Topic: Isn't it Ironic?

I hated that game. Looks like I just shattered that belief.

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Isn't it ironic that an old man turned ninety-eight, won the lottery and died the next day?
Sorry, Alanis Morissette reference.

From Wikipedia, citing IGN: "Rail shooters" limit the player to moving around the screen while the game follows a specific route.

Star Fox and Sin and Punishment are commonly referred to as rail shooters, though both games do break from the formula in certain levels (and Star Fox for entire games, since 64), with Star Fox's free-flying levels and S&P's run and gun levels.

I'm assuming Eugene meant light gun games in the first post, though I don't know how Star Fox got lumped in that genre. As far as I've noticed there isn't a game like Star Fox on Wii yet in the West.

Is it not ironic that console gaming continues to become more and more like PC gaming with increased funding of PC type Genre Games, subscription online method services, hard drives, game installations on hard drives, downloadable content and patches, online multiplayer emphasized over local multiplayer, and digital media replacing physical media?

Except for Nintendo.

And ironically Nintendo receives heavy criticism for those facts, and is said to be the 'casual one'.

Further irony, i-phone is becoming the 'go-to' 'console' for well known, established game franchises such as Metal Gear and Street Fighter, while DS - a wildly successful console, becomes a dumping ground for casual shovelware by major publishers.

SO - the telephone is the 'hardcore' game platform, even though its main emphasis is telecommunication.

While the successful game console's traditional physical media drive is spurned in favor of a digital app service.

This adds further ironic twist to the consumer - even though the consumer has shown great commitment by purchases a traditional device thats sole purpose is to play videogames, developers crap on them with their established game properties by selling them to phone customers.

That is ironic.

What is sad is how accepting game consumers and game media are off all of these ironic facts - their rights as console owners are being crapped on, and they are beginning to receive less and less product and respect for their money. Because console popularity and user base size are ironically losing out to fad baiting, digital media, and self defeating 'casual' game branding.

Why not give game console owners video games? You know - true, blue, video games?

Isn't it ironic that 'traditonal' videogames will not make it on Nintendo platforms? Except Nintendo makes them all the time and they do great business?

Isn't it ironic that the so called 'casual' lineup on Wii by Nintendo - Wii Sports, WSResort, Wii Play, and Wii Music - are more difficult to complete then established 'core' games like Twilight Princess and Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3?

Like Street Fighter?

Wow.

Can't think of any more ironic statements, sorry.

Isn't it ironic how when one person writes a wall-of-text, it just ends up leaving everyone speechless? It's like they borrowed from our own verbal capacity to build that wall, leaving us unable to respond in any coherent fasion.

Isn't it ironic that Milo is literally a 'virtual boy'?

edit no, thats not ironic, thats funny.

I'm starting to wonder how many people know what the really-real definition of irony is...

Most misunderstood word in the English language.

@waltz-elf some of us like to stretch the meaning.
Isn't it ironic that Rabbids Lab takes up 278 blocks, while Pokemon Rumble only takes up 186?

@Waltz: There are different kinds of irony.

It would be rather ironic for a professional writer to not know the definition of irony

i-ro-ny: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.

That's the definition of irony. It can be applied in different ways, but I see many cases of "irony" in this thread that are none of those applications.

some of us like to stretch the meaning.

My bad, I didn't realise that Shakespeare and Tolkien had returned to us from the grave

Of course. You would know that's verbal irony. There are other kinds, but you're the pro writer

Isn't that ironic?

Like tragic irony! Which is "the revealing to an audience of a tragic event or consequence that remains unknown to the character concerned.", according to the dictionary.

Shakespeare was really cool at that one.

The "other kinds" of irony are still based on the dictionary definition of irony.

In other words, irony does NOT mean "something funny, strange and/ or quirky" which is what a lot of people interprete it as (not just on this forum)

It is ironic how some of these posts aren't ironic.....or is it?

Why, doesn't that depend on what "type" of irony you're talking about?

Touche

That seems more like the definition of sarcasm. I-ro-ny (not I-ir-ny, spelled the same but pronounced differently and means "like iron") is more like a related two-part statement where both parts are true and the second part contradicts or is hypocritical of the first part. The second part can also be omitted if it's common knowledge like in my example.

For example, it's ironic that Bill Gates once said, "640K ought to be enough for anybody."