curl-6 said:
Utimately I got what I wanted from the Wii. I thought motion contolled swordplay would be awesome, I got that with Red Steel 2, Skyward Sword, and Wii Sports Resort. I thought pointer-controlled shooting would be awesome, and I got just that with Metroid Prime 3, Medal of Honor, Goldeneye, COD, etc. I wanted Nintendo games that were a return to the SNES/N64 glory days instead of the weird experimental stuff on Gamecube, and I got that with Twilight Princess, Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, DKCR, Prime 3, etc. With Wii U, I wanted an epic, instant-classic 3D Mario, I wanted a Zelda within a reasonable timespan, (certainly before the system was replaced) I wanted something ambitious from Retro Studios, and I didn't get those things. |
Pointer controls were good, but Nintendo didn't bother to get any of the great FPS games or make one themselves (like GoldenEye N64). Red Steel 2 was what the first should've been and then RS2 should've been a good deal better than that.
The problem with the sword control stuff on Wii is the controller (even with WM+) can't register depth, which means it only picks up on the angle, but nothing else ... it didn't really control 1:1 anywhere close to how it should have.
The pointer stuff was much better, but again, Nintendo themselves never really bothered to make a top tier multiplayer FPS to really take advantage of it.
Until, ironically, I guess Splatoon (well online multi anyway).
Putting Retro on Metroid Prime 3 was a waste, they should have let them work on a new FPS IP that was more multiplayer centric, coming in 2007 at the heigh of the Wii craze, such a game would've become a hit and potentially have given Nintendo a great new IP, but instead we got Metroid, which quite honestly is never going to be a mainstream hit. It's too slow, solitary, single-player focused.
Plus 6 years of fugly SD graphics ... ugh. I hope NX is not the same type of upgrade over Wii U.
