Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:27 pm 0

Regarding Wii Golf etc...

http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/11/wii_sports_firs.html wrote:THE HELL WITH YOU, WII SPORTS GOLF!

Golf is hard. HARD. That controller is lucky it has a wrist strap because it almost went out the window. Sure, Wii Sports Golf is simple to understand, but it requires some serious precision on your part.

There's a power meter for your shot, see. But if you swing too hard, the power meter goes all out of whack and you will either hook, or slice, or hit the ball out of bounds, or not enough. So you've got to do practice swings to find out exactly how hard to hit the ball, then -- here's the tricky part -- do it "for real" and replicate exactly that motion, exactly that speed, or you're 100% fucked.

I finished with a +13 score. After three holes.

I was more into Bowling. Bowling is easy -- you just hold the Wii remote in front of you and pointed up, like it was a ball. Then you hold B and the little Mii on screen starts his motion. Simultaneously, you pull your arm back and let go. You can put spin on the ball by twisting your wrist before you let go. It works really well, although it's kind of annoying that you have to use the D-pad to move your little bowler into position. Surely they could have come up with a more elegant way?

Tennis was pretty hard too, although I already mentioned that. Well, not hard so much as you can't go to sleep playing it, like I did. B.S. about the Wii being too simple proven wrong. You have to stay alert playing Tennis. I'm not sure, exactly, how to really change up my shots, though. I can put some spin on it but that seems about the extent of my abilities -- not the "100 different shots" that Reggie promised in the letter that came with Wii.

Boxing is cool, too. I understand how to punch someone, and that was translated quite well onto the screen. You can block your head or body, but it's all in real-time -- the positioning of your hands equals the positioning of your gloves, and same for your opponent. So there's no one "blocking stance" -- it's all a matter of getting your hands in the way of his, and holding your gloves up or in so he hits the sides of your hands.

Baseball kind of sucks. Well, when you play it against the computer, anyway. When you're pitching, all you can do is hold either the A or B button to throw a screwball or a curve. And there's no fielding. So being on defense just means you're flicking the controller lazily (as ball speed isn't affected by your hand speed) until the computer decides that it's going to strike out and let you bat again.

All in all, Wii Sports is going to best be played with and/or around other people. I'm sure I looked like a total hilarious doofus playing it, but with nobody around to laugh at my dumb ass it wasn't any fun. I'll get some friends over to play this thing soon; in the meantime I shall stick with Zelda and Excite Truck. Zelda, anyway.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:28 pm 0

I just decided I'm not gonna watch them rape Zelda.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:32 pm 0

From women's mag, Prima!

grue · Post by **grue** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:40 pm 0

I'm sorry but I'm no buying Animal Crossing for the 3rd time in the same decade.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:42 pm 0

grue wrote:I'm sorry but I'm no buying Animal Crossing for the 3rd time in the same decade.

I am!

I hope there's a way I can take dear Chevre and Tipper from Ox Spoo to whatever my Wii town ends up being called

.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:44 pm 0

Why are you reading Prima then Disciple?

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:46 pm 0

You may be able to buy Animal Forest (N64 Jap only) on VC.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:48 pm 0

That AC pic is from Wario Ware.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:52 pm 0

TFO wrote:Why are you reading Prima then Disciple?

I like the knitting articles!

http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2006/11/h ... women.html

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:54 pm 0

gnn! I wanna see real Animal Wii Crossing pics!

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:57 pm 0

Wouldn't it make the games much more difficult if they DID turn off the television and play the games?

grue · Post by **grue** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:01 pm 0

Yak wrote:
grue wrote:I'm sorry but I'm no buying Animal Crossing for the 3rd time in the same decade.
I am!

I hope there's a way I can take dear Chevre and Tipper from Ox Spoo to whatever my Wii town ends up being called .

I don't think there's a way to make AC better than the portable incarnation.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:05 pm 0

grue wrote:
Yak wrote:
grue wrote:I'm sorry but I'm no buying Animal Crossing for the 3rd time in the same decade.
I am!

I hope there's a way I can take dear Chevre and Tipper from Ox Spoo to whatever my Wii town ends up being called .
I don't think there's a way to make AC better than the portable incarnation.

Well, new content all the time through the online would be cool, also being able to message other people's towns if they are online, maybe new things to do with the animals

- how cool would it be if dear Chevre came over for a game of tennis or somesuch

...

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:07 pm 0

Gah, I couldn't stand watching that GameSpot thing to the end and they killed my interest in Viva Poke... Pinata dead.

fog · Post by **fog** » Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:34 pm 0

Samus wrote:Excite Truck.

"WOW! Real time terrain changing!!!"
Seriously, they've not even bothered to look at the game ever before.

At first I thought all that acting clueless ("can we use the Wiimote on GC games?") stuff was put on but the more you watched the more you realised they really didn't know what they were doing.

Had they really not seen any vids or read any articles before that explained how the controls for GC games worked, how you don't control the players in Wii Tennis, how the terrain changed in Excite Truck, how you can throw curveballs in Baseball?

Surely any enthusiastic gamer has been soaking up all the Wii info they can get recently? I think that lack of enthusiasm for most things Wii came across clearly at times during that Gamespot session.