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Resident_Hazard on 20 August 2010
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theRepublic said:
mike_intellivision said:

I just once would like to see how well a multiplatform hard-edged game would do on the Wii compared to other platforms if all were released at the same time with equivalent feature sets. Most of the "test" games that third-parties have released have been overly simple or rail shooters.

Call of Duty 3 fits that bill I think.  

Rail shooters can still be tons of fun.  And the Wii has quite a few high-quality rail shooters, and even some of the lower quality ones can still be enjoyable on some levels.  Like Target Terror for the sheer unintentional cheesecake humor.  I don't think a lot of Nintendo fans know to be happy with good stuff when they have it.  Back when Nintendo had a system with equivalent multi-platform games (the GameCube, for instance), Nintendo fans just ignored the releases anyway.  The games always sold disproportionatly worse on the Cube than the Xbox or PS2. 

I never complain at all about all the rail shooters on the Wii.  Frankly, those games are stupid fun.  And we got some good ones, and we got some classics.  House of the Dead 2 & 3, HotD: Overkill, Dead Space, Ghost Squad, Umbrella and Darkside Chronicles.  These are all fairly different titles requiring different strategies and depths to play.  And in their own way, they're all damn fun games.  Frankly, we should be so lucky that for once, a home console made classic arcade shooters relevant to the home market.

But no, all there is, is bitching and whining from Nintendo fans.  "All we get are fun rail shooters. I don't want games you can only get on the Wii, I want the exact same games you get on the Xbox and PS3.  I want Resident Evil 5, but I want it on the Wii, not the Xbox360 sitting on the shelf next to it." 

Some of you guys looked your gift horse in the mouth, and then you punched it in the gums.  I remember when being a Nintendo fan was more of a "glass half full" kind of mentality.  It's this new "never happy with what we have" kind of attitude that relegated Eternal Darkness to an overlooked cult title on the GameCube instead of the true classic hit it deserved to be.

I know I'm going to get shit for this from some of you, but seriously now.  It seems that Nintendo fans are never fucking satisfied.  Hell, over on another site I post on, there's a Nintendo kid over there whose only request for the successor to the Wii was to fucking have Ocarina of Time remade for it!!  You'd think a high-res 3-D remake would be good enough!