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Nintendo Wii $250 on November 19th.

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Bleed S & G;881406; said:
so i finally had the chance to play the wii..

its awesome, i was sweating after wii sports and kicked my buddies ass in bowling.. his wii experience proved too much for me in everything else

it was fun as hell.. i dig it, and i will be buying one once the price drops.. but i am happy i got a PS3 first
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Wife and I went to a concert last night and were talking to our friends that we'd played the Wii with before, and they were all excited about having another a Wii party in their home theater room, then it was on to all of us reminiscing about the last time we did a Wii party a couple of months ago.

I'll tell ya, if you've got the room and the screen, 4-player mixed-doubles tennis is a fucking blast. I have never had so much fun playing a video game than that.
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie;881757; said:
I'll have to check out Battalion Wars II.
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Looks sweet. Will support online vs. multiplayer. You control a battalion and assign real-time actions/formations to units as a group, but can also take over individual single units during combat to fight with them. Game play sounds exactly like Bungie's old Myth: The Fallen Lords series from the PC/Mac.

Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth 2: Soulblighter are among my all-time favorite PC games. If BWII turns out only half as good, considering it's a console release, which is why I am skeptical, then it'll still kick ass. I have high hopes for this one.

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A ton of game pics here: Battalion Wars 2
 
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Metroid = no mutiplayer. So it is now mainly useless. The manager at our EB has been a HUGE Nintendo fan for as long as I have known him. I personally believe that if he ever met Reggie, that he'd blow the guy. However I actually heard it come out of his mouth this past week that he "hates the Wii" and hopes "they all melt". Pretty much sums up my feelings as well :p

The "hardcore" will mock it is another gimmick/fad targeted at soccer moms, but Nintendo is going to sell 50 million of these things. If the yoga component doesn't suck, this could well wind up being the biggest selling console game ever.
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This pretty much sums up the whole thing. I totally understand why Nintendo makes the decisions that they make. Because it sells! Great for them, I am happy for them. Still doesnt change the fact that they have no originality when it comes to games anymore.

(Yes I am just trying to pick a fight for the most part) :wink:
 
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BrutusMaximus;887083; said:
This pretty much sums up the whole thing. I totally understand why Nintendo makes the decisions that they make. Because it sells! Great for them, I am happy for them. Still doesnt change the fact that they have no originality when it comes to games anymore.
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Yeah, there's waaaay too many yoga games out there. They should make some more first person shooters or pro sports games. :p
 
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BrutusMaximus;887480; said:
Shouldnt that tell ya somethin? I didnt say gay crappy games (not that there is anything wrong with that), I said original GAMES. I dont want a damn workout when playing a game. I can go outside and get exercise. It's all about the japanese trying to take control, that's what it is :wink:
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I know what you're saying. At some point, you have to ask why people don't just buy a guitar instead of playing guitar hero. :)
 
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This pretty much sums up the whole thing. I totally understand why Nintendo makes the decisions that they make. Because it sells! Great for them, I am happy for them. Still doesnt change the fact that they have no originality when it comes to games anymore.
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I gotta agree here. I like my Wii, but I usually just play it when I go to a friend's house. I have to admit though, we're starting to play the PS3 more as games have been released. We've been playing Transformers, NCAA 08, Fight Night 3, and occasionally pull out Marvel UA and Resistance, although we've beaten both. We played the crap out of Wii Sports, Tennis and Bowling are great, we're kinda burnt out though. Not to mention theres a few Tennis bugs, like return shots after the opening serve that you cannot possibly hit.
Nintendo made good decisions with the Wii, but the originality in the games is lacking, some of this is with their ol' bread and butter titles though. I heard a lot of good things about Zelda, I'm playing it, but it feels like the same 'ol story. The story might as well be Zelda: A Link to the Past. The parrallels to previous game storylines/sidequests are endless. I'm beginning to think Nintendo can do little with the Zelda title besides rehashing old stories/themes.
 
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ulukinatme;889449; said:
Nintendo made good decisions with the Wii, but the originality in the games is lacking, some of this is with their ol' bread and butter titles though. I heard a lot of good things about Zelda, I'm playing it, but it feels like the same 'ol story. The story might as well be Zelda: A Link to the Past. The parrallels to previous game storylines/sidequests are endless. I'm beginning to think Nintendo can do little with the Zelda title besides rehashing old stories/themes.
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Zelda: TP I can see that argument, but the franchise as a whole -- I'd disagree. WindWaker on the GameCube and Phantom Hourglass on the DS have been critically and commercially successful, and their cel-shaded design goes completely against the previous Zelda styles.

For the Wii as a platform, I'd say that third parties are more to blame than Ninty. Virtually everybody but Ubisoft hedged on their Wii projects, or assigned their "B teams" to do crude Wiimakes of PS2 games. Ubisoft was the only company fully on board right out of the gate, and though a lot of their schlock was crap (hey, they're still Ubi), they did score million sellers with Red Steel and Rayman Raving Rabbids. Capcom did a Wiimake right with Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition, which looks like it'll break 1M world wide too.

The "big" titles written from the ground up for the Wii will begin dropping next month, as third parties have been playing catch-up for most of the past year. It really isn't anymore complex than that. The lack of games targeting the hard core weren't there because devs wrote Nintendo off. Oops.

As for the "originality" + Nintendo argument. That's complete bullshit. In the past two years Ninty has released A TON of new IP for all their platforms. The Wii branded games, Animal Crossing, the Touch Generation games like Brain Age & Big Brain Academy, Nintendogs, etc ... It's the Western developers that couldn't design their way out of a wet paper bag. What happened when Mario Party became a smash? We got a shitload of bad minigame collections! What happened when Nintendogs sold 10M copies? We got a shitload of bad Petz sims. What happened when Brain Age sold 1M? We got a shitload of puzzle/brain training games.

It's hysterical to me that Nintendo-bashers complain about how unoriginal Nintendo has become, then go back to playing the 15th EA football game on their platform of choice, or maybe their preferred first person shooter. :roll1:

What "big" games are the other platforms banking on? Halo 3. Gran Turismo 5. God of War 3. Final Fantasy 13. Hot Shots Golf 5. Ratchet & Clank whatever. Grand Theft Auto: Pimps & Hos edition!!!111!!

There is a dearth of originality in the video game industry, but that's not Nintendo's problem.
 
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