Millennium on 17 January 2010
Nintendo getting out of the hardware business would, at this point, be the worst thing that could possibly happen to gaming, as an industry and as an art form. No one else has made any meaningful innovations in multiple generations, and while Nintendo fell into that trap as well (a gen later than the others), it's also the only one to have gotten out of it at this point. No one else is doing anything but pretty pictures, and it's killing gaming.
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.
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