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Ehh, I've jumped out of console gaming, and did so a long time ago. I'm a pc gamer, but the direction Nintendo seems to be going interests me, and I'm curious if the Wiimote is gonna cut it. It looks gimicky. Putting the Nintendo name behind it and making it flagship? If it comes out gimicky, it's gonna surprise me. They'll sell a hella lot until the word get out that it doesn't actually work well, then they're only gonna get the uninformed, and then people are going to start distrusting Nintendo products. I don't think that Nintendo is going to risk that at all, I think they've tested the hell out of the Wiimote, but I'm not gonna buy one straight out, because I want some reviews of how well game designers are using it, and maybe to try one myself. Plus I always go get game reviews before I get a game, and thats a bit hard for a new console when your thinking about pre-ordering. If the Wiimote and nunchuk pull it off, I'm getting one.
If they add shinpads (first time I've heard this rumor), people are going to have to hold me back from it. I came very close to rooming with a person that had an x-box and a DDR pad with Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (3 I think), and I use to play DDR avidly for exercise in an arcade until that machine got popular and suddenly I had to wait in line to get on it. Making exercise fun and interactive, distracting me from doing exercise, and I will shell out some money for it. I've a history of it, three dollars every day I worked was spent at that arcade which was on the way back home on that DDR machine, I've shelled major money for disc golf disc's and a basket, so on so forth.
The most interesting thing that Nintendo appears to be doing, and I hope so, is not really even trying to improve the graphics so much. On a PS3, how much money for developing a game is gonna be spent on graphics? Now, on a Wii? That money for developing game on a Wii could, and I hope will, go to improving AI. Processing power on the chip can go to AI too.
I'd like to see a FPS game where I get to pick up a walkie talkie from a guard, and I watch a group go in to assault me, I retaliate with a hail of gunfire, they take cover and shoot while popping out of doorways, and then on that walkie talkie it starts going "On 3, everyone out and charge. 1...2..." I'm going to freak the first time. If I find out thats not scripted, the next time I run through I hear on that walkie talkie "alright, ambush setup here." and they wait at a T hallway, and I just waltz past the corner, and get shot to death, I'm gonna freak again. If its on easy, and they put men at both sides of the T intersection and I get to watch them shoot eachother by accident while I get shot to death, I'm going to freak yet again, and I'm gonna be LMAO not because I'm pathetic and just died on easy by falling into an obvious trap, and I'm trying to laugh it off, but because I just watched an inept squadron of enemies crossfire into themselves.
I don't imagine this is going to happen for a long time, especially on consoles, and especially if people keep going "Graphics! It's so pretty..." then buying consoles because of graphics power.
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