Nazulu said:
I wish I could just write so much as easily. I'll try to keep up.
There was quite a few issues people encountered with the Wii but I think I've gone into that enough. You get where I'm coming from. Yeah, there are many that are dismissive and not as forgiving that spouted much ignorance of every thing they damned, but there were a lot of changes and many of those just couldn't find any thing that interested them. It's just not the same as the Nintendo before I guess (though I think the lack of 3rd party support shouldn't all be blamed on Nintendo), including those aggresive at Nintendo because some of the games they released were shallow like the New Super Mario Brothers Wii, and the Super Mario anniversary collection many complained about as well. I can't even remember what the complaints were but I did agree with some of them.
When a business starts making mistakes people just don't find them as reliable. It's happened with both the Xbox and Playstation of course, just incase you think I'm only having a go at the Wi. I'm still just explaining where I believe a lot of the anger comes from. Remember when some hackers stole all the user passwords on Playstation online? That really screwed them over.
As for Brawl, there were a lot of problems with both the game play and the over all design. I think most complaints came from the clunky movements and lack of combo's. I remember watching some Brawl tournament vids on Youtube and some matches took ages, with them beating themselves all the way to 300% just exchanging hits. I even noticed some of the stages actually killed them faster than themselves, and a lot of people got sick of getting stuck under the platforms in that cloud stage. Not to mention they had to stop using the super moves because how imbalanced they were. I feel that Brawl isn't a finished product, I reckon it had the potential to be one of the greatest games ever made which is unfortunate.
Other M made Samus look terrible with it's silly dialogue and story, and the game play and design wasn't much to be desired either. You pretty much nailed Mario Kart Wii on the head, they were the most common complaints about that game. I really hope the next Mario Kart will be similar to the DS version as well, it was the main reason I got the DS.
Yeah, that's probably most of it. Now it's time to move onto better things which I'm happy to say the Wii U looks like it can easily deliver. Can't wait to see the next titles honestly. The new Super Mario Bros Wii U is something I really want. I always found the Mario games reliable, he is a part of so many good games it's amazing.
I reckon it will only be a matter of time till Nintendo earns every ones trust again, the worst is already over from what I see.
It takes practice to just hurl out walls of text like this, university made me adept at it.
I do indeed understand where you are coming from and the lack of third party support was a big issue, particularly early on in the Wii's life cycle where it mostly got shit ports of PS2 games or random spin-offs (Sonic & The Secret Rings, for example), it did remain an issue but the 3rd party support improved mid-cycle, with games like Xenoblade Chronicles, Sonic Colours, Sin & Punishment, etc. New Super Mario Bros I don't really have a problem with, it's exactly what it should be and it delivers it well in a nicely presented package; it's 2D Mario platformer with a shitload of levels and a load of stuff to collect. The anniversary pack I actually got for Xmas and it's kind of a bitter point because it's a somewhat poor port of a SNES game, it was put out for £20, and it was a bit of a rip-off. The soundtrack CD was a pretty nice add-on but they could have been much nicer and included Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island, maybe even Mario 64 and increased the price a tiny bit if that did them so much work.
The hackers hitting the PlayStation Network really shook Sony up I think, it was around then that PS+ came in I think, as part of an initiative to bring people back to trusting Sony and it's worked rpetty well, for £40 a year you get a tonne of freebies and discounted stuff that usually adds up to well over £200 a year, a recent survey found out that 97% of users were satisfied with PS+ if I recall correctly. My biggest gripe with Sony is the treatment of EU PSN users, our store often gets products with months of delay, sometimes even years or just not at all. Retro City Rampage was delayed for months, we still haven't got Counter-Strike Global Offensive, and Castlevania:Symphony of the Night came over here 5 years after it did to the US store but got a nice price markup as well. But both Microsoft and Sony had pretty bad issues this gen between them, Microsofts big issues being the hardware problems, aswell as the issues with Live being full of advertising and the frequency with which they overhauled their UI completely.
Yeah I can see those issues with Brawl, matches can go on forever and the super moves just weren't well balanced, a few of them are rather weak but then there's ones like Sonic's, which is basically everybody on screen dying for 10 seconds. I did enjoy brawl as I said but it does have issues, lack of combos wasn't a big deal for me, I liked how easy it was to dive into brawl and get on with it, and I liked just how much content was there, but it maybe could have done with a few months longer in development to polish it up.
I can't comment on Other M, as I said, I'm yet to experience it. Mario Kart Wii is a truly infuriating thing, item spam, it's slow, characters I like are missing, unlocking things is glacial and not very challenging, and bikes and their wheelie boost broke the game. I heavily recommend checking out Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed if you want a great kart racer where everything except time-trials can be done in split-screen with 4 players. One of the best multiplayer games I've played in years and it's great solo too, my review should be lurking the review forum somewhere but if it's vanished it's on woolhatgaming.tumblr.com, it's a must have if you ask me.
Yeah, I think Nintendo are on a much better track and people will start to see that they're back on top form, which is somewhere they haven't really been since the SNES. I'm really looking forward to see what the Wii U can do with a 3D Mario title, and I'm definitely looking forward to the next 3D Sonic title on there after Sega's recent efforts.
It's started strong and with continued support and third parties throwing in their lot it can only get better.