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O-D-C on 22 September 2008

I cant wait to get Wii Music, I dont know why but the more I hear about it the more hyped I get.

Gonna be a fine game.



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Mummelmann on 22 September 2008

Ah, good old Malstrom, Nintendo's best spokesman strikes again!



Bobbuffalo on 22 September 2008

The article make sense. genius? *shrugs* maybe yes maybe not.

But the Hate gamers give to this game IS ABSURD.



krimoz911 on 22 September 2008

Great read, and the sight of "hardcore gamers" freaking out about how this article calls wii music genius is priceless.



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Phendrana on 22 September 2008
--OkeyDokey-- said:

No... the real genius of Wii Music is - they gave a bunch of trainee game developers a few thousand bucks to throw together a game in the frame of two months, slapped "Wii" infront of the title and will make enough money out of it to end world hunger.

I can't believe I didn't think of it before them.

 

This is Miyamoto's idea and it's been in development for 3 years....



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--OkeyDokey-- on 22 September 2008
Phendrana said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:

No... the real genius of Wii Music is - they gave a bunch of trainee game developers a few thousand bucks to throw together a game in the frame of two months, slapped "Wii" infront of the title and will make enough money out of it to end world hunger.

I can't believe I didn't think of it before them.

 

This is Miyamoto's idea and it's been in development for 3 years....

3 years of development or 3 years of Miyamoto having the idea in his head?



Veggie on 22 September 2008

If you don't like it, don't buy it. ZOMG CRAZY THOUGHT I KNOW



Smash_Brother on 22 September 2008

I think this depends heavily upon what the final product of Wii Music turns out to be.

If it has some kind of challenge mode where the user is offered a game of timing or freestyling which awards points, then it could be fun.

But I've messed around with music simulators like Electroplankton before, and while they're fun for maybe 20 minutes, I'm basically done with the game after that. I just don't see what Wii Music is going to offer after that.

And even the most causal of gamers I know loves getting a high score and trying to beat their old one. Even Wii Sports and Wii Fit offer high scores and personal accolades which a player can then try to surpass later. I can attest to my mother's own attempts to beat her Wii Fit high scores.

If I gave her a game which was neat but offered no sense of purpose, then I doubt it would hold her interest. There are some games that can hold interest regardless of what they may or may not offer the player because they're so fun, but the bottom line is that Wii Music had better be at a "verging-on-carnal-pleasure" level of fun or else I couldn't imagine it being a worthwhile purchase.



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elgefe02 on 22 September 2008

We will see... we will see.



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nitekrawler1285 on 22 September 2008
Played_Out said:

Me: Why Malstrom is a Fucking Moron

Read any of his articles. If you still don't understand why, it is because you are a fucking moron too.
Congratulations! Knuckle-dragging degenerates like you are the reason Sarah Palin can increase McCain's poll rating, despite being one of the most profoundly stupid and ignorant people ever to (dis)grace the Earth.

The use of the terms "genius" and "art" in relation to Wii Music is an insult to aesthetes and intellectuals everywhere, as are the references to Shakespeare and Philip Glass. His video comparison makes no sense either, as he claims a reproduction is more accurate than the original!

"Why on Earth would anyone want to emulate the mechanical robot way of the latter when the former lets the player use his or her soul?"

Does he not realise that Wii Music uses MIDI tunes? Could there be anything more robotic or sterile than that? Incidentally, I can only think of one game that incorporates the music of Philip Glass and it really is as close as videogames have ever come to being art. Backlash or no backlash.

Lot's of popular music on the radio today uses MIDI.  I don't see why that would make it robotic or sterile.  It's all about composition.  One doesn't need real instruments to create music anymore. 

While this definitely isn't something that would make me purchase a Wii from what i've seen, I would like to try it. I'm not terribly musically inclined which leads me to believe the experience might frustrate me more than be enjoyable.  Maybe I can talk one of my Wii owning friends into renting it.