How terribly ironic. Before the fact that actual sense of rhythm and balance are needed to perform well in Wii Music was known, people complained that the game would be piss-easy and anybody could perform a great song just by doing their best spastic ape impression. Now that it's known that you can't impersonate a spider monkey who's just discovered a tarantula in its fur and expect great results, people are bitching that the game is too inaccessible. Heaven forbid you need some actual skills beyond rote memorization and timed button-mashing to succeed...

@4lc0h0l

The only conclusion i can make from this video is that it sounded so bad that they just dubbed the orginal version of the song over the clip, because it seriously looks like they are having NO influence on the music.

1.  Yes there have been many such games.  But those are not by Nintendo. We have come to expect crap from third parties.  First, because they don't even try and secondly because they are not even remotely as talented as Nintendo.  From Nintendo we expect so much more.

2.  You hit the nail on the head for my situation.  I want to be playing Pikmin 3, F Zero and/or Wave Race this Christmas season.  But I am not going to be playing any of those.  If Nintendo hadn't been focusing on Wii Music then I am sure at least one of those games (preferably Pikmin 3) would have been available for me to play.  I accept none of those games will sell anything close to what Wii Music can sell but I don't care.  I want a core game for Christmas and what I would have expected from Nintendo would be Animal Crossing or Wii Music and a core game.  Not Animal Crossing and Wii Music.

Ok, so let me ask this, if Nintendo had announced one or two big first party games such as an F-Zero and Star Fox and both looked like they would be great and coming out before this year is over, would people still hate Wii Music as much? This hypothetical being that Wii Music is the same exact game coming out now, would so many gamers ridicule it if they had some big first party Nintendo games to look forward to in the next couple months. I think people would be more accepting of the game or at least not say they hate a video game just because it doesn't appeal or cater to them. Just my opinion anyway.

If that was the case I would not hate Wii Music at all.  I would not even care that the game existed and would just get on with my business.  The problem is that there are no big first party games coming out but there is Wii Music.  We know Wii Music is Miyamoto's baby so the fact that no big game is coming out can really be attributed to Wii Music.  Which is why I hate it so much.  It may not be the worst game ever made but it is the game that has deprived us of a big game this season and hence the hatred.

So basically, you hate Wii Music because you believe you're entitled to whatever you want and Wii Music is not what you want. How... immature.

It looks crap, saying that Nintendo Wii hardware is crap and still sells. Wii Fit's crap and that sells. Another gimmick that will sell even thou it's crap.

IGN's review of Wii Music's speaks for itself.

Quote:

Our condolences to the two-and-a-half million people who buy this game.

http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/921/921024p1.html

It might flop bigstyle. It deserves too it's that bad.

I've noticed this before (the whole achievements craze worming through the industry), but I think it's sad that so many people require rigidly defined arbitrary goals to achieve in order to have fun at a game.

Sounds more like work to me.

In Wii Music, your goal is to make music which sounds good. But because there's no big splash screen that says "You're Winner!", so many people just aren't interested in trying to achieve this. How is a program supposed to know what good music sounds like? Why do people need the approval of a program to validate their play?

^^I guess that means you also sell.

I started out as indifferent but now I'm interested in trying out. The recent videos floating around are doing it justice.

BoleroOfFire said: ^^I guess that means you also sell. I started out as indifferent but now I'm interested in trying out. The recent videos floating around are doing it justice.

 lol, guess your easy pleased.