Where all your arguments fail, is...it's your opinion.
I'm buying the Wii, because I have always loved Nintendo games. I dont care if not many games are coming out soon, because I will have Mario Galaxy, and Brawl to play. PLUS, I'll just download some classic games.
Now, this thread was made for finding a Wii, and I think that i'm pretty close to getting one now. Thank you for your input!
The bolded is exactly what I thought before getting a Wii. Drop those ideas, now, before it's too late.
I was on the Wii hype-train since the motion sensor shit and the idea of playing Zelda by swinging the remote as your sword were announced, but couldn't find one until this past November. Guess where it is? Gone. Know why? I'll explain.
I bought:
The Console (Wii Sports, Controller, Nunchuk, etc. Paid $350 + ridiculous $50 for shipping from Maryland to Pennsylvania)
The Classic Controller
An Extra Remote and Nunchuk
Twilight Princess
Galaxy
Super Paper Mario
Corruption
Battalion Wars II
Resident Evil 4
Rechargable Batteries for the Remotes
Paper Mario
Super Mario 64
Ocarina of Time
Wave Race 64
Yoshi's Story
Mario Kart 64
Star Fox 64
Luigi's Mansion
Super Mario Sunshine
Pikmin
Megaman X Collection
Gamecube Controller
Gamecube Memory Card
I played through Mansion, Sunshine, Pikmin, Paper Mario, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Star Fox 64, Corruption, BWII, and Resi4.
Twilight Princess seems like an incredibly hyped up sub-par Zelda game. The remote swinging can be done via the quickest jerk motion and he swings the sword. Between the nunchuk being the nunchuk and the remote being a huge fucking unrealistic gimmick, I said fuck this after the Forest Temple. I'd highly prefer the Gamecube Controller over this garbage when playing a Zelda game.
Super Mario Galaxy is IMO worse than Sunshine. The gravity in certain areas and the extreme linearness/easiness that is Galaxy are complete turn offs. Boss battles are yet again for five year olds (quite typical of Mario). Movement is clunky and the Wii Remote basically has no function outside of menus and collecting the star pieces of shit. Not to mention, it takes maybe a couple minutes to navigate through a course and get a star. How much gameplay is ACTUALLY there if it only takes you a few minutes to get each of the 120 stars? Why would I continue on to play as Luigi after getting all 120 stars as Mario? Didn't the gameplay get repetitive enough by now? Yet again, another situation where any player with common sense would say, "Give me my regular controller back!"
I played up through the second world of Super Paper Mario. Not only did they rape the ONLY RPG to ever hit Nintendo consoles consistently, but they turned it into an even more repetitive Super Mario Bros. clone. Aren't there enough of those already? Can't I get my amazing RPG experience back over the nonsense that is "Hey, change to 3D mode when it's obvious and you'll get through!" Guess not.
Virtual Console games don't last at all. You won't find more than maybe two or three games on the VC PERIOD that have any amount of gameplay to them (SM64, Paper Mario 64, OoT) and you have to wait until it's convienient for Nintendo to release something other than janky Genesis games like "Cybernator." What the fuck is "Cybernator"? Not to mention, if I want emulation, I can go get any of the games on their list PLUS whatever they don't have and run them on my PC for free. Why again, is the VC good, let alone worth it?
On top of all this bullshit that I've already explained, the only other games are generic compilations of mini-games or plain movie games, with the occasional decent first party game (Brawl, Kart), but those are released once in a blue moon and I can honestly and confidently say that anything else that's released that is, holy shit, not a movie game or mini-game compilation, is either based on some random Disney shit OR is a port from PS2 with supposed "additional content."
Wii Sports is the only game that I actually went back to and played, because it's realistic and is enjoyable even while by yourself. I can't say the same for anything else out for the Wii right now.
I loved Nintendo. NES, SNES, and 64 were amazing. Gamecube took them down slightly, and even though the Wii is making them financially fit atm, I can honestly say they're taking yet another step in the wrong direction, as far as software is concerned.
I got rid of my Wii because it has no future as far as GOOD third party support and/or decent software goes. Sorry to break it to you.
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