New Super Mario Bros. - Wii

[epmode]

No online mode doesn't affect me in any way. Smash Bros Brawl proved that Nintendo can't even get it right when they try.

[Joust Williams]

Oh, I agree...like I said, I wouldn't play this game for the MP because it looks like a shitty experience. But you can't review a game based on what the developer wanted to make. Otherwise, you can make a piece of shit, tell the critics that this is a piece of shit, and get a good score because it is indeed a piece of shit.

Wrapping N64-era visuals around a game that isn't even all that great (based on videos) doesn't warrant an A+. The real question is...if it wasn't Mario, would you get that kind of praise? I'd guess no

[A Robot Bit Me]

Then you have someone who likes Shit review the Shit and evaluate and appraise it on whether or not it succeeds in being A Piece of Shit. Of course you review games/anything based on what its creators wanted to do.

I like spicy food a lot. If I order a slice of key lime cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory, do I send it back because it isn't spicy enough? No, because that's not what the cheesecake creators wanted to do! If I only liked spicy food to the point where I could not palette anything with less spiciness than a raw jalepeno, then I wouldn't care how good the cheesecake is. I also wouldn't care what someone who likes cheesecake thinks of the key lime cheesecake, and I would certainly not be surprised or upset to hear that someone with a predilection for cheesecake likes the key lime fucking cheesecake.

OH, THAT GUY LIKES KEY LIME CHEESECAKE!? WELL OF COURSE HE LIKES THE KEY LIME CHEESECAKE BECAUSE THAT FAGGOT LIKES CHEESECAKE! HE EVEN POSTED ABOUT HOW MUCH HE LIKES CHEESECAKE ON HIS BLOG! BEHOLD!

So, the key lime cheesecake is pretty good. I'm sure my review of it will skew high compared to a lot of other reviews, but bear in mind that I reviewed it based on how it tastes as cheesecake as opposed to some fevered vision of what I think all food should taste like. It's designed to be a universally accessible and enjoyable cheesecake.

A-HA!

[Joust Williams]

no

This is like ordering a piece of raspberry cheesecake, then the raspberry is fake, and then you complain and then the chef says "we maxed out the system so we had to use fake raspberries"

Meanwhile the other bakeries use real raspberries because they aren't completely lazy as shit

Interesting that you bring up The Cheesecake Factory, though. Their food is SHIT. You can't give them an A as a restaurant because they have good cheesecake and their name is The Cheesecake Factory. You compare them to other restaurants and you come to the conclusion that they are crap.

[Gooch]

My Classic Controller Pro is in from NCSX and I will have this tomorrow morning. I think this looks awesome and can't wait to play it. I don't care about the opinions of the dumbasses who posted in this thread because they're all peabrains and cannot fathom my deity-like taste anyway.

[A Robot Bit Me]

"we maxed out the system so we had to use fake raspberries"

Yeah, I...I'm not sure if you know how analogies work.

[Joust Williams]

um

I don't think this works with the CCPro (unless you can waggle the Pro)


"Yeah, I...I'm not sure if you know how analogies work."

Oh, I get them. Nintendo half-assed on the game and that's what I am calling Parish out on. You can't review in a vacuum. It's 2009 and multiplayer means online play. No online play, no good. It also means no DS-quality visuals. Just because Nintendo says that's OK doesn't mean they shouldn't be taken to task on it.

[Gooch]

That is indeed a shame but a minor detail because I am physically able to waggle the wii-mote as ridiculous as I may appear doing so, assuming the gameplay is affected in a manner comparable to Wario Land.

EDIT - I think Joust is going to buy the game.

[A Robot Bit Me]

Nintendo half-assed on the game and that's what I am calling Parish out on. You can't review in a vacuum. It's 2009 and multiplayer means online play. No online play, no good. It also means no DS-quality visuals. Just because Nintendo says that's OK doesn't mean they shouldn't be taken to task on it

Then you're really not appraising New Super Mario Bros, you're appraising the shortcomings of the platform it's on. I'm pretty sure that when For Whom the Bell Tolls dropped, people didn't say "Yeah, but this is just ugly black print on paper. It's 1940. This is obsolete. We have television with moving pictures and shit now."

[Joust Williams]

The Wii can make games that look much better than that. It also has online capabilities. It also retails for as much as a 360 and this game retails for almost as much as a retail 360 or PS3 game.

I'd probably buy the game (used only) or rent it if I still had a Wii.