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Majin-Tenshinhan on 24 June 2009
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Words Of Wisdom said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:

I think you need to reread the thread more thoroughly, honestly. It's hard to call the reviewer professional when he starts the review off by lamenting that Nintendo should've made an HD console instead. It's also hard to take him seriously when he contradicts himself on several accounts -- Such as the controls sucking, only to turn around and point out that the controls are fully customizable and he was "perfectly happy" with the default controls.

Fact of the matter is, this review is not a good review. I'm not saying that because I'm supposedly insecure over my console choice (why in god's name would I be insecure about having bought a game I have yet to buy anyway?), I'm not saying it because he didn't give the game a 10/10, I'm saying it because the review was not professionally written and was overall a very poor review. In fact, the only part of the review that I have not taken issue with is the scoring.

First, he said that the Wii's hardware shortcomings are essentially a handicap.  This is one of those "water is wet" obvious type of things that is usually taken for granted.  Fun fact, Wii fanboys are just hyper sensitive to the fact that the Wii is underpowered compared to its competitors and thus react more strongly to mentions of it (much like Sony fanboys and multiplat quality).

Second, he specifically complains about motion controls for throwing grenades and melee combat.  Based on his description, those do sound pretty bad.  I'm not fond of the idea of even shaking the Wiimote in an FPS game because that throws off aim.  I can see how having to do gestures in a game that uses the IR pointer for aiming can quite easily become problematic.

It's ridiculous to point out things in reviews that can't be accomplished. Should I start writing reviews for Xbox 360 games and go "Yeah, too bad they didn't use the Wiimote for this game"? Whatever, leaving that point...

You don't have to use motion controls to do those things. That's the whole point - The controls in this game are fully customizable, you can change the inputs to be exactly what you want them to be. The developers have made it very easy for him to, if he dislikes using motion controls to throw grenades, assign it to a button input. This is not a well-written review and you need to either admit that or leave the thread, because this is just getting ridiculous.