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[Wii] Two Years Later - Discuss
maximumzero
I...wait, what?New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
I...wait, what?New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
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So in a month we'll be coming up on the second anniversary of Nintendo's little white money printer. Remember when they first revealed the name and we were all like WTF? And then they revealed the remote and we were like WTF?
And then they launched the thing and it quickly blew past everyone else in sales while all the people that participated in the PS3 launch riots and subsequent failed eBay sales returned their console?
What's your favorite game? What games are you looking forward to? Discuss.
I personally feel that Nintendo is doing everything right this generation. They put out a great piece of hardware at a great price that strived to be different--and it's paying off. Nintendo could be the only developer for the thing and there'd still be enough software for it to be worth a purchase.
And I feel that by the end of the generation WiiWare & the Virtual Console will make up the best software lineup out of the three console's respective Downloadable Game Services.
Will Wright wrote:Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii – the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement. Bu tht eWii feels like a major jump – not that the graphics are more powerful, but that it hits a completely different demographic. In some sense I see the Wii as the most significant thing that's happened, at least on the console side, in quite a while.
So in a month we'll be coming up on the second anniversary of Nintendo's little white money printer. Remember when they first revealed the name and we were all like WTF? And then they revealed the remote and we were like WTF?
And then they launched the thing and it quickly blew past everyone else in sales while all the people that participated in the PS3 launch riots and subsequent failed eBay sales returned their console?
What's your favorite game? What games are you looking forward to? Discuss.
I personally feel that Nintendo is doing everything right this generation. They put out a great piece of hardware at a great price that strived to be different--and it's paying off. Nintendo could be the only developer for the thing and there'd still be enough software for it to be worth a purchase.
And I feel that by the end of the generation WiiWare & the Virtual Console will make up the best software lineup out of the three console's respective Downloadable Game Services.
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The virtual console is one of the better anythings ever. Without it, my Wii would be sold so fast.
awful, butts-out-the-ass game selection
Except for a few golden standouts.
But much
I was about to sell my Wii a few weeks ago, but the Nintendo press conference gave me more hope. Also it's the only game system I can get my wife to touch and I don't want to lose that.
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Other than this, it is a really big paperweight.
Final Fantasy XI -> Carbuncle - Samash
The wife factor is a big one and why we bought the thing in the first place. She likes Rock Band, Viva Pinata, and LittleBigPlanet though so I'm doing okay there still.
As for games, I gotta give a shout out to Boom Blox. Man, it was great to see a third party actually get it, you know? It's not my favorite Wii game but it's really something special.
Examples of this include Baroque, Zack and Wiki, Sam and Max, Monster Hunter 3, Klonoa remake, SNK Classic collections, 2D shmups, etc.
All golden, and you won't find them on PS3 or 360. Why? Well, point-and-click ones for obvious reasons, but I don't see why some of these games can't be released on systems that could obviously handle them. Porting cost? Who knows. But I have a Wii, so no sense really complaining that I can't play Baroque on PS3.
Also you have the old standbys, Twilight Princess, No More Heroes, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, Wario Land: Shake It, Okami, etc.
A lot of ports it receives from other systems are pretty cool, too. Bully and The Godfather were both pretty neat with Wii controls.
Plus the fucking Virtual Console! Way more fleshed out than any classic offerings on PSN and XBLA, and WiiWare is certainly catching up.
I guess you could say I'm really fucking happy with the Wii.
I'm known as the gamer in my group of friends; they all play, but I'm known as the guy with the Wii and the PS3, I have the instruments for Rock Band, etc. I assemble all of our play sessions. But my house is crammed, and so I might have to take my systems to a friend's house, a friend that has an SDTV. Tried playing the Bioshock demo the other day and it was awful. Playing Dead Space on an SDTV, the text is a jumbled mess. Stick in No More Heroes or Super Mario Galaxy on an SDTV, and it still looks wonderful.
Yes some of the games are fun, and no graphics aren't everything, but I'll be damned if some of the games didn't suffer even with the composite cables.
And the Wright comment might not be so valid anymore since, if I remember correctly, it was made at the height of WII-mania. . .we're now two years on, and I have yet to play a game I would have bought the WII full price for. But that's just me.
Outside of the initial disappointment that I didn't get to beat the last level of No More Heroes I haven't even noticed that its been gone.
There's your problem. :P
And while I love the Wii, Will Wright's opinion means jack shit to me. Man hasn't made a game yet that I've found even remotely interesting.
Indeed. People that complain about there being no Wii games obviously don't pay very much attention. Although to be fair, I tend to think that the 360 doesn't have very many games worth purchasing, as my Wii library outweighs my 360 library 5 to 1.
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It was worth it.
I also picked up No More Heroes and Trauma Center: New Blood with it, which were also enjoyable.
Since then I've gotten Mega Man 9, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, and Geometry Wars Galaxies.
It's a system that has great potential for quirky games down the line, since apparently anyone and everyone can release whatever they want on it with no drama whatsoever(take notes, Sony).
I think it's going to become the console for shmups, if Shikigami 3 and the forthcoming Ultimate Shooting Collection(Radio Allergy/Chaos Field/Karous) is any indication.
I'm also looking forward to Fatal Frame 4, Madworld, and No More Heroes 2(of course).
They also did online gaming wrong, again. That has to change.
Otherwise known as the best system ever made by human hands. Think about it. Take everything about the Gamecube and double it.
Well, except total lifetime sales of course. That figure will probably be more than five times the total LTD of the Gamecube.
Best games of any current home console too.
Wii Sports - A++ Really shows the logic behind the design decisions of the system / remote
Mario Galaxy - A++ IMHO the same "wow" factor as mario64
RE4 - C Don't get me wrong here it's a great game, but definitely been there done that
Wii Play - D boring games
Mario Kart - C Boring, nothing new to me
Super Smash Bros - B cool concept but the terrible online situation just blows it for me
No more heros - A Great game just never finished it because of the stellar titles on the other two at the time
There's more but none come to mind. Overall, I enjoy it at parties and with my fiance, but it tends to gather dust.
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But the Wii sits faithfully next to my the small TV I brought with and it helpful when I have an hour of so of free time. I just started replaying Metroid Prime 3 - that game is fantastic.
And once the next Zelda comes out, my life will essentially shut down for a week.
Take notes next time, Sony and Microsoft. The PS4 and Xbox 720 better let me play ALL PS1, 2, 3, OXbox and 360 games.
This goes for Nintendo as well, though, if it still has motion control. If not, it better at least play GC discs.
I've definitely found that assigning controls you need to use regularly to waggle is a bad idea. Save it for flourishes or rather special moves, like in No More Heroes.
So rarely we see wisdom like this.
Well yeah.
But you wouldn't really regret selling anything for more than what it was worth.
This is why I'll always keep mine.
Still, the 360 not being 100% backwards compatible is silly.
This is the reason I didn't really enjoy Zelda (on Wii) and Okami. It doesn't bother some people, but I'd like motion to be used somewhat sparingly.
Still, I was able to play the GC version of the same Zelda on the Wii.
I'm the biggest Nintendo fan around here and I'd sell my Wii if I could get more than what it is worth, including of course all of the Wii Shop stuff I have tied to it.
Because then I could just go back, rebuy everything, and then get some more on top of it. :P
In fact I did sell my first Wii with SMB and TP in January '07 for over $500.
So does the PS2 but I don't hear anyone complaining about that.
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The TG16 selection alone on the VC has more Shmups than the 360 and PS3 combined I think.
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And I have no idea about the cables. Which ever the ones are that makes the jaggies look like crispy sharp jaggies.
The GC version was just as good, but the world mirror thing blew my mind for a few hours.
And yes, if fact, I DO own both version of TP. Worth it.
But then again, it always felt that TG16 had more quality shumps than any consoles before or after it.
Well, considering the 360 and the PS3 have none, that isn't too difficult.
Though that's a completely different story in Japan. Their 360 has Shikigami 3, a Raiden game, etc.
And the odds of SCEA letting a company release a shmup on their system are somewhere between zero and nil.