Woohoo, got me a Wii!

[duckman2000]

Character designs (Non enemies, Non Samus) are shit.  But thats their art directors fault if anything.  The first space station probably tries to be too much halo

Yeah, the intro felt like they were desperately trying to mimic the Halo 2 opening, with hilarious results. The characters, urgh. These guys should stick to designing space bugs.

[AdmiralViscen]

My Wii is my Mario playing machine. Also, Blades of Steel.

I never could get into the Metroid games. I tried MP1 when it first came out, but the whole thing seemed like a chore to me; it never felt fun. I didn't even give the other two the time of day, which from the looks of things was the way to go for me.

I found out Friday that Mario Kart was out. I had no idea. I was always a sucker for those games, but I guess the wheel is a failure and...I just really don't care about Mario Kart anymore.

But Blades of Steel is pretty great.

MP3 is aimed squarely at people like you, you should try it.

[duckman2000]

Urgh, Wii Play is such SHIT

[NME]

MP3 is aimed squarely at people like you, you should try it.

I just one of those Blu Ray players that plays Playstation games. I'm tapped out.

It's good to know that the game would probably be more appealing to me than the first. Maybe I will check it out once the price drops.

[duckman2000]

I just one of those Blu Ray players that plays Playstation games. I'm tapped out.

Look at cupcake here trying to fit in with the xtards crowd. 

[hyp]

air hockey isn't floating your boat?  that shit is next gen, mayne.

[duckman2000]

That was actually the only game in that god forsaken collection that was at least mildly amusing. And it was still sort of crap. What a miserable collection.

How is Mario Party for Wii?

[demi]

Even worse... dude dont expect anything from the machine

The only games I have bought

* Dragon Quest
* No More Heroes
* Fire Emblem
* Galaxy
* Zack and Wiki
* Zelda
* Paper Mario
* Prime 3

probably the best you're gonna do, and even then half of that list is shit

[hyp]

i liked it initially, but after unlocking most of the mini games, there wasn't enough variation (eventually traded it in).  and plus it got boring playing with the wife.  i'd only recommend it if you've got 4 people to play with on a regular basis.

[hyp]

* Dragon Quest
* No More Heroes
* Fire Emblem
* Galaxy
* Zack and Wiki
* Zelda
* Paper Mario
* Prime 3

scratched off some crap.  i was about to add wario ware to that, but the novelty wears off FAST.

[duckman2000]

So far, only Galaxy has "clicked" with me. I might have to return a few of these horrible games and pick up Zelda though.

[Grecco]

Wario Ware is awesome but short imo

[hyp]

^ yea that too.

[Bildi]

I don't know what it is about Prime 3, but I tend to pick it up and then put it down again for long periods of time.  I couldn't put Prime 1 down until I finished, but Prime 3 just doesn't hold my interest very well.  Still oodles better than Prime 2 though.

I liked Galaxy, but it wasn't "OMG best game ever".  Probably the best game on the system after RE4 though.

Paper Mario is as fuck-boring as always.  If it didn't float your boat in the past, this game won't change that.

I think Zack & Wiki might be awesome, I'd like to get it sometime.  NMH doesn't really interest me.

[demi]

* Dragon Quest
* No More Heroes
* Fire Emblem
* Galaxy
* Zack and Wiki
* Zelda
* Paper Mario
* Prime 3

scratched off some crap.  i was about to add wario ware to that, but the novelty wears off FAST.

i know you didnt just scratch those off

WING ISLAND

[Van Cruncheon]

add geo wars galaxies

[pilonv1]

shit why are people making me want to get boom blox

Metroid Prime has always sucked, but the first game was bearable

Paper Mario I played till just after the nerd boss and got the shits with all the story and talking. I would love a 2D/3D platform style game like this but SPM is shit.

Wii Play is garbage too, I know people who swear by Tanks which I think is the most worthless shit ever. I do like the cow jumping game though

if it wasn't for the convenient ROM downloads and occasional SEGA nostalgia I'd never use my Wii.

[duckman2000]

oh and : Mario Party is dung , absolute dung.

Is it more or less crap than Banana Blitz?

[Bildi]

I want to get Boom Blox but it's a bit too expensive at the moment.  If it's somewhere for AUD$50 I'll find it pretty hard to resist.

[Mondain]

I don't even know what's a guncon but just from Mondain's usual BS, it has to be a PS3 device. 

Yeah, Guncons have been Sony-exclusive peripherals so far.

Guncon 3:

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Sensor bars:

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it's necessary to use that kind of motion sensing tech nowadays as older light guns are all based on the hertz flickering process of CRT tubes

I'd have probably gotten Time Crisis 4 already but you can only use one game with the Guncon 3 that comes with it, hopefully there will be more in the future, that's just one of the absolute coolest game peripherals ever

stores have ordered LOADS of Time Crisis 4 copies and many of them are still in stock and gather dust, I'm just waiting for the price to drop before I finally get my very own Guncon 3

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

The games I own:

Metal Slug Anthology - You can find this on eBay/Half/whatever for $20.  I don't even know if it is available new but at that price, you need to get it.  Includes Metal Slug 1-6.  A few different control setups.  The controls are the greatest flaw.  They are good, not great.  The worst involves shaking the controller like a tard to launch grenades.  I believe you can use the GC controller but I wouldn't buy a Wavebird for this game if you don't own one already.

Super Mario Galaxy - This game is 1000x better than that abortion known as Super Mario Sunshine.  It is like Nintendo realized how badly they fucked up with the franchise and came to redeem itself.  All is forgiven.  Not the best Mario game in the series but it is a very good one and has enough challenge to not make it a pushover like Mario 64. 

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - I got this because I drowned in the jizz of overactive GAFfers who claimed it to be "Game of the Forever."  That phrase is lame as fuck and so is Brawl.  If you want to buy Brawl, you better make sure you have roommates or friends or whatever that like the game.  It is essentially Melee with more shit.  If you hated Melee, keep away from Brawl.  It is not a complex fighter.  It is a mascot party game.  You need friends because the online mode is so broken that you might not find much luck in immediately connecting online and finding others to play without a laundry list of problems.  Nintendo claimed to want to wait until they got online gaming down pat before having it in their games.  They lied as always, lazy fucks.

Mario Kart Wii - I still think the DS version is much better.  The wheel sucks and is a novelty.  Once you get the golden wheel (race online a few times), the novelty becomes useless.  It takes the Brawl route in throwing in a bunch of characters.  Unlike Brawl, MKWii introduces a bunch of useless fucking characters and snubs several good ones that should have been used instead.  The new courses seem like MKDS rejects but not Double Dash terrible.  Online is decent and you can actually play a few games without Nintendo's shitty servers kicking you off.

[duckman2000]

Picked up Twilight Princess. This had better kick ass, Borys.

[Joe Molotov]

It doesn't, trade it in for Boom Blox.

[Mondain]

Why didn't you pick up the superior GameCube version?

[Darunia]

I thought TP's intro hours were awesome personally

first you're introduced to everything in an enclosed space, then slowly it all opens up after you do the first dungeon. Slow yes, but I liked it

[crimsondynamics]

Going to have to go back and play it.

I'm around the five-hour mark, and couldn't get what everyone was raving about. In five hours of gameplay, I felt Phantom Hourglass blew Twilight Princess out of the water.

But if it does start opening up, then I guess I owe it to myself to finish the game. Bought the damn thing with the Wii ages ago, and it's one of the few games I have yet to finish...

[hyp]

TP is a must have.

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for homebrew and piracy

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[duckman2000]

I don't think I'll ever buy another Wii game. So far, I've found two good games (although TP has so far been mind-numbingly boring), one horrible one that the wife likes, and then the rest has been crap. Crappity crappy crap crap.

Going to have to go back and play it.

I'm around the five-hour mark, and couldn't get what everyone was raving about. In five hours of gameplay, I felt Phantom Hourglass blew Twilight Princess out of the water.

But if it does start opening up, then I guess I owe it to myself to finish the game. Bought the damn thing with the Wii ages ago, and it's one of the few games I have yet to finish...

I like the sword play, and that's about as far as I've gotten. Now I'm a wolf. On the upside, the game isn't always horribly ugly. Although I wish they had never abandoned the legitimately beautiful style of TWW.

[demi]

TP was a chore, but now that I re-bought it, it's proved its worth tenfold 

[Oblivion]

Why'd you re-buy it?

[demi]

So I could um... rent... WiiWare games

[Oblivion]

Oh, that Twilight Hack thing, right?

[demi]

 

[duckman2000]

Ok, yeah... it's getting to be pretty now. I'm starting to get tired of the constant pauses though, for cut-scenes and messages.

[bork]

Does the Twilight Hack work with the Japanese Zelda?  I still have a copy of it sitting here.

[demi]

Yep

[duckman2000]

Wow, Zelda is all sorts of wonderful now. Still, TWWs forest temple shits all over this version.

[crimsondynamics]

Can't wait to get my new Wii so I can get back to TP after hearing all the praise you guys are heaping on the game.

My old one is fried (not the console's fault) with an asston of saves and VCs and my boss is heading for the US this weekend. Hope he can find one for me (as he wants one for himself).

[duckman2000]

Don't worry, I'm sure I will be shitting all over the game once the double triple dose of vicodin wears off. Right now, I've been traversing a beautiful field and feeling totally alright with the game.

[Smooth Groove]

I liked TP quite a bit.  Part of it is probably due to the fact that I barely played Ocarina of Time and Celda:WW. 

Unlike many Zelda fans, I didn't feel the game was more of the same. 

I'd like to finish TP this summer but I haven't played it for 8 months.  It sucks that the game makes it so hard to remember what to do next. 

[Smooth Groove]

Thanks, I'll ask you for help when I start playing it again. 

[Bildi]

I dunno, most Zelda games have terribly slow starting areas.  I would have thought most people are prepared for it by now.  I struggle to hate on TP's start too much though because meeting Midna is pants-wettingly awesome.

Midna

Majora's Mask is about the only recent Zelda game to buck the slow start trend.

[Darunia]

I dunno, most Zelda games have terribly slow starting areas.  I would have thought most people are prepared for it by now.  I struggle to hate on TP's start too much though because meeting Midna is pants-wettingly awesome.

I've played pretty much all Zeldas and TP had by far the best beginning, I don't get the hate. They introduce you to stuff you'll need later, at the same time establishing the kid characters and an incentive to get into the first dungeon. Beats getting a sword + shield and getting summoned immediately

[Tristam]

dp

[Tristam]

I dunno, most Zelda games have terribly slow starting areas.  I would have thought most people are prepared for it by now.  I struggle to hate on TP's start too much though because meeting Midna is pants-wettingly awesome.

I've played pretty much all Zeldas and TP had by far the best beginning, I don't get the hate. They introduce you to stuff you'll need later, at the same time establishing the kid characters and an incentive to get into the first dungeon. Beats getting a sword + shield and getting summoned immediately

Because of the painfully boring fetch quests and the patronizingly easy difficulty level? Besides, I don't know how you were emotionally invested in those little brats, if that's what you mean by incentive.

Majora's Mask has the best introductory sequence of any recent Zelda game. Motherfucker stole your means of transportation; that's what I call incentive!

[Oblivion]

Man, some of you are real pansies. I know for a fact I don't play as many games as some of you, yet even I was able to go to the ending of every Zelda (TP included).

Wow, Zelda is all sorts of wonderful now. Still, TWWs forest temple shits all over this version.

Oh yeah: this Zelda has the best Dungeon Music in the entire series.

Sorry dude, but you're off your rocker. TP has by far and away the most repetitive and dull music out of any Zelda title, ESPECIALLY the dungeons (and this includes 2D too).

[duckman2000]

Did you beat the Forest Temple, AA? Where are you know in TP. Post something here goddamnit.

I'm in the Goron Mines, which is alright, but again... Dragon's Roost beats the living shit out of this. This game would have been so much more awesome to look at if they hadn't abandoned the TWW style for this "realistic" crap. It really shoves the limitations of the Gamecube right in your face at every turn. At times, it looks beautiful, but when it's constantly countered with garbage views, it's hard to feel good about it.

Gameplay has been good, although I'm even more sick now of the constant interruptions, not to mention the horribly lame cutscenes. And I can't skip them either, imagine that. I'm still sort of waiting for the game to open up, so to speak.

Oh yeah, and the music is crap.

[duckman2000]

Well, I don't think it helps that I'm going between playing TTP and playing Gears of War on PC.

[Rman]

I loved Twilight Princess, but I wished they bumped the difficulty or included a hard mode. Bosses were way too easy.

[duckman2000]

And what's with the N64 looking NPCs? I guess the blocky, sharp look is a deliberate style, but it's really bug nasty.

[duckman2000]

Wow, Nintendo really needs to reboot this franchise. This is the same game I've played three or four times already. 

[Darunia]

Aren't you the guy who chose Ratchet: ToD as his goty? Absolutely no rehashing going on there :p

[duckman2000]

Aren't you the guy who chose Ratchet: ToD as his goty? Absolutely no rehashing going on there :p

Me? Hell no. I liked it, but not as much as I thought I would. And in retrospect, even a bit less than that even. And yes, it's a royal rehash, but there's something extra lame about Zelda, with all its pretentious "oh ye hero of the ages" stuff being such a bloody retread.

[duckman2000]

Wow, Nintendo really needs to reboot this franchise. This is the same game I've played three or four times already. 

This is the rehash to end all rehashes. I mean every single locale from generic Zelda universe is here and every single Link's Equipment Item.

I think you should just to stop playing it and sell it already. It's obvious it isn't your cup of tea

Oh, I'm liking it, I'm just not loving it like, say, the original. I have higher expectations of Nintendo titles, but this feels pretty anonymous.

[The Sceneman]

Zelda games are so fucking bad

No More Heroes is much better

[Great Rumbler]

Zelda games are so fucking bad

No More Heroes is much better

No More Heroes has incredibly repetitive gameplay and is only held together by its over-the-top presentation and cutscenes.

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I still like it thought.

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[Crushed]

TP in a nutshell:
-Dungeons
-Everything else 


Oh, and STAR SOLDIER R is now on WiiWare. Best new downloadable title of the generation!

[hyp]

Oh, and STAR SOLDIER R is now on WiiWare. Best new downloadable title of the generation!

 :sp0rsk1™

[demi]

Is there only one WiiWare game a week? Snore. It is going to be a while before something worth downloading is released.

[cool breeze]

I don't know why I decided to attempt to play Red Steel again, but I still am in awe of how terrible this game actually is.