Well yeah, I generally don't actually like talking to people online while gaming. I'll come out eventually and introduce my booming sexy voice to FNF one day. But overall, the act of communicating can be really damn exhausting.

That said, Nintendo still has online mostly all wrong. There's no integreation of Brawl's online play into your overall brawl stats and secret unlocking. A lobby system full of anonymouses would be great. They manage to allow adding friends of friends very easily, but there are different numbers for different games, which is just silly.

I can definitely appreciate that they've protected their franchise from being associated with the same culture that permeates Live: I don't ever want a Mario experience to seem anything less than simple and politely childlike/naive. Open communication with anonymouses is a fine thing to prevent.

But the rules should definitely change for your friends.

Gabe? Unfamiliar...but there are plenty of good games on the Wii.

Excite Truck, No More Heroes, Super Mario Galaxy, Ghost Squad, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, House of the Dead 2 & 3: Return, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl (obviously) for starters...

"there are no good games for the Wii"

come on, do people seriously still say things like this with a straight face?

OMGZZ WE CAN HAZ SILANCE FROM DE CHILUNSSSS??!?! GTFO. Seriously try playing a team game without voice chat, go on, see how well that works out when the other team changes tatics and your stuck with your original plan. Go and try and play smash bros online...oh wait no they fucked that up. Play with millions of others...no wait we got to put in a 16 digit code to do that. Next time you have a thought like this think it through, or better yet press your mute button!

Black Sheep has it right.

Lulz guyz I have an opinion but don't write anyting to back it up lulz.

@Sathan

You didn't quite turn wine into piss by turning voice chat off. You also have to make each game require a separate code, and not tell your friends you're available unless you're online, waiting for a game.

@bloodylip


That's true, it's been so long since I was playing Wii games online that I forgot how truly broken the system is.

enter wiibois. I personally find voice chat in games mostly useless. The only games where it's required are FPS and games where the entire group should have a say in what's next (rock band, gh, party games). Mario Kart? no. Keep that voice chat local prz. My friends have my cell if they need to talk.