Comments on: Is Nintendo just stupid?

By: Valthan

Valthan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:11:19 +0000

For Rails shooters, there is Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Ghost Squad, House of the Dead, and I believe the medal of honor was a rails shooter as well.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:09:45 +0000

I keep reading great reviews of Okami, and still haven’t tried it. I have no idea why. And Cassie LOVED Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. rreminds me I need to go look up the sequels’ street date.

Brad, we greatly enjoyed Super Paper Mario for single player, and Cassie loves Carnival Games. I liked it a lot too.

Carnival Games does have some difficult minigames, but there were some we both loved playing together.

I’d highly recommend renting it and trying it out.

And I’m not joking about the Super Paper Mario.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:55:35 +0000

I bought my Wii three weeks ago. I have played it whenever anyone has come over, but not one second by myself until this week. This week I rented Smash Brothers. It was fun, for an hour. My brother-in-law and I played it later that night for like 4 hours. I love it for when people are over, but it did not grab us like we thought it would. I have talked to lots of other teachers that have it and ask what games they have, and everyone spends most of their time with wii sports and wii play. I don’t mind causal, hell with WOW I get all the hardcore I need, but put some games out that grab us!

Any suggestions what else to play when we have other couples over? I have looked at reviews or carnival games, playground, and warioware and it all seems like the same as the discs I own now.

By: Elynara

Elynara — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:45:49 +0000

BBB;

If you liked Twilight Princess–and you didn’t pick it up for the PS2–run out and get Okami. The game is really fantastic, and the wiimote pointer functionality works really well on this one.

Also, I think the third party titles are only going to get better as developers get used to the motion controls. Same deal as with the ds, which took quite a while to hit its stride in that area.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:59:26 +0000

Oh, and here’s another cool bit on third party stuff. It’s not quite an on rails shooter, but IMO it’s still pretty awesome: Sam & Max S1 is coming to the Wii :D Digg, Gamespot and some other outlets picked it up.

More info on no Rock Band DLC; Harmonix is blaming Nintendo for the whole ordeal(the no HDD comment I made earlier), but like I said; if people really want it, then spending 40 bucks on an SD card isn’t out of the option, IMO. I figure this because I bought one for the system way back in the day, and haven’t even touched it yet. :(

Clicky for where I found a quote to that effect:
http://www.slashgear.com/harmonix-dev-speaks-out-about-rock-band-wii-dlc-issue-1011125.php

By: Adonik

Adonik — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:14:20 +0000

I wholeheartedly feel your pain with the Wii issue. My problem is that, well, the majority of the games seem like UTTER CRAP that I wouldn’t dream dropping 50-60 bucks on. I’ve got your standard mario galaxy, metroid, etc. and even a couple like trauma center (which I really liked).

I agree with everyone here on the bullshit rehashing of games from other systems then having them suck.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:41:28 +0000

Ahhh…. hehe. Well, prayers on DLC are being addressed, so anyone got any answers for me on rail shooters? As long as my rant is getting me info, what the heck, I can pray, right?

By: Ballangard

Ballangard — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:28:45 +0000

I can definitely understand the disappointment about downloadables in general on the Wii, but one thing I want to point out with regards to (new) third party downloadable games is that Ninty haven’t abandoned us there. They finally launched the Wiiware service for DLC games in Japan last month, and we are supposed to get it next month, so there is, at least, hope. From what I am reading, a lot of the Wiiware games themselves will have DLC as well, so perhaps somebody over there is finally catching on to the idea. *fingers crossed*

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:04:11 +0000

lol. Well I haven’t even seen the Wii in stock since release. Oh wait, i saw one at BB, and (it was funny) a crowd of teenage salespeople pitched the hard sale. I almost got it. But that’s been Nintendo’s tactic for decades too. Keep supply so tight that demand is still pent up. Now that all our friends have the Wii, it’s not all that great as I first though, so I won’t get it. We bought the Raving Rabbits game for my wife’s brother (he has down’s syndrome). We figured the minigames would be real easy. No, you have to actually unlock all the minigames by becoming insanely good at them. There is no way around this. It just screams fail. Now we have a software that we can’t return (past return date) for a console we don’t own. That sucks. Ebay i guess.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:06:45 +0000

Yep, Nintendo has done this forever…great initial concept and release, horrible continuing support. It’s why they were second to Sega back in the day, then second to Playstation, and now just somewhere in the pack.

Just to get off tangent a little…could someone whack the Guitar Hero folks upside the head and get them to release the wireless controller for the XBox 360 as a stand alone product already? Please? You know everyone NEEDS a second controller, right? It’s a party type game, a second controller is an EASY sell. You already have the product, just package it without the game bundle for F’s sake!