Comments on: I’m the Double Greatest

By: Lorna

Lorna — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:53:46 +0000

Great post as ever. You raise the interesting point of game difficulty. I’m with the ‘why should it be dumbed down because someone may not be able to complete it?’ camp. Without sounding like the old fart that I am, back in the early days, games were bloody hard. You only usually got three lives and the internet wasn’t around for faqs and walkthroughs…you had to buy the mags for hints and hope they covered your game. Yes, it was usually incredibly frustrating and I can probably count the number of games that I completed without infinite lives covertapes on one hand. But I wouldn’t change it.

I think in playing to the casual market, this sort of easy road is a natural path for Nintendo to take but personally I don’t like it. I feel it diluting the gaming experience :( Though as a resigned soul, I have long since accepted that Nintendo are a force unto themselves and will cut their own path which doesn’t (hopefully) mean that everyone else will follow suit, though the god awful motion control holy grail would seem to disprove this :( ).

I suppose I resent and despise the dumbing down of gaming, or making things too easy. Smacks of laziness – whatever is wrong with a bit of challenge anymore? What happened to laying in bed thinking how to get past this or that bit, to ringing your mates and swapping hints, to gnashing your teeth over screwing up and being driven to go back for more…to me that’s all part of it. *grumpy*

By: brett

brett — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:34:16 +0000

This game is so sick. Just got it a week ago and it’s all i’ve been doing with my time. I mean, having Mike Tyson in the game was enough for me to like it already, but they’ve improved a bunch of shit form the last one – the corporate ads aren’t as omnipresent and annoying, the game play has less of a pre-determined feel to it, and they actually have some cool music (rad remixes of Tokyo Police Club’s “The Baskerillve’s” and El-P’s “Flyentology” amongst others).

It still kinda sucks to play online because most of the gamers are just random button mashers who over-punch instead of trying to fight realistically, but if you play with friends that actually know about boxing than this game is fun as hell…you can easily emulate Ali’s rope-a-dope or Tyson’s peek-a-boo styles.

Anyway thought I’d share a gameplay video of Mike Tyson vs. Winky Wright that I found : http://displacedbrett.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/fight-night-round-4/

By: MrCuddleswick

MrCuddleswick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:32:14 +0000

I tried the demo, and my Hatton looked tired after the first round. It’s so in-depth that I couldn’t get to grips with it properly in 15 minutes. One day I think I will.

The graphics and animations are staggering.

By: John.B

John.B — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:05:40 +0000

By: Punkduck

Punkduck — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:45:16 +0000

You now have this song running around my head continuously…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fWvub_WBho