1up: Epic Mickey 2 Promises to Build a Better Mouse

1up said:

After the presentation, I wandered to the show floor, where, surprisingly, the Wii version of Mickey 2 stood out as the best of show.

Developer Junction Point obviously had the Wii in mind when developing Epic Mickey 2, since the paint controls feel awkward on the PS3 and 360 versions of the game. Where the Wii's Epic Mickey 2 features an aiming reticle that moves as you point the controller in various directions, this scheme poses a problem for the other consoles; the non-Wii versions of the game force the player to control their crosshairs with the right analog stick, which requires far more precision and coordination than simply pointing and shooting with the Wiimote. Controls in general felt more sluggish and unresponsive when compared to how Mickey 2 plays on the Wii, which may mark the first time Nintendo's console received a superior version of a multi-platform game; admittedly, it's too early to judge definitively this early in development, but Junction Point has a tough road to hoe in making the most basic functions of their game feel as natural as they do with a Wiimote and nunchuck setup.

So who has Move and is going to get this game? Robio?

Joystiq said:

Those HD versions of Epic Mickey 2 aren't quite as impressive as they could be, at least not yet. I'm willing to chalk performance issues up to the early state of the demos I saw, but both the Xbox 360 and PS3 builds had performance issues in spades. On Xbox, the game stuttered for a few seconds every time I got out Mickey's paintbrush. On PS3, weird color artifacts abounded, and Oswald's electricity (more on that soon) didn't connect with where I aimed it. The good news is that both look lovely, even in their current work-in-progress states, rendering all the Disneyana in rich detail and warm colors. The PlayStation 3 version, I was told, will even support the Move peripheral, for a "true" Epic Mickey experience -- which is a good thing, as aiming the paintbrush with the right analog stick is a pain.

Xenoblade on backorder via Nintendo's store

That's a great sign. I wondered if piracy was going to kill this game's chances since last year even mainstream sites were giving people instructions on how to hack you Wii in order to play the game. I don't foresee it doing huge numbers, but hopefully it'll see around 300K in sales.I pre-ordered mine at Gamestop, and that'll more or less be my April..... that makes me wonder if there was a preorder bonus for it that I forgot about.

gamingeek said:

I read you could only buy it by pre-ordering through gamestop or nintendo.com?

According to my Gamestop you can only pre-order it through Nintendo.com and them, but Gamestop will be carrying the game in-stock for a while.

robio said:

Xenoblade on backorder via Nintendo's store

That's a great sign. I wondered if piracy was going to kill this game's chances since last year even mainstream sites were giving people instructions on how to hack you Wii in order to play the game. I don't foresee it doing huge numbers, but hopefully it'll see around 300K in sales.I pre-ordered mine at Gamestop, and that'll more or less be my April..... that makes me wonder if there was a preorder bonus for it that I forgot about.

I pre=ordered mine at Gamestop too....most likely gonna hold onto the game until Nintendo Next comes out to play it....I can't even be arsed to turn my Wii on to play fucking Zelda.

It still baffles me that they won't just release this game the normal way. All they're doing is stopping any sales growth it might have had outside the die hard fans. Why do this? They've released a million games that sold worse than this will the NORMAL way....

robio said:

^ WTF?

edgecrusher said:

Rumour: Xbox Lite to launch 2013Focused on Kinect, priced $100

So in other words, the 360 is going to be turned into a complete casual piece of shit from this point on. How far they've come since 2005. Just bring back the Blades in the next dashboard update.

I don't see any validity in this rumor at all. A 360 and Kinect together cannot be $100 even if they just put a cheap 20 GB harddrive on it. $150 maybe, but no way in hell $100.

edgecrusher said:

BTW....having to play hours of Mass Effect 3's online mode to be able to get the best outcome for the game is fucking Stuuuuuuuupid.

Untrue, you dont have to do that at all to get the best ending.

RE ORC is complete shit. I am trying to find something I like but I cant. Plus it pisses me off, I dont like playing angry. I just had to stop playing, I cant be spending my only two days at home in the last two weeks playing this crap.

Lets run down a list of crap that sucks. Everything is a bullet sponge and outside of basic zombies headshots dont seem to do much. Single player is just an uninspired boring mode where you go through extremely boring environments and shoot things. They have some boss fights but those are crappy as well. You see old RE locations but most are totally unrecognizable and the majority of the game is just generic looking.  I have seen my AI partners run around in circles while shooting the air, get sucked down through the floor, one guy just stood  in a corner and refused to move, and one threw a grenade which bounced off a wall and landed on me. Leveling up system is very simplistic, all skills are very easy to unlock, guns are expensive but you can only carry one gun with you meaning you cant switch weapons for certain situations. The sound is pretty crappy, no classic monster sounds like Hunters scream.

Then I went to multiplayer to see if that can save the game and I doubt it can. Matchmaking randomly chooses a mode and then you are locked into that mode if you stay with that group. I played Hero mode where you play as classic characters. I was Claire, I got into a fight with Ada and we meleed each other for about two minutes straight, none of us died, we had an army of zombies around us. It was like an infinite animation loop. I died when a teamate came to help her. I later chased Ada around the map unloading shotgun blasts after blasts, grenades, everything I had and she would not die, wtf. When two players meet up it becomes a disaster, the two of you will start circling each other, one will try a melee and if it hits you are now stuck in crazy animations, most likely it will miss and you will continue to do circles. You have a ton of life so this weird dance lasts forever. The I did a CTF mode which plays like every CTF mode only worse than most games. The monsters on the map seem like a big distraction, maybe so you dont focus on how crappy the PvP is. I guess you can find a good class to work with, stealth camo dude worked well in CTF so maybe there is tiny hope in some strategy.

There is not much to like here.

Dvader said:

edgecrusher said:

BTW....having to play hours of Mass Effect 3's online mode to be able to get the best outcome for the game is fucking Stuuuuuuuupid.

Untrue, you dont have to do that at all to get the best ending.

Ok that's cool....so the readiness doesn't effect the game at all? WTF is the point of it then?