Topic: New DLC Available for WiiWare Final Fantasy Game

[GoldenPhoenix]

This is another game that I would definitely buy if I had the blocks. Nintendo needs to know how much money they're losing out on because of the lack of a storage solution.

I don't think anyone knows why Nintendo doesn't allow alternative storage. You are right though, it WILL hurt sales, even I have hesitated getting a VC game because of going through the trouble of moving everything to the SD card to play it (which takes forever to even copy over).

[NWR_insanolord]

There's at least $50 worth of stuff, and probably a lot more, where the only thing stopping me from purchasing it is my space issues. Though that may not necessarily be a bad thing, I've already bought more than a quarter of the VC games that have been released. I think I have a real problem.

[animecyberrat]

I was stressing about the space issue also until I found a solution. Copy EVERYTHING to the SD card and just leave 1 blank space for VC/WiiWare games and when you're in the mood to play a game just copy it to the Wii memory, but don't delete it from the SD card. Then when you're done delete it and you're ready to copy the next game.

Sure it takes a bout a minute to do, but if you think about it, turning off the SNES, taking out Super Mario World, putting in Donkey Kong Country and turning the SNES back on takes about the same amount of time there is nothing to complain about.

I think people who make it out to be a big deal are just exaggerating because I found doing this way not only saves time but works effortlessly. You don't even have to leave one space open you can fill up the system memory with your 15 or so favorites and leave a couple black spaces near the end to do the swapping out. Just be sure to leave everything on the SD card and it's not a big deal.

Copying back and forth takes forever and a day but once it's all on the SD card then swapping games is a lot easier and less cumbersome than swapping SNES and moving over to Genesis then going to N64 and back to SNES. Before the Wii whatever system I had hooked up that was what got played.

AS for the topic at hand...

I am sorta with UB, once a game is done it's done, having the choice to download extra content is fair and reasonable but I am opposed to DLC on principal because it does allow for developers to put out a Demo of a game and charge extra for the rest. Then again is it really any different than Shareware? I guess I will take a wait and see approach.

Wait till the game comes out and see how much you actually get for the introductory price. If it's less than what you get from a demo, then by all means bitch and moan, if its at least as much as you'd get from a shareware title (even though I don't think anyone still does that) well then it's at least enough to justify the introductory price and then you can pick and chose what to download at your leisure.

[Kairon]

It's not a full game, itself, though.  I could go get a PS2 and Dark Cloud for a more complete game with a somewhat similar theme.

The game itself, if I understand correctly, is a sim-type game along the lines of Sim City.  I've played sim games before, most notably, Roller Coaster Tycoon.  There's a lot to do, several scenarios, and a near-infinite number of ways to build a park.  Essentially, I feel like the actual gameplay that this game consists of is about equal to one individual scenario of Roller Coaster Tycoon, only it's probably not in real-time, and there's less available options.  However, this game is obviously prettier, I'll give it that.  Roller Coaster Tycoon ran for $30 when it came out, IIRC, and it, as far as I can tell has several times the content available than what this game could have if you bought everything.  Yes, you can factor in inflation and all that jazz, but we've learned that inflation and technology don't go hand-in-hand.

On top of that, the character, building, and world models have probably already been developed, at least to some extent,  for the Wii FF:CC that's on the way (supposedly, since we haven't heard about it in about a year).  My point is, this game was likely very cheap for SE to make.  The gameplay, as far as I've read, seems to be very immature and devoid of any decent level of interaction.  The biggest issue for me, is that I don't feel that what SE is offering for a $39 whole package is even worth the "trial" $15.  If SE would say that the game is an investment, and that what happens here can benefit other games, maybe I'd go for it.  I like real gimmicks.  They haven't, though, and I'm seriously debating whether this game would be worth my money, something I rarely do, rather, I worry about titles being worth my time.

I don't know.  Maybe there's more there to it.  I certainly haven't followed every little piece about it.  It just seems to me that the "trial" UncleBob suggests isn't even much as a trial, I see more gameplay available for free demos than I expect from this game.

We'll just have to see.

No, no. You've got perfectly valid concerns. But it doesn't sound like you're worried about DLC. It sounds more like you're worried that the game doesn't have enough depth to satisfy you. I mean, this game has you staying in a city and sending adventurers out to do your dirty work: you never set foot in a dungeon! ... i love it...

[vudu]

I was stressing about the space issue also until I found a solution. Copy EVERYTHING to the SD card and just leave 1 blank space for VC/WiiWare games and when you're in the mood to play a game just copy it to the Wii memory, but don't delete it from the SD card. Then when you're done delete it and you're ready to copy the next game.

Wow, that's actually a really great idea.  I take back half the bad things I ever said about you.

[animecyberrat]

I guess I mistook this game for that "dungeon crawler" you were talking about before, what is that game called and when does it come out, I am not interested in sims other good old Sim City. Or am I even more confused now than I was then?

[that Baby guy]

It would take hours to copy everything to an SD card.  It copies at an incredibly slow rate.

[NWR_insanolord]

It would take hours to copy everything to an SD card.  It copies at an incredibly slow rate.

Yes, but at least in my experiment earlier copying from the SD card to the Wii is significantly faster (still not fast, but a lot better than the  other way). This would work a lot better if you were copying each game as you got it instead of all at once, I can't begin to imagine how long it would take to copy all 61of my VC games to an SD card, but I'm thinking about trying it.