doubt it.  This game is going to do wonders, but kids these days are not the same as us. They want everything handed to them, they desire absolutely no challenge and getting punished is something unheard of. They have horrible taste in just about everything and I assume they will shun this amazing game. I suspect it will sell fantastically, but i dont think it will usher in a new generation of hardcore nintendo fans. All the "hardcore gamers" want to play games like call of duty and halo, even though both of those games are infinitely more casual than this game is.

The title made me choke on 02.

Their taste is most likely just as horrible as your taste has once been to the generation before yours.

Besides, no game makes an entire new generation of gamers, but some games do help define segments of it, and this is one you can expect to do so.

That's exactly why they added that help block after 8 deaths. It's for the new crowd.

incorrect. but whatever. I grew up with the NES, anyone who seriously thinks gaming was better before that should probably go buy a NES.

NES =/= a game

Yah to be honest my uncle grew up on Intellivision and Commodore64 and thinks that it had the best games, but I grew up on 2600 and NES and think that NES/SNES had the best games of all time. Then theirs the people who grew up on Nintendo64 and think that had the best games of all time. And the little kids growing up on GameCube/Wii will look back at our games and think we had bad taste just as we look at their games and think they have bad taste.

Fact is every generation has a different taste in games. The older generation (Hardcore) tend to like more mature games right now, Halo/ModernWarFare2/GTA4 while the NES/SNES gamers may be loving the Wii and the N64 gamers are loving their graphics on the 360 or PS3. All I know is Nintendo isn't targetting our generation, they are targeting a new generation of soccer mom's and five year olds. They are infact creating the next generation of hardcore gamers. We just won't see their hardcore games as hardcore, we see them as casual.

But to a soccer mom, she'll call herself hardcore even though she just plays WiiSportsResort, WiiFit and WiiMusic. My mom is the perfect example she's hooked on the Wii series and the casual games, she really thinks she's a gamer. Is she wrong? no she plays games as much as I do just different games.

What I'm saying is we all have seperate views on which games shaped our generation's and in the same way we think of the NES generations to come will remember the Wii!

What exact was the incorrect part?

And I don't think many people think gaming was better before the NES, you got me wrong if you think I do.

Heck I don't but my uncle can never stop talking about his Amiga and Commodore64. He even brought up Tank Battle as an amazing game saying it redefined a generation. I admit it was a good game but for those people who grew up playing Pong they still think that was an amazing game, its all perspective!

Love it.

You can almost feel the pain of the writer as he tries to look at it with the eyes of these sub-human retards, like women and children, to whom the concept of "challenge" is totally alien.