gunthergloop

I haven't seen much about Go Vacation anywhere, other than from my wife
who said she wanted it for Christmas. She never really plays games. Not
sure where she heard about it.

Anyway, unsurprisingly the kids have annexed it and have easily ploughed
more time into this than any other title for the past two weeks. They
_could_ be playing Mario Kart 7, Mario 3D Land, Sonic Generations,
Rayman Origins... and they do, but still every time I turn around
they're playing Go Vacation.


It's like Wii Resort, but bigger. A lot bigger. There are many many
games to play... run around, find a skating rink, go skating. Find a
ski-lift, go up the mountain, go skiing. Some games are quite good, some
less so. They're still discovering new locations and things to do.

Graphics on 1 player are "Wii fine". This is a case of the lesser-fine
than the well-fine we experienced here earlier in the week.
Nothing special, nothing awful.

But when played with 2 players, the screen splits and slowdown is pretty
bad. I'd call it awful, but the kids don't seem to notice. They'd
happily spend hours running around the cities, forests, mountains,
caves, etc. even without playing each game, gold-starring each.

They buy villas, decorate them, live in them for a while, etc..

Apart from the awful framerate on >1 player, it's like a cross between
Wii Party, Wii Sports Resort and Grand Theft Auto (without the violence
or bad language).

I'd recommend it to anyone with kids who are looking for another Wii
Party type experience. Probably better suited to under-10s. Mrs. Gloop
loves watching them explore too though. There is a 4-way splitscreen
option. She joins in in that sometimes. Framerate is like with 2-player,
only you see less at once.
Many of the "mini games" are single-screen though (such as sky-diving
-many different sky-diving games, very different from each other), so
framerate isn't always awful on multi-player.


-Kevin.

deKay

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, gunthergloop wrote:

> I haven't seen much about Go Vacation anywhere, other than from my wife who
> said she wanted it for Christmas. She never really plays games. Not sure
> where she heard about it.

Listen. I am not riding for 20 miles in the rain and the dark and the wind
so that I can buy a shitty minigame collection with "Vacation" (shudder)
in the title.



deKay
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Tim Miller

gunthergloop <news1@keviSPAMNOnforde.com> wrote:
> I haven't seen much about Go Vacation anywhere, other than from my wife
> who said she wanted it for Christmas. She never really plays games. Not
> sure where she heard about it.
>
Thanks for this. There are a hell of a lot of Wii games that are never
reviewed or mentioned by the specialist press, which is a shame because
there are some which have the ambition to be large-scale projects and which
can be a lot of fun.

My mum loves Carnival Funfair Games. She has perfected the horse race ball
throwing game, but really only plays that to win coins to spend in the coin
pushing arcade. She spends hours on it.

Tim (tm)

HarpingOn

On 04/01/2012 13:07, Tim Miller wrote:
> gunthergloop<news1@keviSPAMNOnforde.com> wrote:
>> I haven't seen much about Go Vacation anywhere, other than from my wife
>> who said she wanted it for Christmas. She never really plays games. Not
>> sure where she heard about it.
>>
> Thanks for this. There are a hell of a lot of Wii games that are never
> reviewed or mentioned by the specialist press, which is a shame because
> there are some which have the ambition to be large-scale projects and which
> can be a lot of fun.
>
> My mum loves Carnival Funfair Games. She has perfected the horse race ball
> throwing game, but really only plays that to win coins to spend in the coin
> pushing arcade. She spends hours on it.
>
> Tim (tm)

I bought a Wii Carnival Funfair game hoping to use the coin pusher, but
there wasn't one in it :-(

I'm stuck using Coin Dozer on Android.

gunthergloop

On 04/01/2012 13:07, Tim Miller wrote:
> gunthergloop<news1@keviSPAMNOnforde.com> wrote:
>> I haven't seen much about Go Vacation anywhere, other than from my wife
>> who said she wanted it for Christmas. She never really plays games. Not
>> sure where she heard about it.
>>
> Thanks for this. There are a hell of a lot of Wii games that are never
> reviewed or mentioned by the specialist press, which is a shame because
> there are some which have the ambition to be large-scale projects and which
> can be a lot of fun.
>
> My mum loves Carnival Funfair Games. She has perfected the horse race ball
> throwing game, but really only plays that to win coins to spend in the coin
> pushing arcade. She spends hours on it.
>

I've not looked into that one. Then again, not sure I'd want the kids to
get into carnival gambling type stuff. It's expensive enough in those
places without them looking to spend more on the twopenny falls (now
more like 2 euro falls).

Tell me would Carnival Funfair Games be as fun for youngsters as it is
for older gambler types?
Might bear it in mind around the time of the next birthday.

-Kevin.

[ste parker]

On 04/01/2012 13:53, gunthergloop wrote:
>
> I've not looked into that one. Then again, not sure I'd want the kids to
> get into carnival gambling type stuff. It's expensive enough in those
> places without them looking to spend more on the twopenny falls (now
> more like 2 euro falls).
>
> Tell me would Carnival Funfair Games be as fun for youngsters as it is
> for older gambler types?
> Might bear it in mind around the time of the next birthday.
>

I didn't see any gambling in it at all, old version or new. We probably
didn't play every minigame though because the old one is really poor
and, while not as bad as the first game, the newer WMP one is still
bloody awful. Kids would probably enjoy it though.

--
[ste]

Tim Miller

gunthergloop <news1@keviSPAMNOnforde.com> wrote:

> I've not looked into that one. Then again, not sure I'd want the kids to
> get into carnival gambling type stuff. It's expensive enough in those
> places without them looking to spend more on the twopenny falls (now more
> like 2 euro falls).
>
There are still plenty of 2p falls games in seaside arcades in the UK. You
ought to come over! I've never really seen them as gambling since it's very
clear you can never win on them - so you know you'll spend a pound, it's
just a matter of how long it takes you.

> Tell me would Carnival Funfair Games be as fun for youngsters as it is
> for older gambler types?

I'd say it's completely suitable for younger players, but if you consider
coin pushers as gambling machines your opinion may vary.

Tim (tm)

Tim Miller

HarpingOn <harpingon@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> I bought a Wii Carnival Funfair game hoping to use the coin pusher, but
> there wasn't one in it :-(
>
Which game did you get? There are three - the original, mini golf, and a
sequel called "NEW Carnival Funfair Games" or something like that.

Tim (tm)