Nintendo's impressive achievement.

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The Force Unleashes on the Wii
http://videogames.yahoo.com/news-530592

LucasArts announced Tuesday that its next-generation action adventure, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, will be arriving on the Nintendo Wii platform, in addition to its already revealed PS3 and Xbox 360 versions.

Ever since the Wii's unusual motion-sensing controllers were unveiled, gamers and Star Wars fans around the globe have been anticipating using the Wii-mote to control a lightsaber. Their wish will be fulfilled next year when the game is scheduled to release.

LucasArts also mentioned the Nunchuk controller will allow players to enact their character's Force powers.

The Wii version of the game will feature an exclusive Duel Mode that pits players in head-to-head battles for the title of ultimate Jedi master.

The Force Unleashed implements new technologies that will be debuted in the game: Digital Molecular Matter by Pixelux and Euphoria by NaturalMotion Ltd. Set in the span of time between Episode III and IV, the player will take on the role of Darth Vader's apprentice.

[Grand Design]

Ever since the Wii's unusual motion-sensing controllers were unveiled, gamers and Star Wars fans around the globe have been anticipating using the Wii-mote to control a lightsaber.

Nerds...

[schild]

Man, Star Wars fans have wanted to control a motherfucking lightsaber since the first movie. The motion controls didn't change dick. Lucas Arts has been using this in their PR since the day the Wiimote was publically announced. I expect complete failure.

[HaemishM]

But you always expect complete failure from Nintendo these days, so this is no surprise.

Smash Bros. will be fine to all but the hardiest of assholes, most of whom aren't even playing or buying Wii games in the first place anyway.

The Force Unleashed SHOULD be giant fat bags of awesome, but since Lucasarts can manage to make about 1 good game in house a decade these days, who the hell knows. 

[Grand Design]

Star Wars fans have been using florescent lights, nine irons, broom handles, car antennae, pvc pipe, bongs, fire stokers, glow sticks, baseball bats, paper towel tubes, crayola markers stuck end to end and fucking swiffer sweepers as light sabres.  Shit, I bet they're using the Wii-mote already, even without a game.

[schild]

Haemish, re-read my post it was all about LucasArts.

[Roac]

Lucas Arts has been using this in their PR since the day the Wiimote was publically announced. I expect complete failure.
...
Haemish, re-read my post it was all about LucasArts.

...on the Wii, not the other consoles.  Far from complete failure, I'd expect the title to sell over a million, with the Wii having more units moved than either of the other platforms.  It's the sort of game that works well there (as opposed to, say, football).

[HaemishM]

Football would work just fine on the Wii, if the developer wasn't a fat, lazy bag of ass that can't add established netcode onto an established iterative game engine without fucking it up.

[Yegolev]

I don't want to get into this argument at all, but I'm pretty sure you have to blame EA for Madden.

[Grand Design]

I don't want to get into this argument at all, but I'm pretty sure you have to blame EA for Madden.

I blame EA for the game.

I blame God and the Turducken for Madden.

[HaemishM]

I don't want to get into this argument at all, but I'm pretty sure you have to blame EA for Madden.

I was.

[Yegolev]

I don't want to get into this argument at all, but I'm pretty sure you have to blame EA for Madden.

I was.

I was supporting you again!  Fuck!  It's like when you offer bacon to that starving dog in the alleyway and he growls at you!

[HaemishM]

Yeah, I fell into the sarchasm there, when you weren't even using sarcasm. I am a mean little twisty dwarf instead.

[Fabricated]

Star Wars fans have been using florescent lights, nine irons, broom handles, car antennae, pvc pipe, bongs, fire stokers, glow sticks, baseball bats, paper towel tubes, crayola markers stuck end to end and fucking swiffer sweepers as light sabres.  Shit, I bet they're using the Wii-mote already, even without a game.

ZZZSSHEEEEEWWWWWWWWW

[Big Gulp]

Aside from the motion control, have you people seen what Force Unleashed looks like???




Whacky motion control aside (which we know won't be 1:1, but some half-assed "sorta works" scheme), how much will they have to dumb this game down to run on an overclocked gamecube?  There's a good reason games like BioShock and Call of Duty 4 aren't ported to the Wii.

[schild]

That's concept art. But I think you know that.

[Big Gulp]

That's concept art. But I think you know that.

Actually, no, I didn't.  Actual screenshots for that game are damned near indistinguishable from concept art:



But really, that just makes my point.

[Velorath]

Whacky motion control aside (which we know won't be 1:1, but some half-assed "sorta works" scheme), how much will they have to dumb this game down to run on an overclocked gamecube?  There's a good reason games like BioShock and Call of Duty 4 aren't ported to the Wii.

BioShock wasn't ported to the PS3 either.  It's not like they couldn't strip out all the fancy graphical bells and whistles for a Wii version, and certainly I could see the appeal of firing off electricity with your left hand and then using the Wiimote in your right hand to hit a splicer with your wrench.  The AI is fairly crap so that wouldn't be much of a hold up either.

[schild]

Let's fix this "screenshot:"



Now blow 752x480 up on your TV.

[Jain Zar]

What I don't get in all this malarkey is how Sony's products continue to take a nosedive yet Schild insists Nintendo is doomed.

And fuck, Resident Evil 4 and the Gamecube Rogue Squadron games were amazing looking and are still gorgeous.

An overclocked Gamecube can do some pretty games unless everything simply HAS to be in 1080p 60fps 4x antialiasing with bloom lighting and whatever other happy horseshit that makes my games play poorly yet doesn't do fuck all for actually making them any more fun.

Of course I am not a mouthbreather frat gamer and don't care much about graphics other than that I have a smooth framerate and it is pleasing to the eye.  The X Box 1 was more than adequate for that as was the Gamecube.  Not that I mind what the 360 can pull off mind you, but ultimately I do not give a shit.  Hell, I just finished replaying Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries again.  (I would have replayed Crescent Hawk's Inception but its really a shitty game and was wanting even for its time.)

These days my first question on a game is: Is it turn based?

Generally if the answer is no and nothing else is compelling I go elsewhere.

[schild]

And fuck, Resident Evil 4 and the Gamecube Rogue Squadron games were amazing looking and are still gorgeous.

I agree. Particularly on Resident Evil 4. But you just used the best, most shiny example of a gamecube game. It pushed the system to it's limits and Nintendo hasn't even tried to get anywhere near that yet. And RE4 Wii was absolutely identical to RE4 GC on the graphics front.

The PSP outsold the DS this week in Japan. Now, granted, a Final Fantasy game was released (Crisis Core), but once again, it just goes to prove that it's all about the games.

[Fabricated]

And fuck, Resident Evil 4 and the Gamecube Rogue Squadron games were amazing looking and are still gorgeous.

I agree. Particularly on Resident Evil 4. But you just used the best, most shiny example of a gamecube game. It pushed the system to it's limits and Nintendo hasn't even tried to get anywhere near that yet. And RE4 Wii was absolutely identical to RE4 GC on the graphics front.

The PSP outsold the DS this week in Japan. Now, granted, a Final Fantasy game was released (Crisis Core), but once again, it just goes to prove that it's all about the games.

And Crisis Core supposedly hints at a full remake of FF7 on the PS3.

I wonder if the core of the gaming population even remembers FF7?

[schild]

I wonder if the core of the gaming population even remembers FF7?

That's lolworthy.

I think some folks are still crying about Aerith.

[Shavnir]

I wonder if the core of the gaming population even remembers FF7?

That's lolworthy.

I think some folks are still crying about Aerith.

And some people are still arguing if its "Aerith" or "Aeris" 

[schild]

Nah, I think everyone settled on "flower girl."

[Yegolev]

A FFVII remake would move quite a few PS3s.  No question about it.

[WindupAtheist]

Has this video made the rounds here yet?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kDdErzFwrRY

[schild]

He's not a 22 month old video gamer. He's a toddler swinging a stick.

Fuck I hate people.

[Kageru]

Got sent this at work, seems to summarize the situation well.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1383-Zero-Punctuation-Console-Rundown

[HaemishM]

Got sent this at work, seems to summarize the situation well.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1383-Zero-Punctuation-Console-Rundown

I am positive that was the only entertaining and useful thing to ever come out of the Escapist magazine.

[Valmorian]

He's not a 22 month old video gamer. He's a toddler swinging a stick.

Fuck I hate people.

Oh come now, that's a bit bitter even for you.  That kid is often waiting to swing until the right moment in the game.  That qualifies as playing as far as Wii sports tennis is concerned.

[Fabricated]

Got sent this at work, seems to summarize the situation well.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/1383-Zero-Punctuation-Console-Rundown

I am positive that was the only entertaining and useful thing to ever come out of the Escapist magazine.

Even then it's not really theirs. The guy who does those videos is a Something Awful goon who was making them (and getting emails from devs) long before the Escapist grabbed him to prop up their awful website.

[Xanthippe]

He's not a 22 month old video gamer. He's a toddler swinging a stick.

Fuck I hate people.

Oh come now, that's a bit bitter even for you.  That kid is often waiting to swing until the right moment in the game.  That qualifies as playing as far as Wii sports tennis is concerned.

That kid is playing.

My kid played Mario64 at that age.  Not well, but he could make Mario run around and fly.  His first game that he could play solo was either Mario Kart 64 or Diddy Kong Racing.  He was about 2.

[HAMMER FRENZY]

Schild: About kids playing games, Julian tells me yesterday..."k' is off my KOF XI team" I was like, what? you been playing K' since 2k1! and he tells me, he replaced him with Clark. At this point the story could end, cause Clark is just freaking cool and he could justify the change in line up with just that, but instead, he says, "you need to teach me how to use Clark cause I need a throw character on my team, and also how to combo the command kick into the Clark tackle so I multi-shift terry in and land that Buster Wolf >  Power Stream combo...  he's growin' up Schild....

[Velorath]

Ousama Monogatari (Project O) trailer.

Zack & Wiki trailer.