Millennium on 12 December 2008
While Japanese culture is notoriously xenophobic -a fact which led to Sony's rise at Nintendo's expense when Nintendo ditched its Sony partnership for a European company- it's also very difficult to deny that Western and Japanese games often have very different playstyles. Is it so hard to believe that the cultural influence on a given game's playstyle might make it more appealing to people from that culture?
Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.
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What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.
