Nintendo's Kaplan says 'Gamers were bored before Wii'

You can literally hear their knuckles dragging across the ground.

Fernando's coming?

I wonder who will be the first to unleash the s*it storm Shaggy,Fernado or Phatty.

I love how the troll patrol gets here even before the trolls do. What does that say?

What kind of a preemptive strike team would we be if we didn't act... ya know... PREEMPTIVELY?

empty?

For the most part she is so right. I know exactly where you are coming from with the knuckle dragging comments. The concept is so far over most their heads they couldn't find it with the hubble. What happens is most of these people will eventually find themselves removed from certain games or gaming over all with out even knowing why. Its like the friend we all know who has a console and ton of games but never plays it but still swears its so great.

I think before we start looking at the whole casual vs. hardcore gaming market and their apparent weaknesses, we should all read this article.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1947/innovation_in_casual_games_a_.php

It makes a few valid points in how the casual games market isn't offering up enough variety to keep their market growing. Or more importantly, how these hardcore genres mimmick the evolutionary boundaries of their respective genre versus revolutionary. Even Portal is merely explanding upon concepts put in place by Prey.

Personally, I've adopted the simple idea of "I play it if it's fun for me and you play it if it's fun for you" long ago. I'm used to enjoying genres critically bashed except in rare instances. And most of the stuff being raved about, I could give a squishy pigeon squirt about.

Woah. Wooooaaah. Concepts put in place by Prey? What the hell does that mean?

In several portions of Prey, you went through small gates or portals which placed you along walls or in entirely different places. Gravity was a toy in Prey. Main different between Prey and Portal in that aspect is in Portal, you MAKE the portals instead of being limited to the premade ones.

Sorry dude, but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular_drop

Sorry Dude, but

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_%28video_game%29

Seriously, the game was announced in 1995. The first version of the technology was shown in 1997.

Besides, it's a logical progression of thoughts. Why does everyone discount everything unless it's 100% never seen before? And incidently, it never is.

Like that part in the 7th(?) world. Where you have to fight a samurai person, progress to next screen and repeat. 36 FLIPPIN TIMES!!!

That was ridiculously boring, I had to trudge through that madness twice, once for me and once for my little brother. I quit playing after that incident.

i couldnt even finish it. such a dissapointment.

Yeah, there were parts that were boring, but I found the game charming enough to keep me playing.

WTF? 2600? Wow, how did you travel through time?!

I whole-heartedly agree... finished it, wish I'd never bought it. I should have learned from the thousand year door fiasco.

No kidding dude...that was a painfully boring game to play through. Most of the dialogue I just skipped past just to beat the damn game.

Such child's play...

the last game I ever bought for my wii was super paper mario. Such a boring game. It had nice dialogue though.

In Paper Mario 2, I found the battle and its presentation the most fun I had in that game. Good thing too because I didn't like the game in general. It wasn't bad but I didn't find the humor funny despite what reviewers said and I didn't like the area layouts, especially for that one segment where I had to find that white bomb-omb and I was forced to actually visit every area in sequence. I hate such obvious tacked on backtracking.

*spoiler*

Anyway, it's why I'm a little reluctant on Super Paper Mario until I see more. The only thing that got my attention is seeing Luigi in some bandit costume. That got me curious. Prior to that I was pretty much going to skip the title.

same here

ditto.

I kinda agree- but once I got the Wii home and tried a few games, I was a tad disappointed.

Same here except that eventually that hope died I thought the Wii was going to be the second coming of the Super Nintendo but it wasn't instead is a cold machine that feeds on our nostalgia.

But really it makes sense the last 2 games I enjoyed were Megaman Powered up! and still the challenges almost screwed the game…almost and Oblivion.

It feels nowadays everything is generic, I would probably unleash the s*it storm with this but games like COD4 and GR:AW fell somehow like Halo except a bit worst because at least in Halo the ridiculous jumps and vehicles make the game fun for at least 5 to 10 minutes while in COD4 and GR:AW are more like “Screw the story mode we have multiplayer”

Nothing screws a perfectly good game like multiplayer because there is nothing more competitive than multiplayer which is a fest of l33ts pwning n00bs or in the multiplayer lingo “raeping n00bs” making rookies angry so they play to prove that no one raepes them making the game a second job for them while expert players just keep playing because they simply own even if it’s the same map over and over and if they are bored they just act like aholes which is practically what I did when I was a NVW player when I got bored I just humiliate players .Now in FPS my case is that I’m a mediocre player and because it seems everyone hates to play any another thing but slayer the game turns painfully repetitive for me seriously it felt like I played the same map over and over in Gears of war, there are more than 3 maps people I know, I downloaded them.

I can not honestly say that the wii has lived up to my expectations so far. However, I also realize that at this time during the 360's life span, I could say (and did say) the same thing for it.

With the install base as large as it is, it really is only a matter of time before the heavy hitters start landing on Wii. GH3 is a game that should do very well on the wii. Mario Galaxy is a big name for it this season as well, and I still have high interest in games like Zack and Wiki, and just for fun: Harvey Birdman, Ace Attorney.

One thing we all must have during the 1st year in a consoles launch is patience. 360 eventually got its games rolling (remember the post launch EGM interview with Peter Moore?), Wii will get its games rolling, and PS3 should get its games rolling. The only one thats looking bad is PS3, as they can't seem to catch a break.

There, my non-fanboy comment of the day.

COD4 and GR:AW are more like “Screw the story mode we have multiplayer”

Both of those games have excellent plots.

same here. Now it's either stupidly fun, or insanely goodlooking. The two rarely coincide. But when they do, it's gravy

The short answer is No I didn’t like it GR:AW simply as that, in the case of COD4 well I’m being premature but games based on terrorist activities normally have a weak story like Socom.

The Wii was fun. Until someone offered me $600 for it last Christmas.

I bet you've been happy as hell ever since Jack of No Trades stopped posting, because that made you the biggest damn troll on the site.

We both know you can troll better than that.

It had a promising start, but you failed to follow up with the Sony lineup for 2008 - plus, you didn't even mention the RROD.

Konny, you have disappointed me.

What fresh masterpieces are you playing dear Konny?

You know, for a second, I could have SWORN this was GodisaMyth's latest incarnation. A quick look at his posting history, however, shows nothing but competent, well-reasoned responses and low-key observations. Damn. I saw the "Jebus" in the title and got excited.

A boy can dream can't he?

Nah, I really wanted to love the Wii and I dig that it is getting older people and non-gamer types into games. It just wasn't my thing.

Which is why I sold it to a family that could enjoy it. And I didn't profit off of it though I could have. I actually took a loss on the Virtual games I had downloaded.

Yeah. You can recognize that ass by his anti-religion avatars.

That was...bad.

new zelda is very good.