Anyone else play Plants vs. Zombies on Steam? I'm addicted to this stupid game right now.

robio said:

Has anyone been watching Rainbow Moon or shown any interest in it? I'm debating it, but I'd love some user feedback first.

Yeah I put that on my watch list after E3...it looks good, but how good it will be...who knows.

robio said:

aspro said:

Borderlands is ridiculously good.

What is it about Borderlands that I can't pull the trigger and buy it? I've heard nothing but good things about it, I've had a dozen friends recommend it and yet everytime I'm at the store I get something else?

Borderlands was good, but it got very repetitive...felt like it went on too long.

edgecrusher said:

robio said:

Has anyone been watching Rainbow Moon or shown any interest in it? I'm debating it, but I'd love some user feedback first.

Yeah I put that on my watch list after E3...it looks good, but how good it will be...who knows.

It's getting deccent reviews from the sites that have already looked at it. 7's and 8's. The main complaint is that it's pretty light on story and character development, and focuses on pretty much just the combat. That's not a bad thing to me, but when a game is 60+ hours long, I need something extra to keep driving me to play.

Why do I keep reading that they butchered Goldeneye Reloaded?

GAF said:

The Wii version is brilliant. The best single-player FPS of this generation, in my opinion.


The HD version isn't just a simple port though. The levels were completely rebuilt, breaking the stealth aspect in the process. For a game that is all about stealth, breaking it was obviously going to break your entire game, reducing it to a Call of Duty-style run'n'gun when the Wii original has so much more depth to it, allowing the player many options on how to approach any given situation.

Activision sold Reloaded as if it was the definitive version, when it was in fact a poor, broken copy, and in the process negatively affected sales of the Wii version. While Ps360 elitist gamers perceived Goldeneye as a Wii game, something no "true gamer" will ever touch, and so didn't buy Reloaded anyway.

Reviews said the AI was dumbed down, this is the first I've read about the levels being rebuilt, damaging the stealth aspect. I wanted to get the HD version, put off by dual analogue but it sounds like they messed up the game too.

gamingeek said:

I disagree. Have you read or seen Justice League the New Frontier?

I think it's a brave decision and I'm glad Warner now has a gaming owned division so it can execute the styles and stories it feels it needs to. Another Arkam game would have been far too conventionally repetitive...... like Arkham City.

robio said:

I don't know how good the rest of the JL will fit into the Arkham City model which revolves around stealth. Superman doesn't need to sneak up on anyone.




That being said I'm all up for a good non-Lego Justice League game.

I was actually thinking a few days ago how to do a justice league game. Instead of this free for all play as any character, where you inevitably end up doing some lacklustre beat em game. Tailor the game and play as one character with one set of abilities and focus all gameplay around that. You play from their perspective as a member of the League and help out the other characters and obviously intersect with them at key moments. This is exactly how this new game could play, it will be Batman focused but with lots of cameos from the other guys and featuring larger events then your usual Batman fare.

edgecrusher said:

Maybe they will release an enhanced version of the Wii game on Wii U?

They will release a download version of Reloaded I think, hopefully adding IR controls to it. But if it's just reloaded it will still have these problems?

It's weird, I was wondering why reviews of Reloaded were so poor compared to the Wii game. Then I read tons of opinions on GAF from people who chimed in with an opinion or who had picked up the game without having played the wii version. They said that it was because Wii had lower standards etc and the game was crap and couldn't stand up to HD shooters - some reviews said this too. This didn't gel with me because I think the campaign is much better than any COD or Halo I've played this generation.

Then there is another group of people who played the Wii version then picked up Reloaded, a lot of them say the HD version is worse, one review explained it, claiming the AI was dumbed down. A lot say it's worse without mentioning specifics. I really want to check it out but I don't want to have to buy it to see the differences. Shame I don't have a rental package for games.

Raven has reloaded and says it's better, he loves dual analogue though. Raven, have you played both versions from start to end? Anything different other than graphics?

Iwata interview said:

Q: At the moment of the Wii U’s launch it’s likely that it will be most the powerful console on the market – Wii U being a much newer system than either PS3 or Xbxo 360. Are Nintendo looking to take this opportunity to release a game which takes advantage of this visual horse power?


I’m not against beautiful graphics, but my thinking is that unless the play experience is really rich the wonderful graphics won’t really help. I’m really looking forward to beautiful games coming out on Wii U though, with graphics that we couldn’t have done on the Wii.


There’s definitely the chance for not only graphics, but also other features that our competitor’s consoles don’t have. But I think it will become increasingly difficult from now on to compete over graphics. This is because that no matter how much we increase the number of polygons we can display and improve the shading it will become increasingly difficult to tell the difference.


Obviously people who are experts in the field will see these things and will look at some details and be enthusiastic about improvements in that field, but I don’t think that will be enough from the general consumer’s point of view, so I think when we look at the design of a new games console we need a structure and concept that offers more than just good graphics.

Q: Staying with graphics but going back to the idea of getting third parties involved, have you approached Epic with the specs of the Wii U to try to make sure that third-parties using Unreal Engine 4 can easily port their games to Wii U?

I think that the Wii U will be powerful enough to run very high spec games but the architecture is obviously different than other consoles so there is a need to do some tuning if you really want to max out the performance.



We’re not going to deliver a system that has so much horsepower that no matter what you put on there it will run beautifully, and also, because we’re selling the system with the GamePad – which adds extra cost to the package – we don’t want to inflate the cost of each unit by putting in excessive CPU power.