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vaio on 28 August 2008
famousringo said:
vaio said:
I for one think I am going to love this game and nothing will change my mind untill I actually try this game.

 

Honestly, if you like DDR and Samba de Amigo, you will most likely enjoy this game.

If you suffer from excruciatingly self-conscious shame and humiliation when you play games like that, as IGN's Daemon Hattfield seems to, then you shouldn't get this game.

Never played any of thoose games but I love to dance and I loved the dancing music part in Ravin rabbids I and from what i have seen this will fit me just perfectly.

 



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Hephaestos on 28 August 2008
akuma587 said:
Daileon said:
"This is yet another offering that will only be enjoyed by the seven-year olds who don't know any better (and know no shame)."

This is as stupid as a reviewer can go. Judge and make jokes about the player that enjoy any game. Seriously, you don't liked, fine, but keep it to your minimal self.

 

You don't understand what they have to go through playing those shitty games sometimes. They have to keep their humor or lose their sanity, as they are obligated to do a thorough review of the game.

 

yeah I'm sure getting paid to write thorough reviews on games is an awfull job.... I mean even if the game suck, the guy is paid to play games, he shouldn't be offencive to readers when he feels he waisted his PAID 2 hours of playing to review the game....



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steven787 on 28 August 2008
steven787 said:
This game is the best $10 I spent since Starcraft. Starcraft is still better.
Actually, I didn't buy it, my ex bought it and I went over to play it with her.

It's a complete blast and is another shining example of the great snob divide in gaming.

It's a $10 music game, what do they expect?

90 minute cut scenes, 100 licensed tracks, and HD textures over normal mapping?

It's $10, and a couple of hours of fun. It cost $18 for two to go to a movie.

 

I also wanted to add:

Why do the Reviewers always have so much problems with the motion control.  I never have those problems

I think my cursor skipped 3 times during my playthrough of Red Steel.

or it's because they play the game for 5 minutes before moving on to the next game.



I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

Daileon on 29 August 2008
swyggi said:
Daileon said:
"This is yet another offering that will only be enjoyed by the seven-year olds who don't know any better (and know no shame)."

This is as stupid as a reviewer can go. Judge and make jokes about the player that enjoy any game. Seriously, you don't liked, fine, but keep it to your minimal self.

 

 Read the whole thing, not what you want to read.

I've readed it on IGN before the topic.

 

famousringo said:
|_emmiwinks said:
Distortion78 said:

The guy who wrote the IGN review was crazy. The game is super fun and a major value at $10.

Most people who played the game dont even like it? hmm. I would research that claim a little further:

http://www.wiiware-world.com/reviews/2008/08/helix

Bottom line, this is definately one of the top 3 games currently available on Wii-Ware, hands down.

 

-B

 

We got a joker here. Helix sucks, most people that play it stop after 20 minutes. Sure there are the one or two that dont hate it, obviously you are one of them.

Good first post, it could certainly go into the "top 10 worst ways to introduce yourself to a forum community, ever" thread.

He has a link to back up his views. Do you have anything to back up your assertion, or are you just talking smack to a newbie so that you can feel big?

 

Hey... But that is so obvious isn't? Just like the Wii owners don't play games for more than a week and others "absolute truths"... /sarcasm

akuma587 said:
Daileon said:
"This is yet another offering that will only be enjoyed by the seven-year olds who don't know any better (and know no shame)."

This is as stupid as a reviewer can go. Judge and make jokes about the player that enjoy any game. Seriously, you don't liked, fine, but keep it to your minimal self.

 

You don't understand what they have to go through playing those shitty games sometimes.  They have to keep their humor or lose their sanity, as they are obligated to do a thorough review of the game.

Yes, I understand. So if the game is "shitty", talk about the games, not about the player, that is what I was saying. But of course this reviewer don't like rythm games (since all of them you have to be 'no shame'), don't even know why he bother to review it since there are a lot of other bad quality Wii games available...



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Daileon on 29 August 2008

Sorry the double =X



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Daileon on 29 August 2008

A much more coerent review:

http://gonintendo.com/?p=54174#more-54174



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mesoteto on 29 August 2008
|_emmiwinks said:
Distortion78 said:

The guy who wrote the IGN review was crazy. The game is super fun and a major value at $10.

Most people who played the game dont even like it? hmm. I would research that claim a little further:

http://www.wiiware-world.com/reviews/2008/08/helix

Bottom line, this is definately one of the top 3 games currently available on Wii-Ware, hands down.

 

-B

 

We got a joker here. Helix sucks, most people that play it stop after 20 minutes. Sure there are the one or two that dont hate it, obviously you are one of them.

Good first post, it could certainly go into the "top 10 worst ways to introduce yourself to a forum community, ever" thread.

 

dang talk about making an ass of your self lemming--he had a nice first post, stated his opinion and provided a backup up source in the form of a link, lets se what you brought to the table

 

"Last time I checked you had to buy 5 or 6 games along with the Wii to get one at Wal Mart. unless they drop that stupidity I doubt Wal Marts numbers would change much on the Wii and WiiFit number side.

The numbers just were not stellar because Americans are fat and lazy. :)"

 

No proof to what you say, in fact i can disprove it seeing as i can easily buy one with out extra games

Insulting a whole nation, seeing we are second to the Aussies

and insulting a major company for a rather genius online marketing ploy, you can have one but only if you buy this as well...well then why not just come into our stores

 

So overall you are now very low on my rank of purple-headed ass hats, you actually beat out Neil diamond

 

Clean it up a little and maybe, just maybe (i am not making promise here), i will bump you up past David Hasselhoff

 

The houf says,

"Hi i am a big ass hat"

 

 

 



 

Garcian Smith on 29 August 2008

Yet another example of how the "gaming press" doesn't understand the type of games appearing on the Wii.

Helix is/was intended as a hybrid rhythm game/workout aid. So, what does IGN do? They review it purely as a rhythm game, while ignoring the workout part completely.

And these guys probably get paid more than I do.

Another example is My Aquarium. Intended as an interactive screensaver. Priced at the price point of an interactive screensaver. So, when Eurogamer reviews it, they judge it solely on the basis of the "interactive" part, while ignoring the "screensaver" part entirely. End score: 3.0/10.

WiiWare World is the only site that I trust for WiiWare reviews, and so should you. Now if only they'd expand out into full-retail Wii games, because they're really one of the few sites that "gets" the Wii.



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.jayderyu on 29 August 2008

This game is great. This is not a standard rythym game. It's a music upper body aerobics game. The motions are from somthing like taebo(I'm not an exercise guy so don't on my case for errors).

The reviewer is being a jerk. It's pretty clear that the reviewer does not like the Wii. His starting comment about godawefull wiimote controls even before this game pretty much gives that away. Then to go on calling players that play to be doing stupid moves. Well since these moves already mostly come from excerisise programs he clearly a vudeo game shut in couch potato. He went into the game with bad expectations for a Wii game, bad expectations of wiimote game, bad expectations about rythym aerobic game.

Music track. Ok the company right off the bat sais they are small and can't afford familiar big time label. So unless they are lying about their efforts to find appropriate songs that work in Helix this guy is being insulting to the developers efforts. I personally find many of the songs to be rather repatitive and technoish. They are not bad songs, but I can see them falling out of many peoples ear of music if it's small pallette of listening. Some of the songs are really nice to listen to and many are just a beat for the game. It's no AAA list, but it's far from godawful.

Many of these review sites that let this kind of reviewing style will eventually have to audit their reviewers. The current model of 1-3 days reviews and letting anti system/genre X reviewing will come to an end.



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