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Is There a Future For Mature Games On Wii?
digitalfever writes "There are more than 50 million Wii systems worldwide. Logically, the audience for a wide range of games and interactive experiences should be rather big, but based on the evidence so far, either that's not true — or publishers have been hedging the wrong bets. No one has conclusively proved the case for (or against) the viability of mature games on Wii, but 2009 was a litmus test on a number of fronts, including the DS. The results aren't encouraging. "
The Motion Plus is just OK. I got 2 + sports resort and think it is Nintendo Ripof. It doesn't add anything new to the gameplay.
If you are on slashdot, and can't figure out how a gyroscope can add to gameplay (over accelerometers), then you need to have your geek license revoked.
There are almost no mature games at all for the Wii. Most games for the Wii are either targeted at kids (pretty much everything with cutesy cartoon-ish characters), families (kids games with multi-player really) or teenagers (fast reaction, trigger-happy, repetitive FPSs).
Even the RPGs (like the Zelda games) seem to have been designed to be within the mental reach of a 5 year-old (or somebody mentally retarded).
Just recently I got Deadspace for the Wii (an FPS) and it turns out you can't even control the movement of your character - the game boils down to, as your character moves on his own, moving your aiming reticule as fast as possible to aim at the head of whatever comes your way and pressing button and pressing other-button to open doors and other such "puzzles". You could train a monkey to beat that game.
In two years, the one single game I got for the Wii that can be classified as "mature" is Resident Evil 4 (which was originally released for a different console).
Maybe the problem is me: as a "mature" game, having started on the ZX Spectrum and gone through many generations of gaming on the PC, I long ago graduated beyond the "brain-dead repetitive" style of gaming: games that will satisfy a teenager or a 5 year old will just look like flat, un-challenging and done-it-already to me.
In the world of PC games, you can still find engaging and interesting games (for example: Galactic Civilizations), some of which are also console games (such as Bioshock).
For the Wii, however, it's always the same, usual, bland fare suitable only for those that haven't seen it and done it already a thousand times - only one or two ports of games from other consoles save it from total mediocrity.
No. But the _expected_ target audience of Nintendo owners are children, so those are the most heavily advertised for Wii. They somehow didn't notice that we original NES owners GREW UP. We got old, but never stopped enjoying games. I have tried half a dozen games on the Wii, two of them Final Fantasy games, and I would probably enjoy the mechanics a lot more if they didn't plaster CHILD all over the screen with baby this and baby that. Enough of the baby bullshit, just give me a game!
I'm an adult now, please stop advertising to me-20-years-ago.
(Almost kept Star Wars: Force Unleashed, but while it was a mature theme, the mechanics relied on childish button mashing....)
There's also Zack and Wiki
Wiki? As in I can go in and edit every level? No wait, I can't, because console games don't have mods.