I hate Nintendo.

^Obviously they're like me, and never played the SNES game.

Cursed Mountain Gamespot preview:

http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/cursedmountain/news.html?sid=6196627&om_act=convert&om_clk=picks&tag=picks;title;6

"In addition to the supernatural encounters, you'll have to deal with the rigors of altitude sickness, which, according to the developers, will have the main character wondering if what he's seeing during his adventures is real or imagined."

Cool, ripped from Eternal Darkness. I wish more people would copy that, though its kind of sad that Gamespot doesn't mention the fact that they ARE taking it from ED. Heh, the guy that did the preview probably hasn't even played ED.

^I don't trust anyone's content. I just like to read the shit regardless when its about a game I'm interested in.

And yes, that game WAS fuck win. Easily one of my favorite games on last gen on Cube or otherwise. Such a cool vibe, great audio (not many better game's on Cube in the audio area) and great story.

I'd much rather have a new ED than another Too Human.

Gamingeek, go HERE and tell Pandemic why they're foolish for ignoring Wii and instead wasting their time with a PS fucking 2 version of Mercenaries 2.

iga_bobovic said:

GG = Insert Coin's complaining machine! Go GG rip them a new one!

Word.

I just realized I hadn't posted from the Wii -- SUCCESS!

More Fragile info from Neogaf

From sp0rk

Brian says:
so the demo was really short and sweet

sp0rsk says:
how short

Brian says:
it took place in the "Hotel Where Time Has Stopped" ruins

Brian says:
about 5-10 mins

Brian says:
closer to 5, because i was quick to pick it up

sp0rsk says:
wow damn that is short

Brian says:
the demo starts you outside the building. you guide the main character inside, explore for a bit, then face a boss

Brian says:
the game looks really nice, but because a lot of the "wow" depends on the lighting, the indoor locales obviously look a lot better than the outdoor ones, IMO

Brian says:
the camera is handled kind of like metroid prime 3

Brian says:
you have a light source which works as a reticle. you point that at things. unfortunately, though, the only way to turn around is to pan to the edge of the screen

sp0rsk says:
how was the music

sp0rsk says:
could you hear it

Brian says:
which was a bit clunky

Brian says:
couldn't hear the music

sp0rsk says:
damn

Brian says:
but the voice work was great (there wasn't a lot, very immersive so not much text)

Brian says:
i got the impression that there are a lot of ambient SFX going on

sp0rsk says:
not a lot of text, thats good.

Brian says:
the mission for the demo revolves around finding out where a mysterious voice is coming from

Brian says:
so i was like "but i don't hear a voice!" and the attendant was like, "yeah, it's too noisy in here"

Brian says:
they talk about sound design a lot on the blog, though, so i get the feeling it's a big factor

Brian says:
generally the visual design stuff was all handled very well, so i expect the same from the sound

Brian says:
what wasn't handled so well was the combat

sp0rsk says:
so how did you find it?

Brian says:
which was terrible

sp0rsk says:
really

sp0rsk says:
what was it like

Brian says:
yeah

Brian says:
A button attacks

Brian says:
and you basically mash it

Brian says:
that was the only move

sp0rsk says:
ah

Brian says:
and it doesn't lock onto enemies, so you whiff 80% of the time

sp0rsk says:
but was there a lot of combat? is it pretty combat heavy?

sp0rsk says:
ew

Brian says:
not much in the demo

sp0rsk says:
like around how many?

Brian says:
an encounter in one of the whole rooms and the boss for me, but there might be more to explore

sp0rsk says:
did it feel frustrating?

Brian says:
once i got the hang of it, it was easier

Brian says:
but i won't excuse it. the controls need a lot of work

sp0rsk says:
ic

Brian says:
there should be a butotn to turn around, too

sp0rsk says:
did you tell the attendant

sp0rsk says:
that

Brian says:
i asked her if there was a way to do a 180 and she said no, and i gave her a little sniffle

Brian says:
the exploration parts are fun

sp0rsk says:
what were they likke

Brian says:
the whole level is exploration, basically. you can collect items by holding down a button (i think it was B ) to zoom in the reticle on these shiny areas

Brian says:
sometimes the item will be a mystery item, and the only way to find out what it is is to take it back to these points along the map where you can also equip things, look at the automap, etc

sp0rsk says:
so is the freelook controlled by the wiimote

Brian says:
yeah

Brian says:
nunchuk is move, remote is move the flashlight

Brian says:
the attendant was saying that there are more items which increase your arsenal, and also "memories" which factor into the real gameplay but not the demo

Brian says:
i was intrigued and wished they'd worked that stuff in somehow

Brian says:
because the demo was essentially this awesome wide open level which they ferried you through without letting you do anything cool

sp0rsk says:
what are these memories

Brian says:
*ferry

Brian says:
not sure

Brian says:
considering what the game is about, they're probably just snippets left behind all the humans who are now gone?

Brian says:
maybe it has to do with that contest they held. i have no idea


Sorry for the formatting

So the original Red Alert becomes free this week...

Who's tipping that it's just the original game, and no expansions?

The Kizuna art link is actually a frame taken from that awful website. It actually has screens if you scroll to the very bottom, so re-label the title. Game looks cool.

Yodariquo, I still see the IE currency symbol switches.

iga_bobovic said:

dvader said:

Can someone explain to me what the point of that Edge Nintendo feature was, cause it just went over everything we know for 5 pages.  It did not answer anything like, "Does Nintendo care for the hardcore?".  Bottomline still is that Nintendo's lineup for wii right now sucks donkey ass.

Yep, no point, plus they are trolling games like Galaxy and Brawl.  The hardcore game will sell to another market than the casual one and to maximise profits you will need to make both.

That article was such crap on many levels. It's like they completely missed the point. Oh Brain age sold a jillion copies right? So I nintendo is just casual no and nothing else. Let's forget that they just released mario galaxy and it's sold 7 million copies and is one of the top selling games on wii and one of the best games ever made.

edgecrusher said:

Gamingeek, go HERE and tell Pandemic why they're foolish for ignoring Wii and instead wasting their time with a PS fucking 2 version of Mercenaries 2.

Ah, maybe. I want to see if Free Radical respond first. Then again I really dont give a crap about Mercenaries. It's about time companies like Pandemic and Valve stopped paying lip service to wii and started actually making some games though.

Hoi, just came back from training. I am only wearing underwear, sexy he?