It seems to me that this game differs a lot from the other two Primes, as some of you have pointed out. For many people the change from a mysterious sci-fi game to a Halo-ish shooter might be good, but I for one don't like it. In addition, the dialog seems a bit unimaginative considering the writers' talent (remember the scientific infos in Prime?) and the music in the trailer is like from an 80's adventure movie. Might be that these 'techno battles' are just a way to lure the people in for t...
"this sure is stimulating discussion. deciding which one of the 2 or 3 games coming to wii in the next YEAR you are going to get."
Huh? This is about 2007, not 2008. None of the Wii games have the hype of PS3 or 360 games in N4G, but it doesn't prove anything of their quality. I'll wait until the reviews. I have already predicted that Wii will get more AAA games this year than PS3 or 360. Let's see at the end of the year who's right and who's not.
Anywa...
You obviously don't know much about the 3rd party software sales on different consoles. Wii has two 3rd party million+ sellers (Rayman Raving Rabbids and Red Steel), which is very good considering their average quality. PS3 has none. As with other consoles, great 3rd party games sell a lot on Wii. Many of the 3rd party devs didn't see Wii succeeding the way it does, hence the low quality software and only a couple of 3rd party hits.
There'll be lots of GOOD 3rd party Wii games, though maybe not many great ones. Here's a list of 3rd party games on Wii I keep my eyes on:
-RE Umbrella Chronicles
-Dewy's Adventure
-de Blob
-FF Crystal Chronicles
-Nights: Journey of Dreams
-Zack&Wiki
-No More Heroes
-Madden 08
-Tiger Woods 08
-Soul Calibur Legends
-Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
-Red Steel 2 (as long as they...
Are you talking about the AA games that score 80+ or the AAA titles that score 90+? As I've said earlier, Wii has two AAA titles at the moment and PS3 has one (gamerankings.com), so the situation isn't good for either console. I'll predict that by the end of the year, Wii will still have more AAA titles (maybe 5) than PS3. PS3 may end up having more AA+ games by the end of the year though.
I think Nintendo is afraid of others nicking their ideas. After all, Nintendo spends a lot of time working with details instead of releasing rushed rip-offs. They clearly want to produce more killer-app software in order to show that Wii is not a fad.
Also, most of the game shows these days seem to be about showing a 5 minute pre-rendered video of a game to make graphic whores hype the game beyond the point of absurdity. Nintendo won't even try to do that for obvious reasons. ...
I was talking about Wii bashing in general. I just get the feeling that people don't realise how small company Nintendo is compared to Sony and MS. They couldn't afford to take the risk of selling a superpowered console at loss for the narrow hardcore gamer community, considering how badly GC did with similar strategy. They definately don't have the money to buy several well-known gaming studios like their competitors do.
These days games simply cost so much to make, that Ninte...
"Wii is not a nextgen console"
What differences should a console have compared to it's predecessor in order for you to think it's a leap in generation? Let's take a comparison between Wii and GC. New format? Check. More horsepower? Check. New controller? Check. New hardware and software features? Check (flash memory, SD-card drive, the channels, virtual console, online play etc. etc.).
I can't see anything missing except the change in resolution. If Wii...
"dont give a rats arse how much the Wii out sells it cos the Wii doesn't even have many real games. Just mini and party games. Gimmicy crap. Nintendo have turned their back on all us gamers."
The Prediction: This year Wii will have more AAA exclusives than PS3 (using gamerankings.com as a source).
The question: If I stand correct at the end of the year, will you finally stop with the bashing of the Wii? Criticism is always good, just make sure there's ...
drunk pandas, you forgot to tell that the whole point of the "cat example" is that the poison release system is connected to a quantum mechanics related process, such as beta decay AND that is why no-one can know what the cat's fate is until the door of the safe/lid of the box is opened.
I believe that the Halo plot is concentrated on the the theory (derived of the uncertainity principle, related to Schrodinger's equation) that there's universes according to every pos...
If people don't like comparing Wii sales to PS3 and 360 sales (see "Wii just 620,000 units behind Xbox360"), then how come there's no negative comments about that subject for this news article? Some people have a weird way of thinking Nintendo as a part of console war only if it's losing.
"The Wii cant sell any games, so it doesnt matter at all."
Wii has so far 8 games that have sold more than million copies. That's pretty darn good.
"HALO 3 will sell more games than the top 3 Wii games combined."
I don't think so. Wii Play, Wii Sports and Zelda TP combined have sold about 16 million already. That's about twice as much as Halo 2 and at the moment, there's not even large enough userbase on 360 to counter those sales!
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You can compare the sales of Wii and GC here:
http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps...
The Wii has sold about three times faster than Gamecube if the launches of Wii and GC are aligned.
Honeal2g: "i mean its certainly not next gen it doesnt even play dvds"
It's quite funny that you mention formats as a way of defining which gen a console belongs to. Wii uses the exact same format (DVD9) as Xbox 360. Xbox has DVD9 too, but Gamecube has only 1,5 Gb disk (-> Wii is more than just a Gamecube with Wiimote).
If you mean DVDs as DVD movies, then it's a different issue. Gamecube didn't play movies like PS2 and Xbox, yet everyone said that G...
It's not racist because the people are not eliminated because of their skin color, but because of their zombiness. In Raccoon City, most of the zombies are white because most of the inhabitants in the City are white. In RE4 and RE5 the logic stays the same. It wouldn't make any sense if the Spaniards were green or the Haitians purple, for example.
"Calling it billsheit shows that none of you are familiar with african history and what a lot of people are going trough (and have gone trough) in that continent today."
That's not true. I for one know a lot about African history. True, white African people have killed black African people and also black African people have killed white African people (have you heard of the massive farm takeovers, for example?). These historical facts are meaningless when deciding wha...
As many of you pointed out, this is just ridiculous considering what the franchise has been and will be about. Should the skin color of the haitians in the game change when they're infected with the virus/parasite/etc.? No.
It's funny how there's not even any consistency in these arguments. Some time ago there was a buzz over the main character in GTA: San Andreas. The complainers said that because the main character in the game is black AND shoots people, it presents black peo...
Sounds good. Hope they have skillful writers and innovating designers who are able to merge the drama, action and freedom of choice naturally into the game's intellectual offerings. The ultimate task in my opinion is to produce a game where the player and different entities have seamless causal relationships at the different emergent levels (mainly physical and psychological) AND produce information that is applicable to the game world in addition to having a philosophical meaning that reflec...
"This is the high art, to hell with idiots and tasteless people like Roger Ebert. This is Bioshock and its art, high art and better than a lot of recent movies."
Bioshock might be a great game, but I don't think games are art. It's more like a complicated sport. Would you say paintball in a beautiful setting is art?
Being better than most recent movies doesn't mean Bioshock is high art, since most movies are not art and not even good entertainment in my...
"I think that it has a lot of potential if developers can learn to think abstractly and design games that can take advantage of the machine's abilities."
I agree with you. Elebits, WarioWare, De Blob, Zack & Wiki and Mercury Meltdown Revolution show that some devs think the same way.