"What does that mean? MW came out in late 2007. There was no restriction for porting games to Wii set by Nintendo. MW didn't get ported at the time for one reason; Infinity Ward wanted (and still wants) nothing to do with Wii. Once Treyarch had already ported the COD4 engine as a means of bring WaWii to Wii, they were able to persuade Activision to bring this title to Wii as well."
MW may verywell have came out in 2007, but the permission to place a patchable game in the Wii console was not hatched out till this year pal!
WaWii did come out before, but it was completely remade from scratch, not a port, and with the restrictions on patching, the game became a mess in certain maps with glitchers, I'm sure ya know that Fortunz!, but ya chose to take the easy route and belittle the effort that is being made in MWR.
Go back and check the archive's at GF's you'll find responces from people better in the know that cover this topic, although I'm sure you already know this, which makes this review that much more sad.
Treyarch convinced Activision, but there were still restrictions as to the type of code that was allowed in the wii and that no altering of the code was allowed once it came into play, doesn't sound famiar? LOL anyone following this knew this information.
"Sorry pal, you flat out don't know what you're talking about. Nintendo quality control no longer exists. They'll let anything on their system. And they have, or haven't you been paying attention as 100s of instances of shovelware splattered themselves all over the Wii?"
Nintendo Quality control never existed when it came to game submittal, it sucked and still does, however once the game comes to the wii, they are jerks for anykind of editing as they seem to be paranoid that a game developer will do more damage than the hackers and Homebrew asses do.
"You don't seem to have read much here at WiiHD. I consider controls to be considerably more important than graphics, and were it not for the continual degradation of MoHH2's online servers, I'd probably still consider it to be the best FPS on Wii, despite the PSP port's very sub-par graphics, and so-so campaign. I recommended dialing back gfx for an online coop mode for WaWii (the original source of the image you noted — the image that has never appeared anywhere on this post btw), because at the end of the day, features are better than eye candy."
Haven't read yer site in a while you are right about that, I'm not to into hacking, yeah, HomeBrew isn't that a thing wiihd supports? It did when MOHH2 was the big thing. I believe it does doesn't it Fortunzfavor? All these jackasses messing up the leader boards with modified wii's hacked through Hombrew software? Jumping out of bounds, killing the entire other team just as the game starts and doing it over and over till the game ends a few seconds later on points? yeah I know WiiHD. And although I agree with you that graphics are not everything to people that just love to play and play against competative players, it's needed to get the game off commercially so enough of the masses buy the damn thing so we can enjoy further games, and Idjuts can hack, luckily, though, it seems the light of day has finally fallen, and if this game see's good sales numbers, we might see software introduced that deals with modded wii's and hackers in future titles.
So do I know about WiiHD? Um ya, do I care, um NO…
"I think when you have a big budget and you set expectations high, you ought to make the game look nice, but I never hold the Wii up to 360 gfx standards. On the other hand, I bash the PS360 as a matter of course here. I think dual-analog is last-gen tech in a way that really matters. Eye candy is cool for… a few seconds. Then the gaming experience is all about playing the game itself. For that, the Wii Remote's IR pointer is vastly superior to what the PS360 offers."
Have ya talked to Treyarch about this in any length? Not public relations, the actual developers who worked on the game? I have… These guys pushed the wii to it's limits, the game couldn't have held anymore, nore could they have modified it further as like ya said, Infinity Ward hates the wii. I personally appreciate that they made the effort to get us a good working game that they promised they would patch, now that they can actually patch it, and guess what, they have already patched the game and eliminated problems!
"I'd respond more at length, but you don't know anything about WiiHD, and you don't know anything about Nintendo. So there's not much left to respond to."
Well Yer right about WiiHD, most of my knowledge came from the MOHH2 era when your site was a little different. Doesn't make me wrong for dissagreeing with you or calling you out on a cheap review, that shows little knowledge of events that took place to actually get us this great game.
As far as Nintendo, I've actually read quite a bit on it and Iwata, as I thought he was an ass for his decision to not take hardcore wii online players seriously, something he's now being forced to rethink since his casual gamers turned out to be a bit lacking in the loyalty department. Don't you recall the statement that EA's CEO put out on Nintendo Limiting what they could do and not allowing porting or patching? I do, research it and you will find it. This is why we haven't seen an MOHH3, although WaWii's sales and hopefully this games sales in tandem with Nintendo lifting these restrictions will open the doors for EA to reconsider.
I know you like the sound of yer voice, and to see yer name in written text, but don't just blast a game to have something to say, or for that matter attempt to belittle someone just for calling ya out on it.
Oh and yer comment on the picture, "I recommended dialing back gfx for an online coop mode for WaWii (the original source of the image you noted — the image that has never appeared anywhere on this post btw), " Any idiot knows that's WaW, I didnt think I needed to point that part out, guess I should have, it's right there on yer front page (wiihd.net) in the middle of your review, well multiple review/attacks call them what ya want it's all a hack job. Is that not your additional comments "Where are the modern warefare reflex reviews?" I believe that is your name on that article, where ya posted the picture with the comment in it.
Look you attacked a good game that, was through great effort, made to run on the wii and run well on it. Right now any attacks in my view need to be justified as they are directly affecting sales when placed in the form of a review or sounding that way. I personally would like to see good games like this come to the wii, but with dismal sales it won't happen. I'm in no way saying to allow crap in, just because it's an online FPS, I called TC crap and still call it crap, and I see we may not be seeing eye to eye on that either.
But WaW openned alot of eyes in the development world, MWR could be the game that shows it wasn't a fluke, you dam well know that every game has been progressively better for the wii, and now we will start seeing better titles coming with plenty of content, so long as we are willing to support the big titles, I am certain we will see more quality developed with the wii's hardware in mind.
And in order to support the big titles we need the general public, that may not be hardcore gamers, to be interested enough to get the game, most of which will make up their minds by googling the title and reading what they find.
I believe you are wrong, and I will adimately state it with just as much passion to show them that it is a worthwile game.
You don't like it ban me. That is the only way your gonna shut me up.
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