Tired of the same old games

Next up, to be released this summer in Japan, is "Vip Ripple", which takes a player's downloaded digital photos and populates them with creatures corresponding to the colors found on the downloaded image. Play revolves around rescuing these creatures. That's the gist of the game, but like many of Matsuura's creations, words don't doesn't do it justice. It needs to be played. The incubator Matsuura will be honored for his accomplishments in combining music with video games next week at the annual Game Developers Conference.

If Matsuura represents one of the industry's most eclectic minds, then the Game Developer's Conference, or GDC, represents the industry's "island of lost toys" where such individuals annually gather.

Besides honoring Matsuura, the conference will host, among other things, the Experimental Gameplay Workshop, an informal pitch session where designers introduce prototypes featuring off-the-wall game play.

The point of the workshop, according to workshop proctor, Jonathan Blow, a columnist for "Game Developer Magazine," is not so much to produce next year's best-selling hit, but really to expand the idea of game play in video games. Matsuura's hip-hop calligraphy game "Mojibribbon" was an entry at the Experimental Game Workshop as was "M. D Countdown," a game where players used wireless-enabled PDAs to defuse a "bomb" hidden somewhere in an actual building. But the workshop is not about knocking the current blockbusters in celebration of the weird.

Because the workshop is only in its third year, it's too early to determine whether it has had an effect on commercial games.

Games often take longer than three years to develop. But the workshop represents a good effort by those in the industry to reconsider what makes a great game. The results, which harnessed a projector, screen and software designed specifically for the event, ranged from shadow-based Pong to the cryptically-named "Let's Get German" where players were required to strike various poses to the beat of a soundtrack.

The Wii U isn't selling as well as hoped because consumers aren't being blown away by games like they used to be, according to Nintendo's Satoru Iwata. For some reason I don't think you said it very politely lol. OT: The problem isn't the IPs themselves, I still get giddy over a new 3d mario and console zelda, but more of the genre they are used in. Each 3d mario and zelda have always felt fresh or at least different from the last but one like New Super Mario Bros U just don't add anything extra from previous entries.

When the one for the Wii added co-op it made essentially the same game it has always been better and different to warrant a purchase. What I took from the article was this exactly, the gameplay needs to be more innovative more so than creating a new IP itself.

Being tired of the same old games is the reason why I game on Nintendo consoles more than others now. I'm tired of shooters, ancient hack and slash games and gorefests. I'm tired of people trying to spin statements out of context. It doesn't matter how many new I. The real issue with them is that they just want Nintendo to stop using their popular I. What they really mean when they ask this is, "When will Nintendo get rid of all of their popular titles that dwarf the games we like more in sells and give our preferred companies a chance to be number 1 in sales so we can stop being bitter our games not being on top.

They just resent Nintendo's success. Those aren't Wii U games though. I understand your point, however. Getting a console because the company makes the games you want is as good a reason as any. Perhaps they'll offer something that appeals to me enough to buy their console, down the road.

It's true but people still buy the same old games so they will keep making them :. Most people tend to get annoyed when you speak the truth about something that was an investment! Who want to feel like they bet on the wrong horse? We all have taken that route at some point. This just proves that at some point Nintendo is going to have to switch up their tactics at some point, because you can only try a formula for so long, before someone come up with a better formula.

How can a person say someone's words are taken out of context, unless the person themselves say their words were taken out of context? Are we now able to read people's minds? That the problem with us as gamers, we automatically assume that we understand what a person is trying to convey, before we give them the opportunity to clarify things. Notice I said "We", because at some point we have all been guilty of it.

The problem isn't really with the same old games; people still buy them in bucketloads for the 3DS. The problem is the Wii U. It has no identity, and Nintendo's attempt to make lighting strike in the same place by focusing on the control scheme has failed. Ultimately, there's still no reason for the consumer to invest in the Wii U's gamepad. That is not even the issue here. Watch a ship get caught in a storm, and Poseidon rise from the water when you start the game. Oct 27, Diamond Dragon We started with the release of Diamond Dragon — a 5-reel, line slot game with a fantasy twist.

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