Topic: Frustrated with other's attitudes towards the Wii

Oh look who's here.

Joined 25 minutes ago.

Please don't let yourself become Eugene's successor.

Um not to get off Topic but just curious, who is this Eugene character?
From what I`ve heard hes a real douche

Eugenewrayburn is what you called him. If would like to read some of his old posts,you can read this thread.

It's the guy that claimed everyone but him on the site was "emotional".

Disagreed with him? Well that's because you can't think straight since you're so busy being all emotional.

Easily one of the most-annoying people I've ever met on the internet.

He won't become Eugene's successor. He's Eugene under a new posting name, bleating on about how awesome it is to be meatheaded in arguments. How fortunate for all of us.

Yeah luckily for us, he's back.

Can't wait to have my words misinterpreted and be called emotional, no matter what I post.

He's back!? Oh,dear!!

Oh now you stop being so emotional. * shakes stick *

LOL
I just am not looking forward about Eugene being back.
Sigh...he has already posted in my It's My Birthday thread.
I sense a lot of debating with Eugene soon...

Only we can't call him Eugene, because he's TOTALLY NOT Eugene. No sir. See, you can tell the difference because "uriahheap" has this MUSTACHE...

I was surprised to see this thread getting new posts again.
I've said something like this before, and I still think it's true: eugenewrayburn had some good points, but absolutely NO CLUE how to present them in a way that appeared intelligent. Even his posts on the "It's My Birthday" thread make a certain amount of sense, though they are needlessly argumentative. Note that I haven't read that whole thread, though, only skimmed past most other posters to read his comments up through the first two pages, so if it devolves, I wouldn't know. The fact that he said he was only going to post once and came back to argue is pretty dumb, though.

Note that I never involved myself in that thread for the very reason he was denouncing the thread's existence. The difference is that I'm passive about it while he gets involved, whether it's a 100% good idea or not. I'd call that misguided more than anything else, and certainly not worth the level of infamy he's earned here.

I have a Wii, and I think it is the worse Nintendo system yet, after the Virtual Boy.

You can believe me when I say I've been a huge Nintendo fanatic for years, and I was the first to laugh when I heard people enjoyed the PSX. However, as it stands now, if I'm going to be objective, a console must be rated on two fronts: Software and Hardware.

The Wii's software is certainly not lacking, but it's not of great quality either. There are some good games like Punchout and Mario Galaxy, but if you look around, most games get really horrible ratings and the console sports too many party games or "test drives" that are simply games to test the Wii motion. Also, a lot of games like Wii Fit qualify more as applications than games.

The Wii Motion is very pleasing for non-hardcore gamers, but for more hardcore gamers, it's an unreliable gimmick. When given a choice of controls, we will most often choose the classic controls over the Wii Motion. Some games are very badly designed, like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which gave no options for left-handeds, yet they were able to incorporate it in a bad minigame title like Wii Sports. As for the unreliability of the controls, the release of the Wii Motion Plus is simply Nintendo admitting that their Wiimote was a bad product that was released too early, for it needed an adjustment. We shouldn't even have to pay for it.

As much as I think graphics don't matter that much, I think a game should be at least at a competitive level with the other consoles. While I am not a huge fan of the PS3, the Bluray disks they have created for instances, makes a huge difference in certain titles like MGS4 and Valkyria Chronicles, where the amount of content in the games is incredible. The Wii does have inferior processing powers, inferior online and inferior all around hardware. The only reason I've kept my Wii up until now was for the Virtual Console and because some software like Punchout has saved its honour.

I'm not just criticizing the Wii, but the actual direction of the industry. The X-Box 360 puts too much emphasis on the shooter genre and on the online modes, often neglecting local multiplayer and single player games; which often last less than 10 hours. The PS3 is too expensive, lacks diversity and is all around so powerful and complicated to work on that producers don't want to work on it as much (So less games). Each console has a few games I would like to have, but none fit my criteria of a good console. They seem to have taken a turn toward the casual crowd, focusing more on applications than on games. You rarely hear of a game that can last 60 hours or over anymore; or of games that are so hard that it gives even seasoned gamers a tough time. They are shadows of what they once were in the SNES era, when it was all about the games.

Lol, I always loved that argument. WMP is nothing of the sort. It was too expensive to include originally...hardware prices can drop a lot in 2.5 years. It wasn't economically feasible then, it is now. It is not an "admission" by Nintendo that the original product was incomplete, broken, released too early, etc, etc, etc

Yeahhh no.

I'm with you on a lot of things but this isn't one of them.

The tech wasn't available to be put in those Wii remotes at a realistic price at that time. The technology just wasn't there.

Now it is and since there's nothing on the box that says a Wii should already be able to do 1:1, there's no reason to believe it should be free.

It's an upgrade to an already existing product. Most of those cost money.