Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels Comments by Dan Whitehead

@Nikanoru

You basically listed every major title coming out on the Wii in the next year or two. I have a very hard time believing you're interested in even half of those games. Klonoa and Monster Hunter are the only games that have my attention there..

Wii last holidays had a genuinely impressive lineup - Super Mario Galaxy, Zack and Wiki, Metroid Prime 3 (though calling it a holiday title might be stretching a bit), Geometry Wars, etc.

This year... holy crap. Animal Crossing is probably the premier title, but its not really impressive at all, even for an AC fan. The Wii this holiday season has the worst game lineup I have seen from a major platform in a long long time (we are talking N64 long time, my friends) and its especially embarrassing coming from a 2-year old market leader.

Die by the Sword was awesome!

@Nikanoru

It's not that there's nothing worth buying on that list, but you have to admit the Wii is drowning in a sea of the worst games in gaming history. With the sheer amount of tripe on the Wii I'm no longer willing to buy a game on the offchance it might be good.

At least on other platforms you can download demos for most games to see if it's worth buying or not. With so much rubbish on the Wii it takes too much time and effort to actually find the reasonable stuff.

If you own another console the problem is compounded by the veritable feast of quality titles available. Thus, funds are diverted to PS360 games and right now there is more quality gaming available than ever before on the HD platforms.

I'm afraid that unless Motion+ arrives very soon and brings with it a new wave of good games that arent just the same pathetic wagglefests then my Wii is going.

Nikonaru was complaining about 'fantards' and then he proceeds to post a list of tons of Wii games.

Hmmm.

@wintersnowblind: Why do you have a hard time believing that? There's plenty of game genres I'm not interested in, I mentioned them. I cut out all the random minigame collections, too. You want me to justify every entry on the list? I could! And I very much doubt you could justify your disinterest in each of them, in fact, I hardly believe you even know anything about half of them, which seems to be a (perhaps very intentional!) problem problem with many Wii antagonists. They don't even know many of these games exist, and keep it that way so they'll have a reason to say "there's nothing coming out on the Wii!" on the next vaguely-Nintendo-related article.

-I- have a hard time believing Klonoa and Madworld are the only things -you- would be interested in. Just to name one example among many: if you're interested in Klonoa with its 2D gameplay, then surely Murasama might peak your interest? You know, Odin Sphere developers?

Of course, I may be talking to a wall here. Some people are so convinced of something they can't be told otherwise, despite facts staring them in the face (welcome to the internet!).



@farticusmaximus: I'm sorry but now you're just grasping at straws. We have the internet these days, reviews and stuff? If you're going to dismiss the Wii and sell it on the basis that you don't want to read any reviews and just want to blindly grab a game and hope it'll be good, despite there being plenty of good stuff if you open your eyes, then I frankly can't be bothered to argue any further.

Nikonaru was complaining about 'fantards' and then he proceeds to post a list of tons of Wii games.


I said why I made that post. What do you suggest? Should I just go "there SO are good games"?

@ farticusmaximus

Yeah, but look at the heap of shitware that was piled onto the PS2 and that still sold (and is still selling). The Wii has a tonne of crap, but there's enough gold to keep it going. Popular consoles will always attract any old shit that might sell. It's been the way since before the Atari 2600.

But what does it matter if everyone sells theirs anyway? Nintendo won’t be giving out refunds for them, and the new owners will probably buy a couple of new games for it themselves, so they won’t be ‘getting the message’. I totally see your point that some people are sick of the Wii but in the face of their sales it's kind of irrelevant.

Is there a household without a wii now anyway? Even we have one and I friggin hate the plastic it's built with!

I have to say (from that list) I am quite interested in Pikmin 3 And Sin and Punishment 2.......... Shouldnt Pilotwings be in there????

Sounds like it makes Masters Of Teras Kasai look like VF5.

@ Super_Zee

Masters of Teras Kasai.... now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time (said in best Alec Guinness voice)

Are they real screenshots?

I mean, I know they are, but I just can't believe it.

They're real screenshots?

On a current-gen console..?

ahahahh 2/10 wii just sucks hahahah

The Wii is about as much fun as anal sex with a stallion; Nintendo are crippling the gaming industry with their capitalist view that the “More shit shovelled towards their console” equates to more loot in their ever increasing bank account. I sold my Wii to 2 cute sexy Asian girls; I’d have probably felt less guilty if I had of raped them.

God I'm sick of people claiming the wii sucks whenever there is a bad review..... seriously its getting old.
Its a bad GAME! The review is not about the wii being shite or not. Such comments are pointless.
Pointless I tells ya!?

/shuffles off

how deliciously predictable

@seanraaron, I'm taking the piss, there's over 70 comments on a review of a very poor Wii game, yet Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip which scored a reasonable 7/10 only managed 23 comments. It’s not like Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels was the most antisipated Wii game for the holiday period; yet it is the same old story with the same old posters and their predictable comments.

I come from the “If you can’t beat them join them” school of thought; I was actually hoping for some tit to quote me and agree with my comments.

that kind of ignores the fact that "Star Wars" is a much bigger brand than Shaun White, and also that since the Wii Remote was first announced, the first thing everyone said was "I hope there's a swordfighting game" and then that moved on to "a lightsabre game would be fucking cool".

as it turns out, the Wii is clearly not very good at swordfighting, at least in its pre-motionplus state. In fact you could say it's something of a disaster, if Eurogamer scores for these kinds of game are used as evidence.

boring!!!!