New Wii info

So is there any conclusive evidence whether this "no third parties getting wifi stuffs" thing affects the downloadable content part of the Wii? Cause that's the part I'm really interested in online-wise: small teams making fun games on the Wii could be pretty awesome.

Assuming it'll have something like that...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You're all either lying or deluded: obviously the best Zelda game was Link's Awakening. =D

Anyway, I didn't see this posted up yet so I might as well mention it, since it's well worth seeing: IGN did a very extensive hands-on of the Wii in their IGN Weekly thing, from the German Games Convention in Leipzig. It features long gameplay footage of Battalion Wars 2, that Mario footie game, and a bunch of others (but none of the flagship titles, for some reason). Link'd.

I really dislike Battalion Wars 2 using the Wii controller as a mouse cursor thing. It's just so uninspired.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Red Steel was very "meh" with the slow turns and environmental quality (textures mostly ranging from spectacular to lame).

The slow turning REALLY turned me off (har, that's a pun I think). Like Fran, I really hope they have a kind of calibration system so that can be fixed.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, the way I see it, if there's (potentially) someone behind you with a shotgun trying to shoot your brains out, how fast would you turn around? That's how fast I would like my game character to turn around too. He's not a tank.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Malmer

Playing = believing
Ohmygoodness, someone ought to be fired.


Now I come to think if it, they wouldn't be able to just "bind" the viewing point to the curser - you would never be able to turn all the way around without actually pointing the wiimote backwards.
They need that pointer to reach some point near the edge to begin turning.

I too think it's too slow like it is. I would like to see some kind acceleration instead - pointing halfway to the edge makes you start turning, and then faster towards the edge. Maybe so fast, pointing over the edge, that just by giving it a nudge you will be able to turn all the way around.

Oh I do hope they take these kind of things into consideration =/

Exactly, that's the kind of game mechanic I would like to see in there. I doubt very much the first situation is how it would work (or at least, that would be really silly).

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

But to believe that rumble never went away, wouldn't we have to concede IGN as a being a good source of intel?

Would you rather believe the British?

It seems excessively unlikely that they would take out rumble after all the "rumble is IN!" clamoring, anyway.

Here's something cool, though not quite cool enough for school (or was that the other way around?): "Iga" hinted at a Castlevania title for the Wii. It's pretty shockingly obvious that a Castlevania title would appear on the Wii, but that won't keep me from celebrating the possibility, especially after all the pussyfooting Iga's done the past half year re: Castlevania on the Wii.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

Outside of maybe the Pokemon, I think 25-35 year-olds would get more pleasure from playing any of the Mario games than a kid would.

I'm not so sure, my 11 year old cousin likes Mario 64 a lot more than I do. But yeah, I definitely agree with the sentiment.

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