Ravenprose said:

Archangel3371 said:

Very disappointed with how Castlevania Judgement turned out. I was really hoping it would turn out at least decent. I will still probably give it a rental sometime in the future.

 Huh? 

• Nintendo Power 7.0
• IGN 7.5
• 1UP D- 
• Gametrailers 6.5

All of those are decent to good scores.

Archangel3371 said:

Hmm I wasn't aware of IGN's 7.5 that's what I was expecting from it. D- is a 6.0 - 6.4? Ugh I hate EGM's and 1up's grade scale. To me D- should definately be lower then that. I guess I'm still reeling from GS's 3.0, that just hit me like a ton of bricks. I haven't paid much attention to Nintendo Power reviews for ages I always found the kind of iffy. I ussually just stick with reviews from sites that do multi-platforms. I'm a little bit more hopeful of the game but I think I'll still go with a rental first.

 A rental is always a good idea on a questionable game.

IMO, Nintendo Power has been really close in their reviews with most other mags and websites.

Ravenprose said:

Archangel3371 said:

Hmm I wasn't aware of IGN's 7.5 that's what I was expecting from it. D- is a 6.0 - 6.4? Ugh I hate EGM's and 1up's grade scale. To me D- should definately be lower then that. I guess I'm still reeling from GS's 3.0, that just hit me like a ton of bricks. I haven't paid much attention to Nintendo Power reviews for ages I always found the kind of iffy. I ussually just stick with reviews from sites that do multi-platforms. I'm a little bit more hopeful of the game but I think I'll still go with a rental first.

 A rental is always a good idea on a questionable game.

IMO, Nintendo Power has been really close in their reviews with most other mags and websites.

gamingeek said:

Present for Archie:

Uh huh

EDIT: Ravenprose, I'm just logging onto Animal Crossing, you game?

 Hell yes! Let me boot it up, and I'll join you.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Ravenprose said:

gamingeek said:

My scale is that anything over an 8.0 I would buy happily, 7.0-8.0 I would think about. Anything lower and it would take a lot, like a GAF gushing thread or a new concept to try.

Wow, you're pretty strict.

Then again, I rarely use reviews to judge a game. I know I won't like Castlevania Judgement simply because I don't like most 3D fighters. IGN gushed over Zack and Wiki for months, but I only view it as an okay game with great graphics. Most reviewers bashed Red Steel, but I enjoyed it a lot, even more that Zack and Wiki. Gamespot--well, Gamespot doesn't matter anymore do they? I guess it just comes down to personal taste in games.

 You are dead to me Hamster, do you hear me DEAD!!

  I don't like point-n-click adventure/puzzle games, Iga. I knew I should've bought it, but it was cheap. It's a decent game, just not to my usual liking.

Ravenprose said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Ravenprose said:

gamingeek said:

My scale is that anything over an 8.0 I would buy happily, 7.0-8.0 I would think about. Anything lower and it would take a lot, like a GAF gushing thread or a new concept to try.

Wow, you're pretty strict.

Then again, I rarely use reviews to judge a game. I know I won't like Castlevania Judgement simply because I don't like most 3D fighters. IGN gushed over Zack and Wiki for months, but I only view it as an okay game with great graphics. Most reviewers bashed Red Steel, but I enjoyed it a lot, even more that Zack and Wiki. Gamespot--well, Gamespot doesn't matter anymore do they? I guess it just comes down to personal taste in games.

 You are dead to me Hamster, do you hear me DEAD!!

  What? I don't like point-n-click adventure/puzzle games, Iga. I knew I should've bought it, but it was cheap. It's a decent game, just not to my usual liking.

 You called it okay, the game is way too unique for that classification. Okay games are the WW2 FPS shooters, not something like like Zaku! 

And once in a while you should buy a game outside your comfort zone, you might be surprised! So you did good by buying it cheap. I am still playing it, will not have a final opinion until I finish it, but great so far!

I think the next Zelda might have some Z&W style motion puzzling!

Dammit I talking to dead people again!

Iga_Bobovic said:

 You called it okay, the game is way too unique for that classification. Okay games are the WW2 FPS shooters, not something like like Zaku! 

And once in a while you should buy a game outside your comfort zone, you might be surprised! So you did good by buying it cheap. I am still playing it, will not have a final opinion until I finish it, but great so far!

I think the next Zelda might have some Z&W style motion puzzling!

Dammit I talking to dead people again!

To me, "okay" and "decent" mean pretty much the same thing when it comes to games, and Zack and Wiki fits both words nicely. WWII shooters are well below both of those descriptions.

Yeah, I often try games outside my confort zone otherwise I'd never have tried Animal Crossing, Endless Ocean, Ouendan, or Pikmin; and I love all of those games.

Ravenprose said:

gamingeek said:

I'm actually interested in a couple of these Wiimakes for games I never picked up.  DK Junglebeat is suppossed to be a very good game, I didn't get it because of the bongo controls but now it has new content and you can use a standard controller or wii remote (although you could use a GC controller before). You are getting a traditional awesome 2-D Donkey Kong, platformer in the vein of DK Country.

I never picked up Mario tennis, I didn't fall in love with the N64 game, even though it was quite decent, I preffered virtua tennis by a mile. But I love Wii tennis and the controls particularly. If then can match the controls of that game in Mario Tennis then I may get this too. And I never picked up Pikmin 2 either, so assuming that comes out, it's mine. But it all depends on the price and what other stuff is out at the time.  

And even though I don't like re-buying games, the control in MP3 is so good that I find replaying MP1 and 2 difficult. If they released those two games and matched MP3 controls, I might have to get those too.

 I have DK Junglebeat. It's a really fun game. I played a demo of it at my local Best Buy store, and I had so much fun with it, that I immediately bought it, bongos and all. I still play it every now and then for highscores.

Pikmin 2 is awesome! It's like 5X bigger than the original game.

Yeah, I'd probably pick Metroid Prime up again if it had Metroid Prime 3 controls. I absolutely loved Metroid Prime.

Yes, but all these Wii-makes have extra content, so do you guys reckon the same will be true for Prime game? What would you like to see?

I personally want them to add weak points for massive damage on all the normal enemies. So there would be actually a point in the wii-mote aiming. The enemies will therefore die faster. This will make the pacing of the game faster. Especially handy for us that will be replaying the game for the nth time.

Another nice thing would be ship travel of Prime. If you have to travel from one point of the map to the other, the ship will take you there fast. Another thing that will improve the pacing, especially in Prime 2. Maybe use the ship to access the moon of the planet for some extra content.

Extra art, some new scan info would be nice too!

Ravenprose said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Yes, but all these Wii-makes have extra content, so do you guys reckon the same will be true for Prime game? What would you like to see?

I personally want them to add weak points for massive damage on all the normal enemies. So there would be actually a point in the wii-mote aiming. The enemies will therefore die faster. This will make the pacing of the game faster. Especially handy for us that will be replaying the game for the nth time.

Another nice thing would be ship travel of Prime. If you have to travel from one point of the map to the other, the ship will take you there fast. Another thing that will improve the pacing, especially in Prime 2. Maybe use the ship to access the moon of the planet for some extra content.

Extra art, some new scan info would be nice too!

All of those ideas sound great, Iga. I want an even harder difficulty added to the game as well. That'll make up for the faster wii remote aiming, and make the game more interesting for us original owners. 

 More aggresive and faster enemies, yeah that would make it harder to hit said weakspot. Yeah that can work. Also they can copy Zero Mission hard mode. Zero missions hard mode does the following things:

• More advanced version of certain enemies in some places
• Enemies do more damage
• One missile upgrade gives you 2 missiles in stead of 5
• One super missile and power bomb gives you 1 missile/bomb instead of 2
• Energy tank give you 50 extra energy instead of 100

The cool thing: the enemies do not take more damage, this would make the game only more tedious. Waiting half our until an enemy croaks is not fun.

Some added thing, low percentage ending. In Zero Mission you have an extra 15% playthroug. This changes the game significantly and makes the bosses harder.

That would be awesome, but probably, nay almost certainly will not happen!