Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:32 pm 0

fro wrote:I've got a Wii now (birthday innit) and am wondering some things about Wii Sports - is it normal that every time I bowl, no matter how I do it, the ball always curls to the left?

That happens to me when I play. When I swing my arm from behind me to forward my arm naturally swings towards my body the further I go forward. This is where the left spin comes from. If you want to throw straight you have to actually do it in a straight line from start to end. Spinning it right is a matter of twisting your wrist at the right time.

The Caffeine Kid · Post by **The Caffeine Kid** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:38 pm 0

I'm left handed and for me the ball always goes right no matter how much I try to spin it the other way.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:45 pm 0

The Caffeine Kid wrote:I'm left handed and for me the ball always goes right no matter how much I try to spin it the other way.

Glad we're not the only ones

It's my natural real life bowling movement too. The ball always curves. So I compensate for it by my placement or angle at which I throw the ball.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:34 am 0

Hold the Wiimote perfectly horizontal and swing without moving it without twisting (yaw?), the ball will go straight. Honest it will.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:14 am 0

Tried that... still goes right for me (left handed bowling here). Only way I get to go straight is by doing the Frank Lumpard down the alley...

swith · Post by **swith** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:18 am 0

Mayhem wrote:Tried that... still goes right for me (left handed bowling here). Only way I get to go straight is by doing the Frank Lumpard down the alley...

try swinging much, much faster than you're doing at the moment

Nintendodragon · Post by **Nintendodragon** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:19 am 0

you need to lean your body to the side your bowling arm is on, so that your bowling arm can move in a straight line instead of curving around your body,

xav · Post by **xav** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:21 am 0

swith wrote:
Mayhem wrote:Tried that... still goes right for me (left handed bowling here). Only way I get to go straight is by doing the Frank Lumpard down the alley...
try swinging much, much faster than you're doing at the moment

Yeah, and try doing it while standing on one leg, with the other arm behind your back.

(@swith: I take it he still doesn't know about the hidden webcam in his house then?)

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:40 am 0

Clue:

If the bottom end of the wiimote is supported so that it doesn't twist at all as you throw, you won't get any spin.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:01 pm 0

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/27545/BBFC-rejects-Manhunt-2

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:08 pm 0

Oh dear, better hope it gets a multi-lingual release somewhere in Europe then. Stupid region locked Wii

And of course, sutpid BBFC!

Cheers

Bubba

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:22 pm 0

I dunno. I mean, from inside my head, if it's that unpleasant I'd be worried about anybody that actually wanted to play it

.

And didn't you say you had trouble playing SOTC because it was a bit too nasty?

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:22 pm 0

There's an appeal process, or they can cut the sections that the BBFC find objectionable.

It'll probably still come out here eventually. Take 2 are in enough trouble financially as it is, without not releasing one of their titles in the UK...

(And if the BBFC have refused it, there's no chance Germany or Italy will pass it. Be very surprised if it doesn't get an AO from ESRB as well)

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:27 pm 0

Dio wrote:I dunno. I mean, from inside my head, if it's that unpleasant I'd be worried about anybody that actually wanted to play it .

And didn't you say you had trouble playing SOTC because it was a bit too nasty?

Not because it was a bit too nasty, because it felt somehow wrong. I don't think Take 2 have that kind of power to mess with your emotions - you walk into it knowing it was going to be a kill-fest.

Cheers

Bubba

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:29 pm 0

But then why would you walk into it?

<shrug> I just don't see where the desire to comes from. Disconnect on my end somewhere I guess.