the_bloodwalker on 17 March 2009
| MAddox(from the bast page in the universe)said: The Wii is the best thing to happen to gaming since the original NES. And if you don't like the Wii, then this is really going to piss you off: Nintendo has single-handedly saved the video game industry. No other company is bothering to move gaming forward like Nintendo is. There are only a handful of genres in gaming, and clearly Sony and Microsoft don't give a shit about any of them except for sports and FPS. I'm so sick and tired of sports and FPS games, and if it were up to Microsoft & Sony, they'd keep milking these tired genres dry and run the entire industry into the ground. I mean, I get it that the industry goes through trends and a few years ago it was RPGs, 2D fighters, shooters, platformers, etc. But this FPS craze has been going on basically since Quake came out on PC. On the Wii, we not only see a representation of every genre of gaming, but we see new genres that didn't exist before the Wii came along (surgery, cooking, balance, etc). Nintendo took the novelty of a motion-sensing controller and turned it into a solid gameplay element in a lot of their games. Before it came out, people couldn't imagine how to play games with a controller that looked so stupid, and now, people can't imagine playing certain games without it. I can't go back to tapping a button to make someone punch after I played the boxing game in Wii Sports. Fishing games are so much more satisfying with the Wii controller. World of Goo would suck without the controller (playing it with a mouse just isn't the same). Now Microsoft and Sony are scrambling to duplicate it with their own versions. The Sixaxis controller seems like an afterthought, whereas the Wii was designed from the ground-up with the gameplay in mind. Also, when people shit on the Wii, what they often overlook is the incredible library of games available on the Virtual Console. It doesn't matter when a great game came out, if you never got a chance to play it because you never owned the system it was originally released on, now is your chance. Nintendo has by far the largest library of A+ titles available for download. I know Xbox zealots have billions of mods and emulators, but modding voids your warranty and can fuck up your system if it's done wrong, and you constantly have to update your mods because of firmware upgrades. No thanks. Also, people who download huge libraries of emulator games rarely actually play the games they download. They'll download like 300 games and then end up playing 5 of them. What's the point? Also, I believe in paying for games I own because I love video games and I want the industry to thrive. The only reason I'll download a game is when I already own it (because I don't think I should have to pay for the same game twice) or if I can't play the game any other way; if nobody will port some of these awesome old video games, I see no reason they should go forgotten and unplayed.. A great example of a game that you can only currently get on Wii is Lords of Thunder. Great 2D shooting game, check it out. |
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