The Wii is pretty cool

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petchick

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I played it for the first time at a friend's place the other day and I can see how it would be a lot of fun. Of course I could also see how I would get bored with it quickly.

The Wiimote is cool and all but the fact that a lot of games are simply tayloring themselves to use a remote's features kinda demonstrates why the Wii seems like more of a gimmick console than anything. Thankfully the price is low and it has a lot of other cool features, like online stuff and the enormous backwards compatability.

But I just thought it was interesting that I did one thing with the remote, successfully completed what I was doing (in about 15 seconds) and then just passed it to the next person. I didn't really feel the desire to use the remote again. Very meh experience really.

Not that the PS3 or XB360 are better, but I think if all the games are more and more based on just fucking around with the remote, eventually the software library will be diluted with games that have maybe 20 minutes of fun value before the gimmicky feeling kicks in.

Anyone else get this sense?
 
i always thought of consoles to be a huge waste of my time, but now i'm kinda thinking about purchasing a Wii just to get drunk and play some Wii with a bunch of friends - actually i could see the girls enjoying it too for once
 
The main thing I like about the Wii is that even the biggest idiot can grasp it. Not to say that my GF is an idiot, but she definately has always been averse to video games. I think the Wii is simplistic enough that it could win her over.

But yeah the drunken parties with it would be kickass.
 
I think it's nice for somebody to be able to bowl and golf etc and not have to understand the concept of a Zelda type game. Great time for all.
 
ive got that sense with one, which is why i didnt get one yet. zelda isnt my thing and sorry wii guys, no other games are tempting enough for me. thats why me and some buddies are looking to split the cost of one so none of us are forced to pay full price for one when we all know we will only play as a group for the most part.
 
I would say since the Wii is much different than convential gaming you may want to try it before you buy it. I enjoy my Wii alot and Zelda is great, but I can understand how some ppl could be frustrated by it.
 
the Wii is a lot of fun and playing through 50 hours of zelda never made it feel gimmicky. i do have concerns though for the multi-platform release games. if they tailor the games for the 360 and PS3 (which have similar controllers), how is a whole different control scheme going to work?

anyway, i'm hoping Nintendo and the 3rd party developers do enough with the simple, yet fun design that has always been the focus of Nintendo games.
 
Hahahaha... damn I was going to say that word for word. Dude you just never have liked videogames are just kind of grew out of it. My last system was the PS2 and I stopped playing it a year or so go. I picked up a 360 this dec and I'm loving it. I'll eventually get a Wii in about a year to play some of the GC games I've always wanted ( never owned a GC ), and play some of the new games.
 
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