He knew exactly what he was doing with that image.
EA Sports Engineer: Wii U is crap, < powerful than 360. No $ 3party. [Tweets Deleted]
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He knew exactly what he was doing with that image.
The only games that I think benefited from the Wii controller were No More Heroes, Metroid Prime 3, Umbrella Chronicles, Goldeneye, and Silent Hill. To be brutally honest Nintendo dissappointed with their first party offerings, but the console ended up with a few gems thanks to other devs.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Skyward Sword? And Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands has great use of the Wiimote, too!
Never played it myself even though I consider myself a Zelda fan. I was hyped at some point, but in the end I felt indifferent about what I saw from the trailers and gameplay videos.
I think from that selection you might enjoy Skyward;s Sword control options, however, the structure of the game is a different story for a lot of people.
I think its a Zelda with some of the highest but lowest points.
The highest points are sheer brilliance though. The lowest will want to make you strangle yourself!
Dammit, though what he ended up doing here was pretty stupid, I've always liked his posts in general.
RIP Cloving.
his avatar look so fitting with the grayed out name & banned that I thought for a second that a mod had changed it.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
And people who kept quoting it and saying how outraged they were knew exactly what they were doing.
metalslimer
Member
And people who kept quoting it and saying how outraged they were knew exactly what they were doing.
You're post whining about it isn't any better.
prag16
Banned
Shocking, to find you defending him.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Goodbye Cloving.
I will miss arguing with you. Occasionally you made great points even in the heat of hyperbole.
It is too bad you weren't a slight bit more careful with your attempts at humor fallen brother.
Well good to see you guys haven't changed much in my sleepytime hours.
I will miss arguing with you. Occasionally you made great points even in the heat of hyperbole.
It is too bad you weren't a slight bit more careful with your attempts at humor fallen brother.
Well good to see you guys haven't changed much in my sleepytime hours.
And people who kept quoting it and saying how outraged they were knew exactly what they were doing.
You're telling us GAF mods caved in to mob pressure? Stop whining
Is this 2006?
lol
He told me to PM a mod so I did. Case closed?
Why don't you post that same image with the text "this is what I imagine Neogaf mods look like."
Fight the power!
Skyward Sword is in my top 5 favourite games this gen with both Galaxies, Demon's Souls and Bioshock Infinite.
Brilliant game all the way through IMO. Even remembering about it gives me that rare feeling that I went on a huge adventure, when most "epic" games tend to feel smaller in retrospective.
Professor Beef
Banned
I'd have to add PES, Call of Duty, Endless Ocean, Boom Blox, Trauma Center, Tiger Woods and Godfather off the top of my head.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
Nothing that we already didn't know :/
No, describing the Wii's motion experience as "standing up and waggling a stick" is as valid as showing this gif to describe how using the Dualshock feels like.
If someone is not informed enough about something, its okay to say that they simply disliked what little they experienced of it.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
My least favorite Zelda game by far
Horrible backtracking
The fetch quests
Fighting the same bosses over and over again
Shitty overworld
Slow start
Horrible controls beside the fighting
I'm about 40+ hours in i think. I will finish it because I finish all the zelda games, except for Majora which i never played, but it has become a chore :/
I hate when members get banned, people are so damn sensitive.
To each his own I guess
When you backtracked the area was usually diferent. I honestly dont mind this at all. I'm not minding it in Dishonored, and I didnt mind revisiting the
flooded woods
Best bosses in the series and best combat controls completely negate any kind of gripe I would have of revisiting the scorpion boss (for example).
I loved the puzzle/dungeon like overworld. Layout design reminded me more of 2D Zelda than the open fields of post OOT Zeldas.
TP's start felt slower. The fact that I find Skyloft and its habitants so charming probably gave me a diferent impression of the start of the game. I liked it.
I have absolutely no issues with the controls. I loved it
Zombie James
Banned
There's a discussion going on about this on Hacker News if it hasn't been linked to already. Some interesting comments:
A cow-orker of mine interviewed there a couple of years ago. He said it was pretty bad, too.
One of his standard questions (he's kind of a snarky guy"How many of your co-workers should be fired?" He generally gets answers in the range of ten percent. At Nintendo, they were saying "fifty percent."
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Never outshine the master even if cleverer or faster.
Davey Cakes
Member
I'm still as much a Nintendo fan as ever. They're still my favorite, even though I own multiple systems.
Interestingly enough, I enjoyed the Gamecube more than the XBOX because I preferred the library, Nintendo games and others.
And in terms of just Nintendo games, the output has only gotten better since the GCN. Wii had many great Nintendo games and we can't discount all of the outstanding handheld content that the company has always put out.
Is it possible to be disappointed by Nintendo? Absolutely. Happens all the time. But Nintendo continues to make some of my absolute favorite gaming experiences, so I stick by them.
Nintendo has video games out in the lobby to be played with but if you do, you get fired?
Dat Yamaucha/Iwata entrapment, goddamn.
If he hasn't seen many disagreeing with what the EA guy said, he's not looking hard enough. Plenty of people flat out disagreed with the EA guys comments, plenty of people agreed, plenty of people used it as an excuse to troll, plenty of Nintendo fans got upset/overreacted. Most people (from the pages of this thread I read) agreed that whatever the guys opinion or whatever is/isn't true, he shouldn't have come out and said it. It's unprofessional. It'd be unprofessional in any job to openly slate your client/partners/competition but it's magnified when it's something in the public eye like this.
That's the main point here. Yeah I can see there's going to be a backlash of love for this EA guy, defending him against the 'digital hordes' of Nintendo fans etc - but the bottom line is still: he was an idiot for saying it.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Professionalism is a buzzword.
I am still curious about the logic behind this man tweeting what he did. One or two tweets I can consider a mistake, but going on about it?
Positive things that were achieved by this:
+ IGN and other sites got some traffic I guess
+ Entertaining GAF thread
Negative things:
- More negative attention surrounding a company rated worst in America twice in a row.
- Burning bridges and further discouraging future healthy colaborations between both companies due to stupid buddy-talk shit.
- EA employee looking like a 13 year old arse from Gamefaqs by voicing his opinions with the most cliche statements of the great system wars book.
- Yet another interaction between EA staff and gaming community gone to shit.
I hope he doesnt get fired or anything, but I've seen marketing people get the boot over less.
Reading his tweets again, I have the feeling he was expecting a round of applause or something lol
Positive things that were achieved by this:
+ IGN and other sites got some traffic I guess
+ Entertaining GAF thread
Negative things:
- More negative attention surrounding a company rated worst in America twice in a row.
- Burning bridges and further discouraging future healthy colaborations between both companies due to stupid buddy-talk shit.
- EA employee looking like a 13 year old arse from Gamefaqs by voicing his opinions with the most cliche statements of the great system wars book.
- Yet another interaction between EA staff and gaming community gone to shit.
I hope he doesnt get fired or anything, but I've seen marketing people get the boot over less.
Reading his tweets again, I have the feeling he was expecting a round of applause or something lol
Uncle Rupee
Banned
Castef
Banned
So, Sony and Microsoft are allowing EA to bring Origin on PS4 and NextBox?
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Sssh, don't bring logic in to this.
Projectjustice
Banned
He said main OS not an app like uplay.
Oh please it's a 2 way street. Other people knew what they were doing as well.
EDIT: even if he believed that about the Wii U there was no reason to put that shit on blast on twitter. There needs to be a level of some sort of professionalism. Unfortunately as someone else said above it honestly is just a buzzword
Jake Tower
Banned
This is how I visualize you after seeing one of my posts.
The Hyper-Hypo!
JordanN
Banned
While I don't "root" for it, I don't believe there's a magic to Nintendo.
Pokemon X/Y would work fine on Vita and New Super Mario Bros would fit right in with the PS4.
With the more powerful specs, the games would even be better than Nintendo's current output.
As for SEGA, I'm not sure what "magic" they had. They still were able to make some great games as a third party.
Haunted
Member
It is when he presents himself as an EA employee, and seems to speak in behalf of his company with the way he words his tweets. He is an "insider", everything he says will be percieved differently for obvious reasons.
This is pretty basic stuff you know you should NOT do. Dont gather negative attention to your company with your personal rants made public.
Its not the comments, its how its being embraced by the media and the community as a window to EA's stance on Nintendo internally.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Is he wrong or something? I figured the WiiU was as powerful or slightly moreso than the 360. I haven't used it but can't you also not link a Wii account and you have to re-buy all the stuff you bought on the Wii?
What does it take for the WiiU to be crap if it isn't now?
What does it take for the WiiU to be crap if it isn't now?
He didnt stop there
"Nintendo are still operating like it's 1990. They should have "done a Sega" and offered Mario/Zelda as PS4/Durango exclusives"
A 100% hardware failure rate like the Xbox 360, maybe.
Everything would be better on PC, why settle for a console?
Its...unprofessional
flatearthpandas
Member
Interesting question.
I know people like to speak out against the Gamepad, but I think the system would be indefensible if it did not have that and Miiverse. Basically the Wii U's only two saving graces.
Haters be damned, the Gamepad is a very nifty feature and I'm confident at least someone will come up with a really innovative way to use it. Until then, the handiness of a touch inventory and always-on map are still real boons to gameplay.
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Opinions are unprofessional.
The only thing that dictates if something is unprofessional is the number of people not involved in the profession that decide to get upset about it. Nobody at Nintendo or EA is going to make business decisions based on some guy's random tweets. It's only fanboys who think this kind of stuff is in any way damaging.
JordanN
Banned
I never ruled out PC.
Although realistically, could we really expect a Pokemon to appear on PC than a handheld?