aspro said:

I love situational melee moves -- yakuza does that as well. And plus 1 on the health -- in all the FPS games I've played I don;t think I've ever seen both regenerative health and "stimpacks" depending onthe difficulty level (but then I rarely change difficulties or play same game twice).

Which raises another question, does it have difficulty level selection on the fly (meaning you can change it throughout the game if need be)?

Windows Phone 7, not android (since he's owned my MS).

to bad for him android works better

aspro said:

Which raises another question, does it have difficulty level selection on the fly (meaning you can change it throughout the game if need be)?

Yes and no.  You can play on the highest level of difficulty you've completed for every level prior to the one you're on.  That is, in order to play a level on 007 difficulty, you have to beat every level prior to it at that difficulty, or else it bumps you down.

The regenerating health is on the first two lowest difficulty at least, and haven't played anything higher than that.  The biggest annoyance is that the alarm mechanic from the original is supplanted for just being spotted.  That is, in the N64 game, an enemy may run to press an alarm, and if he does, enemies will spawn and come running -- otherwise, there are finite enemies.  In the Wii game, any enemy sees you, and it trips some implicit alarm and enemies come from nowhere.  That at the overly accurate enemies are what I attribute as a consequence to the regenerating health.  If it's gone on higher levels, then that just sounds infuriating.

aspro said:

and that's bad news about Dragon Quest 6 not making it to the EU.  Since it is a DS title there is no reason I can think of why they would release it in the states, but not the EU -- so I guess we won't be getting it afterwall, despite their promise in 2008 and the good sales of DQ9.

WHAT?!

No, please tell me, THIS ISN'T TRUE!!!

That means the US version may also be canned.

aspro said:

Yup, I had it pre-ordered and everything. Sucks.  I can't see anyway that it doesn't mean the US version is cancelled.  There is no issue like with the console games having the PAL and NTSC adaptions, so a Eu cancellation means a US one.

I won't believe it until I get a firm confirmation! I won't, I won't, I WON'T!!!

I think Eurogamer is saying that it's "likely canceled," meaning, we don't know yet. Also, I read on GameFaqs that Eurogamer is sending a letter to Square-Enix to see if this is true.

It's because of some guy at Square-Enix EU tweeted saying that "DQVI wasn't in the cards right now" or something like that. It doesn't mean they canceled it. According to GameFAQs.

But IF it's true, than I'll be SO PISSED!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

But why would they cancel it? For stupid crap like MindJack, Gun Loco, Kane & Lynch 3, or other wannabe generic shooters?

SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

Reading GAF, the PC, PS3 and Wii versions of Black Ops all have buggy problems or lower/bad performance.

360 is the superior version then? Not that I care about it. >_<

Not just superior, just the only version that actually works

I'm actually glad my copy is bugged so I can return it and not have to own this piece of crap. Now I can use the cash for Epic Mickey or something.

Agnates said:

This looks like a fun mode for when you have few people. You get one bullet and your knife. If you kill someone in any way you get another bullet, but you can't actually have more than one at a time. You run around looking for each other, take a shot, and if you fail to hit you can do nothing but try to stab each other.

I find it really messed up that the multiplayer maps are all smooth and look good whilst the single player is a frame rate graveyard. I'm going to try to re-create the Goldeneye controls you posted up there.

aspro said:

That new conduit cover kicks ass.  It makes me want the damn game.  Yay bombast!

The old cover was also what they used in the VERY MANY print ads that they ran for the game.  I noticed in the later runs they changed his blue uniform to brass and made it look a little better, but for many months, that ugly ass cover "was" The Conduit.  Ah, maybe I was too hard on that game and should try it again. (Remembers last "boss" battle)... then again, ah no..

Black Ops single player campaign is about the same quality as Conduit 1. Insta-deaths need to be banned from game design. Dying repeatedly whilst trying to work out what the developer wants in a 2 second time window is not good design. And not only that, they blatantly copy Infinity Ward moments.

aspro said:

There was A LOT to love about The Conduit, it appears the only shortcoming was that the game appeared to suffer from them running out of money and or time and having to rush it out.  They spent so much time on all the amazing tweaking, and the multiplayer, the great controls etc...  It was a very admirable attempt, and as burnt as I was from the first one I'm getting 2 because I am hoping it is the realization of what they were attempting to do with the first.

People who never played the first game don't understand that HV got the fundamentals right, the controls were great, the shader laden enemy characters looked good, the AI was good, the weapons felt great. But it fell down on the most important aspect - level design. It seems that they understand their shortcomings and are looking to improve. At the least I think it will be solid.

phantom_leo said:

?

I played a little bit of GoldenEye this morning too.

It almost seems as if some game developer had an N64 GoldenEye for breakfast and a Modern Warfare for lunch and (Call of) Doodied out GoldenEye Wii.

I'm not saying its a BAD game. It just doesn't remind me of the N64 version. AT ALL. IN. THE. LEAST.

I am using a Wii Motion Plus Remote with the game and I SWEAR it feels as if it is using the technology. When it is the free motion mode, the sensitivity is almost TOO accurate. I think at one point I farted and the minor shockwaves from my ass threw off my aim in the game.

The scripted set-pieces with 006 feel TOO CoD-ish to me!

It reminds me very, very much of the original game. Even the first level, how can you not be reminded by the N64 game when it goes out of its way to re-create the first part of the dam level or the bungie jump off the dam, or running about the top of the dam, or the sneaky stealth like Goldeneye gameplay? The game does not user wii motion plus, yet the melee move still feels frakking great.

Yodariquo said:

phantom_leo said:

I played a little bit of GoldenEye this morning too.

It almost seems as if some game developer had an N64 GoldenEye for breakfast and a Modern Warfare for lunch and (Call of) Doodied out GoldenEye Wii.

I'm not saying its a BAD game. It just doesn't remind me of the N64 version. AT ALL. IN. THE. LEAST.

I am using a Wii Motion Plus Remote with the game and I SWEAR it feels as if it is using the technology. When it is the free motion mode, the sensitivity is almost TOO accurate. I think at one point I farted and the minor shockwaves from my ass threw off my aim in the game.

The scripted set-pieces with 006 feel TOO CoD-ish to me!

That's because the game suffers from the post-apocalyptic hellscape that is the FPS world after Halo, whether every damned game, nomatter how out-of-place, has to have regenerating health.  Halo, it makes sense, you're a futuristic warrior in a power-suit.  Bond?  FREAKING BOND?!  The consequence is that combat has to come down to enemies rushing you and never missing a shot.  They've completely borked the balance.  The game's also hurt by pushing these in-game cutscenes versus the never-cut-from-the-action style interactions in the original.

Yes I have it.  The first few levels were kind of crap and the nostalgia didn't carry it, but it has improved.

There is the 007 classic mode where you play with a health system the same as the original game, did you miss that? Also enemies never miss a shot? What? The cut scenes interupt the game too much? What? No they don't. The first few levels were crap? The Dam and facility are two of the best levels. You are really weird sometimes Yoda.

Yodariquo said:

aspro said:

Which raises another question, does it have difficulty level selection on the fly (meaning you can change it throughout the game if need be)?

Yes and no.  You can play on the highest level of difficulty you've completed for every level prior to the one you're on.  That is, in order to play a level on 007 difficulty, you have to beat every level prior to it at that difficulty, or else it bumps you down.

The regenerating health is on the first two lowest difficulty at least, and haven't played anything higher than that.  The biggest annoyance is that the alarm mechanic from the original is supplanted for just being spotted.  That is, in the N64 game, an enemy may run to press an alarm, and if he does, enemies will spawn and come running -- otherwise, there are finite enemies.  In the Wii game, any enemy sees you, and it trips some implicit alarm and enemies come from nowhere.  That at the overly accurate enemies are what I attribute as a consequence to the regenerating health.  If it's gone on higher levels, then that just sounds infuriating.

Man up. Only like 6 enemies appear when an alarm is triggered and then when you clear them you drop back down to stealth gameplay.

aspro said:

^If you ever figure out how to normalize both the Y and X axis in those games let me know.  It's default is reversed.

You can change all the camera axes in the game.

I don't remember if you could in the originals or not, but you can in the Collection!

@gamingeek i have put in over 20 hours with zombie mode and story and i haven't had any bugs, glitiches, slow parts or anything bad so  i hear theres some people having slight problems it happens i guess maybe i got insanely lucky and got a good copy

i feel that black ops is the best fps game out this year on the wii

Agnates said:

The copies are all the same, you probably just don't notice the low frame rate. It's ok, some people don't, for others it's a crippling issue. Chances are the crashing will come to you also, in the story mode at least, as it seems to be common enough. As said already, the multiplayer performs better, so that aspect shouldn't have any major issues regardless of how long you play it for. The best FPS on Wii however is GoldenEye though

meh goldeneye was overrated on the 64 and it is on the wii, perfect dark on the 64 was a 100 times better then golden eye, better graphics, better gameplay, better story, bots yet its over looked next to goldeneye just because that came out first