travo said:

Dvader said:

BIOSHOCK!  Would you kindly? Mind blown.

Yes!  I loved the ending.  Did you choose the good or evil ending?

Still not at the end but I am almost there. I am going to get the bad ending first, go for good next time.

Iga_Bobovic said:

 Yeah, I can't tell if the game is grayish because of the scan quality or art-style. But it runs at 60 fps. Take that Conduit!!

 Can you explain why 60fps is supposedly so good? It doesn't look any smoother or play any different than a 30fps game to me. Is it an HDTV thing?

Ravenprose said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Yeah, I can't tell if the game is grayish because of the scan quality or art-style. But it runs at 60 fps. Take that Conduit!!

Can you explain why 60fps is supposedly so good? It doesn't look any smoother or play any different than a 30fps game to me. Is it an HDTV thing?

Play MGS3. Then play MGS2.

Tell me you dont see the difference.

Ravenprose said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Ravenprose said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

 Yeah, I can't tell if the game is grayish because of the scan quality or art-style. But it runs at 60 fps. Take that Conduit!!

 Can you explain why 60fps is supposedly so good? It doesn't even look any smoother or play any different than a 30fps game to me. Is it an HDTV thing?

I can see the difference clearly. I can see it clearly with Galaxy, Prime and F-Zero. It give a much smoother game experience. A human eye can see around 70 fps, so you can see a difference between 30 and 60 fps. 

But you Hamster eyes are not that good. That take that thing was a reference to their interview. 

 Bah! I think it's just another marketing trick (i.e. blast processing). There's no visable difference. It's all in your heads.

 Play F-Zero, then play Extreme-G

Iga_Bobovic said:

*Walks in

Prototype is fucking awesome. Using Helicopter blades to slice zombies FTW.

*Walks out

Yes. But which will be a better game Prototype or Infamous. Prototype is like silly fun while Infamous seems to have great platforming and probably be a bit more balanced.

gamingeek said:

Few more Broken Sword Impressions for Foolz. 

Once you are past the new beggining, you start noticing little differences. 

Firstly the audio does take a hit on the non-new sections. It's never as bad as some reviews have suggested, it's slightly muffled. But you rarely struggle to understand what they are saying and the text is always on screen anyway. So its really no problem. The game itself, visually the art is rich and clear, no transfer problems here. 

They haven't followed through on the animatics I described earlier. On the original game you have static close up facials when they talk, barely animated, not like the first hour of the game. 

Otherwise, there are some cool new puzzles, that are quite difficulty in places. I have to reiterate, the built in hint system is indispensible and should be instituted not just in all graphic adventures but in all games where you can get stuck and not understand why. 

This puzzle pissing you off? Here's a hint. Still don't get it? Another one. Can't be bothered, well here it is laid out. Still can't do it, skip it. Genius. 

It lets you try all you want to and give up when you want it. It eliminates uncessary frustration and searching for solutions online and its completely optional. 

Love this game, its even got me Jones-ing for Fate of Atlantis on this Staff of Kings game. In fact I may buy the Broken Sword trilogy on PC now. Then the xbox sequel. 

Some budget publisher needs to come along and start doing cheap Wii bundles because the games work SO well lazily on your sofa and with a TV screen. 

 That sucks about the animations, but great to hear about the hints. I suck at adventure games like Broken Sword, so that should make it a much more enjoyable experience than having to check a walkthroughn every now and then. 

Archangel3371 said:

Woo hoo! I picked up another Wii game today, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. The last time I spotted a copy of it was about a month ago going for $50 but I spotted a lone copy of the game priced at $30 so I figured that was good enough and grabbed it. I'll probably try a bit of it tonight but will mainly get really into this weekend.

 But...but Overkill!

aspro73 said:

Soul Calibur for the PSP?  I didn't see that one coming.

yep, should be a good one. tekken 6 was also a good announcement for the psp.  but the best one has to be pixeljunk monsters, i have wanted to try one of those games for a long time now.

back to soul calibur, i read the guy's interview.  he made the (in my opinion) mistake of going on about how they are striving to make it accessible to newcomers to the series.  while that is a good thing as far as most people are concerned, as iga pointed out in a very good post a few days ago many people have difficulty distinguishing between making something accessible and making it casual.  as a result the game seems to have been already written off by the hardcore SC fans.

I'm updating now whilst listening to the IGN podcast, wanted to type this as I listened:

Rabbids Go Home

"I'm really excited, it's not a minigame fest. It's got a really great art style and the ingame engine is really good. And its really funny and it feels more like an adventure game or even platformer. Once you guys see some video of it in motion you're going to understand. It's like action adventure mixed with a funhouse. No Rayman in the game, lot of comedy. Engine is going to be badass and the artstyle is kickass. 

It looks really really promising, this is like a complete reboot. Internally Ubisoft is really pleased and is expecting big things. This is going to be a big game." 

phantom_leo said:

Hmmm... Square-Enix mystery...?

Futuristic setting.

Urban environement.

Sounds of gunfire.

The only "mystery" here is why no one has pegged it as a new Front Mission announcement YET.

Duh.

 A couple of stories have it pegged as that. You a fan?

Anyhow Gameplan as done numerous surveys to gauge purchase intent for the top 20 Wii games people are intending to buy.

1. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo EAD)
2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Sega)
3. Need for Speed Nitro (EA Montreal)
4. Madden NFL 10 (EA Tiburon)
5. Modern Warfare 2 (rumored, no developer announced; published by Activision)
6. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (EA Tiburon)
7. Punch-Out!! (Next Level Games, Nintendo)
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (EA Bright Light)
9. EA Sports Active (EA Canada)
10. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Amaze Entertainment, Activision)
11. Indiana Jones & the Staff of Kings (LucasArts)
12. Boom Blox Bash Party (EA Los Angeles)
13. The Beatles: Rock Band (Limited Edition bundle) (Harmonix Music Systems, EA/MTV Games)
14. The Beatles: Rock Band (game only) (Harmonix Music Systems, EA/MTV Games)
15. NCAA Football 10 (EA Tiburon)
16. Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Red Fly Studio, Atari)
17. Tom Clancy’s HAWX (Ubisoft Romania)
18. Grand Slam Tennis (EA Canada)
19. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Krome Studios, Activision)
20. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Eurocom, Activision)

The funny thing is that COD Modern Warfare 2 is at number 5 and World at War sold a million so far on the system and its most likely that there wont be a version of MW2 on wii. Sad to see. I enjoyed COD WOW, with some more polish in the ADS sights mode and some more finesse in graphics and online modes. It could be a real contender. 

bugsonglass said:

gamingeek said:

The funny thing is that COD Modern Warfare 2 is at number 5 and World at War sold a million so far on the system and its most likely that there wont be a version of MW2 on wii. Sad to see. I enjoyed COD WOW, with some more polish in the ADS sights mode and some more finesse in graphics and online modes. It could be a real contender.

Activision not pleased with COD WOW wii sails?  or just a case of infinity ward snobbery? maybe treyarch could work on it ... or would it tarnish the proper versions too much?

 It may have more to do with logistics, Treyarch did COD3 and WOW and worked on Wii versions at the same time. IW work on the "proper" games as one would call them. 

Lets say Treyarch finished WOW end of last year, MW2 is out end of this year, that gives Treyarch a year to do a version? Is that enough? I have the feeling that unless Activision hand down a orders to IW to do a wii version, it aint happening. There is definetely a market for shooters on the system with two FPS at over a million. 

I stil think Red Steel 2 shot themselves in the balls with the visual and concept change. Its going to be 3 years since the original and they've made it virtually unrecognisable?