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| The wii is four years old... Do we love it yet? | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 15 2010, 10:58 PM (208 Views) | |
| DMHowe | Jan 15 2010, 10:58 PM Post #1 |
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Do not try and eat the cake, only try and realise the truth.
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Four years. Remember all of us getting excited about TP? I remember trouser-malfunctioning excitement at the idea of "OoT 2". The delays. The demos. The endless teasing videos and the hope, the HOPE, that THIS was the last delay. Then it happened. The wii came out. A console launch with A NEW ZELDA. I'll never forget barely containing my excitement on the bus home, my wii would be there. Wii sports was... F*** wii sports, Zelda! Staying up until 3am with my wii and not caring about anything else but seeing what happened next. Then I finished it. Some games I tried but I just couldn't get into them... I found myself just replaying my GC childhood and wondering if the magic would ever come back. Time passed. The wii does have some real classics. If you've never played the mario & sonic games with some friends, usually drunk, and not had a good time... You need your fun circuitry re-wiring. Anyway, the wii, for me at least, has grown into the first ever real party console. Now on the one hand, this isn't a bad thing. I mean... A games console was always good for one, two friends. Four player split-screen was okay, but split screen is usually too cramped to be fun. We had online play elsewhere but you'd just never get the same enjoyment out of getting some friends over and well... Gaming. Even GIRLS could play the wii. Those mysterious, gifted of chest creatures that we mere pale mortals only hoped would pay attention to us. It was now cool to play nintendo. That hadn't been the case in... Well, I guess the early 90s, but even then gaming was for geeks. I digress. The wii is a party console. If you haven't got a lot of friends... This kinda sucks. But there are some real games you can play alone. Super Paper Mario is excellent. The arcade RE games. Mario Galaxy. The Metroid Prime Triology. Twilight Princess. And all those old classics on the VC. The wii does have something for everyone, even if in a small way. Now I grant, I prefer my 360. I prefer fallout 3, portal, assassin's creed, forza motorsport 2 & 3. But there's a reason for this. I've played video games since I was 3. The master system was my first, because it was cheap. Then the mega drive when the N64 was soon to come out. Weird but... What did I care? I was 4. Anyway, the mega drive's unresponsive controller... Then eventually moving up to 3D and being mystified by this Mario bloke, who I'd only ever watched in some cartoons. I digress, again, in a fit of nostalgia. Whatever your gaming past, most of you who have played in the long-term, prefer the consoles like the PS3 or the 360. Why? Because they do exactly what games have been doing for years. Let's face it, A to B. Do some tasks. Assassin's Creed was criticised for repetitiveness, but when you get down to it, a video game is repetitive. They just vary what you repeat enough, that you don't notice. But the wii is contraversial. Like the DS. It's different. But unlike the DS, it's majorly different. The DS is close enough to a game boy. The wii has almost no buttons, relies on motion sensing and, crucially, is NOT a niche-market console. It's for everyone. I welcome it. It's taken me long enough, personally, and I've fought it at every stage but... I love the wii. I love the way that I finally have a console that I can play with a girlfriend that doesn't play games, a console my mother can actually use and games that even my grandparents can play. Vaguely. The wii is annoying. It manages to be lovable. Despite the fact that every f***ing Sonic game on it is awful and if they release one more bad one I'll cry. He's my childhood hero. Anyway, thanks for reading this ramble if so you did. :p My apologies to those of you who loved the wii all along. |
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| Cieran | Jan 16 2010, 12:53 AM Post #2 |
Celebrate with cake!
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I'm gonna be honest. The whole casual/hardcore distinction thing really irritates me. People label the Wii as "casual" as if this is somehow a bad thing. I don't get much use out of my Wii, but when I do, it's always fun. My friend will come over and we'll play Super Smash Bros. till 3 in the morning. He'll die. A lot. I now have four controllers, people have expressed an interest in coming down for some brawlin'. As someone with the only Wii and one of the only TVs in my hall, it's pretty awesome. Though, if I'm honest, I like the Wii, but I play on my PC a lot more. Since getting a machine which can actually PLAY games, I've certainly spent more time on it and less on consoles. Still, some people say the Wii isn't a video game console, that it's a victim of its own success. Pretty stupid really, it's quite clearly a video game console, and its success will hopefully mean an even better console next time around. I ramble... |
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| Takoa | Jan 16 2010, 09:39 AM Post #3 |
Ahoge of Justice
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Yeah, the Wii has had a bunch of good games, and once you get used to the controls they can sometimes actually be better than playing with a controller. I really like it. |
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| picollo no. | Jan 16 2010, 11:12 AM Post #4 |
Screw the rules I'm Yuri Lowell
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I must say it took a while but the Wii has won me over. Probably because over the years my Wii collection has grown to include some pretty great games; Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, Okami, Fire Emblem and even strange little niche titles that may not be brilliant but try something new such as No More Heroes and Madworld. I also have a couple of party games such as Mario and Sonic and Raving Rabbids 2 and it just goes to show that it is a console that appeals and has something for everyone. Do I wish Nintendo focused a bit more on the gamer side of things... yes I do, it's the Wii's fourth year and we've yet to see anything from F-Zero or Starfox and I also wish Nintendo's advertising campaigns better reflected the wide diversity of gamers the Wii attracts as at the moment it tends focus more on the 'casual crowd' and that tends to demonstrate to other 'gamers' that is what Wii is all about when it couldn't be far enough from the truth. But also the so called 'hardcore' gamers are as much to blame as Nintendo. They complain that there are not enough hardcore or mature games on Wii, yet when the likes of House of the Dead Overkill, Madworld and No More Heroes come along no one buys them. Also when people talk about Wii shovelware, but games where developes have made an effort e.g. RE Drakside, Zack and Wiki again no one buys them. But regardless of other people I'll continue to play my wii and update and my collection as there are some great looking titles on the way; Metroid: Other M, Galaxy 2, Monster Hunter Tri, No More Heroes 2 and hopefully a release for Tales of Graces over here. |
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