Today I turn on my Wii for the first time since early April

[TVC15]

I got Metroid Prime 3.  I get to turn my Wii on for like the 5th time this year!

[Mupepe]

MP3?  you'll probably be turning it off in 5 minutes.

[TVC15]

Seriously.  I owned a TG16, and it had a better library than the Wii at this point in its existence.

[Van Cruncheon]

mmm, TG-16.

[y2kev]

Seriously.  I owned a TG16, and it had a better library than the Wii at this point in its existence.

but the virtual console!

[bluemax]

I watched some of the first level or whatever on Youtube and all I could think was:

Is this Metroid or a Halo clone?

[TVC15]

Seriously.  I owned a TG16, and it had a better library than the Wii at this point in its existence.

but the virtual console!

My "virtual console" is my J: drive on my main PC.

[Van Cruncheon]

it's not even as visually accomplished as halo 1!

[Saint Cornelius]

Are the visuals better than the latest ARSRPG princess designing game that Drinky's gushing over, though?

[Smooth Groove]

Why would you get MP3?  Didn't you think the last two sucked?  I'll give MP3 a try since I thought MP1 was decent but I doubt that I'll really like it. 

I like Zelda:TP for the WII though.  And hopefully Super Mario Galaxy and SSBM too....

"runs away from Prole and TVC's ninthing hunting squad!"

[TVC15]

Yeah, I dislike the first 2 Primes.  I liked the first one when it originally came out, but I tried to replay it when I got my Wii, and I simply could not tolerate the controls.  Naturally, I didn't like Echoes at all.

I figured with this one, they have to at least change the controls, so maybe it will be playable.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

the thing is the Wii doesn't even have a lot of NON games either
it's a wasteland

[TVC15]

WHY THE FUCK DO SOME SYSTEM MENUS USE FONTS WITH SERIFS.  This is Ichirou gay.

[Saint Cornelius]

Which is why you'd have to be pretty stupid to have the Wii as your main console, duh

[Van Cruncheon]

super mario galaxy i can understand anticipating. it looks great. but jesus, ssb brawl? aren't you over the age of 13?

[TVC15]

Oh wait, my controller needs new batteries.  That's odd.  I haven't used it since April, no idea why they are dead.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

that happened to me too. I think the wii controller is constantly "pinging" the system even when it's off

[Madrun Badrun]

it's out?  tomorow I should get it then. 

[bluemax]

Metroid Prime had awesome atmosphere and decent gameplay, but MP2 was a disaster and a half.

[TVC15]

This doesn't appear to control that badly, so far.  Mark MacDonald is crazy, though.  This doesn't stand up to PS3/360 visuals.  It looks on par with the last two games.

[Robo]

Have you tried the other control scheme?  The IGN review mentions that the Standard setting is strictly for 'tards.  They didn't really bother to explain it beyond that.

[TakingBackSunday]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

name a single Wii game worth sneezing at between Super Paper Mario and Metroid Prime 3!

[TVC15]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

What?  I like the controls so far?  Am I trolling for calling a reviewer on his BS on the visuals?

I am using the advanced settings.  I may go back to standard, though.  Both standard and advanced feel pretty good, but depending on the speed of combat, I may prefer one or the other.

[BlueTsunami]

On the last 1upyours (or was it the one before that?) Mark MacDonald really sounded like he was "bububu"'ing the visuals while Shane was calling out the incrimental increase in visuals (stated its the same jump from the first to the second).

[TakingBackSunday]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

What?  I like the controls so far?  Am I trolling for calling a reviewer on his BS on the visuals?

I am using the advanced settings.  I may go back to standard, though.  Both standard and advanced feel pretty good, but depending on the speed of combat, I may prefer one or the other.

Wasn't talking to you.

Super Paper Mario was balls out boredom synth.  I wish I hadn't played it at all since I could've been sleeping, or learning to crochet.

This is unfortunately true.  :'(

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Super Paper Mario was balls out boredom synth.  I wish I hadn't played it at all since I could've been sleeping, or learning to crochet.

oh, I totally agree and hated it myself, too. I just meant it was the last time the Wii was even worth glancing at. Super Paper Mario was at least worth dismissing; the games between then and now haven't even warranted that.

[TakingBackSunday]

Mario Strikers was fun.  But I don't expect anyone here will admit to that.

[Madrun Badrun]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

name a single 360 game worth sneezing at between Oblivion and Dead Rising!

at least wii had a few good vc games between then. 

[TVC15]

Mario Strikers was fun.  But I don't expect anyone here will admit to that.

To be fair, most of us aren't sports gamers.

So far, this is pretty cool.

And father mike, there is no such thing as a good VC game.

[MrAngryFace]

I dont buy consoles that have a library consisting of 'was fun' titles.

'was fun' in most cases sounds like someone trying to convince themselves that the bucket of shit, while stinky, was fun to smear between the pages of library books.

[Madrun Badrun]

Mario Strikers was fun.  But I don't expect anyone here will admit to that.

To be fair, most of us aren't sports gamers.

So far, this is pretty cool.

And father mike, there is no such thing as a good VC game.

But I don't have a pc set up that makes playing old games fun nor did I own a lot of those games so they are good.

and maf strikers (at least on game cube) is great if your playing with other people. I'd love a 2d game that plays like strikers on xbla. 

[brawndolicious]

Oh wait, my controller needs new batteries.  That's odd.  I haven't used it since April, no idea why they are dead.

yeah the same thing happened to mine.  sucked cause I brought friends over and the batteries were dead and I had no more AA's so we just watched subtitled sayonara zetsubou sensei on stage 6.  I didn't even play the system for a couple weeks and the batteries were 2/3 full or full.

[TVC15]

Alright, so far I am digging this quite a bit.  The controls work really well, actually.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

dammit TVC you're making me want to join yooou

[bagofeyes]

This one better be good. How come MP1 was so awesome, yet I stopped playing MP2 after an hour?

[Madrun Badrun]

This one better be good. How come MP1 was so awesome, yet I stopped playing MP2 after an hour?

level design, it really was such a drop off. 

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I'm rather looking forward to Umbrella Chronicles and Ghost Squad, as I am an light-gun shooter fanatic.
Zack & Wiki looks to be the most polished point and click game EVER released on a console, it looks neat.
and I'm looking forward to Blast Works (Tumiki Fighters, but now you pay for it) and Geometry Wars: Galaxies, because 2D shooters are more fun then most forms of physical pleasure.
And there's Trauma Center 2, which just appears to be friggin cool, and has co-op.

so that's a half dozen Wii games in the near term I'm looking forward to.  Now those aren't the types of games that appeal to everybody, but I sure am looking forward to the Wii's near future.
Anybody else?

edit:I was halfway through reading the thread before I realized that the discussion actually got back to Metroid Prime 3, do carry on and please ignore the preceding post.

[Madrun Badrun]

Trauma Center 2 has coop?  awesome. 

I hope UC can bring that light gun feeling to wii even though there going to be a lot diffrent.  i love light gun games but could never get my self to invest in the guns.

Zack looks good but i will wait for reviews.

[TVC15]

I have to say I'm pretty impressed so far.  The controls work well right from the get go (no spending a half hour learning them), the visuals are well designed, the shooting and targeting works really well.

The only complaints I have are that NPCs don't feel "right" in a Metroid game.  Not game-ruining or anything, but I liked the atmosphere of being trapped, alone, in a harsh environment in previous games.  Maybe once I clear the first few hours that will rectify itself.  I pretty much am just past the intro.  The voice acting is generally pretty decent, too.  Kinda surprised at that.

There's also some tacked on waggle dumbness (waggle to throw your grapple!  Twist the remote counter-clockwise to open this airlock!) but it's all pretty inoffensive.  So far, pretty damned good.

It's too early to say anything about level design yet.  The 3d map you have isn't particularly easy to navigate, but that's hardly a major issue.

[Mr. Gundam]

Seriously.  I owned a TG16, and it had a better library than the Wii at this point in its existence.

but the virtual console!

My virtual console is downstairs in the den: a Genesis, NES, and SNES hooked up to another TV.

[bork]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

name a single Wii game worth sneezing at between Super Paper Mario and Metroid Prime 3!

Super Mario Strikers (so I hear), Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, and Mobile Suit Gundam come to mind.  Dewey's Adventure is supposed to be good, too, although that's not a game I'll even think about trying until it's sitting in the bargain bin.

But it's still funny how the Wii is turning out exactly like the N64 and GC before it.  

[Ichirou]

WHY THE FUCK DO SOME SYSTEM MENUS USE FONTS WITH SERIFS.  This is Ichirou gay.

 

Play Arc the Lad Collection if you want to see some annoying fonts.  I think all of Working Designs's PSX games have serifed fonts, lol.

[Madrun Badrun]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

name a single Wii game worth sneezing at between Super Paper Mario and Metroid Prime 3!

Super Mario Strikers (so I hear), Guilty Gear XX Accent Core, and Mobile Suit Gundam come to mind.  Dewey's Adventure is supposed to be good, too, although that's not a game I'll even think about trying until it's sitting in the bargain bin.

But it's still funny how the Wii is turning out exactly like the N64 and GC before it. 

and ds, which didn't have anything till summer either. 

[Oblivion]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

Actually, aside from the constant nostalgia remarks, and overall distaste for SSBM, the Evilbore crew is rather fair for the most part. In the very least, they at least try out the games, which is more than I could say for a ton of other people.

[Van Cruncheon]

[etiolate]

Whiteman-

Does it feel like Halo/FPS or more like Metroid? That's my main concern.

[Smooth Groove]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

Actually, aside from the constant nostalgia remarks, and overall distaste for SSBM, the Evilbore crew is rather fair for the most part. In the very least, they at least try out the games, which is more than I could say for a ton of other people.

What's wrong with SSBM?  I'm not a huge fan of it but I'll give it a try if it gets good reviews.  Sure, it's kiddy but so is basically every Nintendo game except maybe for Zelda&MP.  

[TVC15]

Whiteman-

Does it feel like Halo/FPS or more like Metroid? That's my main concern.

Oh no, it's still clearly a Metroid game.  Very similar feel to the previous two games.  I liked the atmosphere of the previous games, it was just the controls I couldn't get past.

I kinda wish they'd redo the previous games with these controls.  Especially the second, since I couldn't play that one much.

[Oblivion]

Oh, evilbore.  The hate is as strong as usual.

Actually, aside from the constant nostalgia remarks, and overall distaste for SSBM, the Evilbore crew is rather fair for the most part. In the very least, they at least try out the games, which is more than I could say for a ton of other people.

What's wrong with SSBM?  I'm not a huge fan of it but I'll give it a try if it gets good reviews.  Sure, it's kiddy but so is basically every Nintendo game except maybe for Zelda&MP. 

Oh, I like it. But a good number of people here, don't.

[TVC15]

One caveat, and since I am early in the game, this may be meaningless:  I just finished the third area in the game.  All have been shortish so far.  According to my statistics in the ship, I have 22% of the game's map explored already.

[y2kev]

I don't think it's completion percentage or map percentage, I think it's item percentage. Are you finding all the secret items?

[The Sceneman]

I loved MP1, probably becuase it was the first decent game I had played in years. I had been wading through 1st generation PS2 garbage and playing through PS1 games and shit. Then MP was like OMG in comparision. MP2 wasnt as good but I still liked it. MP3 should be sweet because I love the Wiimote Nunchuk control setup. Im having a blast with RE4

[TVC15]

I don't think it's completion percentage or map percentage, I think it's item percentage. Are you finding all the secret items?

Hmmmm, even still, it feels a bit high for what I've collected.  I only have 20 missles and 3 energy tanks.

[TakingBackSunday]

You're supposed to get around 200-ish missiles and 9 energy tanks.  Maybe you get more of them more quickly later on in the game.

[DJ_Tet]

well, as a non-fps fan, I got to say the first hour of the game have been great to me

The control scheme is intuitive and accurate, and perhaps because of the freeflow look made possible with the wiimote, the game has an organic feel when running around that didn't make me feel sick. I was able to do the first couple of battles with space pirates or whomever without getting too disoriented, all in all I'd have to say the controls were everything I hoped for when I first heard about the wiimote.

And honestly, they are better than I thought possible after playing wii up until this point. I think they set a new standard. The other ways to interact with the game are pretty interesting as well. Luckily for me the game has a built in brightness setting, so I'm able to see most of the details, I can't really comment on the graphics though. They look fantastic to me, but just about everything does nowadays.

I'm very excited and sort of pissed that I have to go to bed. It's been awhile since I wanted to stay up gaming. Can't wait for Halo 3 now, I wonder how it will feel to go back to dual analog (as a non fps fan.)

I immediately switched to advanced mode and except for a couple of hiccups it's been very smooth. I've had a lot easier time keeping my viewpoint focused on what I want to look at while running around (not necessarily straight in front of me). With dual analog, I get stuck spinning around and have a hard time strafing around and focusing my shots on my enemies, I wasn't having those problems tonight. For the record the fps I've played the most was Halo 1, which I thought controlled well. This seems far superior to me, much closer to the kb/mouse combo.

I have played fps on pc and do not have the same control problems that I do on consoles.

Some of the problems I have with fps cannot be fixed with control schemes, but I'm hoping my new widescreen plasma will help. I feel closed in, as the viewpoint is supposed to accurately show what your eyes see, but gaming on a 4x3 tv I miss the peripheral vision and it can make me disoriented after some time.

I'm really excited to play this game in 16x9, but I wasn't having the same "boxed-in" feeling tonight because of what I referred to the "freeform" look. As I was running around, the slightest glance with the wiimote would let me focus on what I wanted to look at, almost on instinct. It's very accurate and seems very natural to me.

There is a shitload in there to scan so far if you want to, but doesn't seem to be a lot that you have to scan.