ASK_Story said:

What have you guys been playing?

I finished Yoshi's Island (GBA) . . . again, and now I'm trying to get 100% every level, which is quite the challenge. I also played about halfway through Tomb Raider Legend (GCN).

Trying to finish Kirby's Epic Yarn, but had too much to do this weekend to really play.

holy shit G.I has podcasts man i bet they are just as poor as the mag

aspro said:

I had no idea there was a Yoshi's Island on the GBA.

Yep, it's called Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island. It's the same game as the SNES original.

Ravenprose said:

Anyone getting a Limited Edition Super Mario red Wii? I saw one at my local Walmart today. It certainly looks unique.

I'd love to but I doubt my current Wii will ever die.  I am getting the All-Star game with the CD and artbook though.

"unique" -- so you are not sure if you like it or not?

I always enjoy the variants personally.  I just like having different things.

Ravenprose said:

Anyone getting a Limited Edition Super Mario red Wii? I saw one at my local Walmart today. It certainly looks unique.

Before anyone asks. No, I'm not.

Goldeneye continues to be the shit.

I expected that there would be a mix of great and okay levels. But the consistency is great here, the jungle is soooooo much better than I expected and the villain facility afterwards is great. When did Eurocom get level design this good before?

Apart from the Club which was meh, there are a couple of good levels and then the rest are excellent. The AI and weapons, it feels like Halo in respect to the "Combat Evolved" moniker. This feels like it does for realistic FPS, as what Halo did for sci fi ones. The balance is there, the level design is tighter than anything I have played in the COD games. It all feels very satisfying. All I can complain about is that the frame rate is pitchey here and there. This is an excellent game for fast and furious action as well as being great fun for people who like to experiment and sneak about.

Agnates said:

So it looks like MoH Heroes? That's a shame, although It's one thing to have 2-10 mostly programmers do a port of an existing decent game on a lower end system like it happened with WaW and Reflex for the Wii and a whole other thing if Activision provided similarly pathetic resources for a few programmers and artists to create a full brand-new from the ground up game for it, even if they tried to stick close to the source material... It may not have been Treyarch's fault alone it sucks if it was something like that. Although I don't see why they couldn't down-port character and weapon models, textures and other content, even if they wanted to redo the levels etc, in order to keep the quality similar to the previous ports even if it's not one. Oh well, good thing GoldenEye turned out pretty good then. Get a close up photo showing the uglyness as clear as is possible with your cam

IMO so far, MOHH2 has the edge over it. At least it was cleaner, smoother and the bloom made it pretty-ish.

I posted some offscreen pics but they are awful quality captures - from a 5 megapixel camera no less.

No way is this game from the ground up as it's nowhere near the best of what Wii can do.

Also, this game has DLC for Wii. Proper DLC.

If you have 10 people build it from the ground up it won't look like the best made by a hundred at Nintendo. Or like the best of the artists when they have to rush a given amount of content until the deadlines. Go look at videos of the 360 version's start or something and see if what you played is an exact recreation with missing textures and polygons etc, or if it appears to be a low-fi reimagining and thus a mostly new, similar scene. Is the frame rate smooth at least? Like, smoother than Reflex (which wasn't very smooth really, but not annoying most of the time)? The dips annoy me in GoldenEye, they get nasty in (thankfully only) a few parts.