Vote for Tales for 2009 Nintendo Power
Nintendo Powers polls have opened and Tales has been nominated for a few awards.
I forget all of the awards, but I remembered that tales was nominated for best wiiware game(as a whole, not each individual episode) and best newcomer(morgan leflay) and at least one more(maybe) so vote now
http://www.nintendopower.com/ You have to scroll down a little bit to find where to vote, I coulden't give you the exact link because I already voted and am not allowed to head back to that page incase I might vote again.
I forget all of the awards, but I remembered that tales was nominated for best wiiware game(as a whole, not each individual episode) and best newcomer(morgan leflay) and at least one more(maybe) so vote now
http://www.nintendopower.com/ You have to scroll down a little bit to find where to vote, I coulden't give you the exact link because I already voted and am not allowed to head back to that page incase I might vote again.
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"Cave Story"
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Ok no problem, it's in the adventure category too so I can give it that vote ri-
"The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks"
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Sheesh, Morgan has it really easy since I doubt many people actually know who the rest of those characters are. It's like she was meant to win!
EDIT: Also, man, they were so robbed for voice acting nomination! It's way better than the rest of the games in that category.
I don't remember tales being nominated for games of the year.
EDIT: and yeah I agree on the morgan thing, i only new Xion and her, and well, Xion was a decent character, but still, Morgan was better, and I bet none of us ever thought tales 1 was going to end like that with her
http://www.nintendopower.com/images/NP250_NPA2009.jpg
This ballot has it under "Overall Game of the Year" category.
Game of the Year seems unlikely (can't remember what it was up against, but... it's Nintendo Power, so a Nintendo game will probably win), but I think it can win something. And it will be sweet.
Me too, or best soundtrack for that matter. Ah well.
But I did give a nod for "Ghostbusters."
No story?
No way....
Still, I voted in pretty much all areas for Tales of Monkey Island because there wasn't really any others I liked as much.
me too :P
np: Maximo Park - Tanned (Quicken The Heart)
Or at least to youngins like me who thought that an adventure game was one where you just go on an adventure up until I was introduced to Lucas Arts games about a year ago. I think people are starting to go back to the old meaning now that adventure games are seeming to make a gradual comeback.
Or perhaps I'm just being more aware of their existence? I dunno.
Certainly seems that way - although I couldn't work out the difference between action and action/adventure.
I found the Wikipedia entry on video game genres helpful in explaining the distinction.
Interesting.
What they call "action/adventure" (Zelda, etc) I've always just called "adventure" (I don't see how action can be considered NOT to be a part of adventure, anyways. When have you ever had an adventure where nothing happened?).
And what they call "adventure" (the type where you combine objects, etc) I've always called "point and click adventure" (or more often just "point and click", so it wouldn't be confused with "adventure" games).
That is interesting - I'm the exact opposite.
I'd refer to anything where the gameplay focuses on manual dexerity (including Zelda etc.) as "action". To me, what you call "point-and-click adventure" would be just plain "adventure".
So as far as the Wikipedia definition of "action/adventure" goes, I guess it is somewhere between our two viewpoints.
To be honest, I guess I'm "weird" in my definitions since for instance, to me RPGs (the japanese kind, not the WoW kind) are also a subsection of adventure...
Basically, if you go on a quest, then it's an adventure, see what I mean?
March
There was no way I was going to miss out on giving Cave Story the love it deserves, though, so it got the Wiiware vote. (Tales was kind of a poor Wiiware port anyway)
EDIT: Also, I consider Zelda action/adventure, but I consider it to be more heavy on the adventure prospect. You spend more time exploring, roaming and solving puzzles than you do fighting enemies, which serve more as a hindrance. Except for bosses and mini-bosses, which most often are even puzzles themselves.
I'm the same. I grew up with Zelda, not even noing Point& click games existed until playing Curse at the age of 9. So Zelda was (and still is) an adventure game to me, by force of habit.
and for that bolded part of the quote I will go through my classsic rant on how THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE WIIWARE PORT:mad: I found the wiiware version way better than the PC version, I played the free narwhal telltale gave away on the pirate day and it was terrible, game kept crashing, cutscenes were slow and out of synch(ironicly all of the complaints the wiiware people get) and I know now that it isn't my crappy computer, because I got a brand new ultra awesome laptop and it jammed up and everything. Yet again i feel like I am the only one who thinks the pc version was a lousy version while the wiiware version still stands strong
Maybe you downloaded a corrupted version, or it was conflicting with your antivirus or something. Maybe you had the graphics set too high (try it on 1 and see what happens). The vast majority of PC owners suffered no problems.
I own the first two chapters on Wii, and all on PC, and i have to say, the wii version is inferior, but an adequate substitute if you can't get the PC version. The game caused my whole system (on wii) to crash on average 3 times per chapter, the textures are blurry (although i didn't overly notice it until playing the PC version), and the voices seem more compressed. Also, the load times were 6 times as long, and more frequent. But hey, it's monkey island, i can put up with a few bugs.
Yes the Wii version is good for people like my friend who have NO CHOICE, but overall it is still a very poor port, I'm sorry to say.
Thinking about it, in ways, Tales would be a better port, if it wasn't for the too frequent game crashes, than Sam&Max Wii. At least the audio was consistent.
Given that was their first wii title/port, thats kind of to be expected. But i have no doubt that the 40MB size limit on wiiware downloads is the reason for the low res textures, extra loading times and worse audio quality on tales. That doesn't explain the the induced wii-jamming/crashes though.
It still hasn't been released? I thought it was just delayed in europe. Ah well.