Nintendo Wii Fanboy

ok im in the uk and dont have mp3 yet but i cant wait to get my grubby little hands on it and a few other games that all come out basically at the same time.

For me i still cant stop playing wii sports (i know i know) its just such a fun way to waste 30 mins. I just got super paper mario as it came out here and i have to say i love it. Its a refreshing breath of air i mean i know it has it flaws, i have read many reviwes of it and can agree with alot of the points put forward but i have to say i liek its quirkyness i know it dosnt make use of the motion controlls a great deal but do all games have to?

i think its perfectly ballances controll wise and i love the look and feel of the game. i spent 3 hours playing it solidly without even noticing it had been that long. I will say though that it does feel a little to easy.

apart from that im still playing scarface and mario strikers charged.

Strikers charged is one amazing game all my friends that come round want to play it and its just such good fun. Although when playing online you allways get put against somone thats so much better than you (although that does not allways mean they will win). The graphics are great thhe gameplay is great i cant speak more highly of this game.

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'Whole lotta nothin' for me. I'd like to pick up Dewy's Adventure, but not until I get through a few more games I'm trying to plow through on the PS2.

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I was on a huge strikers binge but it stopped abruptly right about the time everyone stopped actually shooting the ball in lieu of deeking the goalie.

SPM was just ok.

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I believe in the Wii controls thanks to RE4, Tiger Woods, Madden, SSX Blur, and now MP3:C. But I've been severely disappointed in a few games, especially Red Steel, because the controls just don't work right. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to learn the controls to any Wii game.

Also, I subscribe to the idea that graphics aren't everything, but I would like the games to at least utilize the hardware that's there. Most of the games have been lacking in that department.

I've had more fun with the Wii so far than any other console I've ever owned, but it's more of a factor of several really good games rather than a lot of decent games. I wouldn't trade the system for anything, but right now I'd only give the games a 6/10 overall.

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i have to say there has been a lack off amazing games, now dont get me wrong there are quite a few amazing games on the system but over all im a little disapointed although between now and january next year i have about 10 games all on pre order and all are looking absolutely amazing cant wait!

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Sweet games are kind of a Catch 22 for me (and I never read that book so my usage of the reference may be off, but I digress). I can't stop getting all the sweet games that come out and with work and life I can't beat them fast enough. Right now I am in the middle of Metroid Prime 3, Rresident Evil 4 (GNC), Final Fantasy III (DS), Hotel Dusk, and Paper Mario.

These are all great games. I will say though that I borrowed Super Paper Mario (not to be confused with the 64 iteration which I am currently playing) and I was less than impressed. The gameplay mechanics are second to none and breathe a totally new life into traditional 2D gaming. Does anyone agree with me that the glaring problem with this game was in all the time wasted walking around Flipside just wanting to start the next world? I know they wanted to respect the RPG roots blah blah blah. If they had made an action platformer without all the tacked on RPG elements that game would have been way better in my book.

Thoughts?

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Agree big time here, Barry. If they had given all the story inside of the worlds and just dropped you into the next one like in the original SMB, I think it would have been a lot more interesting. They could have even extended the game by 2-4 worlds then. As it was I was struggling to finish the game, then I immediately sold it. Fun, but not enough for $50.

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Flipside is what killed SPM for me, too. The game was insanely easy, but Flipside was a complete chore. It's not a bad game...it's just...so easy it's boring.

I suppose I should probably sell in on eBay or something.

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vidGuy -- I never even finished the game. I just couldn't get past all the frustrating time spent in Flipside. I feel like over 50% of my time spent in that game wasn't spent playing, but spent frustratingly dealing with Flipside.

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Right now I'm playing University. It's a mod of the game First Life. I'm in the Multimedia 2D03 level right now, and grinding some XML.

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Yeah, so far they've wet my appetite. I've enjoyed the casual games. The sports games are pretty fun. But to please me, they need to offer that epic experience every once in a while.

Red Steel could have done that, but fell short because of the controls. Twilight Princess was decent, but not next-gen in any way. MP3 is the first game to really justify the system -- really leveraging the Wii-mote for a unique epic experience.

If I get tired of waiting for Mario Galaxy, I might buy RE:4. I'm very confident in No More Heroes. But I'm also looking to Disaster: Day of Crisis and Red Steel 2 to deliver. Or at least 2 other games in the next year that can justify this system as a devoted game fan.

Nights and Fire Emblem mildly interest me too, if they can offer me a depth of gameplay and creative use of the Wiimote.

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I played all PAL Games (Ok, not all, only 37);-)
I live in Germany and I must import some games from UK (Godfather, Cooking Mama). At the moment I play MySims. And before Super Paper Mario. I like most games. I didn't have any controlling problems in any game but Wii Sport Boxing. I only problem with the Wii is Graphics. Why is the graphic of most Wii Games worse then the graphic of GameCube Games? Are the developer not willing to invest time in graphic? Or are they thinking that wii gamer are blind?

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Let's face it, we all bought the Wii based on potential. I feel it's going to be another year before that potential is met, mostly due to the Wii's surprising success and the industry's slowness with the uptake of... well... pretty much any trend.

The wiimakes look good: RE4, Godfather, and the upcoming Bully, but of the new games, I've only gotten one this year: Harry Potter, which was good but waaaaay too short. My wife actually picked up MySims last week and I was pleasantly surprised. Though if it didn't come with a $10 Target gift card, it would've also been a rip off because of the lack of content. It's great if you have a love of building, skip it if you prefer making the sims interact.

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Strikers is great for some 4-vs.-CPU multiplayer, though I'm having some trouble getting into it single-player. The WiFi matches help get me into it, but then I realize how much better others are and I get destroyed :)

I enjoyed Super Paper Mario to some extent, but I do have a handful of complaints. First off, I absolutely hated the art style -- and those flat geometric Flipside characters were the most uninspired, unoriginal characters ever to grace a Mario game. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two Paper Mario games and loved their character designs with their distinct "Mario" feel, but this game felt like it could have easily had a completely different main character and it wouldn't have mattered. The flip-to-3D mechanic felt great, but after the first two worlds the level designers got lazy with populating the "3D" views, not even bothering to add pathways or anything interesting to the 3D scenes. For the last three worlds I rarely needed to flip to 3D, and when I did it was a barren wasteland. I also didn't understand why, if all of the "worlds" in the game were supposed to be separate universes, that they were all inhabited by those awful geometric characters. They should have been distinctly different, but instead skated by with the same style for all the worlds. Granted none of these issues have anything to do with the Wii's control scheme, just the halfhearted game design that went into the game.

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The Wii's graphics are great, but we all know there are games out there that look like good PS2 games(and most of those were pre-rendered). I believe this may have been certain developers failsafe manuever for a plan to multiply profits and to reduce design cost and i really disagree with any arguments supporting control research and its possible cost. LoZ:TP DOESNT EVEN LOOK LIKE A GAMECUBE it puts a nintendo graphics to shame but it was THE BEST GAME OF THE GAME SYSTEMS UNTIL METROID.

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Wii sports is game that gets played whenever friends come over.

IMHO there really have been only two original games worth getting so far; twilight princess and mp3.
Super paper mario was fun at first but just left me wanting a real mario platformer (2d or 3d).

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I got Dewy's Adventure, it's really great. It's not very hard but I have fallen to my death several times or have been killed by a boss till I figured out how to defeat it. It's a great game, I even got the huge Dewy Plush bonus :O

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i picked up MySims this weekend and WOW, it is animal crossing without the animals! It doesn't have Online Play, it isn't played in real time(which there are advantages too that), and this fishing sucks. The rest of it is great for my 9 year old she is enjoying the game very much! I am playing Madden 08 and loving it, and i can't wait until my neighbor is done with MP3 so i can play it. We split the cost of the game and he gets to play through first and then i will play it. games cost so much less this way

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I'm new to the Wii as all of you know its been difficult to get a hold of. I happened upon one that included Zelda so I snatched it up quickly. So, I've played Zelda and Wii sports. I love Zelda, it is an excellent game. The only shortcoming I see is the lack of voice acting. I know this is a controversial issue, but I enjoy the depth it adds to the games.

Oh, and I rented Mario Party which was enjoyable, but maybe not a game I'll buy.

Also, of note, if you have an HDTV be sure to pick up a component cable it really makes a visible (duh) difference. I played through the first dungeon without it and then picked one up from Target for 20 bucks and it is quite an improvement.

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I've loved everything i've bought so far, sans MP3 (i LOVED MP3, but we're supposed to omit it, right?)

Sonic- good, despite what the people say, it takes the better elements of the 3D games, then makes it all faster
Super Paper Mario- loved it, i could never get into Paper Mario before this, the idea of making basic actions into RPG style attacks turned me off of them, but now there's a game i could actually play with the same lovely Paper Mario charm
Mario Strikers Charged- Excellent gameplay mechanics, addicting online play. The single player was the achilles heel. Having to play through all 3 cups as the same team made it feel like a chore, if they had included the original's cup mode, it would've worked much better
And of course Zelda, Wii Sports, then Ice Climber, Super Metroid, F-Zero X, Bomberman '93, and Toe Jam & Earl on VC

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