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Got mine just a couple of hours ago. Waited in line at EB only for an hour and a half for one. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, since I was next to a couple of guys who were great to talk to. One of them, who was standing in line just as long as I was, was on his half hour break from HMV. I hope he didn't get fired....

Anyway, only had enough money to pick up Zelda.

So far I've played a little bit of WiiSports and Zelda, and I must say I'm a little bit disappointed. With Zelda, you can tell it was first made for the Gamecube. I was expecting much more functionality with the Wiimote. You still have to manuever your character to different spots to talk to different characters when it would just be so much easier to point at the character with the Wiimote and press A. In fact, other than Aiming, I've noticed very little being done with the Wiimote. The cursor is just there, and most of the time you're not doing with it.

On Wiisports, I only played golf and boxing, and again, I was disappointed. When boxing, it was very hard to make my Mii do what I wanted it to do. I was constantly giving headshots when I was trying to give body shots and making moves I had no idea how to recreate.

Golfing was okay.

Edit: The sound quality from the Wiimote is horrible. And loud.

Don't want to open another thread for this, but I have to ask:

What is needed to play with the Wii on my computer/monitor?

Is it even possible?

D.Turtle wrote:Don't want to open another thread for this, but I have to ask:

What is needed to play with the Wii on my computer/monitor?

Is it even possible?

First of all, you need component cables. Luckily, Nintendo aren't being pricks this time around, so expect them to show up in the next week or so.

Secondly, you need a Component-to-VGA adapter (or cables). I recommend going online.

As for mii, well...

Mad wrote:
Got mine. Now to find more controllers for sale... I got a second Remote but they were out of Nunchuks.

That's exactly where I stand. Where did you go?

Wow - they stocked significantly less attachments than remotes? Good thing I preordered all the hardware I want. Hopefully the proper component cables will be out in AU by launch.

weemadando wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:

Cao Cao wrote: Seconded.

Thirded.

Fourthed.

Still waiting...

My buddy in our dorm just got one and have been playing it since 2 this afternoon when he woke up from camping. It's terrific fun- people have been coming into the common room all day and just picking it up and playing it with virtually no instructions. We've only done Wii Sports so far (everyone has a big Calculus midterm tomorrow and don't want to start Zelda) but it's incredibly intuitive and a shitton of fun to play.

Well, I have a Wii and WiiSports, with Twilight Princess hopefully tomorrow. WiiSports Tennis is a blast.

Played my friend's, its f-awesome! Tennis is the best! Tomorrow, Zelda

Both Target and Best Buy were sold out

HERESY!!!

Twilight Princess has no Super Chicken Attack. Instead, after you beat on a chicken for long enough, you just get put into its body.

My friend came over and we've been playing Golf and Bowling all night...hella fun. Love it! I can't start Zelda until after my exams this week though =(

I have it, and Zelda is both fun and obnoxious. I can see the true terror when either you have to fish something REAL(I hate the first time you have to fish), and that thing when you go alternate mode is by far one of the most obnoxious fucking things.

But as to the plus side...the fighting rocks. I don't need another Wii game for a while.

Elaro wrote:That's exactly where I stand. Where did you go?

I went to Toys 'R' Us. The shelves were out of controllers, but they had some more Remotes behind the counter. The lady in front of me picked up the last Nunchuk.

weemadando wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:

Cao Cao wrote: Seconded.

Thirded.

Fourthed.

Fivefold since I won't be able to use one for 7 months, even when I can get it some distant day

Spanky, Utsanomiko, and I played Wii Sports at my house and at their house for a combined total of at least five hours today. Fun fun fun! I definately have to pick up a second Wiimote so I can play with my cousins on Thanksgiving.

Zelda is pretty sweet so far, although the new controls take a little getting used to from a regular ol' controller.

Any word on how Madden 07 is yet?

My one complaint about Zelda; I have to play it alone. I don't know why, but the new control scheme...when I start beating on an enemy, I don't just flick the wrist I start just swinging my sword acting out the full motion, it feels so immersive... and I'm sure I look like a complete idiot. Like the guys in the Nintendo commercials.

Praxis wrote:My one complaint about Zelda; I have to play it alone. I don't know why, but the new control scheme...when I start beating on an enemy, I don't just flick the wrist I start just swinging my sword acting out the full motion, it feels so immersive... and I'm sure I look like a complete idiot. Like the guys in the Nintendo commercials.

But you have to play with other people! Zelda just isn't Zelda without backseat players! It's one of the things that make the game fun!

My clever girlfriend, who bought me this wonderful, wonderful system, wisely said this morning "Costco won't have any fucking kids, plus you need a membership". We showed up an hour before opening time, got in line, and received ticked #32 out of 46 systems sold. The bundle is on page 1. To make my day extra-perfect, as we left we walked past a towering stack of unsold Zunes with someone literally saying "What the fuck are those pieces of shit?".

Watched Happy Feet after lunch (highly recommend), then settled in to some solid hours of gaming. Excite Truck is getting traded (I think racing games are the devil), but Wii Sports and ZELDA got a solid workout.

Wii Sports is awesome. Everyone at home made Miis, and we all had a blast. Consensus is that Boxing, Bowling and Golf are the most solid, but I'm going to give Tennis and Baseball more chances.

Zelda is god.

I poked around the Virtual Console, but paying $8 for Altered Beast seemed whack. I'll wait till those prices collapse, as I assume they will. My ROM collection is already flawless, but I'm willing to toss the Big N $0.50 for 8-bit games, $1 for 16-bit and maybe $2-5 for N64.

Xisiqomelir wrote:I poked around the Virtual Console, but paying $8 for Altered Beast seemed whack. I'll wait till those prices collapse, as I assume they will. My ROM collection is already flawless, but I'm willing to toss the Big N $0.50 for 8-bit games, $1 for 16-bit and maybe $2-5 for N64.

Good luck with that. Xbox Live Arcade charges several dollars for dodgey arcade games and gets away with it: I'd be surprised if the VC prices fall very much.

Temjin wrote:The sound quality from the Wiimote is horrible. And loud.

You can turn it down and it helps, do it from the home key, click on the the P1 and adjust the volume. And if it's not turned up that loud, then it doesn't sound too bad.

Xisiqomelir wrote: Wii Sports is awesome. Everyone at home made Miis, and we all had a blast. Consensus is that Boxing, Bowling and Golf are the most solid, but I'm going to give Tennis and Baseball more chances.

IMHO Tennis is the best multiplayer Wii Sports game. Weak if you're alone but if you've got four people it gets ridiculously fun

weemadando wrote:Any word on how Madden 07 is yet?

From a friend, apparently it is.......interesting.

Not in a bad way, but in the he actually has to move about a bit because the way that targeting of the throw and a few other functions work. I can probably give a better overview later when I play it. For now though he says it's good, and it really is not playing Madden the same way...which is something of a fresh breath for him.

I like Waggle...

As DPDP said, Uts, him, and I got both of our systems yesterday morning from Toys "R" Us courtesy of preorders. The store had ten units for open sale besides the ones set aside for preorders, and they were pretty much all spoken for shortly after we arrived.

On a side note, it was interesting how polite people who arrived late and got turned away were, usually nothing more than a "Oh they are? Okay."

Uts was able to snag a preorder of Zelda when we went out on a shopping trek Saturday. When they let us in we all made a bee-line to the accessory/game section and I grabbed three Remotes and an extra Nunchuk at once. Overall our whole set-up looks like this:

-Wii system (console, Remote, Nunchuk, Wii Sports, misc.)
-3 extra Remotes
-1 extra Nunchuk
-Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2, which we bought Wednesday
-Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess
-Rayman Raving Rabbids

Metal Slug Anthology is unfortunately delayed until 05 December, so we got a refund on our preorder.

Actually playing the system with the Remote, after all this time since E32K6, seems almost surreal. Knowing and seeing how it works absolutely does not compare to actually playing it. The emotional feeling I got upon realisation on how perfectly everything works was a combination of blissful shock and hilarity.

We have two primary television set-ups in our house: a mid 90s 35" TV built into the cabinet in the library, and an early 80s 27" TV on the floor upstairs. The TV in the library is the most ideal for playing, being at eye-level, allowing the sensor to be positioned at waist-level, and for having more standing room.

Our system (which we named The Magic; DPDP named his Francis) isn't Online yet, since we don't have either a wireless network or a Wi-Fi dongle (we don't have an XP computer currently running at the time, either), but it would probably be a good idea to pick up one of Nintendo's LAN adapters when they become available in January.

Overall I am totally satisfied with the Wii, both as a console and as a purchase.

Miscellany:

Wireless setup was very easy, even with my no-SSID-broadcast network (more than I can say for winblows machines).

Gamecube emulation seems to be perfect. I tested this with a friend's memory card, controller and game, and so now I guess I can join the Gamecube party.
Aside from RE4, Celda and Smash, what else is good on Gamecube? I don't like racing or sports.