You should all know Cammie Dunaway by now. I like to refer to her mostly as that woman from Nintendo's E3 press conference that made me want to claw into my own skull and start haphazardly tearing portions of my brain out. Cammie wants to assure everybody that she really is that grating in real life too! For some bizarre reason, she's desperate to let the world know that acting like a patronizing primary school teacher is not an act.
"Tell your blog that I'm really a genuinely smiley, nice person. Because people think I'm fake, smiling up there," that woman explained to Wired in an interview. The "Camminator" is of course the one who led Nintendo's highly criticized E3 presentation, which was a unique blend of self-aggrandizing and the touting of complete and utter sh*t.
The interview is worth a read, but that woman doesn't say much that we haven't heard from Nintendo before. She tells us we should delete games from our Wii rather than expect new storage space, that the Zelda and Mario teams are hard at work, and in that typical condescending way, tries to tell "core" gamers what they want. Apparently we all love Mario and baseball. I don't know where she pulled that from.
It may seem like I'm part of the "Nintendo has abandoned us, SHOW ME YOUR RAGE," set, but I'm really not. Unlike some people, I didn't feel betrayed or excluded by Nintendo's press conference, because I never expected to be included in the first place. It's like watching an "episode" of Big Brother and expecting to be enthralled by the vapid nonsense that seems to amuse housewives. No, what annoys me is Nintendo's continued patronization of the so-called "core" gamer. If Nintendo would stop pretending it cared about gamers, it wouldn't be an issue. Any attempts to prove otherwise have only served as an insult to everyone.
[Via superhobo's blog]
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6:37 AM on 07.22.2008
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I haven't worried about Nintendo for a long time now. Hell, I'll admit it, I used to be an N kid myself. Then, in college, I saw a cut scene involving Tifa in Final Fantasy VII on the PSOne and said "Sony has boobs!? Fuck that shit!" and bounced. I still see Nintendo for what they do... no hate over here (really), but just saying... boobs.
Also, it brings an interesting new twist to randomly hear "Rain of Love" (Dragonaut anime ending, first) while reading a post like this.
That they only said the groups that make Mario and Zelda games should be much more alarming than a woman who's not a sarcastic automaton. Alarming because they didn't say what they were working on, and alarming because this year's big reveal was unpolished and sloppy.
Poor, Poor Ravi Drummer.
PERRIN KAPLAN IS NOT LIKE YOU
I'm sure its going to be oversizeed. but it proves my point.
"Okay kids, here's a FUN game for you. Doesn't it look AWESOME? Uh-huh, it suuuure does! It has PUPPIES in it. And what does a puppy say? Woof? THAT'S RIGHT! YOU'RE SO SMART!"
But, sll the soccer moms and senors can relate to her when they see clips of the E3 press conferance on The Today Show, and that was really the point, wasn't it?
What did she do? Well of course she just repeated everything the keynote said the first time around, and said to go back to Mario Kart. Fail.
"OMG, Nintendo's E3 press conference was condescending towards us!"
So... which is it? Flip-flopping is fun!
But my parents and grandparents are... and when I have to show them anything about any sort of technology from *this* century, I have to be condescending towards them. And they like it... because it's the only way they fucking 'get' it.
Just like Super Smash Bros Brawl was out quickly, and for everyone to play...No? I could give a fuck about the Wii because there are 4 or 5 real games I want to play, and the price of getting in for those few games just is too much for me. I see my cousins who never played games get them, and the garbage they buy to play. It's a sad sight. I tell them about Okami, and they come back with super awesome cooking games...Fucking scary. I feel bad for the actual gamers who bought a Wii and get a huge middle finger on the games front. We will see another Mario and Zelda in 2012, but the teams are working very hard..So that makes up for it.
OH HAI, look we've been working on this game for months, here it is, "Zelda: Adult Link with a Dark Storyline" - whut?! didn't see this one coming!!!
And then we all go like: ZOMFG I LUV YE NINTENDO!!!1!
The storage remarks seem like a giant fuck you to people who spend the most money too. That seems to go against any buisiness venture...They would rather tell people don't play what you already paid for, delete it and get some more new shit that you will have to delete later...It just seems like this is the most anti-consumer thing I have read from a game company in a really long time. What would be the point of buying something you can't access, and being told that you should have a cake and a smile instead of a solution (that is really solving something, as opposed to just workarounds and temporary fixes).
I say fuck them and their waggle sticks!
Excellent editorial.
It's in the new Hershies Hard-Core Content and Cream bars! Unless she means Hard-Core for 15 years and younger, who knows.
A scary MILF is still a MILF. In fact, scary can often be a good thing.
So, that's enough about my strange fetishes. Anyone else?
She looks like a completely out of place elementary school teacher.