Nintendo is living in the past

[infamous23]

MaxwellGT2000 said:

infamous23 said:

     Of course the difference is the others do have games like the Mario games.  See Little Big Planet, Braid, or Limbo.  But they also have games geared at mature audiences that contain mature themes indicating that they're not afraid to try to take chances on more mature themes in their games.

Meanwhile Nintendo keeps pumping out games featuring the same kiddie characters they've used since the eighties.

And even though they have new ips like Wii Music, Wii Fit, if you notice there seems to be a strong push against including edgier or controversial material in their own games.

Primarily because they know the kind of flak they will take from certain groups of they do.  Funny after all the flak they took over Madworld, designed by another company, from certain activists groups against such a game appearing on their console, then they don't show one M game on Wii at E3 this year.  However, being afraid to evolve artistically into something more mature isn't very artistic.

Is there even one M game coming to Wii this year?

Sega at least they know how to keep their old fans happy -- Sonic Colors, but they aren't afraid to try to evolve gaming from the kiddie fare it became after Nintendo took over from Atari in the early eighties into something more adult -- Bayonetta and HOTD:  Overkill.

Mickey Mouse cartoons are fine for awhile but eventually you really should try DeathNote.

Wow... do you even look at the Wii games coming out?  

But then again you're another type that thinks the M rating on the box means the content is mature (as in maturity not content that should not be seen by kids) E games have been more mature.  Sorry but thinking about games and game play in such ways that each iteration feels new and fresh is an artistic achievement and being able to do it so many times since the 1980s just shows their consistency.

But I'm certain you haven't even looked into games like Earthbound or Mother 3 and still hold that flimsy excuse of a belief in what mature content and artistic evolution is. 

Well, when you look in other artistic works, I'm sure more films in the past twenty years that have received Oscars for Best Picture have been R rated rather than G rated.  And Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns isn't considered to be one of the greatest graphic novels of all time because it kept the Adam West Batman level of maturity going for a whole new generation in the eighties.  The truth is that the more mature a work is, then the more emotions it is able to contain thus broadening its ability to be artistic.

I liked Earthbound.  Haven't played Mother 3.  I considered Earthbound the closest thing to a Robert Anton Wilson novel like Illuminatus! at the time I played it, but Nintendo refused to give us in the US an Earthbound Collection or Mother 3 in later years, and it seems they would rather spend money on titles like Mario Sports Mix or another Wii series game than trying to convince the creator of the Mother series to make a new game in it.

And the odds are that if he did, it wouldn't see the light of day outside of Japan in any form until a fan translation was done.