What I want is a good adventure game with a solid, innovative story that will actually make me want to play it. I just have to wait until they come out.

I guess we’ll all just have to wait until better games come out though, huh?

If you think about how hard it is to get into the industry there are little to none, as far as I know, indie game makers (akin to maybe freeware software designers or something). I think Sony were making a step in the right direction (gasp) when they included Yubasic with PS2s. Sure to most people (including me) it was confusing but it offers everyone an insight into game development - a segment of gaming that a very small percentage actually see. Which brings me to my next point.

Often it is the underdogs that bring the most immersive gameplay and the best ideas. As you mention, Rez was something of a pioneer in that field and the developers even said they might be releasing a second title on Wii. So why do we not get into making games ourselves? People that love sites make site. People that love music make music etc, so by bringing consoles like the Wii and DS to the table it makes developing titles that much harder because you then have to work out the control system rather than X, O, Square and Triangle =p and so makes it harder to program. Just a thought.

Nintendo will not throw enough money and treat companies with respect because they operate on the old-world Japan business model still but they will turn around and hire people to develop Virtual Boy. Instead of trying to develop a strong base of companies that can make good games for their system they would rather spend money hiring people to create the ‘amazing’ e-card reader. And that is why you see a plethora of titles for the Wii that are nothing more than a gimmick. When the GC-GBA link came out Nintendo was willing to give companies that produced games for the Gamecube that utilized this feature “extra benefits”. Nintendo has so little faith in any title that comes out for their systems that isn’t 1st party that they feel companies should utilize extra hardware to make their products interesting.

The Wii could be a great system if the games being released for it were produced with the mentality that innovative hardware could add to the experience of an innovative and solid game. Not that the game elements should add to the experience of the hardware. To hear Nintendo say that they don’t fully support Internet for gaming on a console because the console should be about sitting down and just playing games is laughable at this point.

The games that sucked were Excite Truck, Spiderman 3, and Red Steel. Now, being a hardcore Nintendo Fangirl it is very hard for me to talk down on Nintendo. We all know that they have weak 3rd party support. That (if anything) will be their ultimate downfall. I’m hoping all the time that they figure that out someday.

It’s like, Nintendo has never really let me down so I find myself trusting their decisions. But with this, it’s very verryyyy hard to trust whatever they are doing.

I am such an anti-stylus whore.

But having an added stylus way of navigating like on Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness is kind of a waste. But HEY!! It has two screens so it makes up for it XP