Hey sean. Hope you had a good day yesterday with your family :)
I have just read your new entry and it’s very sad to see how the successor to the console that sold more than the PS2 and any other Nintendo console before, is forgotten that way.But was expected. How on earth they even though that “Face raiders” will be the next Wii sports?! Or they delusional or just plain stupid. I would like to think that Nintendo may learn their lessons but seeing their Modus operandi these past years I really doubt it. It’s funny how desperate they were to defeat sony that they are now pretty much like them.
I have to admit that Mario kart 7 was the game that made me buy a 3DS. I still play that game and is the 3DS game I like the most of all of my small collection. Still, I couldn’t agreed more with your criticisms about the game. The game it’s still fun but most of the new tracks are lazy (wuhu island? seriously?), they lack modes like a single player VS mode which I play on the wii and the DS, the online mode doesn’t feature the opyion to play with people in the same continent, only international and that gaves me a lot of connection issues. The kites were dumb and useless, only there for the dumb 3D gimmick that no one gives a damn. At least the local vs game is still great.
The thing is, I feel that this game was rushed. Isn’t funny that they announced more about the game just a few days apart from the price cut last year? also, Retro Studios was only assist them with the DK track and they ended up making the classic tracks (I have to admit they are more fun than the new ones). It’s like they were desperate for having it for the holidays and meet their sales expectations with their investors (and we all know how that went). It has the sales it deserved, which it’s sad.
Anyway, just wanted to give you my two cents about MK7, a game I like but could have been better.
Also, the year it’s about to end and I wanted to say thanks for another great year with your blog and posts. I remembered you on christmas eve when I was having an argument with my brother. He and I love movies but we started to have very different point of views about cinema. He is all for indie cinema, indie filmmakers, anti-mainstream films and “educate audiences” while I argued that movies are products that have to make a job and if the movie fails it’s not the audiences’ fault but the filmmakers for not doing their jobs. The product in question was the new Hobbit movie which I told him was a very good movie and very fun and people liked it but he is against watching it because it was “dumbed down” for the audiences. Keep in mind that we both read the book before. I told him that on the contrary, it was very well adapted and that there was nothing wrong to attract mainstream audiences to this universe material. He got upset because he “rather don’t see that movie that making it for the mainstream at all”. That somehow reminded me of the hardcore gamers that rather had a game dissapear that redesign it to attract more people.
The funny thing is that not so many years ago, I would agreed with him but reading your blog made me change the ways I see movies, books, games and heck even music. Even when there’s a movie I don’t like, if I see that mainstream audiences likes it, I watch it again and see what the movie did good, what did wrong and what could do better. I like this new person I became because it is more grounded in reality that the former self that bought lots and lots of indie artsy films and were there collecting dusts but kept them because they were “art”. I have to say that I have saved money thanks to you ;)
Have yourself a great 2013. See ya!
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They probably got you to buy all those indie films because “if you buy these films, you become more sophisticated and intellectual than people who do not…” I’m sure that may be driving gamers to keep buying games they never play.
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Go into any academic professor’s office, where they have bookshelves stuffed with books, and ask: “Have you read ALL these books?” (pointing around the room). They’ll laugh and say no. They haven’t even glanced at most of them. They keep buying books they don’t read for the same reason the rest of us buy stuff we don’t use. It’s funny.
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