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IGN Madworld review - 9.0
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Captain Chaos
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badcrumble said:
oh shit, I just gave away that big noisy white hunk of junk....
Captain Chaos
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ZealousD said:
what do you mean?
Must RENT...I'm sorry guys but at 70 bucks a game up here in Canada,I can't justify a 6 hour game purchase,however good it might be,especially with no online and a ridiculously challenging hard mode as they say(read frustrating) for me.
I really hope it sells well though because we need games like this on the Wii.
I really hope it sells well though because we need games like this on the Wii.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
herod said:
So true. If people really want reviews on the pure technical capabilities of games relative to their presentation hardware it needs to be a separate category.
Wind Waker might be technically inferior to Crysis but it doesn't stop it looking a cluster fuck-ton better.
ZeroGravity
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Where the hell in Canada are you paying $70 for a Wii game? The most I've paid for recently is $55.Ricker said:
TheGrayGhost
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ZealousD said:
I don't think so, either, but they'll eventually have to.
I have this game preordered, but I don't know if I will buy it. I'm a Wii-only gamer precisely because I reject the kinds of games typically found on the other consoles, games like Madworld. Although I think this game will do well enough for itself, I also think many other Wii console owners will pass this by.
Captain Chaos said:
I mean if you only have a Wii and you want lots of "hardcore" games, you can easily go out and buy a PS3 or 360 instead of complaining. If that's out of your price range then you couldn't exactly afford more third-party support anyway.
Likewise, if you're a PS3 or 360 person who wants to play the first-party Nintendo efforts and stuff like NMH and MadWorld you can easily go out and buy a Wii.
No need to suck on your thumb and lament your lack of support.
Night_Trekker
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herod said:
I agree with that. It wouldn't stop the bitching about scores, but it would be more accurate.
AndresON777
shooting blanks
No 480p is inexcusable...is this a sega game?
Captain Chaos
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ZealousD said:
Yep, I agree.
Big Nintendo fan here, but still, what have I been playing for the last couple of weeks, MGS4, thats what, and I have loved every minute.
It's tough if you've only got one console and you post on GAF because you're naturally going to be bias to your own machine - thats not condusive to good debate. As a daily reader and occasional poster on GAF, its really tiresome to go to nearly every forum of interest to me and just have to read a deluge of juvenile console wars.
People guess what? Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony are all great.
TheGrayGhost said:
Well, considering Wii only gamers like you are passing up unique games like this, I don't see why publishers would ever bother. I mean, if Carnival Games and Jillean Michael's Fitness Ultimatum make good money on the console, why bother with high budget games like this?
If you really want games like this to get funded, you have to support them. Despite what you may wish, publishers don't have to do anything.
AceBandage
Banned
Great score for a great game.
Also, I can't believe people aren't buying it because of length for normal mode, yet I'm sure the same people would buy say MGS3 (a game that can be beat in 6 hours), or Bioshock (Again, a 6 hour game).
Eh, whatever.
Also, I can't believe people aren't buying it because of length for normal mode, yet I'm sure the same people would buy say MGS3 (a game that can be beat in 6 hours), or Bioshock (Again, a 6 hour game).
Eh, whatever.
badcrumble
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MGS3 and Bioshock are much greater in color-hours, and Bioshock is far greater in pixel-hours as well.AceBandage said:
neojubei said:
2 different reviewers as well.
I really really hate it when people compare two reviews from a site written by two different people. IGN isn't one guy! If they were internally consistent with scores and if comparing those scores meant half a shit, it would completely destroy the purpose of having different reviewers.
I keep hearing that we need more games like this on the Wii, but it doesn't seem to me as though the Wii is lacking support in the "Mature" games market. Just off the top of my head, I can think of both of the RE Wii games, The House of the Dead Overkill, No More Heroes, Manhunt 2, and the bikini zombie slayer game. I'm starting to get tired of you "hardcore" gamers screaming for more ultra-violent and gore-laden games on the Wii.Ricker said:
Granted, I am in a MadWorld review thread, so feel free to flay me for the previous statement.
Black-Wind
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Oh IGN . . . that begging shit is one reason I see their Wii reviews as useless gab.
Can't really trust their stuff cause they are willing to underscore something simply as a protext (WiiMusic) which means they can very well over score because they want the game to do well. I don't care about how its sells are being closely looked at by so-and-so Pubs or some shit like that. What am I, as a reader/ viewer, expected to do about that? Buy the game ever if Im not interested in it?
The only reason I would like for that to be true is because I would like to see just how fast someone would rip off MadWorld if thats the case . . . cause it would be funny to see how they take to it.:lol
But yes, I am interested in this game and Im not looking at shit about it cause I know Im going to be playing it by Friday.
Can't really trust their stuff cause they are willing to underscore something simply as a protext (WiiMusic) which means they can very well over score because they want the game to do well. I don't care about how its sells are being closely looked at by so-and-so Pubs or some shit like that. What am I, as a reader/ viewer, expected to do about that? Buy the game ever if Im not interested in it?
The only reason I would like for that to be true is because I would like to see just how fast someone would rip off MadWorld if thats the case . . . cause it would be funny to see how they take to it.:lol
But yes, I am interested in this game and Im not looking at shit about it cause I know Im going to be playing it by Friday.
JasoNsider
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Haunted said:Why do IGN reviews get their own threads?
Good score btw.
Seriously. Come on guys.
This review reminds me of Matt's DK64 review. It was a cause, not a critique.
I'm also torn between my support for Platnium and my disgust for IGN (mostly Matt). My only real interest in this game is due to who made it, but I can't let Matt assume any credit for the game's success. (Not that it'll have much... its a new IP in a dead genre). I now feel obligated to buy Sonic and the Black Night before I can buy this.
I'm also torn between my support for Platnium and my disgust for IGN (mostly Matt). My only real interest in this game is due to who made it, but I can't let Matt assume any credit for the game's success. (Not that it'll have much... its a new IP in a dead genre). I now feel obligated to buy Sonic and the Black Night before I can buy this.
JJConrad said:This review reminds me of Matt's DK64 review. It was a cause, not a critique.
I'm also torn between my support for Platnium and my disgust for IGN (mostly Matt). My only real interest in this game is due to who made it, but I can't let Matt assume any credit for the game's success. (Not that it'll have much... its a new IP in a dead genre). I now feel obligated to buy Sonic and the Black Night before I can buy this.
I won't tell him you bought it.
this is the whole fucking problem, though.
It's really simple, people:
DO YOU LIKE GAME?
IF YES, BUY
IF NO, DON'T BUY
AceBandage
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JasoNsider said:
Well, you're certainly free to post reviews for other sites in their own threads.
It just so happens that IGN is pretty much the biggest internet gaming site, which is why they get more attention.
tzp2gameknight
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I'm excited about the game. Got in on the $40 Amazon Preorder so I'll probably have it around Thursday.
Great score, btw.
Great score, btw.
BrodiemanTTR
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Xater said:
Die.
Captain Chaos
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Mamesj said:
IGN like or not is a huge videogaming website, read by millions of people every day and owned by Rupert Murdoch. You think some piss ant reviewer wasnt told what to score?
There's millions of dollars at stake.
poppabk
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That's ridiculous.ZealousD said:
The average 360 owner owns ~8 games for the system at lets be generous and say $60 a piece =$480. The cheapest 360 = $200. So if you can't afford to outlay 40% of what the average 360 owner has spent in total on software on extra hardware you are somehow unable to afford more third party support. For the PS3 you are talking giving up nearly the equivalent of the entire catalog of an average 360 owner just to purchase the extra hardware. Personally this seems like a shitty idea, and it also sucks majorly for the software industry if all that money is sucked out of the software side and spent on hardware instead.
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The review makes the game sounds great. Will buy (of course).
Ninja Kn1ght
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Excellent score, I really can't wait for this. Wii GOTY probably.
Chris Remo
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Uh, I would be incredibly, hugely surprised.Zophar said:
Enormously, immensely surprised.
There is no way that is the case.
DeaconKnowledge
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Sounds good; a 5 hour game is like a 30 hour game for me because I don't race through shit like everyone on here does.
Stumpokapow
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ZeroGravity said:
$55 + tax = $62.15
$59 + tax = $66.67
So I'm assuming he's going off $59+tax.
Black-Wind said:
IGN wasn't the lowest score or the lowest major publication score on Wii Music and I'm not sure what's so hard to believe about the idea that they actually deeply disliked the game.
It more than likely means the game runs at 60 fps and uses field rendering. Basically it runs at at 720x240 resolution, and then interlaces the fields to recreate a full resolution image. Many early PS2 titles did this.dallow_bg said:
480p would require to use full resolution framebuffers, and so use twice more VRAM.