Finally, the beacon of hope for the Nintendo hardcore speaks. In an interview with
The Telegraph that
GamePro picked up on, Shigeru Miyamoto touched on his affinity of more traditional games like
Zelda and
Mario. He also even brought up the fact that the Wii remote may be insufficient when it comes to slightly more complicated games.
Making traditional games is what I am best at, because games of that nature take upwards of two or three years to make, we always have to keep the teams working on those projects. They are all working on more Mario, Zelda and Pikmin projects and they all work in close proximity to me, so I can keep a good eye on them.
Miyamoto then went on to give some love to the Wii remote, but pointed out “there are also things that are accomplished better with buttons." While, Miyamoto may not say it, I will. There are a hell of a lot more games that are accomplished better with buttons, like
Mario. I enjoyed
Super Mario Galaxy for what it was, but it could have been light-years better with a controller that has more than a smattering of buttons. I think if the whole of Nintendo thought like this, we wouldn’t have been so
disappointed from the presentation at E3 this year.
If there’s anything we can take from his statements, it is that there is someone at Nintendo at least committed to bringing titles that don’t lean on the fact that elderly people are buying the console. What do you guys think about Miyamoto’s comments? Do you believe them to be hollow?
Contest:
5:22 PM on 07.25.2008
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I have such mixed feelings towards Shigeru, these days.
But yeah, i would love to see some games, like a Zelda, with the Classic Controller.
I completely agree with him with the traditional control thing, though. I liked the aiming parts of Zelda for the Wii (the bow and the Clawshot), but I would have much preferred the GameCube controller instead, but I'm not going to buy another copy of the game just to use it.
The problem with people right now is that they're taking Nintendo's E3 conference as if that's the only type of stuff Nintendo will ever make again, which is completely false. While everyone's yelling and whining about Nintendo and Miyamoto now, those same people will praise whatever big Zelda or Mario title comes out, or when Captain Rainbow is finally released.
(Sorry. </rant>)
Random hippie scrub commenting on advertising being an evil empire: "How do you sleep at night?"
Draper: "On a bed made of money."
But if Nintendo can't keep these "new" gamers buying games for the system they will have to go back to their roots. Question is will we accept them back?
And honestly, I am not impressed at all with the 'waggle'. All exclusive games have failed to do anything with the remote that made it's inclusion worthwhile "waggle to activate special", and all games that are available on other systems are better played on the other systems controller, Twilight Princess included.
See, that's what bugs me... They DO offer an alternative. They HAVE the classic controller and GC controller slots, but most of the games that would be nice to use them with don't support them.
For my money, it's the best Mario game since SMB 3
1ca·su·al Listen to the pronunciation of 1casual
Pronunciation:
\ˈkazh-wəl, ˈka-zhə-wəl, ˈka-zhəl\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French casuel, from Late Latin casualis, from Latin casus fall, chance — more at case
Date:
14th century
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Nintendo tapped that.
It sucks for the rest of us but add it to the pile alongside the countless adds for ED drugs, cardiac medicine, bathtubs with doors/handles, insurance adds insulting anyone under 50 and the fact that any possibility of drawing a pension being hilariously unlikely when we hit that age.
Little harsh with with the Summa comparison I'm OK.
You can't say the same for other games (Bully for instance, as mentioned earlier), but I don't think SMG would have been of better quality with standard controller.
Also, all I really got from Miyamoto's quote was the same point Iwata brought a few days ago: Good/solid games take lot's time to make, and that's why you have to sift through 'five minutes to make' shovelware for now.
How this turned into a "WOULD MARIO GALAXY HAVE BEEN BETTER WITH MORE BUTTONS?" debate is beyond my comprehension. I mean, what does that have to do with the article?
Mingo, I find it helps if you read the actual article rather than the litte bit quoted on Dtoid... (although I'll also admit my distaste at having to read something on the Torygraph's website)