Wii Discussion Thread

[Rich]

Mario galaxy - not mad on the way gravity works in the first few levels. Maybe when the mood takes me I'll sit down, play some more and get into it.

Excite truck - don't like the controls. Just not into it - i think a driving game needs a fixed steering column to in any way imitate driving.

[Stomski]

Jul 9, 2008 16:19:44 GMT @zudobug said:

What?
One of the best Zelda games ever made if not THE best and you haven't played it? I liked it so much I've completed all 100% of the game about five of six times over.

Surely you're underselling it here? I thought it's reputation was THE best game of all time, not just limited to the Zelda games??

[Deleted]

Okay, maybe I am. Its certainly better than every PS2 and XBox game I've ever played and, despite having graphics that seem a little out-of-date to today's standards it wins hands down on a number of Gamecube games as well including its successor The Wind Waker.

[Cullen]

Man the sized down E3 isn't what it used to be. Watched Nintendo's presentation earlier and it was so fucking boring. A far cry from 2006 when it felt the internet cracked in two from the awesome.

Still at least we got some solid Animal Crossing news. Out this year apparently. So 2010 in Europe then!

[Cullen]

Jul 10, 2008 18:14:40 GMT @zudobug said:

Okay, maybe I am. Its certainly better than every PS2 and XBox game I've ever played and, despite having graphics that seem a little out-of-date to today's standards it wins hands down on a number of Gamecube games as well including its successor The Wind Waker.

Oooh Zelda talk! I don't know if you'll like OoT, Stom, now you've played Twilight Princess. TP is essentially OoT++. It was groundbreaking at the time but I don't think it will have aged well, but I haven't replayed OoT since I initially played it, god, 10 years ago. I felt the second half of the game was significantly inferior to the first. Definitely not my favourite Zelda game (Link to the Past is gaming perfection in my book), and not even in my top 10 favourite games. Overrated.

[Rich]

Been reading about, but didn't see, the nintendo show. Upgrading the wiimote is good imo; it was never going to be perfect first time out so all the people slagging it off as a cash-in are daft. But, does it plug into the bottom of the wiimote? If so, that'll suck a bit if it means you can't use the nun chuck.

[Cullen]

There could be a pass through so you can use it with the nunchuk as well. I guess we'll have to see. Wii Sports Resort looks great.

[Cullen]

Just read the Eurogamer handson of Wii Sports Resort and they say the jet ski game uses the MotionPlus dodad in combination with the nunchuk.

[Stomski]

I'm currently playing No More Heroes. Now I've only played a smidgen of GTA3 and haven't played San Adreas etc. but obviously the comparison has to be made. However, there are obviously going to be complaints by most about how little there is to do outside of the standard story... Yes it's linear, but I kinda like that fact. It almost has a retro charm to the way the main game missions are structured and I'm enjoying that simplicity.

The combat is horrendously simple, but hey ho... I'm enjoying the mashing too!

Maybe my aged brain is wanting simpler games which are focused on fun instead of a massive free roaming experience (which after all, if you want that I guess you should play an MMORPG, right?) and No More Heroes gives me that, so yay.

[Deleted]

Got Guitar Hero 3 today. Still getting used to the controls but it's shaping up to be an excellant game.

[Deleted]

I'm really getting into Guitar Hero 3 now. I also believe that the guitar controller you get with the game can also help you learn how to play a real guitar as it gets you used to holding a guitar properly which is part of the tutorial in itself.

[jameso]

The whole Guitar Hero thing is great, but I think 3 is probably the weakest, and the Wii version inferior in itself. GH 2 and Rock Band are awesome.

I also don't think Guitar Hero has anything to do with really playing guitar!

[KnightBeat]

Guitar Hero is just one of those 'Simple Simon' colour matching games from the 1970s, with music.

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[Gav]

Haha, if only it were that simple.

[Stomski]

No More Heroes was great. Everyone should play it, especially as you can pick it up pretty cheap now.

[geoff]

i love no more heroes... it is my stand in lightsaber game of choice till something more lightsabery comes along...
Force Unleashed i am looking at you... (i just don't know wether to get it for the Wii or the shiny new xbox.

[KnightBeat]

Aug 24, 2008 23:42:45 GMT Stomski said:

No More Heroes was great. Everyone should play it, especially as you can pick it up pretty cheap now.

Game have put up the price from £14.99 to 19.99 now. Tssk.

In other news, all xbox1 games are included in the 3 for £10 offer. The only bad news is that there are rarely 3 decent games on the shelf.

[Deleted]

Traded in some of my old DS games for Super Smash Bros. Brawl yesterday. I've played a bit of it and it seems quite good.

[Cullen]

I' ve returned from the wilderness of World of Warcarft to my Wii. I'm currently working my way through the excellent Megaman 9. Man its hard, but it brings that beautiful glowing feeling when you finally get a level and breeze through it without much trouble. Splash Woman, Concrete Man and Galaxy Man have fallen, Jewel Man is next.

After that I'm going to play Super Mario RPG and hopefully finish Endless Ocean before the Christmas glut comes.

[Stomski]

I was wondering where you were of late, you've been posting less.

Whilst I'm in the Wii thread, let me say this: Wii Music looks shit!

[Cullen]

Yeah I'm really underwhelmed by it. Still it could be fun. One of Nintendo's biggest problems is they don't seem to look at what other developers have done in the same area when creating new games and consoles. Their online offering could be a 1000 times better if they had done the research copied some of what Microsoft were doing with Xbox Live. Twilight Princess could have been miles better if they taken cues from Shadow of the Colossus. Similarly they don't seem to be looking at the leaps and bounds the rhythym genre as a whole has made in the last couple of years when creating Wii Music.

Mind you its one of Nintendo's greatest strengths too because they don't do a lot of 'me too' titles you'll find developers churning out elsewhere.

[Stomski]

Disaster: Day of Crisis came out last week. First impressions I have of it are good, but I've only done the tutorial bit.

[Dave]

I don't really pay much attention to release dates and the like but I just noticed that Wii Animal Crossing is out next month - I wasn't expecting it so soon.
I haven't read much about it. Is there much new in it? How does it (look like it'll) compare with the other games? I loved the Gamecube one (and still play it) but with the DS one, despite loving it at first, things started to irritate me and I started to loose interest and I eventually sold it. Also what's this Wii Speak thing? (voice chat I guess?) Because you can save £20 if you just get the game on it's own.

[Cullen]

Dave, the screenshots that have been shown initially for AC:Wii are very disappointing IMO. The game looks almost exactly the same as the Gamecube version with many of the existing models being reused. I'm getting on the hope that there is something new in the game play (AC should be perfect for motion/pointer controls), but I'm honestly not holding out much hope. It seems AC has turned from a very innovative game into a repetitive franchise.

Yeah Wii Speak is voice chat and this looks like a really good feature. It allows two living rooms to talk to one another without need for headsets (its effectively just a big mic you stick on top of his telly).

[Dave]

Thanks. I may skip it, depending on what further info comes out.

[Deleted]

I'm not really into the Animal Crossing games because they require so much attention which is just what I can't give them. I like a game that you can play as and when the mood takes you and AC isn't one of those games.

[Gav]

My Missus loved Animal Crossing for the DS - She completed every single possible thing in the game (I got her the guidebook), and got every possible item - and now she's mad for MySims Kingdoms - which is just out - and Animal Crossing Wii has taken a back seat.

Women!

[Cullen]

This weekend was great for my backlog: on Friday I put down Megaman 9 and on Sunday I finally finished the main plot of Endless Ocean. MM9 was a good retro experience, defintely on a par with Mega Man 2. Incidently I tried playing 2 again after finishing 9 and found it unplayable. With it running in 50hz it felt like Megaman was running through jelly.

Endless Ocean is now one of my favourite Wii games. I had a totally positive experience with it from start to finish. Totally relaxing to play, but it also had many real jawdroppingly beautiful scenes and some bits with real tension/fear. The fact that I was scared when I saw Great Whites or when I was lost in the Abyss was very strange as you can't die or get hurt in anyway in the game. A testament to the art direction. The graphics for above the water are utter shite though - fortunately you spend most of the time underwater were all the effort has clearly been spent.

I think there's going to be a sequel, which I'm very much looking forward too.

[Stomski]

F***ing Boom Blox. The levels where you have to pull pieces out / throw balls at the tower to knock pieces out are great.

But then there are levels where you have to throw/shoot stuff. They're tedious as hell. Blehhhhh.

[Jaymz]

And why can't you use the B button to shoot???

Stupid game. But also great fun.