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Also...it wasn't make up, at least not all of it. That's incredible CGI work. I'm pretty sure most (read: all) peoplethat say they didn't like it, or it was mediocre, just want to be able to say that. You do have to keep in mind that it's a fucking superhero movie.
blog posts that no one read...about movies that no one watched...this is only funny because of how desperately true it is.
This is such a reductive argument. It's like you don't even appreciate your own hobby. Why go head over heels to define games as meaningless, purposeless, useless - merely to justify a game company making a **** game?
What? I didn't do any of those things. I like toys, and I don't think you're giving them enough credit. Look at something like Legos or Play-Doh. Those are "create your own play" with no rules, but it would be hard to convince me that building things with them isn't an engaging mental process. Even less "constructive" toys, like, say, action figures or dolls, depend entirely on your imagination and creativity for you to get anything out of them. Maybe that's not engaging in the sense you were using it, but I think there is value in it. And of course toys often have real world counterparts, origins, or application too -- a quick and dirty example might be the famous "drinking bird" toy, which has no practical use, but demonstrates several laws of physics. When I say that games are toys, it's not meant to disparage either of them.
Also please note that I haven't made any claim that Wii Music is a game, or that Wii Music is good (even as a toy). I haven't played it, so I don't know, and I don't have any particular interest in justifying its existence. I'm just sayin' -- games are a kind of toy.
QuoteEven as the company moves steadily in a direction contrary to its decades long success? With Miyamoto at the helm?
Um... what? The N64 and Cube were both flops.
QuoteSo let me get this straight: you trust Miyamoto, a guy that gets PAID by Nintendo and has a vested interest in not giving it to you straight, over the NWR Staff, who give you their opinions for FREE only for the sake of informing you?
Who is more likely to give you an unfiltered, honest response to a question, Miyamoto or NWR? We aren't trying to sell you a product, and we don't want anything from you.
I hope Silks isn't still perma-ignoring me, but this is a false dichotomy. The correct answer to the question of who will give you an unfiltered opinion is actually a non-gamer, who has not set his gaming preferences yet. And the usage of "likely" is weak, because it leaves open the possibility that he is speaking an unfiltered truth, and you are being shaded by your preferences.
Also, please, we shouldn't be naive about our internet profession. Journalists also sell products, packaged as slightly dramatic interpretations of events, along with society-rupturing opinions, in order to sell advertising. Miyamoto may not have a vested interest in openly criticizing his own product, but likewise we aren't vested in the truth of it, good or bad. But were are interested in conflict, because every good story needs one. This I notice as my most read, loved, prized reviews are of garbage games GBA/DS that I rip a new asshole. So we shouldn't argue from the standpoint of objective ombudsmen as if there is nothing that could possibly influence our opinions, ever.
And I am genuinely starting to get sick of hearing what everybody thinks is a "game" and their own definition of it and what ISN'T a game and why the people who play the non/casual games are stupid brainless retards who don't deserve to exist.
Nintendo hasn't abandoned anybody. That's simply more drama to sell.
Steady direction contrary to it's decades of success. I think that is an incorrect evaluation of Nintendo's modern history and it glosses over the complaining of the enthusiast press the last two generations in regards to their "direction."
This is getting into pretty ridiculous semantics, but if we accept Jonny's definition of toys as tools for entertainment, all games fit that defintion as well, so all games are toys. But not all toys are games. Games are a subset of toys. So saying "I don't want toys, I want games" is like saying "I don't want games, I want first-person shooters." Which doesn't make much sense because if you have a first-person shooter, you have a game, and if you have a game, you have a toy.
Wii Music is an electronic toy, but so is Resistance or any other Serious Game. Resistance may have more goals or rules, but in the end they're both just ways of entaining yourself* and killing time.
* Insert your own snide remark about how Wii Music isn't entertaining here.
i thought this video would make me laugh and instead i'm sick to my fucking stomach and angry as hell at what the youth is like these days. This is why i hate my neighbor hood, kids are just like this at even younger ages than this one.
This is my problem with the media: by presenting every whacked out and ridiculous scenario on the news, the average group (be it in this case children, or African Americans), is lumped together as if "this is normal behavior" for that group. The sensationalized stories, however true, are presented on the news as the events of the day, not as extraordinary one-offs that will probably never happen again. By constantly reporting the bizarre or the violent actions, and ignoring that perhaps violent and bizarre occurrences are becoming less and less prevalent in our society (which is true!), the media paints a picture of a violent American society that is simply false.
even if violent and bizarre occurences are becoming less and less prevalent, the media reporting those types of stories doesnt change the fact that i live in a shitty area where i feel genuinely afriad and sad at the future of the youth. I don't care what stats anyone has for whats going on nation wide, i can walk outside and see things and overhear things that disgust me without turning on the news or reading a paper (don't trust either anyway*). Don't paint my post as some broad generalization of "man angry at sensationalist news, thinks entire world is corrupt" and use it to support why you have issues with the media. I only mentioned my situation and did not intend to turn this into a debate on any topic, whether it be the media or the american society. I'd appreciate it if you didn't either Evan.
i thought this video would make me laugh and instead i'm sick to my fucking stomach and angry as hell at what the youth is like these days. This is why i hate my neighbor hood, kids are just like this at even younger ages than this one.
I have a tripod. I'll use it next time. And I'll make up the bed.
It hasn't been a walk in the park. It's been almost six years of hellish, full-time mayhem.
