Dear Nintendo...(warning long read)

"Dear Nintendo,

My name is Aaron Thomas and I'm a frustrated Wii owner. You see, my problem is that I own a Wii and I have nothing to play on it. I've played and enjoyed Wii Sports (thanks for the free game), but there's not much else to play. I'm a huge Zelda fan, but I wasn't digging the whole "your remote is a sword" thing and gave up after two hours. I'm hoping to get back to the game again, and when I finally get motivated I'm going to play the GameCube version. I thought Wario Ware would be really cool, but I can't play with my friends until I beat the game? Lame. I don't want to sit through that game's idiotic story; I want to play minigames with my friends. I hear Metroid Prime 3 is good, but it sure sounds a lot like Prime (which I didn't like) and Prime 2 (which I never played), so I don't think I'll be buying it the third time around. I think the Mii concept is a cool one, but you've failed to capitalize on it. Why aren't more games letting me play as my Mii?

So where are the good games? I own an Xbox 360 and a PlayStation 3 so I don't want to play some watered-down port with tacked-on controls and lousy graphics. That eliminates stuff like Call of Duty 3, Medal of Honor, The Godfather, Mortal Kombat and the like. I have nobody to blame for myself for not getting around to Super Paper Mario, but the rest of your lineup is so uninteresting poor old Super Paper Mario has fallen by the wayside because I'm not often thinking to myself "What good games are there for the Wii that I need?" because good new games are so rare. It also sounds like SPM has the Wario Ware issue where you force people to suffer through an inane story when all they want to do is play. If you couldn't tell by now, that's one of my pet peeves.

I'm also not a fan of what you've been doing with the virtual console. Now part of this is my fault--I own pretty much all of the great NES, SNES, and N64 games so there's little reason for me to buy them here. But maybe if you guys spruced them up a bit, added extras, new modes, online play, or something to the deal I'd be more inclined to pick up a game or two. I realize that I'm in the minority in that I already own most of these games, but I know I'm not alone in not being able to figure out just what in the heck you're doing releasing so much garbage. Play Action Football, J.J. & Jeff, Milon's Secret Castle, and China Warrior weren't really games people wanted to play 20 years ago, much less today. I'd love to know how many people have purchased Soccer. I'm sure it's dozens. Why are you diluting the service with crap?

I know people are buying the Wii in droves, you guys are in first place, and the company is more valuable than ever, but you don't seem to be doing anything to sustain this momentum. Maybe there's a whole group of people out there that like last-gen graphics and pretending their Wii Remote is a sword, but I'm not one of them. Step it up or my Wii is going to get buried even deeper under crap on my desk than it already is.

Regards,
Aaron Thomas

P.S.
I think online play is here to stay. You might want to come up with an online model that doesn't stink. Oh, and maybe some online games too. Just a thought."

I may not agree with his R&C review but he has point here, why are people(sheep) still supporting Nintendo?

Because Nintendo is a 100 year old company that actually makes fun games.Willy105

Actually, they're 118 years old.

[QUOTE="Willy105"]Because Nintendo is a 100 year old company that actually makes fun games.Tylendal

Actually, they're 118 years old.

Why am I always wrong! :cry:

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Gaming is serious business.

The feint of heart need not apply.

What a daft letter, what it boils down to is 'There are some great games on the system- Zelda, Metroid et cetera- but due to my own finicky opinions, coupled with a hefty dose of fanboyism, I refuse to play them.'

It is not Nintendo's fault if he didn't like Prime or gave up on Zelda after 2 hours, that is his own stupidity. Yes the Wii line-up has been severely underwhelming thus far, however to deny the quality titles already on the system whilst failing to take note of future releases is using legitimate complaints to dress up fanboyish remarks.

I refuse to believe a Gamespot reviewer wrote this, firstly, the writing style is atrocious, and secondly, why on earth would you employ a video-game writer with such idiotic opinions? He uses the same arguments spouted by the fanboys here on System Wars, how can that not strip him of almost all credibility?

Ok. Let me get this straight. So combining everything that has happened over the two days, Aaron Thomas is somehow a Sony hater,AND a Nintendo hater? He is a Microsoft fanboy, I presume?

Right....this is his own opinion. Nothing less, nothing more.

I may not agree with his R&C review but he has point here, why are people(sheep) still supporting Nintendo?

trizzle_a

Hopefully this is someone else and not a gamespot reviewer as that was some remarkable fanboy drivel.

He spouts the usual fanboy arguments, concedes that there are good games but then decides that none of them are for him, and the only one that might be good he hasn't played because he somehow forgot about it and because it has a story. His arguments against the VC are pretty crazy as it is unlikely that any normal person is going to have the majority of the good games for all the systems including the neo-geo, PC engine plus imports that were never released in the US. However, he would definitely play these never released in the US games that he owns again on the Wii if they had new textures!

[QUOTE="Tylendal"]

[QUOTE="Willy105"]Because Nintendo is a 100 year old company that actually makes fun games.Willy105

Actually, they're 118 years old.

Why am I always wrong! :cry:

Probably because you looked up the number 18 years ago :lol:

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DmdSATISFACTIO

You don't know what a wall of text is.

He wrote this but Gamespot still uses him as a reviewer?!

WTF.

COWS: "Yeah he is right the Wii Sucks!"

I wonder if any Sony Fanboy can actually say this right now :P

He basically said:

"Yeah, this part of the Wii is okay, but I don't like it therefore it sucks"

"This part is also good, but it still doesn't interest me so cater to my needs Nintendo"

Right you want me to believe that he wrote this letter to nintendo?

Right BS

Right you want me to believe that he wrote this letter to nintendo?

Right BS

GundamGuy0

He wrote it in his blog.

So basically " I like bashing the Wii. I don't like anything coming out on it(So it must be terrible) and I find excuses to not buy good games.

PS I am completely uninformed.

I summed it up for everyone. So basically TC if you want to bash the Wii you need to find a good reason to bash it like uuuhh I'm sure you can think of something.

Right you want me to believe that he wrote this letter to nintendo?

Right BS

GundamGuy0

I lol'd.

"Dear Nintendo,

...

I have nobody to blame for myself for not getting around to Super Paper Mario, but the rest of your lineup is so uninteresting poor old Super Paper Mario has fallen by the wayside because I'm not often thinking to myself "What good games are there for the Wii that I need?" because good new games are so rare. It also sounds like SPM has the Wario Ware issue where you force people to suffer through an inane story when all they want to do is play. If you couldn't tell by now, that's one of my pet peeves.

"...

trizzle_a

"Oh, and maybe some online games too."

After that line, I seriously can't believe anyone would belive this guy is credible.

He sounds as bad as your average fanboy on System Wars.

why would you even buy a wii... if you did not like any games on it? just shows how stupid the reviewers of gamespot really are.

i really hate cars with bad gas mileage so i am going to get a hummer...

i am tired of being fat so i am going to eat some mc donalds fries.

now we see why there game reviews are totally absent of anything resembling logic.

why'd u buy a wii if you dont like the new zelda and metroid?a_chalz

Ask Aaron Thomas that.

If the guy doesn't like Metroid Prime, he'll never like anything Nintendo will make.mjarantilla

I don't like Metroid Prime and I like lots of stuff Nintendo makes. :?

This letter just reeks of a lack of professionalism on Aaron's part, I understand that he and everyone else has an opinion, and that yes, a gaming site certainly is a good place to state your opinion about the world of gaming, but he is also a professional journalist, and a senseless, opinionated, fanboy rant such as this is not something that GS should be proud of, and warrants, at the very least, a slap on the wrist.

I love run-on sentences.