December 24, 2007

Point-Counterpoint?!

Hi all I'm one of the new contributors and I'll be posting something called point-counterpoint where josh and I "discuss" a wide variety of topics but they will usually pertain to gaming. So without further ado I give you point-counterpoint.

Our first topic: the Mii useless toy or brilliant creation?


Aaron: The Mii was a helpful addition to the Wii, It brought a customizable avatar into the Wii something not possible before.

Josh: ... But its useless!

Aaron: Josh, you're going to have to elaborate; Mii's allowed for a simple yet fun way for the gamer to express themselves. Is this useless?

Josh: Yes, not once have I ever needed a Mii for anything, and quite frankly, it's an utter waste of time to make them. They are just available options sometimes, but are never necessary

Aaron: Well what about Wii sports and Wii play?

Josh: They could easily have put in other characters, not to mention that you can always play with the premade Miis.

Aaron: The premade Miis don't look like anyone this allowed people to feel like they were in the game.

Josh: If anyone has found happiness in seeing a Mii that looks like them playing Wii tennis, they should be incinerated for naivety.

Aaron: Well they are a way to measure your brain in Big Brain Academy I remember you enjoyed that game did you not? They are like a character in Animal Crossing- not necessary but they are like a save file.

Josh: But using a customized Mii is not necessary, and you can easily use a premade Mii as a save file too. In fact, some people who get lower scores may not want to have their face attributed to them

Aaron: But in the case of a shared Wii it's easier to keep track of whose file is whose. For example Super Mario Galaxy uses Mii faces to show whose file is whose.

Josh: But it also uses the faces of familiar Nintendo characters.

Aaron: But there aren't 6 character faces so one will have to get reused.

Josh: Well, first of all, they are in different places and second of all, yes there are.

We didn't have enough time to finish, we hope you enjoyed this taste. So stay tuned for the conclusion of Point-Counterpoint #1

4 comments:

Jon Schneider said...

-spellchecked it.

For future reference, note that there's a spellcheck button in the Blogger interface, and it doesn't take long to do at all. It also makes the post look a lot better.

Anyway, nice post.

aaron said...

right... my bad, anyways thanks i'll keep it in mind for next post.

Amir S said...

Hmm that was pretty cool.

You guys should talk about a game next- I suggest KOTOR (mainly cuz their is so much to talk about--I was also going to say Assasin's Creed but squid already talked about it).

Unknown said...

toys are useless altogether. Really, we should be out playing with forests and stuff. I used to play games with trees and stuff. Now I just read mostly lol.