Showing posts with label nintendo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nintendo. Show all posts
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Happy Gamer's E3 Logs 2018
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Happy Gamer's E3 2017 Logs
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Why the next Nintendo Portable SHOULDN'T be a Tablet
So I was reading an article on CNET called "Why the next Nintendo portable needs to be a tablet." The article focuses heavily on the touch screen and gyroscopes of the new Wii U controller, and how the author wishes that Nintendo would make it more "tablet like." The author complains about how it needs to be paired with the wii u in order to work and play games and how you can't just take it on the go without the wii u, especially "considering that the ipad mini can do so much more without the need of a wii u." It's times like this when I'd wish that the techies at CNET would keep their noses out of the world of video games. The author has no idea what he's talking about, so allow me to explain.
1. The wii u gamepad is a controller.
Yes it is true that it has a touch screen and gyroscopes, but it is built from the ground up to be a controller for the wii u, to control video games being played on a TV screen, and has those capabilities to add an extra layer of control and depth to gaming. It was not designed to be able to play games, watch video, surf the web, or something else you can do with a tablet on it's own. There weren't any complaints when it was shown that NES/SNES/N64/PS1/2/XBOX controllers needed to be plugged into the console to work, or that 360/PS3/Wii controlers needed to have the console on to do anything. Or that your universal remote doesn't turn on your car or microwave.
2. It streams games to free up the TV
A semi-big selling point for the wii u, well at least something Nintendo has been boasting about, is the fact that you can stream some games to the tablet freeing up the TV. The author brings up this feature but complains that it needs to have the console on in order to do that. Again, the gamepad is a controller, not a tablet. Nintendo did this because with many kids, the video games are connected to the family TV, and I for one know the frustration of wanting to watch TV or a movie or play one of my other consoles but my brother is playing CoD. With this, parents are able to kick their kids off of the TV while the kid is still able to play their game, or you could be able to continue playing your game while you go to the bathroom, instead of pausing, losing your momentum, and failing. It is not however, intended to run the game, but just allow a second option for play. Sir, you are complaining that you aren't able to instantly stream Netflix without an Internet connection.
3. You want the TV experience.
Since by now I gather that you aren't a gamer, let me put this in terms you tech guys might understand. If you had the choice to watch a movie on blu-ray, 1080p, 60 inch display, full 5.1 surround sound, or standard definition, compressed, itunes quality on a tablet, which would you choose? Unless you're an idjut, you'd choose the former. We aren't playing angry birds here. We're playing in depth, high paced, quality games here on the Wii U, and using a controller to make it all the better. The stream to the controller is a last resort convince like streaming netflix to your smart phone. It's meant to be played on a TV, like movies are meant to be watched on a big screen with quality sound set up.
4. It may be a spiritual successor to the DS, but need I remind you how the DS handled the touch screen?
Let me remind you how the DS worked with the good games, not the ones that are ports of smart phone games. The good ones, like Super Mario 64 DS, Urbz, New Super Mario Brothers, Animal Crossing, Spider-Man 2, and other games like that, used the top, NON-TOUCH, screen for the majority of the game play, with the bottom touch for more of menu, inventory, map, and some mini games. Games such as Bejeweled are not good examples of what DS games are, they are cash ins on technology but run just like the smart phone counterpart. No serious gamer bought a DS for games like that. They bought it for the games that I mentioned previously. Games that aren't heavy on touch screen, but use it for secondary controls or menu-type items. This is similar to how the gamepad will be handled. Gamers aren't buying it for the controller, or the touch screen heavy games. They are buying it for the games that focus on real gaming and use the game pad screen for secondary features. WE DON'T WANT TO "play super Mario on our ipads," BUT RATHER ON THE TV!
5. Pressure form Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other hardware manufacturers to make tablets? Nintendo Ecosystem? What rock have you been living under?
I don't know if you're awair, but Nintendo makes all their own stuff. You can always find aftermarket devices, but they aren't approved by Nintendo. Plus Nintendo isn't a tech company, they are a video game company. Unlike Sony and Microsoft who are tech companies who also make video game consoles and some games, Nintendo is SOLELY video games, and merchandise of their games. Have you ever used a Nintendo computer? My guess is no because they don't exist, and I don't mean Fami-Com. That was a marketing ploy and as far as I know, it really only played games. Ever watched a Nintendo TV, or used a Nintendo CD player, or a Nintendo Blu-Ray player? No, because again, they don't exist. Nintendo makes games and game consoles, for games, for gamers to play games on. They are not in the business to try to make computers.
6. What you just described was the DSi/3DS (warning, mild course language ahead).
You talk about "Nintendo developing a tablet that has brain age and could work with leapfrog to have entertaining education," and "a tablet with classic Nintendo game library." Well guess what Dip Shit, you just described the (3)DS. "The Wii U has a lot of great ideas to add to the discussion of how tablets can work with TVs, but the next step needs to be to find a way to unpair the GamePad and have it be a device on its own." Why the hell would they when they have the (3)DS already there? The game pad is a fucking controller, and not a fucking tablet! It was built to control games on a TV using a second touch screen as a secondary means of input for controls. If you want to game on the go, get a (3)DS. "Consider the alternative: Nintendo has a near-tablet and two handheld all existing in parallel. I'd rather have one connected ecosystem instead, and I think many people would agree." You sir just don't get that the gamepad is a controller, and not a tablet. You also don't understand how the 3DS and DS are coexisting for the time being until the DS gets phased out entirely. The 3DS and DS are at the point similar to how many movies were released on both VHS and DVD during the same time. Movies were still available on VHS but that was just to allow people the time to get a DVD player before they were a thing of the past.
7. The Wii U is not an apple TV, and the gamepad is not an ipad.
Lets get one thing perfectly strait, people are not buying the Wii U for it's controler and then getting the Wii U console as an added bonus to have some fun on the TV. They are buying a Wii U for the same reason they bought a wii and wii remote, a gamecube and a gamecube controller, an N64 and and N64 controller, and any other video game console and it's respective controller; and that is to play video games off of the console and use the controller to control the game. This is not "oh I'm watching a TV show I bought on itunes on my ipad, but now I feel like watching it on my TV, so I think I'll put it on my TV using apple TV." This is "I'm shooting zombies, shooting zombies, crap I need health, look down select med kit, look back up, OH GOD more zombies" and "Doot doot doo suuper mario on the TV, 'son you've had the TV long enough, I'm kicking you off,' not a problem I'll just keep playing on the controller, but I'd rather have the TV." Please, understand this.
8. Nintendo is tired of being "the casual guys."
I don't know if you've noticed, but Nintendo is really pulling hard for NOT being labeled for casual gaming with the Wii U. They lost a lot of credibility with gamers with the Wii because it had such a casual gaming stigma. If there's anything Nintendo is trying to do, it's to lose that stigma and get the hardcore gamers, and marketing the Wii U as merger of casual gaming at home and on the go, will do just the opposite of what they want to accomplish. And just like I said in #6, they have the (3)DS for the on the go, casual gaming. I don't know if you've noticed, but the DSi and 3DS have a download shop that has casual games in it. There are also physical media casual games that you can pick up at gamestop for $5.
In conclusion, you sir are a delusional, tablet struck, dumb ass who doesn't comprehend what gamers want out of a game system nor what Nintendo wants out of their game system. CNET, in the future, please keep your hands off of video games and leave that to the professionals at IGN, Joystiq, GameSpot, and others who specialize in games, because you don't know what gamers are looking for.
1. The wii u gamepad is a controller.
Yes it is true that it has a touch screen and gyroscopes, but it is built from the ground up to be a controller for the wii u, to control video games being played on a TV screen, and has those capabilities to add an extra layer of control and depth to gaming. It was not designed to be able to play games, watch video, surf the web, or something else you can do with a tablet on it's own. There weren't any complaints when it was shown that NES/SNES/N64/PS1/2/XBOX controllers needed to be plugged into the console to work, or that 360/PS3/Wii controlers needed to have the console on to do anything. Or that your universal remote doesn't turn on your car or microwave.
2. It streams games to free up the TV
A semi-big selling point for the wii u, well at least something Nintendo has been boasting about, is the fact that you can stream some games to the tablet freeing up the TV. The author brings up this feature but complains that it needs to have the console on in order to do that. Again, the gamepad is a controller, not a tablet. Nintendo did this because with many kids, the video games are connected to the family TV, and I for one know the frustration of wanting to watch TV or a movie or play one of my other consoles but my brother is playing CoD. With this, parents are able to kick their kids off of the TV while the kid is still able to play their game, or you could be able to continue playing your game while you go to the bathroom, instead of pausing, losing your momentum, and failing. It is not however, intended to run the game, but just allow a second option for play. Sir, you are complaining that you aren't able to instantly stream Netflix without an Internet connection.
3. You want the TV experience.
Since by now I gather that you aren't a gamer, let me put this in terms you tech guys might understand. If you had the choice to watch a movie on blu-ray, 1080p, 60 inch display, full 5.1 surround sound, or standard definition, compressed, itunes quality on a tablet, which would you choose? Unless you're an idjut, you'd choose the former. We aren't playing angry birds here. We're playing in depth, high paced, quality games here on the Wii U, and using a controller to make it all the better. The stream to the controller is a last resort convince like streaming netflix to your smart phone. It's meant to be played on a TV, like movies are meant to be watched on a big screen with quality sound set up.
4. It may be a spiritual successor to the DS, but need I remind you how the DS handled the touch screen?
Let me remind you how the DS worked with the good games, not the ones that are ports of smart phone games. The good ones, like Super Mario 64 DS, Urbz, New Super Mario Brothers, Animal Crossing, Spider-Man 2, and other games like that, used the top, NON-TOUCH, screen for the majority of the game play, with the bottom touch for more of menu, inventory, map, and some mini games. Games such as Bejeweled are not good examples of what DS games are, they are cash ins on technology but run just like the smart phone counterpart. No serious gamer bought a DS for games like that. They bought it for the games that I mentioned previously. Games that aren't heavy on touch screen, but use it for secondary controls or menu-type items. This is similar to how the gamepad will be handled. Gamers aren't buying it for the controller, or the touch screen heavy games. They are buying it for the games that focus on real gaming and use the game pad screen for secondary features. WE DON'T WANT TO "play super Mario on our ipads," BUT RATHER ON THE TV!
5. Pressure form Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other hardware manufacturers to make tablets? Nintendo Ecosystem? What rock have you been living under?
I don't know if you're awair, but Nintendo makes all their own stuff. You can always find aftermarket devices, but they aren't approved by Nintendo. Plus Nintendo isn't a tech company, they are a video game company. Unlike Sony and Microsoft who are tech companies who also make video game consoles and some games, Nintendo is SOLELY video games, and merchandise of their games. Have you ever used a Nintendo computer? My guess is no because they don't exist, and I don't mean Fami-Com. That was a marketing ploy and as far as I know, it really only played games. Ever watched a Nintendo TV, or used a Nintendo CD player, or a Nintendo Blu-Ray player? No, because again, they don't exist. Nintendo makes games and game consoles, for games, for gamers to play games on. They are not in the business to try to make computers.
6. What you just described was the DSi/3DS (warning, mild course language ahead).
You talk about "Nintendo developing a tablet that has brain age and could work with leapfrog to have entertaining education," and "a tablet with classic Nintendo game library." Well guess what Dip Shit, you just described the (3)DS. "The Wii U has a lot of great ideas to add to the discussion of how tablets can work with TVs, but the next step needs to be to find a way to unpair the GamePad and have it be a device on its own." Why the hell would they when they have the (3)DS already there? The game pad is a fucking controller, and not a fucking tablet! It was built to control games on a TV using a second touch screen as a secondary means of input for controls. If you want to game on the go, get a (3)DS. "Consider the alternative: Nintendo has a near-tablet and two handheld all existing in parallel. I'd rather have one connected ecosystem instead, and I think many people would agree." You sir just don't get that the gamepad is a controller, and not a tablet. You also don't understand how the 3DS and DS are coexisting for the time being until the DS gets phased out entirely. The 3DS and DS are at the point similar to how many movies were released on both VHS and DVD during the same time. Movies were still available on VHS but that was just to allow people the time to get a DVD player before they were a thing of the past.
7. The Wii U is not an apple TV, and the gamepad is not an ipad.
Lets get one thing perfectly strait, people are not buying the Wii U for it's controler and then getting the Wii U console as an added bonus to have some fun on the TV. They are buying a Wii U for the same reason they bought a wii and wii remote, a gamecube and a gamecube controller, an N64 and and N64 controller, and any other video game console and it's respective controller; and that is to play video games off of the console and use the controller to control the game. This is not "oh I'm watching a TV show I bought on itunes on my ipad, but now I feel like watching it on my TV, so I think I'll put it on my TV using apple TV." This is "I'm shooting zombies, shooting zombies, crap I need health, look down select med kit, look back up, OH GOD more zombies" and "Doot doot doo suuper mario on the TV, 'son you've had the TV long enough, I'm kicking you off,' not a problem I'll just keep playing on the controller, but I'd rather have the TV." Please, understand this.
8. Nintendo is tired of being "the casual guys."
I don't know if you've noticed, but Nintendo is really pulling hard for NOT being labeled for casual gaming with the Wii U. They lost a lot of credibility with gamers with the Wii because it had such a casual gaming stigma. If there's anything Nintendo is trying to do, it's to lose that stigma and get the hardcore gamers, and marketing the Wii U as merger of casual gaming at home and on the go, will do just the opposite of what they want to accomplish. And just like I said in #6, they have the (3)DS for the on the go, casual gaming. I don't know if you've noticed, but the DSi and 3DS have a download shop that has casual games in it. There are also physical media casual games that you can pick up at gamestop for $5.
In conclusion, you sir are a delusional, tablet struck, dumb ass who doesn't comprehend what gamers want out of a game system nor what Nintendo wants out of their game system. CNET, in the future, please keep your hands off of video games and leave that to the professionals at IGN, Joystiq, GameSpot, and others who specialize in games, because you don't know what gamers are looking for.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Why I hate the wii
Many many reasons. Just read to find out.
If it's not a good game or catholic...who do you call?...why pokematic "Hi."
Why I don’t like the Wii. Hmmmmmmm, it boils down to a big letdown. Let me start out with how it was marketed. I had a subscription to Nintendo Power and they really made it look like it was the next best thing to sliced bread. It had Wii connect 24, mii’s, the virtual console, the weather channel, the photo channel, an internet browser, reverse compatibility with GameCube, and best of all, FULL MOTION CONTROLES!!!!!
Let me back up with some things. For starters Nintendo renamed Wi-Fi to Wii connect 24. I know a guy who, when I said, “cool, Wii’s got Wi-Fi,” he legit said “no it’s Wii connect 24.” “Yeah but you get it from a Wi-Fi signal.” “No Nintendo just gets it from like everywhere.” It’s Wi-Fi, we all know it, just like Steve Jobs calling the motherboard the logic board, it serves no purpose. But with the ds it’s Wi-Fi. Oh well let’s call it Wii connect 24 and eventually people will realize it’s just Wi-Fi.
The photo channel and weather channel were nice, useless gimmicks. What don’t agree with me? Ok maybe the weather was a little useful. This was back when smartphones were just starting to become popular and checking up on the weather before spending all day in side is a little useful, but the photo app was useless. Let me ask you this, how often do you pop your sd card into your wii so you can do whatever the photo channel can do? I know you can make stop motion videos, yeah I’ll just stick with movie maker since I can do stuff with it. Really, who uses that?
Now reverse compatibility with GameCube was nice. Sony and to an extent Microsoft have been reverse compatible since they released their second console and here we are at console number 5 and we finally get reverse compatibility; by no means a deal maker for me, but good for those who store their old consoles in the basement. I have all 10 of my consoles connected to 1 TV. No basement for my babies.
Virtual console was also a nice touch, but again no deal maker for me. I have every console that they have available on VC and then some. If I want an old Nintendo or Sega Genesis game, I’ll buy the original and play the way it was meant to be played. I’ve seen controller adapters for classic old school controllers, particularly NES and SNES, and from what I’ve heard they work great. But me, I prefer real carts.
Web browser, it’s a web browser. No real comment. It gets the job done for someone who just wants to screw around and surf the web. It’s got YouTube and is compatible with a keyboard. No deal maker, but definitely nice and would have enjoyed it.
Now the first major let down was the miis. This isn’t the fault of the developers, just Nintendo Power. Nintendo Power deceived me into believing that this was going to be kind of like the sims meets animal crossing’s family friendliness. The screen shots they used were of the miis walking around in their court yard. It never showed that that court yard was the entire environment they lived in. And the walking around, just that, no interactions. Then they kind of described them as sims with them gaining experience with some games. It wasn’t until I saw a demo that showed that all you can really do with them is use them as avatars in Wii sports, file pics in some games, make them look crazy, and then organize them. Congratulations Nintendo for bringing back segregation. Ok that’s a little extreme but that’s what the organization is based off of. I was expecting a sims, and I get a build an avatar. And let me point out, the creativity is lame. Microsoft did it right.
Now for the piece de resistance, the motion controls. All coverage talked about how awesome full motion controls will be. How “this is the first console to do full motion right.” Bull****! If the wii did full motion right the virtual boy did 3d right. The only games I can recall that use the full motion to its potential are stupid mini games, and trauma center. Trauma Center is the best game on the wii. I’ll have happy gamer cover that. But yeah, we get the tech demo Wii Sports with every Wii, and it uses the motion controls well. No substance, but who cares it’s just the tech demo. Well then other launch titles like tony hawks downhill jam and excite truck try but barely miss. Wario Ware uses it but again no real substance. And then after that motion sucks. WHAT!!!!!!!! You mean to tell me that the console that boasted motion controls doesn’t even fully utilize them? WHATTHEBUCK. And then some of the games have these weird motion controls like Marvel Ultimate Alliance. I’m just sitting there playing, and all the sudden, the camera starts acting weird. Wait so you mean to tell me that the control for the camera is in the tilt of the nunchuck. My hand isn’t doing anything with it so naturally it’s going to lay limp next to me on the couch while I move the stick with my thumb, but now I have to be worried about my arm going limp. Wow.
I have been bashing the wiiwii. Like I said, I subscribed to Nintendo Power, and they did a lot of coverage on the Revolution. Yes the revolution. Nintendo should have stuck with the name. Revolution much cooler than wii. We all know what a revolution is, but wii is just nonsense and just sounds stupid. Well NP will naturally do lots of coverage on the upcoming console from Nintendo. They did so much coverage and made it sound so cool. Look back in the review, so much blown out of proportion. It sounded so cool, with the bar set so high. My one friend who loves the Wii probably does because he didn’t have all the coverage and blown out of proportions that I have.
I also had a rather bad first, second, third; ok fourth, decent fifth, great sixth, and downhill from there until I couldn’t stand the thing. Thankfully I didn’t waste any money on the damn thing. I had a friend who got one, and then talked about how great it was and made me play it. He praised all the flaws I saw. Sucked the fun out of otherwise maybe decent games with his “my way to play is the right way” attitude. Generally killed any hopes of me enjoying it. Granted my hated came about at the beginning, but quite frankly there wasn’t much to it.
What would I categorize as the worst game, Boogie. Boogie is by far the worst game I have ever had the misfortune of playing on the wii, and maybe ever. We all know the commercials, where the monster was dancing similar to the motions in the controls, then the girl sings into a mic. Commercial below.
Then they went on to have it as the intro to the game. For starters, the songs suck. Plain and simple, the songs suck. A music game with bad songs is a bad game. I think there was 1 decent song, but that doesn’t constitute the $30 price tag or something. Ok so maybe the songs suck, but maybe the motion controls will save it. I mean look at how good those controls look. Well again, they suck. What is it? Well instead of the cool controls we see in the commercial, we have to move the controller up, down left and right in time with the music. (Takes time to look at skin) I am a white boy with no beat. On what planet am I going to be able to score any points in a game that requires me to keep time? I’m able to do fairly well at DDR and Guitar Hero because they tell me what to do. The notes and beats scroll across the screen as I play. Boogie on the other hand, just says “here’s the song, now wave in time on beat without any indication of where the beat is because we’re all gifted with beat.” I think I played through half a song and didn’t score one point. The only dance I can do is the Macarena, and that’s because I spent many years studying it. And while I’m on it, there’s no customization on how the characters dance. They all break dance. I want my guy to dance like a white boy like me. I don’t want to see my avatar breakdance off beat. That’s just stupid. Now maybe if there were some good tracks the karaoke feature could salvage just a portion of this game, but no one wants to sing along with crappy songs.
Well thank-you for reading this. This has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.
If it's not a good game or catholic...who do you call?...why pokematic "Hi."
Why I don’t like the Wii. Hmmmmmmm, it boils down to a big letdown. Let me start out with how it was marketed. I had a subscription to Nintendo Power and they really made it look like it was the next best thing to sliced bread. It had Wii connect 24, mii’s, the virtual console, the weather channel, the photo channel, an internet browser, reverse compatibility with GameCube, and best of all, FULL MOTION CONTROLES!!!!!
Let me back up with some things. For starters Nintendo renamed Wi-Fi to Wii connect 24. I know a guy who, when I said, “cool, Wii’s got Wi-Fi,” he legit said “no it’s Wii connect 24.” “Yeah but you get it from a Wi-Fi signal.” “No Nintendo just gets it from like everywhere.” It’s Wi-Fi, we all know it, just like Steve Jobs calling the motherboard the logic board, it serves no purpose. But with the ds it’s Wi-Fi. Oh well let’s call it Wii connect 24 and eventually people will realize it’s just Wi-Fi.
The photo channel and weather channel were nice, useless gimmicks. What don’t agree with me? Ok maybe the weather was a little useful. This was back when smartphones were just starting to become popular and checking up on the weather before spending all day in side is a little useful, but the photo app was useless. Let me ask you this, how often do you pop your sd card into your wii so you can do whatever the photo channel can do? I know you can make stop motion videos, yeah I’ll just stick with movie maker since I can do stuff with it. Really, who uses that?
Now reverse compatibility with GameCube was nice. Sony and to an extent Microsoft have been reverse compatible since they released their second console and here we are at console number 5 and we finally get reverse compatibility; by no means a deal maker for me, but good for those who store their old consoles in the basement. I have all 10 of my consoles connected to 1 TV. No basement for my babies.
Virtual console was also a nice touch, but again no deal maker for me. I have every console that they have available on VC and then some. If I want an old Nintendo or Sega Genesis game, I’ll buy the original and play the way it was meant to be played. I’ve seen controller adapters for classic old school controllers, particularly NES and SNES, and from what I’ve heard they work great. But me, I prefer real carts.
Web browser, it’s a web browser. No real comment. It gets the job done for someone who just wants to screw around and surf the web. It’s got YouTube and is compatible with a keyboard. No deal maker, but definitely nice and would have enjoyed it.
Now the first major let down was the miis. This isn’t the fault of the developers, just Nintendo Power. Nintendo Power deceived me into believing that this was going to be kind of like the sims meets animal crossing’s family friendliness. The screen shots they used were of the miis walking around in their court yard. It never showed that that court yard was the entire environment they lived in. And the walking around, just that, no interactions. Then they kind of described them as sims with them gaining experience with some games. It wasn’t until I saw a demo that showed that all you can really do with them is use them as avatars in Wii sports, file pics in some games, make them look crazy, and then organize them. Congratulations Nintendo for bringing back segregation. Ok that’s a little extreme but that’s what the organization is based off of. I was expecting a sims, and I get a build an avatar. And let me point out, the creativity is lame. Microsoft did it right.
Now for the piece de resistance, the motion controls. All coverage talked about how awesome full motion controls will be. How “this is the first console to do full motion right.” Bull****! If the wii did full motion right the virtual boy did 3d right. The only games I can recall that use the full motion to its potential are stupid mini games, and trauma center. Trauma Center is the best game on the wii. I’ll have happy gamer cover that. But yeah, we get the tech demo Wii Sports with every Wii, and it uses the motion controls well. No substance, but who cares it’s just the tech demo. Well then other launch titles like tony hawks downhill jam and excite truck try but barely miss. Wario Ware uses it but again no real substance. And then after that motion sucks. WHAT!!!!!!!! You mean to tell me that the console that boasted motion controls doesn’t even fully utilize them? WHATTHEBUCK. And then some of the games have these weird motion controls like Marvel Ultimate Alliance. I’m just sitting there playing, and all the sudden, the camera starts acting weird. Wait so you mean to tell me that the control for the camera is in the tilt of the nunchuck. My hand isn’t doing anything with it so naturally it’s going to lay limp next to me on the couch while I move the stick with my thumb, but now I have to be worried about my arm going limp. Wow.
I have been bashing the wiiwii. Like I said, I subscribed to Nintendo Power, and they did a lot of coverage on the Revolution. Yes the revolution. Nintendo should have stuck with the name. Revolution much cooler than wii. We all know what a revolution is, but wii is just nonsense and just sounds stupid. Well NP will naturally do lots of coverage on the upcoming console from Nintendo. They did so much coverage and made it sound so cool. Look back in the review, so much blown out of proportion. It sounded so cool, with the bar set so high. My one friend who loves the Wii probably does because he didn’t have all the coverage and blown out of proportions that I have.
I also had a rather bad first, second, third; ok fourth, decent fifth, great sixth, and downhill from there until I couldn’t stand the thing. Thankfully I didn’t waste any money on the damn thing. I had a friend who got one, and then talked about how great it was and made me play it. He praised all the flaws I saw. Sucked the fun out of otherwise maybe decent games with his “my way to play is the right way” attitude. Generally killed any hopes of me enjoying it. Granted my hated came about at the beginning, but quite frankly there wasn’t much to it.
What would I categorize as the worst game, Boogie. Boogie is by far the worst game I have ever had the misfortune of playing on the wii, and maybe ever. We all know the commercials, where the monster was dancing similar to the motions in the controls, then the girl sings into a mic. Commercial below.
Then they went on to have it as the intro to the game. For starters, the songs suck. Plain and simple, the songs suck. A music game with bad songs is a bad game. I think there was 1 decent song, but that doesn’t constitute the $30 price tag or something. Ok so maybe the songs suck, but maybe the motion controls will save it. I mean look at how good those controls look. Well again, they suck. What is it? Well instead of the cool controls we see in the commercial, we have to move the controller up, down left and right in time with the music. (Takes time to look at skin) I am a white boy with no beat. On what planet am I going to be able to score any points in a game that requires me to keep time? I’m able to do fairly well at DDR and Guitar Hero because they tell me what to do. The notes and beats scroll across the screen as I play. Boogie on the other hand, just says “here’s the song, now wave in time on beat without any indication of where the beat is because we’re all gifted with beat.” I think I played through half a song and didn’t score one point. The only dance I can do is the Macarena, and that’s because I spent many years studying it. And while I’m on it, there’s no customization on how the characters dance. They all break dance. I want my guy to dance like a white boy like me. I don’t want to see my avatar breakdance off beat. That’s just stupid. Now maybe if there were some good tracks the karaoke feature could salvage just a portion of this game, but no one wants to sing along with crappy songs.
Well thank-you for reading this. This has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.
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