Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Couldn't agree with you more mate.

"You got it. You guys got exactly the type of game we want for this machine."

Sums things up really.

When you relate "casual" to "does not appeal to me" with use of a word as absolute as "therefore", you immediately lose all credibility in my opinion.

That's awesome FX-1. I guess the fact that I don't like casual games whatsoever has nothing to do with it, right? Twit...

Twit? Me? You're kidding. I guess it has something to do with your definition of "causal games". If you define casual games as any game you don't like, then, yes, your statement is acceptable, but I don't think that's the case. Like anything, you have to actually play the game to know for sure if you don't like it. Casual isn't a genre; you can't just lump all casual games together in the "don't like" pile. You can have tendencies to like core games more than casual ones, but it's just illogical to say "they're casual, therefore I don't like them." I just can't believe that there's not a single casual game you like.

The attitude wouldn't be so unsettling if the Wii didn't have SO much core potential. (btw, like the "core" terminology better than "hardcore". But you didn't help things by adding "crusty" to it.) It's not just an accelerometer, it's IR too.

But it isn't as if I can switch back to PC or grab a 360 and get what the Wii offered us. It's like I've been given a sample of ambrosia, and then banned from ever having it again.

I don't need Nintendo to hate on casuals, but could they spread the love a little?

Very true. I picked it up for $10 and for $10 it's a fine game, but it is very rough around the edges. It could've used some Nintendo touching up.

Honestly, why are you here? This blog is for intellegent people. That means those of us with enough language skills to make a sentance that explains our views, rather than rudely insults the object of an entire website's obsession with arguments of no greater calibur than those of a BSPSfanboy, which, coincidentally you're starting to sound like.

Why am I here? Well, to brighten your day, FX-1! It must be dreary to spend hours searching for people who are wrong on the internet in order to prove your superiority, isn't it? You rely on people like me who have an opinion other than your own - people with perspective - people who do not deserve to live, in your opinion. It's good that we're here and posting, or you'd probably be playing Cooking Mama or some other waggle-fest. Oh, for the record, Big Brain Academy doesn't make you smarter, so you might wanna take a break from time to time.

If it's cool with you, I'll go back to waiting for a decent Wii game to release, and you can go back to whatever it is you were doing under Reggie's desk.

Thats odd, I own twenty 'decent' Wii games (not including VC) as opposed to my 11 PS3 games and 30 360 games.

Congrats on liking 20 Wii games. That's great for you.

I've played 54 Wii games, and owned all but two of them, which I rented. My collection is now slimmed down to 21, and I'm actively trying to sell four of them.

I guess your point is that there are about 20 good Wii games, which I agree with. Most of them I have finished, though, and I'm not one to replay games once I beat them.

But there's not a whole lot coming out, and my tastes are likely different than yours anyhow. I'm not saying you like Chicken Shoot and Far Cry Vengeance, but I bet you love most of Nintendo's franchises, which I don't. I bought the Wii because it was supposed to be this revolutionary way to play games (which it has partially delivered - waggle sucks, but IR aiming is a godsend). I didn't buy a Wii just because I want to play Nintendo games and high school English class on disc.

There will be more games that appeal to me, eventually, I am sure of that. But in the meantime, I need something to play. So I bought a PS3. I'm sorry that you don't enjoy your investment as much as I do.

I want Red Steel 2

I'm looking forward to Red Steel 2 as well. It had a lot of rough edges (to put it nicely), but personally, I liked the turning/aiming in it more than the turning/aiming in any other Wii FPS *including* (and people will probably flog me for this)...Metroid Prime 3. Call of Duty 3 came very close though, but WW2 shooters just haven't done it for me since Wolf3D and Mortyr (Yea, I'm really in the minority on Mortyr). But Red Steel was so refreshingly ORIGINAL, even despite its flaws.

Yea, but the thing is, these aren't really "games". They're not even sandbox environments. They're just turning the DS into a PDA, and the Wii into a...well, a closed living-room PC.

It does, but I question what good could come from a Ubisoft inside Nintendo.

"Oh and why should this board be for smart people only? Us stupid people have an opinion as well :)"

I guess. . . . :)

Oops, that was supposed to be a reply to adolson.

Dude, I'm not anti-Wii. I run a small Wii website you have never heard of (Wiisels), and I am far from anti-Wii.

I want games, good games. I liked Galaxy, beat it already - in November. What now? I loved Metroid, more than Galaxy, but I beat that in September. Excite Truck is my favorite racing game, but I finished it long ago too.. I need more than a game here and there.. There's nothing on the slate for 2008 that I am anxious for on the Wii, at least from first-party. There are some third-party games that I want to play (Fragile, Ghostbusters, The Force Unleashed, for example), but nothing directly from Nintendo.

I still have no release date for The Crystal Bearers, which was my 2nd most-wanted title after Metroid Prime 3. I am hoping for some kind of announcement that will blow me away, but nothing yet. There are tons of PS2 ports, and a few of them are even good. I beat Resident Evil 4 already, and loved it, so ports aren't always bad, but there really are way too many. I have no interest in Brawl (omg heretic amirite?) and Mario Kart I probably won't buy either (it comes off as very twitchy, like Strikers, which I also did not like). And don't get me started on a peripheral that requires I stand on it to play games...

I hear rumors of Animal Crossing and Pikmin coming out in 2008, but those don't interest me either.

If Disaster: Day of Crisis comes out this year, then that'd be on my list probably. And maybe whatever Monolith is working on? What is n-Space doing? Someone has to be working on something that interests me.. I hope...

I guess I'm just the wrong type of Nintendo gamer - one that craves good third-party games and doesn't mind the occasional casual game, yet also doesn't enjoy being smothered to death by them. Mario gets on my nerves, and all the characters from that franchise which seem to make their way into way too many games... But I liked Galaxy, so just because a game is Mario-based, it won't deter me. I just wish they'd do some new stuff.

I want a new Icarus game... I guess there's always hope. Although, Pit is dead (if you played the second Kid Icarus game for GameBoy, you know he died at the end). Somehow, he's alive and kicking in Brawl though.

Anyhow, I'm a little frustrated with the Wii situation. Maybe it's not the same for you or anyone else who thrives off of Nintendo's franchises like Smash Bros and Mario Kart, but I never liked them and am not about to force myself now. Compare this to the situation on PSP (God of War, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, etc) and PS3 (Final Fantasy XIII, Metal Gear Solid 4, Haze, LittleBigPlanet, etc).

I am not anti-Wii. I waited almost 17 hours in line (7th in a line of 54) to get my Wii on launch day. And I tried very hard to last with only my Wii, like you have managed so far. But I can't do it anymore, there's just not enough software worth playing (pro reviewers agree, check out the scores on Metacritic - not that a score means 100%, but it does mean something when the majority of a software library falls under 50% average). Last month I caved and expanded my gaming library to include PSP and PS3.. I had to.

I thought that was it, Disaster for Wii and Soma Bringer for DS (one of which has gone from concept to actual screens in a remarkably short time, the other which we saw a little pre-alpha stuff at the last E3 and jack all over since)

Monolith Soft is also working on that Super Robot Wars.