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BasilZero said:
oniyide said:

do the new characters really have their own story lines? its a good game, get it if you havent played it.


I played the Wii version and loved it.

Will be getting this for the Vita as well.


to each his own 



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NintendoPie said:
oniyide said:

it isnt wrong, the games that Ninty made wasnt really pushing the boundaries of the system itself, be real here do you think Ninty's best efforts, were as tech heavy as say GTAs, Just Cause, Fallout, Skyrim, Killzone, Mass Effect, Uncharted, Last of US, Halo, Assassins Creed, Force Unleased. I can go on and on, but nothing on Wii even came close to those games including the Ninty efforts. ANd lets be clear im not talking whether the games were good or better. Im speaking strictly subjectivly tech heavy games. You dont really believe that those games i mentioned would run on WIi without HEAVY cutting to the point where it would either suck and miss the point or simply have to be a different game altogether.

I wasn't talking about graphics. I was talking about the features of the games. 

that also goes hand in hand with hardware all that goes together. The WIi didnt have a HD like the PS3 or 360 so that right their is going to limit it. Hell lack of memory, ram effects features. 



The Resident Evil "Archives" games on the Wii. I mean it had nothing added except really bad Wiimote controls and you could play the original on the Wii anyways since it's backwards compatible. Made no sense really...



Didn't get the hate on NMH, but to each their own. The boss battles were nothing short of amazing.

Tales of the Abyss for the 3DS. Why not Symphonia since Nintendo guys would have played that game instead of Abyss which was a PS2 exclusive until then.



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oniyide said:
torok said:

Transformers Dark or The Moon: Stealth Force Edition for the Wii. The PS360 version was pretty good and had decent visuals. The Wii port has a different story, poor scenary and, I swear, N64 visuals. But the insane was that the entire game is played in car form, you can't transform to robot form. Yes, it is a Transformers game were you can't transform. It was a totally lazy and crappy port and game.

i heard about it to be fair, its not really a port just a crappy spin off game.


Yes, it surely fits more like a spinoff. Actually, there isn't an easy way of porting a HD game to the Wii. You could port a X360 game to PS3 or port a PC game to X1 or port a GameCube game to PS2, but any HD port to Wii must be redone from scratch basically, since the Wii was the last console with a fixed function GPU while the HD twins use programmable ones. So it isn't simply laziness, devs had to remake the entire game.



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Zelhawks37 said:
Didn't get the hate on NMH, but to each their own. The boss battles were nothing short of amazing.

Tales of the Abyss for the 3DS. Why not Symphonia since Nintendo guys would have played that game instead of Abyss which was a PS2 exclusive until then.

@IMHO those were the ONLY good thing about the game, its the boring nonsense you had to endure to get to those bosses and if a game has only one good aspect, and everything else is bland, then its not a very good game. But hey if you enjoyed it, more power too you. 

@italized you just answered your own question. Since Ninty guys already played Symphonia why would they play it again? Makes more sense to put out a port of a game in the same series that they would not have played. Hell it would be a new game to them and in turn garner more interest.



torok said:

 

oniyide said:
torok said:

Transformers Dark or The Moon: Stealth Force Edition for the Wii. The PS360 version was pretty good and had decent visuals. The Wii port has a different story, poor scenary and, I swear, N64 visuals. But the insane was that the entire game is played in car form, you can't transform to robot form. Yes, it is a Transformers game were you can't transform. It was a totally lazy and crappy port and game.

i heard about it to be fair, its not really a port just a crappy spin off game.


Yes, it surely fits more like a spinoff. Actually, there isn't an easy way of porting a HD game to the Wii. You could port a X360 game to PS3 or port a PC game to X1 or port a GameCube game to PS2, but any HD port to Wii must be redone from scratch basically, since the Wii was the last console with a fixed function GPU while the HD twins use programmable ones. So it isn't simply laziness, devs had to remake the entire game.

you're preaching to the choir, buddy. Tell that to NintendoPie and some of the others who swore that 3rd parties were evil and they were lazy. They dont want to admit that the WIi just wasnt up to snuff in terms of getting 3rd party games that were ports of HD games.



Im gonna add Deus Ex Human Revolution DC not so much cause of WIi U but apparently it will also be coming to PS360 and 20 bucks cheaper than the Wii U one. Wow SE, could have just had DLC, itll be interesting to see how well these versions sell.



I was so excited when this game came out on PSN because I akways wanted it. Then I played it. Definitely a game that should've stayed PC only.



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Since there was just another thread on it, I will say Retro City Rampage for WiiWare. It came out Feb. 28, 2013.

1) WiiU had already been out for more than 3 months.
2) It came out over 4 months later than the PC and PS3 versions, and almost 2 months later than the 360 version.
3) WiiWare had pretty much been dead since Feb 2012. A whole year before!

Development should have switched over to the WiiU.



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