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Gamerace on 23 February 2009

Here's a thought -

While HVS hasn't done anything 'special' with The Conduit maybe, just maybe, they are taking a page from Blizzard and just taking all the elements that work in the genre and polishing to a shine to make it the pinnacle of FPS play.

I mean look at WoW. It didn't introduce a damn thing to MMOs but Blizzard knows who to make a game addictively fun by fine attention to detail.

And ultimately it's ALL about the fun factor. If (and that's a big IF) The Conduit is addictively fun, many multi-console owners could find themselves playing online FPS on Wii!

Nothing 'meh' about that.



 

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Orca_Azure on 23 February 2009

First person shooters don't have a strong hold in the Wii market. Third party isn't too well received on the Wii either. Combining a FPS from a Third party? I'd be skeptical too to say the least.



outlawauron on 23 February 2009
sc94597 said:
outlawauron said:
I'm not interested due to HVS not making a good game yet (even Guerilla made the excellent Killzone: Liberation) and for it missing features that I think are necessary in a FPS.

According to wikipedia they developed 7 games  75%+ review average, two of which with over 80% one at 81 the other at 85. I'm not sure what your standards are but I'm pretty sure that anything in the 80s is accepted as good by reviewers, and I personally liked games in 60s. Now of course you could say reviews aren't always accurate and I don't know if the games are actually good without playing them, but the same could be said for you as well. That is unless you played every game developed by HVS.

I'm sure which games are those, but I do they did make Go, Diego! Go: Safari Rescue, America's Army, and the Family Guy Game.



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dante on 23 February 2009

why is it not meh



MaxwellGT2000 on 23 February 2009
outlawauron said:
sc94597 said:
outlawauron said:
I'm not interested due to HVS not making a good game yet (even Guerilla made the excellent Killzone: Liberation) and for it missing features that I think are necessary in a FPS.

According to wikipedia they developed 7 games  75%+ review average, two of which with over 80% one at 81 the other at 85. I'm not sure what your standards are but I'm pretty sure that anything in the 80s is accepted as good by reviewers, and I personally liked games in 60s. Now of course you could say reviews aren't always accurate and I don't know if the games are actually good without playing them, but the same could be said for you as well. That is unless you played every game developed by HVS.

I'm sure which games are those, but I do they did make Go, Diego! Go: Safari Rescue, America's Army, and the Family Guy Game.

 

Just like the amazing Tiny Toon Adventures: Dizzy's Candy Quest and Spongebob Squarepants on PS1 :P

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Kasz216 on 23 February 2009

I have no idea what it's about...

Looking at the main character makes me think of Half-Life... and looking at the levels make me think of Golden Eye/Perfect Dark.

Some of the best shooters out there.... but knockoffs are rarely as good.

No Splitscreen.

Can't name a good game HVS has made themselves.



Kasz216 on 23 February 2009

Well actually I take that back. They made Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law.

That was a great game... but that game being great totally relied on hte people who wrote the game more then the guys who programmed it.

Ah looks like they had a had in NBA Jam Tournment edition too... though the Atari version.  No clue if the Jaguar version was any good.



Kasz216 on 23 February 2009
sc94597 said:
outlawauron said:
I'm not interested due to HVS not making a good game yet (even Guerilla made the excellent Killzone: Liberation) and for it missing features that I think are necessary in a FPS.

According to wikipedia they developed 7 games  75%+ review average, two of which with over 80% one at 81 the other at 85. I'm not sure what your standards are but I'm pretty sure that anything in the 80s is accepted as good by reviewers, and I personally liked games in 60s. Now of course you could say reviews aren't always accurate and I don't know if the games are actually good without playing them, but the same could be said for you as well. That is unless you played every game developed by HVS.

 

 

What games did they make?  I mean i thought they basically just did side work for anything big and usually were the mules for shovelware?



outlawauron on 24 February 2009
MaxwellGT2000 said:
outlawauron said:
sc94597 said:
outlawauron said:
I'm not interested due to HVS not making a good game yet (even Guerilla made the excellent Killzone: Liberation) and for it missing features that I think are necessary in a FPS.

According to wikipedia they developed 7 games  75%+ review average, two of which with over 80% one at 81 the other at 85. I'm not sure what your standards are but I'm pretty sure that anything in the 80s is accepted as good by reviewers, and I personally liked games in 60s. Now of course you could say reviews aren't always accurate and I don't know if the games are actually good without playing them, but the same could be said for you as well. That is unless you played every game developed by HVS.

I'm sure which games are those, but I do they did make Go, Diego! Go: Safari Rescue, America's Army, and the Family Guy Game.

Just like the amazing Tiny Toon Adventures: Dizzy's Candy Quest and Spongebob Squarepants on PS1 :P

Made by none other then the fine folks at Gueriilla Games.

Yes, more than 10 years ago whereas all of those games were made in the past two or three years.



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ameratsu on 24 February 2009
ameratsu said:

I just don't understand the hype this game has recieved so far. It looks in most respects to hold its own as a first person shooter. It appears to do everything well enough, while still being unremarkable in almost every regard. On any other console, many Wii owners would call The Conduit a generic FPS, disregarding it as another brown/grey shooter. When High Voltage makes the same sort of FPS thats been appearing on the x360/ps3/pc for years but on the Wii it recieves ungodly amounts of praise. If controls and customization are the pivotal difference between this and the ocean of other FPS games, does that really bode well for the game itself?

 

just quoting myself from another thread. didn't feel like retyping the same thing.



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