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1up No More Heroes Paradise PS3 review

1up said:

There are a few welcome additions, though: with the benefit of being on a system capable of HD output, this version of No More Heroes looks considerably better than the Wii original -- and that's probably the best thing I can say about this port. The real problem is that it doesn't move any better, and that's downright inexcusable.


Now, I don't consider the original No More Heroes a terribly ugly game; it certainly wasn't a graphical showcase, but I don't remember it being offensively ugly from a technical standpoint. Of course, I could be wrong (time is a cruel mistress), but playing the game on the Wii never brought on headaches and partial motion sickness from its sheer choppiness. The same can't be said for Heroes' Paradise, which completely collapses when exposed to polygonal complexity greater than a few enemies in a small room. Take Travis' bike out for a spin in Santa Destroy, and you'll believe your multi-core PS3 processor is trying to map the human genome. Yes, it's really that bad.

And then there's the fact that the original No More Heroes was built completely with the Wii controller in mind. Playing it with a DualShock isn't as awkward as you'd think, but, strangely enough, the Move controls are far less responsive than the relatively underpowered Wiimote. The game's famous auto-erotic waggle needed to recharge Travis' beam sword has changed from a simple, semi-effortless maneuver into something akin to how a tweaker would churn butter. I'm not sure if this is the result of a more advanced piece of technology requiring a little more precision on my part, but the bloody, arcade-y fun of No More Heroes doesn't mesh well with studied, intricate movements.


It's shame that this port has been borked so badly; I don't think No More Heroes found the audience it needed on the Wii, and Heroes' paradise isn't going to do this franchise any favors. If you have a Wii and you haven't gotten around to playing No More Heroes, go for the original version -- I shouldn't need to tell you that third-party Wii games from three-plus years ago shouldn't cost more than your average burrito. What's added to Heroes' Paradise isn't worth the price of admission, and its moments like this where we need to show publishers that crappy ports should get what they deserve -- because we deserve better.

This is the second review I've read where they say the Move controller isn't as responsive as the wii remote for some things. Iga knows more about this? Something about the accelerometer?

So this port is the second port of the game from Japan and it still has all these technical shortcomings?

Foolz, Homey

Melbourne judged world's most liveable city

Melbourne has vaulted Vancouver to become the best city in the world to live, according to the latest Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Survey.

In a ranking of 140 cities around the world, Melbourne was given a score of 97.5 per cent. Other Australian cities in the top 10 include Sydney, which ranked sixth best - up from seventh in the previous survey - while Perth and Adelaide ranked unchanged with a joint eighth slot.

Brisbane lagged other Australian cities with a ranking of 21st, behind cities such as Toronto (4th), Helsinki (7th), Paris (16th) and Tokyo (18th).

"Australia, with a low population density and relatively low crime rates, continues to supply some of the world's most liveable cities," said Jon Copestake, editor for the EIU survey.

Vancouver's score slipped to third after a lower rating for infrastructure, placing it below Vienna in Austria. It's the first time since 2002 that the Canadian city hasn't occupied or shared the top slot for liveability.

It seems residents have to pay for what they get, though, with another recent EIU report ranking Sydney as the sixth-most expensive city in the world, with Melbourne coming at No. 7. The survey assessed the cost of living in both cities to be about 40 per cent higher than in New York, mostly because of steep housing costs in Australia.

Residents of Perth boasted the strongest purchasing power in Australia, aided by the fattest pay packets in the land. Even so, the cost of living in Perth and Brisbane - the 13th and 14th most-expensive locations - came in at about 25 per cent higher than New York.

Residents of Perth boasted the strongest purchasing power in Australia, aided by the fattest pay packets in the land. Even so, the cost of living in Perth and Brisbane - the 13th and 14th most-expensive locations - came in at about 25 per cent higher than New York.

top 10 ranking

1 Melbourne (Australia)

2 Vienna (Austria)

3 Vancouver (Canada)

4 Toronto (Canada)

5 Calgary (Canada)

6 Sydney (Australia)

7 Helsinki (Finland)

8 Perth (Australia)

8 Adelaide (Australia)

10 Auckland (New Zealand)

Link

Also downloaded a few NES games on this 3DS ambassodar programme. They look very sharp and clean, almost like NES games in HD. No instructions yet and most of the games are archaic POS. Why couldn't they give us 10 Genesis or SNES games instead?

Also saw the trailer for this Wayforward game Mighty Flip Champs, it looks perfect, a 2D SNES sidescroller only in 3D with different planes. Shame that it has this SMG style platforming switch mechanic which looks like it will get tiresome.

^I hope you are joking.

_Bear said:

Yeah and not 1 US city on here, whatever. I know  the Anti US thing is widely  popular, But this is BS. Take your hate and anti US BS and shove it! Anyone who believes that not US city belongs on this list lives in fantasy  world which might as well be Candyland. Thats why these  lists are dumb and instantly prove invalid. FU Author  of this horseshit, andOh look who the author is  some crappy AU newspaper no wonder most of the Cites are in AU  and NZ  BULLSHIT!

Ah I see you have edited your post. So not only do you lack any form of critical thinking, but you are also a pussy.

If you had any form of logical thinking nay if you can read, you would have found out that the rankings are based on the  Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Survey.

Let's say you are skeptical, you could always Google it.

Well according to Wiki the Economist group has offices throughout the world, including London, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Paris, Dubai, Johannesburg, New York, Washington, DC, Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore, Tokyo and India.

So the argument, of course Australia is over represented because the article is from Australia is not true. The Economist Group is not Australian, it is international.

Also if you read about the survey itself

Wiki said:

The Economist Intelligence Unit's livability also uses data from the Mercer consulting group and shows cities in Canada, Australia, Austria, Finland and New Zealand as the ideal destinations thanks to a widespread availability of goods and services, low personal risk and an effective infrastructure. It does not take into account the cost of living as a factor in 'livability'. The Economist Intelligence Unit has been criticized by the New York Times for being overly anglocentric, stating that "The Economist clearly equates livability with speaking English."

They are using data to calculate this stuff. An apparantly US cities do not score as high. Neither does the city I live in, but you don't see me throwing a hissy fit because of it.

Of course what criteria you check for is subjective, there are also other measuring systems

Wiki said:

The Mercer Quality of Living Survey is released annually, comparing 221 cities based on 39 criteria. New York is given a baseline score of 100 and other cities are rated in comparison. Important criteria are safety, education, hygiene, health care, culture, environment, recreation, political-economic stability and public transportation.

The list helps multi-national companies decide where to open offices or plants, and how much to pay employees.

It this list the top 10 in 2010 was:

1 Vienna

2 Zurich

3 Geneva

4 Auckland

4 Vancouver

6 Dusseldorf

7 Frankfurt

7 Munich

9 Bern

10 Sydney

And there is yet another list

Wiki said:

Since 2007 the lifestyle magazine Monocle publishes an annual list of liveable cities. The list in 2009 was named "The Most Liveable Cities Index" and presented 25 top locations for quality of life. The winning city in 2008 was Copenhagen, Denmark and the 2009 winner was Zurich, Switzerland.

Important criteria in this survey are safety/crime, international connectivity, climate/sunshine, quality of architecture, public transportation, tolerance, environmental issues and access to nature, urban design, business conditions, pro-active policy developments and medical care.

Their top 10 ranking

1 Munich

2 Copenhagen

3 Zurich

4 Tokyo

5 Helsinki

6 Stockholm

7 Paris

8 Vienna

9 Melbourn

10 Madrid

As you can see for different criteria, you get different results. Maybe you do not agree with the criteria? Fine. Make your own set and then calculate what the best cities in the world are. But saying this list is anti-American because no American cities are in it? Well that is just wrong, unless you really think cities like New York have better public transportation, safety and medical care then Melbourne?

Also I read the petty insult direct at myself, before you edited your post. So I am not welcome in America, hey? So who is going to stop me? You?

You seem to think that I posted the top 10 because I am anti-American. If you read the first sentence you would see that I mentioned both Foolz and Homer. Maybe I posted it because they are from Melbourne and it would seem cool to mention it to them? While at the same time laughing at the fact that Sidney scored lower?

No it must be because I am anti-American and the article itself is also anti-American, because it does not believe that that the good old US of A is the best.

Seriously the post and article was not meant to be anti-American at all, you overreacted. You made a mountain out of a molehill. It is not the first time you have done it and probably won't be your last. It was just a list, nothing more than that.

Oh and if you are wondering you are always welcome in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

If the US blows up, I would move to Australia too.

gamingeek said:

This is the second review I've read where they say the Move controller isn't as responsive as the wii remote for some things. Iga knows more about this? Something about the accelerometer?

Don't think so. The Wii and Move both have accelerometers in them. An accelerometer measures acceleration, or change in speed. They are very sensitive devices, they are used for example in cars to measure when to deploy the airbags. The criticism that accelerometers are not ' accurate' is not really a fair complaint. They are very accurate. For example with airbags if they are deployed at the wrong moment they can be dangerous. You do not want the airbag to go off if you brake hard for example.

And here is where the problem lies with NMH move edition. As with an airbag waggle needs to be deployed. With airbags it is employed when a certain threshold is reached. When you have a certain deceleration that can only happen during a crash the airbag is deployed. Put the treshold to low and the airbag will deploy everytime you brake, put the treshold to high and it will deploy when you are flying face first through your front window.

This same is true with waggle, you do not want it to react when you breath to loudly. It seems that the problem with the move port of NMH is that the treshold is too high. In other words, you have to accelerate the move so hard before the game recognized that you want to do the finishing moves. It is highly unlikely that this is a hardware problem. Everything points that this is a shoddy port.

Pointer controls for Wii don't use the accelerometers, they use the 100hz camera in the front which tracks the two IR LEDs on the sensor bar so it happens as you do it. The Move doesn't have an equivalent to that, tracking the light ball alone isn't enough data for the pointer, since it's just one point of reference (possibly also the distance by its size, but still nothing to show direction), so it needs to compensate for that with the gyroscopes (I doubt the accelerometers are used for pointing functions), which is what causes the lag in comparison to Wii depending on the implementation (there are games with bad pointer controls on Wii too, such as the original Red Steel, but that indicates major development fuck ups).

For anything other than that function the Move should in theory and technically be superior but games like NMH, Wii Sports, or even Red Steel 2 are mostly gesture based too and won't benefit from the extra precision all that much, if at all. It definitely shouldn't feel inferior though, if done right.