Official Wii Thread

**GohanX** · 28 May 2008, 11:33 PM

I think someone has posted the homebrew link before, but the question is this: Is there any Wii homebrew worth getting?

**ChaoofNee** · 29 May 2008, 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by neoalphazero

-Ollie King and Top Skater for the Wii balance board

Nintendo also announced Wario Land Shake, hopefully a action title with Treasure in tow. *-neo

These would make me buy a WiiFit. Not the pack-in game. Just those.

Originally Posted by GohanX

I think someone has posted the homebrew link before, but the question is this: Is there any Wii homebrew worth getting?

ScummVM.

Also, my friend wants to develop, so he was really excited.

**Grave** · 29 May 2008, 01:29 AM

Originally Posted by neoalphazero

-Ollie King and Top Skater for the Wii balance board

NO MORE TEASING! It needs to just happen already! We finally have the controller for it. I will still pay $1 a play for Top Skater when presented with the opportunity.

**Hero** · 29 May 2008, 06:17 PM

For that above statement about PS2 being better for the industry than the Wii - at the office I hear people talk about the Wii. People who don't normally play games. They are genuinely excited about and have fun with Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and those other games than are easily "love to hate". These people are not idiots either. They manage million-dollar deals and wrangle deadlines better than most Gamestop employees can handle a customer.

All this makes me think that, yeah, while the PS2 had the gamer's buffet, the Wii is actually expanding the market. However you'd like to view that is up to you, but it's not because the average "non-gamer" is some knuckle-dragging troll or bumfuck fool.

Which brings me to another thought - wasn't this what people were saying of the PS1? That it would ruin real gaming by making it cool and introducing people who didn't understand the older 16-bit and 8-bit eras? That platformers and 2D woiuld die in the wake of sports games and 3D?

And now the tables have turned, though the game is the same - now the sports-loving, GTA-playing, FPS enthusiast is afraid that "their" hobby is being intruded on by those who don't get it. Something tells me it'll be the same deal all over again - the market will expand for these new people and adapt, and the "hardcore" will become as niche as 2D, platformers, and all the 16-bit mainstays have.

**Joust Williams** · 29 May 2008, 07:08 PM

And that's why it's unfortunate. Because I can see the fun in going from a shmup to something like GTA, Bioshock, Deus Ex, Gears of War, Fallout...but Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Carnival Games, Mario and Sonic et al is just the lulz

These are just either oversimplifications of what we have evolved into along with ass graphics or not even games at all. Of course, I'd just get a new hobby and drop gaming, but I like this one quite fine, thanks

**Tommy Tallarico** · 29 May 2008, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Hero

For that above statement about PS2 being better for the industry than the Wii - at the office I hear people talk about the Wii. People who don't normally play games. They are genuinely excited about and have fun with Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and those other games than are easily "love to hate". These people are not idiots either. They manage million-dollar deals and wrangle deadlines better than most Gamestop employees can handle a customer.

All this makes me think that, yeah, while the PS2 had the gamer's buffet, the Wii is actually expanding the market. However you'd like to view that is up to you, but it's not because the average "non-gamer" is some knuckle-dragging troll or bumfuck fool.

Which brings me to another thought - wasn't this what people were saying of the PS1? That it would ruin real gaming by making it cool and introducing people who didn't understand the older 16-bit and 8-bit eras? That platformers and 2D woiuld die in the wake of sports games and 3D?

And now the tables have turned, though the game is the same - now the sports-loving, GTA-playing, FPS enthusiast is afraid that "their" hobby is being intruded on by those who don't get it. Something tells me it'll be the same deal all over again - the market will expand for these new people and adapt, and the "hardcore" will become as niche as 2D, platformers, and all the 16-bit mainstays have.

It can't be a proper Nintendo thread without Hero coming in to lengthily justify Nintendo, repeat the same old demographic-expanding song and dance, and put quotes around special words.

Originally Posted by Joust Williams

And that's why it's unfortunate. Because I can see the fun in going from a shmup to something like GTA, Bioshock, Deus Ex, Gears of War, Fallout...but Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Carnival Games, Mario and Sonic et al is just the lulz

These are just either oversimplifications of what we have evolved into along with ass graphics or not even games at all. Of course, I'd just get a new hobby and drop gaming, but I like this one quite fine, thanks

Oh Christ, shut up. None of those games cited, along with their genres, are going away. It's okay for there to be a system out there for girls and casuals.

Tommy Tallarico