Hi, this is the first real post on this blog, and it’s a bit silly, and about something that’s been covered by so many people it might die of asphyxiation, so let’s all consider this a warm-up round! I’m trying to get some stuff up here other than disclaimers (ps: ignore that this is a disclaimer), and I haven’t written anything outside of the Telltale forum and blog pages in months, and I actually wrote this entry back before GDC and then forgot about it, so be gentle. Anyway, without further ado… “The Wii is not ridiculous.”
I’m really glad the Wii remote isn’t totally ridiculous, but I wasn’t at first.
I’m sure that I’m like many other people in that, when the Wii remote was first unveiled, my brain was filled with all sorts of crazy and amazing (yet vague and undefined) ideas about how Nintendo’s new controller would let you do all sorts of never-before-seen things with interactive entertainment. Even the name “Revolution” implied that what we knew as games, as game systems, and as gamers would be turned on their head (and/or ear) and what came out the other side would be totally new.