06-26-2007, 05:44 AM
So about a week and a half ago I purchased a Nintendo Wii. Given that I'm a college student in flux between summer jobs, I've been playing it a lot... So much that I managed to finish Twilight Princess in a week real time (logging about 35 hours worth of playtime).
So today, after having enough Wii Sports for a while, I hit up Best Buy with a wonderful 10% off 3 items or less coupon for all video games and picked up Resident Evil 4 and WarioWare: Smooth Moves.
I beat the basic plot of WarioWare in an hour, and found it funny... But I'm thinking I'm probably going to take advantage of Best Buy's "14 Day Used Return" policy on videogames, and just claim that I bought it for my little bro & after he threw it in the Wii realized that it wasn't the game that he wanted because its kind of lacking... It just really isn't any fun after the first 10 minutes or so. :-( The thing is, I'd heard pretty good reviews that WarioWare was probably the best mini-game collection of any of the games out there.
Resident Evil 4, on the other hand, its fantastic. I know its a re-release from GC/PS2, but given that I'd never really played the Resident Evil series (I kind of got out of console gaming halfway through the Playstation/N64 generation, and the Wii is my first console purchase in about 5 years) and this game is freaking me out. Its just plain old fashioned fun! Whether its deciding to upgrade or buy a new weapon, headshotting zombie-thingers, or running from these zombie-thingers, I've jumped at least 2-3 times in my 2 hours of playtime and have died 7 or 8 (it took me a few tries to figure out that I don't need to kill every zombie, and that trying to do so is probably a bad idea).
I'm looking forward to a few other games, too, Metroit Prime 3: Corruption, Mario Strikers Charged (to really christen online play - which Pokemon Battle Revolution won't really do), Madden '08 (oh yeah), plus Super Smash Brothers: Brawl, and Super Mario Galaxy are due out by the end of the year. I need to start saving money.
I have realized that Nintendo is going to have some serious teeth in this console generation. Its only a matter of time before the third party developers jump on the bandwagon and start churning out games. The Wii is a mere 1.61 million consoles behind the Xbox360 after spotting it a year (Link). Funnily enough, the PS3 is actually doing about as well as the XBox360 if you align their launches.
So yes, the wii is really that good. Its still selling out (when I purchased mine, I got lucky, the GameStop I visited just happend to get in a shipment of 6 that day, I bought #5 at 1 o'clock that afternoon). It has a killer line up of games this fall/Christmas season, and more than likely, its going to start getting much more substantial 3rd party support as companies realize that Nintendo will soon be the market leader.
Ladies and gents, start your wii.
-Baylan
So today, after having enough Wii Sports for a while, I hit up Best Buy with a wonderful 10% off 3 items or less coupon for all video games and picked up Resident Evil 4 and WarioWare: Smooth Moves.
I beat the basic plot of WarioWare in an hour, and found it funny... But I'm thinking I'm probably going to take advantage of Best Buy's "14 Day Used Return" policy on videogames, and just claim that I bought it for my little bro & after he threw it in the Wii realized that it wasn't the game that he wanted because its kind of lacking... It just really isn't any fun after the first 10 minutes or so. :-( The thing is, I'd heard pretty good reviews that WarioWare was probably the best mini-game collection of any of the games out there.
Resident Evil 4, on the other hand, its fantastic. I know its a re-release from GC/PS2, but given that I'd never really played the Resident Evil series (I kind of got out of console gaming halfway through the Playstation/N64 generation, and the Wii is my first console purchase in about 5 years) and this game is freaking me out. Its just plain old fashioned fun! Whether its deciding to upgrade or buy a new weapon, headshotting zombie-thingers, or running from these zombie-thingers, I've jumped at least 2-3 times in my 2 hours of playtime and have died 7 or 8 (it took me a few tries to figure out that I don't need to kill every zombie, and that trying to do so is probably a bad idea).
I'm looking forward to a few other games, too, Metroit Prime 3: Corruption, Mario Strikers Charged (to really christen online play - which Pokemon Battle Revolution won't really do), Madden '08 (oh yeah), plus Super Smash Brothers: Brawl, and Super Mario Galaxy are due out by the end of the year. I need to start saving money.
I have realized that Nintendo is going to have some serious teeth in this console generation. Its only a matter of time before the third party developers jump on the bandwagon and start churning out games. The Wii is a mere 1.61 million consoles behind the Xbox360 after spotting it a year (Link). Funnily enough, the PS3 is actually doing about as well as the XBox360 if you align their launches.
So yes, the wii is really that good. Its still selling out (when I purchased mine, I got lucky, the GameStop I visited just happend to get in a shipment of 6 that day, I bought #5 at 1 o'clock that afternoon). It has a killer line up of games this fall/Christmas season, and more than likely, its going to start getting much more substantial 3rd party support as companies realize that Nintendo will soon be the market leader.
Ladies and gents, start your wii.
-Baylan
I am Baylan
Hardcore is the way to play!
You'll find me on US-East, on the account name Baylan (for now, I'll add more as I get my accounts up and hardcore-capable).
Hardcore is the way to play!
You'll find me on US-East, on the account name Baylan (for now, I'll add more as I get my accounts up and hardcore-capable).