I officially agree with everything famousringo says from this point onwards. This is my new bible.

Seriously though, I understand that Wii doesn't always lend itself to typical games, but this is a little absurd. I seem to remember a lot of "traditional" games working on the Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox ... now suddenly you can't have a good 3rd-person game on the Wii.

I know it probably all comes down to demographics and percieved userbase and all that, but still. I was holding out on this one because I wanted to play a 3rd person Dead Space where you could tilt the Wii Remote for horizontal and vertical shots. You know, like Dead Space on 360, except with Wii controls and lesser graphics.

Now I'll probably just put my saved pennies towards the 360 version anyway. Looks like it's back to thumbsticks for me!

EA is choosing to give Wii owners an awesome visual horror experience, at the expense of a free-roaming environment. They can hone the constrained rails environment to a fine edge, and it will look spectacular on the Wii -- probably very close to what the HD console Dead Space looked like on a 480p display.  Heck, maybe better.

If only owned a Wii, I might gladly take hot-looking-game-on-rails over a free-roamer that looked meh. The Wii only has like 24MB of texture memory, you know.

i had no idea it was gona be that...
now im prolly not gona buy it, to be honest. oh well

i love it so i am going to crap on your parade with my dancing cats

God, I'm sick of Nintendo fans believing they are entitled to every game. You bought a Wii, if you want games that are on other platforms you should buy them. You need to get over yourselves and accept your crappy ports or do something about it, stop moaning and sell your Wii.

it isn't a port they are complaining about. Get your facts straight...

I just found out about the gameplay details and saw the trailer like 5 minutes ago, only to come here and see this much rallying against the game already?

How sad.

Well that is, I'll agree, very silly. I try to hold off on passing judgement until I get to play or at least see the games myself in my living room or on my PC (gameplay vids can't always be trusted either though, some games look brillantly fun when you watch someone play and then fall short when you play yourself, like GT IV for me), especially with the amount of high profile games that have let me down this gen and the amount of underdogs that have surprised me positively (in the case of Dead Space, I hated the entire concept on PS360/PC so I strongly doubt that the Wii version, however it plays out, will yield anything in way of satisfaction for me).

The nagging and complaining on the boards here is a nuisance to be sure, but for me the problem lies in two things mainly; the trends and attitude of game reviewers, they really are quite predictable lately (almost every shooter with decent graphics and sound get good scores even if the gameplay and/or story is severely lacking, most casual games get shot down regardless of entertainment value etc) and the fact that complaining about something in here gets you branded with whatever label someone decides to award you. It seems many people are having problems differing between those who whine just to be assholes (like Wii/360 owners claiming every PS3 title is/will be shit, PS3/360 owners claiming every Wii title will be shit etc) and those who have honest gripes with a game or a game concept.

The one thing that I think is hilarious on the boards lately, amidst all the whining, is that most of our users claim that this is the "best gen ever". If such is the case, why are practically half the threads complaints about something or other? Personally, this has been the most boring gen for me as far as I can remember, I'm hoping it'll pick up soon though!

Well, whatever the genre turns out to be, I hope it's a good game. That's really all I care about.

Don't bash the man.
The majority response to the news was disappointing. He (like many others) are fedup of this kind of second grade treatment the Wii is getting so he decided to do something about it.
Can't give the man wrong.
How else can things change if we don't do anything about it?

At the same time we need to take things with a pinch of salt.