Comments on: Has the Wyrm Really Turned?

By: Tea Leaves - Hail to the Hard Core

Tea Leaves - Hail to the Hard Core — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:20:59 +0000

[...] fact Nintendo was creating some of the most enduring and brilliant gaming experiences of the time. Nintendo owes these people nothing, and it’s incredible to me that they can have such an incredibly inflated sense of [...]

By: Johnny Pi

Johnny Pi — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:04:48 +0000

I’m really glad I don’t read the same websites you apparently do, since they seem to be composed of obnoxious hardcore gamers who obviously haven’t paid attention to Nintendo for about, oh, twenty-five years. I’ve gotten more play out of Wii Sports than Zelda because I can jump right in, play for fifteen minutes, and then turn it off without worrying about my progress.

I do think Nintendo has gone too slow with their online functionality. Mostly it’s their lack of discussing much of an actual strategy that bothers me. Even Sony has come out with a general plan (took long enough, and is laughable at the moment, but if they pull it off it’ll be impressive). Wii Sports should have online leagues and grand championships at this point.

I think you should be fair to the 360, though, and realize that part of the success is a decent number of well-directed hardcore titles supplemented by robust and simple online play. Even though the games may be hardcore, the ease of linking up with like-minded gamers trumps the PC easily – you might call it hardcore play facilitated by casual interfaces.

But you are absolutely on point about the Live Arcade appeal.

And, really, Nintendo hasn’t changed any rules. They’ve always been ahead of the curve (Rob the robot, the Power Pad, Power Glove, Virtua Boy). They’ve just finally released their big ideas to a public that is ready to fully accept them (well, and improved their technology).

And what’s with the Facebook group? You and me were the only people to open our mouths. Can we, like, give people demerits for not participating?

By: GBGames

GBGames — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:21:21 +0000

I haven’t been keeping up with the next-gen wars, but it seems I occasionally find comments arguing that the Wii is too casual or that it seems that the games being released are too often party games. I haven’t been a Nintendo fanboy in a long time, but let me get my hat…

I don’t think you can get too casual. If it takes me a 400 page manual and lots of obscure commands to startup a game, it can be improved and streamlined. Casual just means easy to pick up and play, and it does not necessarily refer to match-3 games. You can have casual games that are hardcore.

As for the games being released, this list seems to indicate that we’ll see plenty of guns, explosions, and blood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games And we’ll also see new games, different games, and innovative games…some of which will not just be party games.