Ahh! Damnit! I don't wanna wait ten more days! Waaa...Yosato said:
It sounds really awesome though, I kinda wish it wasn't coming out so near finals so I would have more time to play it. Oh well, I'll make time!
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It sounds really awesome though, I kinda wish it wasn't coming out so near finals so I would have more time to play it. Oh well, I'll make time!
Settle down, Beavis. I modded mine too, which apparently makes me The Great Satan, but it was only so I could play the games I already owned. The DVD drive started dying so I was getting disc read errors in games, but it still works well enough that I can dump them to a USB stick (sometimes taking a couple tries at a lower speed than would work in-game). Being able to run the games off there instead of the disc itself meant I could play them without having to pay $75 for a new DVD drive or buy an entirely new Wii, which is a bit expensive when you're unemployed. And I do look forward to playing Xenoblade Chronicles some day when I can. A legitimate copy of it even, believe it or not.Karutomaru said:
I was actually pretty disappointed by it :/
The environments are amazing, probably some of the best I've seen in a JRPG. And the quests and NPCs feel almost limitless yet usually don't get tedious. There are TONS of sidequests and stuff to do outside the main story and the game does give a good sense of adventure.
But the story and characters were so boringgg. Only the brash lovable idiot best friend character had any sort of charisma, and the main character is just painful to experience. Like, the main character was actually a huge negative for me. Other characters were stereotypes (not even interesting stereotypes) with zero personality, which doesn't hurt it for me, but goddamn I hated the main character. And despite having such an interesting concept, everything always ended up being ridiculously predictable, even (especially) when the game thought it wasn't.
I thought the combat was okay. You fall into a basic rhythm of the same exact rotation of moves. It often feels like soloing in an MMORPG. That said, boss fights were often really fun.
The environments are amazing, probably some of the best I've seen in a JRPG. And the quests and NPCs feel almost limitless yet usually don't get tedious. There are TONS of sidequests and stuff to do outside the main story and the game does give a good sense of adventure.
But the story and characters were so boringgg. Only the brash lovable idiot best friend character had any sort of charisma, and the main character is just painful to experience. Like, the main character was actually a huge negative for me. Other characters were stereotypes (not even interesting stereotypes) with zero personality, which doesn't hurt it for me, but goddamn I hated the main character. And despite having such an interesting concept, everything always ended up being ridiculously predictable, even (especially) when the game thought it wasn't.
I thought the combat was okay. You fall into a basic rhythm of the same exact rotation of moves. It often feels like soloing in an MMORPG. That said, boss fights were often really fun.
Really?You think they're the best games on the Wii?Well each to their own I supposeKarutomaru said:
I wouldn't bother.It's an on-rails lightgun shooter and not even the best one on the Wii(that would be House of the Dead:Overkill imo)Yosato said:
Ah opinions they're great aren't they.As I said each to their own.Personally I enjoyed Overkill a hell of a lot more than either of the Chronicles games but then I never was a big Resi fan.If you honestly think it's the best game on the system then more power to you sirKarutomaru said:
So we're talking about facts now rather than opinions.Ok let's examine those "facts" you mentionedKarutomaru said:
Longer game length - Longer does not equal better.You only have to look at something like Portal which is very short and yet is regarded as one of the best games ever.I would say that Overkill is the perfect length as games of that genre tend to be pretty repetitive.What matters most for games of that kind is re-playability and Overkill definitely has that.
More consistent framerate - What exactly is your evidence for this?I've beaten Overkill about a half dozen times at least and can't recall a single moment in the game where there were framerate issues
More extras - I'll admit I've never counted the number of extras in both games but Overkill is hardly a slouch in the extras and unlockables department.Anyway more does not mean better.If you have 2 buckets of shit and I've got 1 does that mean your shit is better than mine because there's more of it?
And to touch on your earlier points
Best graphics on Wii - Opinion not fact.I would contend that Nintendo's first party games have the best graphics on Wii.And again better graphics does not mean better game.For example the Bit.Trip games have simplistic 8 bit graphics and yet are amongst the best games on Wii in my opinion
Better story - Again opinion not fact.I'll take Overkills cheesy OTT B-movie story over Darksides po-faced seriousness any day just like I would prefer to watch Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy over George A.Romero's more serious Dead trilogy
Provides an extra story to the RE mythos - Only relevant if you're a Resi fan which I'm not
It's my "opinion" that Overkill is the better game and guess what.It has a higher Critic and User score on Metacritic(78 and 9.0 vs 75 and 8.1)so I guess I'm not the only one who thinks that
As I said before if you think Darkside is the best game on Wii then great but please do not try to push your "opinion" as "fact"
I have played both games you stated and I didn't like them (Madworld black and white screen was hard to navigate while Darside Chronicle was boring compared to HOTD: Overkill).Karutomaru said:
I can assure you that Yosato speak the truth.
As I pointed out earlier longer length and more extras does not mean it's automatically a better game.Quality is subjective and my opinion is that Overkill is the better game.Seriously at this point you sound like you're trying to convince yourself that DC is the better gameKarutomaru said:
If DC is the better game in "EEEEEVVVERY" way as you said in a earlier post then why does it have a lower overall critic and user score on Metacritic?Oh that's right because that was only your OPINION and not a fact.And no I'm not saying that Metacritic means that Overkill is factually a better game just that my and lots of other peoples OPINIONS is that it's better because you know "quality is subjective"
Funny how I've never experienced these apparently quite frequent framerate issues despite multiple playthroughs isn't it