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bmmb1 on 08 September 2010
Siko1989 said:
TX109 said:

here we go again. once this game bombs, EA will blame the userbase. they'll say "See, See! the wii userbase is only casual and they dont want quality core/sports games!". eventually they will stop developing core/sports games for wii and use this as their excuse....yeah, screw EA....

come to think of it, EA not devolping for the wii is becoming more of a good idea....

 

 


yep and im looking forward to it when they do lol

and 1 more thing, NBA Jam is not a cores title anyone should know that. its the  Mario Kart of basketball. its a casual arcade sports game

NBA Jam may not originally have been core, but its main target audience (or a large part of it) is the nostalgia crowd, and that crowd is mainly core players (imo)... And quite a number of that crowd do care (imo) if they are short changed or not, regardless of whether online was in the original and regardless of whether it was promised for this version or not. Sure, some won't care, but enough will to hurt its sales.



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LordTheNightKnight on 08 September 2010
bmmb1 said:
Siko1989 said:
TX109 said:

here we go again. once this game bombs, EA will blame the userbase. they'll say "See, See! the wii userbase is only casual and they dont want quality core/sports games!". eventually they will stop developing core/sports games for wii and use this as their excuse....yeah, screw EA....

come to think of it, EA not devolping for the wii is becoming more of a good idea....

 

 


yep and im looking forward to it when they do lol

and 1 more thing, NBA Jam is not a cores title anyone should know that. its the  Mario Kart of basketball. its a casual arcade sports game

NBA Jam may not originally have been core, but its main target audience (or a large part of it) is the nostalgia crowd, and that crowd is mainly core players (imo)... And quite a number of that crowd do care (imo) if they are short changed or not, regardless of whether online was in the original and regardless of whether it was promised for this version or not. Sure, some won't care, but enough will to hurt its sales.


Wouldn't the nostialgia crowd be those that, knowing the merits of older games regardless of online, still not care if the nostalgic games had online?



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

Skeeuk on 08 September 2010
Seece said:

Was this originally a Wii exclusive franchise? or am I getting mixed up with something else?


yes it was



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LordTheNightKnight on 08 September 2010
Skeeuk said:
Seece said:

Was this originally a Wii exclusive franchise? or am I getting mixed up with something else?


yes it was


The remake was, or it was just announced for the Wii.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

bmmb1 on 08 September 2010
LordTheNightKnight said:
bmmb1 said:
Siko1989 said:
TX109 said:

here we go again. once this game bombs, EA will blame the userbase. they'll say "See, See! the wii userbase is only casual and they dont want quality core/sports games!". eventually they will stop developing core/sports games for wii and use this as their excuse....yeah, screw EA....

come to think of it, EA not devolping for the wii is becoming more of a good idea....

 

 


yep and im looking forward to it when they do lol

and 1 more thing, NBA Jam is not a cores title anyone should know that. its the  Mario Kart of basketball. its a casual arcade sports game

NBA Jam may not originally have been core, but its main target audience (or a large part of it) is the nostalgia crowd, and that crowd is mainly core players (imo)... And quite a number of that crowd do care (imo) if they are short changed or not, regardless of whether online was in the original and regardless of whether it was promised for this version or not. Sure, some won't care, but enough will to hurt its sales.


Wouldn't the nostialgia crowd be those that, knowing the merits of older games regardless of online, still not care if the nostalgic games had online?

Logically yes, but a lot of today's core gamers are not logical (just watch the "Nintendo has betrayed its core gamers" crowd).



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Anticipating: Xenoblade, The Last Story, Mario Kart 7, Rayman Origins, Zelda SS, Crush3D, Tales of the Abyss 3DS, MGS:Snake Eater 3DS, RE:Revelations, Time Travellers, Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, Luigi's Mansion 2, MH TriG, DQ Monsters, Heroes of Ruin

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LordTheNightKnight on 08 September 2010
bmmb1 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
bmmb1 said:
Siko1989 said:
TX109 said:

here we go again. once this game bombs, EA will blame the userbase. they'll say "See, See! the wii userbase is only casual and they dont want quality core/sports games!". eventually they will stop developing core/sports games for wii and use this as their excuse....yeah, screw EA....

come to think of it, EA not devolping for the wii is becoming more of a good idea....

 

 


yep and im looking forward to it when they do lol

and 1 more thing, NBA Jam is not a cores title anyone should know that. its the  Mario Kart of basketball. its a casual arcade sports game

NBA Jam may not originally have been core, but its main target audience (or a large part of it) is the nostalgia crowd, and that crowd is mainly core players (imo)... And quite a number of that crowd do care (imo) if they are short changed or not, regardless of whether online was in the original and regardless of whether it was promised for this version or not. Sure, some won't care, but enough will to hurt its sales.


Wouldn't the nostialgia crowd be those that, knowing the merits of older games regardless of online, still not care if the nostalgic games had online?

Logically yes, but a lot of today's core gamers are not logical (just watch the "Nintendo has betrayed its core gamers" crowd).


Well that's the vocal minority, not those that just want to play games.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

Mr Khan on 08 September 2010

To add insult to injury, EA mysteriously jacked the price to $80 in Australia.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

LordTheNightKnight on 08 September 2010
Mr Khan said:

To add insult to injury, EA mysteriously jacked the price to $80 in Australia.


That just seems to be general gouging.



A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.

Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs

palancas7 on 08 September 2010
mike_intellivision said:

I think this is a sign of a rushed-to-market project,  without full (sufficient) resources being put behind it.

Given the choice between BAD and NO on-line, I would rather NO. 

Given that EA shuts down servers within two years of a game's release, long-term I would rather have the focus be on off-line play for this title. 

The $64 question is whether on-line play was ever promised and then yanked away. The best I can remember, was EA saying it would be investigated/tried.

As for the DLC versions on PSN and XBLA -- that appears to me to be  a new retail purchase bonus.

Is EA good in this .. NO?

Is EA worse than Activision to the Wii? ... Toss-up -- though at least EA did not release Big League Sports, Birthday Bash, Pirate's Quest, Pitfall Big Adventure, Block Party, or Arcade Zone (the latter two of which I own) -- or too many Guitar Hero games and too late CoD:MW. Compared to that line-up,  EA has only really done one minigame collection that was not part of a running series  -- EA Playground and that was 2007.   

Mike from Morgantown


I actually think that on the Wii: Activision > EA.

Yeah, Activision publish a lot of small games we call shovelware, but when it comes to their main franchises they do it properly and don't try to casualise them or something.

If EA had the  007 license, no way in hell they would ever consider making a Goldeneye game only on Nintendo platforms. It'd be either HD or nothing. Heck, probably even the other games in the series wouldn't be on the Wii at all.

Plus, I haven't seen Activision whine about wii customers not buying their games.



 

uno on 08 September 2010

I might have to agree with Lord on this one.

NBA Street Vol. 2 didnt have online multiplayer. It had 4 players locally. The game was awesome and I enjoyed it the most when my friends and I would get together to play. NBA Jam is a similar game.