Ridiculous. The guys sucks at Wii Sports, and hasn't got any good "games" (and there are plenty of them).

Sounds remarkably like something another user on this board wrote (although its obviously not from him...).

Anyone who "loves old Nintendo" has no right to gripe about the Wii. Purely because of the VC - the Wii *is* all the old Nintendo consoles. Its a Nintendo fans dream come true. Anything else is either irrational or pure trolling.

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I'm very tempted to setup a fake "I bought a PS3 - and hate it" thread, just to demonstrate how believable (and ridiculous) all this is.

 

 

 

@robjoh: if a 4 year old beats him at Wii Sports Tennis like that, he shouldn't really buy Strikers, specially not for online.

I've never lost at Tennis, to four-year-olds, Pro CPU players, or otherwise. To say that skill doesn't matter just proves that either he doesn't really own a Wii and is making it all up or he just outright sucks and doesn't want to admit it because then he wouldn't be a cool hardcore gamer.

Now since I only play like 10 hours a week these days, I suppose of I had a 360 or something I might be playing that all the time instead of the Wii. But the fact that I don't play much just makes me more satisfied with the limited Wii titles available with no reason to spend another $400 on another system that I don't have time to play. Unless you play 20 or more hours every week there's not really much reason to own more than one console. Heck I've spent 6 weeks on Super Paper Mario and still haven't beat it fully yet.

"Until recently, I would have told you that I loved the Wii as well. I recently realized something.  I have not played my Wii since January.  None. Not one minute.  I have bought a couple of other games, some that I really like.  I just have not had a desire to play Wii.  There have not been any games I have wanted to buy since the launch.  I have not finished any of the games I bought at launch.  The Wii is a great system - for those who do not like games.  It is easy to pick up, learn the controls, and master it.  This translates into being overly simple, having limited control, lacking depth."

I stopped reading at that point because it became obvious that he didn't really know what he was talking about ... Certainly, developers are far from maximizing the potential of the Wii but lack of experience and undertanding of a new paradigm does not make the paradigm incorrect.

The fact of the matter is that the Wii has had games that are as complicated as anything on the XBox 360 or PS3 released and they became easier because a conventional controller wasn't intuitive and thus created unnecessary complication. Resident Evil 4, The God Father and Madden are all as complicated as their versions on other systems yet seem easier and far more enjoyable to play on the Wii. I haven't played Harry Potter (not a big fan) but would imagine that it would seem far easier to produce a wand flick to cast a spell then to memorize a dozen button presses, and it would be far more fun to use a motion control than to select your spell from a list.

Complaining that the current crop of games are not taking advantage of the Wiimote is like complaining that the early XBox 360 games did not take advantage of its graphical capabilities; people who complained that many games (like King Kong) looked worse on the XBox 360 than they looked on the XBox were overly critical and didn't acknowledge that things would improve in the future.

 

Yeah developers should hopefully have a much better handle on implementing Wii controls in future games.

The thing is, developers never even came close to maximizing the GC either. RE4 is the best looking game on GC, but its jaggy as hell. I can't remember, did GC have programmable shaders like Wii has? If it did, nobody used them except for Nintendo, which is why Nintendo titles looked way better than any of the other titles.

Look at MP3 screens. The early sets were jaggy as hell. It gave me a jaggy headache it was so bad. The latest screens are totally anti-aliased, with the jaggies hardly noticable. Holy Crap, programable shaders and sub pixel AA really can make your game look better. Maybe devs should use all the time they save coding for wii to actually branch off and learn how to program its shaders.

Yeah, because all the great consoles in the past had their best games in the first six months. Why is it surprising all these people that "WII GAMES HAVE NO DEPTH."

No one was even developing for it by E3 last year. Most every great system had it's first REALLY great games come out about a year after launch (SSBM, Sonic Adventure, and Marios being the only exceptions).

If you know your history this isn't some heretical secret, that first-gen titles can be fun but lack depth. There are plenty of games to occupy people on Wii anyway for a first year.

Bodhesatva said: Legend11 said: Well I remember reading thread after thread with links to articles about 360 hardware failure so what's the big deal about an article like this? I'm curious though, he has to be lying about the 4 year old winning some games of WiiSports Tennis by just waving his arms up and down right?  I'm sure he's not; I've won games of Tekken by simply mashing buttons. And I agree, posts like this are totally fine. Â

I don't like your Tekken example. You must have been playing a 4 year old. I love destroying button mashers. If you get beat by a button masher at Tekken, Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, etc. then you are not good...at all. The only game on Wii sports that can be won by mashing is boxing, since it's not very techinical. All the other games can be mastered with practice, especially golf. You don't get too much luck in that game without knowing what you're doing.

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Hello,
I am an owner of a PS3, a 360 and a Wii. I have had every gaming console there was to have since the Atari 2600.

When the Xbox 360 came out, I went out and purchased all the games for it and I tried to like it. I tried to see something that was groundbreaking and something that made games more enjoyable, but I did not see that.

I waited while the 360 collected dust and then Gears of War came out. I saw that the 360 could make killer graphics. I played gears and that was about a year ago. Since then my 360 has continued to collect dust. It has been out for more than a year. Where are the great and engaging RPGs? All we get is shooter after shooter after shooter. I am sick of shooting!

The PS3, forget about it.. I only have Resistance. Nothing else to play.

For the Wii, I have many games.. the Wii has been refreshing to me. After mashing buttons for 20 years in gaming.. something new has come out that brings exclusiveness to every Wii game, motion control.

I enjoy gaming for fun and right now I am enjoying, Excite Truck, Zelda, Marble Mania, Brain Academy, Resident Evil Wii, Tiger Woods Golf, Wii Sports, and the Godfather.

Maybe it is just me.. but I love making a punching motion in the Godfather and punching a fool out rather than pressing B to do the same on the 360.