| DieAppleDie said: I respect your opinion Gamerace, but i really dont see how those two games you mentioned (or the ones Oniyide mentioned) are any better than The Conduit 1 or 2 |
The reason I liked Conduit was because it reminded me of the games I grew up playing - that is Castle Wolfenstein, Doom and Unreal (and Unreal is still better than Conduit). It's style of play would have been dated last gen, let alone in this gen with games like CoD:MW. It was as generic and vanilla a FPS as it could be with the exception of a couple novel weapons. There were much more interesting FPS concepts last gen, and Halo (Xbox) especially would have put Conduit to shame in every way if Conduit had been a last gen game. Plus the online on Conduit was broken - you started inside a wall 20% of the time and had to reboot your system and try again.
The only thing about Conduit that was better than last gen's best FPSs were it's graphics (and it probably wasn't better than Halo's) and PC like aiming / refinement / HUD options (but Halo was on PC which trumps Wii's IR aiming). But that's a tech issue (Wii hardwave >> PS2) and if we're going to go there, HD FPS crush Wii's by that same token.
Conduit 2 improved on some of Conduits faults (online worked) but then failed in other areas (like the hackneyed voice acting - eech).
I fully admire HVS effort to create an AA FPS for Wii and they absolutely raised the bar on Wii and that showed in later FPS Wii efforts. I give HVS an A for effort (and bought their games) but B- on execution. They just don't have the creative or development chops (or budget) to make a truly great FPS.
Thus the problem, the only AAA FPS made for Wii (not ported and downgraded) was Goldeneye and even that when it was later ported to HD systems was considered average and nothing exceptional.
3rd parties put far more effort into their PS2 games (which were ported to GC/Xbox) than they did their Wii games. In fact most of the best 3rd party Wii games are in fact PS2/GC ports (RE4, Bully, Godfather, Scarface, Okami, Lara Croft:Anniversary, etc., etc.) the rest are more casual fare: Zack & Wiki, Boom Blox, EA Sport Active, Just Dance, Dead Space: Extraction, RE:Darkside/Umbrella Chronicles, etc. or HD downgrades, CoD, etc.
There were a few solid 3rd party core efforts made specifically for Wii - Red Steel 2, Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands, Driver: San Francisco, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, NHL Slapshot but none of them were AAA. AA at best.
Compared to the effort those same publishers put to HD consoles (and last gen consoles) for titles like Assassin's Creed, Battlefront, Metal Gear Solid 4, Dead Space, Batman, Etc. it's very disappointing that Wii didn't get the same respect.
What's most important is you found a lot of Wii titles that you enjoyed. That's what it's all about and that's why you bought a Wii in the first place.
