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Talking 'Bout A Revolution

Posted by Zonk on from the beatles-jokes-always-appropriate dept.

Now that the weekend has passed, folks from all over have had their chance to speak up about the revolution behind the Revolution. Hugh Williams writes "The blokes at Next Generation decided to ask a bunch of game designers, media and analysts what they thought about Nintendo's new Revolution Controller. Some were a little skeptical. Others were downright in love." Additionally, Heartless Gamer writes "Heartless Gamer blog has initial comments up regarding the Revolution controller, but more importantly comments on the various reactions around the internet regarding the controller." Finally, LATRINE! writes "Whether you like it or not, the Nintendo Revolution is on the way. Brittlefish has an article discussing some of the challenges Nintendo will face in gaining acceptance in the market."

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  1. cradle/shell by muyuubyou · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe if anyone mentioned the cradle/shell, many more people would consider Nintendo's controller less suicide...
    Linky:
    http://cube.ign.com/articles/651/651559p1.html
    I wonder why I had to find this info by chance, considering all the coverage around this.

    1. Re:cradle/shell by justforaday · · Score: 5, Informative

      Thanks for the link. I've been looking for something about the shells. However, something people should note: the picture in the IGN article is a mock-up made by IGN. It is in no way the real thing.

      --
      I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
  2. Odd people quoted in Links by smbarbour · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the second link, what they thought about Nintendo's new Revolution Controller , scroll down the page and find the comment from Chris Melissinos, who apparently is the Chief Gaming Officer for Sun Microsystems.

    Since when did Sun have a games division?

  3. Re:Controller Intimidation Factor by cowscows · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it makes perfect sense. My mom wasn't terrified of the gamecube controller, but she couldn't manage to play any games that required you to use more than the thumbstick and the A button. So she could play Mario Kart at least halfway competently pretty quickly, but she'd get frustrated with almost immediately. And forget something like Metroid Prime.

    Even I get frustrated sometimes, and I've been playing plenty of video games for almost twenty years. It took me a couple hours to get comfortable with the controls on Halo 2, and i still hit the wrong buttons often enough. It's entirely complex, and if you haven't built up the muscle memory over time, it's got to be overwhelming.

    I am capable of using a controller with a whole bunch of buttons, but I'd rather not. There's nothing immersive about it, it's not particularly fun. I think Nintendo's really got a great idea here, and if the implementation is solid, it'll be a ton of fun. And that'll make people less afraid of it. Even retarded monkeys like to have fun.

    --

    One time I threw a brick at a duck.

  4. jump! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chris Cross
    Game Design Director, EA LA

    he's gonna make you JUMP! JUMP!

  5. Amen - My wife likes to play too. by xplenumx · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I couldn't agree more - I truly wish that more companies out there would focus on the casual gamer. I absolutely love my Xbox, however my wife finds all the games to be too complicated, becomes frustrated within a few minutes of playing them, and never touches them again. It's a shame too since she adored the original NES and loves watching the Xbox games.

    Just over a month ago we picked up a copy of Super Monkey Ball Deluxe (SMBD) and have fallen in love with the mini-racing game (think Mario Kart, but you're a monkey in a ball). The game is wonderful! My wife and I can play together (or more accurately, against each other), the controls are very simple to learn, and we can play in short bursts. We've played SMBD every night since we got it, and we're still having a blast.

    So here's the problem, we can't find any other games like it - racing games are too focused on photo-realism and don't support the under-dog (it sucks if you're in second place and have to wait for the person in first to make a mistake - missiles and bombs make the game much more interesting for everyone involved), FPSs tend to have a high learning curve and shooting people tends to turn off potential gamers, and fighting games tend to go overboard on the gore and have an extremely high learning curve. I never thought I'd say this, but I'm seriously considering putting my Xbox in the closet and replacing it with a Game Cube (and Revolution when it comes out). I want to play games with my wife. My wife wants to play games with me. I want to have people over and be able to play games with them, even if they've never touched a console before. Seems to me, Nintendo is the only company that gets this.