I am sick of your bullshit, Nintendo. My Wii will be finding a new owner soon and I will buy some damn PC games instead.
Fuckers can't win.
Showing some proper games would probably be a good start... just sayin'
Nintendo - how bout growing a set of balls and come up with a new IP?
What did "core gamers" really expect? Nintendo has been developing a market strategy based on accessibility for years now; nothing about E3 should have been a surprise. Personally, I still enjoy playing a Wii game every once in a while. I think the better games on the Wii deliver a gaming experience reminiscent of old favorites, but with added style and mechanics.
If a core gamer bought a Wii with the notion that it would be their only console, they clearly haven't been following Nintendo for the last ten years, which, one could argue, doesn't make that person very "core" at all.
especially with third party titles. that's something right?
Imagine how many unique classics Nintendo could have generated over the past 10 years if they weren't putting all their energies into the same franchises, the only game that I can think of that was a genuinely strong new franchise was Pikmin, and now even that is going to be milked to it's grave.
As someone who has played Nintendo games his whole life, it's gotten to the point for me where making a good game isn't good enough when the concepts, characters, and setting are so utterly done to death and depleted that they've even been robbed of their nostalgia factor.
If the best Nintendo can come up with is 'okay we'll give the nerds Mario and Zelda and Pikmin so they'll shut up' I can only hope that Microsoft or Sony's motion controllers will provide the games that the Wii should be.
Nintendo told gamers "It has precise motion control and seriously innovative design"
We believed it would be like: "Holy crap! I just mauled that guy with a 50 hit combo by acting like a ninja in my living room!"
Nintendo sold gamers: Carnival games, Bowling, and a fitness game.
We reacted with: "Wii music? WTF is this shit?Where's my living room ninja games?!"
That's just the way I feel personally.
Note to Nintendo: If you read this do not misinterpret it and bring out "Living Room Ninja" a game about a young ninja forced to do chores in mildly ninja-esque ways.
What was that game called that looks like a black and white no more heroes that's in development?
is just a lack of variety, or re-release. it's sad when they just surf trough the most selled games in another console and just add waggle moves. RE4, Okami, Dead Rising....what's next... Mass efect?, Bioshock? dont make me go there...
Nintendo - how bout growing a set of balls and come up with a new IP?"
Yeah, instead of a new Mario or Zelda we need a new gritty intense FPS for all the fratboys. **rollseyes**
RE4, Okami, and Dead Rising are ports. Lots of systems have ports. Most of the 360 and PS3 libraries are identical with eachother or with the PC. Don't even give the Wii shit for getting some ports. As a sidenote, RE4 started as a Gamecube game, so, if anything, it was just coming back home. You kids always complain about how the Wii is just a glorified GC, right?
Also, I understand the complaints against waggle when it's used horrible, a la Carnival Games. However, there is a consistent pattern here, which involves the following:
1. Define any use of the Wiimote as waggle.
2. Complain that games don't use the Wiimote in ways besides the waggle.
You see the issue here? If anything, Okami's motion controls were not waggle controls. It made use of the sensor bar and the pointer.
We don't know what the Dead Rising port will be like, but I'm, personally, excited. RE4 did a great job in integrating Wii motion controls without changing the game too much. Okami did an okay job, but should've spent more time polishing it.
"another issue is when developers just atopped making any game wathsoever for the wii that isn'nt gimmicky. what about shmups, 2d and 3d fighters. Rpgs, adventure games. "
Shmups come out like 3 at a time for Wiiware. Also there is Blastworks, which has gotten pretty good reviews. Smash Brothers is the system's primary fighter, and it's pretty sweet. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core is also available for the Wii. Zelda, obviously, is the premier Action-Adventure for the Wii, but Okami is there as well.. and this very article implies that the Zelda team is busy. Tales of Symphonia 2 is coming out for the RPG hungry, and Super Paper Mario is there (although it is very much a platformer-RPG hybrid).
There are good games for the Wii. There are also tons of crappily made minigame compilations. I just don't buy the latter....
Then it was cancelled and I began to see music and cooking games getting top billing over action games and I immediately lost interest in the entire console.
This post is the enhanced version of the last paragraph on my previous blog on the subject. How did I overlook the fact that Nintendo's past was all about that?

Also, as long as developers along the lines of Suda51 stick around to bring fresh ideas to the Wii (making it look like a 360 game or adding 200 liters of blood is not a fresh idea), I don't really care about the "left out" feeling.
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?"
Haha, that's pretty funny. However, I think pretty much all of the major announcements sucked.. except the FF13 one. That's a damn coup.
E3 just ain't what is used to be.
And this year was no different than last year in terms of announcements. Last year they hyped Wii Fit and the Zapper attachment that makes "lightgun" games harder to play. There only giving us more of the same.
What ticks me off is the smugness about it. Cammie What-Ever-Her-Name-Is and Reggie Meathead-Whose-Name-Isn't-Pronounced-Like-It's-Spelled both went the Holier Than Thou approach to responding to their critics (i.e. us). And that makes me feel that they doubt our importance. And that makes me want to show them that they do need us. Because we'll be the ones still buying video games after this fad wears off.
Actually, I have been predicting this breaking point for a while. Eventually, Nintendo runs out of gimmicks and assumes people will be satisfied with more of the same.
Behold, the final moments of a legend.
But for some reason, it's sad to see them finally succeed in that goal. I feel like I should be happy for them but fuck, I remember an SNES I used to play for hours when I was younger, I remember the original NES I had a good few games on, I remember the Nintendo 64 which kept up good course. Then the gamecube came, it had it's fair share of good games but just wasn't popular enough in the long run. Now we have Wii. But what Wii doesn't stand for "Wii Gamers". That Wii stands for "Wii Grandmaws" becuase Nintendo was forced to come up with a strategy that would actually work after the GC.
It's depressing the to see the developer I loved the most, go down the road I can't fucking stand. It's like watching your sister or brother start doing crack.

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