Former Spore Dev Still Thinks the Wii is "a Piece of Sh*t"

[Crimsane]

Seems like it'd be his sort of console then, since Spore was shit too.

 

[Fumbleumble]

There's nothing wrong with the Wii.. it is what it is.... a family console for non-ubernerds.

I'd have thought the massive sales record and huge catalogue of fun, playable games, as opposed to the countless crap, unplayable ones on the other consoles (..has Wii even had to patch any games?..don't know, and it doesn't make any difference anyway) would be more than enough to justify it's existance..

Ah well, I suppose it's that time again where former innovative and popular products are slagged off by the brainless masses.

 

[2fish]

This just in: Developers can be idiots and trolls too and are in fact still human. Details at 11.

I know your program is prerecorded just release the details already!

I find this funny as neither Spore nor the Wii offer anything I want in a game or console. This is a load of shi...Spy Party, a spy game where you are not Rambo??? Sounds like a cool idea can you pull it off? If it is good I will be very happy.

 

[kebab4you]

Are people really so lame that they would send him hate mail and edit his wikipedia page over having an opinion? That is so disturbing.

Young people can rage over any opinion that is not there( As you know, Yahtzee when he did his brawl review he got a lot of such mail). So ye fully possible.

 

[Madmanonfire]

What's even funnier about this post is that people actually agree with him.

 

[Zakarath]

SpyParty looks pretty sweet... I doubt there'll be much of a market for it, but I heard it was quite the hit at PAX.

Also: He's right about the Wii.

 

[Oilerfan92]

The Wii is pretty bad. The technology is underwhelming. But the games are worse. There's casual and there's embarrassing.

But this specifically just comes across as fanboyism or whatever

Really?
Because iv got a ton of Great games on the Wii.
Every system has "Casual" shovel-and embarrassing games.
And the Wii has a lot, but no where near as much as the PS2 had.

OT:Oh well, this is not gonna stop me from enjoying TvC or any of the other great games iv got.

I'm not saying it didn't have fun games. It did.

I guess I'm just not satisfied personally with how the tech itself ended up. I play games like Mario Galaxy and the Super Mario game, and it's still pushing buttons with minor or secondary actions relegated to motion, and at that point I guess I just don't care.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I think it's hilarious that the absolute worst thing the Nintendo fanboys could think of was defacing his Wikipedia page.

Also, I have to agree about the Wii. I don't own one, but I've played it plenty of times with various friends, and the funnest game I've played is Brawl. And even it isn't that fun.

 

[Snotnarok]

Oh he has a different opinion than us? Nintendo is great! Let's attack him! That'll show him what level headed people we are!

The world is stupid. It's simply amazing how bias fanboys are and how far they're willing to take something they have 0 involvement in. I could understand if the designer of the wii was a bit upset but jesus christ guys, Nintendo doesn't care who says what is shit it sells and guess what? Sticks and stones.

 

[Treblaine]

The Wii is pretty bad. The technology is underwhelming. But the games are worse. There's casual and there's embarrassing.

ಠ_ಠ

I was going to list like several dozen great Wii exclusives and then watched him squirm as he tries to explain them away... but that's probably a more appropriate response.

 

[WOPR]

Hey, the gamecube was fantastic, having 2 of them ductaped together would be brilliant!

so... GameCube mixed with Tiger Game.com
huh...

Make it hand held and the PSP will die!

 

[WOPR]

The Wii is pretty bad. The technology is underwhelming. But the games are worse. There's casual and there's embarrassing.

But this specifically just comes across as fanboyism or whatever

The tech while admittedly is bad, isn't worthless, but most of the tech went to motion controls and making the freaking thing unbreakable and mostly idiot proof

as for "casual games"

ALL SYSTEMS HAVE CASUAL GAMES!

but I take it that you've never heard of these Wii titles

No More Heroes
Rage of the Gladiator
MadWorld
House of the Dead OVERKILL
Red Steel 2
The Conduit
Onslaught
Contra Rebirth
Castlevania Rebirth
Dead Space Extraction

 

[xyrafhoan]

Pieces of news like this always make me laugh. Sure, the Wii has always been an underwhelming piece of tech that sits at about the same level of power as the GCN, but what is all that power good for if you can't make a fun game even with all the power in the world at your fingertips? FFXIII proved rather infamously that your game could look amazing graphically but still be shallow and lack immersion. Spore also proved rather infamously that amazing game concepts could be swindled by short-sighted gameplay goals. Super Mario Galaxy proved that you could take something good and polish it to be even better, even when no one could imagine that such a thing was possible. Nintendo made a gamble that people didn't really need high tech hardware to enjoy a video game, whereas Sony crammed the latest and greatest HD tech into the PS3, and look where the console race has ended up. The PS3 was just too much money for anyone to rationalize spending, even if a Blu-ray player was just as expensive. The XBox 360 experience wasn't complete without a wireless adaptor and a Gold subscription to XBox Live. Now HD tech is much cheaper than before and every console has a relatively even price tag once you figure in the peripherals, but the Wii definitely picked Nintendo up from off the ground after the mediocre performance of the GCN, so they can now pursue riskier tech in the form of the 3DS. Whether or not the actual hardware is expensive or not doesn't matter, but again, the quality of games injected into the platform are really what count. In the end, I think a lot of people have lost sight about why we all love videogames: Because they are fun to play. Of course, everyone's definition of fun varies, but some people in the world don't enjoy dual analog fragging, while others don't enjoy sitting through movies dotted with occasional button presses, and there are also people who don't enjoy waggling minigames. Even so, someone else certainly enjoys a well-crafted game in any of these genres, so why do we piss all over someone else's party when the real villain of gaming would be the shovelware? You know, the crap that we always circle in highlighter on the Wii, yet conveniently forget the truckload of barely playable "games" that undulated over the PS2 and even the XBox 360 (though there is noticeably less on the PS3, I admit). Bad games are everything: It is never the fault of the tech the games are played on. Calling out a console for the flaws of greedy, soulless shovelware developers is just childish.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

I use my DS, PS2 and Gameboy Advance more than I use my Wii...

If I can have more fun with obsolete technology then there's a problem...

 

[WorkerMurphey]

It doesn't matter how right or wrong he is about anything, he's the guy who made spore suck so his opinion is worth dick until he changes the face of gaming (for better or worse)as the Wii has.