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Wiinui: how long until you're bored? |
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While this hilarious (debatable depending on your fandom) animated GIF we found on YouTube is hardly newsworthy, it still got us thinking about a few things. The video's below. It's simple and inane really. It's Yuki Nagato from the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya waving around a Wiimote. Observe:
Note the blank stare. The zombified look. The mechanical motion. The detachment. There's something about it that's telling isn't there?
en·nui –noun
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
Doesn't it make you worry that Nintendo may have given themselves a very big problem in the fact that if third party developers don't find ways to develop very innovative ways of taking advantage of the Wiimote we may be stuck with poor poor graphically inferior games?
Some would argue that the true Wii experience that so many Nintendo fans are quick to praise might only be found in first party Nintendo titles that are designed with the Wiimote in mind. What's worse is that Nintendo themselves admit will be released in a "spread out" fashion across the year to give each title the needed space.
Given that most fans take only a few weeks to finish their beloved games, what are we to swing our Wiimotes to every few months or so? To badly implemented third party Wii controls? Wii Sports and Wario Ware can only be charming for so long. Are we to suffer from Wii-nnui? Are we doomed to be like this zombified anime character with big eyes and a small mouth - forever waving a Wiimote in circles? We certainly hope not.
What about you folks? What's your take? How long did it take you guys got bored with Wii Sports?
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Sony announce a Mii like system but it looks like it's Mii's to the 25th powa! I don't mean in visuals, just what they're doing with it; making it community based and linking with your friends. Nintendo has done bugger all in that regard. There's almost no Connect24 in their WiiConnect24 scheme - only Mii Parade bollocks.
I'm an early Wii adopter and I'm getting very pissed off.
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-Matt, from IGN.
Personally, I have absolutely no worries at all. It may take time, but eventually developer's will be sitting there, pondering about whatever game they're creating and go "Woah, I just got an AMAZING idea, something only possible on the Wii!". It may take time, but have some faith here. I remember reading an article on maxconsole about how the Wiimote is FAR more complex than what we can even imagine.
Things just take time, remember that.
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I still play Wii Sports and Zelda. Wii Play fails, but it's really only a €10 game when you look at it..
My next plan is to get some other good games. Let's not forget, sword-fighting has potential on the Wii (better than Red Steel). Wario Ware is proof that the Wii remote can be used in a lot more ways than you think. 3rd-party games will eventually improve to suit the Wii controller, and the 1st party games will rock.
It's fast selling so devs will start developing. Even consoles that showed less potential (DS, PSone etc), if they sold, devs would come in. And sure enough, that's the path of the Wii. But the Wii has more potential still, so this generation of consoles is going to be the age of Wii.
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Yeh, thats right, 'cos the PSOne had less potential when it was released.... What are you on about here?!?
Anyways, I don't have a Wii, but my friend does and I've played on his many a time. And whilst its all good fun, I really do think its very gimmicky and I don't see an easy path for other devs to fully exploit the Wii's potential. Its not like with the 360 and the PS3, which are both powerhouses that devs can produce games for much more easily given the standard control system. Games made for those systems won't necessarily translate well to the Wii. A Wii game really needs to be a Wii game from the ground up.
Some may argue that the Sony vs. Microsoft war is just about power and all we'll see are beautifully rendered FPS and Driving games which aren't far removed from their previous generation counterparts. I don't think that personally, and I'll eventually settle for either the 360 or the PS3.
Innovative and fun it may be, but with devs needing to be comitted to a Wii only game from the off (no multiplatform here, you ain't exactly gonna see Wario Ware on a 360!), like the article says, owners are doomed to a brand new Wii experience only every month or so.
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On that note, it doesn't take an onslaught of exclusive hits to keep a system popular. If a system has a few games that are outstandingly popular, it'll do great. Again, look at the DS: New Super Mario Bros. came out ages ago, and it's still one of the top-selling games out there for any system. If I'm not mistaken, it's still one of the top ten best-selling games in Europe.
As for third party releases, we should note that Sonic and the Secret Rings is the highest-rated Sonic game in ages. Red Steel is also very popular, despite its unjustly (in my opinion) low review scores. MySims looks like the best non-PC Sims game yet. Kororinpa, Cooking Mama, a Wii-ified Prince of Persia and Godfather, Heatseaker, and Dragon Quest Swords will all rock the second quarter. Also, while it's not a second quarter game, can you imagine how many preteens out there will rush out to buy the High School Musical game?
Meanwhile, the power of first-party games should not be ignored just because they're first-party games. The upcoming Super Paper Mario will grab plenty of attention, Metroid Prime 3 will continue the franchise's excellent tradition, Project Hammer looks amazing, and Mario Party 8 will be loads of fun.
These lists are far from complete; I didn't list every known title, and I can't begin to imagine the games we haven't heard about yet after what Matt (from IGN) said.
The truth is, it depends on your taste and your play style. The people who blast through a game in less than a week and then go buy a new one are not typical, especially for Wii owners.
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or play thdj with manual cheat thats always fun
or excite truck
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