Getting a Wii Mission Impossible?!

Dasilva · 01-21-2007, 10:04 AM

Get everyone, by the first week in February I will have enough cash to buy my wii thanks to selling my life on ebay. lol.

So I went past Game Station to ask if they have Wii stock, and they said I dont know when they will get Wiis, I went to GAME(tm) and they said the same thing. PEOPLE! Its been like 2 months since the launch, and the Wii was aparently not going to have shortages?

I really dont want to pay £300 for a wii on ebay, because I think those people are thieves and dont deserve my money.

Lucien21 · 01-21-2007, 10:27 AM

I got one in Argos. Just after New Year.

Dasilva · 01-21-2007, 10:36 AM

Maybe I should pop in there and see if they have some.

Intrepid Homoludens · 01-21-2007, 10:47 AM

Patience is a virtue, grasshopper. Just wait til there are more available. Your enjoyment of it will not diminish.

Dasilva · 01-21-2007, 10:56 AM

I got my 360 from Argos, this is going to be a trend I see. lol.

Eureka · 01-21-2007, 11:33 AM

Wouldn't you rather wait until there were some decent games for the Wii?

Intrepid Homoludens · 01-21-2007, 11:36 AM

That's what I'm doing as well. None of the games currently available interest me. If there are at least four or five titles that I personally would like I'll consider getting the console. It's just not worth it for one or two games.

Dasilva · 01-21-2007, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Eureka

Wouldn't you rather wait until there were some decent games for the Wii?

Theres a lack of good games?

Eureka · 01-21-2007, 11:38 AM

Name 3.

I can only name one...Rayman.

Dasilva · 01-21-2007, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Eureka

Name 3.

I can only name one...Rayman.

These are ones I personally want, nomatter what reviews say:

Trauma Center: Second Opinion

WarioWare: Smooth Moves
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (already have this one waiting for my wii )
Madden NFL 07

Rayman Raving Rabbids

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz

Eureka · 01-21-2007, 11:44 AM

The Legend of Zelda is highly overrated. If it didn't don the Zelda name, everyone would talk about how much it sucks if they even talked about it at all.

Madden??....but...you're British!

Dasilva · 01-21-2007, 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eureka

The Legend of Zelda is highly overrated. If it didn't don the Zelda name, everyone would talk about how much it sucks if they even talked about it at all.

Madden??....but...you're British!

Zelda is a great game even if it didn't have the Zelda name, reviewers dont review a game on its legacy but on the game itself and its gotten great reviews.

I hated every Madden, but I think it may be fun because of the controls.

All the review agree that the controls make this game actually fun, so it might get me into the genre.

PS- I aint british.

Eureka · 01-21-2007, 11:48 AM

Oh please. Zelda got great reviews because it's Zelda. Having played the game...it was just so...boring! It wasn't epic at all. If it had been Legend of Dasilva, it would have gotten the 5s adn 6s it deserved. No offense to you...i'm sure a game about you would be great!

Dasilva · 01-21-2007, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Eureka

No offense to you...i'm sure a game about you would be great!

Damn straight!

To be perfectly honest with you I've never finished a single Zelda. I'm the kind of guy who played some Zelda for an our at a friends' house. Twilight Princess is the first Zelda game I've actually bought. I plan to get Wind Waker and download the N64 ones from the Wiiconnect24 service. I always loved Zelda as a character and the world, but never had the chance to really apprechiate it. Why not start now?

Kolzig · 01-21-2007, 11:53 AM

Well, I can say that I STILL haven't seen even one Wii console anywhere, and now I've been to shops in Vaasa and London...

In London everywhere was sold out, in Vaasa it seems that it has never even existed as there are no adverts, no placeholders, nothing at all...

Lucien21 · 01-21-2007, 12:25 PM

Twightlight Princess ROCKS and is worth every glowing review it gets.

Wii Sports is great fun and a workout at the same time.

Rayman is fun because the Rabbids are sodding hilarious.

Red Steel was a disappointment, but the shooting interface shows it's more intuitive to point and shoot than waggle a analogue stick.

Dasilva · 01-21-2007, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucien21

Red Steel was a disappointment, but the shooting interface shows it's more intuitive to point and shoot than waggle a analogue stick.

Oh yeah, I want that too.

Im not sure about Monkey Ball, I hear its frustrating.

EvoG · 01-21-2007, 12:49 PM

Dasilva, Zelda is every bit as brilliant a construction as you'd expect, with brilliant puzzles, boss battles and scope. I personally loved Wind Waker more than anything, but this is most certainly great experience.

Red Steel is a love or hate game for people. One thing thats baffling, is that almost every non-fps game that had some sort of pointing mechanic performed better than in RS, which is sluggish(delayed), but RS has a certain quality I can't put my finger on. Its average for an FPS, but it looks great and it is fun to play...

...that said, you'd be surprised to hear that CoD3 is actually awesome on the Wii. Its the closest approximation to a mouse yet. The cursor is dead accurate and immediately responsive. You have two types of aiming, fixed and dynamic, where one is simply a freed cursor like you've been seeing with a dead-zone, and fixed is where the whole view moves immediately like a shooter on the PC. Best shooter yet IMHO with lots of smaller interactions with the controller sprinkled about...I love leaning around corners by twisting the wiimote (rather than how in Red Steel its merely cosmetic; shooting g-lock style).

Monkey ball is hard as hell, but I like that.

Elebits is awesome, and I'd think it would suit the adventure gamers here. You get to explore and touch and toss around your environment, opening everything you'd imagine would open, with a small bit of discovery, as there are hidden interactions that you can find. Pointer action is precise and highly responsive.

Madden rocks by simple virtue of the controller. I haven't played an football game period since 1991, the very first Madden when it didn't even have date after his name...on Sega Genesis.

Excite Truck is very fast and fun. I'm a racer, being a huge low-sim racing fan such as GT and Forza, to hybrid-sims like PGR3. Excite Truck has that loose and wild fun racing that pretty much anyone can get into, especially if they're not racing fans or very proficient.

Rayman is exhausting and torturous. I love it, but I can only play it in short bursts with long breaks in between. Design is very much Rayman and a joy to look at.

Wii Sports is um, its great. Its exactly what you'd expect and its more fun than you'd think. The training is actually more fun for me than the base level games, especially target practice in tennis.

So yea, there are a lot of reasons already to get a Wii, and no, you won't find one anywhere!

Bye!

Cheers

Eureka · 01-21-2007, 01:06 PM

I roll my eyes at thee.

artwking4 · 01-21-2007, 05:14 PM

I got a Wii a couple days ago at Wal-Mart. I wasn't even planning on getting one at the time, but they had just gotten some in, so I decided to go ahead and get it. Hooray for impulse purchases! Just need some games now. I think Call of Duty 3, maybe Zelda. I've never really had all that much exposure to Zelda before. Will I be okay just playing this one without having seen any of the others? Is it Zelda really as great as many people think it is? Maybe I'll just rent it first and see.

01-21-2007, 10:04 AM	#1
Dasilva Hitch-Hiker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Mediterranean Sea Posts: 4,364	Getting a Wii Mission Impossible?! Get everyone, by the first week in February I will have enough cash to buy my wii thanks to selling my life on ebay. lol. So I went past Game Station to ask if they have Wii stock, and they said I dont know when they will get Wiis, I went to GAME(tm) and they said the same thing. PEOPLE! Its been like 2 months since the launch, and the Wii was aparently not going to have shortages? I really dont want to pay £300 for a wii on ebay, because I think those people are thieves and dont deserve my money. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Regards, DaSilva "If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is." - Angelina Jolie _ <Susan falls through the floor and gets stuck> <Paco looks at her blankly> "Whats wrong with you?! Lassy would of had a firetruck here by now!" - Susan Mayer, Desperate Housewives

01-21-2007, 10:27 AM	#2
Lucien21 Psychonaut Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 5,114	I got one in Argos. Just after New Year. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

01-21-2007, 10:36 AM	#3
Dasilva Hitch-Hiker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Mediterranean Sea Posts: 4,364	Maybe I should pop in there and see if they have some. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Regards, DaSilva "If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is." - Angelina Jolie _ <Susan falls through the floor and gets stuck> <Paco looks at her blankly> "Whats wrong with you?! Lassy would of had a firetruck here by now!" - Susan Mayer, Desperate Housewives

01-21-2007, 10:47 AM	#4
Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	Patience is a virtue, grasshopper. Just wait til there are more available. Your enjoyment of it will not diminish. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

01-21-2007, 10:56 AM	#5
Dasilva Hitch-Hiker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: The Mediterranean Sea Posts: 4,364	I got my 360 from Argos, this is going to be a trend I see. lol. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ Regards, DaSilva "If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is." - Angelina Jolie _ <Susan falls through the floor and gets stuck> <Paco looks at her blankly> "Whats wrong with you?! Lassy would of had a firetruck here by now!" - Susan Mayer, Desperate Housewives

01-21-2007, 11:33 AM	#6
Eureka Banned User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 175	Wouldn't you rather wait until there were some decent games for the Wii? Share Share this post on Twitter

01-21-2007, 11:36 AM	#7
Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	That's what I'm doing as well. None of the games currently available interest me. If there are at least four or five titles that I personally would like I'll consider getting the console. It's just not worth it for one or two games. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

01-21-2007, 11:38 AM	#9
Eureka Banned User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 175	Name 3. I can only name one...Rayman. Share Share this post on Twitter

01-21-2007, 11:44 AM	#11
Eureka Banned User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 175	The Legend of Zelda is highly overrated. If it didn't don the Zelda name, everyone would talk about how much it sucks if they even talked about it at all. Madden??....but...you're British! Share Share this post on Twitter

01-21-2007, 11:48 AM	#13
Eureka Banned User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 175	Oh please. Zelda got great reviews because it's Zelda. Having played the game...it was just so...boring! It wasn't epic at all. If it had been Legend of Dasilva, it would have gotten the 5s adn 6s it deserved. No offense to you...i'm sure a game about you would be great! Share Share this post on Twitter

01-21-2007, 11:53 AM	#15
Kolzig The Reggienator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Vaasa, Finland Posts: 5,519	Well, I can say that I STILL haven't seen even one Wii console anywhere, and now I've been to shops in Vaasa and London... In London everywhere was sold out, in Vaasa it seems that it has never even existed as there are no adverts, no placeholders, nothing at all... Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ "The old standby, that never got old in the first place. We come back to them weekly, nightly, for hours at a time--and they always deliver. They are pure, timeless, and often taken for granted." - Nick Breckon - Shacknews My gamesale list updated 26.8.2007 Hey, dear people please buy my games, I need money to conquer Europe! Or do something similar.

01-21-2007, 12:25 PM	#16
Lucien21 Psychonaut Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 5,114	Twightlight Princess ROCKS and is worth every glowing review it gets. Wii Sports is great fun and a workout at the same time. Rayman is fun because the Rabbids are sodding hilarious. Red Steel was a disappointment, but the shooting interface shows it's more intuitive to point and shoot than waggle a analogue stick. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

01-21-2007, 12:49 PM	#18
EvoG FlipFrame Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 471	Dasilva, Zelda is every bit as brilliant a construction as you'd expect, with brilliant puzzles, boss battles and scope. I personally loved Wind Waker more than anything, but this is most certainly great experience. Red Steel is a love or hate game for people. One thing thats baffling, is that almost every non-fps game that had some sort of pointing mechanic performed better than in RS, which is sluggish(delayed), but RS has a certain quality I can't put my finger on. Its average for an FPS, but it looks great and it is fun to play... ...that said, you'd be surprised to hear that CoD3 is actually awesome on the Wii. Its the closest approximation to a mouse yet. The cursor is dead accurate and immediately responsive. You have two types of aiming, fixed and dynamic, where one is simply a freed cursor like you've been seeing with a dead-zone, and fixed is where the whole view moves immediately like a shooter on the PC. Best shooter yet IMHO with lots of smaller interactions with the controller sprinkled about...I love leaning around corners by twisting the wiimote (rather than how in Red Steel its merely cosmetic; shooting g-lock style). Monkey ball is hard as hell, but I like that. Elebits is awesome, and I'd think it would suit the adventure gamers here. You get to explore and touch and toss around your environment, opening everything you'd imagine would open, with a small bit of discovery, as there are hidden interactions that you can find. Pointer action is precise and highly responsive. Madden rocks by simple virtue of the controller. I haven't played an football game period since 1991, the very first Madden when it didn't even have date after his name...on Sega Genesis. Excite Truck is very fast and fun. I'm a racer, being a huge low-sim racing fan such as GT and Forza, to hybrid-sims like PGR3. Excite Truck has that loose and wild fun racing that pretty much anyone can get into, especially if they're not racing fans or very proficient. Rayman is exhausting and torturous. I love it, but I can only play it in short bursts with long breaks in between. Design is very much Rayman and a joy to look at. Wii Sports is um, its great. Its exactly what you'd expect and its more fun than you'd think. The training is actually more fun for me than the base level games, especially target practice in tennis. So yea, there are a lot of reasons already to get a Wii, and no, you won't find one anywhere! Bye! Cheers Share Share this post on Twitter

01-21-2007, 01:06 PM	#19
Eureka Banned User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 175	I roll my eyes at thee. Share Share this post on Twitter

01-21-2007, 05:14 PM	#20
artwking4 Jack Bauer loves you Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,524	I got a Wii a couple days ago at Wal-Mart. I wasn't even planning on getting one at the time, but they had just gotten some in, so I decided to go ahead and get it. Hooray for impulse purchases! Just need some games now. I think Call of Duty 3, maybe Zelda. I've never really had all that much exposure to Zelda before. Will I be okay just playing this one without having seen any of the others? Is it Zelda really as great as many people think it is? Maybe I'll just rent it first and see. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. -- Robert A. Heinlein

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