Wii-mote: How useful for traditional games?

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MikeB said:
@ robjoh

BS or RTS: Should be perfect but you do miss the keyboard.

I think it would get very tiresome for me to constantly point the Wii-mote at the screen, much more so than with a mouse. I think this would be far from perfect...

Sure, if you're standing up with your arm fully extend like the geniuses in the Wii ads.

In reality, you just sit in a chair, and prop it on your knee or the arm chair. It's not tough at all. However, the lack of buttons really makes a difference for RTS games, and I'm not mouse clicking icons; I'm far too accustomed to being able to custom bind everything to my personal preferences. Given those demands, frankly, the PS/360 controllers don't have enough buttons either.

To be honest, the longer I think about it, the more I wonder how gamepads have survived for so long. They're generally too complicated for very casual players to enjoy yet they're patently inferior to keyboard/mouse combos for complex gaming.