We Read From Your Comments

We’re happy you guys are commenting. Really, we are. But sometimes you comment on old entries that nobody’s going to look at. To reward your diligence, I was thinking I could pull out a bunch of comments, once in a while, and respond in public. Huh? How does that sound? On Koji Igarashi and the […]

WtfWe're happy you guys are commenting. Really, we are. But sometimes you comment on old entries that nobody's going to look at. To reward your diligence, I was thinking I could pull out a bunch of comments, once in a while, and respond in public. Huh? How does that sound?

On Koji Igarashi and the future of Castlevania, "Daedelus" says:

imagine the size of 2d game on a next gen console...it would be huge. and the detail would be tremendous. I just think that he's misunderestimating our wii controler swinging ability. we could prolly swing for more than 5 minutes...

I do love the idea of 2D games on next-gen consoles, although I don't necessarily think the games will be larger. Assuming a constant budget and staff, the more detail you add in, the smaller the game gets. That's why portables lend themselves well to 2D, these days: because you can get away with a lot less detail.

As far as controller-swinging, I think developers will learn a lot about what people will -- and won't -- be able to do with a Wiimote in their hands once they actually get them into ordinary folks' homes.

About Splinter Cell Wii's graphics, "kevinsano" writes:

SO you're telling us the Wii graphics are worse than the Xbox version? That's the only logical explaination I can come up with since the Xbox graphics are absolutely not marginally better than PS2...

I think we're just at odds, kevinsano, about the definition of "marginally." The graphics were better than the PS2 version, but only in the sense that they were buffed up a little.

My friend Helena, whose anonymous Internet nickname is "helena," says of the weirdo PlayStation 3 commercial:

it's like something a liberal arts film student would make. completely awful.

Hey, maybe that is the actual explanation...?

20XX, who may or may not be from the future, asks me why I want Necro-Nesia:

You just said it was bad, and then one paragraph later you want to buy a system for it?

Simple -- I'm not speaking as Joe Regular Gamer, I'm a games writer. I'll do the investigation so you don't have to get your hands dirty. Then write the whole thing off my taxes.