Well it's just another shooter to me but the only shooter on Wii that'll have voice chat and pretty decent online apparently. That's enough to get me to buy it because I like Wii online shooters. And considering it doesn't have too many of them I'll continue to buy them until I find one I can play for a long time to come.

High Voltage certainly wants comfortable combat: remote calibration is so technical that it makes the Large Hadron Collider look like the Play-Doh Fun Factory.

This is funny

How good of a product do you suppose your favourite developer would produce if they were given a strict 9 month timeline and a $1 Million budget and told to produce a fully-featured Mario Galaxy clone with the Sponge-Bob IP?

Probably not a very good game at all ... In fact few developers would be able to complete the project on time and budget and most would void their contract. Believe it or not this is the kind of environment that most "Bad" games are developed in.

Now, I'm certain many people will not agree with me but I suspect that High Voltage's long life in this type of environment (and being able to get into a financial position to fully fund their own development) implies that they're a well run company. Realistically, they do face a pretty steep curve in trying to move up to a more complicated and higher profile game like The Conduit but I don't think this is any worse than the difficulties that many developers faced when they moved up to HD console development.

Could The Conduit suck? Yes, but I'm going to give High Voltage the benefit of the doubt until I know more about it.

Do I think The Conduit will be game of the year material? Not really, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it have an aggregate review score between 75% and 85% on Gamerankings and Metacritic.

Frybread - Think of it in these terms- At least it will sell more than LBP. So you wont have to worry about the Conduit being the most hyped up game that flopped ;)

And no, fanboys, Im not trolling on LBP, Im just lighting a fire to burn frybread's arse. haha

I want a Play-Doh Fun Factory. Why cant *I* have a play-doh fun factory??

Dude, sometimes maybe you should have bothered to read what I have said over and over again. Conduit is nothing more than a tech demo game. It's a generic game. If you bothered you have found making this post a waste of time. Cause it is. Sales high or low it won't matter. Becuase it's a success. To show off their engine and increase value of their engine.

Will Conduit be a glorius susccess. Unlikely and it's not because of vanilla game play. People like Halo. No because the FPS fans have already decided to go for FPS on PS360.

I commend you for being able to see clearly through your usually dark fanboy glasses, Fry. =)

The Conduit was, at least, picked up by a publisher... at last... maybe Sega will beat some sense into them.

Those stories of publishers trying to knock down HVS's door are probably BS, btw. Publishers may very well have taken one look at this tech demo, and run away after HVS told them the game was "nearly done".  You just can't believe press straight from the publisher/developer's mouth, as a general rule. That's why there's "independant media", and why publishers paying the media huge amounts for adverts is... kinda a problem (unavoidable, however).

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=12390&region=All

Over 3/4 of a million copies in the first couple weeks isn't a flop, unless they spent oever $50 mllion on it.

And groucho wins the ignorance award, by twisting HVS's words about how publishers acted, and assuming he knows what went on behind closed doors.

OMG best post ever on VGC !

The Conduit will be a AAA title and I have made a thread claiming the next great game on the Wii.