| Squilliam said: @Grampy, thanks: I was thinking about Nintendo games the other day, that excitement vs fun paradox. I realised they never really excited me hugely like HD games but they were consistantly fun. I had that thought when I was playing a N64 Paper Mario RPG funnily enough (Nintendo was never big in my country until one year after the Wii, so I've never seen a Nintendo home console system before in my life before I got my Wii!) |
Oddly I don't have your excuse and I am amazed I left it out. Fun, along with my preference for motion control is why I play on the Wii. I was playing COD online on the PC and it was a great challenge and exciting. It was my wife who one day asked me why I played it so much, because she said I was all grim and determined and cursing and sometimes getting really frustrated. Said it didn't look like I was having that much fun.
The nickel dropped, she was right, I wasn't really having "FUN" although I guess I was enjoying it on some level. I started just getting out of gaming when I saw a video ad for the Wii. Managed to snag one and 20 minutes later I was having FUN, I mean rolling on the floor, laughing my ass off fun. That was that. If I'm a little down I hop into Mario Karts and race around a few times and within minutes I feel great.
I realized that I liked the Wii because it was a s...load of fun and even my non-gaming friends could join in. It has saved more than one party.
I broke down finally and got CoD WaW. It's not the same experience as the uber realistic PC graphics and certainly not as visually striking. But it is very immersive and visceral which makes it more real than mere pretty pictures. Besides charging around the living room, knocking over chairs, ducking behind the sofa, trusty Zapper or Perfect Shot in hand is actually a hell of a lot more fun.
