Controller Evolution
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Duuuudes. Seriously. It wasn't that controllers are complex and beyond understanding, people still play Mario Kart with the controller turned sideways. People bought the Wii for different reasons. For instance, WiiFit. I know so many people, all females, who want to lose weight so they look like rakes but don't want to exercise. So they stop eating. Great, now they're thin, ill and tired. So they exercise, but their only concept of exercise meaning anything is going to the gym. But then everyone will see them. So they get WiiFit instead and do pushups.
A Wii isn't considered gaming, so it isn't considered nerdy, so it's considered socially acceptable to play it. People that play console games talk about how boring and wholesome the Wii games are. Only they don't say wholesome, grandparents do, so they give their grandkids this console because it's good for them.
Kay? Not controller complexity like so many people say, other reasons. Lots of reasons. Nothing to do with the controller. Well.. Nothing explicitly, fairly tangential relationship. You should know better.
Duuuudes. Seriously. It wasn't that controllers are complex and beyond understanding, people still play Mario Kart with the controller turned sideways. People bought the Wii for different reasons. For instance, WiiFit. I know so many people, all females, who want to lose weight so they look like rakes but don't want to exercise. So they stop eating. Great, now they're thin, ill and tired. So they exercise, but their only concept of exercise meaning anything is going to the gym. But then everyone will see them. So they get WiiFit instead and do pushups.
A Wii isn't considered gaming, so it isn't considered nerdy, so it's considered socially acceptable to play it. People that play console games talk about how boring and wholesome the Wii games are. Only they don't say wholesome, grandparents do, so they give their grandkids this console because it's good for them.
Kay? Not controller complexity like so many people say, other reasons. Lots of reasons. Nothing to do with the controller. Well.. Nothing explicitly, fairly tangential relationship. You should know better.
I would say you are hating on Bob not because of what he has said but because he doesn't necessarily specialise in gaming, though I would argue that he definitely knows his stuff -- he's probably the most knowledgable and culturally/socially aware of the three.Santa216 said:
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Where the hell is our next installment guys!!!
Bob: If everyone put their backcatalog online they'd surely put all the junk in there as well.
And how can a true gaming novice know that the NES Mario's are pure gold and that some obsucre game with a more exciting title is actually crap that turns them off gaming forever?
Plus, you mention GTA1... I loved it back then in, uh 1996 or so, but it has nothing to do with GTA4 gameplay wise. It changed drastically after the last 2D one, so no use in 'learning' gaming from a game that has play no current game still uses, eh?
And how can a true gaming novice know that the NES Mario's are pure gold and that some obsucre game with a more exciting title is actually crap that turns them off gaming forever?
Plus, you mention GTA1... I loved it back then in, uh 1996 or so, but it has nothing to do with GTA4 gameplay wise. It changed drastically after the last 2D one, so no use in 'learning' gaming from a game that has play no current game still uses, eh?