The xbox and ps3 versions were ported from a rushed pc version that was thrown together in 6 months by gearbox because timegates efforts were unusable. To most everyone's understanding, the wiiu version is the only version thats been singularly developed by one studio. Whether thats good or bad remains to be seen, but i have a hardtime believing the wiiu version could suffer from mishaps its production hasnt been forced to encounter...
But that too, is me believing what gearbox says and thats not the sure bet it was last month anymore. Of course, we'll see. But i'm staying hopeful.
That has everything to do with it tanaka. Especially when a game stands to implent a feature thats not present on a ms or sony system. It's amazing that theress a thousand videogame blogs that post the same things and next to none of them have reported what ms and sony are now mandating from their publishers.
Rayman got delayed because ms outright refused to ever allow it on it's console if it didnt. Then they rewrote the terms their affiliates have to play by. That's how confident ms is in the xbox experience, gentleman. That's the kind of crap that the 'hardcore gamer' crowd is fighting against nintendo so hard for.
Ms is just mad that they got their butts kicked by the wii, attach rates and all, and theyre scared that the wii u is out performing their last launch.
Well i like it. Its not broken, glitchy or boring and it plays fine. It's not perfect, but it was never going to be. I was never expecting 9s and 10s, but 4s and 5s just seem ridiculous. Now we're deducting points because the levels that would be boring to play through have been reimagined and altered from the original film to give the player something to do at these locations aside from walk straight and push the flirt button?
I dont care how a game compares to call of duty because i'm sick of call of duty. Im not trying to out-opinion anyone here, but, honestly the game doesnt really deserve anything less than a 6. Personally, i'd give it a 7.5. Its a bond game that does bond related things while also doing standard shooter things that bond games have always done. What were you guys really expecting this to be, a reinvention of the licensed movie game genre?
The biggest difference between skyrim and xenoblade is that skyrim had a firm release date months in advance and a publisher that advertised and marketted the hell out of it and xenoblade was a gamestop exclusive that just showed up oneday.
I loved xenoblade as much as anyone, but this seems more like something thats in the hands of nintendo and what they feel like doing moreso than monoliths talent level. Id love to see more from them, i just dont know if their games will get the attention they deserve in the west due to circumstances beyond their control.
I like how all the no-name developers that say nothing but how terrible the wii u is, have never made or accomplished anything worthwhile where consoles are concerned. Theyve made like ONE GAME that reviewed OKAY and sold DECENT and theyre quoted like theyve made hit after hit.
Im not saying that the wii u is above reproach, but all the developers weve heard of, that make games we buy and want more from have nothing but good things to say...theres no clicks in that, though.
These charts are stupid because niether accounts for the emergence of the uninformed stupidity and proffessional fanboyism that we've seen come out due to the advent of things like the blogosphere, myspace, twitter and facebook. To say nothing of the fact that anyone can operate a website that submits reviews saying anything.
A more interesting chart would be one that measured the ratio of quality titles packed with content against featureless cash ins that offer nothing acrossed all consoles.
I dont necessarilly mean 'reviewed well' when i say quality either. I mean games that had a lot of fun to offer for a decent amount of time that werent broken or poorly thought out. The kind of stuff kids wouldnt regret spending their allowance on.
I bet, acrossed all consoles from every generation the ratio would be something like 0.5 good games for every 200 bad.
I wonder if this is available from amazon uk officially or if theyre being purchased from market sellers...while most of my experiences have been good, i wouldnt put it past a few sellers to have removed the copy themselves, honestly.
Hope it gets sorted out for everybody. While its certainly not my favorite game, it is pretty cool for free.
I was hoping some of you would speculate on what the hell, outside of dev time, could cause a delay until 2013 cuz i'm clueless and the fact that he cant talk about seems strange...anyhoo, i'll start.
You think theyre having a supply problem and wont have enough for all of europe?
Maybe they dont like their current printers for the region and are waiting for the cobtract to expire?
I'm an old school sc fan thats replayed everyone of them multiple times...i'm happy for this, i guess. I just dont care for the direction the series has headed lately and have looked forward to abandoning my xbox.
Its nice knowing that, if i ever have a gaming site no ones heard of or cares about that all i have to do for attention is pull some crap out of my butt about nintendo to generate hits, clicks and revenue.
What really sucks is that no ones going to remember to make fun of these people when the 720 and ps4 come out and look the same as wiiu games with a few more freckles because next to no one in the industry can afford to make anything look that much better without risking bankruptcy or absorbtion.
I however do promise that ill be here to laugh at every single person thats talked crap about wiiu weakness when its revealed that ps4 has the same specs and is twice as hard to develop for and the 720 only upgrades kinect and casual game interfaces.
Those of you that think nintendo is in any danger of losing money anytime soon need to google the gonintendo chart and laugh yourselves dumber when you see that their earnings round out to have 800% more profits than sony and ms have losses (which is a big deal because niether has made a dime in the last 10 years)
To think that either ms or sony is interested in doing anything other than just BEING nintendo this gen is shortsighted.
I guess the trolls need to prepare for disappointment cuz nothing is coming thats completely outclassing the wiiu for a LONG time.
Heck, its been argued that sony hoping to settle with bridgestone out of court so they have SOMETHING ti bankroll the ps4 with cuz as it stands now, as disgusting and sad as it is, sony's less than broke and ms was never interested in gaming, they wanted a windows machine hub in your living room so they could sell you tv youre already paying for.
Check the pressreleases, investor meetings and coo interviews.
I just hope what they "learned" wasnt that interest is peaked when all your devices sell out in minutes of their arrival. It sounds to me that theyre planning on short stocking. Especially considering he mentions the 3ds, which, by comparison to wii and ds, was never in short supply and has been easy to find nearly everywhere.
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Re: Developer Interview: Ambient Studios On The Possiblity Of Bringing Death Inc. To Wii U
Im happy for them, even though i dont care for the game, but lets not ever put the words 'death' and 'wiiu' in headlines anymore.
Re: Wii U Version of Aliens: Colonial Marines Has Not Been Postponed
The xbox and ps3 versions were ported from a rushed pc version that was thrown together in 6 months by gearbox because timegates efforts were unusable. To most everyone's understanding, the wiiu version is the only version thats been singularly developed by one studio. Whether thats good or bad remains to be seen, but i have a hardtime believing the wiiu version could suffer from mishaps its production hasnt been forced to encounter...
But that too, is me believing what gearbox says and thats not the sure bet it was last month anymore. Of course, we'll see. But i'm staying hopeful.
Re: Rayman Legends Boss and Dev Team Protest Wii U Release Delay
That has everything to do with it tanaka. Especially when a game stands to implent a feature thats not present on a ms or sony system. It's amazing that theress a thousand videogame blogs that post the same things and next to none of them have reported what ms and sony are now mandating from their publishers.
Rayman got delayed because ms outright refused to ever allow it on it's console if it didnt. Then they rewrote the terms their affiliates have to play by. That's how confident ms is in the xbox experience, gentleman. That's the kind of crap that the 'hardcore gamer' crowd is fighting against nintendo so hard for.
Ms is just mad that they got their butts kicked by the wii, attach rates and all, and theyre scared that the wii u is out performing their last launch.
Wheres that story at game blogs?
Re: Review: James Bond: 007 Legends (Wii U)
Well i like it. Its not broken, glitchy or boring and it plays fine. It's not perfect, but it was never going to be. I was never expecting 9s and 10s, but 4s and 5s just seem ridiculous. Now we're deducting points because the levels that would be boring to play through have been reimagined and altered from the original film to give the player something to do at these locations aside from walk straight and push the flirt button?
I dont care how a game compares to call of duty because i'm sick of call of duty. Im not trying to out-opinion anyone here, but, honestly the game doesnt really deserve anything less than a 6. Personally, i'd give it a 7.5. Its a bond game that does bond related things while also doing standard shooter things that bond games have always done. What were you guys really expecting this to be, a reinvention of the licensed movie game genre?
Re: Monolith Soft: We Want To Be Like Bethesda
The biggest difference between skyrim and xenoblade is that skyrim had a firm release date months in advance and a publisher that advertised and marketted the hell out of it and xenoblade was a gamestop exclusive that just showed up oneday.
I loved xenoblade as much as anyone, but this seems more like something thats in the hands of nintendo and what they feel like doing moreso than monoliths talent level. Id love to see more from them, i just dont know if their games will get the attention they deserve in the west due to circumstances beyond their control.
Re: System Faults Didn't Stop THQ From Bringing Metro: Last Light To Wii U
I like how all the no-name developers that say nothing but how terrible the wii u is, have never made or accomplished anything worthwhile where consoles are concerned. Theyve made like ONE GAME that reviewed OKAY and sold DECENT and theyre quoted like theyve made hit after hit.
Im not saying that the wii u is above reproach, but all the developers weve heard of, that make games we buy and want more from have nothing but good things to say...theres no clicks in that, though.
Re: Wii U Review Score Average Is Modest, At Best
These charts are stupid because niether accounts for the emergence of the uninformed stupidity and proffessional fanboyism that we've seen come out due to the advent of things like the blogosphere, myspace, twitter and facebook. To say nothing of the fact that anyone can operate a website that submits reviews saying anything.
A more interesting chart would be one that measured the ratio of quality titles packed with content against featureless cash ins that offer nothing acrossed all consoles.
I dont necessarilly mean 'reviewed well' when i say quality either. I mean games that had a lot of fun to offer for a decent amount of time that werent broken or poorly thought out. The kind of stuff kids wouldnt regret spending their allowance on.
I bet, acrossed all consoles from every generation the ratio would be something like 0.5 good games for every 200 bad.
Re: Some Euro Wii U Buyers Reporting A Distinct Lack Of Nintendo Land In Their Premium Bundle
I wonder if this is available from amazon uk officially or if theyre being purchased from market sellers...while most of my experiences have been good, i wouldnt put it past a few sellers to have removed the copy themselves, honestly.
Hope it gets sorted out for everybody. While its certainly not my favorite game, it is pretty cool for free.
Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited Delayed In Europe Until 2013
I was hoping some of you would speculate on what the hell, outside of dev time, could cause a delay until 2013 cuz i'm clueless and the fact that he cant talk about seems strange...anyhoo, i'll start.
You think theyre having a supply problem and wont have enough for all of europe?
Maybe they dont like their current printers for the region and are waiting for the cobtract to expire?
Clueless.
Re: Rumour: Splinter Cell: Blacklist Sneaking Onto Wii U
I'm an old school sc fan thats replayed everyone of them multiple times...i'm happy for this, i guess. I just dont care for the direction the series has headed lately and have looked forward to abandoning my xbox.
So, my official opinion is 'cool, but meh.'
Re: The Wii U Nintendo Network Will Connect to EA's Origin
My last ea game was and will be skate 3. Origin may connect automatically to the wii u, but it won't to mine.
Re: MCV: Wii U Is A Stopgap System, Real Successor Is Still To Come
Its nice knowing that, if i ever have a gaming site no ones heard of or cares about that all i have to do for attention is pull some crap out of my butt about nintendo to generate hits, clicks and revenue.
What really sucks is that no ones going to remember to make fun of these people when the 720 and ps4 come out and look the same as wiiu games with a few more freckles because next to no one in the industry can afford to make anything look that much better without risking bankruptcy or absorbtion.
I however do promise that ill be here to laugh at every single person thats talked crap about wiiu weakness when its revealed that ps4 has the same specs and is twice as hard to develop for and the 720 only upgrades kinect and casual game interfaces.
Those of you that think nintendo is in any danger of losing money anytime soon need to google the gonintendo chart and laugh yourselves dumber when you see that their earnings round out to have 800% more profits than sony and ms have losses (which is a big deal because niether has made a dime in the last 10 years)
To think that either ms or sony is interested in doing anything other than just BEING nintendo this gen is shortsighted.
I guess the trolls need to prepare for disappointment cuz nothing is coming thats completely outclassing the wiiu for a LONG time.
Heck, its been argued that sony hoping to settle with bridgestone out of court so they have SOMETHING ti bankroll the ps4 with cuz as it stands now, as disgusting and sad as it is, sony's less than broke and ms was never interested in gaming, they wanted a windows machine hub in your living room so they could sell you tv youre already paying for.
Check the pressreleases, investor meetings and coo interviews.
Re: Reggie Promises Steady Stream Of Wii U Consoles
I just hope what they "learned" wasnt that interest is peaked when all your devices sell out in minutes of their arrival. It sounds to me that theyre planning on short stocking. Especially considering he mentions the 3ds, which, by comparison to wii and ds, was never in short supply and has been easy to find nearly everywhere.
Hope not, though. I need online buddies.