Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Seconded for Deca Sports. My husband was so excited to play volleyball, but he tried it for a little while and thought it was way too awkward and it didn't get any harder as you played more. So boring.

w0t R u, a n00b? Lolz.

worst post EVAR.

Way to show your age gramps

I expected that response from a 13 year old girl. Don't they write "evar" in their diaries?

So showing your age means you can spell correctly? Hmm, that makes a lot of sense.

I think the title takes the mick out of it more than encourages it, really. But it is only a joke. And I hate how 12/13 year old girls have to be stereotyped in such a way. Oh wait, it's the truth. I guess I'm an exception to the rule. And Kavorka, can't you type properly, please? It's pretty annoying to see people typin lyk dis evry day, like most 12 year olds.

I can't stand it when people use "cliché" as an adjective. Something is either "clichéd" or it is "a cliché".

The phrase "I could care less" entered colloquial English approximately 40 years, and it is already commonly understood to mean the same, either in the positive or negative syntax. It is found in print as far back as 1966. I'm only 35 years old, and I started speaking at 1 year old, so both versions of the phrase were already in common usage for 8 years.
(that was actually by some commenter on slashdot, I'm too lazy to rephrase it and anyway he's correct)

It doesn't really matter what people are willing to accept. It's still wrong and doesn't make any sense when you think about it.

From Strunk and White: The Elements of Style:

"Care less. The dismissive 'I couldn't care less' is often used with the shortened 'not' mistakenly (and mysteriously) omitted: 'I could care less.' The error destroys the meaning of the sentence and is careless indeed."

Hell yeah, Strunk and White pwnage.

Moose said...
It doesn't really matter what people are willing to accept. It's still wrong and doesn't make any sense when you think about it.
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Think of it as sort of an idiom. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom)

Though we may never meet in person, or even meet again on this website's forums, know that I am using the phrase "could care less" as much as possible just to annoy you and people like you.

Heh. I loved that game.

But it's my first Paper Mario title, so I can't really compare it to the older ones.

Agreed.

Could you please tell us which half of the game was missing? It seemed like a pretty complete game to me. Quite possibly the best $30 I ever spent on a videogame.

No More Heroes rocks. The main story was completed, just some sidequests were left out. So, if you didn't enjoy the game as it was released, you wouldn't enjoy it if the production was complete.

Wow really? If that's the best $30 you've spent, I can't imagine what kind of crap you've been playing.

I didn't say half was missing; I said half was tedious and repetitive and the other half was even worse.
I only wish half of the game was missing: I might have actually liked it if I didn't have to play minigames lamer than the part time jobs they made fun of. Or crash (sorry bump) into cars that must have been plucked from the n64 and benign zombies with no reaction.

But that was what this was about right? Disappointment. I don't think I've ever been more disappointed in a game than when soon after I finished that first (tutorial) level in NMH and soon realized that what I had just played through was about as good as that game was going to get. And that's my problem, this should've been a good game if they put a little effort into it.

Obviously you took the game too seriously.
How "crappy" it was, was an expression, a mocking of sorts. As if to make fun of --- ah whatever.
If you didn't enjoy it, you didn't enjoy it. Fact is, many people enjoyed it. You didn't have to.

Yea yea yea.
I got the joke but to have half the game be a lame joke?
I'm afraid the real joke is on those of us who spent money to play this game.
Sure its worth a rental for the humor: both on the surface and beneith. But anyone who purchased it got ripped off and any programmer who sacrifices interesting gameplay for a few po-mo jokes in a game that isn't a budget price title, should be beaten to death with his mother's douche bag.

So the developer wanted to make a game he could express himself in. You had a choice to ignore the game as much as an art critic could ignore an art-piece. I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to make the greatest game of all time - it was kinda' obvious in many senses.
There's a bunch of other games that match what you were looking for in that game, even before the "next gen" era. It wouldn't be ground breaking if he made a "great game" that eerily looked like the ones on the PS2.
'sides, the guy's not known for making "standard" games. So it was kinda' expected to be a bit weird.

You realize that you can manipulate the AI in VS. matches just not in the Cup Series? You can knock down their intelligence and whether or not they can use items etc.....

The AI is hard at times, but that doesn't mean you can't be better!

It all balances out, though. The AI may have irritating, inhuman aim, but at the end of the day, they are AI, no exploits, no creative thinking

You thought the AI was hard? I thought the Double Dash AI was brutal compared to this. Maybe it's just that I've gotten better at Mario Kart since then. Who knows.

I've said it before. It won't split the market, it'll simply become another control option, just like Wiimote, Nunchuk, Classic, and GC

Few games will require it like Wii Sports Resort

But Mr Khan, look at that list, don't you think that's already far too many control options even without Motion Plus? Wasn't the Wii supposed to be about simplification and streamlining, this is just confusing and cluttering.

Wiimote, Nunchuck, Classic, GC, Motion Plus, not to mention the numerous other peripherals. I'm a core gamer and even I feel overwhelmed, I dread to think what it's like for a new/casual gamer.

I mean look at Brawl (a great game for sure), but I think that having four different controller options not only shows a lack of vision and conviction, but makes things needlessly complicated. Its best control scheme (according to most people, including the designer himself) is with a controller from another console?!? Am I the only one that finds that slightly baffling.

I agree. There are far too many "options" for how to control this once simple little machine. If they are going to use wiimotion plus forever, they need to release new remotes! I would be fine with wiimote V2.0. It would at least simplify things from point X on.

I think they should have just waited and integrated the Motion Plus design into the remote for Wii2, which is probably due out in no more than 24 months.

Target Terror was fun as hell in the arcades, but the Wii port was rushed as hell. The developers should have taken the calibration and cursor options from Sega's light gun shooters and polished the game a little more, then it would have been awesome.