Do you Wii?

[Asher]

IGN reviewed Far Cry for the Wii. Their caption? "Proof that graphics matter"

http://wii.ign.com/articles/751/751136p1.html

They whine about the control scheme too.

Here's the question: can you look past Far Cry Vengeance's many technical inadequacies and focus on the shooter's fun Wii control scheme and fairly straightforward gunfight-filled action? This game may be the ultimate proving ground for Nintendo's philosophy: gameplay fist and graphics second. Someone reading this right now might be ready to overlook anything for a new Wii FPS, but not me. The presentation – everything from the dozens of graphics shortcomings to the sometimes broken AI logic – is just too sloppy and too rushed in this quick-and-dirty Wii incarnation of the classic franchise. A fundamentally solid shooter is hiding somewhere underneath, but good luck finding it between the blurry textures and the sluggish framerate. (And as an aside, don't trust the pictures on the back of the Far Cry Vengeance box -- the game looks nothing like them.)

[DinoDoc]

Classic franchise?

[Asher]

Yeah, that's pushing it to call it classic. But how about the meat of the review?

[snoopy369]

Okay Asher ... we get it. We really get it. You don't like the Wii (or the PS3 of course). You don't like any of its games, and every game of the Wii is crap for you.

Now, is there any chance you could stop posting in this thread and leave it to people who want to productively discuss this platform? Any? I mean, you don't see me posting in Halo forums about how much I hate FPSs ...

Please?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Asher
Yeah, that's pushing it to call it classic.

Pushing it? I'd say we're out and out lieing.

But how about the meat of the review?

I don't care about I don't care about the meat of the review. Far Cry was never a game I was going to be interested in.

[snoopy369]

Why would anyone get a Wii to play an FPS?

[DinoDoc]

Just because you hate the genre doesn't mean that the two should be mutually exclusive.

[ZargonX]

I think nobody was expecting much out of what was clearly a rush port to try and make some $$$. When we start seeing some FPSs designed specifically for the Wii (like, say, Metroid), then we'll get a better sense.

[El_Cid]

Originally posted by Asher
IGN reviewed Far Cry for the Wii. Their caption? "Proof that graphics matter"

http://wii.ign.com/articles/751/751136p1.html

They whine about the control scheme too.

......... The presentation – everything from the dozens of graphics shortcomings to the sometimes broken AI logic – is just too sloppy and too rushed in this quick-and-dirty Wii incarnation of the classic franchise.

I think that is the telling part of that statement - it sounds like it was rushed, probably to get it out for the Wii release date and xmas? It's sad when this happens but the Wii wont be the last platform this kind of thing happens to sadly.

Oh and i think Asher should be welcomed to post where ever he likes - i find it interesting getting a completely different perspective from mine on gaming imho, personaly i'd rather have an Atari2600 over a 360 anyday of the week

I'm also interested in the graphic debate on the Wii - as far as i can tell many of the Wii's games have been made to look more retro than they need to, or to have that quirky big-headed japanese look?

Zelda(TP) is a port and near graphicaly identical version of the gamecube version - i think graphicaly it looks much more mature than Wii sports for example, but it IS a zelda game, and has that inherent kiddiness.

If the Wii can produce graphics atleast as technicaly sophisticated as the GC, then that means its a platform nearly equal to the xbox(origonal version) and slightly better than the PS2 in terms of graphics. I would suspect the graphical hardware while not being in the 360/PS3 ball park to probably be more powerfull than the GC though? Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

So that would mean it could/should be able to provide a metroidprime/halo type of game graphicaly - thats still good.

[Asher]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Okay Asher ... we get it. We really get it. You don't like the Wii (or the PS3 of course). You don't like any of its games, and every game of the Wii is crap for you.

Now, is there any chance you could stop posting in this thread and leave it to people who want to productively discuss this platform? Any? I mean, you don't see me posting in Halo forums about how much I hate FPSs ...

Please?

Sorry snoopdawg, if you want a Nintendo circlejerk, try nintendo.com.

Also, you don't seem to realize that FPS was one of the things most hyped about the Wii control scheme. It's odd to me that all of the FPSes released have been utter garbage for the Wii, with the control scheme always part of the complaints along with graphics that detract from the gameplay. Rather than *fap fap fap*ing about how flawless the Wii is, perhaps other people may enjoy talking about what it does not excel at as well.

It's not like FPS games are popular, right?

[Asher]

After denying they had a problem with the Wii strap, they've officially issued a recall: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=4409&Itemid=2

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Verto
Firstly, the game itself:

The last Zelda I played all the way through was Link to the Past. I never played more than a few minutes of Ocarina of Time

Full stop. Go play it now.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Asher


Sorry snoopdawg, if you want a Nintendo circlejerk, try nintendo.com.

Also, you don't seem to realize that FPS was one of the things most hyped about the Wii control scheme. It's odd to me that all of the FPSes released have been utter garbage for the Wii, with the control scheme always part of the complaints along with graphics that detract from the gameplay. Rather than *fap fap fap*ing about how flawless the Wii is, perhaps other people may enjoy talking about what it does not excel at as well.

It's not like FPS games are popular, right?

I don't want people who are exclusively positive OR negative on the Wii. My problem with you is that you consistently post every negative thing that you can imagine, constantly. It's boring, repetitive, and not helpful any more. One cannot trust the negative things that you post, because it's well understood that you will post anything negative you can find, and nothing positive, while giving negative spin to everything you post. That devalues your posts and makes it annoying to read them after a while. You don't seem to understand that someone like you is just as annoying, and useless, as a fanboi. You're just an antifanboi, which is even less helpful because at least fanbois are getting something useful out of the game/console/etc. and therefore can explain the usefulness ...

Perhaps the Wii is supposed to be good at FPS ... I can't imagine it being so, but then again I don't like FPS myself so perhaps it's just my lack of imagination

[Asher]

Originally posted by snoopy369
I don't want people who are exclusively positive OR negative on the Wii. My problem with you is that you consistently post every negative thing that you can imagine, constantly. It's boring, repetitive, and not helpful any more. One cannot trust the negative things that you post, because it's well understood that you will post anything negative you can find, and nothing positive, while giving negative spin to everything you post.

Here's a kleenex.

If you don't trust the things I post, that's your own fault. Go ahead, I guess Far Cry is a AAA 10/10 game for the Wii. Go and buy it.

Red Steel is also an incredible game.

And there are no safety problems with the Wiimote strap.

The problem isn't that what I say is wrong or not trustworthy, it's just not rah-rah Nintendo and that's bothering you. I'm sorry that the world isn't perfect, but other people may value the input of people who live with two feet planted in the real world.

[DinoDoc]

Well until they post "certain" reviews comparing a game that appeared on the 360 and Wii.