What do you hate most about this gen?

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Chairman-Mao said:

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Chairman-Mao said:

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Chairman-Mao said:
Now I know what you're thinking, my definition of fad must be wrong because the Wii obviously wasn't just a fad. Well the definition of fad is "a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., esp. one followed enthusiastically by a group." It gives absolutely no time frame for what counts as a fad. So even if it lasts a full generation or two of video game consoles I still think it'll be considered a fad in the end.

So by your own definition Christianity, Hinduism, etc are all fads. Fascinating.

Wow I love how you tried to turn a simple post about motion controls to something about religion. If flaming was allowed on this site I'd call you a fucking idiot, but since I'm not allowed to call people fucking idiots, I won't call you a fucking idiot. Seriously get a life. If you disagree with me then say you disagree and you love motion controls, don't go around slanting people's words.

Pop a midol and calm down tough guy. I was just saying there's a problem with your definition of "fad"; by removing the time limit and keeping "manner of conduct" I was pointing out that the definition is far too broad. Hell, speaking English or being of a particular nationality technically falls under your definition of 'fad'.

My thoughts on motion controls are that they're a somewhat primitive intermediate step towards the next level of interactive entertainment, so no I'm not chugging the motion control Kool Aid. Nice personal attack, though.

It's fine and dandy to hate motion controls, but your bizzare definition redefining to such an extreme degree is a pretty desperate attempt to denigrate what all 3 console makers have accepted as the new direction of gaming.

I didn't slant anything, your definition is terribad.

Okay well it was a terribad definition that came straight from dictionary.com but whatever. I was just trying to point out that motion controls are a fad even though they'll survive through this gen and probably into the next gen or two of consoles, while the standard controller will live on.

But the definition was altered, which caused all kinds of problems. 

I would call it a fad if motion controllers went away in 10 years time and we never saw any spark of them ever again. This is where timeframe becomes important (temporary), because if you remove timeframe then "temporary" could be defined as 10,000 years. On a long enough time line everything is temporary and could be considered a fad.

Like I said before I tend to think of motion control as a kind of primitive transition form.  I don't really see the standard controller surviving in its current form, either.  It's obvious current non-motion controllers have problems just by how horrible FPS games and shooters in general handle them, especially when looked at side by side with mouse+keyboard. That's not even considering ungodly button combinations, motion+buttons you find in fighting games, and all of the other really weird complex shit that's responsible for shrinking the population of gamers.

It's obvious that *just* button commands aren't the wave of the future. We have touch screens, motion controlling, sylus controlling, camera controlling, voice controlling. We're not going to revert back to pure button pushing. Those days are dead and gone and over and will be seen as archaic. The fascinating question is what form will controls of the future take?

I love my PS3, but honestly Move pissed me off because it's just a Wii ripoff.  By the same token I also hate the 360 (all 3 of them I owned) but I appreciate and am enthusiastic about where Microsoft is going with natal. Not so much for the natal itself, just like I'm not drolling over the wii remote itself, but the POTENTIAL of where other people will take it is what makes it all exciting and fascinating to me.

I don't want everything to be the same, I want to see more wildly different directions.  There's probably a lot of possibilities not even considered yet that work way better than natal or a wii remote. Nintendo, whether anyone likes it or not, got one thing spot on: the future of video games won't be measured in graphics. I've been playing since 80/86 and Atari and Vectrex, at this point in my gaming career I'm just happy if my ping pong ball is round.