Post by: RickPowers on November 29, 2006, 07:30:59 AM
There is also a "side quest" of sorts with a new doctor and all new surgeries. And it's boatloads of fun. I couldn't get my wife to try the DS game (surgery game? ick!) but she's showing some interest in the Wii version, so I figure it's only a matter of time before I come home from school and she's got someone sliced open.
Post by: NWR_pap64 on November 29, 2006, 07:53:48 AM
I'm sorry, but the DS version left a bad taste on my mouth.
Post by: RickPowers on November 29, 2006, 08:33:08 AM
Post by: NWR_pap64 on November 29, 2006, 08:37:18 AM
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It's easier. At the risk of spoiling part of the game ... I never got past the part of the game with the bomb. Not only is that part completely different, it's easier as well. There's more tolerance in the game for slight mistakes, in fact, I'm incredibly sloppy with my sutures and still manage to get either Good or Cool on most of them. Performing a "Healing Touch" is harder, but I've only had to use it on rare occasions.
I got stuck in the part where you had to extract several aneurysms near the beginning of the game. What got me was that more aneurysms would pop up that I could handle, and even when I did it as fast as I could, I still failed at the mission.
How is this operation in the Wii version?
Post by: Smoke39 on November 29, 2006, 10:26:43 AM
I'd like to give Trauma Center another chance, but waving a remote around in the air lacks the tactile feeling of using a stylus on a screen.
Post by: matt oz on November 29, 2006, 11:12:35 AM
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Post by: RickPowers on November 29, 2006, 02:46:10 PM
Post by: Shecky on November 29, 2006, 03:44:57 PM
Post by: NWR_pap64 on November 29, 2006, 03:50:22 PM
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Yes, that operation is a tad easier. It's worth noting that I think you're intended to use the Healing Touch in that mission to finish it. There's also a bit of other strategy to employ in terms of handling as many of them at once as you can.
Even with the healing touch, I was STILL having problems with the mission.
Glad to know its a tad easier. I need to try it out, though.
Post by: ShyGuy on March 29, 2007, 07:00:47 PM
Just rented this game, liking it more than I thought so far. Feels very..... Wii. It fits the platform really well. It's different from the typical action-adventure-with-rpg-elements that every other game is nowadays.
Post by: Artimus on March 29, 2007, 07:42:58 PM
Post by: Kairon on March 29, 2007, 08:44:40 PM
There was one really disturbing part where the game was dictating a point of view on a controversial socio-political issue and I didn't feel right with the proselitization going on.
~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: ShyGuy on March 30, 2007, 04:09:40 AM
Post by: Artimus on March 30, 2007, 04:39:00 AM
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Yeah, and additionally, this game made me SERIOUSLY concerned about political and social messages over controversial issues embedded in videogames.
There was one really disturbing part where the game was dictating a point of view on a controversial socio-political issue and I didn't feel right with the proselitization going on.
~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Which part was that?
Post by: Kairon on March 30, 2007, 09:05:29 AM
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Kairon@aol.com
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 30, 2007, 09:18:43 AM
Toss out the story, and see how the gameplay REALLY WEIGHS.
People *cared* about MGS2's story, and got sick of Raiden. Take out the story, and you've got a 6-hour game hiding around corners. A long awful story for a short series of gameplay diversions. SERVES THEM RIGHT SHO' NUFF
Twilight Princess was one disastrous sidequest, but at least it was OK gameplay experience.
Post by: Khushrenada on March 30, 2007, 10:25:46 AM
C'mon Kairon! Everyone is curious now. If you don't want to post it, could you at least pm me about it?
Post by: Kairon on March 30, 2007, 10:54:04 AM
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Kairon@aol.com
Post by: ShyGuy on March 30, 2007, 11:28:06 AM
The sociopath lobby is behind Manhunt 2. Someone call our favorite lawyer.
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 30, 2007, 11:35:49 AM
Post by: decoyman on March 30, 2007, 12:53:46 PM
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I picked up the version for Wii, but have yet to try it (thanks to Zelda). Once I do, I'll post some impressions on the difficulty.
Wow, what a timely bump, and it allows me to keep my "promise" of posting impressions on the difficulty since I literally just started playing it again.
So, as Rick had mentioned, the difficulty is indeed easier. But most important is that there's a difficulty select included, and you can switch between difficulties all you want, without having to start the game over. I'm playing through mostly on Easy right now, and have gotten almost all S ranks, and the rest are As.
The other thing I like about it is that it's one of those games that's fun to show to people. My wife's cousin is a heart doctor, and he had a blast playing it. He was especially impressed with all the proper terminology and tools (magic healing gel excluded
). So, yeah. Worried about difficulty? Don't be. Just set it on easy and cruise on through. And remember, if you're having an incredibly difficult time, you may be doing something wrong, or forgetting a step or something. It may not be the game's fault.
Post by: Shecky on March 30, 2007, 01:20:17 PM
The standard terminology did seem reasonably accurate.
Post by: wandering on March 30, 2007, 02:50:45 PM
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Oh for Peter Gibbon's sake, get off the story issue.
Toss out the story, and see how the gameplay REALLY WEIGHS.
Story is more than just cut-scenes. The earlier parts of Trauma Center were better than the later parts, why? The gameplay didn't change, but the story did. At first, the game was about a young doctor and his hot nurse assistant fighting against regular illness and injury. Later, the game was about a young doctor and his hot nurse assistant fighting against GUILT. And pulling glass shards out of people is way more fun than fighting triangles.
Post by: Kairon on March 30, 2007, 02:55:55 PM
~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 30, 2007, 03:08:52 PM
I got a B on Op Z-1 on HARD.
HARD.
Post by: Artimus on March 30, 2007, 04:51:36 PM
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Toss out the story, and see how the gameplay REALLY WEIGHS.
But the story REALLY HURTS the gameplay. I spend so much time skipping cutscenes that it feels like the game is mainly static images with text and the occasional interlude of surgery instead of the opposite.
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 30, 2007, 06:33:02 PM
Post by: Kairon on March 30, 2007, 08:18:01 PM
Seriously though. Fighting polygons makes the gameplay boringl. I wanted to do OPERATIONS, not abstract sci Fi point-and-touch.
~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Post by: Artimus on March 30, 2007, 08:59:13 PM
