Comments on: Wii Aren’t Impressed: Call of Duty World at War and Nintendo’s E3 Press Conference

By: Fayaz

Fayaz — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:42:22 +0000

Ross is God!

By: Ross Arbour

Ross Arbour — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:01:53 +0000

This was written long before Mad World existed.

Mad World is fiction, not based on a real war. As such, I take the subject matter lighter than a virtual representation of something non-fiction that happened to real people in real life.

I stand by my assertion that grilling the live flesh off human beings with a flamethrower, as it happened to real human beings, isn’t co-op family fun.

By: critter

critter — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:32:58 +0000

Ross Arbour – Ross i understand what you mean but in reality this wasnt a family show this is e3 this is to show up coming games. as its already out so it really dosent matter now.

Just cause its on a nintendo console dosent nesccairly mean there going to show just e games for everyone.

if i were you give you wartning to madworld since that is top over volient not taking seriouly and made by fromer clover stuiods (platiume games) is the developer.

madworld is black,white,yellow, and a hole lot of red

By: Dr.Zoidberg

Dr.Zoidberg — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:45:00 +0000

I was really disappointed at the differences between this game for xbox and wii
theres no tanks in wii or even stages that have tanks so that leaves you with about 6 stages to play on wifi (i havent started campaign yet) but at the very least they could have left the stages playable without the tanks
if you have the option, definitely go witht eh xbox version

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:20:26 +0000

It is kinda ridiculous to say your offended at the way they showed them enjoying the game. Its a game. So there is a huge difference between Gears 2 and World at war because one is made up and the other is based on real events? Let me say that again, it is based on WWII. As far as I know the characters and events are made up and fit into that World War 2 storyline. Its not like like your following the true story of real soldiers. Your just playing some made up world war 2 scenarios. A flamethrower barvecues your enemy regardless of what game. So because this one is based on history it is not ok to enjoy it? Ridiculous. Oh and any comparisons saying real war is not fun are also ridiculous. If real war was fun people would be signing up for the army and not playing a videogame.

By: E-Zibit

E-Zibit — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:19:59 +0000

i like shooting things, and i jump for joy when i kill people in CoD.
:/

By: Auz

Auz — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:41:39 +0000

Great, thoughtful post. It’s a shame to see the degraded quality of thought from some of the responses. I guess some people can’t disagree anymore without a dose of pointless venom as their catalyst.

In any event, I do agree that the zeal with which the presentation was performed was disconcerting. I personally think that many of the activities performed with mouse and keyboard in shooters are brought home to me in a more real way once employed with the Nintendo control scheme. Odd that such a small difference as one’s input mechanism can modify the nature of their emotions towards a game.

Thanks again for your post.

By: Ross Arbour

Ross Arbour — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:39:11 +0000

@Mitch: yep, quite a bit of feedback. Unfortunate indeed, as I never said it sucked; I merely took issue with the nature it was demoed on stage, given the event’s historical significance.

By: Mitchell Dyer

Mitchell Dyer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:45:02 +0000

People are interpreting this as “CoD sucks!” more so than anything, it seems. Unfortunate.

By: Ross Arbour

Ross Arbour — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:54:48 +0000

@Josh:
I too jump for joy when a Combine feels the wrath of my gravity gun, but the combine are not real people, Gordon is not a real person, the whole story is fiction. I was just saying that when something is real (like war), and in this case, Japanese soldiers were burned alive with flamethrowers, it shouldn’t be treated as another Wii Sports,

To your last point, devs should stop making games based on real life wars. This is one way to approach it, the other is, we can progress the medium to handle these serious conflicts (imagine if nobody made films based on real wars).

I believe Nintendo misrepresented the seriousness of WWII.

Thanks for reading.
Ross