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This wouldn't even be useful if I was blackout drunk. Good God.
Okay, I've thought about it for a second and yes, this is fucked up.
That sounds worthless, I'm sure the casuals will love it.
Well at least I can finally masturbate to Princess Peach in motion.
It's not for us. It's for the people who have come in via Wii Fit are are familiar with Mario, but don't think they're very good at video games so they would be reluctant to buy it.
It makes sense to me as a way to remove frustration for those people and let them enjoy the game. I imagine the idea is that if they have fun playing a "core" game, they'll try more.
It's liking riding a bike with training wheels, swimming with water wings, or playing tee ball before baseball. Once you've moved beyond those things, you rarely go back. But for someone who is new to the activity they take away the element of fear.
last time I checked games were for playing
Maybe I can hold A B C and confuse them.
Didn't the last Alone in the Dark game pretty much do the same thing? It's optional, I won't use it, it won't affect me in the least. Could be nice for gamers who don't have the level of skill to get past some of the harder puzzles.
I dunno... there are plenty of shitty Wii games I've started where I just wish it would finish itself so I could find out what happened and not have to deal with the shitty controls any longer.
I remember something about Nintendo patenting this feature, but I didn't think they would stoop low enough to actually implement it.
And in a bloody Mario game as well.
As long as this isn't required, then whatever. I'll just ignore it.
The original New Super Mario Bros was probably the easiest Mario game of all time. I got 100% in less than 5 hours. If you have issues beating a game like that then you shouldn't be allowed near a TV.
New Super Mario Brothers Wii, from what I played of it at E3 (10 levels), was laughably easy.
This whole new "patent" is just funny: and I agree, Nintendo (slaps head). LOVE THAT MONEY!
"Hey Brando, get a life."
That's what all the casuals will say. And deep down, it will hurt you.
....
So wait, Brink gets no flak for guessing what your trying to do and then doing if for you?
So I can finally realize my dream of finishing a game by setting down the controller and going to a restaurant. They are such masters of innovation with their fingers on the pulse of the industry. What will they think of next, games I can play while my console is shut off? That's like the best $40 you can spend! And it would be so efficient! Not a bit of power is wasted actually playing the games or powering the hardware.
They should do this on 360. It would be the best thing for Achievements. lol. . .
But in all seriousness, this is absolutely retarded, and I really hate the casual gamer. But I guess for the people who suck at video games (fuck you Wii Fit) this is a nice addition. . . bastards. . .
To quote my friend, "This is for people who don't have older brothers to beat the hard parts for them." OH GOD I SAW A MASTURBATION JOKE THERE I HATE MYSELF.
@Vegas: Fuck yes. :D
@JLanphear: While not automated, there were people you could pay to inflate your Gamerscore/get Achievements if you wanted. Not sure how that worked or even if they're in business
I think gamers are getting lazy these days. I mean yes, it's handy for people who are new and all, but it's stuff like that that gives sites like GameFAQs a meaning to exist! Why need a FAQ when the game will play itself for you?
Then again, maybe this is a good thing. MGS4 was already a movie, and this'll help make games edge towards that side of the spectrum now. =P
This didn't register when the Patent came out and it doesn't register here.
I'll be playing through NSMB2 the old fashoned way.
Man I love knee jerk reactions.
News flash, Nintendo doesn't design games with the people like us in mind anymore, they make them for what makes up the bulk of their market, the and I hate this word, "casual" market.
No need to throw a hissy fit as it will most likely be optional.
@Nanbu
Let me quote Tom Hanks from A League of Their Own:
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
The hard is what also drives people from buying games.
Last time I checked, people buying your stuff was a pro.
Yes, but also making your stuff unnecessarily easy also tends to degrade the quality of your product. People (until the Wii came along) dont buy shitty products.
SephirothX, you're going to ignore all the people who bought 50 Cent's Bulletproof for the PS2 and Xbox?
Wow.
People buy shitty products. People have always been buying shitty products. This generation is no different. It's only the shitty products have better advertising that the products 75 percent of the world could give a damn about, because they don't know shit about them.
And since when was easy, bad?
Bejeweled is easy, look how many people obsess over that.
MGS4 style game play movies for the Wii confimed?
I guess this will be ok for young kids that can't play worth a damn but Nintendo has sooo lost touch with most gamers.
Two things:
1) Really <3 your banner picture..
2) It almost never fails.. Seems like the minute I start liking Nintendo again, news like this makes me never want to ever get excited about them ever again.
I think tutorials are better for newbies than outright hand-holding. But, alas, I know I'm not the target demographic, yadda yadda.
Nintendo continues to bring great dishonour to gaming. the point of the game is to play it trouble spots and all and have an experience not lazy your way out, this is stupid beyond belief and that wont change no matter what the target audience is.
Doesn't surprise me. As fun as it looked, New Super Mario Bros. Wii is shooting for the casual market. Whether this works or not though is open to debate.
The best news in some time , Nintendo is never going to do a hardcore only game , that's why a lot of people were worried about New Super Mario Bros. Wii ,that shows that NSMBW will have hard levels ! Like the oldies !
This is an implementation of the Kind Code patent that appeared some weeks ago. There's no need for me to talk about it, just Google it. Once you read about it, you'll realize it's nothing to be worried about.
Optional feature is optional.
Reminds me of Resident Evil 5's single player, except with that game, watching it play itself wasn't optional.
I remember reading about this a while ago on a destructoid blog and can't find it now, best i can do is find it on Kotaku here
It's not a terrible idea, for the inexperienced. I won't be using it, especially not on a Mario game, but since it's just an option I see nothing wrong with it. Though I'd have probably abused the hell out of it had it been around in the NES days.
I don't see how this is a problem. If you don't want to use it, don't. Is it somehow taking away from your enjoyment of the game? In my eyes, things like this that makes games more accessible are good, since it brings money to developers, which can then be used to create more games.
I don't really see how this is such a big deal.
Who cares?
Just don't take advantage of it yourself and it won't hurt you.
As long as they don't use it as an excuse for shitty level design I'll be fine with it.
"This level is impossible . . . I'll let the game do this part."
@Arch649
they're already doing that. the only reason to implement something like this is because a certain part of a game isn't fun. it's one thing if you're playing it on hard or extreme or whatever and you're asking for it. but we already have difficulty levels, games are as dumb as ever, do people really need any more babysitting?