Coggit

3Dude, on 24 Oct 2013 - 10:53 PM, said:

Uh, online multiplayer with a game like 3dworld, is completely impossible with current internet technology. Why do you think NOONE has ever made an online multiplayer mario calibur platformer, that actually worked?

Its not like a shooter or a racer where the cpu can just predict and prepare what it thinks the player will do, and then if it gets it wrong just update upon next packet, no harm done.

Not according to Nintendo. In fact, Miyamoto said to IGN to Kotaku just yesterday that it was possible, but something they just decided not to do because they wanted to put emphasis on people sitting next to each other and playing games:

http://www.digitalsp...ultiplayer.html

Today IGN gave Sonic Lost World a low score of like a 5 or something. Considering how they give games like Halo, COD, and Battlefield insanely high reviews and games like Zombi U a low score, and games like the Wii U version of Rayman a lower score then other ports I have grown to suspect IGN's reviews are either biased or bought out, or the fact they simply hate most Nintendo games. Your thoughts?

 

 

Sonic was given bad reviews by many reviewers. IGN weren't the worst. ZombiU isn't THAT good. In fact, the majority of reviews were negative for it. I think the reason it is so overrated is because the launch line up of the Wii U was bad as a whole, so an average game like ZombiU stands out more. I do think GameSpot's score was unacceptable for it though (4/10).

 

Fact of the matter is that IGN give Nintendo good reviews when they release good games. For example, WWHD was given 9.8/10. In fact, IGN is very generous with Nintendo games a lot of the time (Games like NSMBU was given 9.1/10 by them - and really, it didn't deserve that!).

 

 

I do get the feeling that GameSpot hates Nintendo though. 90% of their Nintendo reviews are extremely unfair and given extremely low scores. It actually stands out like a sore thumb. http://www.gamespot....WiiU&score=desc

 

Equally though, I do find Nintendo behind on the times. Lack of online multiplayer on games like NSMBU/NSLU is just unacceptable in 2013. No other developer would get away with it like Nintendo does - in fact, Rayman was heavily critized for it. Nintendo games might be good quality games - just like games like the original Zelda is! BUT if the original Zelda was released in 2013, despite it being a good game, it would be hammered in reviews for being outdated. And THIS is one of the biggest problems that face Nintendo and they just don't seem to want to tackle it, which is worrying.

Why have they suspended it?

 

 

Lack of sales. Waste of shelf space, basically. They'll still be stocking it online.

 

My local ASDA stopped selling U games about a month ago and my local Tesco stopped selling U games in April. 

Are you sure they are sold out as opposed to just not selling it? My local Game hasn't stocked any new wii U games since MH3. And supermarkets sell the sme 5 launch titles they have since the system launched.

 Looks like a lot of fun.  I played Elements a lot a couple years ago.  I wonder if Blizzard would be able to stop themselves from turning this into a strictly cash cow franchise though.  I feel like at some point they'd start charging for single cards etc. and then it would be pay to win and not fun anymore.

 

 

Blizzard has never implemented Play to win models before, have they? Sure, they've offered cosmetic items in WoW, but those are irrelevant.