THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: DJ_Tet on July 16, 2008, 02:24:08 PM

Title: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: DJ_Tet on July 16, 2008, 02:24:08 PM

It's clearanced at 20% off.  Just got back from my local one and they had plenty of copies.  The discount came off at the register, there's nothing in-store to indicate the price drop.  Saw it at a topic at fat wallet.

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: tiesto on July 16, 2008, 02:26:21 PM

Awesome, thanks for posting this. I was reading an article on Gamespite.net (ToastyFrog's blog) about this game today, too... been meaning to pick it up but never got around to it.

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: y2kev on July 16, 2008, 02:27:28 PM

too expensive, this game is an exercise in waggle frustration

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: Crushed on July 16, 2008, 02:30:46 PM

awesome game, anybody who doesn't like it is a poo-poo head

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: DJ_Tet on July 16, 2008, 02:56:30 PM

Quote from: tiesto on July 16, 2008, 02:26:21 PM

Awesome, thanks for posting this. I was reading an article on Gamespite.net (ToastyFrog's blog) about this game today, too... been meaning to pick it up but never got around to it.

Cool deal I hope you can grab it.  I've never played it but it's on my short-list of games I wanted to pick up at a discount.  If I can get a good deal on Boom Blox, Trauma Center (1 and 2,)  and maybe a couple of others my library will be set for the next year at least.

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Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: Grecco on July 16, 2008, 05:10:43 PM

Theres alot of stuff at TRU. RE4 Wii at this price. Among others.

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: drohne on July 16, 2008, 05:16:27 PM

it's probably worth seven dollars and ninety-six cents, but it isn't worth my time. pass.

does anyone remember if re4 wii renders 480 vertical lines? i remember hearing that it just upscales from that undersized gamecube window, but i'm not certain

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: drohne on July 16, 2008, 06:08:57 PM

yeah, i know it outputs 480p, but i don't remember what it actually renders

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: demi on July 16, 2008, 06:17:31 PM

Neither RE4 or Z&W was widescreen for me

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Post by: Bildi on July 16, 2008, 06:39:31 PM

I picked up Z&W for cheap a couple of months back - great little game and aside from WiiFit (please excuse me for mentioning this in Gaming) it's the only thing that keeps my Wii in use.

I was surprised at how great it looks as well - if all Wii games looked this good I'd be a happy camper.

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: Darunia on July 18, 2008, 04:20:03 AM

i LOVED zack & wiki in levels as The Crystal Key, The Painted Secret and Mirror, Mirror. Relatively short and very clever puzzles that are fun to complete. The only thing you can do wrong here is mess up your HirameQ ranking, but who cares about that. It gets less fun when the game goes into hardcore trial & error mode. There's this level in the fire world where, if you do ONE thing out of sequence, it's game over... without the game telling you so. If you do something wrong there, it can't be turned back and you have to restart the level yourself. Very annoying. Also frustrating: getting to the end of a level, only to realize you skipped a step (airship level: you didn't blow up the hangar hatch with the cannon? => fail at the very end) or you have no item equipped when a scripted sequence starts (end of jungle level: no umbrella equipped when free falling => death)

Some of the remote implementation is shoddy too, like the fire ball tennis in that one lava level.

Finally picked the game up again yesterday with 15 parts collected, should be near the end now.

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: DJ_Tet on July 18, 2008, 08:09:46 AM

RE4 looks great, but it wasn't full widescreen for me either.

Title: Re: Zack and Wiki for $7.96 @ Toys R Us
Post by: Darunia on July 18, 2008, 09:29:36 AM

I admire the person who completed this game without ever using those hint dolls or consulting a faq, daamn. Just beat the squid level, I'm just about ready for this game to end now