THE hardcore Wii game we’ve been waiting for
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 11:19pm by Jake
You know it! A little too intense for me.
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September 4th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Game of the Year 2008!
September 4th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Any of my friends that buy this game will not be my friend anymore. You have to have no taste in gaming to buy this POS. Thank goodness for Disaster: Day of Crisis being announced. The more I see of Wii Music, the more I think Miyamoto had a terrible aneurysm.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I just can’t see the appeal. I’ve looked at it from every angle… but it doesn’t even seem like a toy, let alone a game. I mean, at least with a ball, there’s a correlation between how hard you throw it and how high it bounces. It seems like there’s no relation between what you do and what happens on the screen, short of pressing the buttons and waggling making the music go.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:13 am
EPIC “HUH???”
Please, please, please let The Conduit be good…
September 5th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Jake you dirty trickster.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:25 am
I didn’t even watch the video and I know it’s horrible.I was smart enough to look at the comments first to check if it was Wii Music!
September 5th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Lame music + no sense of accomplishment + ambiguity² = epic fail
September 5th, 2008 at 1:36 am
I’m strangely intrigued now…
September 5th, 2008 at 1:52 am
creating music isnt a sense of accomplishment? sad to be you, but why hate something just because it doesnt appeal to you. whats the point of wasting our time with your complaints. It only hurts us, doesnt help us.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:36 am
What is this sense of accomplishment of which you speak?
September 5th, 2008 at 8:52 am
No matter how hard I try, I still cant see myself playing this.
It seem so lame that I actually first thought it might be a joke.
In a weird way this makes me even more interested in it…uh
I must see the final product before making my mind up about it.
Really weird stuff…really weird…
September 5th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I agree with waltermh. If you don’t understand it just let the rest of us enjoy it. You know, the times when all games needed to appeal to the “hardcore, true gamer” are gone.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Uh, I’m not seeing any creation of music there, waltermh. Unless pressing the play button on my mp3 player counts as me creating music, because this seems to be just about as interactive as that. And someone else listing a complaint doesn’t hurt you or help you unless Nintendo actually does something as a result. Lighten up, Francis.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:53 am
you can record the music you make. My hope is that its similar to Mario Paint’s music recorder feature. Having all these instruments and sounds could make for some really neat compositions. But silly me, you have to be open minded first, and who’s open minded these days.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I still say that I’ll wait to see it for myself before making a judgment, and I still say that it is going to sell a bajillion copies because of the logo WIIMusic.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Wtf? This is the first time I’ve seen a trailer thing for Wii Music. All I can think of to say is WTF?
All she was doing was tapping the 1&2 buttons…. how is that a game? hardcore or otherwise… I just don’t understand… is it just a glorified media player that only plays rubbish music?
Are we sure this is a Miyamoto ‘game’? Seems more like a 50 Wii Point download (yes I did mean 50), not a Miyamoto classic… If this is what Nintendo are doing nowadays – I’m worried.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:46 am
If I had a toddler, this might be good for them.
That’s about it. This looks 100x more horrible then I expected.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:48 am
For any who have their panties in a bunch, I’ve played Wii Music. For about an hour. You cannot fail in the game, therefore you cannot achieve success, aka feel a sense of accomplishment.
Performing live music makes me feel a sense of accomplishment. Passing Guitar Hero and Rock Band on a challenging difficulty makes me feel a sense of accomplishment. Wii Music has lame music and no challenge.
Would it be so bad if Wii Fit ended up being the next Virtual Boy? I don’t think so. What would that be, like two duds from Nintendo in 30 years? Not a bad record. Even Apple has their Newtons once in a while. Chill out.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I don’t even need to necessarily have to have a sense of accomplishment to enjoy a concept like WiiMusic, Blake – I’d just like to get the feeling that something I’m doing, beyond mashing buttons and waggling like an idiot to make the music go, is having an effect on the output. This seriously seems like a glorified mp3 player, except with less enjoyable music.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
sure, I will tab that…Mii.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I get what they’re trying to achieve but… too little TOO LATE.
Here I was contemplating whether paying $10 for a glorified Visualizer (Audiosurf) was worth it but… $50 for something that’s even less interactive and not even an ounce as fun?
Off to shop at Steam.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
My main problem with WiiMusic, shallowness.
My main problem with WiiMusic haters, stupidness.
Seroiusly this is just retarded complaining, even the headline, man, are we back in that age in which we bash games we know little about, and no one of you has played? NO, because nobody is bashing MadWorld or DDOC, cuz theyre so hardcore! it makes my hardcore lack of brainism so hardcore fucking excited! You are hardcore boys, just the retarded kind.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I’m wonder how many of you have played with midi instruments? I’m also wondering if they will make a robust version of this?
It seems playing the music is very much like dancing to a beat with this game yet the beat is following your dance. I wish I was working so hard these days but I would have loved to try the interface out. So far they seem to have a timing interface going well here which could be cool for some people.
Yet if they let you use a scale of notes you could potential really creat your own songs.
Most midi high application let you select a sound producer and then use any type of midi device to make the music and the Wii mote could be used to do this. It is already being used by some form of electronic music performers.
The recording and layering of instruments and what options you have could change the game greatly. But what is funny is I think nintendo is only showing half of what they are going to do with this software. I mean if they let me use a midi track via SD card and then let me set the timing by preforming the song this would become a the sleep hit like mario paint.
But really I think I’m going to buy this just to piss off some guys like XCWarrior. I’d rather buy this and support some thing that actually lets you create some thing no matter how limited you are. I’ve played with Midi over the years and I don’t really respect GH3 since it doesn’t really teach you any thing about music other than pressing some buttons in line with cues. If they had a part where you could record an error then I would like that game a lot more because then you could make your own music with their samples.
All of this hate will just make more people buy it though. If you don’t like it then you should not respond nintendo will get the message when you don’t buy it. Let nintendo make what they want people if some one buys it then good for them. The only people keeping you from hardcore games is the third parties. Making a peace of software like this that will sale is even harder to do. The casuals will not buy any thing believe me MS has tried that.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
And for those who say that you can’t fail or succed in the game…
Think for yourself…
In GTA one of the best things to do was trying to get all the stars, yet when you did no SUCCES screen or WIN bright sign apeared in front of you. It still was fun. I think this free-gaming could be onto something maybe it’s the start of an era in which we no longer need the approval of a machine in order to enjoy software, in which no longer we need achievments to play the most out of a game, in which it’s not about winning or losing, but about fun, or at least trying to have fun. For me, a musician, someone who enjoys music, a game that lets you play 40 or so instruments and arrenge those sounds…could be great. And just so you know GH sucks and FEELS nothing like an actual guitar. You know, a real one.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Creative software is the future!
LBP and WiiMusic rule!
read XKCD!
September 5th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
For those attacking Blake…
I don’t think people criticizing Wii Music aren’t doing so because of the game’s casual-focus or lack of gore. Casual games do NOT necessarily equate terrible ones; the Wii has played host to several enjoyable casual titles that have gone over well with the hardcore audience and have been previewed, promoted and praised here on Infendo.
Games get praised for being good. They get slammed for being poor.
Wii Music involves the following: push the buttons at any pace you’d like to make the song go at any pace you’d like. That’s it. Conversely, games like Disaster, The Conduit and MadWorld are getting praised not because of their “hardcore” content, but because they: a.) have objectives, b.) present a challenge, c.) provide accomplishment and e.) are made well.
Blake has never bashed a casual game for being casual. But if you’re upset because we bash bad games for being bad, then…guilty as charged.
September 5th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Why thank you, Derek. It feels good to be understood.
Your last line makes me feel proud as a critic.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Did any of you consider this might be a decoy so that Nintendo’s competitors get the wrong idea what they’re up to? Maybe there’s more to this game than meets the eye.
September 6th, 2008 at 8:49 am
fail. creating music is an accomplishmet. i play real instruments. you’re not creating dick in wii music, no more than you’re busting your own phat rhymes when you played parappa. seriously, wtf.
this ‘game’ looks like the hindenberg of the wii lineup.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
This game won’t interfere with any real games… but I keep hoping it’s some elaborate joke the Nintendo execs have been pulling for the past two or three years. Like it’s just a way to cover up a new Zelda game… seriously, they can’t possible see this game as the next great profitable game! It’s not even a game, it’s just a noise-maker. Games have challenges and goals. This has buttons that make noise that may or may not pass for music. The only way I’ll forgive this game is if it’s a wiiware for less than $10.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
it REALLY looked like she was playing a flute didnt it
that video was the worst Ive ever seen all she did was press 1 and 2
it could be good and we dont know it but for now its an epic failue and epic failure is very rare in Nintendo case
September 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Whoa! She looks like she’s having fun! Look at her! She can’t contain her excitement! She looks so happy! lol
September 11th, 2008 at 11:42 am
WAIT A MINUTE! What about Electroplankton?? Did everyone hated that “game” too? No scores, no recordings, no nothing… just you twitching the controls to make cool music come out of your DS. Turn it off and it’s over, with no record of what you did.
Isn’t this the same type of “game”?
September 19th, 2008 at 2:24 am
LOL the music is horrible.