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psychoBrew on 28 October 2009
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greenmedic88 said:
jake_the_fake1 said:

“Lot of new stuff coming soon guys. New announcements, videos, screens, the whole 9 yards. Just hang tight, were busy making sure that anything you see will ‘wow’ your asses off!”

unless it's HD quality graphics on wii I can say with confidence that I will not be wowed...I've been spoilt by the HD consoles XD

As for the gameplay...if it's a light gun shooter...meh not interested and thus won't wow me, if it's a 3rd person shooter, yeah it's cool but nothing that could wow me.

All in all I do hope these guys do well enough to make some profits in their investments, they seems to be the only guys actually trying on wii with a legitimate cause, not that 'test' BS others do, but I suppose it's gotta to be demoralising when shit shovel wear out sells you 10:1 in most of the cases...I suppose the wii's main market is less predictable than the core gamers that exist on other platforms.

In any case we'll see how well grider does, and if it at least manages to live up to the hype the developer is trying to generate.

I don't think they deserve a free pass due to the visuals either, and I'm pretty sure many gaming on HD platforms would agree.

So no, I don't think visuals should be the selling point of any future HVS games, even if it is appreciated that they are at least TRYING to push the boundaries of the platform, unlike so many others.

But again, I think they need to focus on level design, character design and maybe even throw a few beans to a writer who can come up with a more compelling story for their games to avoid the "haven't I already played this game before?" syndrome.

Both Gladiator A.D. and The Grinder look good so far.

Character models in Gladiator A.D. are great, motion is fluid and realistic, the game is absolutely brutal (brutal enough to make me cringe), and everything works well, even the small details like the splatter of blood that drips down on the camera when you get hit to the look of fear on the loser's face when he's about to get his arms chopped off.  The art work on Gladiator A.D. is excellent.  I've been searching for fighting games on all conoles to see how it stacks up against them, but I can't find anything like it.  Typical fighters usually have over the top graphics that I can't relate to -- when a character has their spine ripped out, it simply looks fake and that ruins the effect.  In Gladiator A.D., you can practically feel their pain when their family jewels are stomped on or their arms are chopped off.  It does a great job at bringing hom the brutality that the gladiators of the time faced.  I'm not ready to say it's a great game obviously because I haven't played it, but the level and character designs are excellent.

The Grinder looks good too.  Some people call it a Left for Dead rip off, but it's obviously different.  Different setting that hasn't been done before in a game like this, different enemies, different weapons, different characters, etc.  The one level I've seen looks really good and the character design of the enemies are pretty good, though the humans in this game could use some work.

Both titles have tons of promise and look original.  We'll see what the final product looks like, but so far there's no reason to dismiss these games based on what has been shown so far.  I almost hope that they don't show too much though since I don't want to feel like I've already played the games before they are released.