Wii launched in Australia today 7/12/06

I just woke up.
Went to the midnight launch last night and have been playing Twillight Princess all morning lol.

Well overall impressions first, the Wii launch. I've been to the Xbox launch, Halo2 launch and Xbox360 launch at EB here and by far the Wii had the least amount of people turn up and about 80% of them were uni student nerds.

It was kinda waiting in line, surrounded by all these hardcore geeks alot of them were wearing nintendo t-shirts and there was a few playing their ds.

Anyway come launch time I finally pick up my console and game and head home. Having only purchased Zelda seeing how Red Steel bombed.

First impressions of the console, its TINY! Holy crap its alot smaller than I expected which is pretty cool.
Firing it up, the menu is straight forward but a little bland.
The Wii remote and nunchuk feel really weird, I dont know how long it takes to get used to it but I wasnt feeling this at all.

Fast forward to Zelda, playing about an hour in and saw mostly just Ordon village and the surrounding area. The game so far, not to be a hater or anything just doesnt excite me anywhere near as much as Ocarina of Time did the first time I played it.

None of the music tunes are very memorable and the story seems dull. This is coming from a huge OoT fan.
The graphics, while almost intolerable (after playing 360 on HD for the last 3 months) are not much of an issue however I wish Nintendo would've atleast revamped the game with the Wii's hardware.

The controller still is taking me a bit of time to get used to. Its decent and innovative but so far I'm prefering the tradition controller over the Wii's one.

Well thats it from me.
 
you gotta remember that at the time ocarina was better than the classics in almost every possible way.

it's just how super mario 64 > all other mario games
 
Yeah its the logical way.
I think the reverse is pretty good too.. yy/mm/dd. Good for the expiries on stuff at work. mm/dd/yy is just messed up though, its not in an ascending or descending order in time period.


Anyway back to wii's, i had a look around tonight and thought about buying one if I could find one easily, but couldn't so that idea is a miss.
 
America is the only country where they do the month first which is fucking stupid if you think about it lol Its America whos backwards.

dd/mm/yy is what the rest of the world uses.
 
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