Do you hate your wii

[Moormur]

No, but I hate what Nintendo is doing to it. Poor thing isn't getting any good games.

This.

Do I hate my Wii? Absolutely not. I think it is a first rate system, definitely a worthy competitor for the 360 and PS3. I own about 9 games for it and I do love these games and gladly replay them because they are just fun. The problem isn't the Wii...it's the fact that there only about four more games out already for the Wii that I want but don't have. Recently things have been taking steps in the right directions. There are more games that are more than just gimick and have some deep and well thought out gameplay. I love the Wiimote. Whether a game uses motion controls or not, I love being able to keep my hands more than two inches apart when playing a game. The wiimote-nunckuck system is pretty comfortable and easy to manage.

 

[Hyperactiveman]

I don't have a Wii but that doesn't mean I dont like them. Then again I don't want one but I don't see the need for one. I have seen one being used and I have seen it being a lot of fun at parties.

Wii is good because it's a great bordem killer and a great way of doing something else than using an xbox or Ps3 controller. It's also in my opinion the greatest party system because anyone can take part. Wii also first thought of the avatars so it is win. I know you shouldn't really include the price as a feature to a quality console but it is more affoardable than the PS3.

So quit bashing it!

 

[Aleol]

No, I am quite content with the tiny white box, mostly because of metroid, mario, zelda, NMH, Madworld, Deadly creatures, Mariokart, and My hoard of Gamecube games. not to mention all of the virtual console games

You must not have any of the decent games if you are disappointed. Shame how the majority of people can go along with one other person and turn an opinion into idealized fact. The Wii, no matter what anyone says, has A ton of strong titles for it, and saying that it's a disappointment without playing all of the games that make the system worth it is simple closemindedness, and one perpetuated by people who have been spoiled by brown, "perfect" graphics. Metroid prime 3 looks better than many games on the other Next-gen platforms, and still y'all harp on and on. Geez. Nintendo is the one who is using the Wii for what it was meant to be. They've released hardcore games, many of them, and yet people still harp! Seriously, what's the POINT? So they've released a few casual titles that you're not interested in, Don't sell it, because there are more than those titles out. Nintendo's direction is not casual or hardcore, but both, and it is the developers and publishers who have made the system seem casual. Nintendo has been nothing but good to its system. It's the devs and publishers fault for doing the opposite. Of course there are exceptions...

Nintendo had to get rid of its seal of quality... That's the damage done by the developers who don't try. Don't blame nintendo. Blame the people who don't want to take chances. And Praise the people who do, like Suda51, or platinum games. And especially SEGA, who are trying so very hard for quality publishing, that they've forgotten their own series.

 

[Spaz91]

Spaz91, I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you on the idea that the PS3 has no good exclusives. Killzone 2 may not be a "Halo killer" but I had a friend who has only a 360 and a Wii and he stated that it was the best shooter he's ever played. And there's others like MGS4 and upcoming God of War III. As for the Wii being a disappointment, I don't own one personally, but I know that whenever I'm with friends who own one, we never seem to play it. We always play 360 or PS3 instead. I would assume this is because we just have more fun playing other things.

I say this as a fan of the original Killzone and a fanatic of the first three MGS games: Killzone 2 and MGS4 both failed epically. Killzone 2 was boring beyond belief with incredibly sloppy controls and repetetive gameplay. No game has ever pissed me off more or been more disappointing than Metal Gear Solid 4, MGS3 is my favourite game full-stop, but MGS4 made me want to vomit, I'm forced to punch passers by in the streets if I overhear the word 'nanomachines'. The gameplay was shite, the story was shitter and the moustache made me want to cry. I haven't played the God of War series so I can't really comment. I'll admit the only time I play video games with my friends at the moment is on the PC on TF2 but then again I had to sell my Wii games to pay for Christmas presents (I'm not joking, I'm really bad with money.)

 

[Mrsoupcup]

No, but I hate what Nintendo is doing to it. Poor thing isn't getting any good games.

Yeah I hear you, and when it gets a Nintendo game its just another remake for an exiting series like Mario and Zelda. Most of the games now all have this thing going with light and dark which is somthing that has been done so many times I wan't to cry.

 

[RYjet911]

And the same with the game Red Steel, I had that and that has potential too.

Hopefully the Motion+ thingy should help with those issues in Red Steel 2. Apparently that's going to have much better swordsplay, where the sword actually follows the position of your Wiimote.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

WII:At least tis not lieing to you with shiny over priced under deved games and calling them hard core(FYI hard core died a few years ago before the industry started to focus on shiny rushed games that the casual mainstream video game market eats up without realizing what crap they are consuming)
360:Bearly worth the price and fail rate.
PS3ose not have any games worth the price.

Don't get me wrong to play all the good games you have to have all the systems but the more costly ones are simply not worth it anymore, gaming is becoming like car hobbies and sure you can say you own and drive a frari yet can't afford the maintenance on the SOB. Gaming is like that only you get the performance of a compact....

If you still don;t get it the core of my rant is that the game industry is 90% casual since nearly everything is made for the wittless casual gamer and if its made for the casual consumer will its made for non gamers but that's a slightly different rant... the game industry like hollywood is watering down the product so it can sell to a wider base at the cost of qaulity.


uhg rant mode is over 9000 ><

 

[Aardvark Soup]

Nope, I still find the Virtual Console one of the best innovations of the current console generation. Also there are plenty of games on the platform I really like. Fanboys should stop whining and simply buy another console if they don't like the Wii.

 

[hero in flames]

The wii is like the frisbee of the gamer crowd...everyone played with it...but then they realised how boring it actually is!

 

[Phenakist]

I'm disappointed, but I don't hate it. The only few games that have been properly good have been Nintendo's classics coming back, Zelda, Mario, Metroid Smash Bros., etc.

It's been a huge amount of 3rd party development companies trying to get their go at a "motion sensitive" game these being Games which only the most whining to their Granny 5 year old would get.

Although, as a few people have said the virtual console is genius.

 

[KDR_11k]

Depends on what you mean by 'casual.' I consider all the mini-game nonsense to be casual games, because there's no depth to them. And lets face it, its those 4 games that really moved some Wii's.

My point is just that about 99% of the titles considered "casual" aren't even made by Nintendo, other than rethoric and a very small number of titles they have done nothing for the "casual" gamer yet people act like Nintendo is making nothing but "casual" games. How many minigame collections were made by Nintendo? Wii Sports (which was more of a tech demo for the system), Wii Play (a tutorial for the controller) and Wario Ware (has been around since the GBA), maybe Wii Fit if you count that as games. Just counting the big titles, Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Zelda TP, SSBB and Mario Kart you get more core games than "casual" games so why do people act like Nintendo has shifted all of its production away from the core? That's not even the complete list of core games they made for the Wii while the list of "casual" games is pretty much complete. They make 2-3 times as many core as "casual" games! Except for rhetoric I don't see any real focus there. Yes, Nintendo isn't making many core games but that's mostly because they are one company that has to make games for two systems and simply can't make that many games. I don't think they're making fewer games than during the GC period. Of course they're not going to produce a PS2-level library alone, noone can do that!

What's missing is a decent output from third parties who don't seem to be interested in making anything serious for the Wii as if the thing was still in the last place like the Gamecube. The Wii is half the console market now! What does it tell you when the big anticipated (or recently released) games for a system are published by a has-been (Sega) and developed by teams that didn't even exist before? What are the big publishers even doing? Oh, right, racking up losses with games like Mirror's Edge.

 

[Charli]

Yes, luckily Im blessed with a 5 year old sibling who thinks its awesome-sauce and I'm a casualty of the gamecube era.

*sniff* can i has real console plz?

 

[Beefcakes]

How can I be? When it provides me with so much chocolate-y Smash Bros. Brawl tasting goodness...
I suppose most other games weren't fun on it though
^ Opinion ^

 

[Lukeje]

Yes, but only because mine won't play discs at the moment. With all the great games that have come out recently (namely Madworld, Deadly Creatures and HotD: Overkill), it makes me a little sad. I should really phone Nintendo about that...

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Must...fight...urge...to make...penis joke.

Dude, that is soooo 3 years ago.

It is?!?
What about jive? Do people still say that?
All the cool kids are still saying fresh, right?....right?

*tumbleweed rolls by*

 

[Yokomitsu]

How can I be? When it provides me with so much chocolate-y Smash Bros. Brawl tasting goodness...
I suppose most other games weren't fun on it though
^ Opinion ^

Thats 1 of the 2 things it is good for and the other is playing all my zelda games on the gamecube zelda collection disc on it... otherwise useless

 

[TheEvilDuck]

Um...well....you see....

No, I don't "hate" it. And like a year ago I would have gone fanboy on you, (I know, sometimes it makes me cry too.) I still have fun with it and deep down I will always love making extremely deranged miis (there's the drag queen, the hobo, the shark man, W, the bizarre midget with giant sparkle eyes located where his ears should be and a mouth practically on his neck my brother's friend dubbed SHEYAKAZEE) and I love Brawl but...

I think the X-Box 360 has my vote and my inner mac lover (who is also my outer mac lover) is now trying to cut its way out of me whilst doing as much damage possible to my innards when I say that.

 

[tk1989]

I dont hate it... im just a little bored of it? lol

 

[starrman]

I've said it before, I'll say it again; The wii is a great big pile of useless crap. The only decent game I played on it before it got locked away in a cupboard like a big family secret which everyone pretends not to remember and never talks about, is Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. This was because the controller actually worked well as an interface and made the game specifically different enough from other console versions to warrant buying it for the wii. To date I have not found another wii game of which the same can be said. On top of this, the graphics are shite.

 

[GiantRedButton]

I don´t hate it....
Infact i´m not even aware of my wii, because it´s covered in to much dust.

My 14 years old sister doesn´t even wan´t to play it because it´s to "childish", my problem is just that there aren´t any good games for it expect a handfull first party ones.

And the controller-design is terrible!
I won´t talk about the gimmik, but the buttonlayout.
The area your left thumb has to cover ist the entire front of the wiimote even though the buttons could have been concentrated on one spot.
Moving your thumb 180° in order to move from (Up) to (2) is not only unhealthy and hurts it also takes a ton of time....
Which is why developers have to avoid most buttons for reaction based functions.