Whats so "fun" about the wii?

[Retrasado]

Resident_Hazard said:
Why is the Wii the only system that gets these kinds of pointless threads?

You never see a "What's so great about a PS3?" followed by some lengthy diatribe about how "there's a PS3 in my house, it belongs to my gay uncle, but in all the high-def gay porn he has on Blu-Ray, I just don't see what makes it so great."

Do some people really hate the Wii that much? How mentally disturbed must a person be when this kind of thread seems like a good time filler? What, are the cops cracking down on the park where you stalk the elderly and you need to redirect your hatred elsewhere?

Don't like the Wii? Don't fucking play it. How bloody hard is that?



Want a better response as to why people feel the Wii is "fun" where some of the more hardcore titles don't get that? Well, there are a lot of "hardcore" games I've played that don't feel like video games. They feel like, oh, shall we say, work. You have 25 mission objectives and must move together with a group of other soldiers in a complex plan to overtake some complex. In my job, that's fucking work. You've got planning and coordination that must be followed in all these ways and all these tools and weapons at your disposal which must be used in specific ways and pretty soon I want to fucking stand up and take my authorized 15-minute break FROM ALL THE WORK.

In Super Mario Galaxy, you run around open worlds exploring nooks and crannies and solving puzzles and by god if that doesn't feel like a breath of fresh air in a world crowded with FPS missions, objectives, and every single game trying for 100% realism rather than artistic creativity. It's why I have this slight uneasiness when I see footage of Resident Evil 5. I can't help but look at that and be reminded of Gears of War or Army of Two. Resident Evil is supposed to be fun because it's survival horror and there are scares around every corner. I don't want it to feel like work, like some run-of-the-mill military/squad-based FPS title. That's why the Wii feels fun to people with it's assorted collection of sometimes lame software.

Because it feels like a game rather than work. Many of these titles don't take themselves so damn seriously. I have enough responsibilities in real life to deal with (more than any of you know), so I'm perfectly happy playing something now and then that gives me fun challenges (like Geometry Wars or Mario Galaxy), rather than a laundry list of work to do to solve missions. This isn't to say that I hate FPS games (as I'm very much looking forward to The Conduit), but to have something that's geared around simple fun that takes the edge off rather than adding to it in a virtual plain is just damn refreshing.

Seriously, don't get so freakin' defensive. It's just a stupid piece of plastic and metal....