Gaemr rage has always been a thing (as these amusing usenet posts reacting to Metroid Prime prove), but social medias have developped to the point the obsessed 1% of the audience is much more vocal and immediatly visible. And that makes me wonder, how would self-proclaimed ~hrdc gamerz~ react to a radical genre shift like WarioWare today?
Of course, there's a big difference in context between 2003 and 2015. Nintendo's blue ocean strategy was in its infancy at its point, so there was little fear of ~casualz taking away our real videogamez~, and the last "traditional" Wario game was 2-years old at that point, so there wasn't the problem of having a franchise go on hiatus for half-a-decade and come back as a strange-looking spinoff. Otoh, I'm sure the internets ever-present tendency to reward only the crudest and most hyperbolic statements mean you would see nerd-rage direct at WW regardless of the context it was released in.
But whatever, I'm rambling. How do you think WarioWare would be received in today's internet landscape? Cautious optimism? Indifference? Revulsion?
(Maybe we could also dig up reactions to the announcement of the game. That could be funny...)
Of course, there's a big difference in context between 2003 and 2015. Nintendo's blue ocean strategy was in its infancy at its point, so there was little fear of ~casualz taking away our real videogamez~, and the last "traditional" Wario game was 2-years old at that point, so there wasn't the problem of having a franchise go on hiatus for half-a-decade and come back as a strange-looking spinoff. Otoh, I'm sure the internets ever-present tendency to reward only the crudest and most hyperbolic statements mean you would see nerd-rage direct at WW regardless of the context it was released in.
But whatever, I'm rambling. How do you think WarioWare would be received in today's internet landscape? Cautious optimism? Indifference? Revulsion?
(Maybe we could also dig up reactions to the announcement of the game. That could be funny...)
