I think it's really excellent. It especially makes great use of the power of the wiimote and nunchuck, which is (was ?) rare. I had stopped playing for twenty years until I found this game, then I couldn't stop until I had finished it...
Oh.. ahah.
You see the reviews I read and the comment of "not completely awesome" largely refer to the fact that the gamecube versions were the case. With people being a little disappointed with the lack of evolution of the game onto the next generation.
To be perfectly honest - I don't. I've never watched a console from inception quite like I have the Wii (and I could be considered particularly ignorant in that realm, too).
That being said, I think the fact that the majority of people who are buying Wii's are not atypical discerning gamers has contributed to very difference response from gaming houses. Most of the good games are going to the xbox/ps3 with Wii an afterthought.
The strange thing is, I'm hardly a gamer but I read a review or two before I buy. If I am underwhelmed by the Wii I can't imagine what the truly committed to gaming think.
I hear that. I went through a period of hiring out as many games as I could but got sick of being disappointed so the Wii now takes care of stopping dust from landing on a Wii-shaped area of my television unit. SMG was great, though.
Now, I find myself losing faith in the Wii. With all the Mario lineup accounted for and Smash Bros done, a "not completely awesome" Metroid. What do we have to look forward to?
One thing I am looking forward to is the MotionPlus wiimote attachment. You know those lightsaber games we where promised? All the great game ideas that turned out lackluster because the wiimote's motion detection isn't that great? This will make all that possible. The MotionPlus gives 6 degrees of freedom, registering motion and rotation.
Quite honestly that sounds like another avenue for ultra exploitware. As novel as the Wii's mechanics are, it is exactly the novelty that is driving the wave of poor games to actually "do okay".
Sorry that I don't have enough time to fully reply to your post but I would just like to point out how disappointed I was with the Wii's virtual console. Years and years ago I was able to emulate donkey kong country with some very effective graphic smoothing, yet when I play it on virtual console, there is absolutely no care taken to produce anything like that.
I respect the romance of unaltered games but I don't buy that people who want unfiltered snes graphics on their large televisions.
I've not checked many review sites so if I'm bringing up a biased, poor review site by all means, reject what I'm saying:
2 years in and according to Gamespot only 8 games have made a score over 8.5 - 12 if you count 8.5
This is woeful. You go to the Wii section in any store and the shelves are stocked with what I deem "exploitware". That is, poorly designed games attempting to sucker the Wii mass market into buying games based on advertised novel mechanics (that rarely work).
A year ago, you could forgive this type of situation on the industry having not caught up with the prolific popularity of the console. Now, I find myself losing faith in the Wii. With all the Mario lineup accounted for and Smash Bros done, a "not completely awesome" Metroid. What do we have to look forward to?
Cloud may turn out to be another flash-in-the-pan fad
May? From the moment it was named, it was predestined to become nothing more than a scourge of sane people and a fantastic technological lubricant for the "sexually attracted to techterms" IT managers across the globe.
You act as if the DRM companies intentionally make it crackable.
Not really, I act as if DRM companies knowingly provide solutions to publishers that are essentially nothing more than than exercises in "investor/board member reassurance" (Rather than truly effective pieces of DRM). Waste of investor money and perpetuation of the time honoured, "board amazement" principle.
I'm not against DRM. I'm against incompetence and time-wasting. Too much of current DRM is nothing more than snakeoil for publishers.
I don't see light DRM as being acceptable if it is just going to be continuously broken days after it comes out. I'd be fine with DRM IF it remains uncrackable (and obviously, not restrictive). As soon as it is cracked, only the paying customers are being inconvenienced.
Except that kids who have a life time dream of being a games programmer typically have more productive alternatives to fall back on than kids who wanna be rock stars.
They're the equivalent rock n roll geek dream (though slightly less glamorous in reality). Most of us own a guitar, most of us have programmed "a game".
But the days of the level are coming to an end (or so I pray). More and more RPG players grow tired of levels--most now see them as other gamers see installation time. "We can't start playing the REAL game until max level." But there are alternatives!
I flat out think you're wrong with the growing tide against leveling but putting that aside for a moment, it's blatantly obvious when you get to the "endgame" that your time leveling was the most entertaining aspect of the game. At that time, the content and the full extent of the landmass was used appropriately. Once the endgame is reached, most of the land is irrelevant and the experience is diluted.
There isn't any way to say to players to "slow down" and enjoy the experience rather than powering through the actual content-rich, fun game but I don't think many people are blaming leveling as boring parts of the game after doing so. I think most people are realising the absolute opposite of what you are claiming.
Leveling in WOW was actually GREAT fun if you took a moment to enjoy it. If you smashed through all that content as fast as you could, you missed out and you eventually knew it, soon into your max level experience. You know it now because when you look back to when you played that game, you're not thinking about endless raids. If you're like me, you remember the first time you visited ironforge or the difficult times you spent trying to quest in horde controlled areas.
If I'm a criminal operating under a gang insignia and you take it away from me. I will not curtail my nefarious activities - I'll change the name of my criminal group and move on with my life. You've spend thousands - I'm out a patch for my leather jacket and a trademark application.
All of us have cherished memories of games that have as much to do with the music as they have with the mechanics.
This isn't different now and it'll always be the same, some games have music absolutely intended for incidental ambience. Others have true "song" structure and often have legions of fans reminiscing, hearing them.
All of us feel emotionally hooked to this enough to be rabidly typing away our favourites in comments right now.
There were a lot of great games for music (faxanadu etc) in the NES era but Donkey Kong Country (1-2) really did it for me..
I understand the mindset, obligatory car analogy here, but it is not something I've ever done. Shopping for hardware has become a bit of a mine field lately, as most of the top tier motherboard and RAM manufacturers offer a *ton* of options for boosting the juice to various things all over the motherboard. They advertise this as a feature. I'm glad for those folks who like to go faster. It does make things a bit tricky having to check the RAM voltage, against what the motherboard can handle, and the processor will take, and hoping it all works. I'd like it if Asus and Gigabyte could maybe come up with a 'Get off my lawn!' series for us folks who like stock voltages, and wear onions on our belts.
You are misguided. Even the enthusiast boards function as get off my lawn boards if you configure nothing. Boards don't push overstock voltages without human instruction to do so. You do not need to concern yourself about any of these things. All the juice boosting options that are talked about generally related to extra configurability and (most often) power stability at higher voltages. ALL of which are irrelevant if you are John Smith, who has purchase a CPU and some generic ram to place in your board. Fear not, sir. Everything will default to a very sedate and safe manufacturer designated setting EVEN if you have purchased a board that has AMAZING BREAKNECK CIRCUITSMASHING SPEED! written in fire on the box.
Robert Downey-Junior already has the ultimate power source up his nose. Just make one of them electrical paralysers (ebay kits I think) and take it from him. Get the dude to do it if you're squeamish.
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Someone mod this post up, it is exactly what I'm talking about.
I think it's really excellent. It especially makes great use of the power of the wiimote and nunchuck, which is (was ?) rare. I had stopped playing for twenty years until I found this game, then I couldn't stop until I had finished it...
Oh.. ahah.
You see the reviews I read and the comment of "not completely awesome" largely refer to the fact that the gamecube versions were the case. With people being a little disappointed with the lack of evolution of the game onto the next generation.
To be perfectly honest - I don't. I've never watched a console from inception quite like I have the Wii (and I could be considered particularly ignorant in that realm, too).
That being said, I think the fact that the majority of people who are buying Wii's are not atypical discerning gamers has contributed to very difference response from gaming houses. Most of the good games are going to the xbox/ps3 with Wii an afterthought.
The strange thing is, I'm hardly a gamer but I read a review or two before I buy. If I am underwhelmed by the Wii I can't imagine what the truly committed to gaming think.
I hear that. I went through a period of hiring out as many games as I could but got sick of being disappointed so the Wii now takes care of stopping dust from landing on a Wii-shaped area of my television unit. SMG was great, though.
> a "not completely awesome" Metroid
Are you joking ?
I'm not, but in that particular case I'm only going off a review as it is one of the games I have not played. If I'm wrong, no stress.
Now, I find myself losing faith in the Wii. With all the Mario lineup accounted for and Smash Bros done, a "not completely awesome" Metroid. What do we have to look forward to?
One thing I am looking forward to is the MotionPlus wiimote attachment. You know those lightsaber games we where promised? All the great game ideas that turned out lackluster because the wiimote's motion detection isn't that great? This will make all that possible. The MotionPlus gives 6 degrees of freedom, registering motion and rotation.
Quite honestly that sounds like another avenue for ultra exploitware. As novel as the Wii's mechanics are, it is exactly the novelty that is driving the wave of poor games to actually "do okay".
Sorry that I don't have enough time to fully reply to your post but I would just like to point out how disappointed I was with the Wii's virtual console. Years and years ago I was able to emulate donkey kong country with some very effective graphic smoothing, yet when I play it on virtual console, there is absolutely no care taken to produce anything like that.
I respect the romance of unaltered games but I don't buy that people who want unfiltered snes graphics on their large televisions.
You're absolutely right. Those times when I've checked out the shelves?
I'm invariably standing next to a family who are buying games on cover alone.
They are the ones in the majority. Not the discerning distinguished gentleman such as myself.
To me, there is a serious problem with the Wii.
I've not checked many review sites so if I'm bringing up a biased, poor review site by all means, reject what I'm saying:
2 years in and according to Gamespot only 8 games have made a score over 8.5 - 12 if you count 8.5
This is woeful. You go to the Wii section in any store and the shelves are stocked with what I deem "exploitware". That is, poorly designed games attempting to sucker the Wii mass market into buying games based on advertised novel mechanics (that rarely work).
A year ago, you could forgive this type of situation on the industry having not caught up with the prolific popularity of the console. Now, I find myself losing faith in the Wii. With all the Mario lineup accounted for and Smash Bros done, a "not completely awesome" Metroid. What do we have to look forward to?
Url may or may not work for you (localised) http://au.gamespot.com/reviews.html?type=reviews&platform=1031&mode=all&sort=score&dlx_type=all&sortdir=asc&official=all
Cloud may turn out to be another flash-in-the-pan fad
May? From the moment it was named, it was predestined to become nothing more than a scourge of sane people and a fantastic technological lubricant for the "sexually attracted to techterms" IT managers across the globe.
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You act as if the DRM companies intentionally make it crackable.
Not really, I act as if DRM companies knowingly provide solutions to publishers that are essentially nothing more than than exercises in "investor/board member reassurance" (Rather than truly effective pieces of DRM). Waste of investor money and perpetuation of the time honoured, "board amazement" principle.
I'm not against DRM. I'm against incompetence and time-wasting. Too much of current DRM is nothing more than snakeoil for publishers.
I don't see light DRM as being acceptable if it is just going to be continuously broken days after it comes out. I'd be fine with DRM IF it remains uncrackable (and obviously, not restrictive). As soon as it is cracked, only the paying customers are being inconvenienced.
Except that kids who have a life time dream of being a games programmer typically have more productive alternatives to fall back on than kids who wanna be rock stars.
Yet the wannabe rock star still gets more pussy.
:-)
There is no justice
I can see all obstacles (nominally) in my way
They're the equivalent rock n roll geek dream (though slightly less glamorous in reality). Most of us own a guitar, most of us have programmed "a game".
But the days of the level are coming to an end (or so I pray). More and more RPG players grow tired of levels--most now see them as other gamers see installation time. "We can't start playing the REAL game until max level." But there are alternatives!
I flat out think you're wrong with the growing tide against leveling but putting that aside for a moment, it's blatantly obvious when you get to the "endgame" that your time leveling was the most entertaining aspect of the game. At that time, the content and the full extent of the landmass was used appropriately. Once the endgame is reached, most of the land is irrelevant and the experience is diluted.
There isn't any way to say to players to "slow down" and enjoy the experience rather than powering through the actual content-rich, fun game but I don't think many people are blaming leveling as boring parts of the game after doing so. I think most people are realising the absolute opposite of what you are claiming.
Leveling in WOW was actually GREAT fun if you took a moment to enjoy it. If you smashed through all that content as fast as you could, you missed out and you eventually knew it, soon into your max level experience. You know it now because when you look back to when you played that game, you're not thinking about endless raids. If you're like me, you remember the first time you visited ironforge or the difficult times you spent trying to quest in horde controlled areas.
If you mean server bandwidth (to process large amounts of clients in one area), the answer is .. very good. Mass PVP would be better implemented.
If you mean bandwidth at home.. not much difference.
If I'm a criminal operating under a gang insignia and you take it away from me. I will not curtail my nefarious activities - I'll change the name of my criminal group and move on with my life. You've spend thousands - I'm out a patch for my leather jacket and a trademark application.
I "squeeze out a new release" several times a day. From different repositories, too.
All of us have cherished memories of games that have as much to do with the music as they have with the mechanics.
This isn't different now and it'll always be the same, some games have music absolutely intended for incidental ambience. Others have true "song" structure and often have legions of fans reminiscing, hearing them.
All of us feel emotionally hooked to this enough to be rabidly typing away our favourites in comments right now.
There were a lot of great games for music (faxanadu etc) in the NES era but Donkey Kong Country (1-2) really did it for me..
I understand the mindset, obligatory car analogy here, but it is not something I've ever done. Shopping for hardware has become a bit of a mine field lately, as most of the top tier motherboard and RAM manufacturers offer a *ton* of options for boosting the juice to various things all over the motherboard. They advertise this as a feature. I'm glad for those folks who like to go faster. It does make things a bit tricky having to check the RAM voltage, against what the motherboard can handle, and the processor will take, and hoping it all works. I'd like it if Asus and Gigabyte could maybe come up with a 'Get off my lawn!' series for us folks who like stock voltages, and wear onions on our belts.
You are misguided. Even the enthusiast boards function as get off my lawn boards if you configure nothing. Boards don't push overstock voltages without human instruction to do so. You do not need to concern yourself about any of these things. All the juice boosting options that are talked about generally related to extra configurability and (most often) power stability at higher voltages. ALL of which are irrelevant if you are John Smith, who has purchase a CPU and some generic ram to place in your board. Fear not, sir. Everything will default to a very sedate and safe manufacturer designated setting EVEN if you have purchased a board that has AMAZING BREAKNECK CIRCUITSMASHING SPEED! written in fire on the box.
(Just make sure you don't cross the streams)
"Barely Legal"
Robert Downey-Junior already has the ultimate power source up his nose. Just make one of them electrical paralysers (ebay kits I think) and take it from him. Get the dude to do it if you're squeamish.