Same here.
Yes, the DSiWare game could be really cool...but a console Star Fox trumps any handheld title I can think of.
I love Okami...but I have to wonder how good a sequel is going to be if it isn't made by Clover studios (as good a job as the folks at Ready at Dawn did in porting it to Wii, it was still just a port).
It's kinda interesting that Wii remote/Sony wand ports could end up being easy; we're used to seeing PS3/360 ports, but that could change next gen.
Another thing I thought was weird was the devs saying the cost of developing on HD consoles would limit the risks people would take (thus limiting or delaying innovation). Well, the Wii is currently the cheapest console to develop for, and it's taken third parties until NOW to really start exploiting the hardware.
Multiplayer is the focus for a lot of people, though. I mean, when you see reviewers being nostalgic for Goldeneye, it's for the 4-player multiplayer, not the single player campaign.
I had a lot of fun recently playing Conduit, and it was mostly online, so it did make the purchase worthwhile (although the main reason for the purchase was to check out the fully customizable controls).
But I'd much rather player Metroid Prime than any online FPS. A solid 20-30 hour s...
It is odd. Maybe a mod will get on it or something.
Bun -- I'm not Super X. I can only edit my own post. Maybe he was trying to quote some part of mine or something...? I have no idea.
Lowered expectations?
Every Zelda game that is released is expected to be GOTY quality.
Every stand alone Mario game released has that same expectation.
Metroid? Ditto.
The only lowered expectation is that fans of those series don't expect to have new games every two years. Nintendo doesn't rush their core franchises.
And when effort IS put into a game by a third party, it usually at least turns a profit (like NHM) or better (...
They WILL need a price cut. It's just a matter of when.
The PS3 is going to get a bump in sales with the cheaper Slim. If Sony sustains those sales, Nintendo won't have any choice but to make the Wii cheaper to compete.
But if, after the initial sales bump, things go back to the usual order of sales each month...there isn't much incentive for Nintendo to bother cutting the price. Yet.
As a diehard GTA fan, I agree that IV is overrated. It's not the revolution that the third one was, and honestly, never could be (you can only make the 2D/3D leap once).
It didn't deserve all of the perfect scores it got...but it was still an "A" game. 90 or 95 seems about right, IMO. So it's not like it was THAT overrated. It just didn't enter the realm of OoT or GTA III or the original Halo.
I knew what to expect from GTA IV, and I got it; I honestly ...
I'm fairly certain it's a fake, but I don't "know," no? ; )
Retro studios has a super secret project going...would Nintendo hand them another resurrection project?
So they gave Corruption alone an A-minus...
...but the trilogy together for the same price is a B-plus?
Huh?
The Wii remote has worked adequately for gesture controls before (they were decent, but that's it, in Madden). With motion plus, they should improve even more. I get that Nintendo keeps wanting to push the envelope, but it's not like their CURRENT controls have been used that well in a football game yet.
Sorry, didn't mean to be a buzz kill. : P
I just prefer the remote/nunchuck over dual analog for shooters. For some games, IR/motion control works better. For others...it's useless.
Well, you DID care enough to comment...
"All the same, I enjoy Wii's controller setup for possibly ironic reasons. While Nintendo's advertising campaign positions the Wii as a more 'active' alternative in gaming, button-heavy single player games like these feel even more lazy when played on the system. Something about having half the controller in one hand and half in the other allows me to sprawl out on a couch the same way I would if I were doing absolutely nothing. No hooked claws gripping my controller, just one hand dead ...
gamesR4fun -- It's being a "fanboi" to point out facts about a game instead of making an uninformed jab at screen shots without knowing anything about what you're looking at?
Get a life. I do like the Wii. I also enjoy games on the PS3 and 360 (Bioshock is tied as a favorite for this gen; may pick up a PS3 for GOW3). It's sad that you can't see the value in each console.
Another review that mentions/compares Bioshock and Corruption. I hadn't really put the similarities together until a few reviewers pointed it out (the Rand-ian theme in Bioshock sorta obscured the similarities for me).
I liked how Echoes was a hardass of a game. Maybe I'm an oddball.
(One thing I don't get -- how are people getting tired pointing the Wii remote? A few reviewers have mentioned this. I mean, are they pointing straight out at the screen, like they'r...
I like how careful those words were chosen -- best multiplayer FPS.
Best singleplayer is pretty much guaranteed to be Metroid Prime Trilogy. That's gonna be hard to top. And unless Retro does another Prime, it won't be.
But on to COD4...it's keeping just about everything from the previous version -- the online should be more robust than Conduit, and that's tops right now on Wii. So yeah, it probably WILL be the best online FPS on Wii. It has no reason not to be. ...
qface -- There's only a few screen shots out. That's not much to judge a game by. Especially since the version shown at Gamescom was a pre-Beta build:
http://nintendonow.e-mpire....
They're keeping the entire single player, all online modes, adding in fully customizable IR/pointer controls (much better than dual analog, IMO), and adding a drop-in mode for ...
Good. One of the reasons I put Conduit aside a few weeks ago is because of people who I was putting five or six head shots on who klled me with one.
It was tolerable until I got to the gold triangle ranking. Once your rank is high enough, you end up playing with a lot of the cheaters (who got their high rankings by hacking).