Malstrom: Why Project Cafe will fail

[spdk1]

RolStoppable said:

spdk1 said:

you've muisunderstood, I used to like Malstrom, but he is a broken record.

 

The contradictions are my entire point, he whines to whine, and hes always at odds with himself, he wants to make himself "at odds" with the common tendencies of his readeership.  so when everyone was crying foul about nintendo losing the hardcore audience he stepped in to talk about their new startegy, then when they started to put out some true "hardcore games" as per the blue ocean startegy, he bitched about them being too hardcore (as with Metroid). I'm a bit outspoken about my dislike for this guy, as I feel that he is a character made up to piss people off.

Now this is even better. You don't understand what is being talked about and that's why you draw wrong conclusions. MOM does neither fit in with blue ocean strategy or disruption, because it doesn't obey the same rules as what made the Wii successful.

The goal of a game like Metroid would be to move gamers upmarket, but that has to be done by following the values set by the Wii: remove the bloat, focus on solid gameplay fundamentals with easy to understand controls and build the game from there. MOM is the exact opposite of this, that's why it has been under constant criticism. It injected more bloat than ever (over 100 minutes of cutscenes) and said "screw it" to the gameplay fundamentals and a control scheme that would make sense. The result was something that Metroid fans like to pretend never happened and the sales speak for themselves.

whatever Rol, don't really feel like arguing something that I wasn't intending to argue in the first place.  you speak as if I'm some huge champion of this game.  This really is a non-issue as I am only bringing it up as the milestone where I thought his blog sucked.