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• 1Nov 09

  The Wii has stalled? More like they hit a wall ..

  .. and it took Mr. Iwata a long time before realizing this.

  I saw this as soon as their 2009 E3 conference was over. Same recycled IP's from their first 3 years. Two Mario games, another Metroid game and ANOTHER Zelda game. It's hard for me, who grew up with the NES, to have to sit and watch this great company's games get watered down to a bunch to Wii musics, Wii fits get thrown at us along with tons of other uninteresting games.

  

  Think.... What would Mario do?

  They messed up with the friend code system. You can't even get a decent match started with friends 'cause you have to enter a different code for every game. All of the other features like Mii channel were fun to play with at first but were forgotten as quickly. Another big mistake was to pump out tons of accessories that no one's going to use after a while. I'm surprised that it took this long to create a 1:1 motion device. It should have been there from the start. Now we're going to have to wait another 2 years to actually make use of it for more games other than Red Steel 2 and that golf game. By that time they'll probably make a Wii HD.

  I should have mailed them my article when I warned them about this last year. I basically predicted that this is going to happen if they didn't do anything. One year later and we still haven't heard anything from series such as Star fox, Kid Icarus, F-Zero, Bomberman (64 remake) A Real Pokemon RPG (or at least Snap), Breath Of Fire, Earthbound, Pilot Wings (We have motion controller for Christ sake) Skies of Arcadia, Donkey Kong, Luigi's mansion 2, Etrnal Darkness. Yup, I've been nothing but patient. But I can't wait forever.

  Now, it might seem that I did nothing but bash the Wii so far. So before you judge me by this article, take a good look at all the games that I've finished until now. It's not about mature (rated) games. It's about supporting your system with great software. Don't rely only on third party developers to accomplish your goal. It's because of that, we ended up with games like Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine and My baby 1st steps.

  And now, this is the result: Sluggish sales, core games migrating to other platforms (bought a PS3 slim in September) and an uncertainty if those promised games might still make it in this console generation (remember Twilight Princess?). With the recent price drop on all systems, consumers are thinking twice about which system to buy this Christmas (if they haven't bought one yet).

  I hope they had some air bags installed when they hit that brick wall and that this serves as a slap in their face that gamers are not to be messed with. Your move, Nintendo.

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  Note: I did not write this article to compare systems. I wrote this article because, as a long time Nintendo fan, I feel that they have let down their core audience by offering us only a handful of great games.

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  • Posted Nov 1, 2009 6:26 pm PT
  • Category: Editorial
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• 30Oct 09

  Uncharted 2: Halloween Double cash weekend!

  Hell yeah!

  The Double Cash Weekend starts on Friday, October 30, 2009, at 11:00 AM PST and continues until Monday, November 2, 2009, at 11:00 AM PST.

  In every match during Double Cash Weekend, you'll be getting twice the Cash award you normally would for completing typical game actions – not medal-related currency awards – giving everyone a leg up in increasing their Rank for a limited time. That means this weekend is the perfect time to hop on to our Competitive and Co-op Multiplayer modes – whether you're just a few levels away from the vaunted 'X' or this is just your first time online.

  A bunch of Naughty Dogs will also be playing this weekend, so be on the lookout for the red Naughty Dog paw next to our PSN ID in the game.

  Linky.

  • Posted Oct 30, 2009 1:02 pm PT
  • Category: Games
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• 26Oct 09

  Need for Speed: Shift is a nightmare

  I'm dead serious. I've never seen such a bad game when it comes to frame-rate issues. They should have called it Need for Speed Shift Slow Motion Mode". It's like driving at 30 mph during the whole race.There was even one time that my game started lagging, like 2 frames per second. It was like watching a slide show. But wait, there's more. When you start a race, there's a chance that the engine sound doesn't load or the car itself won't move. The sound itself is nothing compared to the videos I've seen on the net. I'm positive that it's not my speakers 'cause Dirt 2 sounds wonderful. It also seems to gave a problem with anti-aliasing (remove jaggies).

  So why am I ranting? It's 2009. Need for Speed is notorious for milking their franchise to the core. My last NFS game was Most Wanted (2005) which was a great racing game (doesn't matter which console). I saw the gameplay vids and thought to myself: "You know what? This might actually be a great game." But I was wrong. They will never fix these issues. Gamespot was too generous with the score. I bet NFS: Nitro will get more than this one.

  Don't buy this game.

  • Posted Oct 26, 2009 7:35 am PT
  • Category: Rant
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