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You Never Hear About This With Strategy Games
Users are reporting that the Nintendo Wii causes people to flail around and break random things.
Fear not, Zeldans, for Nintendo is ON THE CASE.
“We are investigating. Some people are getting a lot more excited than we\’e2\’80\’99d expected. We need to better communicate to people how to deal with Wii as a new form of entertainment.”
The message is clear. Stop being excited.
Now, see, if the Wii taught you discipline? This wouldn’t be happening.
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about 3 years ago
I’m just glad they were careful not to give anyone the wrong idea about how it should be used. Because if they’d been advertising it with a bunch of people jumping over furniture and thrashing about like damn retarded monkeys, then we’d REALLY be in trouble.
about 3 years ago
I can’t quite figure out the mechanics of it, but if you could combine the antics of the Wiimote with the insanity of Guitar Hero, I think someone somewhere would explode.
about 3 years ago
I’m going to patent and market a pinetar for Wii controllers.
I’ll call it Wii-tar.
Not to be confused with the GWiitar, Guitar Hero’s next-gen, Wii-based controller.
*dives into a pile of money*
about 3 years ago
I have a Wii. The people breaking things are idiots. It hardly takes any force at all to have the Wii pick-up motions. You can play sitting down.
Anyone from here on out caught breaking something because they used more force to swing the remote than required for an *actual* baseball bat, tennis racket, or bowling ball is henceforth a “Wiitard”
(ps – notice how the remote is *okay* even after slamming it though a plasma screen? That’s props to nintendo for quality craftsmanship imho)
Scott – EQ2 has a free trial going (and game + all expansion packs for $40); FireFly MMO has been announced (and they will do by 2008 because they have a better systems) – and nothing from you… seems like you’re phoning it in =p
about 3 years ago
“FireFly MMO has been announced”
Link please! Who is doing this one?
(Sidenote: If people thought Star Wars fans could rant, they’ve seen nothng yet. God help this team if one bit of Mandarin or other canon material is out of place, the brownshirts will have them for lunch).
about 3 years ago
Here is a link to the link:
http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/12/07/about-that-firefly-mmo/
about 3 years ago
If you read the bottom of the Kutaragi article, it says that the discipline quote is a fake.
about 3 years ago
“(ps – notice how the remote is *okay* even after slamming it though a plasma screen? That\’e2\’80\’99s props to nintendo for quality craftsmanship imho)”
Ahh, Nintendo plastic. The hardest substance known to man.
about 3 years ago
I’ll spare you the link to the Penny Arcade “toolbox” strip, but sometimes swinging the thing around does make sense. I can play tennis just fine with my ass in the chair and just moving my wrist, but I can’t seem to play golf or baseball for crap.
Maybe if the cord that connected the big sturdy wrist strap to the indestructible Wiimote weren’t made of tissue paper, this’d be less of an issue.
about 3 years ago
i beat zelda.
snape kills dumbledore. again.
So far my wii remote has hit: A fan, the ceiling, the wall, concrete, a marble table thingy, a closet door, and a cat. Oh, and if I have the strap on, and I reach for a soda, I’ve knocked it over twice now.
I didn’t “lose” it any of these times, I’ve been using my Wii as a chick magnet. It actually works. Careful for your stuff though, girls don’t like to wear the wrist strap.
Nothing broke, including the wii remote and the cat, so more props to Nintendo. I’m glad I didn’t go out and buy a huge flat panel to play this thing on, cuz it probably would have broken by now. Thanks Murphy. I’m glad I met you years ago.
about 3 years ago
Then you see this and think “is it any wonder??”
about 3 years ago
Actually, in this case, Nintendo has opted for an old school MMO dev team trick: quietly fix the problem and backtrack from there
about 3 years ago
As much as I think the Wiimote or wahtever is an interesting idea, I can’t help having my mind itched with that other principle of most games, being the elimination of the ‘victim of birth’.
Sure, most gamers need more exercise. And even though the actual stimulus/response of the Wii might not involve that much true effort, it still inhibits a portion of the playerbase by being a physically dependant system, unlike so many games before.
Am I just being too senstive to cripples?
Not with that last comment, I’m not. heh.
about 3 years ago
I have a morbidly obese co-worker who has already figured out that he can sit in his recliner and perform all the actions with small wrist motions.
I guess this might apply to more than the Wii.