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Reggie not so keen on Disaster: Day of Crisis, actually slams the title photo

Recently, Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime talked fairly candidly about the issues present in Wii title, Disaster: Day of Crisis. Reggie called the voice acting “laughable” and then essentially told the IGN interviewer that he doesn’t believe Disaster is worth a $50 price tag. Currently, the game is only available in Europe and Japan and is missing on NA release lists.

In addition to that, Reggie said he would monitor the game in Europe and if it sells well, he would bring it to North American audiences. Considering Reggie’s fairly candid sentiments, I’m not exactly sure if we want the title to make the jump over the pond.

Reggie’s comments are fairly odd, considering the amazing amount of garbage present for the Wii on store shelves. Instead of knocking a game that has 3D graphics and voice, perhaps he should knock on titles that only consist of mini-games or frantic waggle movements. It would be nice to have the bar raised.

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Funky Goodness's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 12:57
Funky Goodness
Reggie can go suck a ham fist, this game is awesome.
Sure the voice acting is pretty bad, but it's tolerable. It's certainly no Chaos Wars.
Jonathan Holmes's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:07
Jonathan Holmes
I think this is just Reggie's "sour grapes" way of saying the game will never leave Europe.

How could Reggie ever try to sell it now? "Oh, that game I said had terrible voice acting and wasn't worth $50? Forget everything I said, because that game fucking rules! Go buy it. Also, Wii Music."

What puzzles me is why Reggie would stab Nintendo of Europe in the back like that. NoE is surely going to have a tougher time selling this game now that the president of NoA has started bashing it.
Remo's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:07
Remo
I believe that Disaster day of crisis is mainly made up of mini games.
elsteveo's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:11
elsteveo
He is apparently blind. All the shit that comes out on the Wii and he bashes this game?
CALkulon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:11
CALkulon
Reggie really needs to STFUAJPG. Getting seriously fed up of this guys self serving nonsense. He's entirely happy to push out tons and tons of totally shitty games to bring in the money but one half-decent game gets slaughtered, for no reason other than he's an ignorant cock.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:14
TrailerParkJesus
Reggie doesn't want games on the Wii.
Phoenix Gamma's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:18
Phoenix Gamma
Fuck Reggie and the hamburger bun he rode in on.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:21
Sharpless
I think this means the game might actually be good. You know, since Reggie never knows what the fuck he's talking about.
Danmartigan's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:26
Danmartigan
welcome to video games Reggie. God, what a fucking retard.
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:27
atastysammich
So... sell it at $30?
Mr Gilder's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:32
Mr Gilder
There is a full review up for the Pal version I IGN. Although I do treat all their writeups with a grain of salt, their UK crew did enjoy the game quite a bit. They said it was alot more than the sum of its parts, and that overall it was a truly fun game. Although the game doesn't really appeal to my particular tastes, I wholely believe that that could be all true.
Working hand in hand with the endorsement I read, let's not overlook the fact that this is a Monolith Soft game. These are the people behind the excellent Xenosaga on the PS2, and perhaps more relevant here, the Gamecube exclusive Baten Kaitos series. Although I'm sure Meatfist would argue that the Baten games were far from a financial success (which seems to be Nintendo's obvious focus), they were unique, quiky, and well crafted titles, despite their shortcomings.
The folks at Monolith do not make BAD games. As others have said above me, Nintendo has made worse titles themselves this generarion, and at the very least allowed or endorsed them.
I'm going to be very agitated if US audiences don't get a chance to access this title.
Pull your head out of your ass Reggie.
J03yyz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:35
J03yyz
fuck nintendo
Coldbrand's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:37
Coldbrand
You know what's laughable? Wii Music.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:43
Holyetheline
Too much crap on the wii these days. It makes me sad.
exodus1925's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:51
exodus1925
Wait wait wait wait WAIT:

"Perhaps he should knock on titles that only consist of mini-games or frantic waggle movements"

Dude, I hate to break it to you but have you not seen gameplay from Disaster?
Jonathan Holmes's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 13:55
Jonathan Holmes
@ Exodus- Disaster actually has a ton of wii remoter pointer shooting, as well as Mario Kart style driving.

It's more of an on-rails shooter mixed with some driving and QTE's, not so much a mini-game collection.
superezekiel's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 14:02
superezekiel
But yet Chicken Shooter Flash Game 8000 still sits on store shelves, with reggies seal of "keep the money rolling, fuckers" approval slapped right on it.

Maybe if they had more minigames Reggie would think it's the most amazing thing he's played since Cooking Mama?
Kathos's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 14:29
Kathos
Man fuck this, guess I'll have to import it and play it on my hacked Wii, head that Nintendo? Hacked. Wii. What more dangerous, another game or a gamer with a hacked Wii.

Hmm... maybe I should get an R4...
manasteel88's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 14:36
manasteel88
wait...I have to import a game from Europe. what kind of alternate reality is this?

also Nintendo of America is showing how ugly it can be yet again to its consumer.
Clance's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 14:37
Clance
I had a hands-on with this a month ago. Read [url=http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Clance/hands-on-preview-disaster-day-of-crisis-107107.phtml]all about it.(/url]
Clance's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 14:38
Clance
I had a hands-on with this a month ago. Read all about it.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 14:48
mix
I don't care what anyone says about games. I try them for myself.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 15:16
-PL-
With all of the fucking abysmal Wii games that come out every week, why is Reggie picking on this one? This actually looks amazing compared to the constant stream of feces coming out for the Wii every week.
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 15:18
brainderailment
There you go Reggie, make sure that absolutely NO games on the Wii have a story line or voice acting for "Characters" and if they do, they are shit.
Lime's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 15:30
Lime
Disaster is a pretty good game. It's like a big dumb summer blockbuster movie; so it's succeeded at what it's going for. I might write a review for it actually...
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 15:40
pedrovay2003
You've got to be kidding me... This is because he thinks Animal Crossing is "hardcore."

I can't believe this is probably the nail in the North American release's coffin. I was really looking forward to playing this. Don't make me use the Homebrew Channel to go region free, Nintendo.
Face's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 16:34
Face
Maybe we should actually, I don't know, play the game for ourselves then decide if he is wrong?
Cowboy TTop's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 17:33
Cowboy TTop
This is more clear signs that Nintendo don't have a clue anymore. Nintendo claim to be in touch with us gamers, but puke comments like this me want to smash all my Nintendo stuff up (wait! hold that thought, its not that bad, but still).

What's interesting is that for a long time, we've been looking forward to Disaster, and at one point, it looked like we might never see it completed. Now its finished and Nintendo want to get crappy about it, like its crashing their bs casual Wii party.

I hope that the sales of Disaster are really great, so we can all stick it to the stupid Man that Nintendo are fast becoming.

It also shows something else, that Nintendo are perhaps only interested in promoting titles, that meet with their minds eye of what Wii should have on it. It'll be interesting to see if Reggie has to swallow those words.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/31/2008 22:58
Mxyzptlk
Disaster: Day of Crisis must only appeal to geeks and otaku.
szhlibrary's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/01/2008 08:20
szhlibrary
@Cowboy TTop: It's going to be hard for sales to be great, since it isn't out in NA yet, unless you mean European/Japan sales. Worse, it has like a 66+% average score at Gamerankings last I checked (Destructoid review game pls =D), which is going to discourage sales.

Seriously, Reggie? Bash on like, Dogz or something, why the hell bash on a second-party (I think) game which everyone has been looking forward to since when? I think the game won't be coming over and he's trying to just tell everyone "hey, not worth your time anyway" to pacify everybody.

If HAMMER comes back, it'd better not get this too.
Yuphrum's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/01/2008 11:27
Yuphrum
He thinks it's bad?
Well the voice acting prob isnt the best but overall it looks very promising
JustLikeBuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/03/2008 04:21
JustLikeBuck
Is this a new tactic against the Core gamer?

1: Core gamers, hate casual gaming.
2: Core gamers also buy the most games.
3: Casual Games sell best once off (shovelware).
4: Slight and make fun of core games.
5: Core gamers realise they're being silly and buy casual
6: ?????
7: Profit!
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