[quote name='Doomed'] Instead they half-assed it like most Nintendo products as of late. My main issue with this is the recycling of content (which was expected) and how shitty the new content is. I agree with lilboo. The city could have been a great new feature, but it's little more than a bullet point.
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I'm not condoning the half-assed effort, but I
am saying that doesn't make the game bad. Nor does it somehow disqualify it from being enjoyable. It's a rehash, but so much else in this industry is, and I see unfair amounts of
teh haet leveled at some parties over others. I can still go to a restaurant and order a steak without thinking "Oh man, I totally had a steak at
Steak 'n Steak last week, and it too was made of beef that was seared upon a grate looming above hot coals, when are these people going to give me the legendary Steakamune, which was hacked from the great giants that roam the astral plains of the planet Bovin-9?"
Want to know what Nintendo's thinking was? 'Cuz I can assuredly tell you the truth on that - they've hit on the idea that the Wii is bringing a huge influx of brand new people to their system, and in a larger sense, to this hobby itself. This said, they've figured out that they can ease people in and get products out quickly in favor of exposing this new group to things that they deem quality software. Once those hooks are in,
then the sequel appears - either on this system or the next - and it's got a whole new following of players ready to drop the cash.
Again, this isn't condoning the rehash - I'm simply telling you what all those execs and developers were thinking, which is simply "we can do a halfass job here and allocate resources to the
next one, because right now we've got a potential fanbase that's never seen this before, and it might be good to hook them now before we add in massive changes."
That's the thinking, which is kind of a way of saying "This game is sort of for veterans, but not really, 'cuz they've seen it all before, whereas noobs are going to think it's sliced bread."
Take that as you will, happy or sad, because no one who currently works under the banner of Nintendo gives a shit, and instead are laughing at the fact that you bought the game
regardless that you probably could have surmised all of this beforehand.
For the record, I aint trying to sound condescending or anything, I'm merely pointing out what are (most likely) the facts here.
On another note, the idea of MKWii being "dumbed down" I find to be a hilarious statement - it was always meant to be a casual game and every time that sort of logic pops up I sort of shake my head and kill another angel. The bigger problem I have with MK is that there's so little effort there where it counts - the character models are horrid, there's no options online, we need the feather back, and perhaps implement an entirely new defense system that can skillfully allow the frontrunners to better avoid the
-you items like blue shells.
That's what I want out of that game, and I'm not even that big of an MK dood.
Imma go dig up fossils now.
Edit: Oh oh oh. Some PC nerd help me out. Yeah you heard me call you a nerd. Anyway. I can haz wireless keyboard, and the receiver is plugged into the Wii. But I wants to split that and run it to the 360 as well. Hence, whenever I have either on, the receiver gets turned on by the respective system, and then I can type on either platform. Does such a thing exist? It's like a USB hub in reverse. I imagine I could get a KVM switch, but that seems like overkill when I'm just looking for a simple cable if at all possible.
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