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[donny2112]

1 million (including the eventual Player's Choice) in the U.S. before its done.

 

[Davey Cakes]

Box art complaining is so funny.

Honestly, we all have an idea of what a good box art is. There's no box art in the world that would satisfy everybody's particular standards...

...Except for Mario Galaxy.

But still, just let it go. The Conduit's box is fine. Hell, if anything, it's above average. So many box arts are just bland and crappy these days. This one is not.

 

[Phife Dawg]

I like the placement of the second barrel :lol . What's supposed to come out there?

Other than that I somehow like it - looks retro and modern at the same time.

 

[Akai]

I like the placement of the second barrel :lol . What's supposed to come out there?

Laser sight?

I really like the box art...It has that cheesy B-sci-fi feel to it...

 

[Phife Dawg]

Laser sight?

I really like the box art...It has that cheesy B-sci-fi feel to it...

Isn't that supposed to be the red dot beneath the barrel?

 

[GDGF]

I like it because it looks like a comic book cover from the 90's. Extreme can be good in small doses

 

[Hiltz]

In a new interview, High Voltage Software said that Sega will announce a press release displaying all of the game's details for multiplayer in a next couple of weeks.


Sweet boxart by the way. Very colorful.



http://www.n-philes.com/news/4634/interview-high-voltage-software/

 

[EatChildren]

Viral marketing has begun for The Conduit. Start here;

www.seeing-is-deceiving.com

Website seems pretty bugged, sometimes not loading properly and other times redirecting to SEGA's The Conduit profile page.

Seems to be a collection of clues as to the nature of the story, the premise, and other features.

This thread on IGN has some clues revealed through digging, such as;

- "XLII", which is 42 in Roman numerals, and the fabled 'meaning of life'.
- "Investigate Fertile Crescent"
- Novus Orde Seclorum
- I have seen the Fnords!
- "Colares was more successful than Roswell"

Even if the story itself isn't all that fleshed out, HVS are doing a good job of making the premise pretty interesting.

 

[butsomuch]

New trailer - The All Seeing Eye

 

[AceBandage]

New trailer - The All Seeing Eye

Seems the ASE has some attack abilities (he used it on the giant alien).

 

[CTLance]

Viral marketing has begun for The Conduit.

META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 04 Dec 1999 21:29:02 GMT"

Wha...huh?

 

[Arandur]

Hypeeeeee

 

[EatChildren]

Seems the ASE has some attack abilities (he used it on the giant alien).

If I recall correctly there's a screenshot of that alien in that room and it's cloaked, so I figure it's some form of boss / mini-boss, where the ASE is required to reveal it and possible inflict extra damage.

 

[GDGF]

Lookie better and better.

 

[markatisu]

I love that box art, reminds me very much of the mid 90's comics

Also I think since its sci-fi based it might sell better than the barrage of WWII shooters that plague the Wii

 

[xir]

hopefully the viral sites will show some new gameplay... the little teaser at the beginning was fun.

 

[Scrubking]

Conduit multiplayer blowout on the 15th

On April 15th we’re going to have a big multiplayer event with Sega (The Conduit's publisher). A press event extravaganza to basically call everybody into the room and say: “O.k. You’ve all been wanting to see multiplayer play, multiplayer etc., here it is”. That will all happen on the 15th. We’re not planning on hiding anything.

http://hdwarriors.com/index.php/wii...tiplayer-all-will-be-revealed-april-15th.html

 

[markatisu]

Could we change the thread title to something like The Conduit Update thread?

 

[MarkusRJR]

Could we change the thread title to something like The Conduit Update thread?

...or "The Conduit Discussion Thread of 'OMG FPS ON WII!'" ?

 

[markatisu]

...or "The Conduit Discussion Thread of 'OMG FPS ON WII!'" ?

It would be more like

"The Conduit Discussion Thread of 'OMG A GOOD FPS ON WII!'"

 

[markatisu]

Wow, High Voltage must be trying to be the new Factor 5 but with good controls

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/694618/The-Conduit-Single-Player-Preview.html

In the end, The Conduit shows a ton of potential. It could finally be the Wii shooter we'd all hoped to get when the console was unveiled some three and a half years ago. If the controls work as well as it looks like they do, it could provide an experience that allows gamers to really feel like they're aiming a gun at alien creatures, rather than just waggling, locking on, and waggling some more. My only fear with the controls is that with the endless amount of customization, players will have trouble finding their sweet spot when it may have been better for the developers to limit selections to a few predetermined optimum builds.

In addition, the folks at High Voltage have put some effort into creating an interesting sci-fi world that at least has a chance of making the player care about the story and characters. The Drudge and their allies seem like a formidable set of enemies, and guns at Michael Ford's disposal seem varied and interesting. The environments themselves were a well crafted, and the graphics are among the very best seen on the Wii to date.

Much of The Conduit's lasting appeal will come down to if High Voltage can pull off the promised 16 player online multiplayer and find good work-arounds to Nintendo's awful friend code system and historically laggy network connections. However, the single-player campaign at least looks deep and promising enough to stand on its own, so hopefully The Conduit can lead a hardcore gaming charge on the casual motion controlled system.

Finally, one last note of interest to Nintendo fanboys: At the end of the demo, I asked Matt Corso if they had pushed the Wii as far as it could go. His response: "This is just the tip of the iceberg, there are new graphical technologies we've already developed that came along too late to include in The Conduit."

 

[Scrubking]

hopefully The Conduit can lead a hardcore gaming charge on the casual system.

God, I hate the videogame media.

 

[Thunder Monkey]

God, I hate the videogame media.

Tastes like chicken.

 

[JDSN]

God, I hate the videogame media.

The most ironic this is this probably the tenth time they have said "Wii finally gets a hardcore game!"

 

[EatChildren]

Wow, High Voltage must be trying to be the new Factor 5 but with good controls

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/694618/The-Conduit-Single-Player-Preview.html

I remember ages ago HVS claimed that The Conduit was pushing the Wii as far as it can go, in terms of rendering effects and what-not. I figured this would happen; they'd work out some more tricks as development progressed.

Just look at the jump from Rogue Leader to Rebel Strike. The former was amazing, even by today's standards, but the latter then looked noticably better.

I'm looking forward to the multiplayer bash. I'm eager to see how much content is there.

 

[Htown]

The most ironic this is this probably the tenth time they have said "Wii finally gets a hardcore game!"

It happens every time the Wii gets one.

Tenchu - FINALLY A WII HARDCORE GAME
House of the Dead - FINALLY A WII HARDCORE GAME
madworld - FINALLY A WII HARDCORE GAME

 

[Davey Cakes]

That's what happens when people are too focused one whether or not a game is hardcore.

How about we starting caring a little less about "casual vs. hardcore" and a little more about whether or not the game is fun, eh?

 

[pakkit]

How about we starting caring a little less about "casual vs. hardcore" and a little more about whether or not the game is fun, eh?

Quiet, you. Quit trying to bring sensibility into a NeoGAF thread.

 

[Scrubking]

That's what happens when people are too focused one whether or not a game is hardcore or not.

I'm still trying to figure out what "hardcore" means. I mean the media uses the word in almost every single article especially where the Wii is concerned so I'd like to know what such a highly used word actually means. Funny thing is no one seems to know. So why is the word used so much then?

 

[joetachi]

I'm still trying to figure out what "hardcore" means. I mean the media uses the word in almost every single article especially where the Wii is concerned so I'd like to know what such a highly used word actually means. Funny thing is no one seems to know. So why is the word used so much then?

Yeah and if you count last gen it only meant games with violence now it sort of went to meaning AAA games.

 

[Davey Cakes]

Yeah and if you count last gen it only meant games with violence now it sort of went to meaning AAA games.

It's retarded. The plague of gaming is when people need a game to be "hardcore" in order to have fun, rather than the game just being fun by nature.

It was okay to have "casual vs. hardcore" when those divisions were used loosely, that is, to differentiate an epic RPG to a flash game on a computer. But now, the meaning of "hardcore vs. casual" is all over the place, and is getting ridiculous. I wish we could all just put the differentiation to rest, especially since the Wii itself, with a focus on "bridge games" is trying to bring things back to the NES days, when games were just games.

 

[Scrubking]

I wish we could all just put the differentiation to rest, especially since the Wii itself, with a focus on "bridge games" is trying to bring things back to the NES days, when games were just games.

The videogame industry, including the media, will never let that happen.

 

[vanguardian1]

The videogame industry, including the media, will never let that happen.

One good thing about the Wii's effect in all of this is that it has exposed the worst of the industry.

The bad part to that is that it's revealed that this industry runs almost completely on idiocy, ignorance, pride, and selfishness rather than skill and common (business) sense.

Getting back on track : I'm really interested in this now, much, much more than I was last year.

 

[Davey Cakes]

The Conduit looks more "pure fun" than any FPS I've played in years. The controls alone get me excited for it.

Now every time I see someone playing a dual-analog game, I laugh at how ridiculously unnatural is looks in comparison to the fluidity we've seen in The Conduit's gameplay videos.

 

[markatisu]

Posting this here since that last Conduit thread was just awful

Looks like Sega is releasing a CE of the game via Gamestop

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=72956

* Unique ASE with custom detail and projected light
* “Secret Agent” multiplayer character
* 24-page artbook featuring concept art from the game world

 

[EDarkness]

The videogame industry, including the media, will never let that happen.

There is truth to this. Extremely sad, indeed.

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

It's a shame that it's so prohibitively ugly

 

[DECK'ARD]

I'm not a huge FPS fan, but I like the look of this.

 

[Night_Trekker]

It's a shame that it's so prohibitively ugly

When did you get unbanned? (Serious question, not trying to be snarky.)

 

[Akai]

Looks like Sega is releasing a CE of the game via Gamestop

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=72956

Ooooh, I approve of artbooks as pre-order bonuses! (The other two things seem kind of piddly, really, but who cares? ARTBOOK!)

 

[Model 500]

I'm still trying to figure out what "hardcore" means. I mean the media uses the word in almost every single article especially where the Wii is concerned so I'd like to know what such a highly used word actually means. Funny thing is no one seems to know. So why is the word used so much then?

They (and Gaf for that matter) seem to use it for games that have violence and blood, even better is the use of the word "mature" for FPS games and the like :lol

 

[Mashing]

Ooooh, I approve of artbooks as pre-order bonuses! (The other two things seem kind of piddly, really, but who cares? ARTBOOK!)

Considering the art is pretty god-awful (okay, that may be too strong a word--generic would be more politically correct), I'm not sure why you are excited about an art book. Otherwise, I'd agree with you, art books are generally what I look for most in CE's.

 

[Akai]

Because I love artbooks, and while the character designs are "generic," I still like the style... =)

 

[donny2112]

Looks like Sega is releasing a CE of the game via Gamestop

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=72956

Oooooh. Are there usually other kinds of limited edition exclusives or is GameStop often the only one doing these kind of preorder bonuses?

 

[Scrubking]

So the LE has in game differences? That sucks. They better offer that stuff as an unlockable or free download or something. I already preordered through Amazon!

 

[Meesh]

At the end of the demo, I asked Matt Corso if they had pushed the Wii as far as it could go. His response: "This is just the tip of the iceberg, there are new graphical technologies we've already developed that came along too late to include in The Conduit."

No doubt referring to cube maps.

On a less backhanded note, that box art is so cheesy...almost makes for a good retro t-shirt.

 

[pakkit]

So the LE has in game differences? That sucks. They better offer that stuff as an unlockable or free download or something. I already preordered through Amazon!

It's just a skin change.

 

[Shins]

Considering the art is pretty god-awful (okay, that may be too strong a word--generic would be more politically correct), I'm not sure why you are excited about an art book. Otherwise, I'd agree with you, art books are generally what I look for most in CE's.

it'll go well with my gallery of hotel art!

 

[Jocchan]

Posting this here since that last Conduit thread was just awful

Looks like Sega is releasing a CE of the game via Gamestop

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=72956

The CE should include an exclusive Genesis replacement boxart. It would be awesome.

 

[markatisu]

Oooooh. Are there usually other kinds of limited edition exclusives or is GameStop often the only one doing these kind of preorder bonuses?

It depends, if its a Gamestop and Sega deal then we may also see a Sega and Best Buy deal (think how exclusives were done for GH Metallica where Gamestop got the foot pedal, Best Buy got tattoo sleeves and Gamecrazy got drum sticks)

Just depends on how much Sega wants to push it. The fact they are making a CE at all shows they expect a lot more than 45-100k in sales as it seems they were figuring Madworld and HoTD Overkill would achieve.