09.06
All of them except Wii sports.
Now seriously, Nintendo has an absolutely amazing marketing strategy, kudos to that machine. I mean, shit, the Wii was fun for a few hours, but was it worth my 5am waiting in front of Future shop for 5 hours in line in -40 Celsius experience last year? I think not. I’ve rented most of the games and man, there is only 3 I’ve enjoyed. Enjoyed may be the wrong word, mildly entertained I guess. Wii Sports, Raving Rabids and Paper Mario.
Even then, Paper Mario has 20 minutes of button mashing to try and skip the dialog. I’m not jocking, actual 20 minutes of skipping text. The dialog that actually lowers your IQ, who the hell writes that shit? Worst story line in the history of games, I mean it’s absolutely absurd. I don’t want to hurt the writers feelings, but damn, that shit is stupid. Maybe it’s so brilliant that I’m the one that’s stupid. Whatever, whoever enjoys reading through 20 minutes of dialog during a video game can’t be a real gamer. You play games to play games and have fun, when I want to read, I’ll pickup a book thank you. King’s Quest on the amiga was cool to read dialogue of this sort in nineteen fuckin eighty but damn, it’s 2007 and the least you can do is put some voice over, perhaps a SKIP button? Have we not learned anything or was the project manager so prone to the story of the game that he insisted the dialog not be skip able because it would ruin the game’s “magic”? Sad.
Sure, maybe it’s still early and these are still gen 1 games, but shit, it’s really hard to imagine any great games coming out with the lack of hardware this thing is built with. Have you tried call of duty? What horrible graphics and the game play is awkward and inaccurate. Perhaps I need practice, which I would do if the graphics weren’t so pixelated. I mean, it feels like I’m playing duke3d on my Pentium 60. No offense to duke, I loved that game, but times have changed. After you’ve played BioShock and Gears of War, you don’t want to move back in time.
Is there hope for the Wii? Maybe, if they come out with more fun little party games like Wii sports. Doesn’t have to have mind blowing graphics, but at least needs to be fun, the controls need to be accurate and the physics need to be real. By that I mean what you expect your wand to do, make it do it. If you ever played carnival games, or prince of persia, you’ll know what I mean.
YOU suck. Super Paper Mario FTW Dimentio FTW
The bad games on Wii are Transformers Revenge of the Fallen and Littlest pet shop. The fantastic games on Wii are SSBB, Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess and Super Mario Galaxy.
By the way, why did you choose the EXACT WORST line in the game for the picture?
Whatever, whoever enjoys reading through 20 minutes of dialog during a video game can?t be a real gamer.
Play through Fire Emblem. Any of them. They have like 5* the text of paper mario.
What the? I love all Wii games EXCEPT Wii sports.
**** *** **** you! sonic unleashed, sonic & the secret of the rings, and sonic and the black knight! Sonic games rule! So do mario! I’llsay it Fuck You!
If your 360 was a first gen, they do indeed die after a while. I got a new arcade cheapo and has been purring like a kitten. COD5, NHL09 and Gears of War 2 are played quite frequently so Gaming’s alive and well.
My PS3 is good for blue ray and that’s about it. It’s pretty to look at and the UI is fantastic but any game that comes out I buy it for 360 because for me they play better and I prefer the xbox controler as well as a bigger user base for online play. I got Sean white for it and can’t believe how terrible it is, waste of money. Gonna trade it in for Stocked when it comes out in January.
Wii is still sleeping untouched for over a year.
Man….from a girl’s perspective…and from a girl who’s owned every system ever made…the Wii is pretty good but is lacking in some aspects.
One, controls do suck my asshole. Like just for the hell of it I played a lame game like Barbie Horseback Riding, supposed to be for like a 5 year old kid, I was SO CONFUSED with how you waved the wii remote to move the horse. Like wtf? can we not just use a classic controller here?
Games like Brawl and Mario Kart Wii were great. No complaints.
I do like the Wii’s added feature of the virtual console games. They make me happy because I can take the thing to University, and not have to lug the N64 with me as well.
Over all- graphics and gameplay could be WAYY better…but generally a good waste of money
I think I would rather play 64 than wii.
Playstations suck too with the exception of the Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver games and Muppet Race Mania.
Yay for original Xbox (not Xbox360) Xbox360 is so unreliable. It has been back to the shop on warranty 4 times.
Final Fantasy VII on PC rules! All other FF games do not shape up and no FF games compare to Secret of Mana on SNES.
What happened to gaming? >:-(
It is not fair. The control interface is so cool and the games are ALL way too easy and not that interesting. Metroid and Zelda were ok but too easy and took no time at all to complete without any challenges. I didn’t need any potions and didn’t even lose 5 hearts on the last boss. And metroid, playing a whole game only to beat the last boss first try! Shame nintendo shame. Lets have some good games released for wii! I demand satisfaction!
I have all consoles. The Wii hasn’t been touched in about a year.
Yeah the Wii sucks. It does have a few good games like Super Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess but that’s because they’re going off a tried and true franchise. And those games aren’t ruined by the shitty motion controls. Games like The Godfather: Black Hand Edition, that have some awesome potential, suck because they controls are just so inaccurate! And even if they are somewhat accurate, after a while you find yourself wishing you could just press a button instead of waving your arms around like an imbecile all the time.
So I traded my Wii and about 10 games for a PS3 with no games. BEST DECISION EVER!
I agree that most of the games are shit. But Super Mario Galaxy makes up for all them, it’s fucking wicked.
I love opinions, if I didn’t I’d disable comments and possibly this blog since it is comprised of, my opinions. If you’re trolling for a war, you’re in the wrong realm and best be on your way.
All they did was say something, you didn’t need to flame them. It’s their damn opinion, you can’t decide it.
It doesn’t surprise me that people can find the story compelling, hell some people like eating feces and having their testicles stomped on, diversity is what makes this world a beautiful place.
Thank you kindly for the wishes.
I completely disagree as well. Even though there was like, 20 minutes of skipping talking, if you maybe, oh I dunno, STOPPED TO READ SOME OF IT, you’d learn that, Ohmigosh, it actually has a good story-line for once! GASP.
Oh, and you want a book? WELL GOOD LUCK TRYIN’ TO FIND ONE!!
I disagree with the comment about the storyline of Super Paper Mario. I thought it was easily one of the best ever in a game, and even then it was of the quality of a book, to me almost parring that of the Hobbit. Of course, if you skip all the dialog, you’re not going to get much story out of it at all…it was damn good, let me tell you that at least.