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killas2

I would love to play the new Mario and SSBB, but the Wii's controls annoy me to no end. I use to own the Wii, but I got rid of it after I finished Twilight Princess.

I have no idea why people like to defend the system so much. I guess some people just like to jump on the bandwagon and follow everybody else. The controls are inaccurate and the games are shallow & forgetable.

haha, I'm not jumping on any bandwagon. I like those games. SSBB controls normally with the controller sideways. Mario controls incredibly with the nunchuck. I admit that the motion controls are not always as accurate as they should be, but their standard games are quite fun. The motion control games are fun with groups.. way more fun than I've had with friends on a console for a long time.

I'm sorry, but there's only so much FPS multi I can take before it all seems the same to me.

killias

Mario Galaxy & SSBB were great games, but it wasn't the controls that made them great, it was the design and gameplay. They would have played just as good or better on PS3/360. Also, there are other games besides FPS on the other consoles. I know you were just trying to throw in a cheap shot :)


loquax

It wasn't just that. When I was playing twilight and I wanted to do a spin attack I had to shake the nunchuck multipule times just to get link to perform the move, I would have rather pressed a button. Also, history show with Nintendo is that what you see on release is all your going to get. Ratchet and Clank was the first game to use the sixaxis correctly when cutting through walls to find hidden places. <off topic

I never really implied that Mario Galaxy and SSBB were dependent on the Wii's unique controls. I do think the different controls are good for some games (multiplayer games, No More Heroes, Metroid), but not always. Regardless, I bought a Wii because I knew games like these would come out for the Wii. I love Nintendo. I didn't get a Gamecube (got a PS2 instead), and I decided to go back to Nintendo this generation. I'm not disappointed. It's true that they don't have just FPS's, but, honestly, I'm not seeing anything on the 360 or PS3 that I didn't see on the PS2 or on the PC.

As much as people deride Mario Galaxy as just another sequel, it's innovative, fun, and just great. SSBB may be just an update of Melee, but the single player mode was awesome and I didn't have a Gamecube anyway. Super Paper Mario is also insane and fun. You can't get games like these on the PS3 or the 360.

I don't like the GTA series. I haven't played one for a long period of time since GTA 2. Ninja Gaiden looks cool, but it's basically the same as the first one for the Xbox and as the Devil May Cry games. I was never a huge fan of Metal Gear Solid. Only Resident Evil 5 even remotely tempts me at this point.. since RE 4 was absolutely awesome.

As for FF12, I don't know, I hated it. The story was mediocre; none of the characters were well developed, interesting, or original; I hated the new combat system, it seemed like it took the worst aspects from a multitude of different combat systems; the summons were an absolute let-down; the character customization system was broke, and there was no reason for any more than shallow specialization; the sidequests were boring; the dungeons were very boring and looked like randomly generated dungeons.. only they weren't; the boss battles never seemed as epic as they should've; the towns, with some exceptions, lacked character; and I wasn't into any of the mini-games. I've been a fan of FF since FF1 came out years and years ago, and FF12 is easily one of the worst. Besides FF2j (which had an entirely broken leveling system), only FF8 comes close to being as bad as FF12.

Yeah, I'm just killing time at work, haha. I'd hardly consider myself a fanboy. I've only had it for a few months, and I only play videogames a few hours a week. If anything, I'm a bigger fan of PC gaming than all of the consoles combined. I just don't like when people hate on the Wii, as though it doesn't have anything to offer.