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VGKing on 02 February 2013
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DaRev said:
VGKing said:
DaRev said:
dharh said:

Eh. I dunno if the Wii U will be a success or failure. Frankly I can't begin to care. It has nothing to offer me, thus failure or success has little impact on me other than the possibility of limiting resources to mediums I do care about. I say mediums rather than games or consoles because at this point it is not only the genre (RPG mostly) that I care about but also the input method of said genre. I refute wholeheartedly the complete bullshit that is motion control and any said RPG that uses such is plebeian crap such that I can but barely even acknowledged its existence. So, my position is that if others like it fine, I just hope that these games that I like are created on consoles that I can at least use _traditional_ controls.


That is all.

You can use traditional controls on the Wii U. Plus it is very likely that it dominate Japan and get many decent JRPGs. So what do you say now, still don't care, because of an obvious bias?

For an additional price. 

Nope, I mean the Gamepad is a traditional control, just with a touch screen. Meaning how you interract with a game is the same. You do not have to use the touch screen of the gamepad since the gamepad could just be used as a way to dispaly a map, and does not affect how you input commands in the game, unlike, for example how you inputted commands for ZeldaSS. NSMBU for example plays traditionally with (little to) no touchscreen interraction during singleplayer gameplay. So the genius about the gamepad is that it can be both a traditional and a unconventional controller at the same time, it just depends on the game and how the controller is used traditionally or unconventionally.

It's not a tradional controller. That gamepad is HUGE and the touchscreen is intrusive and it affects the button layouts/positions and how/where you position the controller while playing. IT IS TOO BIG.

Traditional controllers are judged by more than just how many buttons they have. Design and form factor are a huge part of why they are called "traditional".