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Forums - Nintendo - Matt Peckham (PC World's Game On) still hates the Wii

woopah on 07 September 2008

i find it funny that i could write hate blogs better than these people



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Garcian Smith on 07 September 2008
masschamber said:
tarheel91 said:

Did he try to use De Blob to support his idea that there was no good software on the Wii? Seriously? He undoubtedly hasn't spent more than 2 minutes looking at the game.

 


he probably saw the name, though I bet you don't shoot stuff in that and decided it's terrible

 

Yeah, the only thing I took from his list was that if you don't shoot stuff in a game, then it's not worth playing. Out of the huge laundry list of games he named for the PC and HD consoles, only two (LBP and NBA 09) aren't violent games.

Heck, if he wanted to name a list of promising violent Wii games in the remainder of '08, he could have said Tales of Symphonia, Deadly Creatures, Disaster, Call of Duty, Brothers in Arms: Double Time, Quantum of Solace, Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels, Rygar, and more. But, nope; I guess if a game doesn't render in 1080p and use a color palette that consists of, "5000 shades of brown," then it's not worth playing.

Way to go, Peckham, carving a bright, positive image for us gamers.



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trestres on 07 September 2008

I'm fed up with arrogant and ignorant deluded haters like this guy.



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Millennium on 07 September 2008

He's just mad because the market has spoken: graphics don't matter. Now he's actually going to have to put some work into reviewing his games.



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Galaki on 07 September 2008

I think you guys are a bit unfair against him. He was just waking up from 2006...



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HappySqurriel on 07 September 2008

For the most part, the gaming media takes one of three stances when it comes to the Wii ...

  1. They Apprieciate it for what it is
  2. They completely ignore it
  3. They Hate it

I can (honestly) say that I'm more annoyed by media outlets that ignore the Wii (for example the sites who will review the most obscure XBox 360 or PS3 games on day 1 yet haven't gotten around to reviewing 'Huge' Wii games) than by people who bash it ...



woopah on 07 September 2008

yeah i dont like the ignorers either



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GhaudePhaede010 on 07 September 2008

His blog reminds me of what people said about the Nintendo DS in 2003...



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Lolcislaw on 07 September 2008

He talks usual shit, that "Hardcore" Game Journalist always write about the Wii. I think he still believes that Wii will be ignored by the 3rd party forever, and he did not realised that this did change.



Loud_Hot_White_Box on 07 September 2008
Garcian Smith said:
And someone else completely misses the point of the Wii.

Let me spell it out for this guy. The. Wii. Is. Not. About. Traditional. Games. The reason why there's so little in the way of established franchises on the Wii is because its revolutionary new method of control demands entirely new approaches to gaming in general. If all you're interested in playing is the same crap you've been playing since you were ten, then the Wii isn't for you.

However, I, for one, will take Wario Land, Samba de Amigo, and de Blob any day over the generic laundry list of shooters he listed.

 

No, the controls are not the reason for the dearth of established franchises and traditional games on the Wii.  The controls could be used in established and traditional (non-mini, non exceedingly low-budget) games.  Those games aren't really coming out.

I saw his gripes as those from a fan's perspective, asking, 'where are the games I want to play?'  It's valid, even if Nintendo's business model and strategy are lucrative.  He doesn't question those, except perhaps by implication that Nintendo itself isn't producing many good traditional games.

His game preferences are subjective.  He's not questioning the business model, and no one should use Nintendo's monetary success to counter an argument that, given its success, the Wii doesn't have enough 'regular' games for many video game fans.  Many former core Nintendo video game fans.