Yes, I got a Wii at last. You’ll probably be hearing a lot of people saying that for a few more weeks or months.
Last Friday I finally got it – and I didn’t stand in line, in fact I bought it online and it showed up two days later which was sweet. I bought a “party” bundle that has been dubbed the “panty bundle” via a friend who misread one of my emails a little bit.
It’s a pretty good bundle as it came with Elebits, Rayman Raving Rabbids and a 1 gigabyte SD card. After purchasing it was shortly out-of-stock again, so I caught it at a good tiem. For the record this is the first time I’ve bought a console at launch.
Other than The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess the two bundled games are great launch titles. Rayman is mini-games with a lot of twisted humor and fun. Elebits is just fun, totally taking great physics and letting you apply your control via the Wii remote. Elebits has awful voice acting though – seriously bad. It’s strange that such a fun game would even let that happen.
As you may have noticed the Wii is over-hyped. Truth is most folks can’t put it down when they first try it out. It’s addictive, and like everything this should taper off once you’ve played everything to death. That’s when the burn-out sets in because you’ve played it all to death and yet you want more. Once more really slick games come out I’m sure folks will happily pick it again.
It’s a launch console so the game options are limited, but better than usual as well. Folks who got their Wii back in November are tired and want new games now. This is the usual problem with a new console.
The Wii does offer more options with the Virtual Console games you can download as well as the GameCube games being compatible. This is the first time Nintendo has opened up compatibility with their own previous systems unless you count the DS having Gameboy Advance support.
So like most folks I couldn’t put it down, even after having played much of this with friends elsewhere, this was my Wii and I was going to explore everything it had to offer.
Upon a simple setup of the Wii my fiancee joined me and we played Tennis, Bowling and then a lot of Rayman Raving Rabbids because gosh darn it, she had to experience the retarded bunnies! She isn’t a gamer by any current standard and doesn’t have the old-school NES or SNES background either. But nevertheless she was obviously curious about the controls and gameplay, even enough to seem pretty addicted. Nintendo has opened up the rather shallow gaming world with the Wii, just like they’ve been saying. The success of the thing is proof of that so far.
It’s fun. The one ingredient a lot of games have missing is fun. The Wii is pushing a lot of small mini-game titles right now, probably because of the control scheme. The games tend to overlap but some are better than others. The fishing in Zelda TP is far better than Wii Play for example.
Some things are so obvious and new with the control that they can create frustration – a friend of mine and I spent an hour figuring out the simple steps to catch a fish in Zelda TP. Yeah, we read all the stuff but the language didn’t translate so well when using the remote. Eventually we figured it out and swore never to fish again – minigames be damned!
Like the DS, it’s a great little piece of hardware that is also experimental and new enough to hopefully push some innovation from the game development community.
I Finally Got A Wii
Yes, I got a Wii at last. You’ll probably be hearing a lot of people saying that for a few more weeks or months.
Last Friday I finally got it – and I didn’t stand in line, in fact I bought it online and it showed up two days later which was sweet. I bought a “party” bundle that has been dubbed the “panty bundle” via a friend who misread one of my emails a little bit.
It’s a pretty good bundle as it came with Elebits, Rayman Raving Rabbids and a 1 gigabyte SD card. After purchasing it was shortly out-of-stock again, so I caught it at a good tiem. For the record this is the first time I’ve bought a console at launch.
Other than The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess the two bundled games are great launch titles. Rayman is mini-games with a lot of twisted humor and fun. Elebits is just fun, totally taking great physics and letting you apply your control via the Wii remote. Elebits has awful voice acting though – seriously bad. It’s strange that such a fun game would even let that happen.
As you may have noticed the Wii is over-hyped. Truth is most folks can’t put it down when they first try it out. It’s addictive, and like everything this should taper off once you’ve played everything to death. That’s when the burn-out sets in because you’ve played it all to death and yet you want more. Once more really slick games come out I’m sure folks will happily pick it again.
It’s a launch console so the game options are limited, but better than usual as well. Folks who got their Wii back in November are tired and want new games now. This is the usual problem with a new console.
The Wii does offer more options with the Virtual Console games you can download as well as the GameCube games being compatible. This is the first time Nintendo has opened up compatibility with their own previous systems unless you count the DS having Gameboy Advance support.
So like most folks I couldn’t put it down, even after having played much of this with friends elsewhere, this was my Wii and I was going to explore everything it had to offer.
Upon a simple setup of the Wii my fiancee joined me and we played Tennis, Bowling and then a lot of Rayman Raving Rabbids because gosh darn it, she had to experience the retarded bunnies! She isn’t a gamer by any current standard and doesn’t have the old-school NES or SNES background either. But nevertheless she was obviously curious about the controls and gameplay, even enough to seem pretty addicted. Nintendo has opened up the rather shallow gaming world with the Wii, just like they’ve been saying. The success of the thing is proof of that so far.
It’s fun. The one ingredient a lot of games have missing is fun. The Wii is pushing a lot of small mini-game titles right now, probably because of the control scheme. The games tend to overlap but some are better than others. The fishing in Zelda TP is far better than Wii Play for example.
Some things are so obvious and new with the control that they can create frustration – a friend of mine and I spent an hour figuring out the simple steps to catch a fish in Zelda TP. Yeah, we read all the stuff but the language didn’t translate so well when using the remote. Eventually we figured it out and swore never to fish again – minigames be damned!
Like the DS, it’s a great little piece of hardware that is also experimental and new enough to hopefully push some innovation from the game development community.