Rock of the Dead for Wii undead, but 'on the back burner'

@gatotsu911

yeah, but you know what? it's ok. IMO and IMO alone its ok. in the words of Dean Winchester of the TV show supernatural " I'm just tired man. I'm done, i really am." and i really am tired of it. tired of hoping for developers to get their act together and give us Wii owners AT THE VERY LEAST 1 good game month. it doesn't even have to be a AAA game the size of RDR! anyway I'm just sick of that. sick of sending them letters as to way they keep giving us crappy games. I'm just done. as much as i would like to see the Wii get some more love i...........i just can't. if a game for the Wii is released and i catch wind of it and if it looks good then i'll pick it up, sure. but I'm not going to sit here and wonder when the time will come when we will get better games. you know its just really funny. i find it hilarious that they use the term "Multi-platform" yet we have yet to see the "Multi-platform" games that are being released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 have a release on the Wii. *sigh* whatever. sorry for the rant. just had to get that off of my chest.

@adv2k169 Hello! Yeah, music games traditionally sell very well on the Wii...stop reminding me! :)

As far as the DLC vs. retail disc...this game is actually quite a big chunk of game. It takes our testers, who have been playing this thing for, what, 8 months now, over 6 hours to play through the game. New players on higher difficulty levels should take longer. Plus there's a ton of replayability...and personally, same-console multiplayer means I'd be playing it over again quite often.

And frankly, it's actually too huge for a DLC game. We're talking GIGs of fun! And I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned before, but this is going to come out at a $39.99 price.

Anyway, don't be afraid of giving it a chance!

@koehler83 Hey man! There are quite a few reasons why the notes are horizontal. The biggest reason is for gameplay purposes. During some missions, we have a dozen or so enemies on-screen at any time. The horizontal bar helps fit all these guys in there. There are other, more boring reasons (hello video game patents that small indie studios need to avoid!), but the reality is these horizontal measures worked best for the game.

Besides, that's how sheet music is read. Also, that's how PaRappa did it. And you can't argue with the dog.

@roland13x Fair enough.

@roland13x
Thanks for taking the time to get on here and try to clear up some of the confusion regarding this. We really do appreciate it. That being said, would you mind going into why the game was announced for the Wii first (as an exclusive, if I recall correctly), and why development priority shifted to the HD consoles? Thanks.

@PixelHustler I can go into that a little bit for sure.

We actually started developing the game on all three platforms at once using different internal teams. As you know, it just takes more time to get art and tech ready on the HD platforms, so around January this year, even though they were all started at the same time, the Wii was much closer to completion.

One of our biggest fears was that someone else was going to make a similar game. The concept just seemed too damn obvious, and there's roughly 6.8 billion guitars and drums out there, so it seemed doubly obvious. I know gamers don't want to hear a developer talk about budgets, but we're a damn tiny studio, so if one of the big boys decided to make a similar concept, we were screwed.

We decided that even though the 360/PS3 versions were still coming along nicely, we should announce the game and show the Wii version as soon as possible. At the very least, we'd be "the first" to bring the concept out. Think of it as an aggressive defense.

I don't think we actually called it an exclusive, but since we hadn't talked about the other platforms yet, I think people sort of went in that direction.

And now as it turns out, the HD versions are coming out first, which is not at all what we anticipated when we started this game. But that's the funny thing about game development...you just never know how stuff is going to turn out, and you often finding yourself just rolling with the punches as best you can.

At the end of the day though, we're really happy with how the game turned out, and absolutely cannot wait for people to check it out.

Thanks for asking by the way!