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darthdevidem01 on 31 August 2009

Never went there anyway after I found N4G



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im_sneaky on 31 August 2009

Casuals don't go to that site, so yeah, I'd think that WS love would be low.



 

 

roxaskey on 31 August 2009

It's not really a reason to stop reading Kotaku but rather a reason to ignore its posters.

Totilo is awesome. The other editors are also good, with the exception of Plunkett. That guy hates Nintendo with all his heart.



Gnizmo on 31 August 2009

Is Plunkett the one who deliberately mis-quotes developers to make it seem like they hate the Wii? He is the reason I wrote the site off if so. It has created a couple of really funny threads here though.



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Buzzi on 31 August 2009

What really matters is that a lot of people, also on this site, love WSR, love good motion games and love also the Wii__ series; surely on internet there's more hate against WSR than love, but this doesn't matters: outside of internet there's the real Wii's heart!



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Millennium on 31 August 2009

What do you expect? Kotaku is pure fratcore.



Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.

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What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.

Radziel on 31 August 2009
frybread said:

Aside from gonintendo (which has way too many posts!), are there any good pro-Wii or pro-ludology blogs?

 

there's nintendolife
I think it's pretty decent site.



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frybread on 31 August 2009
Radziel said:
frybread said:

Aside from gonintendo (which has way too many posts!), are there any good pro-Wii or pro-ludology blogs?

 

there's nintendolife
I think it's pretty decent site.

Thanks man, bookmarked.

 

Maybe when PS3/360 get some more pick up & play games, a cross-platform site could start up.



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dbot on 31 August 2009
frybread said:

I'm more just looking for a good alternative. Kotaku is nice because it's entertaining and sticks to 10 or so posts per day.  But whenever they post about games I like, which is becoming more and more rare, it's laced with the old "GATHERING DUST!!!" commentary.  Their writers have decided to take a stand against the evil Wii and defend narrative-based games.  Sorry, I mean works of art.  And that's just bad reporting.

There are lots of great, gameplay-based games that I don't think many blogs cover. Real Heroes: Firefighter, Dawn of Discovery, Order Up, and the like.  Gonintendo covers these types of games, but they have about 5,000,000 posts per day so it's hard to keep up.

If it makes you feel any better they seem to hate the PS3 more than the Wii.  The writing on the site is sub-par at best.  Tortillo is good, but he is starting to take on some of the annoying traits of the other bloggers.  Anyone read Kotaku's Demon Souls impressions (http://kotaku.com/5347901/new-demon-souls-screens-arrive-just-in-time/gallery/)  It was probably the most unprofessional thing I've read.  Fahey should have been fired, instead they probably high-fived him around the office.



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

Mr Khan on 31 August 2009

2% for Wii seems low, even for a site like that. The joystiq community can be just as bad as Kotaku's, and we were able to scrounge up a 10% approval rating for Nintendo's E3 press conference (slightly apples to oranges, but it can be equated with a platform approval rating, and which is still higher, even if you factor in DS from Kotaku side)

 

The split on Wii Sports Resort seems fairer. 38% is a little higher than a third, and if we presume each site has built-in fanbases of proper zealots for each of the companies, you're going to get results skewed against any big exclusive for any of the three (like at least 30% voting against Gears or Uncharted)



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