Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:49 am 0

It's official, the Wii is the most entertaining console in the history of gaming. Me and a buddy just spent an entire evening playing only Wii Sports, and I cannot remember the last time I had this much fun, that didn't include butt-plugs, the theme song from Mighty Mouse and whipped cream .

It might have been when I tried out Gitar Hero

The Captain · Post by **The Captain** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:43 am 0

Marius wrote:It's official, the Wii is the most entertaining console in the history of gaming.

Yes, it is, isn't it? Revolution was a fitting code name for the little machine, but liberation is its running theme.

My wife and my children can play games now. As in, they can now take the reins, literally, in Zelda. (Which looks gorgeous to me, texture-detractors be damned.) My wife can play Call of Duty 3 better than I can, and I am a FPS fanatic.

Similarly, the console has given me a way to enjoy simple games such as WiiSports with a fervour I would have thought impossible before Friday. It has also levelled the paying field completely in that I am equally matched to my mum when it comes to most games. This, believe me, is the stuff of a madman's dream.

Anyone with a soul can appreciate the finesse and beauty of the controls, gaming veteran or joypad-phobic. The machine itself is a tactile joy, the controllers call to be held.

Nintendo, neatly and smartly, has sidestepped the arguments of the 'next generation' of consoles and produced something which opens up the landscape completely. For my wife and some of my friends to actively want to play games, and actually understand the simple or complex delight that they bring, and for me to feel about gaming like I haven't since I was a child and first made a pixelly blob move with a button press, is something I will eternally be grateful beyond words to Nintendo for. It is akin to what the Beeb did for Doctor Who in 2005, revealing the joy of something great but anoraky to the masses by streamlining it and thinking sideways. Let's hope the Wii doesn't go shit like DW though (runs for cover).

A week before the Wii was released I saw Call of Duty on the 360 and was blown away. I started to fret terribly about the graphics on the Wii. Now, three days on from release, I'd never play any version other than the Wii without feeling like it was a retrograde step, even though graphically it looks like its been on a four day absinthe binge compared to its sober and stylish 360 brother. The controls turn it into a thing of immersive, subtle beauty.

As for the graphics, memory and so on. . . To work within some technical restraints will be good for developers and designers. The fact that this forum exists is no small testament to that fact.

I've never really been a fanboy before now. But now I feel like getting a job as a door-to-door Wii salesman. As it were.

Hyaaah.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:09 am 0

Alarm wrote:Rayman Raving Rabbids plushies:

where is the cow?

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:15 am 0

Yak wrote: where is the cow?

Hidden Right Now

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:08 pm 0

Unfortunately us Aussies cant get Turbo Graphix games
from the virtual console as it was never released here.

But guess what.........We can

I was looking through the Wii options and saw that you could
change the country setting. I changed mine to the UK went to
Wiiconnect and accepted the agreement. I then went to the
shopping channel and accepted another agreement. Then I
entered the shopping channel and the Turbo Graphix games
were available. I downloaded Bomberman, changed all the
settings back and now I can play Bomberman. WOOHOO.

I was going to try to set my machine to Japan and try to get
some of the Japanese shoot em ups but I have run out of
Wiipoints.

I wonder how long it will be until Nintendo fix it.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:35 pm 0

Stevo wrote:Unfortunately us Aussies cant get Turbo Graphix games
from the virtual console as it was never released here.

But guess what.........We can

I was looking through the Wii options and saw that you could
change the country setting. I changed mine to the UK went to
Wiiconnect and accepted the agreement. I then went to the
shopping channel and accepted another agreement. Then I
entered the shopping channel and the Turbo Graphix games
were available. I downloaded Bomberman, changed all the
settings back and now I can play Bomberman. WOOHOO.

I was going to try to set my machine to Japan and try to get
some of the Japanese shoot em ups but I have run out of
Wiipoints.

I wonder how long it will be until Nintendo fix it.

FANTASTIC!
Thats exactly what I was hopeing for.
*preys they dont bother to change it*

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:36 pm 0

Stevo wrote:Unfortunately us Aussies cant get Turbo Graphix games
from the virtual console as it was never released here.

But guess what.........We can

I was looking through the Wii options and saw that you could
change the country setting. I changed mine to the UK went to
Wiiconnect and accepted the agreement. I then went to the
shopping channel and accepted another agreement. Then I
entered the shopping channel and the Turbo Graphix games
were available. I downloaded Bomberman, changed all the
settings back and now I can play Bomberman. WOOHOO.

I was going to try to set my machine to Japan and try to get
some of the Japanese shoot em ups but I have run out of
Wiipoints.

I wonder how long it will be until Nintendo fix it.

FANTASTIC!
Thats exactly what I was hopeing for.
*prays they dont bother to change it*

Gokou-Dragonspirit · Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:46 pm 0

Right, it's been a few days, time for my impressions. Firstly, the game that has been played the most is Wii Sports, mostly bowling, but also alot of tennis. The bowling is probably the best, but that might just be because 4 of us can play at the same time. I can't understand anyone disliking the tennis myself, I think it's fantastic. You have alot more control over the ball than I was expecting, and it just works really well. Then again, I have a friend who swears he can't control the ball at all, but I put that down to his being a tard.
I also actually really like Wii Play. To be fair, a few of the games are a bit dull, but the shooting, laser hockey, cow racing and table tennis are all fun and me and my girlfriend have spent ages on them. If you think of it as buying a controller and getting a game for Â£5 it's not bad

The Mii's are an absolutely fantastic idea, I just pray that they get used more widely, and don't just get forgotton about. Perhaps something for an update would be to add a stats page on the Wii for each Mii, with medals, achievements, win-loss records etc for all the games they're used in.
Zelda is just wonderful. I've had precious little time to just sit down with it and play, I've just finished my second stint as a wolf, but I know if I had the time I'd just play and play and play....The graphics aren't perfect, but they are lovely sometimes. Just take a minuite to look around the inside of a house in 1st person view and appreciate all the little details and touches

The control scheme is brilliant, honestly one of the most comfortable, controllable games I've played. I think I'll make a prediction that even if for some reason the whole motion sensing side of things doesn't take off with the Wii, next generation every controller will be in 2 halves. It just feels right.
Monkeyball has been rather ignored unfortunatly. I did get up to world 4 yesterday, and again, the controls are great. I also had a bit of a go on the mini-games with a friend last night. Most of them are fun (a few are crap ) but lack polish, but with 50 to choose from that's not really suprising. I'm looking foward to getting Rayman sometime next week hopefully for some more polished mini-game action

All in all, the Wii is just fantastic. Next week I'll be taking it home to try it out on my family, for the ultimate test, and I expect it to pass.

If I have one reservation, it's about the disk drive. Sure, it's flashy as hell and looks really cool when it sucks a disk in, but it's just asking to break, surely? I trust Nintendo to make a sturdy product, but yesterday I was playing monkeyball. I'd moved the Wii to the big tv, so I quit out to put it into widescreen mode, then when I went back in to monkeyball it had problems reading the disk. The title screens took ages to come up, then it just went black with snippets of music coming through, and I could hear the drive stopping and starting. I panicked, and powered off, and then it worked fine. The disk was totally clean too. Has anyone else had this happen?

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:01 pm 0

Gokou-Dragonspirit wrote:
If I have one reservation, it's about the disk drive. Sure, it's flashy as hell and looks really cool when it sucks a disk in, but it's just asking to break, surely? I trust Nintendo to make a sturdy product, but yesterday I was playing monkeyball. I'd moved the Wii to the big tv, so I quit out to put it into widescreen mode, then when I went back in to monkeyball it had problems reading the disk. The title screens took ages to come up, then it just went black with snippets of music coming through, and I could hear the drive stopping and starting. I panicked, and powered off, and then it worked fine. The disk was totally clean too. Has anyone else had this happen?

Not exactly, but I have noticed that occasionally it makes a very un-nerving rattle for a second or so when re-entering the Wii Menu. I do hope it's not a sign that my particular Wii has a very short life-expectancy..

fog · Post by **fog** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:32 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:
Stevo wrote:Unfortunately us Aussies cant get Turbo Graphix games
from the virtual console as it was never released here.

But guess what.........We can

I was looking through the Wii options and saw that you could
change the country setting. I changed mine to the UK went to
Wiiconnect and accepted the agreement. I then went to the
shopping channel and accepted another agreement. Then I
entered the shopping channel and the Turbo Graphix games
were available. I downloaded Bomberman, changed all the
settings back and now I can play Bomberman. WOOHOO.

I was going to try to set my machine to Japan and try to get
some of the Japanese shoot em ups but I have run out of
Wiipoints.

I wonder how long it will be until Nintendo fix it.
FANTASTIC!
Thats exactly what I was hopeing for.
*preys they dont bother to change it*

Me too

And if they do I hope it's not retrospectively so anything you had bought no longer works. Everything was supposed to be region locked and not just a restricted sales area so I'm wondering if the VC region locking isn't activated yet?

Mir Nyet · Post by **Mir Nyet** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:45 pm 0

Question - how long do we think it is going to take Nintendo to overtake the Xbox360's global sales with their new Wii.

Nintendo state they expect to ship 4 million Wii (you have to expect these to sell out based on current demand) worldwide before the end of the year, and Microsoft have only sold 8 million 360 in the year that it has been on the market.

Right now, things are looking very strong for Nintendo as the DS is still doing sellar numbers.

After the hammering the DS has given Sony, could Nintendo do it again in the full sized console marketplace?

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:52 pm 0

Mir Nyet wrote:Question - how long do we think it is going to take Nintendo to overtake the Xbox360's global sales with their new Wii.

Nintendo forecasts 6M units for March 07, MS 15M by June if I'm correct.

It might take some time, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a 33% market share for every player this round...

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:12 pm 0

Tuur wrote:
Mir Nyet wrote:Question - how long do we think it is going to take Nintendo to overtake the Xbox360's global sales with their new Wii.
Nintendo forecasts 6M units for March 07, MS 15M by June if I'm correct.

It might take some time, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a 33% market share for every player this round...

If MS knows what's good for them they will release Halo 3 by Easter. We here know what the 360 is capable of, what the good games are, the strength of XBLA, NEON etc but Joe Cluelessious knows only Halo. If they want to reach 15m by June only Halo can manage it IMHO.

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:14 pm 0

grue wrote:
If MS knows what's good for them they will release Halo 3 by Easter. We here know what the 360 is capable of, what the good games are, the strength of XBLA, NEON etc but Joe Cluelessious knows only Halo. If they want to reach 15m by June only Halo can manage it IMHO.

As long as Halo 3 isn't shit.

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:15 pm 0

Some videos of a friend playing boxing:

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