I am saying motion control thus far isn’t good or at the very least hasn’t translated well for traditional style of gaming which rely on precision input.

I won’t say that its impossible to make software that takes advantage of such an input device but I will say it seems in creating any sorta of game that requires depth of control or precision input that it is likely to not translate well with out simplifying the level of input a player has at his control or the gameplay itself.

Also, I am a Metroid fan, but based on the promo videos of Corruption, I’m not very enthusiastic about it.

360 is starting to look very tempting…

you forget to point out that the true revolutionary feature is how nintendo managed to repackaged and resell two gamecubes duct tape together with a miniaturized power glove in the shape of an easily insertable….*censored*.

@Talhadj

I disagree, the act of playing video games at its core requires a means to simulate precise action through an input device.

Motion control rejects this idea. Certain parties would have gamers believe that motion control in fact enhances game play but reality dictates otherwise.

Take Lair for instance, the most serious attempt at a real game to implement motion control falters because motion control is imprecise leaving you to attempt gestures multiple times to perform actions in the game.

I have not played metroid as of yet, i am honestly not a fan of the series but metroid supposedly has the best implementation thus far which im still skeptical of as the metroid prime series has had backwards controls since its inception.

I have played wii zelda and I felt the controls were frustratingly inaccurate. I have no intent of playing any of the mini game rubble that makes up the wii library with or with out precise control.

I don’t think the wiimote would make playing games, like bioshock, morrowind, or crysis any more revolutionary or satisfying then a regular controller.

I think that your hint at the need for content is far more paramount then the supposed evolutionary input device that is the wiimote.

The question is are those developers responsible for making revolutionary software going to take a step backwards to try and innovate on a nintendo platform with underpowered hardware with an imprecise input device and the complete lack of functional online capability?

I hardly think so.

Nintendo painted themselves into this corner before the wii and with it, all they have done to counter is sell there product to a non gaming audiance.

It’s all about the software and like usual nintendo isn’t going to have much, if anything to offer the hardcore gamer.

The only thing revolutionary about the wii is the moniker given to the wii pre-launch, nintendo promised a revolution but delivered more of the same.

Nintendo’s success so far has been the fact its the cheapest product available and the ignorant best buy employees who tell consumers its the cheapest next gen console.

Yeah, that’s really revolutionary alright. About the only innovation it brings is being able to charge $250 for a “next-gen” system.

the wii is a joke.

The Wii is the only revolutionary console currently on the market. I don’t own one and probably will not because I don’t have the money, but anyone should be able to see that, even if you demand super realistic blood and gore.

lol Indeed, Indeed, was classic my good sir Thank you for the laugh.

I was almost convinced you were insane (especially after discrediting your gaming knowledge by mentioning Madden NFL, a franchise against which I hold an irrevocable grudge, as a fave) until I noticed the tagline: “Do you mind if I take a leak before I kill you?” I then proceeded to laugh immodestly at this oversight.

Granted, the humor in your article was veiled a bit too much for many readers, even for fans of the high-brow such as myself who hold their own satirical intelligence in high esteem. Granted, I’m a ‘contributing editor’ for a campus lampoon magazine, and I’m fairly critical about satirical writing, so please don’t take this personally.

Toodles!

http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/208/Rejected+WiiPlay+Games

I think you may like it.

If her comments or puns aren’t funny too you then likely the wii console is just as lame, any one who can write anything about the wii and take it seriously probably isn’t a real gamer or at the very least wasn’t until the wii cameout.

Maybe its not funny because some gamers actually wear diapers or defecate in socks so they don’t have to stop playing.

And I still feel dirty for having strangled that pissing guard in hitman 2 and then putting his clothes on….*shudders*.

These criticisms might hurt (or you might blithely ignore them, and given the reputation of “internet people,” I understand the impulse), I hope you learn a valuable lesson: don’t try this again. Or at least make it *work*. I suggest running it past a few people first (in real life, of course). There is nothing to improve your writing like the cold hard opinion of people who don’t care about your feelings at all.

But then again, I hate Vonnegut, so maybe someone who thinks that Slaughter-House 5 was not a terrible book would like this. But I would guess not.

its obvious she was being sarcastic about the acceptance that videogame addiction is important for medics… but whatever… maybe this reactions is why we gamers are so critiziced.

but whatever, Jess i suppose like everyone else you just need to get better, hey no one was the best in his area after the first time! so good luck.

and for the the idiot that mentioned the Nintendo issue, please go and check what happened before vomiting over people… same for the chauvinists there. If she is woman (attractive or not) should not bring such issues abroad.

That said, it’s still not a very well-written article. First time I read it, I thought she was serious, and that was annoying. Then I read through all of the comments and decided to read the article again with a different mindset, and it still wasn’t funny or interesting. Among other things, “urination” is used too much, the reference to Madden is unnecessary, the sarcasm didn’t come across well, and honestly? Just not that funny.

But does that mean that she’s a terrible writer and should quit her job? No. That just means that maybe satire isn’t exactly her forte.

Or would you have said this about a male writer: “Truly, attractiveness and cohesiveness are mutually exclusive.”

I’m just trying to understand what the relevance is here. Anyone care to enlighten me?