Conduit 2 trailer does a bit of globetrotting

@My Prerogative As I was watching the trailer I was like, "wait, is this an indie title or something?" then I saw that it's for Wii. I'm not always all about the graphics, but the Wii isn't aging well, Nintendo needs to come up with a new console pronto.

@2late2die

Played this game called mario bros. graphics were god damn deplorable! I quit the game as soon as i saw the title screen. Lamest piece of shit ever.

@AntiVillian

mario bros. 3*

@Heffer Wolfe

Amazing, it took five years for your comment to finally post.

Baddup, chsh!

@DanielTobey

Because aliens, a giant leviathan, and plasma shooting guns are realistic...

But seriously, why do so many douchey people gripe about Wii graphics as if a.) they are the single-most important aspect of a game, and b.) they were seemingly very capable of putting up with 5 years of this level of graphics last generation.

@ItsameMatt03

So we're just supposed to expect a new generation of consoles to do the same thing as their predecessors?

@Heffer Wolfe Actually, thats what most people WANT, they just require that the same thing looks prettier on the new system.

@Heffer Wolfe
So does this make the games on the older consoles inferior just because the graphics are worse? Games should not be judged on graphics alone, EVER. Graphics are only a plus, and ONLY if they immerse you into the game more.

@DanielTobey

going between Wii to xbox to PS3 the differance in graphics is not enough for me to give a damn. You know there's thing thing called gameplay, if you want to play a movie like FFXIII then yeh sure I can understand but in most other cases graphics don't make THAT much of an impact

@ItsameMatt03 I never said anything about the quality of gameplay. I'm saying it looks like mud.

@ItsameMatt03

That's easy, because the don't have one. They just bash it cause the want one so badly. It pisses them off. haha.

@Gooblechev Also, dear Joystiq: Thanks for having a comment system that lets me post on my first try.

@Zeoinx
You mean the dropship that was directly taken from the movie Aliens...along with Sergeant Johnson being pretty much the same as Sergant Apone from Aliens...and the marines having similar combat armour. Yes it would be nice to have some creativity, especially in the games are that supposedly revolutionary...like Halo. Cant Judge Conduit 2 cos i aint played it but Halo lost is lustre after Halo 3 and thats when i stopped bothering with it. Not every game with aliens in is a Halo rip-off. If anything, games are influenced by movies and books more so than other games.

@DBuckEye Agreed. Trailer - Ok, Music - Horrendus. That poor trailer, getting ruint like that by the music...

@Jetleo1

I liked the music.

@F1shBone

And as for your comment, I don't even see how it was possible seeing as how Joystiq didn't even exist 10 years ago.

@F1shBone You know, I thought I saw you the other day http://failblog.org/2011/03/18/epic-fail-video-friday-rewind-nunchuck-fail/

@F1shBone
Yeah for the Dreamcast and PS2 as well. You should look into them, they're are great games out there that will keep you enthralled as long as you dont want extreme visual masturbation......oh wait..you're a troll...therefore have no concept of great games, but clutch with both hands on anything that makes your eyes cum.

@Shadowbender

A lot of guts developing for Wii? Developers (all of them) would be fools to not develop for the fastest selling console in the history of the industry. The real risk is developing on PS360, where, if your title flops (i.e. 80% of all PS360 titles) then your company is most likely up shits creeks due to the development costs on said game.

@tracer bullet
You fail to realize that the style of game dictates what kind of graphics would work the best for it. An experimental game about block building doesn't need high-fidelity graphics, nor does a simple physics puzzler. A high-budget FPS with an attempt of an epic storyline about an alien invasion? You bet your ass that kind of thing has to have better graphics than Minecraft.

Not every game works with minimalistic graphics, you know. Citing Minecraft does nothing for Conduit 2.

@tracer bullet
I am sick of people bringing up Minecraft in these graphics discussions as if it's some sort of proof that games can be good with bad graphics. Minecraft doesn't have bad graphics, it has good graphics. The reason for this is because "good graphics" is not synonymous with "cutting edge technology," "as many polygons as the machine can handle," "latest version of Direct X," etc. The technology used is only as important as the art direction. Minecraft's graphics not only fit the game extremely well, but the graphics also make up a fair portion of the game's charm.

What I'm getting at is that Minecraft's graphics fit, Halo's graphics fit, Call of Duty's realism-style graphics fit... If Call of Duty or Halo looked like Minecraft, do you think people would take it seriously? Minecraft TRIES to be quirky and cute, which is why the graphics are fitting for the game. Call of Duty tries to be realistic. The immersion and believability would simply not be there if Call of Duty was made in Minecraft's graphics engine.

Also, you left out the best selling console game of all time (whether you like the game or not is irrelevant), Black Ops. A game that would not work with Minecraft or Angry Bird's graphics.

@JCDoe

And i still enjoy my Wii over my PS3, and own 3 times the amount of Wii games as well.

@Co

And somehow the antique hardware somehow causes this for you?

The only thing the wii does impressively is camera/ ir tracking (which it does really well). Every other part of the wii (including the waggle-tech) has been done by someone else, usually better.

I have and use a Wii, so don't mix me up with a Sony or MS fanboy. It just irritates me that they charge so much for so little technology. There is no reason for Wii games to look like ass anymore.

@JCDoe
The gamecube had better graphics than the xbox =/

@KaBob799

No it didn't. The cube was easier to program for, but it wasn't as powerful as the xbox (biggest problem was that the cube had fixed function shaders while the xbox had fully programmable shaders).

@JCDoe

Actually, yes, the Gamecube did have better graphics than the first Xbox. The Gamecube had more specs than the Xbox, which meant it could produce better visuals. Unfortunately, no developers took advantage of this because it had an inferior hard drive to the Xbox's.