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Wii lovin'.
Oct. 19th, 2007 03:21 pmI'm really digging my Wii at the moment.
Favourite games (in fact, I haven't got that many as I'm quite engrossed in these three) are:
Rayman Raving Rabbids - awesome, quirky, full-of-character party-game (lots of mini-games)
My Sims - I hate myself for loving this. It's glorious non-taxing, pointless, addictive CRACK.
Zelda (Twighlight Princess) - Great, well-rounded 3d platform / RPG / puzzler
But apart from these games being ace and really enjoying the novelty of the controllers, there's tonnes of little extra touches, like:
Opera - Web-browser. Recent update supports USB keyboards, so it's a really usable web-on-your-TV app
Everybody Votes - Kind of like an LJ-poll thing with random binary-answer questions. Utterly pointless fun.
Virtual Console - Various emulators, some great games, shame about the prices being a bit high, IMO, though using the Classic Controller is pretty excellent, and the way the Wiimote can be used sideways as a classic controller is dead clever.
Add in the even less useful, but still fun "channels" (the Wii calls every app a "channel" to give it a TV-like feel) like the picture viewer (with rudimentary image scribbling and a cute slideshow which can play your own background mp3s), News and Weather forecast and you've got a super-cool box of tricks.
What's odd to me is that Wiimotes aside (I'll admit that I thought the novelty would wear off - it hasn't, they're really cool), I'm using it for several "Home Entertainment Centre" things that I used to do with my chipped X-Box, EXCEPT it doesn't play DVDs, DivXs or have an MP3 playback app! STUPID! I may chip the thing just to get homebrew programs to do this.
All in all though, I don't think I've loved gaming so much since my beloved Dreamcast. My first full-on Nintendo-lovin' experience.
Favourite games (in fact, I haven't got that many as I'm quite engrossed in these three) are:
Rayman Raving Rabbids - awesome, quirky, full-of-character party-game (lots of mini-games)
My Sims - I hate myself for loving this. It's glorious non-taxing, pointless, addictive CRACK.
Zelda (Twighlight Princess) - Great, well-rounded 3d platform / RPG / puzzler
But apart from these games being ace and really enjoying the novelty of the controllers, there's tonnes of little extra touches, like:
Opera - Web-browser. Recent update supports USB keyboards, so it's a really usable web-on-your-TV app
Everybody Votes - Kind of like an LJ-poll thing with random binary-answer questions. Utterly pointless fun.
Virtual Console - Various emulators, some great games, shame about the prices being a bit high, IMO, though using the Classic Controller is pretty excellent, and the way the Wiimote can be used sideways as a classic controller is dead clever.
Add in the even less useful, but still fun "channels" (the Wii calls every app a "channel" to give it a TV-like feel) like the picture viewer (with rudimentary image scribbling and a cute slideshow which can play your own background mp3s), News and Weather forecast and you've got a super-cool box of tricks.
What's odd to me is that Wiimotes aside (I'll admit that I thought the novelty would wear off - it hasn't, they're really cool), I'm using it for several "Home Entertainment Centre" things that I used to do with my chipped X-Box, EXCEPT it doesn't play DVDs, DivXs or have an MP3 playback app! STUPID! I may chip the thing just to get homebrew programs to do this.
All in all though, I don't think I've loved gaming so much since my beloved Dreamcast. My first full-on Nintendo-lovin' experience.
