I can definitely see someone liking Wii Sports Resort this much. It definitely deserves a lot of praise. Comparisons to games like Halo don't really make sense though. It's like comparing two different media such as films and literature. Calling them both video games is misleading since they're so very different and each is brilliant on entirely different planes.

exactly, thank you.

Both of these are good things, they're just different things.

Halo 3 is an introduction to the video game world that is a real full fleshed video game, although a very shallow one.

Wii Sports Resort is not a video game, I mean it is one by definition but not by soul or heart, its a collection of interactions that you perform with your TV, but it is not video game in the conventional sense. It's just like wii fit, it's not a game, its just a virtual world where you can do some light hearted, fun, enjoyable things.

People dont need to hate on people saying its not a video game, because it simply isnt. You wouldnt call those movie trivia things where you use the TV a video game, and wii sports is no different.

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I guess you have played both?


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Wow, someone likes WSR :)

What makes a game being a game by soul and heart? Can't gaming be lighthearted? Does it have to be super serious all the time?

No, it doesnt have to be super serious, Kirby, Metroid, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, mario, the legend of zelda etc are all light hearted games that are true games.

Halo is simply another FPS.

There is nothing out there like WSR. Nothing. Obviously, this article is too deep for some people in here.

Sorry but I have to wholeheartedly disagree.

Wii Sports Resort is the pure essence of a videogame. Something that could never be a book or a movie or a picture, just like Street Fighter or SMB (i know what i did here) or Tetris or Pong/Wii Sports Tennis/WSR Ping Pong or Asteroids or Mario Kart.

"A collection of interactions with your TV", you can't seriously reduce WSR to this and claim Halo is a "real full fleshed video game". "It's just a virtual world where you can do some light hearted fun, enjoyable things". Take out "light hearted fun" and you have Halo.

And that's the crux of the matter. Really, it's all 99.9% of us need. Sorry if you're in the .01%.

NOW I seriously disagree. I don't think we see eye-to-eye on what a video game is. Again, 99.9% and all that.

There are lots of things like it.
Wii sports for instance is basically the same thing with less content.
WSR is basically an expansion pack. Wii play is also around the same thing, and links cross bow training.
Also basically every wii tech demo.

Wow, such strong opinions from someone who has obviously never played it (or the other games you mentioned)

Maybe you'll post again when you've at least tried it?

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