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johnlucas on 10 October 2007

I went to Kotaku to catch up on some news with all the hubbub about Nintendo's conference to check the feedback. There was this one story about Nintendo starting up a testimonial site on Wii called MyWiiStory.com

http://mywiistory.com

So I read the Kotaku story ( http://kotaku.com/gaming/wii/nintendo-launches-mywiistory-309122.php ) and check the comments. I have never heard such bitching and griping and complaining and whining in my life. Even HERE these malcontents continue to sourpuss about the Wii and their assinine expectations. I'm always dumbfounded by these cats. "What are they looking for?" I wonder to myself.

The kind of folks who endlessly complain about Halo 3's graphics and that Wii Sports isn't a "real game" and that Devil May Cry 4 is unpurchasable just because it went multiplatform.

That attitude grated on my nerves so I had to speak up and put down my 1/50 of dollar on the subject.

Shortly thereafter hate was directed to me too for daring to question this hive mentality. Hahahahaha. To hell wit' 'em. One of many reasons why I prefer VGChartz community.

First part 

http://kotaku.com/gaming/wii/nintendo-launches-mywiistory-309122.php#c2618081

*F* the complainers.

I've enjoyed every minute of Wii since I got it on December 6th. It was a lucky purchase that I had stumbled upon paying bills in town the day before.
I went to Wal-Mart to longingly puppy-dog whimper at the Wii window case since I missed getting one on launch day. So sad. Hahaha!

Lo and behold an ad on the glasscase told of Wiis being sold the next day at 8AM. I said WOW! I work at nights and get off in plenty of time to get up to the store to get one.

I got to the store at 6:30-ish and there was already a line! I was #12 and they only had 30 available for sale. The guy in front of me, #11, was on the cell phone with his friend who was in line for Wii in a nearby town. They were seeing who would be able to get one first and then the other could get out of line.

Well it turns out his friend picked it up in the nearby town so I became #11. After waiting a bit and watching the line slowly exceed the 30 mark as time passed by I finally got my Wii!

I bought Zelda a few days prior after missing that too at launch. First time buying any system at launch so I was very unprepared. And got home, hooked it up, turned it on and Wii Sported for about 2 weeks straight EXCLUSIVELY. I didn't start on Zelda until later that December.

I own 10 games for Wii now and want much more:
Wii Sports, Zelda: TW, DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Wii Play, Excite Truck, Trauma Center, Godfather: Blackhand, Mario Strikers Charged, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

Got 2 VC games and want much more:
Comic Zone from Genesis & Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV from SNES.

I love going to WiiCade.com on the Internet Channel and like playing Squares 2 for one of many examples.

I read the news channel almost everyday and participate in the Everybody Votes Channel. I totally and truly enjoy this system and love it when I see the blue light when I get an update or WiiMail.

I'm tired of all the clichéd hate from so-called Wii owners. If you don't like it, give it to ME. I could sure make somebody's Christmas this year if I get one of those. An excellent system that my family and friends enjoy.

No games on Wii? Hardly. The thing's a game ma-CHINE. Almost too many games and so much more to come.
You complainers? Give it up. And pull out a vacuum once in a while so won't have to worry about all that "dust".

Let's get some positive stories here instead of all this griping. The "hardcore" frankly have become a "hard bore".

John Lucas

Second part (in reply to a sensible poster)

http://kotaku.com/gaming/wii/nintendo-launches-mywiistory-309122.php#c2618277

@SpacePenguinBot:

When something is popular, SpacePenguinBot, it becomes the fashion to hate on it in some absurd call to "balance".

There's nothing wrong with the Wii at all. These guys are just narrow-minded and curmudgeonly. Gaming has to be only a certain way for them to enjoy it.

I've been playing videogames since 1980 when I was 4 years old. I played all types of games from cartoony to realistically styled. From family friendly to violent and sex-filled. All kinds of genres and all kinds of systems. Easy simple games to hard complex games that demand the greatest of skill.

By that definition you might label me as "hardcore". But I reject those useless labels like that and "casual". I'm a gameplayer. I'm a videogame player. Just like those who play only Madden are videogame players, just like those who play only RPG's are videogame players, just like those who play moody realistic-styled games are videogame players, just like those who buy movie cash-ins are videogame players, just like those who play puzzlers are videogame players, just like those who play quirky titles are videogame players. From Nintendogs to Doom to GTAIV to Wii Fit to Halo 3 to Singstar...all of 'em are gameplayers and there is no real division.

All the varied stuff I've played over the years just like these guys are who insist on complaining about nothing important. But I'm not like them. I accept progress and new things. The Wii in my opinion, I would say fact even, is the best thing to happen to this industry. And the wheat will be separated from the chaff as the gripers soon find themselves outnumbered by people who know what this pastime is REALLY and has ALWAYS really been all about.

Having fun.
John Lucas



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cdude1034 on 10 October 2007

Wow. That's insane how many jerks can be on one board. I just read the whole thing, and I think SadKermit summed it up nicely.



 

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darthdevidem on 10 October 2007

Well the same thing happens to the Ps3 on this site

Constant whining on any decisions SONY takes

they put rumble in - WHINE

Price cut - WHINE

.......

and so on....



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 SONY & Nintendo

 Consoles owned - SNES, N64, PS, GC, PS2, PSP, PS3

 I DO NOT support Xbox

My prediction for YEARS END:

WII - 18.3 Million

Xbox 360 - 15 Million

Playstation 3 - 8.5 Million

johnlucas on 10 October 2007
cdude1034 said:
Wow. That's insane how many jerks can be on one board. I just read the whole thing, and I think SadKermit summed it up nicely.

Yeah tell me about it, right? There's a few sensible cats left.  Kotaku didn't used to be like this so long ago the way I remember. It's like that sensible atmosphere from that place has come to places like here.

Sad Kermit and a few other people got their heads on straight. Who would want to cater to an audience like this? It's like Princess Morbucks from Powerpuff Girls or something. Some kind of spoiled character anyway (she was the only one who sprang into mind first) .

John Lucas



Words from the Official VGChartz Idiot

WE ARE THE NATION...OF DOMINATION!

 

johnlucas on 10 October 2007
darthdevidem said:
Well the same thing happens to the Ps3 on this site

Constant whining on any decisions SONY takes

they put rumble in - WHINE

Price cut - WHINE

.......

and so on....

Well some of that is because of the bad business decisions Sony keeps making but yeah while Sony adding back in Rumble was a bit funny considering the stance they made, the fact that it was back shouldn't have made people bitch about it so much. That should have been a happy occassion.

But it DID burn those Sixaxis owners who bought first. Maybe they'll do a trade-in deal.

John Lucas



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choirsoftheeye on 10 October 2007
johnlucas said:
cdude1034 said:
Wow. That's insane how many jerks can be on one board. I just read the whole thing, and I think SadKermit summed it up nicely.

Yeah tell me about it, right? There's a few sensible cats left. Kotaku didn't used to be like this so long ago the way I remember. It's like that sensible atmosphere from that place has come to places like here.

Sad Kermit and a few other people got their heads on straight. Who would want to cater to an audience like this? It's like Princess Morbucks from Powerpuff Girls or something. Some kind of spoiled character anyway (she was the only one who sprang into mind first) .

John Lucas


 While I think that crowd is a bit overmuch, denying that there have been a dirth of great non-VC games in the first year of the Wii's existence is a bit silly.  It's been enough for me, as I haven't had a lot of time to play games, and since I don't play sports games, it's not worse than the PS3 or the 360's first year.

 Nonetheless, what with Nintendo's real heavy hitters not coming out until recently/the near future, and 3rd parties just starting to show their worth on the system, I can see where impatient hardcore gamers could be disastifisied with the system, thusfar.



Chadius on 10 October 2007

Console Warz are pretty stupid. There was a nice VG Cats comic that summarized it for me: Fanboy, with the power to ignore logic!



There is no such thing as a console war. This is the first step to game design.

Erik Aston on 10 October 2007

Most consoles have a dirth of games early on, but in the future I think people will look back on the lineup and feel it was very good. Wii Sports is the game of the generation, Zelda was a perfect "hardcore" counterpart, WarioWare and Super Paper Mario were excellent iterations in their franchises, Metroid Prime 3 may become a landmark game, Wii Play and Mario Party 8 were panned but too popular not to mention, third party games like Rayman Raving Rabbids and Trauma Center were inventive and fun, and Super Mario Galaxy, which should be mind-blowing, marks the one year mark.

Those whiners on Kotaku will be long gone. They'll be like the folks who claimed GTA and Halo would never last. "Those violent games are shallow, and can never be as popular as Mario and Zelda and Donkey Kong, doncha know!" Where are they now?

Thanks for linking to those posts, JL. Little bits of sheer optimism among endless mindless bitching is always fun to read.



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"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."

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Chadius on 10 October 2007

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=164

Ah, here we are.



There is no such thing as a console war. This is the first step to game design.

choirsoftheeye on 10 October 2007
Erik Aston said:
Most consoles have a dirth of games early on, but in the future I think people will look back on the lineup and feel it was very good. Wii Sports is the game of the generation, Zelda was a perfect "hardcore" counterpart, WarioWare and Super Paper Mario were excellent iterations in their franchises, Metroid Prime 3 may become a landmark game, Wii Play and Mario Party 8 were panned but too popular not to mention, third party games like Rayman Raving Rabbids and Trauma Center were inventive and fun, and Super Mario Galaxy, which should be mind-blowing, marks the one year mark.

Those whiners on Kotaku will be long gone. They'll be like the folks who claimed GTA and Halo would never last. "Those violent games are shallow, and can never be as popular as Mario and Zelda and Donkey Kong, doncha know!" Where are they now?

Thanks for linking to those posts, JL. Little bits of sheer optimism among endless mindless bitching is always fun to read.

 You said what I meant to say more coherently than I did!