Nintendo Wii Fanboy

seconded, I tried to get through the TUTORIAL and it just didn't work... 2 hours later I gave up crying.

After playing almost every other tony hawk game before this the control scheme for the wii was going to be something different and new.. A nice shiny sparkly new thing for the old franchise... But no, it wasn't even usable!

I agree, I struggled with "The BIGS" controls as well.

I disagree. I love The Bigs. It's one of my favorites. The controls take a little getting used to, but it's super fun once you get used to it.

I played through the whole game, worked fine for me but very clunky. I got a whole slew of gold medal times etc etc.

WHAT! Blasphemy, LoZ:TP's controls were phenomenal, IMO. What did you have problems with?

Arrows, awesome.

Boomerang, awesome

But shaking your hand does not replace the friggin B button! It was so damn imprecise that it turned me off.

Although I must admit that I couldn't stand TP (due to story, environment, music, etc.) and eventually stored it in my shelve without completing it, the controls and responsiveness was something they did right. shrug.

In my opinion, Twilight Princess had great controls and was a great game.

Don't get me wrong; Twilight Princess is amazing...

...just on the Gamecube.

It's a matter of preferences

For myself, I thought the control were amazing, i did loved shaking my wrist to simulate the sword playing, aiming the boomerang and the bow, just feeled like beign there, also de the hookshot!!!

TLOZ:TP had amazing control, i did loved em a lot!!!!! it's a shame not everyone thinks like this

Wow, I had zero problems with Z:TP's Wii controls. I even played through it a third time over the weekend.

I agree I couldn't stand Twilight's controls but the worst that I've played was Splinter Cell double agent thought I might get carpal tunnel.

Waiting for someone to mention Super Monkey Ball. Many of the minigames were flat out unplayable.

+ a million.

It could have been such a good game with some of the mine game ideas, but the implementation was so poor that it makes it pretty much unplayable for me.

Even mario galaxy's marble levels were awesome so it can be done! And I thought the monkey ball people would get it right off, they're all about motion for christ sake.

SO agree, especially on the mention of Disc Golf. God, the whole thing was really disappointing, and yet the reviews were all YAY MONKEY BALL DOES IT RIGHT. What the hell.

Agree totallyAgree totally. The main game had pretty good controls, but the mini games were AWFUL!

Out of the box, the controls were rough. But I actually liked Excite Truck's controls once I got used to them.

I remember when the Wii released, I stood in a GameStop for about an hour playing the Excite Truck demo. That game is what finally sold me on the Wii, because the controls were so good and the action was so frantic. I'm surprised to hear you didn't like the steering.

I just could not get the hang of excite trucks controls. It felt so unresponsive. It felt like any minor corrections in my steering were completely unrecognized which often caused me to crash. It seemed like completely identical actions (ie turning the wiimote a certain amount of degrees) yielded wildly different results each time. I guess if I took the time to make every single movement perfectly precise then it might work better, but I'm pretty sure that's near impossible considering what a fast-paced game this is.

The controls for Excite Truck have a high learning curve, but once you get the hang of them, there is nothing better than racing with the Wii remote sideways.

As a result Excite Truck has become one of my favorite Wii games and has made the wait for Mario Kart almost unbearable.

No way! Excite Truck was awesome, once you got the hang of it! Everything was so smooth and fast, it made me really crave a new F-Zero..

Mario Kart will no doubt rock hard, but it seems they've turned the controller upwards so it won't handle quite the same..

Wii Sports Boxing: Ugh! Those are by far, the WORST controls for any Wii game I've played. There is hardly any connection between the way you punch and what actually happens on the screen.

My 4 year old beats me on that game just by going crazy with his fists with no rhyme or reason, and I can beat my friends by twirling the controls over my head like a helicopter.

Glad it's a freebie game and not one I actually had to go out and purchase separately.

I'd also agree with Wii Sports Boxing and the Nunchuk, I've practiced enough that i can get it to punch when i want it to, but i still have no idea about how to aim with that side

In No More Heroes, two of the controls were poorly done. The first was downward finishing blows, I always got the high precision with the other 3 directions, but striking downwards needed one or two tries
Second was the baseball bat controls in NMH, i still haven't figured those out, I hold it like a bat, swing in time, and never make a hit. I got two hits in a row Friday night, but i don't know what i did.

I'm so glad you mentioned No More Heroes and the downward strokes. I thought I was doing something wrong or my controllers were busted. During the more intense fights it was really irritating to see myself repeatedly fail that final downward slash. Frustrating.

I think its because people tend to make a brief upward motion before the downward stroke, you lift it up just slightly to get more room to slam it down, and it just registers the up

I'm not sure

Wait, in TP are you talking about the assignable d-pad buttons? They introduced that concept in Ocarina of Time with the C buttons (where it worked great in my opinion). Maybe I misunderstood you.

That's pissed me off more than any other controller issue, so far.

I got a Classic Controller for Brawl, as I'm not so fond of the analog stick on Wiimote. And they prevent you from using the d-pad for walking?! You mean someone specifically designed the d-pad for use with other commands....just not movement?! WHAT?!

I hand't find a problem with No More Heroes, I found the control pretty easy to use and the game amazing, the down strike, why are you having so much troubles??? mostly of the time i got the strike down finishing move and I has never failed to perform it, didn't even need to shake it to much, just a little wrist movement and that was it. In the baseball part... Am, i just used like if I was playing Baseball on Wiisports and hit a lot. Never had a problem here

For the D-Pad, well, with the introduction of the analog stick on the game consoles, the d-pad wasn't meant anymore for the movement as was in the start of the videogames, so it's kinda normal that developers see's the D-Pad for another function instead the movement and leaves the task to the analog stick.

@CJLopez:
Yea, but what Nintendo apparently hasn't figured out is that analog sticks are total shit for certain types of games - like fighting games.

@andy:
Zelda games have had assignable buttons since the original. What I was talking about is three details that have changed:

1. The D-Pad is up too high (ie, too awkward to reach) to really use it the same way as the ocarina C buttons. Nintendo then attempted to work around it with the following kludge:

2. There's TWO different levels of assignments you need to deal with. First you assign items to the D-Pad buttons, as usual. Fine. BUT, for most items, in order to actually use them, you can't just hit the D-Pad button you assigned. Instead you have to push the D-Pad button just to swap it with the B-button item. THEN you can use it. But then when you want to use what had been assigned to B, you have to go swap it back to B again. And the more you switch between D-Pad items, the more the damn things keep getting rearranged.

3. Like I said: "MOST items". That means a blatant inconsistency in the interface. For some items, pressing the D-Pad will use them, but for other items it'll just swap with A instead. Makes me want to yell at Nintendo: "Just pick a damn method and stick with it!"

As long as I'm ranting about TP's interface I have three other specific complaints:

4. There's an inconsistency in what button is used for "back/cancel". In most of the menus, the "action" button is A and "back/cancel" is B, as is normal (Whenever there's a back button, it's typically B). But then in the item selection screen and in aiming-mode, they're switched around: Action is B, which moves "back/cancel" to A. So in TP, which button is "back"? Either A or B - it depends! Great! So I keep hitting to wrong damn button when I'm trying to do such a simple thing as "back/cancel", just because it keeps switching around.

5. On the item selection screen, everything's tossed into that damn circle formation instead of the usual nice, clean, ORGANIZED grid. As an added bonus, everything shifts position every time you gain/lose an item.

6. Yet another inconsistency: In IR-aiming mode, the controls for turning the camera left/right are completely different from tilting the camera up/down. For up/down, you point to the top/bottom edge of the screen, but you CAN'T use the analog stick. For left/right, you use the analog stick and CAN'T just point to the edge. WTF? "Pick a damn method and stick with it! (Or better yet, just allow both)."

and add the ability to actually move your fricking character around

Wii Sports Tennis would be perfect but for that

Well, ya, that's the one thing that Sega Superstars Tennis did get right. The rest was pure fail.