Lord Bowser

Here's $20, dance for me!

Oh WiiWare, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all my Wii points are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
Or whenever you want - I don't mind
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh WiiWare, oh Wiiware, you disappoint me, so.

I love TWEWY, I really do, but I wouldn't wear this. The colour black is for the obese.

Also: "yellow is for men", "pink is for womens."

Did that really say womens? The grammar error makes that statement even more hilarious.

Another shooter? Here's a repost from a previous thread, it's just as appliable here. Just replace Call of Duty for Red Faction:

Another redundant shooter? Have developers exhausted the well of ideas only two years into this generation. At this rate we might as well mark this down as the worst generation, the "Baby Boomers" of the 50s; we have Nintendo and their complete disregard for their heritage; we have an underperforming Sony machine which is more a movie device than a games machine, at the moment; and we have the biggest failure of them all, the 360, pumping out turgid regurgitation on a constant basis.

This cacophony of mediocrity leads me to believe that at this point, in 2008, this is the point when gaming truly became mainstream, and as such, without worth. Not because it is now a mainstream pursuit, I won't be so fatuous (no here, anyway), but because, like Hollywood or mainstream tv, safety, blandness, and regurgitation is going to be the norm. Activision and the COD series is just the beginning, it will get a whole lot worse from here on.

And it's not me, I'm not jaded one. I enjoy games very much, my posts on DS/PSPfanboy are testament to that. But all the home consoles are a disappointment, the greatest disappointment. People don't like this gen because it's boring. Last gen, we got DMC, and that redefined action games; Burnout redefined arcade racing; Metroid Prime showed us that a shooter could be more than just a shooter; Ninja Gaiden took what DMC did and polished it to a mirror-like sheen; RE4 made Resident Evil exciting again. All amazing. Last gen was all about moving forward.

Now let's look at today, shall we? Mediocre DMC and Metroid Prime; what the hell happened to Ninja Gaiden? Our polished gem became a bland walnut, so lacking in heart, spirit, no nothing; and RE4, I mean RE5, it's hard to tell with all the identical animations, has gone all Klu Klux to stay relevant. An interesting move.

This gen is mediocre and at worst a crime, especially when compared to last gen it looks terrible. It's the same old noise with a hi-def coat, or in the Wii's case a SD-coat. It's sad that so many people have fallen for the veil of beautiful graphics, it really is. Because underneath the veil is a terrible secret. Shall I tell you what it is? All these games now are no different to Dreamcast games and these faceless corporations are hoodwinking us of our Euros and Dollars. This gen is a fallacy. There are no more quantum leaps. No more redefinition. No more ingenuity. No more heroes. Just staleness.

Prince Myshkin was well too naive for my liking, it irked me.

"I consider myself a hard-core gamer in that I do not play many titles which are considered casual. I like shmups and I like long games with detailed storylines."

Shoot em ups tend to have the lowest barrier of entry in all of gaming. Mario and Sonic Olympics is probably more complicated than most shoot em ups.

I checked out some youtube videos of Diablo and to be honest it looks like a medieval version of Marvel Alliance. Why so much hype? Or are PC gamers so starved of content? The top ten PC charts looks a little Simish.

An advert for teeth whitening.

I think Alisha is pissed off at the readership; I would be, too. So called 'hardcore' gamers only desire wanton violence like their 360 brethren. These base, kill games are the reason why games are looked upon as nothing more than juvenile pursuits, and gamers, the forever children.

Let's look at Madworld: looks great, yeah, I'll give you that. But in every preview I've read it's not the gameplay mechanics that are being talked up or Mikami's involvement, it's the amount of blood that dribbles on screen that is praised. I'm 22; I've moved past the stage when pixelated blood causes such amazement. It's not all that. The game itself seems to be violence that's violent simply for the sake of being violent. The thought process seems to be: gore is good, gore is what the hardcore want: Gore! No.

Non - as the French would say, I think.

No. I desire more than litres of red. Give me a reason to play that doesn't involve shooting a guy in the face. Does every conflict have to end with someone being curb stomped? When was the last time you curb stomped someone to resolve a solution? I've never done it. I would argue some one with such thoughts may be a psychopath. So, yes, we've agreed: people who play games of empty violence are psychopaths.

To be honest, I don't wish any ill will, but I want The Conduit to fail, and fail hard. I just don't want a deluge of mediocre shooters descending on the Wii. There's enough on the 360, already. Don't bring that redundancy to the Wii.

Frankly, Nintendo, and other third parties, shouldn't really listen to the hardcore. They are an insatiable lot always desiring the next big thing, without a clue what it is they actually want. Such people cannot be reasoned with. And as many on this site has mentioned: there is no fixed definition of hardcore. If my mother, for example, abhors video games but has played Tetris every day since it's release on the Game Boy, in 1990, wouldn't that make her hardcore? Am I disqualified from hardcoriness because I dislike the FPS with a passion? Is there a colon one must wear, a type of food, a place of residence, to truly be hardcore? No, the idea is absurd, and the idea of a hardcore gamer is absurd. It's just a tool, taken up by internet knights, used to distance themselves from the mainstream, like indie rock fans who immediately shout "sell out" once their favourite band hits the radio. It's shallow and false and base; we should fight this tyranny of the vocal minority; they do not speak for us.

Nobody ranted. Why so testy? Every comment you make gives off the impression you're ready to jump down someone's throat. Why is that? Next time before you post, write down what you're about to say and ask: is it really worth it?

Well, is it?