Nintendo's Aonuma pitched Link's Crossbow Training 2

LINK'S CROSSBOW TRAINING 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

Buh... RE4 was 1st person?

multiplayer Links Crossbow Training 2? I'd like to see how that would have worked out...

I really enjoyed myself with the 15 minutes I spent with this title last year. I actually did. I just never felt like going back to it. Perhaps because I'm easily distracted.

Oooh! A piece of toast flying out of a toaster!

While I beat the game in probably two hours, I enjoyed Link's Crossbow Training. But still, it would be inappropriate to call the game an actual "GAME". It was more of an experience for a peripheral that is barely ever implemented in any Nintendo games today. That being said, I think it seems strange and unnecessary to give this game a sequel, even if I did enjoy it, which I really did. Then there will be people that will say "Wii Sports wasn't really a 'game', and that got a sequel", but that had tons of replay value. I'm up for anything Zelda related, but I think that instead of focusing on another experience, we need that true Zelda game that's supposed to come out next year.

I really enjoyed Link's Crossbow Training. For what it was (a tech demo of the Wii Zapper), it worked very well. For being a pack-in freebie (or a $20 game with a plastic shell, however you want to look at it), I felt like I got my money's worth. A full-blown sequel (with the depth and length of a full game) sounds promising to me.

"And to the Nintendo executives who killed a sequel to Link's Crossbow Training, we'd like to personally thank you."

I'm going to overreact to this simple well meant statement and take it out of proportion, but a sentence like this is really telling, and so infinitely annoying. Thank Nintendo for what? Another iteration of the Zelda 3D series as opposed to a more interesting spin on the actual alternative potential of the Wii Remote peripherals?

I haven't actually played Crossbow Training because the lack of general support for some of the Wii peripherals have turned me away from the ones I'm less inherently interested in - I know that my looking over them is basically encouraging their premature demise, but I don't see my individual purchase making any large influence - but had a second and more expansive CT come out along with a slew of other games supporting things like the gun shell and wheel, I'd be more inclined to buy them. Yes, games like these are clumsy and pale in comparison even to mediocre franchise iterations of the same thing for the tenth time, but don't forget those games weren't without their flaws at the start and a myriad of them have aged horribly. This is a direct and obvious example where consumer purchases have encouraged another standard game sequel rather than a genuine experimentation, and the sentiment that caused it is simultaneously smug in a misplaced manner and horribly oblivious to the consequences of its narrow train of thought.

Again, I'm intentionally overreacting (not to 'troll', just to illustrate my point better - your local newspaper's editorial pages are full of this manner of expression) and as much as I hated Twilight Princess and lament the lack of interest in games like Crossbow Training, I'm essentially walking in lockstep with the rest of us. I just wished there'd be more realization within the hivemind what exactly this train of thought is reinforcing and discouraging when a company decides it's time to put out a new game.

Yeah, I bet that could have been GotY 2010!

/sarcasm

No capable FPS, what about Metroid Prime Trilogy?!? and don't give me any of this First Person Adventure bollocks!

I'm sure i'm probably in the minority, but for only $20, I liked the game

WiiWare maybe? I'm sure they could increase their own download limit for this game if need be.

As Nick says - Metroid Prime Trilogy is FPS adventure. Aren't there on rails shooters that are FPS as well.

Talking about Wii - how in the sweet hell did Dead Space Extraction get Wii GOTY in Gamespot (apart from DSE paying them of course which is highly possible)?

The Call of Duty Wii games where very good. Now we know that Joystiq doesn't play Wii FPS alot.

I doubt they were entirely serious. Zelda Wii was in development before Crossbow Training came out (we know it started soon after Twilight Princess ended, though serious gameplay development can't have started before early 2008)

A lot of what Aonuma has said has been rather speculous lately.

must...not...kill...

Get the hell off of Joystiq!

*waves hand*

This isn't the website you're looking for, my itsy bitsy little bitch!

how can anyone say a gun shaped or wheel shaped piece of plastic makes a game better. THEY DONT DO ANYHING. the wiimote is still doing all the work. the zapper and wheel probably cost nintendo like $2 and they sell them to tons of idiots for $15 and $20. the motion plus, balance board, and wii speak are all electronics that actually do stuff thats why i have no beef with them.

I'd would have loved to have both. Nintendo can put "Legend of Zelda" in the title of anything and make money, yes even Wind Waker (which I agree was the weakest Zelda to date, mostly cause of the near end).