hi guys i got my nintendo power and the conduit review was in it heres the review someon said you cant have scans so its 6.5 what do you think? not very great
And what was the hype level for this game? AA-AAA? lol well it looks like those people will get owned.
killerfist
Good thing not many of them even exist. True, there was not much hype around this. Only a handfull of people, and fakeboys. Actually I saw quite a bit of hype at the AA level in SW, at least i saw MANY people defending the game (even though you can guarantee they will hide and just blame fakeboys when the reviews hit the fan), all the SANE people knew this was going to be a crappy shooter, it's just the Wii is so starved right now people go on about how "The Wii will soon have a great shooter" :?
[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"][QUOTE="killerfist"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"] Good thing not many of them even exist. True, there was not much hype around this. Only a handfull of people, and fakeboys. Actually I saw quite a bit of hype at the AA level in SW, at least i saw MANY people defending the game (even though you can guarantee they will hide and just blame fakeboys when the reviews hit the fan), all the SANE people knew this was going to be a crappy shooter, it's just the Wii is so starved right now people go on about how "The Wii will soon have a great shooter" :? Well, I'd consider myself a sane person. :P I thought this game looked fun. It's obiously generic and it could've looked better I suppose, but yeah, I thought it looked fun. And the latest preview on GS was rather positive about it calling it the "most feature packed Wii game yet" or something like that.
[QUOTE="killerfist"][QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"][QUOTE="killerfist"] True, there was not much hype around this. Only a handfull of people, and fakeboys. Actually I saw quite a bit of hype at the AA level in SW, at least i saw MANY people defending the game (even though you can guarantee they will hide and just blame fakeboys when the reviews hit the fan), all the SANE people knew this was going to be a crappy shooter, it's just the Wii is so starved right now people go on about how "The Wii will soon have a great shooter" :? Well, I'd consider myself a sane person. :P I thought this game looked fun. It's obiously generic and it could've looked better I suppose, but yeah, I thought it looked fun. And the latest preview on GS was rather positive about it calling it the "most feature packed Wii game yet" or something like that. The big sites always tend to keep their previews positive to keep publishers/ Devs coming back and letting them play it. Imagine if you just ripped it to shreds pre-review, they just wouldn't let you have their next game to look at, hell look at Gametrialers pre-view of Fracture, the game was FAIL but they conveniently didn't mention that. Some sites have had some balls though, i have seen the "Not fun at all" comment on Computer and Videogames.com and elsewhere, they also commented the game was un-polished and too linear/ unbalanced so this has not some out of nowhere.
[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"] The big sites always tend to keep their previews positive to keep publishers/ Devs coming back and letting them play it. Imagine if you just ripped it to shreds pre-review, they just wouldn't let you have their next game to look at, hell look at Gametrialers pre-view of Fracture, the game was FAIL but they conveniently didn't mention that. Some sites have had some balls though, i have seen the "Not fun at all" comment on Computer and Videogames.com and elsewhere, they also commented the game was un-polished and too linear/ unbalanced so this has not some out of nowhere. Yeah, true enough. We will see, I'm not a Wii owner so I really couldn't care less. But I would never want a game to fail, bad games is bad for everyone.
[QUOTE="killerfist"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"] Good thing not many of them even exist.BoloTheGreat
True, there was not much hype around this. Only a handfull of people, and fakeboys. Actually I saw quite a bit of hype at the AA level in SW, at least i saw MANY people defending the game (even though you can guarantee they will hide and just blame fakeboys when the reviews hit the fan), all the SANE people knew this was going to be a crappy shooter, it's just the Wii is so starved right now people go on about how "The Wii will soon have a great shooter" :?
I think the problem with The Conduit was that the developers tried too hard to make the graphics the best they can for a Wii game and put most of their efforts in just that area. Even then, the game never looked amazing graphically - but they kept pushing it in our faces trying to make it seem like they are amazing. I think in the end, they simply tried too hard to be good. Usually when you try too hard, you will never end up being as big as you wanted to be compared to the ones that know they are good and know they can make quality games.
The big sites always tend to keep their previews positive to keep publishers/ Devs coming back and letting them play it. Imagine if you just ripped it to shreds pre-review, they just wouldn't let you have their next game to look at, hell look at Gametrialers pre-view of Fracture, the game was FAIL but they conveniently didn't mention that. Some sites have had some balls though, i have seen the "Not fun at all" comment on Computer and Videogames.com and elsewhere, they also commented the game was un-polished and too linear/ unbalanced so this has not some out of nowhere. BoloTheGreat
There is much truth in this quote. After all, GameSpot called Hour of Victory a promising WWII shooter. :P
[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"]The big sites always tend to keep their previews positive to keep publishers/ Devs coming back and letting them play it. Imagine if you just ripped it to shreds pre-review, they just wouldn't let you have their next game to look at, hell look at Gametrialers pre-view of Fracture, the game was FAIL but they conveniently didn't mention that. Some sites have had some balls though, i have seen the "Not fun at all" comment on Computer and Videogames.com and elsewhere, they also commented the game was un-polished and too linear/ unbalanced so this has not some out of nowhere. RobbieH1234
There is much truth in this quote. After all, GameSpot called Hour of Victory a promising WWII shooter. :P They have to "play the game" so to speak :Pif they didn't they would just be shunned my the community, some of the samller sites or sites who's income is less dependent on apeasing the publishers tend to actually be honest and so you get some concerns raised ahead of release.
Yeah, true enough. We will see, I'm not a Wii owner so I really couldn't care less. But I would never want a game to fail, bad games is bad for everyone. killerfist
But the game ALWAYS was going to be like this, from the monet i first saw a gameplsy video i knew this game would just not live up to modern shooter standards. Bad technical graphics can be forgiven if the game has a HUGE scale (See GTA4, which actually looked awesome but hey) Or games which have a kick ass art stlyle like Mertoid Prime 3 did or Shoawd of the collosus. The Conduit has none of these, it is a technically proficient (for a Wii/X-Box game) but lacks any kind of redeeming design qualityies. It's a liniar corridor shooter whith a silly story ON TOP of all it's other issues. How did ANY of the Nintedo fans EVER hype this?!
How did ANY of the Nintedo fans EVER hype this?!BoloTheGreat
You make some good points but again, not many hyped this. There were just a handfull of people that thought it looked promising enough judging the previews and released footage. And also bad graphics and lame storylines can also be forgiven if the game is loads of fun or challeging for example. Look at NG2, not the most impressive graphics, filled with framerate dips and other technical bugs, lameass storyline etc. but it still managed to score a 8.5 (or 8? I forgot).
[QUOTE="killerfist"][QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"] Good thing not many of them even exist.BoloTheGreat
True, there was not much hype around this. Only a handfull of people, and fakeboys. Actually I saw quite a bit of hype at the AA level in SW, at least i saw MANY people defending the game (even though you can guarantee they will hide and just blame fakeboys when the reviews hit the fan), all the SANE people knew this was going to be a crappy shooter, it's just the Wii is so starved right now people go on about how "The Wii will soon have a great shooter" :?
Most of the sheep were acknowledging the game, and defending it in bash threads, but simultaneously keeping it at arm's length so they couldn't be owned too bad no matter how it turned out.
[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"] How did ANY of the Nintedo fans EVER hype this?!killerfist
You make some good points but again, not many hyped this. There were just a handfull of people that thought it looked promising enough judging the previews and released footage. And also bad graphics and lame storylines can also be forgiven if the game is loads of fun or challeging for example. Look at NG2, not the most impressive graphics, filled with framerate dips and other technical bugs, lameass storyline etc. but it still managed to score a 8.5 (or 8? I forgot). Fair enough, but we KNEW that NG games were fun, it had already been established. Of course there are exceptions to a rule, an overall game can surprise you, like Resistance 2 did with me (i came in with low expectations and the game blew me away), but i do disagree that it was only a hand-full of hypers, it WAS only a handful making the hype/positive threads but once you got a "conduit is not looking good" thread the defence from the sheep contingent was pretty Epic from some users. I will try and find examples, they may surprise you.
[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"][QUOTE="killerfist"] True, there was not much hype around this. Only a handfull of people, and fakeboys. Cherokee_Jack
Actually I saw quite a bit of hype at the AA level in SW, at least i saw MANY people defending the game (even though you can guarantee they will hide and just blame fakeboys when the reviews hit the fan), all the SANE people knew this was going to be a crappy shooter, it's just the Wii is so starved right now people go on about how "The Wii will soon have a great shooter" :?
Most of the sheep were acknowledging the game, and defending it in bash threads, but simultaneously keeping it at arm's length so they couldn't be owned too bad no matter how it turned out.
Most of the people were bashing the game for the worng reasons, only because of its graphics, and as it turns out the graphics are one of the high points of the reveiw.
[QUOTE="BoloTheGreat"] Actually I saw quite a bit of hype at the AA level in SW, at least i saw MANY people defending the game (even though you can guarantee they will hide and just blame fakeboys when the reviews hit the fan), all the SANE people knew this was going to be a crappy shooter, it's just the Wii is so starved right now people go on about how "The Wii will soon have a great shooter" :?longprocess
Most of the sheep were acknowledging the game, and defending it in bash threads, but simultaneously keeping it at arm's length so they couldn't be owned too bad no matter how it turned out.
Most of the people were bashing the game for the worng reasons, only because of its graphics, and as it turns out the graphics are one of the high points of the reveiw. Wow the game must REALLY suck then :lol:. The game looks eye-bleedingly bad. it's fugly. it really is.
Haha so much for "wii and waggie is best for fps" ,seriously is it any good shooters at all (not include on-rail shooters and metroid) for wii?
aroxx_ab
Why "not including Metroid"? It's not a shooter per se, but it does show that the IR pointer is a hell of a lot better than dual-analog for first-person aiming.
1. A new issue of Nintendo Power came out a few days ago and this review wasn't in it. 2. This review claims the game has 16 players online, which it doesn't. 3. Laggy online? http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14248157/the-conduit/videos/conduit_assassination_050609.html 4. Game isn't out for another month. This review isn't fishy at all or anything.
[QUOTE="OreoMilkshake"]1. A new issue of Nintendo Power came out a few days ago and this review wasn't in it. 2. This review claims the game has 16 players online, which it doesn't. 3. Laggy online? http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14248157/the-conduit/videos/conduit_assassination_050609.html 4. Game isn't out for another month. This review isn't fishy at all or anything.I noticed some spelling mistakes in it as well.
To be fair, sheep never hyped this, but for some reason it was made to seem like they did. People knew that an A would be a good score for this, it hasnt achieved that in the 1 review it has had so far, its not a flop, just a game people hoped would get an A, the hype was never really there.
[QUOTE="longprocess"][QUOTE="OreoMilkshake"]1. A new issue of Nintendo Power came out a few days ago and this review wasn't in it. 2. This review claims the game has 16 players online, which it doesn't. 3. Laggy online? http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14248157/the-conduit/videos/conduit_assassination_050609.html 4. Game isn't out for another month. This review isn't fishy at all or anything.I noticed some spelling mistakes in it as well. If that's true, and review is indeed fake....for shame people, for shame..:|
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