Dave

What the hell? This isn't news, or blogworthy in any way. They build systems you can easily put together at NewEgg. Why advertise them here over something like Ibuypower.com etc?

Build your own, you can do better for cheaper.

God that was awful. Finishing that demo really wasn't fun. It's amazing that Oblivion, now nearly two years old, does everything this game is trying to do better, with what is most likely thousands of hours more content.

We'll see, Crono.

The upcoming release list isn't quite as bright as I'd hoped when I bought in. I'm just really sick of the apologists. I suppose enough Kool Aid and I'd start to think that the Wii's library was competitive too.

"When you put a little more thought into it, a minigame collection really is one of the first attempts to wrap their designers minds around a new form of control. How many mini-games came out for PC when the mouse first started making market penetration? Tons. How many mini-games for the DS? Also tons."

That isn't called thought, you vapid fanboy. That's called "Making crap up to validate one's own point."

Also known as: denial.

Early computer games that used the mouse weren't minigames at the time. They were full fledged games by the standards of those times.

"I still say: Give it time. This will pass. And from the sounds of this game, this is the least minigame-ish of all the minigame collections."

We're all going to give it time, because there's nothing else we CAN give it. Frankly, if you twist things right, I'm still giving my Saturn time to rise and surprise me again, aren't I? The difference is that most of us will just play other things while we wait for the Wii to validate itself.

"Something else to keep in mind. People were developing software for 360 and PS3 months before either console launched. Wii didn't get 3rd party support (starting development) until months AFTER launch. [patcher]2008 will be a year with lots of 3rd party software that isn't minigames."

I'm actually pretty sure that it did. There was this amazing beta Wii called the Gamecube that developers had for years before the Wii hit shelves...

Any game in a white box where you spend more than 70% of your time waggling.

Damn you, sir.

Damn you right to hell.

Fernando, do you mind telling me how Okami sold? Hm, ok. How about Psychonauts? Ah, alright. Well, surely Viva Pinata? Oh, ok.

No, I'm sure those are just exceptions. Your equation of:

GUD PRODUKTIN VALUS + GUD GAMPLAYE = PROFET

has to be correct.

Because, given the production values depicted by this screen shot, they won't need to sell more than 50k copies to turn a marginal profit.

Making "good games" is much harder than you think it is. "Good Production Values" cost a lot more than this, and in the current environment of Wii third party games, this is a better bet for any profit at all.

So basically, they could have just said:

"Don't have any fun with Pleo, at all."

I dunno, I'm not down with the stuff about the character that's been un-earthed so far, but these graphics look pretty fantastic to me. Real sense of style, and I think they're pushing the system pretty hard.

I could be wrong though. I'm very interested to see more footage as it pops up.

Also... flashlight controled by Wii-Mote? I hope so!