Official Wii Thread: Part 3

[SpoDaddy]

All you need to know about EGM's reviewing capabilities is that they rated Downhill Jam higher than Trauma Center.

[Yoshi]

EGM didn't seem to, or much else for that matter (aside from Zelda): Their set of launch reviews:

Zelda The Twilight Princess (Wii, Nintendo): 10 / 10 / 10
Excite Truck (Wii, Nintendo): 7.0 / 7.5 / 6.5
Red Steel (Wii, Ubisoft): 5.0 / 4.5 / 6.0
Elebits (Wii, Konami): 7.0 / 4.0 / 4.5
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Wii, Activision): 7.5 / 8.0 / 7.0
Madden NFL 07 (Wii, EA): 6.5 / 6.0 / 4.5
Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo): 6.5 / 5.5 / 7.0
Trauma Center Secons Opionion (Wii, Atlus): 6.5 / 7.5 / 7.0
Rayman Ravaing Rabbits (Wii, Ubisoft): 7.0 / 7.5 / 7.5

*-neo

Take ~1.5 off each one of those, and they are dead-on. There is no way a game designed for last gen hardware is a 10 on a brand new console. I'm sorry. That's just fucking retarded. I hate it when reviewers give 10s to begin with, but for a launch title it's pure idiocy.

[Chux]

I can't argue with that. Same shit happens with Final Fantasy.

[K3V]

Wii remote Google Earth hack:

[Port]

As it turns out, I have a bluetooth adapter. Anyone know if pairing your Wiimote with your PC will have adverse effects when you try and use it with your Wii again?

[Josh]

As it turns out, I have a bluetooth adapter. Anyone know if pairing your Wiimote with your PC will have adverse effects when you try and use it with your Wii again?

Why would it?

[Chux]

Yeah, worst case scenario, you'll just have to re-sync it every time.

[PKBMax]

Take ~1.5 off each one of those, and they are dead-on. There is no way a game designed for last gen hardware is a 10 on a brand new console. I'm sorry. That's just fucking retarded. I hate it when reviewers give 10s to begin with, but for a launch title it's pure idiocy.

Zelda is as close to a 10 as any game I've played in recent memory. Who gives a shit if it's a port or a launch title? That's completely irrelevant when grading the worth of a game.



To illustrate the competence of EGM, I give you quotes from a Monkey Ball Banana Blitz review that scored the game a 6:

"But since my motor skills are about as skilled as those of a thumb-sucking primate, it was hard to get a grip on all the monkey s*** going on."

He goes on to say that halfway through story mode the game gets "insanely difficult."

"For me boredom set in quicker than my average time of death: about 30 seconds."



So there you have it: Monkey Ball sucks because the reviewer sucks at videogames. What brilliance.

[Yoshi]

Zelda is as close to a 10 as any game I've played in recent memory. Who gives a shit if it's a port or a launch title? That's completely irrelevant when grading the worth of a game.

10 is perfect. A perfect game, in theory, would utilize its hardware to the fullest and be the pinnacle of that system's library. A launch title has never and will never achieve either one of these things. Thus, a launch title, especially one that was ported from a previous, weaker system, should never be rated a 10. It's a fanboy rating with zero objectivity, just like the example of Monkey Ball you gave, which is a hack rating with zero objectivity. The common thread is the zero objectivity, which shouldn't surprise anyone coming from EGM.

[Joust Williams]

Well, when all you play are Nintendo games, Zelda could very well be the best that you've played in recent memory. But Yoshi's dead on.

Monkey Ball should get a 6 for different reasons, mainly having worse control and not being as good as the one that came out in 2001.