Gamepro is crap all around. Probably because Nintendo is a household name by gamers whether hardcore or casual. When Nintendo came out and said we aren't doing the Hard Drive thing, but we will have dl games. The core gamer has a certain way they like their games to be, like in mario kart with 2 player GP, that is a must for any core gamer and they did not deliver. They want to be treated like we know what we are doing and that we don't need things simplified or the difficulty toned down. If the big N wants to make game easy for newcomers, that is fine, just keep the core things as they are and add more features that a core gamer would want like rewards for doing challenges and extra characters and so on.
How is Endless Ocean a game? I understand where GI gave that a horribly low score. How is Boogie a game? No one but people's parents and grandparents know all the words to those songs. Where is Pilotwings, F-zero, Waverace? Wave Race and F-zero have always been put out relatively early in all of N's systems other than the ones that came before the idea was thought up. F-zero was a launch for SNES and came out in the second year of N64 and GC. WR was a game that launched with N64 and GC, Pilotwings launched with SNES and N64. There were no Mario related games at launch with Wii, and Zelda was only partly there because it was just a GC port. The only core games N had were the Z port, Monkey Ball, Call of Duty 3, and Need For Speed Carbon. Red Steel was crap and Tony hawk Downhill Jam named itself correctly because that series has been going downhill since underground. Call of Duty 3 and Carbon were both better on ps3/360.
We had Elebits which was fun for a bit, but mostly for casual, then Warioware (awsome), Paper Mario. Prince of Persia (ps2 game), RE 4(GC/PS2 game. Mario Party 8 was nothing but the same crap as the first 7.
Metroid Prime 3 finally arrives and it's great (hooray finally an actual wii game) Then Dewy and Dragon Blade have pretty bad level layouts as well as motion controls. Zack and Wiki arrives and is a great use fo the wiimote but fails to make mainstream, Most likely we won't see another one to a game that actually did great things for the system. November comes and Mario finally makes a real appearance. (ok cool) Batallion Wars is alright but fails even harder than Z and W. There is a bunch of arcade games like House of the Dead, Ghost Squad and Umbrella Chronicles out. I mean you can go to a rundown arcade and get a 5 dollar roll of quarters, play those games, finish them, and still have money left over for a pack of gum. Fire emblem is good, but more of the exact same with a weaker story.
Endless Ocean, No More Heroes, Smash Bros arrive. No more heroes is hit and miss, some liked the controls but the overall openess of the game wasn't really that open. Endless Ocean a game? SSMB a saving grace. Mario Kart, good, but missing a couple of core features. Okami and Baroque PS2 ports. Wii Fit, (I bought the system to play games, if I wanted to lose weight I would have started a jog route)
Tell me again why should the mags praise we every second of the day? It sounds as if I just bashed the wii, but that is how it is. Yes I didn't touch on a few other games like mario strikers and all, but you get the point. What is coming for Wii that we know about that is soooo great as of right now? Wario Shake, De blob, Maybe Sam and Max. Rock Band on Wii is crap and is extremely late.
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