Cooking Mama: Cook Off Comments by Tom Bramwell
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Hmmm...
But what about the surgeon simulator you mentioned? Does it have a release date already? Also, I remember seeing a video once showcasing the DS and how it could read kanji signs and such...(video was filled with japanese people saying 'Hi!' all the time) In that same video it showed a 'game' which helped you cook, with you inputting what ingredients you happen to have and it then presenting you various recipes and functioning as an egg timer while you cook. Does anyone know whatever happened to that software? It didn't become cooking mama or did it?... |
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JediMasterMalik
09/05/07 @ 13:25
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Surprisingly, leeching DS IP's onto the Wii doesn't work out so well.
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oh well at least strikers is out in a couple of weeks, also would like to note that after reading the tetris review for the 360 i am now going to sell the console, and also my ps3 was sold immediately after reading the Genji 2 review. /sarcasm.
seriously, the amount of people who must come into comments just to talk shit about a certain system can really make reading the comments a chore. |
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Re: lack of Wii games -
Yes, arguably only Excite Truck has been any good on the Wii since the launch line-up (and yes, it is intensely annoying that Super Paper Mario still has no release date), but I have more anticipated Wii titles on my wish list than for any other new-gen console and even with Zelda and Wii Sports alone, it's much more of an inviting prospect than a PS3 is right now. If you bought a Wii, don't worry about it, play some of the bloody fantastic PS2 stuff that's out instead (no excuse for not owning a PS2 these days, is there?), indulge the Virtual Console a bit, and just have patience... |
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@Dizzy:
Damn... I liked the idea of an interactive cookbook... Though I can cook a lot of different meals I'm getting used to them... /starts thinking about launching an interactive cookbook on the DS...(Cook Power: Delicious Supper!) I seem to remember there was a cookbook game that only got realeased in japan? - in fact wasn't there a peripheral that fixed the DS to the fridge with magnets while you cooked? :) |
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HiddenAway
09/05/07 @ 14:01
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I'm actually quite surprised. I thought this would work out well for the Wii :S
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What's most depressing here is that a game which, according to the reviewer, is dull after 30 mins and suffers from badly broken controls is still worth 5/10. So this is an *average* Wii game then? Not an actively bad one? Hardly a glowing recommendation for the console as a whole...
Well, hopefully the fact that the game is a Wii game is irrelevant to the score, right? To put it another way: a 5/10 is meant to be universal, and hence mean "average" regardless of the format the game is on? Furthermore, I agree that it seems weird to give such a bad game (going by the reviewer's words) such a nice score. To me, it read like a 2 or something. Then again, Eurogamer has made it something of a habit lately to deliver 5/10s to games they really slate. |
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@oerhört
Yeah, my main point really was that EG's scores are really all over the place and rarely match up with the text of the review. I thought maybe if I pointed out that by giving a crap Wii game 5/10 they were effectively slating the Wii they might spot the problem... ;) As for whether EG grades games in a universal sense or per-platform, I think they're just inconsistent there as well. God of War II was 9/10 rather than 10/10 because they "can't rate games in a vacuum" - presumably meaning that graphically it looks a bit dated compared to next-gen offerings - but they clearly don't apply this logic to DS or Wii games, since otherwise they'd all be suffering lost marks because of their respective platform's lack of graphical power.
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Stop making crap imaginative games.
It's not imaginative, I've even found a link to the game (whether it is crap is another matter though); http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-4... http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/31/ds-coo... So nurr! ;)
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manic_mouse
09/05/07 @ 14:28
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"Thats what goes for every single system that gets bought at launch Slurpy J, it simply comes with being an early adopter."
The Wii has been out 6/7 months. I think most consoles have a good game that isn't a port from the previous console by then. If the 360 only had Halo 2 ("special" 360 edition) for the majority of it's first year people would have MURDERED Microsoft. |
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Good game? sorry but are you just choosing to ignore the fact that many people like games such as excite truck and SSX and Zelda is a great game. Wii Sports and WarioWare still go down a storm when playing with friends.
Some people talk as if there is nothing on the system whatsoever that anybody could possibly enjoy, in which case they need to take your head out of the sand and realize not everybody thinks the same. |
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My kids love this and I have to admit I've found it quite fun myself ...
Is it a gigantic in depth game which will keep you riveted for hours on end, no way - is it a game which has had my wife, her sister AND her mum playing and giggling away .... heck yeah. As such I think its a good game, just most blokes aren't its desired target audience (unless you're drunk in which case nearly every Wii game becomes great fun ;-) ). |
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Max_Powers
09/05/07 @ 14:57
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You're right Morriss. It's strange. Having played Zelda on the Cube, I have yet to be enticed to buy a Wii.
I like the machine, but there just nothing good to play on it. Same goes for the PS3. I can afford to wait though. I bought a PSP on release and boy, what a mistake that was. How come that Wii is sold out still?! |
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agreed. What ever happened to Nintys quality control?
The only good game is Zelda and i'm enjoying that immensely on the cube. Shame that Prime 3 isnt a cube release as well. Probably gonna buy a Wii for Metroid and then flog it again. Unless something incredible comes along after that. Which, looking at the current roster, is highly unlikely |
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I just don't get this. I could, for not much more effort, do actual cooking and my reward would be actual cake. This is all of the effort and none of the reward. Surely the point of a game is to do something you can't do in real life, not simulating something you can do minus all the benefits of the real-life task.
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Good game? sorry but are you just choosing to ignore the fact that many people like games such as excite truck and SSX and Zelda is a great game. Wii Sports and WarioWare still go down a storm when playing with friends.
Some people talk as if there is nothing on the system whatsoever that anybody could possibly enjoy, in which case they need to take your head out of the sand and realize not everybody thinks the same. Sounds like you should do just that. A bunch of reasonably enjoyable, but ultimately mediocre arcade/sports games (Zelda being the only exception) is not my idea of what a console should offer after 6 or 7 months. |
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manic_mouse
09/05/07 @ 16:08
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"Sounds like you should do just that. A bunch of reasonably enjoyable, but ultimately mediocre arcade/sports games (Zelda being the only exception) is not my idea of what a console should offer after 6 or 7 months"
My fear was that with the Wii Nintendo were abandoning "gamers" to cater for the casuals. So far those fears seem to have been realised. |
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Oh no, not another shit Wii game, damn teh console is DOOOMMMMEEDDD! Right off to CEX 2morow to sell my Wii, absolutely no games for it whatsoever or in the future, shit console, shit games, shit controller, no shiny HD graphics, means I can't wank over shiny closeted soldiers with their big trillion polygon guns.
Oh hang on why have I come onto a thread about a console I don't own and slated a game I've never played, oh that's right I have inadequacies I'm trying to conceal. |
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@knocker: I read the score at the end of a review for snakes on a plane (without actually reading the words), then went straight to the forums to tell people i'm selling my dvd player (even though i dont own one), and to tell everyone to buy betamax players instead (as I own one of them - despite it being the losing format).
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WTF is wrong with passing comment that this console is failing to deliver quality software?!
Surely internet forums such as this are exactly where this sort of dialogue SHOULD BE TAKING PLACE, and with any luck the devs churning out this poop will take notice and get their acts together!! And Nintendo might get wind of the fact that their console is not quite the revolution it promised to be. Jesus, Duckhunt was more fun than Cocking Mama.. |
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"Surely internet forums such as this are exactly where this sort of dialogue SHOULD BE TAKING PLACE"
Like anyone is going to take any notice from comments from a load of 14 year old 360 fanboys on a forum thread? Bad games happen, I for one applaud this for trying to do something different and not yet another racer/fps game. Do you think that games companies shouldnt try to make different games? So what if said game isnt very good? It's not effecting me any, i just wont buy it. It's simple. Im not offended by it in someway not being good. Just like im sure you weren't offended by halo 2 being wank. Look on this site at the tetris review, it got 4/10!! OH KNOES!! Microsoft really need to pull their finger out and start listening to fanboys on forums dont they?
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Der_tolle_Emil
09/05/07 @ 17:00
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WTF is wrong with passing comment that this console is failing to deliver quality software?!
Nothing wrong with that - IF you have played the game. I very much respect EG's opinions on games (why else would I be here?) but nothing is set in stone. Just because EG rates it 5/10 does not mean that the game is shit and the console is doomed for all eternity. Other sites have been rating this game a lot higher, 1up for example gave it a 7.5/10 - and they aren't exactly Wii fanboys. So nothing wrong with posting OWN opinions about a game but it's quite foolish to post 'I say it's shit because someone told me'. |
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wopr-lower-case
09/05/07 @ 17:24
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I hope smelly enjoys being told to fuck off because it's gonna happen...
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DeathLord666
09/05/07 @ 17:58
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We all know the Wii sucks balls when compared to 360/ps3 for the main gaming genres, but isn't the Wii supposed to be good for these wacky alternative games? but it seems that it sucks at doing them as well. I think Nintendo made a big mistake by just repackaging a GC with a fancy controller, that is totally impractical for proper gaming.
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