Nintendo Wii Fanboy

It depends..
If the waggle actually feels like it matches the "hit", the "move" or whatever: It's a great thing.
If it doesn't: It sucks and it's overused.

I don't NEED the waggle function, but it's definitely nice to have when it feels fun.

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Completely agree with Soshi. Tiger Woods is leaps and bounds better thanks to the swing motion. I don't mind the way spin is added, but it is slightly jarring and pulls you out of the "reality" created. The Bigs had the batting down pretty well, but fielding sucked, IMO. SSX Blur had perfect snowboard control with the nunchuk tilting, but the special moves were so hard to get that I gave up.

It seems like we've been subject to a lot of trial and error, which is understandable but I'll just be glad when we get a full game for each sport with great control all around.

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pro evo seems to have a pretty evolved take on how to do sports on Wii. I rather like that it isn't *defined* by waggle.

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i really prefer them with motion control. in fact, i couldn't even stand to play most of them without it. sports is still my least favorite genre though, and i'm more interested in games like Wii Sports or Deca Sports or the new Mario Baseball game than games like Madden.

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Aw man, I thought we we're going to talk about Ferris Bueller's Day Off when I read the title.

I don't have many sports games, because I'm frankly not into sports. All I own in this category are Mario Strikers Charged and Wii Sports. I believe that the latter did well with it's controls (as it should have; it was a demonstration of the system's possibilities, and a game that every customer would end up owning by default). Strikers' motion controls were almost never used in my house, though. Perhaps it was because the slide tackle (I forgot the actual name, and I won't be bothered to look it up) was about ten times as effective.

Can we talk about Ferris Bueller now?

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Aside from NBA Jam, I could never bring myself to play sports games. Now, though, I'm interested in at least bowling, tennis and golf games.

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Waggle is fun when playing games in social settings.

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The Big's pitching and batting is absolutely the best. I am looking forward to the next version to see if they improve the fielding.

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I really don't like the controls for sports games on the Wii. To me I feel like I lose some control of what I want to do. Say in Madden, it's really hard to make a bullet pass or lob, or a juke instead of stiff arm. Also, the sports games themselves are really lacking on the Wii. Lacking sports, no hockey, college football, and a good basketball game, and the games that are on the Wii lack features and look terrible. I'm actually planning on buying a PS3 soon because of this. I like the Wii alot, but I need my good sports titles.

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The fact there is no NHL game kills me to no end. I really miss that series. I think a lot of stuff in the house would get broken taking virtual slap shots.

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Let me take a crack and say my family won 2 tickets to the Cleveland Indians home opener.

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Sports isnt the best genre for the Wii controls. It's Porn Games. Imagine the thrill if they brought back Custard's Revenge with motion control integration. Just imagine what you could do with the Wii Remote. Freud himself would be so proud.

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