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Post by Shellshock on Mar 27, 2011 14:58:20 GMT -5
So what's your Wii up to these days? Do you feel embarrassed by how much white plastic peripherals you have accumulated? Are you collecting those obscure hardcore Japanese exclusives? Wiiware? Did you open it up to see if it looks like 2 GameCubes taped together? Homebrew hacked?
Feel free to choose up to 5 options. It will be interesting to see how much use out of this machine this gaming demographic still gets from it. You know, now that all the remote waggling gimmickry and crappy licensed software discussions are over.
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Post by Ike on Mar 27, 2011 15:19:02 GMT -5
My Wii is a GameCube. I bust out TvC once in a while but now that MvC3 is out... yeah.
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Post by Snarboo on Mar 27, 2011 15:19:29 GMT -5
It's been gathering dust since I upgraded my computer last year. I finally moved it into my room from the living room but it still hasn't seen any action.
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Having said that, I'm going to move through my Gamefly queue and finally play all those games I've been curious about. I don't foresee there being any large releases on the Wii for a while, barring Conduit 2.
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Post by Jave on Mar 27, 2011 15:23:06 GMT -5
Real cute how "playing first party Nintendo games" isn't even on the ballot!
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Post by Feynman on Mar 27, 2011 15:32:51 GMT -5
Sold and gone! Every now and then there's a first-party game that kind of makes me wish I still had one, but not enough to actually get another. I'll probably pick one up again on the cheap whenever Nintendo decides to usher in their next home console.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2011 15:33:29 GMT -5
I use my Wii maybe twice a year. I'm playing Kirby's Epic Yarn right now, though. Great game, if a bit on the easy side. It's what I'd call the perfect "girlfriend / wife" game. Something to play with a significant other who gets intimidated by more mainstream fare.
I can think of a few reasons for why I don't use the system more often. The first would be a lack of Achievements, but I'm not certain if that's really a valid excuse. The PS3 has Trophies and I don't use that very often, either.
The second reason would be that most of the available games simply aren't interesting to me. They're either shovelware or too childish. I mean, has anyone seen Babysitting Mama (really should have called it Baby Mama for that extra Maury feeling)? The amount of peripherals for this system is just absurd.
A lot of it just comes down to the harware, too. You simply aren't going to see Arkham City on the Wii. Even if you did, it would look like shit and have a bunch of content either cut or re-worked to utilize waggle. No thanks.
It's a shame. The Wii has really turned out to be the Gamecube with motion control. A bunch of family-friendly games on inferior hardware and without strong third-party support.
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Post by Shellshock on Mar 27, 2011 15:44:07 GMT -5
Real cute how "playing first party Nintendo games" isn't even on the ballot! Argh, you are right. I should have put that in. The board won't let me modify the poll! I guess you could use the last option for that. |
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Post by Dingo on Mar 27, 2011 15:54:46 GMT -5
I play my Wii every once in a while. Sometimes I'll pop in TvC, most of the times I'm playing Brawl when I have friends over, and I'll occasionally play something random (Mario, more often than not). To be honest, though, I haven't been playing any of my consoles that much lately. I seem to mainly focus on handhelds.
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Post by Jave on Mar 27, 2011 15:54:56 GMT -5
Well, that would have been the one I'd gone with.
I do play a lot of Mr Driller W and some other puzzle stuff on WiiWare, but I've noticed that now that money's a little tighter, I'm a lot less willing to take a chance on boxed games that aren't from Nintendo.
Sorry if I come off as confrontational. I just really do like the Wii, probably for the very same reasons most hardcore gamers don't.
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Post by Sayl on Mar 27, 2011 16:01:40 GMT -5
The Wii is waiting patiently for Dragon Quest X the only thing stopping me from using it as a permanent book end.
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Post by TheGunheart on Mar 27, 2011 16:07:46 GMT -5
On and off, myself. Just finished Red Steel 2 and am currently playing Crystal Bearers. After my marathon of the Zelda series last year, I'm really looking forward to Skyward Sword.
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Post by Shellshock on Mar 27, 2011 16:45:25 GMT -5
I don't do any TV console gaming lately, but eventually I'll make a list of all the Wii games worth owning and see if it's worth keeping the machine. Like those Japanese shooters, Muramasa, and Sin & Punishment, for example.
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Post by Shellshock on Mar 27, 2011 16:49:11 GMT -5
On and off, myself. Just finished Red Steel 2 and am currently playing Crystal Bearers. After my marathon of the Zelda series last year, I'm really looking forward to Skyward Sword. Is Red Steel 2 worth it with Motion Plus? |
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Post by Lee on Mar 27, 2011 17:07:42 GMT -5
I haven't touched my Wii too much since I beat Mother 3 on the GBA emulator, but Sin and Punishment 2 is in my backlog.
I am still holding out for Dragon Quest X, which seems to be in development hell at this point. The 3DS will be Nintendo's main focal point until all the release hype dies down, yet another reason it sucks to own a Wii right now. If S-E announce Dragon Quest X is moving to 3DS, the Wii is getting sold.
Also, fuck Nintendo for not localizing The Last Story and Xenoblade. Those two games could have kept the Wii relevant.
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Post by justjustin on Mar 27, 2011 17:16:03 GMT -5
The only reason I keep it is because it has the best emulators for NES, Genesis and SNES. I've compared the actual consoles and the Wii emulators on a tube TV and in each case the emulators have better picture quality.
If it didn't have homebrew I would have sold it long ago.
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