I don't own any of the games I first got when I got my Wii (for one hell of a price), not including Wii Sports of course since thats bundled in. I've completed and sold them, although I have re-bought Super Mario Galaxy since that was sold for financial reasons. Anyway for a long time all I owned was Mario Kart, Brawl and a Godzilla game that I maintain is NOT BROKEN!!! Aaaanyway... recently I've picked up House of the Dead: Overkill, Deadly Creatures and MadWorld in one month... so of course I do think the Wii has potential but it really needs more creative concepts, I mean another game I recently got, Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars which critics thought was alright but not great was actually a great concept with very good mechanics.

So the Wii has become fun for me as a hardcore but not fanboyish about Nintendo gamer but thats it? All my other systems have much larger collections...

I recently purchased the supposedly great "StarCraft", along with the corresponding expansion pack "Brood War". For someone who has played PC strategies from Myth to Total War, why has it taken me so long to play this named "classic", let alone now and making me put everything in "quotes"? Ignoring the later, the reason being previous buys. I didn't normally buy older games until I realised I still play Myth and Age of Empires because they're fun and graphical charming/artistically designed so I've recently gone back and started playing more. WarCraft III was first from Blizzard because I got it for free from a BOGOF offer and I played World of WarCraft. Now let me say WarCraft III is a great RTS title so naturally I would go beyond that and BAM, StarCraft. Now its a great titles, not as charming graphically and sounding as Age of Empires I and II but still great BUT I WILL NEVER PLAY ONLINE.

I don't know how good I am against humans... maybe good because I'm (not bragging hopefully) excellent at many RTS and RTT games online. The reason being simply the lack of fun games I've heard about. If you play properly you play to win and win only or are Korean... and if not they use rush tactics IE Zerging... so why bother? Its far to competitive it seems now, like how China ruined pig pong... sorry if I'm sounding racist. I'm all for competitive games but to this extent... nah. I'll stick to offline and lan games... unless anyone wants to play plausibly then drop me a line.

NOTE: Being the rant of all rants I will not be checking for typos or spelling mistakes.

Wii, wii, wii, wii... thats all I'm hearing. Theres nothing wrong with the Wii, it has great games and will have more to come, but the problem is along with the Wii comes the casual gaming. Now let there be casual gamers, let them play by all means, but don't think you can forget about ACTUAL GAMERS! Seriously, a hardcore gamer is NOT someone who plays for freakishly long periods, because a casual gamer can do that to as a cocky Nintendo guy once said, no a hardcore gamer is someone who plays games... regardless of console, regardless of genre, regardless of critics opinion... that is a hardcore gamer, that is a real gamer. Games are so close to becoming an established and respected art form... casual gaming will not do this. It might bring respect to gaming but not the respect it wants. Casual will be like how you respect sports as an activity. No, we want art status, casual won't help that. Making more and more and more casual games for casual audiences will not make more money either. Think about it, a casual gamer is someone who will buy a game due to an advert yelling "WII FIT WII FIT!" while a hardcore gamer will sell his own organs to get so and so IV because he spent all his money and A, B and C last week. There are only so many people, many will buy once and never again. Yes the casual gaming audience is MUCH LARGER but will only make the most money in the SHORT TERM. People ate up Zelda, Galaxy and Brawl for the Wii and will do so next time... will others eat up Wii Fit plus even if they're healthy? And of course the casual gamer will kill the best of the best. Beyond Good or Evil 2 is being made casual... enough has been said on that one. More money, more sh*t... so, casual games. AND THE MEDIA IS TOTALLY FOR IT AND DEGRADES ACTUAL GAMING FOR BEING HARDCORE DESPITE THE FACT THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS!!! My main reason for all this hate is due to Nintendo, all they cared about was expanding the market and not console warring but now they're sudden'y doing well and the smug cloud suffercates the conferences... that all it is, smug developers and CEOs... given I'm not arsed to spell his name even slightly, the Mario inventor (you know who) is losing his touch to, to busy waving his arms aroud for the public, even though we know the best game require only the slighest twitch of the wrist... its sad really because while its great that games like GTA IV and MGS4 will win many awards, the mainstream non-gaming press will suck Wii Fit's cock dry as if the later two weren't even slightly good...

Dan Houser and Yahtzee were right!

NOTE: Now that I've calmed down, due to the profanity and hate, I'll apologise if it caused offense or is against GameSpots rules...