Jump to content
NEurope

Kagato

N-E Staff
  • Content count

    373
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Kagato


  1. I actually agree with pretty much everything Zechs said, i knew going into the event last night that it wasnt about the games, it was about the machine etc but looking at it made me feel the same kind of indifference i felt about the PS4 event, that is to say, nothing has really changed. I dont know what i was expecting but the graphics on both of those machines just arnt that much better, yes they are more defined, yes they are shiny but its just more of the same with a higher polycount and some new shaders. The whole more intelligent AI thing is a facade, ive been hearing EA beat the drum since the PS1 days and nothing has changed, AI characters are still dumb and unfortuantley thats down to programming not horse power.

     

    I dont think Microsoft of Sony are doing anything wrong per say, they both appear to be going for the same thing and thats an all in one media centre for the living room, unfortuantely its at the expense of us gamers who will be subjected to slightly better looking last gen games with social hooks. How is this different to Nintendo? They are making games i care about, its a personal thing but i look at COD, i look at Need for speed and i like those games, but i dont care about them, if i miss this years version ill just pick up the next one. When i look at Mario, at Zelda or Starfox, i get excited when a new game comes along, i feel like i MUST play them, that if i dont im genuinely missing out and that is the difference. Its maybe just my opinion but i feel like Nintendo games are made with a little more love and care than most, thats not important to the masses but its important to me and its the reason why im still looking at the other two thinking, "why bother?".


  2. Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Generations were all great games - with Generations being the most refined 3D Sonic experience so far.

     

    Adventure was fine, Generations was great until it switched from the old games to the new ones and the other two i was never able to enjoy. I guess its more a matter of taste but to me the best Sonic games in the last 10 years have been on Nintendo hardware.


  3. I agree that porting games like Mass Effect was pointless but even when you look at the sales of NFS you see a title that was 'enhanced' sell poorly. It bombed, Fifa bombed, Madden bombed.

     

    IGN are running it now

     

    http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/05/17/ea-senior-engineer-the-wii-u-is-crap

     

    Thats a fair point but lets be honest, they put out way inferior versions of those games missing out all the enhancements that they added to the other two skus. The games sold poorly because EA couldnt be bothered putting the time in to make a decent port, its a shame NFS isnt selling better but if you got burned on a crap version of FIFA and Madden you would assume that NFS (from the same publisher) is a sloppy port too, they are doing it to themselves and then blaming Nintendo for it.

     

    Like you said, they own the games and can choose whatever platform they want but at the end of the day, when you put shit in you get shit out, you cant expect to sell thousands of copies when you cant even be bothered putting the work in.


  4. This is unacceptable, had that been a tweet about Microsoft or Sony that guy would have been out on his ass before the tweet hit the internet. I think EA are missing the point, they are making money off of consoles that have been around for longer than thier CEO, the new batch of consoles are set to bring about higher production costs, even bigger teams and they just spent a small fortune getting the license for Star Wars? Its a pretty huge gamble, if they dont sell a crap load of units on the new machines they are going the same was as THQ, the casuals who used to buy FIFA now have iphones, profits are at an all time low, should have gotten some ports accross to the WiiU more like NFS and less like Mass Effect.

     

    Remember when THQ started making losses and quickly kicked out the guy in charge and brought in someone else who promised to turn the company around? Sound similar? The worst of it, i really loved the THQ games and im indifferent to most EA games, how they have gotten this far is an injustice.


  5. Yes and like it or not EA have every right to decide what platforms they want to put there games on.

     

    I dont think its just about sales of the console but look at the console sales and its a grim picture. 30k in the US for April and these sales are just going to get lower. The UK sales are abysmal and if you were a publisher would the Wii U be a viable platform to develop games for right now?

     

    Remember all the stick Ubisoft got for delaying Rayman. You cant blame them.

     

    Actually i dont think this is just going to be Nintendo and if i was Sony or Microsoft right now id be pretty damn worried too. Look at the profits coming from the games released even on the other two machines and they are in a steady decline, even huge titles like Bioshock and Tombraider are barely making any profit. Now that people can pick up games on their iphones for a couple of pounds the whole industry is in trouble, have a look at the sales of the new consoles when they launch, its not going to be as rosey as EA seem to believe.


  6. Sonic colours was good, i also liked Sonic and the Secret rings so im looking forward to this game too. You can argue that the 2d games are the best but the 3d games on Nintendo machines have been pretty good too, unlike the games on the other machines...


  7. Yakuza for Wii U? THAT would actually be a pleasing announcement!

     

    Wait...this really happend? I hope to hell that comes to the West too, those games have been really popular on the PS2 and i never did get around to picking them up. Sonic is a pretty decent win, he seems more comfortable on Nintendo platforms ^_^


  8. Ill miss Need for Speed (the Criterean one at least) but honestly, i dont care, i dont play sports games, im not a fan of Sims or Sim City and Mass Effect is done for the next few years. I think it looks bad for Nintendo when you just look at the headline but when you really think about it, its not so bad. It just means that when Konami release their Soccer game it will have zero competition and will sell bucketloads.


  9. Agree with @dazzybee actually, after posting last night I though about NST, and how instead of VC releases, imagine getting a new Wave Race and/or 1080! Time for Riiiiccckyyyy Winterborn to save the Wii U ;)

     

    I would kill for a new Wave Race, the N64 original is still one of my favourite games (i even own the Japanese only Shindou Wave Race with rumble pack compatibility and a remastered soundtrack) though i wasnt as keen on the Gamecube one. Give me another one and i can die happy ^_^


  10. Saw that this morning, i only hope we get all the dlc, the fighters and the costumes (including the Arrow dlc and the stuff from the ios game), for a fan of comics like myself the costumes are as important as new fighters. I just dont get what the delay is, some people have been speculating that this is down to the summer update Nintendo are launching that will improve the console in some specified way. Who knows....i just want to be able to get my dlc the same time as everyone else.


  11. So some of the tables for this are on sale at the moment. It's been mentioned elsewhere but here's the details:

     

    Avengers Chronicles Pack £3.99

    Original Pack £3.99

    Vengeance & Virtue Pack £3.99

    Fantastic Four £1.19

    Captain America £1.19

    Civil War £1.19

     

    Do people recommend picking one of those packs up for the Wii U or instead opting for Marvel Pinball 3D on the 3DS which is currently on sale for £2.99?

     

    Thanks for that, had my eye on that Ghostrider table for a while, gonna grab it for WiiU ^_^


  12. I did think it was expensive until i played Super Mario World, then it seemed like a bargain. I think it really depends on what they release, they really need to get this worked on as a priority, get the team releasing at least one vc game for each console every week and appeal to the third parties they had on Wii like Sega and NEC to get their own titles updated.


  13. Ive really been enjoying the couple of hours i played of it, it might just have sold me on putting the game back on my buy list. Unforunately between Monster Hunter, beta testing a bunch of pc games and trying to squeeze Injustice in there im running really short on time.


  14. I feel fortunate to have only ever played the DS version properly, dabled on the Gamecube at a friends house but never picked it up. There seems to be enough new content that ill be kept busy for the duration, especially since i know my girlfriend will be playing it too.


  15. I thought the updat was today, its nearly tomorrow and its still not live. Anyone mentioned anything about N64 games? I really want them to give us the 60hz version of Wave Race...

     

    we'll have exactly the same, we need a minimum of 8 releases a week really.

     

    Id settle for one game for each console a week to be honest, that way the catalogue will be a fairly decent size pretty quickly. Id also like to see (but dont think we will) a bulk release of all previously added titles.


  16. Beat the final village quest! :yay:

    allquestse.jpg

     

    finalvictory.jpg

    I "cheated" and used the Kebli Bow with Awakening and Bombardier, but bollocks to that being cheating against Ala! It still took me just over 30 minutes to kill the bastard! :o

    Not looking forward to farming him. :shakehead

     

    Here's how the awards are looking now:

    awardsw.jpg

     

    200 hours played and still not even half way. Game is uncompleteable! :heh:

     

    Make sure you're hunting at night, and even then not all monsters will get you 5* commodities.

    These are the ones you need to take on:

     

    Pink Rathian

    Plesioth

    Uragaan

    Diablos

    Duramboros

    Lagiacrus

    Azure Rathalos

    Brachydios

    Black Diablos

    Steel Uragaan

     

    Capturing will just increase your chances of getting the 5* items, it doesn't guarantee you'll get one. I started out capturing, but after a few times not getting the 5* commodities, I started killing 'em instead, at least that way you can get the carves too. ;)

     

    Thanks man, im determned to create that costume out of the bumblepumpkins, its going to take a long time but it looks amazing. ^_^

×