From Kotaku:
"Guest writing at N'Gai Croal's Level Up, Bill Harris offers a brief history of the game controller and its evolution. Harris argues that it's the fault of Street Fighter II that arcade games, and later console games, changed from pick up and play to complex. The Wii is the counter example, but before you start thinking, "I've heard this all before," Harris continues to argue that game reviews haven't figured out what to do with the Wii. Games like Carnival Games have sold well despite terrible reviews because, well, they're just easy and fun to play."
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
LucasArts gave Jango Fett his own game in 2002, and it pulled Star Wars into a much dirtier, rougher, and more interesting corner of the galaxy.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
My wife wont touch the PS3 but loves the Wii
It might be a little off topic, but the the "complicated controller" issue kind of ticks me off and the argument has never made any sense to me. Whenever you read an article about the success of the wii, they almost always have some crap line about controllers "getting more and more complex over the years" and thats absolute bs. The ps3 and 360 controllers are just slight variations of the four face button snes controller thats been out since 1992. The only additions are analog sticks (which are actually easier and more intuitive than a d pad) and an extra set of shoulder buttons. Other than that console controllers have been largely unchanged for over 15 years and have a pretty simple layout.
Me personally,I've been clamoring for the keyboard mouse combo on consoles.
he should be talking about those Horrible N64 and Gamecube controllers...and the original obox controllers also...
This is a very well written article, and i have to agree with the author. I mean really, do we really need to have that many buttons. Certain games use them intuitively, but others... "is this the grenade button or the reload button?... D'oh!!"
Timed button press events can compound the problem further. There's not enough time to remember which is which... especially if you're new to the controller. At least sony and microsoft have almost identical controllers.
Edit: well, wouldn't say that the new controllers "ruined everything". But i would say that it does add to the learning curve. Which might turn some people off.