<![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Altima NEO: The Super Scope was the best Lightgun of it's time. You never played the Metal Combat games.

Foxstar Sixtail

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Why does this bring back some hideous memories of Super Scope 6?

Altima NEO

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @LunchViking: LOL you remember the super scope and the power pad...LOL they have always done this?

@Mongoosekun: I think I'll be moding one also. I got a friend who's going to let me use his proto typer. Another thing is I was wondering I havn't ran it past my friend yet but you could write an extra layer of software to calibrate the Wii mote so that it is on sight. Instead of a relative proximity well I guess thats whats in store for the next console. Actually you could do a lot of that just by pointing at the senor bar and then placing your remote on a given object on screen... I mean you just let the accelerometers do their work. and you may just get pretty good accuracy at least vertically...LOL

Runna

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @SidepocketPro: Sure sucks this generation, don't it? Lotsa crap to buy. I miss the "buy the console, buy 1 extra controller and games and play" generations. (oh, and before anyone brings it up I know there were the arcade-sticks and 6-button controllers and shit back then too, but they just made life easier, they weren't required to get full functionality... maybe the light gun for the NES was, but it was included originally).

But I was just talking about Nintendo's controller situation without trying to make it sound like they were the sole violators.

But yeah, I totally agree with you.

LunchViking

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @LunchViking:

Microsoft: Here is the 360! Now that Hard Drive is too small, buy our own in house one for $100 more than a 3rd Party that has less space than a 3rd Party! Oh you do not like wires? Then buy our overpriced wireless adapter. Oh and buy the interactive remote too so we can sell you tons of not-quite HD movies on download that you could get on DVD for cheeper and would have more features. Then pay for an internet subscription that you already payed for. We own your soul!

Sony: 599 US DOLLA! OH AND BUY OUR RUMBLE CONTROLLERS AND PARTY LIKE ITS 1997!

Oh and Mr. MONGOOSEKUN Mod. My Mom is a 56 year old woman who has played every single light gun game starting with House of the Dead and loves blowing shit up. Your point?

SidepocketPro

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @shiwasu:

I'm going to mod it for a reason. Also I'm going to try and remove the controls and put them in a separate case... with very shady wiring no doubt. I hope the shipping guncon won't be so ugly as the prototype as well. ^^

Also that's another reason I hate the new 'zapper', since they just caved due to their focus on kids. It's like only kids and women that hate guns play games now.

Mongoosekun

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @weatherman:

I agree with you on TP graphics on the Wii. I own it and I'm not a fan of the art direction/style at all. It always looks strange to me when I'm playing like it's too blurry or something. This is with the composite cables on a sharp aquos at 480p. Of course, I enjoy the look of Phantom Hourglass more than TP. When I picked up PH I was like, "Finally we are back to the look I enjoy."

Adam In Texas

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> the bundle is 20 bucks right?, lol.

damn the game just looks pretty good.

epionx111

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Wow, I think that just proved my friends wrong! That looks really good! I look forward to getting ma hands on it!

CrazyBlue

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> WOW just look what happens when you actually build a game for the Wii you get best texture resolution! Also too I'm not sure but if there is a light source over that sand we could tell if that was normal mapped!

I told you guys it was starting to shape up a while back ago. The Wii is a nice step up... no HD system yet a nice step up at an affordable price. This one should be pretty fun and I hope they let you play as long as you want instead of the lame 10 second limits! We would play duck hunt all day back in the day! Thats hardcore!

Runna

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @weatherman:

I agree, actually The colors did look washed out and I think I'd rather have crispy jags than the blur effect they had going. it gave me a sickeningly Fable vibe. Good thing it was NOTHING like Fable and was actually fun. :)

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @CyricZ: Amen.

This looks like an awful lot of fun for $20. Goron crotch-sniping? Bonus!

Lezard

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> When it comes to graphics, I think a lot of you are forgetting that TP was originally a Gamecube game, while this game was built for the Wii ground up. It's also a much smaller game, so of course it has a lot of potential to look nicer. What, did you guys want TP delayed another year so that they could make the graphics better for the Wii version?

The more I see of this game, the more interested I am in it(while at first all I thought of it was "meh").

Livvers

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> this is a fantastic idea. good branding, good price, good fun. The system is perfect for this type of game.

dArk_stAr

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Despacio: hate is too strong a word. To be clear, I think that Twilight Princess is fantastic, but from a graphics perspective I find the colors washed out, the textures blurred, and overall just not very crisp. I've played it with composite cables and component cables on my LCD TV and didn't see a difference. I'm not "hating" Nintendo, I am just saying that I think the graphics of this new shooter appear better in the stills than my experience with LZ:TP.

weatherman

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> For $20 bucks, it'd be stupid not to pick this up, in my opinion. It actually looks like some effort has been put in. There's apparently even a multi-player mode.
If you don't want the zapper plastic, just take the damn thing to a recycling center and drop it off.

MR. FAP☆FAP!

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Well, it's $20. If it's a dog, at least I didn't waste much.

jaredgood1

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> I'll get it. Looks like decent fun. Mostly for Ghost Squad since the only place to play it here is Gameworks...and its ALWAYS busted. That and Resident Evil. Hey, 3 games for a gun controller? More than most systems get!

KaneTaker

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Could be an interesting game... but not so sure on that title. I can't wait to see promo materials on the walls of game shops everywhere right next to Brain Training posters. :P

Sardu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Don't really want the zapper...but I'm all for arcade Point Blank shooters! And a Zelda-theme one at that O_O Rather just use the wiimote though. This could have been a nifty extra minigame add-on in Twilight Princess' Wii version. Like an unlockable kind of thing. I'm hoping Nintendo will make it a WiiWare download later for the non-zapper purchasing crowd but I doubt they will.

Schu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> they could have made the wii remote switchblade controller shell and then included it with a game where he sneaks up on moblins and cuts their jugular.

just saying.

thomas c

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Fallen_Reality: "Shooting Gorgon nads I see"

That was my reaction exactly.

I'll probably buy this because I am a sucker. It doesn't look that great to me, but the zapper may help the noobs who come over and want to play an FPS on the wii.

PaulMorel

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> To all:

Yeah, I see the whole "it's $20 and you get a game and a plastic thingy" argument. Admittedly: CHEAP.

I was under the impression that this zapper would join the wiimote, nunchuck and classic controller as "required to get full functionality" out of the Wii. If it won't become a major interface device for big, important games in the future then I don't care. I just have a basket full of wiimotes, nunchucks and classic controllers (got em free with two 5000yen point card purchases so it's all good money-wise... but space-wise....)

@inphanta: Oh, come on! We're here talking about video games and you bring up the "no one is forcing you to buy it" argument? Yeah, I KNOW. Video games. Yeah. Luxury purchases. Thanks.

LunchViking

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Mongoosekun:
oh, and the Wii Play comment.

Wii Remote: $70
Wii Play with Wii Remote: $65
At least over here.

shiwasu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @ajay42: Maybe he actually meant "tiered", like he typed.

Yossarian

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> I so want this game.

EmeraldDragon

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @BrainofJTD:
Ah, thanks. This place has had a bad effect on me. ^^'

@Mongoosekun:
Guncon 3? Is that the one with the anologue stick/dpad sticking out of its side? Not very lefty friendly..

On the zapper. Sure, it doesn't look very badass, but the uproar those conservative parents made over the supposed wii zapper, I can see why Nintendo made it the way that it is.

shiwasu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Now that I think about it, what if they did and they had a bunch of SIXAXIS bundles still sitting on shelves? Boned. Then again everyone knows DS3 will EVENTUALLY, at some point MUST be integrated so they might as well say it.

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @ajay42:

It's much more of a deal than ms or sony would ever produce. Sony won't even make DS3 mandatory for all PS3 skus for Christ's fucking sake.

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> "Nintendo enjoys selling tiered add-ons ( Wii Play anyone?"

how is an extra controller or a $10 set of simple games a 'tired add on'?

ajay42

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Mongoosekun:

It doesn't look like a pistol because it integrates the nunchuk. In MY opinion it DOES look like a gun with a large stock.

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Looks more involved than what I was thinking - which was a Gerudo training ground - like from OoT.

I'm getting this, but really don't have any desire for the periphrial.

sadkermit - soon to be banned for standing up to the ummm nazi.

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Anyone remember that old arcade game called Crossbow? They should remake that for the zapper ... I loved that game.

jayntampa

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @LunchViking: Nobody is forcing you to buy anything you don't want to buy. Stop complaining for the sake of it.

inphanta

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Sixtail:

I'm still not impressed by plastic cup holders sold as add-ons for a game system. Nintendo enjoys selling tiered add-ons ( Wii Play anyone? ) anyway, so why not make a real gun add-on? I'm sure some people will think this is fun and exciting, but you could just make your own 'zapper cup holder' out of cardboard or your favorite hobby material.

I realize the idea is to make it "not a gun in any shape and form", but I think it misses the entire point of a 'light gun'. This is to appeal to the concept "guns are evil", or Nintendo just like to cash out on $5 plastic molds -- take your pick. That's the reason people are mildly outraged by the zapper. I'll be modding my Guncon 3 of course, but at least you can hold it like a pistol to begin with. ^^

Mongoosekun

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @shiwasu:

Why does everything positive have to be considered corny? Be proud of your good attitude and sportsmanship.

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Darkmoon:
That's why I said international teams. I might be delusional, but at least it's the optimistic kind, and not the 'lolzRRODphailureGIMMICK' kind. And I'll still keep believing that when that athlete, or gymnast, or whatever it may be goes for Olympic gold, they're thinking of their country, and not "hello sponsors!".

(yes, that was extremely corny. you don't have to point it out.)

shiwasu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @LunchViking: They're not 'nickel-and-diming you'. You get a mini Zelda game for $20. It looks like a lot of fun (not compared to a full-price game, but reasonable for the price). And hey, they throw in a free piece of plastic!

Sure the game might have been $10 for download (and personally I'd prefer it without the piece of plastic) but $20 is not too bad.

@fanatism: Twilight Princess is awesome. People only bash it because it's basically the same as every other Zelda game, with a few new twists - which is definitely true, but has also been true of every other Zelda game by definition, and they were still awesome. If you don't like Zelda or you think you've been all Zeldaed out over the years, don't get Twilight Princess. If you do still like Zelda, get it.

@Despacio: Exactly. It looks just the same; all those textures and models are from the original game. Nintendo said it was running the same engine... sure maybe they have tweaked it and made minor improvements but nothing I can immediately spot in those screenshots. It looked great, it still looks great, what's the surprise?

quen

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Finally, I can live my life-long dream of shooting a Goron in the crotch. ^_^

CyricZ

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @LunchViking:

No game will require it. And the system comes with a remote and a nunchuk, that's hardly a peripheral argument.

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @shiwasu: Yea, sports teams play just for you. And for the beauty of it all. There's absolutely no monetary stake in that wonderful world of rainbow running merry little men. Go team delusional!

Darkmoon

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Yas: Reminded me of this: [cache.kotaku.com]

Alalu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @BrainofJTD: @Despacio: No, this is not what TP looked like. I'm using component cables. It may just be some sort of screenshot trickery, but theses look much better than TP. The textures and colors look better.

Spartan1308™

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> BTW, the whole game isn't on-rails. In ranger mode you can control link with the stick.

inochi

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Sixtail:
It's true, but nonetheless odd. When I watch international sports, though, I support my country's team because they come from where I come from, and are playing to win for their country (me). But video game companies? They play to win, not for gamers, but for themselves and their stockholders.

That didn't make a lick of sense, but my point was, it's quite reasonable to barrack and be passionate for a sports team, because they play for you, but not so much for a business.

shiwasu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> "I have to go online and flame games I haven't even tried just by looking 2-3 pictures and after that I have to buy the game myself and flame it even more online so no one else would play it" -something that one endboss in one game said. Imo it is a bargain for just 20$.

Yas

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> the graphics look pretty damn good, especially the textures, nice and sharp. Inpressive. I want that game.

jephs_mun

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @LunchViking: The zapper comes with this game though. For 20. So...

Foxstar Sixtail

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> What I dislike about this whole thing is that Nintendo may have given us an el-cheapo (price-wise) console but they're nickel and diming me to death here with controllers! Buy a wii-mote. Buy a nunchuck. Buy a wii-zapper.

I don't know. I guess it's just three things. Still. Have voice, will use.

I probably won't buy it as it seems more like a gimmick anyway but if an awesome, full fledged game comes along that requires it then perhaps PERHAPS i'll think about it. Perhaps.

LunchViking

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> For $20 bucks I'm sold. Just hope there is support for it.

tjcrabtree

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @shiwasu: It's the nature of internet gamers. They have a voice and will use it as loudly as they can. No matter how annoying.

Video game systems have become the new sports teams.

Foxstar Sixtail

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> So, Link will be a lefty here?

Alalu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> could it just be that people thought TP looked good and just find that this looks even better? and you really can't generalize... when TP came out, there WERE a some people complaining about some graphical problems. Personally, I didn't find them perfect either, even though it overall looked very nice.

inochi

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Whoops. That was meant for Sixtail.

shiwasu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> The Zapper actually looks more like a crossbow handle than a gun.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Fallen_Reality:
inochi is right. Gamers criticise everything. Everything. They even criticised a video game company for helping research cancer. Cancer.

[kotaku.com]

shiwasu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> i'm still yet to play the zelda:tp, but it seems like when it came out everyone was like "ooh this is SO GOOD" and now, "bwaaah it suuucks I HATE NINTENDO!!"

fanatism

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Despacio:

Is it hate when they're praising a game while simultaneously (and arbitrarily) bashign a similar one?

It's less hate than it is "complaining just to complain."

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> You guys are hilarious, this looks just like TP. Maybe you were playing with composite cables are your 13" televisions or something.

The Nintendo hate is just getting out of control now.

Despacio

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @Sixtail: Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft. there's people bitching about everything! there isn't anything that doesn't get scoffed at anymore. gaming enthusiasts are some the biggest cynics and jaded folk. Is there anyone who is consistently enthusiastic and positive out there?

seriously, I'm all for this game. I love arcadey games, especially if they look this nice. That pic of hyrule castle at night with the balloons seriously lessens the pain of not having Brawl this holiday. Also, this is a $20 game with a free gun add-on... and even without the gun I'd get this game day one.

inochi

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> 20$ for a game that comes with a periphiral? Sounds ok to me!

Especially since I plan on buying RE UC anyway... but I allready played Ghost Squad to dead in the local arcade so I will most likely skip this one.

Gremory

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> I seriously dont see the difference. You guys are some nitpicky bastiches.

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @SidepocketPro: my thought exactly. I guess that's what you get with a launch title though - the graphics are never as good as they are with later games. Oh well, maybe they'll release Twilight Princess: The Non-Sucky Edition at some point.

weatherman

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Ooh, desert sand looks nice.

I'll wait and see what the other Zapper games are like before I pay up for the shell. Ghost Squad is nostalgic, but RE:UC doesn't appeal to me at the moment.

Armagilius

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> @SidepocketPro:

That IS what TP looked like...

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> I still have no clue when this will be out in Europe...

Shiryu

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Rated M for Mature.

Detha

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> For 20 dollars, I don't see how anyone can serious bitch about this, but this being a Nintendo related post, there will be much bitching, from the endless crying over the Zapper shell, to the anti mini games people to the "Where's a real game?" trolls.

I'll be getting it. 20 bucks? Come on now.

Foxstar Sixtail

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> O_O
Shooting Gorgon nads I see.

Fallen_Reality

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> You know what pisses me off?

I am no graphics whore, but look at those textures! The lighting! This is what Twilight Princess for the Wii SHOULD have looked like!

SidepocketPro

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Since when was B green?

BrainofJTD

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> Yay! Yet more accessories to buy.

axiom

]]> <![CDATA[Link's Crossbow Training Screens]]> That actually looks like some fun shit! :D

Witzbold

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