Skate It Comments by John Walker

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I'm sure I'm not the only cynical git who suspects this whole "earthquake, everybody dead/gone" business was a justification for not having to bother with creating a living, breathing city full of NPC's...

Good to see EA making quality software. They really have changed.

So glad i haven't bought a Wii yet, the games on it underwhelm me.

Yes Mario Galaxy & Mario Kart are good but 2 good games dose not make the Wii a worthwhile purchase to me.

The Wii will go down in history as the console with the most shitty games (and the best sales).

LOL at the use of the phrase "crap fountain"

expected this score really

strange that the best selling console this generation is not the cheapest, does not have the best visuals and does not have more then 10 good games.

smh

that's strange, I have 21 excellent Wii games. It is pretty obvious that among the good ones there'd be a boat full of shitty games, didn't it happen with the PS2 as well? Most successful console=everyone wants to make quid over it

having said that, not surprising. i tried it at a friend's shouse and it was the most boring thing since my ex girlfriend

that's strange, I have 21 excellent Wii games.


HE SAYS THERE ARE MORE THAN 2 GOOD WII GAMES!!

LYNCH HIM FOR DARING TO STAND IN THE WAY OF OUR RIGHTEOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST NINTYENDO!!!!!

that's strange, I have 21 excellent Wii games.

is that including gamecube titles?

Oh dear, excellent point in case you shouldn't build a game around a peripheral.

So is a dualshock not a peripheral then?

Shame, I was looking forward to this after playing Shaun White, which had great balance board controls imho.

Finally got your free copy then EG?

"I ended up feeling furious hate toward an average game. I'd love to give it 2/10 just to kick it in the nuts."

I have to admire your restraint; I would have given it the two I imagine. Design decisions like this turn me into a raving lunatic, heading off on lengthy profane monologues as to how certain decisions got past teams of designers, developers, and play testers with nary a soul noticing, "Um... this isn't fun?" How the hell do these massive teams fail to notice when their game has become utterly unplayable? I'd give examples but no need really: it's the rule rather than the exception.

The problem with the Wii is that you just don't know what's going to be good until it comes out and gets reviewed.

You can look at games that sound great on paper when they talk about the controls, but when they come out they (more often than not) turn out to be average-to-poor.

I find it to be a system that just restricts my options too much due to the huge variations in quality. Not one of the games that I've looked forward to it has turned out to be well received by the professional media, and I am loathe to buy on face value again having believe the bullshit that some Wii fanboys claim about media bias.

I only have four good Wii games. One of those is a PS2 port.

To be fair, there is about 10 really great Wii games (not including DLC)

Myself, I only own Galaxy thou.

Anusi: care to share your list of 21 excellent Wii-games? I'm not trying to be rude or anything, just genuine interested as my Wii has been gathering dust for way to long now. I'm pretty sure I've missed a few good games so I would love to get some tips.

"The problem with the Wii is that you just don't know what's going to be good until it comes out and gets reviewed."

Isn't that true for all consoles? Wii's disadvantage is less upfront video game media hype. But then again, Wii's target audience doesn't read video game media, so it's not that big of a problem. If you're a core gamer though and still interested in Wii, it is.

Totally agree Les and that's why Nintendo are doing so well with sales of titles of really questionable quality. Oh well.

Okami is best played on wii. All anti-wii arguments die forever.

The bit about fallling made me laugh lots.

out loud, an all!

The problem with the Wii is that you just don't know what's going to be good until it comes out and gets reviewed.


Yeah, because we all know how it was gonna be with Lair and Haze (just to name two off the top of my head) the moment they were announced, right?

Ugh.

So - no guns then?

"So - no guns then?"

Well that's one advantage over Mirrors Edge...

Zelda; Mario Galaxy; No More Heroes; Mario Kart; Zack & Wiki; Boom Blox; Super Smash Bros; Trauma Centre; Wii Fit; Wii Sports; Pro Evo.... That's 11 without really thinking about it. And I've certainly enjoyed plenty of others.

I don't understand people. They often sadden me.

"Well that's one advantage over Mirrors Edge... "

Oh god yeah.. that was a game TOTALLY SPOILED by the inclusion of "bad guys".

"Zelda; Mario Galaxy; No More Heroes; Mario Kart; Zack & Wiki; Boom Blox; Super Smash Bros; Trauma Centre; Wii Fit; Wii Sports; Pro Evo.... That's 11 without really thinking about it. And I've certainly enjoyed plenty of others.

I don't understand people. They often sadden me. "


See the thing is.. not a SINGLE ONE of them is a FPS.. so for 99% of the posters on this forum. ... that's them lost... And you can give up trying to tell them a game which isnt grey and brown and has primary colours isnt just "for kidz" too.

.. But yet again a wii thread for shit game gets all this crap... Its not as if the 360 doesnt have shit games is it?

Lair had questionable controls. Does that mean the PS3 is crap?

Nikanoru, that's a terrible strawman, and you know it. You should be ashamed to use that as a retort.

wii - the future of gaming

I thought he was guna give it way lower than 5.

Nikanoru, that's a terrible strawman, and you know it. You should be ashamed to use that as a retort.


Oh really? Off the top of my head, I gave two examples of non-Wii games that you wouldn't do well to just blindly grab from the shelf, and you know as well as I do that one could come up with a huge list if one put some effort into it (which I'm not going to). If high profile, highly advertised games like that can't be trusted to be good, what can? I don't see how this is a strawman.

Besides, and I'm sorry to say, but your reason for hating the Wii is pretty damn silly. You have to read reviews? How terrible! What are we even doing on this very website? I've heard it before, and that's just a huge, huge stretch that just makes you come off as desperate to find anything at all wrong with the console. You're the one who should be ashamed.

Nikanoru +1

CoD WoW is supposed to be a good fps on the wii...

I cant find a bad review for this elsewhere?

For example ign gives it 8.5 out of 10?
http://wii.ign.com/articles/932/932004p1...

I *love* skate on the 360... Can anyone who's *PLAYED* this confirm/deny if this game is crap (or whether the reviewer just doesnt like the wii)?

PLEASE NOTE: I said "played" (no fanboys on either side who havent played it please)

+1 Hikanoru

A race against invisible opponents?

'Round these parts we call that a time trial, pard.
(and nowadays, even those usually have a ghost of the current best time).

Glad I've not bought a Wii.

A sad state of affairs.

I *love* skate on the 360... Can anyone who's *PLAYED* this confirm/deny if this game is crap (or whether the reviewer just doesnt like the wii)?

I like the way poorly executed controls mean "It took a gamepad and was really smart, mapping everything to the analogue sticks, and connecting you with the board. Given the Wii, and the variety of approaches available, there should be so much room for imaginative application. Whether the Wii just isn't capable, or whether EA didn't refine enough, it's hard to say, but Skate It is a frustration of decent ideas and controls that aren't precise enough."

Did we see that kind of reasoning with games try to use the Sixaxis and fail? No. In that case the game just has shit controls.

There are many games have decent motion controls. How did that happen if "the Wii just isn't capable"? Theoretically it'd be impossible.

It's getting tiresome, EG.

/shakes fist at monitor

That'll learn 'em.

Well with the (tired) reference to "blocky graphics" in the review.. alarm bells started ringing..

So now im confused as to whether it is truely bad or whether the reviewer was a fanboy (especially with the ign - and others - reviews)

smelly - your constant accusations in every review I write (and presumably everyone else's) are quite tiresome.

I do not "hate the Wii". I'm not entirely sure how someone can hate a device.

I make it a policy to like good games, and dislike bad ones. Skate It is a flawed, mediocre game that's incredibly irritating.

(And there are other reviews out there that voice the same opinions as my own).

Please stop calling me a "fanboy". I'm not entirely sure what I'd be a fan of, in this instance. Everything else but Skate It on the Wii? I don't exactly harp on about the poor graphics, do I? And the Wii is capable of much better graphics than those on display in this game.

Dan234 - I was asking the question! Not stating that the Wii is incapable as a machine. Goodness me, people do get awfully attached to their lumps of plastic.

The Wiimote has limitations - ones that will be addressed by the super-looking new attachment soon enough. I have no way of knowing, as a gamer and not a technician, whether the poor response to interaction in Skate It is because of the limitations of the Wiimote and complexity of the motion that needs to be detected in this game, or whether EA failed to get their coding right. Whichever it is, as the review states, the controls are poor.

What makes the desperation to find a conspiracy all the more deranged is that I finish the review by saying that a great skateboarding game is inevitable on the Wii! Not quite the words of someone whose agenda is to slate the machine.

I don't love or hate the Wii any more than I love or hate a lamppost. It's an object on which games are played. People are very odd.

@botherer: YET AGAIN I wasnt accusing you of anything..

I was merely asking readers for a second opinion! There seems to be BIG differences between other sites and here and i wanted to know from OTHER readers whether THEY found it good or not to part with my hard earned cash.

Games cost money.. it's nice to get informed opinions before buying one.. dont you think?

As I said.. review couldve been bad because the game was bad, or it could've been bad for other sinister reasons.. Same on other sites saying good things about it.. maybe they gave it a good review and it truely isnt..

See? Sheesh.. Now maybe as a reviewer who as a job criticises other peoples hard work.. maybe you should be prepared to take some criticism too (not that i actually did criticise your work.. just asked a smegging question!)

botherer: I know, I wasn't having a go at you, I was having a go at EG.