Pikmin is weird because some shots still look okay while others look amazing. Hopefully the delay is to add fucking online multiplayer.
Also anyone else find how we have all of these articles complaining about the ND annoucments but when Sony did so etching similar at games con they received nothing but praise.
[laughs] This is the world we live in. It's just extremely popular to hate on Nintendo, a major portion of the industry(fans and professionals) have this grudge against them. I dare anyone say otherwise. Nintendo burned bridges like crazy back in the day and when the tables turned and there were greener pastures elsewhere those developers never looked back.
Couple that with a large portion of gamers who felt like they needed games to "grow up" with them and the Playstation was the next logical step for everyone. These guys(us) grow up in the Sony dominated era, get jobs in the games industry and finally American developers have a major presence in the game industry and take their bias with them. People who make games are fanboys just like us.
So then for 10 years you have an super unpopular group gamers and game maker. The gaming world starts to change as mass opinion changes on what constitutes as "kiddy" or something for only 5 years old an under. Also Nintendos new president is humble, careful what he says(for the most part) and tries to mend old relationships. The darkest 10 years are over and Nintendo launches the Wii which gains immense success in sales and becomes prevalent in popular culture. This in spite of every general gaming outlet absolutely convinced Nintendo was done for and going the Sega route. And oh boy they are pissed! Mainly because true gaming(with better graphics) wasn't at the top of the charts. Now more than ever these gaming outlets have made it their life's goal to fan the flames of Nintendo doom. Angry that their superior gaming a habits aren't represented in over all sales.
Tis true today as the day it was written.
This has been my beef with gamers/games journalists for years. The irony is that the majority of the same people who hate on Nintendo (with little to no reason why) were introduced and fell in love with gaming by that same company.
I wanted to bring up that very idea in my last post but the baby was crying. Had to cut it short.
I can only imagine some people feel almost betrayed by Nintendo and I'm not talking motion controls. Just the simple fact that Nintendo themselves didn't make their own violent games on a regular basis. Jr High and High School are still fresh in my mind. I remember writting a speech on the concept of "kiddy" games and another on Pokemon in my AP english literature class. Man I felt like I was a gaming rights leader! One thing I noticed growing up but couldn't pin point until I was about 21 is that as young adults 12-20 we strive to be older and more mature, things that we very well may like we want to shun for no good reason at all. Then for some reason we hit 21 and look at that same exact material and go "wow, I can appreciate that now so I'm in love with it again!" But not everyone grows out of stupid insecurities.
For video games I would say this is between the ages of 8-30, hahaha. It's like sports and when you are that emotionally invested in a team for that long it doesn't matter what happens you are going to trash the other teams, no matter how much logic the other side provides it's just a malfunction of the human brain. Its clear as a bell on politics. Depending on how closed off you are in social groups or Internet forums it becomes ingrained so much that it just does not go away. Of course there are always exceptions and very rational people who may favor one thing but can clearly judge everything as a whole. I say Ian and BlackNMild are people like that, they can appreciate and critize something from everyone but you know deep down they are nintedo fans at heart with very rational thinking... Mostly
A lot of us here are, they just stick out to me.
So these people who've been away from Nintendo for so long, they just immersed themselves in the anti Nintendo mentality. They are surrounded by so much of it, its not enough to just play your own system, you know live and let live, but they gotta belittle and insult everything Nintendo. Some of these gaming journalists have a clear agenda and it shows. I'll never forget that Ubisoft guy coming into my home and going "how come you only have a Nintendo?" And it did insult me for a second and then I just thought "man, what closed little circles you must work in?"
Of course all this goes both ways and everything in between. It's just the Nintendo hate is absolutely fascinating and I'd like some scientific research done on it. I will say this though that many gamers, the consumers and creators, they are growing up that's for sure, because despite the major hate it used to be much worse and I think Nintendo is more socially accepted then they have been in the last decade. Then as they get older and realize bashing other products you generally never touch anyway is pointless more hate will ease as time goes on.
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