@Ghaude
1. Just thought you should know online multiplayer wasn't there since the beginning. It wasn't made available until Summer 2007 after Super Mario Strikers was released. The point I was making was to not give credit to High Voltage for implementing the Wii Speak, since developers in the past were already asking for it for their own games. It's a very standard feature that would have been offered in more games had Nintendo done the smart thing and had it ready on day one. The point also wasn't whether someone should blindly hype a game. We're all guilty of that. This topic has to do with whether we should purchase The Conduit simply because we want third party titles to succeed, regardless of the game's individual quality or one's interest in actually playing it. That I don't agree with.
2. The marketing High Voltage is doing is genius. However, I, unlike many others it seems, recognize it as marketing and not a therapy session to Wii veteran gamers. This also has to do with comments made by the OP.
3. A FPS can't really be very unique in this day and age, and that's exactly why I said The Conduit will probably show it's age the moment FPS games start kicking in regularly on the Wii. Everything it offers can be duplicated easily, and everything it doesn't offer is exactly what would have seperated it from the pack. MadWorld cannot easily be duplicated. It will always be a unique experience that will probably have a long life of cult status amongst gamers.
4. Fine, hype both games. That's fine. My point was that I don't feel The Conduit should be the poster child for Wii third party support, and I offered up MadWorld as a better alternative of a game we should tell people to buy just because, regardless of it's quality, because at least then it promotes unique and unforgettable action games instead of done to death sci-fi shooters.
@bardicverse
I can't stop hypocrisy as a mod. It isn't against forum rules. If you want hypocrisy stopped then contact ioi and ask him to shut the forums down because that is the only way to get rid of it.
@Arkk
I never said High Voltage were the only one's hyping their game. I know it's getting positive previews and I'm happy for it. I'm not trying to rain on the parade of good game development. However, since day one High Voltage has been talking about Wii owners getting the short end of the stick, well before The Conduit was playable. My point was simply that their marketing is brainwashing, and if you look at this topic and what the OP is asking people to do, you can see it's working very well.
@famousringo
That was exactly what I was trying to say. The Conduit looks great right now standing on it's own, but unless the Wii never gets drenched in FPS support, it will probably age considerably bad and very quickly too.
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