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Very tempted, but I’m feeling very much the lover scorned with the Wii. Too many disappointments.
I am not getting this game.
Really? Why not?
The Wii sucks. I had a conversation with my Tuesday night video game buddies last night. It’s over.
The only thing it has going for it now is, in the future, when I sit down to beat Super Mario Galaxy 100% as Luigi on a huge wide-screen HDTV with surround-sound.
Paris said:The Wii sucks… It’s over.
I kind of agree with this. I didn’t buy Punchout, and I don’t think I will; Spending $60 for what is essentially a redub doesn’t make any sense when other platforms offer better redubs (Bionic Commando, Lode Runner) for cheaper ($10 each?).
I feel a little regret because I bought into the wrong console years ago, but on the up-side it had its moments (Zelda, and a few others…). I’d like to say hey, at least I have Wii Fit, but my fat fucking ass hasn’t made any use of it since purchase. If anything, I’ve gotten worse.
Shit on me.
That’s my problem. These games are the same average price, but they don’t appear to have the same average programming effort put into them by Nintendo. I fully enjoy my latest purchase, House of the Dead: Overkill. But given its graphics, rails-style levels, and lack of depth, it should have been $30 at most. It’s a bloody, shooter version of Katamari Damacy (sidenote: this was priced cheap for PS2, fully aware of its simplicity). The game has replayability, sure, but not enough.
I’ll just sit back and wait for the next huge Nintendo release, occasionally revisit Wii Sports, finally beat Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and save up for that Super Luigi Galaxy experience I spoke of.
Paris said:
I’ll just sit back and wait for the next huge Nintendo release, occasionally revisit Wii Sports, finally beat Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and save up for that Super Luigi Galaxy experience I spoke of.
I guess, but I might be done with Nintendo. I mean, it’ll take something pretty fantastic to get me to buy in again, at least on a large scale.
Currently I consider getting other platforms, but can’t decide which: PS3 has Blu-Ray, but X-Box 360 has more games I’m likely to play. Sadly, the 360 requires a monthly fee, which I am very much against and have been since the onset of Pay-2-Play.
I bought the fucking game, and I pay every month for high speed internet. Paying a third fee for the right to access a social network to play a game I spent $60 on, using Internet I spend $40 per month to use seems fucking ludicrous. AND you have to pay extra to make the 360 wireless.
Let alone the fact that I don’t have an HD tv, which I would almost definitely feel compelled to buy to make the best of my new hardware.
Frankly, video gaming has become way too expensive a hobby/past-time. Yes, I realize that Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and the rest were similarly expensive when I was a kid (and my parents still kicked in for them), but I really don’t play games that much now to really justify spending $2000 for the next generation… which by now may be on the decline awaiting the next-next generation (I have no idea if this is true).
Overall, aside from the two or three games I play through Steam on my computer, I’ve got to say that video gaming is a very empty experience these days. Nothing is as fun as it should be for as long as it should be, for what you have to pay. It almost makes me wish I liked sports games…. almost.
Reflecting on this comment, I hate my empty little life a bit more.
I don’t think it’s quite as bad as you make it seem. Let’s be honest, while the Wii hasn’t done much new or exciting for the past year, it really had us for a while, there. It was the most exciting video games had gotten in a long time. The sad truth is that the plague of 3rd party developers releasing lazy games have poisoned the brand. And hey, maybe Punch-Out will be awesome. I mean, Mario Kart and Smash Bros., I think were worth the price.
The bigger issue, here is an unfulfilled promise. Maybe the Wii Motion will fill that void, maybe not. The gimmick has worn out and all Nintendo has going for it with it’s new system is Nintendo game development. That is to say, games built in-house. They’re always going to be fun. $60 fun? I dunno. But they’ll be fun.
Essentially, the Wii in 2009 justifies a Game Fly subscription. There are too many games to spend the money on and no way to know what’s worth buying. I’m really hoping someone buys or at least rents Punch Out cause it really could be great. The sad part is that we can’t rely on the hardware as the knockout punch on what could otherwise be an ordinary game. It has to stand up on it’s own. Whether or not we think Nintendo can still do that is another thing entirely.
That all said, I want an X-Box quite badly because of the love they’re giving the old titles. Rebuilds and online multiplayer… what more could you ask for? If Nintendo let me play VC titles multiplayer over WIFI, I wouldn’t be writing this post; I’d be defending the system with a raw gnashing of teeth. But the friend system is a failed system and the old games need a new way to play them.
Here’s to hoping Nintendo, with it’s closed, Japanese-style network, figures this out before it’s too late.
John said:
Here’s to hoping Nintendo, with it’s closed, Japanese-style network, figures this out before it’s too late.
Racist.