all those towns I'd grown to love get DESTROYED was not something I wanted from my favorite virtual world!

 

[Phroobar]

You played AD&D didn't you....

No, not since sixth grade.

 

[flynnibus]

The Troll won... can you all take this meaningless tangent to another thread?

 

[dweezil78]

and then it didn't happen the last few referbs. Following that logic we should have lost Mr Toad instead of the CBJ.

Yeah, but the difference is Nemo is a nightmare to maintain and takes up way too much space in a park that's badly in need of it. There are so many reasons as to why the subs should not still be there -- I suspect the only reason they even exist today is because SWL got its own land from scratch instead of a Tomorrowland retheme at the last minute. If you remember, last time it was closed nearly a year before it reopened and I'm sure that was a result of a wait and see game.

 

[Rich T]

The Troll won... can you all take this meaningless tangent to another thread?

Hey there, it's not meaningless. Theme parks and video games are just different mediums for presenting fantasy worlds; some virtual, some physical. It's already started to come together, and Disney will be using game worlds in the parks in the future. The Nemo Subs represent baby steps toward integrated the virtual and the physical into an experience that can't be achieved by other means. Sooner than we think, we'll be interacting with videogame characters on rides that talk and deal with us in real time, responding to our words and actions.

And, again, Kingdom Hearts is, in reality, one of the biggest, most successful and globe-spanning projects Disney's ever been involved in. Sometimes the gaming audience is the first to know. The U.S. mainstream will catch up later.

 

[Disney Irish]

The Troll won... can you all take this meaningless tangent to another thread?

No! And how dare you try and keep this train on the track!

 

[Disney Irish]

Yeah, but the difference is Nemo is a nightmare to maintain and takes up way too much space in a park that's badly in need of it. There are so many reasons as to why the subs should not still be there -- I suspect the only reason they even exist today is because SWL got its own land from scratch instead of a Tomorrowland retheme at the last minute. If you remember, last time it was closed nearly a year before it reopened and I'm sure that was a result of a wait and see game.

Endor on the subs area would have been interesting....