@Lulu_Lulu said:
@MirkoS77
I grew up on PC gaming... The concept of a "generation" was stupid to me long before all this happened.
I don't count Wii U as an 8th Gen console because I think it really is one.... I'm just mocking the concept because I think its all stupid. Gens mean nothing to me.
I don't know if you've noticed but with out the Kinect, the Xbox One is basically just like the 360, the controller is Pretty Much Identical, same goes for the Playstation 4...... What you're instore for is the the Same crap you had before wrapped in a Prettier Bow. And AI and Physics advancements within the next 6 year window will be with in the grasp of 7th Gen consoles whether they port them or not. hell even the PC is struggling with AI, physics is no problem though.
If you wana know what innovation you're gona see in the next 6 years than all you have to do is look at the controller. Thats the thing that connects you to your games, thats what gona determine the gameplay (partially ofcourse), and if theres no significant improvement, then what ?
Funny you should bring up casuals... They couldn't care any less about stupid graphics, they watch cutscenes in movies and tv, not on their consoles, they may not love games but they get what its all about, GAMEPLAY and they don't need a story any deeper than kill the goblins and save the princess, they are sorted. Try giving a Casual Mass Effect or MGS 5 and see if they could give 2 squirts about how deep and meaningfull the story.... is in the cutscenes..... They live in reality more than we do... Therefore graphics can burn in hell.
Kinect Adventures and Wii Sports is the best thing to come out of 7th Gen, if you weren't so insecure about "pointless waving your arms" in Wii Bowling then maybe you would appreciate what gaming really is.......
But don't worry... Nintendo will die (because its better than losing its dignity to emo gamers like you know who) and you can have all the graphics and cutscenes and story you want right in the palm of your hands weilding the same controller until death do you part. You may now kiss gameplay goodbye.
You have a tendency to get personal with your arguments. I believe you were the user that labeled me "high maintenance", and now my views also apparently make me "insecure" and "emo". This attitude speaks much higher on your insecurities and overall maturity than it does mine. But if you want to get personal, as you have with me on numerous occasions (which is admittedly starting to piss me off), then I'll abide you.
Frankly, you are everything that is wrong with many gamers today. What you want, what you admire, is a dumbing down of gaming. Well, hallelujah to you, brother......that you find Wii Sports and Kinect Adventures to be two examples of the best things to come out of last gen speaks volumes as to what you really value in games: absolutely nothing worth having. You simply want cheap, thoughtless fun. You want a remote control to swing so you can really feel like you hit that home run while being content with watching GCN caliber visuals with according physics. You are content with doing the motions in front of Kinect's camera and having the game do all the work for you, not realizing that these so-called innovations you so highly praise are nothing more than the merest of cheap superficialities that in actuality are doing nothing but degrading what you proclaim to defend and so highly value.
And if so, good for you. But you don't get to call it something it's not. You may also find that type of game a fulfilling experience, but for me, I prefer the precision and advancements contemporary controls and next-gen hardware gives. The accuracy of dual analog sticks which can read hundreds of the most intricate of positions, pressure sensitive buttons, a console that has the power to process intensive physics so I can actually have a realistic say in where I hit the ball with my inputs, and presentation that can convey the emotion and spectacle of a real baseball game as only next-gen can, thanks. I want hardware that has the ability to afford me skill and lends me credit as a player. That awards me that high maintenance credential criteria of yours: immersion. All of this that grants me, and defines, true gameplay.
Is that what makes someone a high maintenance gamer to you? Because that's all I desire, really, and I don't think it's asking all that much. And it has nothing to do with being emo, insecurity, or any other nonsensical rationale you think it is.
Do you really believe arbitrarily waving your arms around like you're bowling or playing baseball is having much of an impact on where the in-game ball actually goes to the extent that a traditional controller can't do better with a beast of a machine backing it up, or jumping up and down in front of a camera constitutes decent gameplay? Sorry, it doesn't. It's cheapened is what it is. It's control stripped directly out of your hands and simplified so the illusion that something much grander is going on when in actuality the player has much less say even though their actions are more involved. It's all only an illusion.
I find it humorous that you believe you advocate on the side of gameplay, yet you then cite the Kinect and the Wii as examples in support. The only game that I saw last gen that really, truly utilized the Wii-mote to any substantial extent that even began to justify its existence was Skyward Sword. One game. And yet, even then the tech was still sub-par enough after an upgrade that the damn thing had to continually be re-calibrated during play to function properly. That, and other previous gen games whose "innovation" amounted to what essentially was a laser pointer (Metroid Primes, RE4, Pikmin re-releases as well as the SMGs). Wii Sports and all the other shovelware did nothing to improve gameplay whatsoever, all they did was flood retail shelves with plastic trash attachments to aid the illusion, and are titles utterly worthless when viewed from a gameplay standpoint when looked for any real degree of depth. Yet you hold them up as shining examples to be admired and something that the industry should attempt to copy. No. Until they can offer me a technology that will be able to fully realize the potential at a price point and utilization that is both practical and useful past the point of what contemporary input methods have thus far achieved, I want nothing to do with them. And sorry, they haven't done that yet. Not even close.
And this is the problem, and where you are also mistaken in your assumptions. I'm not entirely against motion controls or the Kinect. Actually I'm all for these types advancements--as long as they're actual advancements. The tech is just not there yet. In 90% of cases so far, traditional controllers still offer the better experience. And sorry to say, Wii Sports isn't better. It's, for lack of a better term, casualized shit. The tennis gameplay in Wii Sports is not better than that found in Topspin 4. Seriously man, if you really want to advocate better gameplay, then you should be behind the driving force in the industry that will enable it (hint: it's not gimmicky, inaccurate, cheap control methods). You can believe the improvements we'll be seeing many years from now will only be in graphics, but it's not the truth.
"You may kiss gameplay goodbye". Like Nintendo largely did by vomiting up that sewage known as the Wii up with all the shovelware and cheap accessories that went with it? Or MS did with the Kinect and exemplified with the flood of amazingly innovative games that proved how dull and boring gaming had become? Right. Why don't you list for me the huge catalog of Wii or Kinect software that redefined the way games are played today? Luckily, MS has finally come to its senses, and Nintendo's once again adopted a more traditional controller, and so we will again see the progression of real gameplay innovation, albeit accomplished where it's actually relevant.....in the software.
Honestly, I'm really getting sick and tired of this shit.
/rant
P.S.- Btw, if Nintendo dies, it'll be because it's being run by a bunch of stubborn, arrogant, outdated, ignorant, out-of-touch morons that are running the business like it's 1990 and exists in a bubble. Nothing else.
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