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[Tilda]

Link to a bad review of RedSteel? Havent heard anything bad about it.

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Gamespot railed on it, i've seen a good few ad-hoc user comments of it being a bit pants (ai being one of the main culprits).

Famitsu gave is a favourable review though, depends who you prefer to trust in those places. Still going to rent it meself and decide then.

 

[Aada]

Link to a bad review of RedSteel? Havent heard anything bad about it.

If you actually bothered you're ass to look for a review you wouldn't be getting pwnd right now for being wrong.

Actually i'll pwn you again seeing as you're so lazy or a fanboi pick which one.

IGN ** 6 / 10 Nov 20, 2006
Computer & Video Games UK ** 8 / 10 Nov 19, 2006
1UP ** 5 / 10 Nov 18, 2006
Cheat Code Central ** 3.8 / 5 Nov 22, 2006
Console Game World ** 79 / 100 Nov 20, 2006
Deeko ** 5 / 10 Nov 20, 2006
GameTrailers ** 7.8 / 10 Nov 20, 2006
G4 ** 3 / 5 Nov 20, 2006
eToychest ** 78 / 100 Nov 16, 2006
GameBrink 70 / 100 Nov 17, 2006
Game Informer ** 7.5 / 10 Jan 1, 2007
Nintendo Power ** 8 / 10 Jan 1, 2007
Edge Magazine UK 5 / 10 Dec 25, 2006
Ngamer UK

Can't be arsed typing it so i just pasted it. As the reviews show the game sucks.

Anyone else see the COD3 review for the Wii? 7.3 not even any multiplayer.

Have fun with you're launch games you'd be better off buying the Wii by it's self and downloading Sonic the Hedgehog on their Arcade shit for a 10+ plus year old game it rated better then half the launch titles.

 

[nath]

Anyone else see the COD3 review for the Wii? 7.3 not even any multiplayer.

Yeah but who cares? Strikes me that the Wii isn't designed for that sort of shit - it's designed for its own style of games. Someone already said it's not trying to compete with the other consoles.

 

[tris-]

Yeah but who cares? Strikes me that the Wii isn't designed for that sort of shit - it's designed for its own style of games. Someone already said it's not trying to compete with the other consoles.

then you need to wonder why they get released. people are going to buy games not meant for the console and wonder wtf piece of shit they just bought.

 

[Wij]

Does anyone else think the name 'WiiSports' is piss funny (pun intended) ?

 

[Skyler]

Not all of those reviews are bad, and not all reviews show whether you'd like a game or not.

They are good for a subjective opinion, but I wouldn't buy every game that got a good review and avoid every game that got a bad one.

 

[Aada]

Yeah but who cares? Strikes me that the Wii isn't designed for that sort of shit - it's designed for its own style of games. Someone already said it's not trying to compete with the other consoles.

Who cares?????

Multiplayer is a BIG seller for games right now most games for the 360 have LIVE multiplayer because the devs know that it's a big selling point and if they don't include it they will loose sales.

Anyone see where i'm getting at here? Gamecube? fuck all network support out of the 3 consoles probably fucked that over aswell as the lack of games.

When you go on LIVE and you nose at peoples gamercards alot of them haven't even touched GOW single player because they are too busy with the multiplayer aspect. Same goes for pretty much every game with multiplayer support, anyone who has played someone over the internet knows that is where the fun and replayability is at not the singleplayer which you can blaze through in a week or 2.

 

[Aada]

Not all of those reviews are bad, and not all reviews show whether you'd like a game or not.

They are good for a subjective opinion, but I wouldn't buy every game that got a good review and avoid every game that got a bad one.

I don't either but when the review scores from alot of places are average at best that is when you might think that something is obviously not right with the game?

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Aye, Nintendo won't have their online structure for third parties up until early 2007(?) which is a shame and i'm hoping it's not going to be simply tacked on. Microsoft certainly have the advantage (a bigbig one) with their Live service.

Unfortunately anyone wanting the Wii for online aspects is just going to have to join the waytansee tribe and hope it all pans out.

Oh, as far as I know Aada, Microsoft have some kind of requirement for games to have a form of Live functionality in their games, that could very well be rubbish but it's not unthinkable coming from MS, they'd want to push Live as much as possible.

 

[Aada]

Aye, Nintendo won't have their online structure for third parties up until early 2007(?) which is a shame and i'm hoping it's not going to be simply tacked on. Microsoft certainly have the advantage (a bigbig one) with their Live service.

Unfortunately anyone wanting the Wii for online aspects is just going to have to join the waytansee tribe and hope it all pans out.

Oh, as far as I know Aada, Microsoft have some kind of requirement for games to have a form of Live functionality in their games, that could very well be rubbish but it's not unthinkable coming from MS, they'd want to push Live as much as possible.

That last part doesn't suprise me AT ALL i mean a few years back multiplayer over the internet was PC only then the Dreamcast kicked it off and look at the amount of players it attracted with PSO/Quake etc.

The console market is vastly bigger then anything the PC could hope to be and console gamers have only recently in the last 6 years discovered what online gaming is all about.

The first thing that pops up on any new game forum from people is ''does it have multplayer?''.

And any true gamer will tell you that a story/campaign will only keep you tied to the game for a few weeks at the most before it starts collecting dust, multiplayer gives you something that you could be playing for months even years.

Wii has the potential to become a BIG online with the Wii remote/Wand thing but Nintendo aren't bothered because they think they can keep releasing 4 player Mario party games and hope people will enjoy it.

Well guess what Ninty ? not going to happen.

 

[Wij]

That last part doesn't suprise me AT ALL i mean a few years back multiplayer over the internet was PC only then the Dreamcast kicked it off and look at the amount of players it attracted with PSO/Quake etc.

The console market is vastly bigger then anything the PC could hope to be and console gamers have only recently in the last 6 years discovered what online gaming is all about.

The first thing that pops up on any new game forum from people is ''does it have multplayer?''.

And any true gamer will tell you that a story/campaign will only keep you tied to the game for a few weeks at the most before it starts collecting dust, multiplayer gives you something that you could be playing for months even years.

Wii has the potential to become a BIG online with the Wii remote/Wand thing but Nintendo aren't bothered because they think they can keep releasing 4 player Mario party games and hope people will enjoy it.

Well guess what Ninty ? not going to happen.

Plenty of people will enjoy Wii games offline. It's totally different.

Plenty of people will also enjoy the 360 online. It's a slick service.

The machine which has no real selling point at the minute is the PS3. It will survive on the PS brand though.

 

[Aada]

Plenty of people will enjoy Wii games offline. It's totally different.

Plenty of people will also enjoy the 360 online. It's a slick service.

The machine which has no real selling point at the minute is the PS3. It will survive on the PS brand though.

I hope the Wii does well i really do as i would pick one up once the developers get used to how the Wii works BUT Nintendo need online support.

PS3? i hope it fails and it is a possibility price for one thing and the fact it is harder and more expensive to develop for then the Wii or the 360 might push devs away.

Sony have shot themselves in the foot by putting too much into the PS3 gamers do not need a Blue ray player they buy a console for freaking games not to watch movies.

MS gave the customers what they want.. the option not forced to buy the HD-DVD player.

 

[Wij]

Blu-ray isn't a selling point atm. Not enough awareness. A few articles in the paper might help.

 

[Yaka]

im debating weather i should pre order a wii or leave it after xmas, my local currys store say they have had only 2 pre ordered and can take a few more for launch day
sony are only doing what they did with ps2 tbh. few years from now games will need more space than dvds have. and hd dvd and blue ray are what will provide space. unless of course direct downloading of games becomes the norm via XBL or Sony Online. even then we will need or want 3 to 4 Tb hdds in our consoles

 

[Skyler]

Direct downloading is not the future, bandwith limits are more of a concern than HDD space.

I don't want any Console to fail, but I want this round to shake up the market and give a swift kick up the ass to all three companies so that next time they all do better

 

[Ch3tan]

MS gave the customers what they want.. the option not forced to buy the HD-DVD player.

No, Ms scraped having the HD-DVD player because they couldn't get the price low enough for launch. I did not choose not to have a HD-DVD player in my 360, there was no choice.

I will now be forced to spend more money on an add on drive, or a new 360 when they launch the versions with the HD-DVD player.

 

[PLightstar]

Managed to be one of the lucky ones who got a pre-order off amazon, mainly for Zelda mind you but my flat mates guna buy the controllers so should be good, though it means I have had to stop buying games for my 360 and PC till the new year, but I may get Viva Pinata cuase it looks so odd.

 

[soze]

Plenty of people will enjoy Wii games offline. It's totally different.

Plenty of people will also enjoy the 360 online. It's a slick service.

The machine which has no real selling point at the minute is the PS3. It will survive on the PS brand though.

Ps3 is coming with a free online comunity so if the 360 online is a sekking point then a free one from Sony is a selling point.

Selling points for me
Blu Ray Stand alone players are £500 so its cheaper to buy a PS3 and i think HiDef movies look sweet so i want one.
Its Media centre, you can link it on the network and save films movies and games to its builtin 60?gb hard disk, which is also swapable with any laptop harddisk (Wii dose not offer this, 360 its external so with out an adaptor you are stuck paying £65 for 20gb). If you had a media centre PC by your TV this can replace it.
Most powerful next gen consol. I like the fact that game developers have said they are nowhere near tapping the power of the machine this means that in 5 years games will still come out as improvements.
And most importantly for me the looks and size I did not spean a grand on a nice looking tv to have to sit it on a desk so i have enough space for my 360 external wifi bridge harddisk poking out the side and my HDDVD drive as soon as i can those are gone and will be replaced by a sigle ps3 box also the black will go better with my silver TV

 

[Skyler]

Unfortunately Sony have missed the boat a bit with the online community, it's not as good as Live. It needs quite a bit of work to get there, but that's not to say the PS3 isn't worth buy compared to the other two.

I find they are all on a fairly even footing, it's very much down to what games you want, what you want to spend and what you want to get out of the machine itself.

 

[PLightstar]

The main thing that the PS3 cannot compete is the Online Service the 360 has a complete architecture built from the ground up the developers have a pre-designed package to work from. But the PS3 is all odds and sods some of it is taken care of by Sony other parts by Xfire and its kind strange which means you are guna have different set-ups and user names, just makes things over complicated, kinda reminds me of PC gaming but then again thats rather simple in itself.

Not sure about the Wii's friend codes though it is tied to one machine, the idea of remembering a number instead of a 'gamertag' seems a bit strange but my mate says hes got the same thing on his DS and has no problems.

 

[leggy]

The friend code setup on the DS is the single most annoying thing about DS online play. Why can't we have a gamertag that masks the code or something similar?

I want to remember the good players and follow them around or have the option to join random games (I know that this is possible with some games but in others,such as metroid, random matches are limited to deathmatch). The friend code systems are really not multiplayer friendly. I don't want to scan forums for friend codes and keep them stored on my cart.

 

[soze]

The main thing that the PS3 cannot compete is the Online Service the 360 has a complete architecture built from the ground up the developers have a pre-designed package to work from. But the PS3 is all odds and sods some of it is taken care of by Sony other parts by Xfire and its kind strange which means you are guna have different set-ups and user names, just makes things over complicated, kinda reminds me of PC gaming but then again thats rather simple in itself.

Not sure about the Wii's friend codes though it is tied to one machine, the idea of remembering a number instead of a 'gamertag' seems a bit strange but my mate says hes got the same thing on his DS and has no problems.

Not meaning to sound like flame bait but have you tried the new online for the new ps3 as the reviews i have read go to both extremes. Its biggest handicap so far seems to be its a small comunity x box live has over 7 million people the sony has only just started.