Having played the three Crysis games, do you get a sense of place in the Crysis world? Was it a unified experience?

Dvader said:

GG I am not saying EO doesnt look good, as I said its a great looking Wii game. I am just saying it could and will look a ton better if Wii 2 gets an EO game and you will love it.

Of course, I understand what you and Steel mean. You're saying in a perfect world, all things being equal if the same developer were to make the same game on different hardware of varying graphical levels, you would get different results, better results. I agree.

I guess people like me think less about this hypothetical world and look to what is actually happening in terms of released games, released hardware and comparisons you could make. I came to terms with what Wii could do in terms of visuals years ago, but there are still alot of people who have this wish about what everything could have been like, if only.

I'm more an acceptance guy. Otherwise I certainly wouldn't have bought a DS to play 3D games with N64 like graphics.

Anyway I need to get back to updating.

EDIT:

BTW in Lost why does it seem like Jack's dad knows everyone in the cast in some form? I just saw he was that aussie womans dad, which makes Jack and her half brothers and sisters and now Jack has a nephew on the island. WTF? Jacks dad has met who now? Anna Lucia or whatever she's called, Jack, Sawyer and now aussie woman. It's getting comedic now, I half expect the bathroom door to open in the hatch and Jacks dad to pop out.

Same NMH version as Konami announced for the US release. Just also releasing in Japan now.

Time to round up the latest Wii 2 rumours.

http://salon.p-nintendo.com/news/N-1064080615.html

1. It will launch before summer 2012
2. Many of the large publishers are already working on Wii 2 games
3. The controller has:  "the most incredible innovations of the manufacturer - these 20 last years"
4. Their source did NOT mention seeing a touchscreen.
5. The Vitality Sensor could thus make its great return, in a way or another, on the new console

http://gameolosophy.com/consoles/wii/more-project-cafe-rumors/#ixzz1K0495cMH

Rumor Nuggets

1. Square Enix, Capcom, Sega, Konami, Activision, Rockstar/Take Two, Electronic Arts, Namco and Ubisoft all have development kits.
2. They each have at least one game in development for the Wii 2.
3. Expect games to be coming to this system that you would never expect on a Nintendo console.
4. Nintendo is kissing third party ****s with this console.
5. The new Nintendo controller sounds more ridiculous on paper. When you actually see the thing, it makes a lot more sense from a design standard.
6. Expect Nintendo to roll out the red carpet for third parties so their games don’t get overshadowed. Nintendo has been preaching to third parties that third parties won’t get screwed this time around, so if you’re expecting a ton of amazing first party games at launch…well…think again. Nintendo wants a launch that creates confidence in third parties again so expect very few first party games at launch similar to the 3DS.
7. Star Fox is coming. I can’t say when. Very good chance that it WONT be at E3. I am hearing Star Fox is coming for the new Nintendo system, but it is very early in development.
8. Nintendo solved every storage issue a third party could possibly have with the new console. I don’t know if it’s a harddrive or a different, cheaper way to store data.
9. Nintendo revamping their WiiWare and virtual console services. I don’t think it will be called WiiWare anymore.
10. Expect a crapload of 3DS love at this E3. The show will be wayyy more 3DS than Wii 2 (Project Cafe). 3DS stuff will be at least 60 percent of the E3 pre-show.
11. Don’t listen to anyone who says new Nintendo console will launch by end of 2011. They are idiots. This holiday season is all about the 3DS and Nintendo’s E3 show will focus on that.
12. Don’t expect many games to be shown at E3 for new Nintendo console, but expect all of the key features to be revealed.
13. Nintendo is thinking about launching Zelda: Skyward Sword around the same time as Wii 2 since Wii 2 is backwards compatible with Wii 1 games. They want to follow the same strategy when they launched Pokemon Black/White when 3DS was coming out.
14. I am 90 percent sure you will not see a Zelda: Skyward Sword port to the Wii 2. It will remain a Wii 1 game.
15. Nintendo approached Hideo Kojima about the new Nintendo console. Nintendo and Hideo Kojima have a good relationship with each other.
16. A Resident Evil game is in development for the new Nintendo system. I don’t know if Capcom is developing an RE spinoff or something part of the “main” Resident Evil series.
17. Retrostudios started working on a Wii 2 game. It is NOT Metroid. Retro is done with Metroid.

http://paulgalenetwork.com/home/2011/04/18/retro-studios-working-on-a-project-everyone-wants-us-to-do-on-wii-2/

Retro Studios working on “a project everyone wants us to do” on Wii 2.

[RECENT RETRO JOB POSTING: Retro is a state-of-the-art game development studio, working in conjunction with Nintendo to bring award-winning games to Nintendo's cutting-edge next-generation platforms.]

Retro Studios is hot off a four game win streak thanks to Donkey Kong Country Returns and the Metroid Prime trilogy, but according to them, what they’re working on for Wii’s successor is “a project everyone wants us to do”.






I spoke with two different people at the Austin, Texas based first party developer for Nintendo to see if I could get any more information on the “Wii 2″ which many are calling Project Cafe. Whatever the system’s name ends up being, my sources at Retro Studios said that their company was amongst the very first to receive a development kit and that they’ve been on board developing a new project ever since.






What could they be working on? Something that “everyone wants them to do” means one of two things to me. First off, it could be a new, ‘built from the ground up’ first person shooter…something that many gamers have been begging them to do. It makes sense and the way I see it, it would be the modern equivelant to what Perfect Dark was to Goldeneye 007 on the Nintendo 64.

http://kyoto-report.blogspot.com/2011/04/ninja-courier_19.html

PS3 ENGINEER WORKING ON Wii 2: NST WORKING ON TECH RELATED TO Wii 2?

It looks like Nintendo Technology Development, the Seattle based hardware group under Howard Cheng, has been quite busy researching and developing several of the technologies being used in Project Cafe. One of the more interesting features is their work on tracking systems and head-mounted stereoscopic displays along with CPU and GPU research and evaluation.






For those wondering what direction the system might take from a purely geometrical calculation standpoint. Some of the new team members at Nintendo Technology Development include one of the head engineers responsible for the PS3's Cell CPU and RSX GPU.






While the news is not indicative of the ultimate fire power the system may carry, it certainly is promising.

edit: listening to the IGN voicechat now, they say that their info isn't just some spurious rumour, its from developers with dev kits actually working on Wii 2 games right now. They also reiterate the "significantly more powerful than 360" quote again.

Nintendo is thinking about launching Zelda: Skyward Sword around the same time as Wii 2 since Wii 2 is backwards compatible with Wii 1 games.

Damn this shit is getting exciting, isn't it? This might be the most exciting home console news since the Gamecube/Xbox days. I love new console rumors and news, especially when it sounds so damn good!

I think that guy in the one article hit it on the head with Retro; its either a mature 1st-person shooter, or a Zelda sequel. I'm leaning towards Zelda myself. Skyward Sword is coming at the end of the generation which means Nintendo would take AT LEAST until 2014 to release a new game. The best way to get a new Zelda game on their next console SOONER would be to have Retro Studios or a 3rd-party develop one. Having Retro working on a next-gen Zelda NOW, would mean we'd be getting a new Zelda much sooner with the added bonus of having Retro's touch and design choices on it....as well as allowing Nintendo EAD to work on a 2nd Project Cafe Zelda game later in the cycle. I've wanted Retro to do an original FPS for ages myself, and was perplexed that they did Donkey Kong instead (likely because Wii just wasn't the console to do one) but Zelda is the one game I'd love to see them do as much as Metroid.

I certainly hope they're not doing a new Metroid. Give that a rest.

1. Expect games to be coming to this system that you would never expect on a Nintendo console.

I don't even know what this means anymore. Really, what would really be shocking about any software showing up on a Nintendo console? Would Resident Evil be shocking? No. Metal Gear Solid? No. Final Fantasy? No. The only thing I can think of is Grand Theft Auto or some of the more PC style games like Elder Scrolls, which really wouldn't be that shocking either....its just where gaming is.

What I find interesting is how games like Red Dead Redemption, Assasins Creed and Dead Space were PS2 and Xbox games. How many other games long in gestation were brought over? I like hearing about cancelled games we never knew about before.

Also what about the controller? Do you want this suppossed GC controller with a screen in the middle? Do you want to keep wii controls? What about a combination of both with a break apart controller?

Why is it that every time someone does a Gamecube lock-up, they choose to use the ugliest version of the console/controller and not Platinum? Are we trying to scare people away here?

GI.biz said:

'We've been waiting for PS4, Xbox 720 since Crysis 1

Crytek's Cevat Yerli believes the next generation of consoles are just around the corner, and that the PC format will be held back until they arrive.


It turns out though that Crytek has been ready for the next-generation of consoles for some time now.


"We've been considering the next generation and what it will likely consist of for many years now, so everything we did in CryEngine 3 has been with an eye on future hardware architectures," Yerli told GI.biz.

"Some recently advertised 'next-gen' features in other middleware are running in an unplayable tech demo on a supercomputer. But a bunch of these same features are available right now, in the current generation, in Crysis 2!


"We've been waiting for the next generation of consoles since we released Crysis 1, as the high end PC features we invented back then will be pretty standard on next-gen consoles, we believe," he added.


"Developers can work with CryEngine 3 right now, running real-time GI, sub-surface scattering, movie quality camera effects, etc. in vast worlds with extreme complexity and be confident that the technology they are working with will be scalable to the next generation."


Crytek isn't the only studio with an itch that needs scratching. Last week DICE said it too is ready for the next-generation of consoles whenever they should burst onto the scene.

Now here is a developer you wouldn't think would work on Wii 2. Free Radical though, er... Crytek UK now? That's a different matter.

Crytek just sound like they're trying to convince people to use their engine more than anything else. And has any news been heard of Free Radical since they got bought? I think Crytek just bought them to use their console knowledge for Crysis 2.