Wii thought's episode 1 - Impressions

[Killarapp]

When I bought the Wii... I bought it for original content, stuff I wouldn't get on other systems or stuff the control scheme would greatly enhance.

Now when I picked up the Wii I was under the pretences I was doing my bit to split the industry into two sizeable chunks with me capatilising on both.

Games would either focus on power and go the ps360 or pc route or they would go for the easy user interface and clear cut controls of the Wii. Making a point to a person about exclusives he told me.

You may call this title exclusive to Nintendo Wii but it simply can't theasably be put on the more powerful consoles

Supposibly developing on the Ps3 or 360 is a concept that riddled with so much expense than Sony / MS or some monopolising publisher would need to give you money to succeed. What does this mean? well it means very good things and very bad things.

The good is simply that the Wii with it's cheaper development costs will still see independent titles instead of money backed system sellers like ww2 and sport games and Wii will become known as the console for the creative designer. The bad is that with the cheap costs those same developers can flood the market with A grade crap.

Let's look at the DS as a microcosm of what the Wii wants to do. Innovative, portable about new ways to play and cheap to produce for. Now lets look at Brain Training, or how to make a good idea profitable.



Yet since Brain training... many a game have appeared sporting similar ideas, all uninspired but flooding the market none the less.

Nothing wrong with flooding a market with crap the PS2 thrived on common litter games but thats the problem. The successful and cheap console gets the most ripoffs.

But is there anything on the Wii that isn't a cash in?

I smell a rat in Rayman, Sonic, Red Steel, Far cry, Wii play, GT pro series and a ton more.

Sure the Wii has two killer applications already, Zelda twilight princess and Wii sports but one of them can be bought and enjoyed on the gamecube.

It seems like the phrase to explain yourself playing an inferior and 'novelty' console to people is 'it's not about graphics it's about gameplay' ok, good save? why doesn't the Wii deliver enough gameplay? all I see is mini games hogging space that could be used on great 1 player adventures. Zelda sure you may be 80 hours long but that was my christmas holiday what do you have for me now Wii?

Why must I wait for the next Mario or Smash bros? I bought a Wii for original clever ideas and so far all I have is a multiplayer game stripped of any customisation in Wii sports and a now purpose served and ultimatly unreplayable game in Zelda TP. Maybe if they gave me some reward? to make me collect every waking 50 ruby chest I seem to bust my ass reaching? that's why I buy a 360 game over a new lackluster Wii release.

And now we depart to the graphic's war. Ultimatly the Wii has the hardware to do this!



And this



That's resident evil 4 released in early 2005, every Wii game should be at least this good graphically being as the Wii is more powerful than a gamecube.

Ladies and Gentlemen in latter 2006 I present the imposters.





Now in early 2007 theres a new type of Wii game a Wiimake!

Scarface / Godfather they all face a Wiimake! while supposibly good games to begin with the Wii can deliver some untapped portential with the controller and give people like me who didn't care before a chance to pick up the title.

How these Wiimakes turn out is crucial to Nintendo's public opinion. If these turn into just crappy ports it shows developers truely are just after a cash in game but if they review, enhance and go head over heals on wii intervention they may just update a supposed classic and make people think, meh next gen version of Godfather 2? all graphics no substance, i'll get it for Wii instead.

Thanks for reading.

[Tr!toch]

I won't quote all of it

I agree with you 100 percent. Games should reach a graphical standard, and setting GC GFX as a minimum is the perfect way to do it. On the other hand, this may be leaned upon if there is enough content in the game. And you, quite rightly, also noticed that games are neither.... they are just ports where developers are hoping to get cash...

I'd be more willing to buy the original Legend of Zelda, and play through it, than I would buy the new Sonic Game.

Gaming has gone downhill since the good old days. It's more to do with technology nowadays than it is gameplay. Sigh, if only I had a rewind button.

[wii_man76]

Originally Posted by Tr!toch

Gaming has gone downhill since the good old days. It's more to do with technology nowadays than it is gameplay. Sigh, if only I had a rewind button.

Speaking in general terms, I have to agree with you on this point.

Back in the 'good old days' when the Spectrum was king (best selling home computer in its day) graphics were not that hot, so the focus was on gameplay.

Now that technology has improved somewhat, the focus has been on having the best graphics. Gameplay is still there, but in general gamers seem to be focusing on how good or bad the graphics are.

In my oppinion, now the Wii has come along things can (if we let them) change and the focus can move back to gameplay, but only if we have some exclusive games that are designed for the Wii only and not simply games that have been ported across...

[Gaffer]

I agree with you all on this one.

The excuse from Ubisoft from releasing loads of shi*e to us was that they were developed on NGC devkits, with the Wii devkits only going towards controller customisation.

...but as you rightly pointed out, this means we should be getting games at least the equal of Resi Evil 4.

In fact, the Wii is MORE powerful than both Xbox and NGC.....which means we should have started with graphics much better than this:




I think a lot of it has to do with Ubisoft simply being bone idle and lazy...

[Tr!toch]

To be fair. there was a short amount of time for them to play with the development its. 6 months I believe.

BUT, that said, they can't release any more rubbish. I want a REAL Gran Turismo and Forza Competitor please.

[Gaffer]

I thought you liked GT pro?

I personally reckon it should have been called GT pants

[Craig]

Any Wii owner complaing about the graphics has obviously missed the point of what the Wii is all about...

I could carry on, but I feel It'll fall on deaf ears.

[linkzor]

he's not just talking about graphics!! so far, a lot of releases have been... substandard. ugh. in an all-round way.

we need more polished releases, dammit! and third parties who want to really develop for the console, not just recycle their old intellectual property...

[weejamer]

Originally Posted by Tr!toch

Gaming has gone downhill since the good old days. It's more to do with technology nowadays than it is gameplay. Sigh, if only I had a rewind button.

Very true its mostly due to the development cost crossed with sales. If the sales of the console are bad (i think you all know which on I have in mind) and you need a small army of just coders to make the damn thing your either going to opt out of that console and make for others. Or more unlikely stop making games.

Look at Rockstar for instance they where going to make GTA4 a PS3 exclusive. But even with that fact Rockstar does employ a small army the PS3 sales are just not good enough to make money. Even with development time going close into the years its too big of a gamble cause the PS3 might not live that long.

F ups like the PS3 really hurt the gaming industry more than you think.

[kungfumaster]

resi4 graphx were that good because the program was actually written by witches and warlocks to enable the dark powers to actually over-ride the gamecubes graphics processor, thats why you could only play the game at nightime.