gamesblow, these are tenuous correlations at best. In other games' favour, I could easily assert that Novalis is a planet; the Final Fantasy series has been making a point of using named planets since its conception – and that Ratchet & Clank is therefore stealing. Or that Blackwater City is often seen at night: a concept nicked from the cities of Treno AND Midgar from the aforementioned series. Or that the idea of having an array of weaponry at your disposal is stolen from Tomb Raider. ...
what's with all the comparisons to Ratchet & Clank? It strikes me as rather odd to suggest that the two have anything in common bar the art style (tenuous link at best) and the space theme (pfft, who's to say Insomniac didn't steal from Bungie, then?), let alone that one is better than the other....
Yeah, it's an irrefutable fact that everyone HAS to stand up in order to play Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Red Steel [insert the countless other games that use the aforementioned gameplay mechanic here]... The only Wii games I have had to stand up for are Wii Sports and WarioWare (and even then you can bowl, serve and bat quite successfully whilst sat down and playing the former). Galaxy's gameplay largely consists of pointing with the Wii remote and navigating with the nunchuck's anal...
I think it slightly unfair that my excitement regarding Galaxy isn't deemed credible just because I [harshly, admittedly] bashed Nintendo's official magazine. Rest assured, being an early Wii adopter I'm elated by the idea of an amazing Nintendo game.
Sadly it's not really in my nature to make posts on these news pages simply to express how "OMFG I can't wait for Galaxy" – I like to think there is usually a less personal, more relevant point to make.
Forgive me...
Is a terrible publication that strives to award first-party games percentages in the neighbourhood of ninety simply to appease the fat-cats who fund them and consequently secretes a toxic level of rival-bashing usurped by five-year-olds across the internet. Having read about their verdict, I'm no less excited about the game itself: just sceptical about the honesty of Official Nintendo Magazine's review.
we are hardcore users who were assured that third party developers would take us seriously. Evidently we were mistaken.
The Wii remote's potential was always going to culminate in the release of games containing simulated stabbing and/or evil psychic powers (Cooking Mama and Twilight Princess, for instance). Now developers are finally getting to grips with the control scheme, realistic shooting is now entering the mix as well! I therefore suggest that – for the sake of our impressionable children – the PEGI also rate the Wii remote 18+ for catalysing the rise of lifelike killing methods. I also want an EU leg...
Are the angry format-biased fanboys here the ones who bought Clover and Capcom's Viewtiful Joe on the PS2? If the developer and publisher had stuck with Nintendo you would never have had that, and Okami could have been a Gamecube venture. Format dependability is a stupid thing to advocate, especially if it's a good game that has cross-console appeal.
When I bought my PS2 I only ever used the backwards-compatibility for FFIX. I suppose this time I could just keep my PS2 and use it for all the stuff I can't play if/ when I buy my PS3... I wish Sony would leave Europe alone :(
Fry Egg and Come On!
I love 'em...
If you mean the classic controller, it's a yes. You can also use the Gamecube controller and the Wii remote coupled with the nunchuck.
You people are terrible. Stop pulling the Playstation 3 gamers' hair before this turns into a dance-off or something...
...not that I could ever have taken this seriously, mind.
...but what about the developers? Being PRESSURED to venture there by the people distributing (and manipulating) your work isn't going to make it much easier for developers to make decent games. Give them some tiiiime for once!
Get off this idiot blogger's nuts until their hosting account is reactivated.
Yeah, like Killzone's fanbase is even close... The end of a trilogy will inevitably sell more than what is probably the midpoint of another, and if this kind of industry talk didn't work for Zune, it'll certainly never work for Killzone 2.
All this time I've been deluded and foolish to believe that Metroid Prime 3, Manhunt 2, No More Heroes and Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition weren't kids' games. How silly of me.
Conveying your very original(!) argument how you did isn't fantastically convincing – "h8"ing a console is ignorance in itself, but hating it on a false whim is just silly. Learn to provide the reason ("its 4 teh kidz" isn't a reason) behind your prosaic rhyme before you say things that...
simply because PC hardware differs so vastly, and also because a PC – like it or not – is not a console. Nobody has to upgrade their Xbox 360's graphics card every year, Crucial doesn't stock RAM for the Wii and you don't have to install a game on your friend's PS3 before you can show it to them. Consoles are specialised hardware; PCs are diversified hardware designed to "adapt" to whatever is thrown at them. Unfortunately, unless developers release an edition of their game for each...
Come on, I've heard more inventive nicknames for Bush.
Aaah, the update makes me happy.