Aaron wrote:bicostp likes t eh buttsecks!
Anyway, i agree with Unidentified Assilant!
COD3 and farcry on wii = WTF? Really bad games, low playability.
The only games good on the Wii are the mini games (super monkey ball, rayman raving rabbids)
@jones, most (if not all) VC games can be played using the gamecube controller.
The Wii sucks really, a controller for wii games, a controller for gamecube games AND a controller for VC games, non of which can be used for any other purpose (we had some classic controllers thinking we could use them to play some COD3 but then found out you can't use them in anything but VC
)
360 FTW.
Glad to hear you can use the Gamecube controller for the VC games. I'll have to let my friend know as he was under the impression it wouldn't work. Thanks for the tip.
@Triton - You are correct in that the DS was viewed in some circles as being gimmicky as well upon it's release. The difference being that developers aren't forced to use both screens on the DS. I've only played a DS once or twice, but I believe Ben said that on the latest Castlevania game you don't really use the second screen for much of anything. This may or may not be the case with the other games that are being released.
I'm sure there are some games that make effective use of both screens, but the point is they don't have to use it if it doesn't fit the game. With the Wii on the other hand developers (at least to this point) are forced to use the Wii Remote. They can't opt to not use it. Maybe this will change in the future, but for now this is not the case and to be generous the results have been mixed to this point.
As I have said in the podcast and in other posts, I will definitely give it another try in 6 months to a year when developers have had more time to work with it. At this point I remain skeptical. For comparison's sake, by this point in it's lifecycle the 360 had Oblivion and GRAW in it's post launch lineup. Those games were already demonstrating the power and potential of the system to great effect. The Wii has nothing comparable at this time. How much longer
should we have to wait?
At the end of the day for the Wii to be successful, third party developers and Nintendo need to deliver quality games. People will only be content with the
unique controls for so long. At some point they will demand the games be there as well and if they aren't there the system will start collecting dust.
Nintendo brought this on themselves with their heavy-handed tactics in the late 80's and early 90's with regards to third party developers. That's why the last Nintendo system to have more great third party games than first party was the SNES. Once the N64 and Playstation came out the developers bolted for Sony and Nintendo got left in the dust. Sure Goldeneye was a great third party game for the N64, but what else was there really. Were it not for Goldeneye I would have had no need to own an N64. And I never needed a Gamecube, but it was cheap so I figured why not. My wife played it for a couple of months and it has collected dust ever since.
It's sad really. I would love to buy what Nintendo is cookin', but they make nothing worth buying in my opinion. The real tragedy is that they have no one to blame but themselves for the situation they've been in for the last ten+ years.