Topic: What's with all the RE-releases?

[NWR_Neal]

I agree with Strikers Charged point. That online worked. Makes Brawl/NBA Jam all the more disappointing in that regard.

I bring up Brawl because, like NBA Jam, it relies on a quicker game that suffers if it lags. Also, it had terrible online.

I mean, the better question would be would it hurt the game/brand more if the online was terrible (like Brawl) or not present. I feel like for different people there would be a different answer. NinSage, you would obviously want online. I'd rather have no online than terrible online. I mean, that's based on the premise that the online in NBA Jam would be bad, which I think is a fair assumption. If it was good, it would have been included.

[Chocobo_Rider]

I bring up Brawl because, like NBA Jam, it relies on a quicker game that suffers if it lags. Also, it had terrible online.

I've heard that now and then and I have to wonder if it is based on personal experience or just regurgitating what the media tells them. Online Brawl has been extremely popular.  Folks like me have played literally hundreds of hours of it.  That doesn't happen if it doesn't work.

Maybe my personal internet connection is blessed but I have only had a handful (less than 10) of unplayable matches and those were almost entirely during the game's first month of release.

If [NBA Jam's online] was good, it would have been included.
 

Unless, they were being lazy because they (mistakenly) assumed the game would just do soooo much better on the HD platforms.  Which is exactly my theory.

I agree with Strikers Charged point. That online worked. Makes [NBA Jam] all the more disappointing in that regard.

Exactly.

[Ceric]

I bring up Brawl because, like NBA Jam, it relies on a quicker game that suffers if it lags. Also, it had terrible online.

I've heard that now and then and I have to wonder if it is based on personal experience or just regurgitating what the media tells them. Online Brawl has been extremely popular.  Folks like me have played literally hundreds of hours of it.  That doesn't happen if it doesn't work.

Maybe my personal internet connection is blessed but I have only had a handful (less than 10) of unplayable matches and those were almost entirely during the game's first month of release.

If [NBA Jam's online] was good, it would have been included.
 

Unless, they were being lazy because they (mistakenly) assumed the game would just do soooo much better on the HD platforms.  Which is exactly my theory.

I agree with Strikers Charged point. That online worked. Makes [NBA Jam] all the more disappointing in that regard.

Exactly.

Blessed internet connection.  It might be better now but when I was playing down the street with 1mb  upload speeds 10mb down was bad.

[Halbred]

I'm actually excited about this.

I loved Umbrella Chronicles and I liked Darkside Chronicles, and I can really see myself loving an HD remake of both. Call me a graphics whore, but both of those games looked fine on the Wii but are gonna look a lot better on PS3. Besides, I have a Move wand that's just collecting dust after I beat Dead Space: Extraction.

[Sundoulos]

I bring up Brawl because, like NBA Jam, it relies on a quicker game that suffers if it lags. Also, it had terrible online.

I've heard that now and then and I have to wonder if it is based on personal experience or just regurgitating what the media tells them. Online Brawl has been extremely popular.  Folks like me have played literally hundreds of hours of it.  That doesn't happen if it doesn't work.

Maybe my personal internet connection is blessed but I have only had a handful (less than 10) of unplayable matches and those were almost entirely during the game's first month of release.

I must be one of the other people who never had much of a problem with Brawl.  Never had an unplayable game, but the time wasted when the game server was trying to match you with a new player was ridiculous. 

[NWR_Neal]

I tried very hard to get online Brawl working. I think I had something like two or three playable matches out of 30-40.

[Ceric]

Blah, The best part of Brawl was the Hype about Brawl.  The game just couldn't live up.

[ejamer]

Blah, The best part of Brawl was the Hype about Brawl.  The game just couldn't live up.

Felt the same way. I know Brawl is the defining Wii experience for many, and it's a fine game... but I didn't much care about Brawl when it failed to live up to the hype. Now I feel no need to own or play it, especially since there are dozens of other Wii games that blew away all of my expectations instead of coming up short.

[Ceric]

Blah, The best part of Brawl was the Hype about Brawl.  The game just couldn't live up.

Felt the same way. I know Brawl is the defining Wii experience for many, and it's a fine game... but I didn't much care about Brawl when it failed to live up to the hype. Now I feel no need to own or play it, especially since there are dozens of other Wii games that blew away all of my expectations instead of coming up short.

What sad is whenever I do decide to play Brawl I start to wonder why I'm not just playing Melee instead.  I didn't really particularly like Melee till Brawl came out...

[NWR_Neal]

I was just talking about this last weekend. A friend of mine said he didn't think Brawl was any good compared to Melee.

For me, the Smash Dojo was the pinnacle of gaming hype. It was spectacular. I wish Nintendo or other companies did stuff like it more often.

The day Brawl came out, I got it at midnight, and the proceeded to play it until around noon with three other people. It was one of the crowning game experiences of my entire life.

Brawl might not have the same staying power as Melee (I played it regularly from the day it came out until the day Brawl came out), but it's still good. I just think it suffers from overhype and just being more of the same.

[Ceric]

Just not a fan of Brawls pacing.

[UltimatePartyBear]

I'm fine with Brawl's pacing.  Just not its tripping.