(Conduit info) Congrats to me! I'm getting married......

To Eric Nofsinger and Kerry Ganofsky of High Voltage games!!! These two new man-crushes of mine have completely uplifted my spirits when it comes to Wii and what developers are starting to do. IGN posted an amazing article on the new title Conduit from High Voltage. Check it out:

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Pretty amazing huh? I'm sure everyone's seen it already anyway. What really excites me is the philosophy adopted by HV and the two execs I'm in love with....uh....I mentioned earlier I mean. Their approach to making real content for the Wii is so refreshing I just don't know what to do with myself. Their words speak for themselves:

Kerry Ganofsky says - "We think it's a real shame that publishers and developers aren't taking advantage of the technical possibilities of the Wii platform. Most Wii games don't even look as good as the later day PS2 titles and that's a real slap in the face to consumers,". "We believe that third-party developers need to step up to the plate and deliver. The Wii platform is capable of a lot more than what consumers have seen so far. We're hoping to raise a new bar."

Eric Nofsinger says - "Most of the games on the Wii look like crap. We want to change that, so we've invested heavily in our Wii tech over the past year. We have real-time normal mapping, reflection and refraction, post process full screen effects, real-time shadows, projected lights and textures, specularity and fresnel effects, emissive and iridescent materials, interactive water, morphing, and much more all running with a rock solid frame rate on the Wii. Our goal is to be the most technically innovative Wii developer on the planet."

Now I love the Wii. Always have and I will till the next generation. But if you've heard me...rant....in here before then you know that I am very offended at lazy devs, bad graphics, party games, PS2 ports and the like. It pains me to see what I know is a capable next gen system (btw selling better than anything on the planet right now which includes it's COMPETITION) relegated to receiving the wash out crap nobody would put on other systems. What Kerry and Eric at HV have done is taken everything about what I and a lot of us "harcore gamers", if you're comfortable with that label, feel and put it into the most vindicatingly perfect words and, thank god, made them public. As well as put them to practical use where they can hopefully, and will, make a difference!!

Anyhoo....thoughts?

Unless it's to your Wii this is in the wrong areaJaysonguy

Unless you read the post then don't comment on it.

What about posting in the already existing thread?Wintry_Flutist

Os there one already? Lol I knew there probably would be. But, if you read my post, you'll see that there are very specific facets of this news that I wanted to share my excitement over and discuss with my pals here. Plus I JUST read it and haven't even bothered looking for other threads yet heh. But thanks!

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]Unless it's to your Wii this is in the wrong areaDarth-Samus

Unless you read the post then don't comment on it.

Had the joke in my head as soon as I read the title and there's not one single thing that could have been in that post that would have stopped me lol

Wow, I would almost buy this game just to make a point to publishers and developers that the Wii is so much more than a party gaming, ps2 porting, old folk rehabilitating, one trick pony.chickenscratch

Well said! I totally agree. Just to prove that this is how a developer should approach the Wii and EVERYTHING that Rock Band Wii Edition stands for is polar opposite of how a dev makes a quality product. I'm glad you read the article and noted the points. It's like the guys at High Voltage just jumped out of a phone booth donning a bug S on their chest to swoop in and save our day lol. I don't know where this all came from but I'm glad they're here.

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[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]Unless it's to your Wii this is in the wrong areaJaysonguy

Unless you read the post then don't comment on it.

Had the joke in my head as soon as I read the title and there's not one single thing that could have been in that post that would have stopped me lol

Yeah I was second guessing even using that title, but I was so high off that article and all of the things those guys said and I just had to do them justice hehe.

This is definitely really refreshing... I just hope HV is more than just talk. rexCo

Wow, I would almost buy this game just to make a point to publishers and developers that the Wii is so much more than a party gaming, ps2 porting, old folk rehabilitating, one trick pony.chickenscratch

I'm right there with you.

This just might be the "I told you so" Wii fans have been waiting for! It's not quite 360 quality graphics (I know its still very early), but I'll GLADLY take visuals like this and their tech demo with Wii controls over ANYTHING my 360 or PS3 can produce!

I had absolutely NO doubt in my mind that Wii could pull off something like this and Finally there's a Dev brave enough to prove it.

I really like thoses quotes. But still it's just talk. They have to deliver also.m_machine024

I think it's great the reaction is so positive. Wouldn't it be amazing if the words from High Voltage; their philosophy, and then the world's (meaning us gamers/ consumers) reaction, got back to EA so they can see EVERY FRIGGIN THING they're doing pitifully wrong with their insultingly half-assed version of Rock Band for the Wii?

Sigh, we can dream.