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It sounds like you choose the wrong 2 to support and didnt pick up the better 2. I played manhunt on the PS2 and it was shit. RE was ok but it was like anyother onrails light shooter. madworld was awesome but no real replay value altho i do like playing mangolf with my brother.

the conduit has online play so im sure i will spend hours and hours online even after iv beat the game a few times. thats what made it a day one purchase for me

Ehh, i know you're just trolling, but there is an outside possibility that the game will fizzle at launch and never find it's legs, but that will happen because of the game's choice of being Online Multiplayer only, excluding local and LAN

Word of mouth and local multiplayer have saved many a Wii game from sales hell, and gone on to make them unprecedented successes. The Conduit won't have that luxury

Here's my issue with the conduit. Nothing in the game seems original, and it's biggest claim to fame is that it is the "best looking game on the wii." From what I've seen, it does look decent graphically (bad screenshot above)...for the wii. This is not Crysis. You can't market a game based on graphics, unless they're extraordinary to the whole video gaming front as opposed to just one console. Crysis marketed itself on its graphics, not gameplay (which was cool, but nothing spectacular, and incredibly frustrating at parts) but still received recognition because Crysis is, two years later, still the most gorgeous game I've ever played, across all consoles. Gears of War looks graphically better than the Conduit. Far Cry 2 looks better than the Conduit. Even Halo 3 looks better than the conduit. The fact that it's decent to good graphics are being hyped to the point where it is the next crysis simply because it is on the Wii is absolutely absurd.

Most FPS games aren't original, in particular the sequels, like WaW2.

Yet, people still buy and play them, just like people buy Madden year in and year out. So, get a new, original complaint.

Sorry I wasn't implying that I wanted it to fail. I think cknblade summed it up pretty nicely.

When have games with originality out the wazoo ever sold well?


Oh right, never.

damn ... Mr.Khan just convinced me not to get the conduit. For some reason I thought it had local multiplayer. My kids like playing games together so thats a no go for sure. Damn shame.

@Mop

Little Big Planet sold pretty well.

"i havent touched my wii in so long"

You know.. I won't even go there..

So, wait, you're going to hold off buying a Wii game that looks potentially interesting because you haven't bought/played any Wii games in a while? How does that make any sense? Are you doing it so you can artificially maintain your "downtime" to show off on Nintendo-hater circle jerks?

Sounds kinda like those kids who sell their Wii each time they finished a game, and re-buy it when there's a new game they want to play, just so they can tell people on the internet how they sold their Wii.

Same with me. That FNR4 demo was just plain awful. How that game (or the demo) turned out so bad is beyond me. I think the formula is just getting old and they need to do a reboot from scratch under a different branding. The FNR# series just doesn't do it for me anymore. I would rather play UFC Undisputed or Punch Out!!.

It's kind of the same thing with the Madden franchise for me. It's gotten so stale and old I'm not interested in it at all anymore. Backbreaker is the type of football game Madden should be ... if you haven't heard of it then check this trailer from E3:
http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/958004/backbreaker/videos/backbreaker_trl_football_60909.html;jsessionid=23s2ts5i4ae46

It just proves to me some companies are still being original in stale genres even without a liscenced product. Pretty much all of the EA Sports franchises other than hockey & golf need a total reboot.

I think you need to rethink your game purchases.

You are going to buy 3 different Overlord games?

Why would you be pumped about a little league baseball game?

crazy ...

lol, Johnny, exactly my thoughts xD

"and the company's goal was to achieve next-gen graphic effects without having the benefit of 360 or ps3 hardware."

looks like they failed then...

SO true.

Aaaaah damn The Conduit comes out tomorrow.


Hopefully I'll get enough cash by then to pick it up.

monster hunter freedom 2 was excellent, one of my favorite games on PSP. i've played the jap version of unite with the english patch, and it's definitely worth it. it gets really hard later on, and a lot of times, you'll be doing the same mission over and over and over again. but there are rarely if ever cheap deaths in the game. if you ever die, it's almost always your fault. the monsters themselves all act differently and if you don't learn their habits, you won't win against them. but outside of the actual hunting, there's a surprising amount of stuff to do. it's probably one of the longest lasting games on PSP.

You should get the conduit. It looks better than the others IMO.

To each his own. But, I'm very active in martial arts and we spar all the time and I thought Fight Night Round 4 lacked necessary movement. It felt robotic IMO. The reason I like the UFC Undisputed game is because of the complexities of the control mechanisms. You really have to be good at all aspects in that game to compete at a high level. There are certainly some things that should be fixed in the iteration or with a patch but all things considered I thought the game came out marvelous.

FNR4 just felt like rock em sock em robots in comparison. I would love it if the UFC Undisputed engine were used to make a boxing game ... that would be epic. I'm not one of those MMA guys that hates boxing as I grew up on boxing. I love both sports with a passion of something fierce and watch all of the fights from the different organizations and sanctioning bodies. But, IMO as a game FNR4 felt archaic compared to UFC Undisputed. Just one mans opinion.

As for the other comment about animations strung together ... Thats all every game is. A bunch of animation strung together with invisible hit boxes and collision detection. I'm not really shitting on the entire package of FNR4 but IMo the demo was extremely underwhelming. It could have been a bad demo but I have the feeling it's more to do with the game itself.