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O-D-C said:
as long as Treyarch keeps giving high quality FPS's on the Wii Im fine IW's desicision

*cough* *choke* What?  I seriously hope that comment is a joke.

I give that post a 9.8 (if joke) and 9.1 (if not a joke)



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MaxwellGT2000 said:
bardicverse said:
^^^ IMO, Paranomal Activity was terrible. Definitely not "silver screen" worthy. I cant believe anyone found it even remotely scary.

Yeah, it's not for everyone. People will either love it or hate it really I haven't seen much middle ground.  It's generally those that can really put themselves in the mindset that it's real it can scare the hell out of them.

Yeah, the issue  guess is, they tried to make it seem real, like it was a true story. As someone with a long history of living in "haunted" houses, I know what does and does not happen. I think the main thing I hated is that it went from being a story about ghosts to an "excorcist" wannabe. If it would have stuck in the realm of ghost haunting, it could have been more eerie.



Wow, it is a sad day when I see people trumpeting Treyarch. CoD3 was a flaming piece of crap and World at War was, at best, a decent game. Other than that, they made Quantum of Solace for the Wii . . . let that sink in. 2 HORRIBLE FPS Wii games, and one OK one. Treyarch's track record is incredibly spotty, not just for the Wii.

Wii fanboys can be such babies when they hear a developer knock their sacred cow. The Wii is not a processing powerhouse and is limited. IW updated it's engine for MW2 to make the game what they wanted to offer. If they designed it to deliver the same experience for the Wii as on other consoles, it just wouldn't be the same game. Sorry fanboys, as much as you love Nintendo and the Wii, there are somethings it isn't cut out for.

IW didn't want to put out a crappy CoD game on the Wii, they let Treyarch do that (and why Treyarch makes CoD games at all is way beyond me). The Wii is not the gritty FPS console, sorry if this is news to you, but seriously, come off it. Attacking a developer that makes good games just because they don't have their world revolve around Nintendo like you expect is just silly.

I give this thread a 9.2.



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Pristine20 said:
bardicverse said:
Observing IW's track record, its starting to seem that they are a "one trick pony" that just doesn't have the talent to do much else. Seems they are stuck in this rut of HD FPS games, and little else. While the games look good, it seems rather unflattering of them to not expand, as FPS games are the easiest of the genres to design/develop.

I only wonder if you'll still consider them a "one trick pony" if they just released the damned thing on wii. Otherwise, I agree with your points based on observation even though you can't really tell whether they stick to the FPS genre by choice or as a result of pressure from their parent company, activision

It has nothing to do what system it's on (I play these games on the PC anyway, much better quality, less lag, better controls)

Picture if Nintendo ONLY made Super Mario games, and they only changed slightly from one to the next one. After a while people would get tired of the series, and it'd lose its luster. Eventually the series would become stagnant and the company would falter because they didn't prepare for the fact that people were getting tired of a repacked game with enhanced textures. This is my point with IW - they're getting into a mentality of draining the cash cow without future-proofing their studio. Hell, its their choice, but if they don't branch out by MW4, they're going to be in a bad place, and likely consumed into a bigger studio who will effectively bastardize the series outright and make you love to hate it.

 



Steroid said:
I'm still not exactly sure how much more powerful a 360 is then a Wii but it wouldn't be a stretch to say it's somewhere between 2-4 times as powerful. Can you really blame them for not wanting to work with that kind of a handicap?

Well the 360 is supposed to be 10x more powerful than the original Xbox. So the question is how does the Wii stack up to the Original Xbox? Maybe twice as powerful if its lucky. Therefore simple mathematics tells you the 360 is at least 5x more powerful than the Wii.



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Avinash_Tyagi said:
Dr.Grass said:
Hate to say it, but after MGS3, Killzone2, Uncharted2 etc. on a big 46" LCD I would have to agree with that. Metroid 3 is a rare example of a very cinematic game on the Wii, so it can be done. That said, Retro's art direction is mind-blowingly good and I don't see many other games looking like Prime 3.

Hate him if you want, but I think he might have a point.

That just means that they aren't as skilled as Retro

Or there not bound to one system like Retro is.....



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bardicverse said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
bardicverse said:
^^^ IMO, Paranomal Activity was terrible. Definitely not "silver screen" worthy. I cant believe anyone found it even remotely scary.

Yeah, it's not for everyone. People will either love it or hate it really I haven't seen much middle ground.  It's generally those that can really put themselves in the mindset that it's real it can scare the hell out of them.

Yeah, the issue  guess is, they tried to make it seem real, like it was a true story. As someone with a long history of living in "haunted" houses, I know what does and does not happen. I think the main thing I hated is that it went from being a story about ghosts to an "excorcist" wannabe. If it would have stuck in the realm of ghost haunting, it could have been more eerie.

LMAO, have you even seen the movie? Like 5 minutes into the film the guy pretty much says his goal is to evoke the demon in her. Not what i would call a ghost haunting.



Had to change my sig to get some moderator to quit bitching about it......

 

^^^ Yes I saw it, and it was advertised as a movie about ghost hauntings caught on film.



tuscaniman said:
Steroid said:
I'm still not exactly sure how much more powerful a 360 is then a Wii but it wouldn't be a stretch to say it's somewhere between 2-4 times as powerful. Can you really blame them for not wanting to work with that kind of a handicap?

Well the 360 is supposed to be 10x more powerful than the original Xbox. So the question is how does the Wii stack up to the Original Xbox? Maybe twice as powerful if its lucky. Therefore simple mathematics tells you the 360 is at least 5x more powerful than the Wii.

Although not directly comparable, the Wii is about as powerful as the original X-box.



OF COURSE. OF COURSE THEY ARE. Fuck em