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bigjon on 16 January 2009
noname2200 said:
SHMUPGurus said:

Wii Music for the Wii is what Mario Paint was for the SNES. I learned stuff playing that game when I was a kid! Imagine if I had Wii Music at the time. It's brilliant if you want my opinion!

Curses! IGN's failure continues!

I'm with you.

 

 

 exactly, many of us look back at our childhood days enjoy Mario Paint and have fond memories of that game, but if that game came out today it would be treated like WiiMusic by the snobcore. I have a feeling 10-15 years from now the kids who really enjoy Wiimusic are going look back at it like we did Mario Paint.



End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)

Wii- 72 million   3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million   Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million  Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut

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patjuan32 on 16 January 2009

IGN is unprofessional. They want a game like Wii Music to fail but will not go after EA for their My Sims Kart or My Sims Party or Ubisoft, with its tons of shovelware. This makes no sense and IGN is becoming a site of insane journalist that hate the fact that they are Irrelevant. The whole hardcore or nothing attitude is not health for the Industry. Why not accept and Welcome casual and Nongamers? Why not offer them a channel on IGN where they can visit and discuss the games they like to play. IGN could also suggest some core games similar to the ones that they enjoy playing. This would be a better service than to spend time trying to make Wii music flop and would help some casuals become core gamers faster.



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bdbdbd on 16 January 2009

@BTFeather: What? I thought your opinion was based on your solid gameplay experience on the game. If not, that means... ...You don't know a shit about the game. Who would've known.



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Eikä Japanisti.

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im_sneaky on 16 January 2009
patjuan32 said:
IGN is unprofessional. They want a game like Wii Music to fail but will not go after EA for their My Sims Kart or My Sims Party or Ubisoft, with its tons of shovelware. This makes no sense and IGN is becoming a site of insane journalist that hate the fact that they are Irrelevant. The whole hardcore or nothing attitude is not health for the Industry. Why not accept and Welcome casual and Nongamers? Why not offer them a channel on IGN where they can visit and discuss the games they like to play. IGN could also suggest some core games similar to the ones that they enjoy playing. This would be a better service than to spend time trying to make Wii music flop and would help some casuals become core gamers faster.

 

It's because Wii Music was sort of a "big name" game...for the holidays. It turned out to be somewhere between mediocre and bad, and yet it still selled well. I don't think there are any replacements for Wii Music though... like Rockband/Guitar Hero... so there's no good game of the same type to buy instead. That softens the blow.



 

 

bigjon on 16 January 2009

 

 Let me add this to the IGN hating fire...

(in an interview he was asked what trends in 09 he would like to see stop of G4)

Fran M. said that he would like to see what the Wii is doing stop what it is, and that it is killing gaming... pretty sad if you ask me...

edit imbed did not work here is link - http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/videos/35756/Head_to_Head_1ups_Sam_Kennedy_and_IGNs_Fran_Mirabella.html



End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)

Wii- 72 million   3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases

360- 37 million   Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak

PS3- 29 million  Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut

Around the Network
BTFeather55 on 16 January 2009
bdbdbd said:
@BTFeather: What? I thought your opinion was based on your solid gameplay experience on the game. If not, that means... ...You don't know a shit about the game. Who would've known.

 

      Even if I had a Wii, I wouldn't buy Wii Music due to its its review scores.  I don't like to spend $50.00 on something in order to have the priviledge of trying out for myself.  Only if a game is in a genre I like, and music games don't tend to be a genre that I instantly feel compelled to buy games from anyway, rarely do I buy a game that has a review score less than 9.  Exceptions are Final Fantasy Tactics IGN gave it an 8.5, Lunar:  Silver Star Story Complete on PS1 IGN gave it a 7.5 and I never had a Sega CD, so I bought it, and Fear Effect 2:  Retro Helix IGN gave it a 6.9 and I bought it used and didn't buy it based on expectations for what the gameplay experience would be but because of the character designs of Hannah and Raine.

     What do you think accounts for the fact that Nintendo fans are willing to spend $50.00 on such poorly reviewed games other than the fact that they are Nintendo fans?

     A game I would buy for Wii that hasn't received a review score of 9 overall, and that I would buy much quicker than I would Wii Music is No More Heroes.

 

 



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Phendrana on 16 January 2009

Thanks, IGN, for telling me not to buy a game I like. You're a shining example of journalistic professionalism.

And thanks, people in this thread who've never played the game, for pointing out that I only like it because I'm a delusional fanboy. I trust you guys are so hardcore you know it sucks just by looking at it. I hope one day I'm hardcore enough to judge games based only off my hardcoreness, and also to look down on people who have different tastes. One can dream....

I'm glad I've finally been shown the light. I'm burning my copy of Wii Music and buying 15 FPS's to make up for it. All my friends who enjoy Wii Music will be sad, but they're just idiot casuals anyways.



noname2200 on 16 January 2009
BTFeather55 said:
bdbdbd said:
@BTFeather: What? I thought your opinion was based on your solid gameplay experience on the game. If not, that means... ...You don't know a shit about the game. Who would've known.

 

      Even if I had a Wii, I wouldn't buy Wii Music due to its its review scores.  I don't like to spend $50.00 on something in order to have the priviledge of trying out for myself.  Only if a game is in a genre I like, and music games don't tend to be a genre that I instantly feel compelled to buy games from anyway, rarely do I buy a game that has a review score less than 9.  Exceptions are Final Fantasy Tactics IGN gave it an 8.5, Lunar:  Silver Star Story Complete on PS1 IGN gave it a 7.5 and I never had a Sega CD, so I bought it, and Fear Effect 2:  Retro Helix IGN gave it a 6.9 and I bought it used and didn't buy it based on expectations for what the gameplay experience would be but because of the character designs of Hannah and Raine.

     What do you think accounts for the fact that Nintendo fans are willing to spend $50.00 on such poorly reviewed games other than the fact that they are Nintendo fans?

Er...that some of us know how to think for ourselves? I had hoped that quality would be more widespread. I'm sad to see that's not the case.

 



BTFeather55 on 16 January 2009
noname2200 said:
BTFeather55 said:
bdbdbd said:
@BTFeather: What? I thought your opinion was based on your solid gameplay experience on the game. If not, that means... ...You don't know a shit about the game. Who would've known.

 

      Even if I had a Wii, I wouldn't buy Wii Music due to its its review scores.  I don't like to spend $50.00 on something in order to have the priviledge of trying out for myself.  Only if a game is in a genre I like, and music games don't tend to be a genre that I instantly feel compelled to buy games from anyway, rarely do I buy a game that has a review score less than 9.  Exceptions are Final Fantasy Tactics IGN gave it an 8.5, Lunar:  Silver Star Story Complete on PS1 IGN gave it a 7.5 and I never had a Sega CD, so I bought it, and Fear Effect 2:  Retro Helix IGN gave it a 6.9 and I bought it used and didn't buy it based on expectations for what the gameplay experience would be but because of the character designs of Hannah and Raine.

     What do you think accounts for the fact that Nintendo fans are willing to spend $50.00 on such poorly reviewed games other than the fact that they are Nintendo fans?

Er...that some of us know how to think for ourselves? I had hoped that quality would be more widespread. I'm sad to see that's not the case.

 

 

      Yeah, but I don't like to have to pay $50.00 to have to think for myself. And what you're saying, have you ever heard of the social psychological principle of cognitive dissonance?  It basically says that if you are compelled to do something, then you will say that you really enjoy it more because you want to have a justification for why you enjoy something other than admit the truth about it.



Heavens to Murgatoids.

Phendrana on 16 January 2009
BTFeather55 said:
bdbdbd said:
@BTFeather: What? I thought your opinion was based on your solid gameplay experience on the game. If not, that means... ...You don't know a shit about the game. Who would've known.

 

      Even if I had a Wii, I wouldn't buy Wii Music due to its its review scores.  I don't like to spend $50.00 on something in order to have the priviledge of trying out for myself.  Only if a game is in a genre I like, and music games don't tend to be a genre that I instantly feel compelled to buy games from anyway, rarely do I buy a game that has a review score less than 9.  Exceptions are Final Fantasy Tactics IGN gave it an 8.5, Lunar:  Silver Star Story Complete on PS1 IGN gave it a 7.5 and I never had a Sega CD, so I bought it, and Fear Effect 2:  Retro Helix IGN gave it a 6.9 and I bought it used and didn't buy it based on expectations for what the gameplay experience would be but because of the character designs of Hannah and Raine.

     What do you think accounts for the fact that Nintendo fans are willing to spend $50.00 on such poorly reviewed games other than the fact that they are Nintendo fans?

 

 

Word of mouth from people with similar tastes?

An interest in music/music games?

A unique and new gameplay experience?

Coming to their own conclusions rather than being told what to like?

I can keep going if you want me to.