Wii bullshit again. What did I say about the Wii? It’s the weakest home machine this gen, so was the Saturn (in 3D, and SEGA did primarily 3D), so was the Genesis, that didn’t stop you from being a SEGA fanboy. Hell, so was the PS2 (after the DC’s death) yet most games came out for it instead and nobody complained. You completely ignore all this just to bring up the Wii, to do what? Change the course of this discussion? Why are you having it if you don’t want it? And yes, COD5 is on Wii, as is 3 & 4. COD6, no, I don’t see the “Wii fanboys” getting it. That doesn’t mean a game of that scale is impossible on Wii, only that this particular engine is NOT optimised for Wii and it’s a miracle even the 2 ports it got so far were done so succesfully. I do have it on PC and it’s pretty shit though, a marginal new lick of paint for the concepts found in 4, yet with no real substance of their own. If that’s the way gaming’s going thanks to tech races over gameplay substance, it’s pretty fucking sad. All you’re doing is falling for the hype those who want to turn the gaming industry into a new interactive Hollywood want to do. Someone else put it much better than me, and I quote:
*Because the Wii doesn’t reflect the values of the videogame industry and the videogame media. It’s clear that the industry wants to be Hollywood. That is why Graphics are worshiped at a fanatical level and given the highest priority. Devs don’t want to make games anymore - they want to make cinematic experiences that make you cry. They want games to look as real as possible in order to make these pseudo movies.
This fanaticism has gotten to the point where a game that was amazing a few years ago is treated like a piece of shit simply because it doesn’t look as good as something made today. You hear buzz words like “standards” and “dated” in order to justify the illogical and irrational devaluing of older games based on how they look. It’s sad when someone says they can’t play a game they supposedly loved anymore because of how it looks.
Gameplay which is what makes a game a game and not a CGI movie is treated as secondary, and as such we have games today that look amazing but have the same gameplay as those of last gen and before. Of course making HD graphics is easy and making compelling, innovative gameplay is hard, and that’s another reason why the industry wants gamers to value graphics above anything else. If they can sell you the same game every year with a prettier coat of paint then they’ve got you.
Game X on Wii may be essentially the same game that you saw on the 360, but since it doesn’t have that HD sparkle that makes internet nerds go fap, fap, fap it will be dismissed and derided. It doesn’t matter that it plays the same, has the exact same content or has superior controls. It’s not in HD and that’s what matters to - sadly - the vast majority of people who call themselves the “hardcore” in the media and industry.*
If you really cared about tech so much you shouldn’t even consider consoles since the PC platform offers image quality and technology far greater than anything the comparatively puny PS360 can ever hope to achieve. On the other hand, while I do have a gaming PC of this caliber, and play many of the same games you do with better visuals and in higher resolution, somehow I find the Wii is not beneath me, while you find it horrible. That’s a joke honestly, a bad one at that. I guess I shouldn’t be playing Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on my PSP either because the tech is oh so lang gen, who cares about the actual game experience, huh? And those DS gamers! How can they be enjoying casual games, JRPGs, shooters, dungeon crawlers, and other games with so shitty graphics?!
Thankfully, not everyone thinks that way and even on my technologically superior PC I have games that don’t rely 100% on visuals but instead put the gameplay first. Games that don’t need 50 million dollars to create after being greenlit by suits who don’t know what the fuck video games are and base their decisions on sales data and charts, but cheap, solid, playable titles created by people with heart and a great love for gaming, as it should be, and in that the Wii helps by having lower visual standards, much like the portable systems, and lower development costs. I shouldn’t have to mention how many studios have been merged/bankrupted/sold off, or otherwise butchered, after having a flop on the expensive to develop for HD platforms. Who cares, eh? As long as we have Activision making multibillions with yet another Call of Duty game, the industry’s healthy and should keep going how it’s going with its tech race! Win for the consumer, win for the developers! Lol…
Anyway, I’ll say it again so you don’t miss it. Anyone that goes on about technology but isn’t strictly a PC gamer is a hypocrit. Don’t even try to bring up the cost issue as any $600 PC (the initial price of the PS3) will be able to run games at visual quality far beyond the PS360. Let’s not even mention how all this “technology” has somehow made this generation’s console standard 30 fps. We had more 60 fps games last gen than this gen for Christ’s sake. Thankfully the PC leaves all that behind and lets the user decide the fps based on what he wants, yet you still rant about how the Wii is evil and shit and the PS360 the standard. Laughable. You even admitted that Valkyria Chronicles is a good game, then you admitted that Valkyria Chronicles 2 plays much like the original based on the demo, yet earlier you said you don’t care about it. Because of tech? I pity such fools.
That attitude is all that’s wrong with gaming as far as I’m concerned and I will not respond to any more of your ridiculous, biased rants that hide under hypocritical wishes for technology that don’t even apply in your case since you do not support the most technology-driven platform of them all, the PC. Still, you got what you wanted, a discussion about the Wii. Enjoy ranting over it as I’m sure you plan to do, but you aren’t fooling anyone, and least of all myself.
