Other games released today:
- The Three Musketeers: One for All! (WiiWare, Legendo Entertainment, 1 player, 900 Wii Points)
- HB Arcade Cards (WiiWare, HB Studios, 1 player, 500 Wii Points)
- Sudoku Student (DSiWare, Hudson, 1 player, 200 DSi Points)
Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Jul 07, 2009
What are you talking about? You can't even buy the episodes separately on Steam, so it's not an option, it's a concious decision to charge more for it on Wii than they do on PC. No, Nintendo didn't force that. They could have it at 700 points per episode instead of 1000, plenty of WiiWare games cost even less. But they don't. If anything it's because they liked the sales of past episodic releases at the price point and don't feel it needs a reduction on Wii as it does on PC, which is still shitty and unfair and that was all my rhetorical question was about...
What's been "shrunk down a lot"?
" What are you talking about? You can't even buy the episodes separately on Steam, so it's not an option, it's a concious decision to charge more for it on Wii than they do on PC. No, Nintendo didn't force that. They could have it at 700 points per episode instead of 1000, plenty of WiiWare games cost even less. But they don't. If anything it's because they liked the sales of past episodic releases at the price point and don't feel it needs a reduction on Wii as it does on PC, which is still shitty and unfair and that was all my rhetorical question was about...
What's been "shrunk down a lot"? "
Al3x, stop the laming. The fact that the PC version is 200mb and Wiiware has a 40meg limit is a serious issue. So far, I have no read of anyone who has actually played the version. Unless the PC version doesn't have any compression, which I doubt, I certainly do expect a loss of quality or content on some end. Even with lower texture res and a low dialog sampling rate, I cannot imagine it going down to 40 megs. I'm curious about that.
" Meh, why more expensive than pc? You can get the complete collection, 5 episodes, for just 33 euros, so, 3300 Nintendo Points, instead of 5000. "If you buy directly from the Telltale site, they'll even send you a DVD version with all the episodes on it..
" So, the file size has been shrunk, not the game. Must have been easy, as it runs at a set resolution excess can be cut with no consequence >_> "Sure, there will have been some data on the PC version that is completely unneeded in the Wii version, but getting rid of 148 out of 188 megs is easy? I don't think so. I suspect the audio quality will have been greatly reduced, and there will have been cutbacks elsewhere too.
Yes, the sound, alongside the textures, is probably another factor they can reduce a lot without anyone noticing. After all, the Wii's sound card is probably not on par with a $150 PC sound system, just like its graphics card isn't. It doesn't even support 5.1 or anything if I remember right.
@Meowayne said:
" Al3x, stop the laming. The fact that the PC version is 200mb and Wiiware has a 40meg limit is a serious issue. So far, I have no read of anyone who has actually played the version. Unless the PC version doesn't have any compression, which I doubt, I certainly do expect a loss of quality or content on some end. Even with lower texture res and a low dialog sampling rate, I cannot imagine it going down to 40 megs. I'm curious about that. "Strong Bad's first episode is the smallest, with 148 MB required to download on Steam. Episode 4 is the largest with 297 MB. I'm not sure how many MB they're when they're done downloading and installing but it's probably not that far off, and that file size is needed in some way anyway. I didn't hear of any cut content and botched quality in the many great reviews for that series, and for all intents and purposes the Wii version has been treated as equal. But no, let's just speculate that everything is half assed for the hell of it, that works much better than "the laming" dur.
They won't. And lol @ charging more for that shit. And before anyone says that, the file size has nothing to do with the frame rate issues. Hell, if anything, if they had to reduce assets so much, it should run better, not worse. So, yeah. Bummer. But really, with the price difference, everyone interested in this should get it on PC anyway, even if the Wii version was just as good. Any PC under the sun can probably run it just fine.
" But really, with the price difference, everyone interested in this should get it on PC anyway, even if the Wii version was just as good. Any PC under the sun can probably run it just fine. "No, there are many people (me included) who only have a Netbook for Internet and study purposes. This EEE PC most probably won't run it.
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