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Oh LOL, I thought S_B was being sarcastic in his post about Kojima, but nope. You guys never cease to amaze.That was the impression I got. Especially when he began his post with, "Let's drop another log on this fire..." I was merely pointing out in passing that Mark Rein was a more obvious choice when it comes to Wii bashing.
Miyamoto never said anything to Sakurai about Melee...I thought Sakurai had to practically beg Miyamoto to allow him to include the adventure mode in Melee. I'm not saying you're wrong. Rather, I remember reading an interview years ago where Sakarai stated that Miyamoto wanted him to focus on multplayer. That would partially explain why the Adventure Mode in Melee felt so incomplete.
Let's face it, Hideo Kojima has only been surpassed in his Nintendo-bashing by Chris Hecker said the Wii was two Gamecubes duct taped together, and Kojima's not too far behind him.Really? More than Mark Rein.... or rather everyone from Epic Games except CliffyB?
"I'm really against the idea of merely creating a sequel that would add modes or increase the number of characters in the roster -- all the sort of things that just simply fatten up the game. I'd like to avoid just doing that if a sequel ever came out."See, I would agree with him, if he found some other way to make the game better.... but he didn't. There was so little refinement of the core gameplay. I've heard the argument, "What else could they have done?" Well, lots. Use your damn imagination. They definitely could've done better than the footstool jump......
He reads that as "hey, third parties can sell games!", I read it as "hey, Nintendo still has the majority of the market". After all third parties are a crapton of different companies while Nintendo is a single one.That's the impression I got. Funny how misleading charts and percentages can be.
2 player Grand Prix is there. It's basically the normal vs mode. You can even make it a 32 race Grand Prix.Kind of. I noticed that, but it's not really the same.
There IS 50 and 100cc for karts AND bikes, you unlock it by beating it normally.Ah, good to know.
Tricks basically make you seek out places to jumpI understand that. I just think it's implemented poorly.
maybe they can do a story revolving around... you know whoHey, I don't. Do you mean Jeane? Or Henry? Maybe even Dark Star? Was he really Travis' father or was he just messing? I wasn't entirely clear on that point. Dark Star could have always been Travis' real father while the man that raised Travis and Jeane then molested her could have always been their step-father?
You do get used to the controls, and they will always work, believe me... =)I'm sure I will, but as I've said many times before, I'm a value whore. Even if I'd never use the classic controller option (as in RE4), I'd still like knowing it was there if I wanted to use it.
So far, it's frozen on me 3 times, and I'm not even 8 hours in. I've lost about 3 total hours of gameplay time due to this. I still think the fighting mechanics suck – I hate shaking the damn remote, and I can't fight any battles without taking damage. It takes me several tries to use any paintbrush technique, even though my lines are straight and my circles are closed. (And I could do all the uber tricks in SSX Blur, so don't tell me I just need to practice or anything.) I really feel like this is a broken game.The freezing might be your Wii. When I first put the game in, the opening movie was croppy and slow. I took Okami out and tested another game which worked. I tried Okami again and it worked. That wasn't the first time that's happened either. It's probably the disc drive. The Wii is probably Nintendo's shoddiest console after the original NES.... which says a lot because the Wii is still plenty sturdy comparitively to almost every other non-Nintendo console ever made.
Such a pair should be considered one button (just like the dpad is one "button") since you only have to remember one to know both.You still need to know what they do and where there are, just as any other button. You can't separate function and position. There's still a degree of learning involved in both a TV remote and a game controller.
Also consider how people remember the controls. They will often forget details, remembering only "press the button near the thumb" which means they are screwed if they have to remember one button out of a button diamond, they will remember it's in the diamond but not which button in there. On the GC you could remember "big green button", on the Wiimote you can remember "big thumb button" and have more or less a unique grip for each button...I've already adressed this: There are ways to make it easier for people if in fact, people need it to be. Convex/concave buttons (like the SNES), different shaped/sized buttons (like Gamecube, but not as ugly) and so on.
So you're asking why can't people figure out a video game controller which only has 2-3 more buttons? See my explanation above. Plus, in video games timing is crucial. With a tv remote, you have all the time to hunt and peck for that menu button, but in a video game you'll probably be dead before you find it.If the average person can handle at least 5 different buttons and use them at will, what's stopping them from using a Wii remote with 2-3 more buttons? At some point, they had to find those buttons on the TV/DVD remote and learn what they do so it's not like people are incapable of doing so. You don't hunt and peck for buttons if you know what they do and where they are. That learning what different buttons do is part of playing many videogames. Sure, not everyone wants to play games that require more advanced controls, but no one is forcing them to. That's the beauty of the motion controls in the Wii remote. Casual gamers will never have to learn button combinations if they don't want to. There are plenty of games that use one button only to start the game, the exclusively use motion controls.
I think the best thing Nintendo can do is show through their own stuff what can be done with Wii, and hope 3rd parties take some chances.Hasn't Nintendo been leading through example for the last 11-12 years? Yeah, lot of good that did........
I have yet to see a game that NEEDED more. Between the Nunchuk and the Wiimote, there are enough buttons to play any game.Well, since we've gone way off topic, I think this is a good oportunity to steer it back to the question posed in the beginning. We haven't seen a game that needed more buttons because 3rd parties just aren't releasing them on the Wii. They aren't taking the Wii seriously. You say that developers could re-engineer games to use less buttons, but why should they have to? We've seen developers choose not use all the buttons on the DS, so that's not the problem. This is another case of Nintendo marching to their own beat. Their "take it or leave it" attitude comes off as quite selfish and 3rd parties are responding by not supporting the Wii as well as we all know they could.
It should be an option to make blue shells the only item just as much as it should be an option to remove them altogether, a Smash-style item switch would be great. I think a race with only blue shells would completely change the strategy and would have people fighting to stay out of first place until that reverses toward the end of the game, and that sounds like it would be really fun.That's actually an amazing idea. A blue-shell only race would be delightfully hectic.
There is the hole in your logic, most people CAN'T operate a standard TV or DVD remote. They understand power on/off button, channel up/down, and volume up/down buttons ... and that's IT.That's 5 buttons (and 6 if you consider that they'd have to know or at least, figure out, what TV/Video does to even play videogames). How is it that with the hundreds of remote controls out there, people, who by your own admission only understand 5 buttons, couldn't figure out a Wii Remote with 2-3 more buttons?
Nintendo wanted to pull in this same demographic, and to do that they needed a controller that doesn't even look intimidating. Give developers more buttons and they WILL use them even if they could think of a way to simplify the controls without simplifying the gameplay.Um... ok. So, tell me, why does the DS not look intimidating when it has more buttons, but the Wii remote does? Why do some developers not use all the buttons on DS, even if they can?
And the Wii remote + nunchuck is quite adequate for most games out there...Developers on the Wii have no choice but to make due with that they have. It's not like adding 2-3 buttons makes the Wii remote and nunchuck inadequate somehow. And the point is to get rid of the classic controller.
Splitting the A button into four small buttons would be really confusing, it'd give no visual anchor for which one is the "ok" button, four buttons are harder to hit properly when you aren't looking and you'd lose the pinch gesture used for grabbing.Tell that to all the expanded market DS owners out there. If someone can operate a standard TV or DVD remote, they should have no problem dealing with 2-3 extra buttons. I don't want to hear this confusion crap. There are ways to make it easier for people if in fact they need to be. Convex/concave buttons (like the SNES), different shaped/sized buttons (like Gamecube, but not as ugly) and so on.
