Thoughts on Wii and gaming in general

[bardicverse]

Welcome aboard, JS. Its fine and well to feel that way, there are many different types of gamers out there, and different ways to play the games we love.

I think I had the inverted history of yours, having been a hardcore gamer as a kid, playing with every waking hour after I got home from school, from Atari 2600 onward. I only cared to go out in summer, since I had the full day off all summer from school, but the rest of my time was spent beating over 300 NES games. Time passed and I became more of a PC gamer, still hardcore, and eventually sucked away by MMORPGS, playing for days at a time sometimes.

Since my teen years, I always had ideas for games, always thinking of new ways to enhance games, make the ultimate game. The direction the Wii has taken gives many game ideas a possible reality. Boxing games, for example, make sense. Pressing L and R to block or A for an uppercut make little sense compared to actually swinging and using actual boxing technique. Basically, anyone who once drooled for Virtual Reality is now given the chance to enter that world in mainstream gaming a little further.

What does concern me is what all the gamers who do NOT want to get up and move around, like you, will do next generation, as all the consoles will be moving to this option. Your traditional controls will be given a backseat to the new trend in gaming. So, what will happen? Will there be that many gamers who feel betrayed by being forced into motion controls, gamers that will refuse to buy the next generation systems? Do they get an epiphany and then love motion controls, at the sake of being hypocrites? It truly is a double-edged sword.

A side note, regarding the Wii, you don't actually have to be up and moving around. I used to at first, but I've learned that with more of the core games, you don't need to. I sit comfortably on my couch playing games like Zelda, Bully, Metroid.