Blog Banter - What I want in 2009
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Dear Game Industry,
This is what I want to see in 2009 -
The Wii is a huge fount of untapped potential. If you actually bothered to watch the above video you will see the endless possibilities that we have yet to come close to breaching because we are too intent at waggling a little remote control in front of our screens.
We can do better. We can have better than this. Instead of pumping out another sequel to Gears of War or Call of Duty why are we not taking advantage of this yet?
I want more immersion in games, and immersion is more than photo-realistic graphics. I want to be in the game as much as it is possible.
Here’s the kicker, if Nintendo or some other publisher doesn’t take advantage of this for the Wii, somebody at Microsoft will do it for their next generation. It would be advantageous to get on the ground floor now. Some geek pulled this off in his living room, why can’t a multi-million dollar development company do something with this concept? The Wii has been out for over 2 years now, it’s high time we got something that really makes the system shine.
Other participants!
What I want in 2009, The “Roxanne” Edition, Dear Gaming Industry, if the industry gave us all presents this Christmas, Demands for the industry, Santa, Don’t Bring Me Toys I Have To Share, All I Want for Christmas Is…, My Wish for the Year, Crossing Over, Checkpoint Unobtained. errr., Loading Requests, LISTEN BITCH!!!, One Wish, Dear Video Game Industry
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December 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
They actually did something similar to this in Police 911 that’s been in arcades for ages now. While I’ve seen a few cabinets in arcades in my area, the game never really flew.
I don’t think they’ve taken this idea home though. It’d be quite fun.
While there’d be no room to have such a thing in a regular person’s home, have you checked out the Panoramic Quake III rig? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqh_F4iN8pg.
Cheers.
December 13th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
That video is really interesting!
I have a Wii.. woah that would be an out of this world experience..
I agree with your article.. the Wii certainly does need to do more things!
December 13th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
wow, that would actualy want to make me buy a Wii.
I whish it could happen!
December 13th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I haven’t seen that video before. That was positively fascinating. And you are exactly right, if someone can create that at home, imagine what someone in a lab with access to the latest technology could do?
December 13th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Excellent video choice and excellent points about the untapped potential of today’s hardware for immersion purposes. Looks like many of us are on the same page as far as less sequels and more original IPs.
December 14th, 2008 at 4:01 am
I love that there are people out there who can implement these kinds of technologies as a hobby. It’s an amazing medium we support where innovation can come from a person’s home, and doesn’t require a whole lab of scientists working tirelessly.
December 14th, 2008 at 11:18 am
That video was amazing! Nintendo needs to take advantage of that technology and use it to create an awesome Resident Evil game!
December 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am
When I saw this video come out, I was blown away too. Wasn’t there another one where a guy used glasses? Either way, this is some stuff that could and should be used. The accelerometer should only be the beginning.
December 15th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
As other people who participated in the Blog Banter have stated, game companies rarely listen to their fans. If they did, they would have discovered this kind of potential already. However, some of them might this too gimmicky and not want to take a risk on something that might not sell well (there was already one attempt at a VR machine way back, and it failed miserably), and instead, pump money into things that they know people already like.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I don’t think this could be seen as a gimmick since the lack of effective development by Nintendo has established the Wii perpipherals strongly in the gimmick category already. This would prove to gamers that the remote gives actual motion sensing control instead of a clever illusion that simulates motion control instead.
For the record, I’m not calling it “Wiimote”,because it’s Wiitarded but if I was hunting Wabbits it might make sense, but I’m trying to make a point so be very very quiet)
Wii Sports, a game bundled with the unit for no other purpose than to act as a grand “look at what I can do” tutorial disc is pretty weak in it’s intended role, try bowling backwards or just waggling the remote in some random direction with force to elicit the same exact result. Play Mario Party on the thing for more reactionary frustration. Nintendo’s peripheral fetish seem to harken back to Nintendo’s earlier days where it was keen to buy and collect piles of title specific junk to one day toss in a garage sale *coughGuitarHerocough*
Wii Fit is another example of a peripheral Nintendo will toss on the market with a specific title in time for the holidays only to see the thing falter in the secondary market. Nintendo doesn’t seem interested in product improvement or development of the core concept. They are too busy creating half-baked yet perplexingly clever concepts and leaving them underutilized or incomplete.
I thinks thats what makes me so frustrated with Nintendo in the end, they are usually present great ideas but usually settle for “good enough” or smokeand mirrors before they cash in and stumble around looking for the next innovation to cheapen in to an infomercial gimmick.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:37 pm
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