Is Wii Sports really the game of the year?

NBOY39

I recently read this argument about the recent Time Magazine here.

http://teenagefanboy.blogspot.com/2007/01/is-wii-sports-really-best-game-of-year.html

I was wondering what everyone else thinks. Personally, I thought Wii Sports was the 3rd or 4th best game on the Wii last year, let alone for the whole system.

Time has a lot of weight in the news world, I just don't really want them talking about my video games.

Kazhiim

NBOY39 wrote:

Time has a lot of weight in the news world

But they made you person of the year

apotheos

Kazhiim wrote:

NBOY39 wrote:

Time has a lot of weight in the news world

But they made you person of the year

And I name this post reply of the year.

Kazhiim

apotheos wrote:

Kazhiim wrote:

NBOY39 wrote:

Time has a lot of weight in the news world

But they made you person of the year

And I name this post reply of the year.

And I name your declaration "decision of the year"!

Seriously though, it's a magazine talking about videogames. What do they know?

Sterica

apotheos wrote:

Kazhiim wrote:

NBOY39 wrote:

Time has a lot of weight in the news world

But they made you person of the year

And I name this post reply of the year.

Shit. Well, there's always 2008.

And Wii Sports is fun, but not Game of the Year. It's definitely a worthy freebie, especially after going without pack-ins at launch for so long.

Sol

Thread Title wrote:

Is Wii Sports really the game of the year?

Yes.

apotheos

I would pay a lot of money for Wiisports Tennis with an actual game behind it.

Sterica

By Game of the Year, do we mean solely for the Wii or all consoles?

Because...you might argue it for Wii, but not all electronic gaming venues as a whole.

slash000

Time Magazine has a different perspective on videogames. The type of perspective that Nintendo is directly trying to appeal to with games like Wii Sports.

So of course it makes sense.




Also, link the article, not the goddamn blog.

DarkPrimus

Kazhiim wrote:

NBOY39 wrote:

Time has a lot of weight in the news world

But they made you person of the year

Just pandering to their audience.

Ninja Bot

When you look at it from an every man's perspective rather than a gamer's perspective Wii Sports is definitely a lot cooler and more inviting than Zelda or Gears of War. To non gamers those games just look like confusing hyperactive timesinks for geeks, while Wii Sports is a lot simpler and dude it's like you swing the controller and your dude swings the racket how cool is that?!

NBOY39

Time declared it game of the year for all consoles.

I guess Wii Sports might of been the most innovative game on any console this year.

apotheos

slash000 wrote:

Also, link the article, not the goddamn blog.

Speaking directly to the blog post, Golf is a lot better than he thinks it is.

Kazhiim

The thing I like about wii sports is that my family can, at the very least, bowl and golf with one wiimote. And goddamn, additional wiimotes are hard to find.

DarkPrimus

apotheos wrote:

slash000 wrote:

Also, link the article, not the goddamn blog.

Speaking directly to the blog post, Golf is a lot better than he thinks it is.

It is definately one of the weaker games, though.

I like it more than Boxing, if only because I still can't get the hang of certain moves in it.

syndalis

I would not call it the best game of the year.

But it is by far and away the most accessible. It reaches across the aisles to non gamers unlike anything I have seen since pong.

leaf

apotheos wrote:

Kazhiim wrote:

NBOY39 wrote:

Time has a lot of weight in the news world

But they made you person of the year

And I name this post reply of the year.

And you, mod of the year. We should also play dragons' gold again sometime.

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slash000

Golf is glorious, and my favorite Wii Sport.


Also, Wii Sports has done a lot. Anyone can pick it up and intuitively play it and have fun, no matter who they are.


Gears of War, Zelda.. They may be the most refined games in their genre, but what have they really managed to really accomplish besides being fucking awesome games? It's like what Tycho said about Gears of War.

apotheos

Kazhiim wrote:

The thing I like about wii sports is that my family can, at the very least, bowl and golf with one wiimote. And goddamn, additional wiimotes are hard to find.

I got 3 extras for Christmas. My wife had a hell of a time with it until EB Games said "just preorder them" and while they came one at a time they all came by xmas.

I'd imagine this is not a frequently preordered item.

Kazhiim

Wii play is too far off. I WANT POOL.

Sol

It's not the BEST game of the year. But it's the game of the year, to me atleast, Wii Sports did something that no other game up to it has done and that is get every person that has come in contact with it to play it, and want it. Sure you can have an awesome experience with TP or Gears of War and they're better games but no other game had such an impact as Wii Sports did .

slash000

I just want a golf game exactly like Wii Sports but with more courses and clubs. I might have to settle for Super Swing, but I really like how Wii Golf works.

Sol wrote:

It's not the BEST game of the year. But it's THE game of the year

Sterica

Wii Sports exists to show you potential. I mean, we already have posts talking about awesome sport X and Y would be if they were only fleshed out better.

And once some publisher (perhaps even Nintendo) announces an upcoming tennis or baseball game, you'll think back to Wii Sports and get really excited.

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ShimSham

apotheos wrote:

slash000 wrote:

Also, link the article, not the goddamn blog.

Speaking directly to the blog post, Golf is a lot better than he thinks it is.

It's basically all I ever feel like playing on my Wii.

Having 4 player Wii Golf tourneys with some buds, nothing better.

apotheos

leaf wrote:

apotheos wrote:

Kazhiim wrote:

NBOY39 wrote:

Time has a lot of weight in the news world

But they made you person of the year

And I name this post reply of the year.

And you, mod of the year. We should also play dragons' gold again sometime.

Dood you just took me waaaay back.

PAX074life.

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Darlan

I wonder if every Wii owner already having so many Sports in one package will hurt the sales of future sport games. I know people who genuinely like and watch the real deals will buy Tiger Woods '08 Wii and whatnot, but what about gamers, like myself, who aren't really into sports? I haven't managed to track down a Wii yet, but I can see myself saying "well, I already have a Golf game on WiiSports...eh."

slash000

I'm a fucking pro at Wii Golf. Me and my father.

We get only get birdies and par all the time.


Last time my dad touched a videogame was a flight sim on his Windows 3.1 machine.

Darlan wrote:

I wonder if every Wii owner already having so many Sports in one package will hurt the sales of future sport games. I know people who genuinely like and watch the real deals will buy Tiger Woods '08 Wii and whatnot, but what about gamers, like myself, who aren't really into sports? I haven't managed to track down a Wii yet, but I can see myself saying "well, I already have a Golf game on WiiSports...eh."

If you're as sold on a Wii Sports sport as I am on Golf or Bowling or Tennis, believe me, you'll be dying for a full fledged version of the sports game.

TheySlashThem

Wii Sports is indeed pretty damn fun.

And NBOY, this is your second thread on these forums in a very short time, on your first day, linking the same blog.

That is suspicious.

mntorankusu

Darlan wrote:

I wonder if every Wii owner already having so many Sports in one package will hurt the sales of future sport games. I know people who genuinely like and watch the real deals will buy Tiger Woods '08 Wii and whatnot, but what about gamers, like myself, who aren't really into sports? I haven't managed to track down a Wii yet, but I can see myself saying "well, I already have a Golf game on WiiSports...eh."

I haven't played with a single person (including a few older people, and otherwise non-gamer people) who didn't think the amount of holes Wii Spolf had was way too few. If any of them got a Wii, they would probably buy a new golf game when it came out.

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apotheos

slash000 wrote:

I'm a fucking pro at Wii Golf. Me and my father.

We get only get birdies and par all the time.

No eagles? Pshaw.

Elessar Elfstone

While I think Wii Sports is definately not the best game this season, I can see it being game of the year. I cannot count the times I've brought my Wii to a friends house, shown him / her Wii bowling, and hearing the reaction "omg thats the coolest thing ever". Maybe thats more of a reaction to the Wii itself, but Wii sports shows off its console in the best possible manner, and isnt that what every game tries to do in the end?

apotheos

I really couldn't stomach the loli, but Super Swing Golf did pique my interest.

Kazhiim

I wouldn't mind a combat fishing game on the wii

smash your trawler into your opponent to throw him off-center and lose that big catch!

Go online head-to-head and co-op with a captain and a fisherman for double the fun!

TheSonicRetard

In my opinion, it's not even the best game on the console this year.

Zelda GOTY for me. Easily.

slash000

apotheos wrote:

slash000 wrote:

I'm a fucking pro at Wii Golf. Me and my father.

We get only get birdies and par all the time.

No eagles? Pshaw.

Well, occasionally we get Eagles, yeah. But mostly we get Birdies and pars.

My brother got a near-hole-in-one, but the ball bounced out of the cup.

GanonFLCL

I personally have never bought a sports game on a console since the Genesis/SNES era, and I can honestly say that I would probably purchase a 'real' version of any of the Wii Sports, when I'm less strapped for cash. Wii Baseball is great, but I want to do so much more with it.

The only sport that I think is absolutely 100% perfect as is, is Wii Bowling. I Bowling so much.

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