or do guotes like this one make you mad?
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Jon Robinson, IGN Sports: As a sports gamer, I can really care less about the Wii. What self-respecting Madden gamer is going to pass the ball and high step down field by waving the controller around like they're tossing ribbons in rhythm gymnastics?
sourcei know i shouldnt get mad at hearing of or reading about ignorance such as this, but its so hard to believe how people think sometimes. i know everyone has their opinion but in this day and age, its so easy to get those stupid opinions across to millions of people, and when you say such things on a site thats so well known and has fans that read it as gospel, such opinions really are just ignorant.
i really do know people that get their information on things from sources such as this, as well as mags like EGM, and they believe everything they read. opinion or fact. thats just sad. how many 12 year olds are out there reading things like this and prematurely dismissing said things because of what some jaded guy wrote on a popular website?
it really bothers me. is it that he's just jaded from playing video games for so long with an almost unchanged method that he simply cannot embrace change? or is he and people like him simply a fanboy who is insecure about trying something new? the two are very different in my opinion, though i've had arguments with people who say they are one and the same.
or maybe the only reason i get upset is because i myself am a fanboy... after all i do favor nintendo above the rest, always have and probably always will, but it could be more than that. i hate sport sims and find them mundane. i'd much rather go out and play a real sport then press buttons and watch something happen on screen. the only time i do play a sport video game is when theres some sort of twist, when it offers me to do things you cant do in real life. i remember playing nba jam and thinking the "on fire" mode was the coolest thing ever, too bad that novelty wore off. the first sport game i ever bought was mega man soccer; mainly because i love mega man so much, but the character specific super shots were fun too. years years later, it was mario golf and tennis (n64/cube) because of the whacky courses/mini games. the most recent sports game i've bought, mario strikers. the over the top violence had me laughing out loud for days (who can forget the first time they tackle waluigi into an electric fence?), especially becuase it was so unexpected, and the use of items added depth to simply passing and shooting a ball.
with that said, i was actually looking forward to atleast renting Madden '07 for Wii, for two reasons:
1 being that i enjoy football, but have never seen a football game appeal to me. and..
2 being that the use of Wii's motion controls come across as intuitive and scream "try me out!"
the latter being the most important of the two. Wii is such a hands on console that if the games dont make you want to try it, and see what its all about, then the game shouldnt be on the system. Madden is one of those games because its replacing its 16+ or so button input method with motion controlled hand gestures that make you feel like you're playing a REAL game of football. the best games are always the ones that draw you in, and when a controller has the power to pull you into the game and make you feel as if you are experiencing something rather than playing something, that says alot. usually a game with a good story pulls you in, sometimes its the graphics, or a mix of both. when a game can immerse you on all three fronts though... you have a winner. the first example i can think of for such a game is goldeneye 007. the graphics were great at the time, the story was good, and the controlls were fantastic. you really were james bond playing that game.
so finally, a sports sim comes along that has the potential to immerse me into the whole experience and some guy puts a negative spin on it because he doesnt want to look funny moving his hands. it wont stop me personally from atleast giving the game a try, but the point isnt about me. i'm not insecure, its about the people who are. what if, due to people like this guy at ign, curious gamers don't give wii a shot? what if that was a majority, and it ends up that it sells less or equal to the cube? does nintendo release a next gen follow up to wii with "traditional" controls? or does it stick to its guns with a wii-mote like device?
it would sadden me if that was the case, and the Wii's new way of controlling games is dismissed because some guy had to voice his own insecurities. people are impressionable, its just human nature to be. in the case of Wii its a double edged sword.
on one hand you might see someone pick up the controller and have a climactic sword fight, shooting spree, or intense race and an onlooker would be curious and want to try... but on the other hand...
there could be another, insecure, onlooker; all it would take would be to mutter something like "he looks like an idiot moving around like that," even to himself, and the curious onlooker would pass up a chance to try out something new and fun because he wouldnt want to be ridiculed by the insecure stranger.
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