Nintendo, making good decisions with the Wii U?
Gimmicks and waggle every time.
I don’t think they have any waggle, but the controls are a layover from the waggle style where your roll is not a continuous run (like every other platformer) but rather a temporary speed boost which slows you down at the end, until you roll again. This means you must time your jump at the near-end of your roll (not the actual end) to get good forward momentum. If you’re too late, you jump almost straight up with no forward momentum and almost always die. In principle it sounds like it should take skill to time your roll + jump combo, but in practice it feels incredibly stiff and crappy. You die a ton because the game just keeps stealing all your forward momentum when you think you should have it.
The original DKC games let you do an initial roll attack and then as long as you held run down, you kept your forward momentum (and could jump at full speed). And, of course, all good platformers that feel solid to play (Super Meat Boy, eg) give you tons of freedom when it comes to momentum. Taking it away from you is similar to how Brawl took away Melee’s speed. There might be a skill game there, but it’s just simply not fun to play.
It’s a shame because everything else about DKCR on Wii was fantastic. Music was amazing, graphics and art style were great, and the level design was, like, a lesson in good 2D platforming design.
Theres gonna be a lot of shit faced people really early on sunday. Dayum.
That will have an interesting outcome
Keifer Surtherland just said he finished work on an upcoming Mortal Kombat game. Yummm. Bet he voices Raiden ;).
Wonder if it’ll be an E3 or Evo reveal…
I’m guessing they’ll reveal it at Sturgis 2014
i was almost reconsidering rebuying DKCR on the 3ds just for the improved controls. i did a few of the time trials on the wii version which basically amounts to having to pull off perfect roll-jumps continously through the whole level without fucking up once, which is insanely hard when half the time you are shaking the fucking controller all over the place to get the roll.
3ds version is only 30fps though so that put me off.
Yah man, I’m a little disappointing with it, it def slows down at times,
Still a solid game, but unplayable with 3D on, pretty smooth and good with it off.
Luigi’s Mansion is fuckin fun as fuck though lol
Site is shut down tomorrow for the game. Everyone gets to hang around at camp and watch it, then go to work after… Still getting paid a full day.
So awesome. Man, USA got pwned lol
luigis mansion has been one of my big surprises so far this year. so many awesome little details in the animations etc. a lot of love has gone into that game. just did the mission in the gardens where you find toad in a painting. sucking him up and firing/carrying him around with the suction is fucking hilarious.
dear diary
today, SRK was really slow and it made me sad.
yo so whos gonna be at dickens tomorrow? or is everyone gonna be totally pissfaced after the hockey match?
I’m most likely going to Dickens.
Anyone planning on watching the game anywhere?
anyone have pc and want to play till the games on hit me up.
Towes with the game opening goal… Sweet!
Stang, the real question is can Sweden come back from a 3-0 lead?
Oh wait, they didn’t. Haha.
Yeaaaah! Celebrate gold!!! Have fun today everyone
Canada allowed 3 goals over 6 games, Swedes could barely get the puck over center ice all game
The game basically wasn’t even remotely close, too bad the Russian crowd kinda stopped caring after Russia got knocked out, there was like no atmosphere in that arena at all
Would of probably been the same if Canada got knocked early on in Vancouver 2010.
everyone that got up early got to watch the best hockey team ever iced play
when they started playing frustrating euro neutral zone trap hockey it was gfg. every time Sweden tried to break out they coughed the puck over
first period was great, great pace to the game. sucks Sweden lost so many key peices 