Wednesday, November 22, 2006
I want to hear more about Ambrose's Wii.
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Anyway, I wrote most of the 3 blog entries already on Monday, I just didn’t post them – so if something sounds like I wrote it on Monday, then it’s because I DID write it on Monday.
Monday morning has been a pretty unbusy day. I was feeling a bit sick, but if it's an unbusy day I should go to work, right? I wonder if that makes sense... I should save my sick days for when I'm both really sick, and there's too much stuff to do at work so they'll have to delegate it to someone else... bwahahaha. Yeah - go to work when sorta sick with nothing to do. bwahaha.
Anyway, David asked me to blog about the Wii when I get one, but I didn't get one yet, but I did get to play it a bit at Ambrose's. He bought Zelda (who wouldn't?) and Trauma Center but hadn't opened them yet, so Ray and I played some Wii sports and made some Mii characters. Before you ask, Mii characters are basically avatars of yourself (Mii = me) - so you make characters, like in a lot of games, like Karaoke Revolution - and then you use them in games, like Wii sports and other Nintendo tech demos.
So first we played bowling. The controller is just a remote with a couple buttons, so it's pretty intuitive - like, you can't really get confused even if you wanted to. Instead of trying to find out where X, Y, B, A, L, R, Z are, or triangle, square, x, circle (I still don't know where those are), there's a d-pad, a big A button, the big B button trigger, and a 1 button and a 2 button, as well as some other ones. There's also the nunchuk attachment for some games, which is just a joystick that you hold in your other hand.
I keep getting offtrack - but so first we played bowling. Hold down the trigger, swing your arm and let go of the trigger when you want to let go of the ball. Before you throw the ball, you use the dpad and buttons to align yourself and turn yourself in some direction. Then you hold down the trigger, and throw the ball like you would. You can even spin the ball, which makes it all the more fun.
Other games on Wii sports include Tennis, Golf, Baseball, etc... those are all pretty intuitive I guess - and then there's Boxing. Boxing is cool. I imagine it's like how EyeToy for PS2 was like. You do stuff, and your character on TV does the same kind of stuff. In boxing you use your remote and nunchuk, and you put up the remotes (your hand) to block, and you punch and shift and all that stuff, just like in real life. It's games like this that make the Wii what it is.
I find that when I'm playing the Wii, at least for now, it's less about winning or losing but more about having fun. It sounds weird when I say that because it has implications about non-wii games - as if I only care about winning when I play on non-wii things. No, non-wii things are fun too, but it's... different on the wii.
Truthfully, you do look sorta... silly when you play. If you can forgive that in yourself, then Wii is truly a fun system. Little kids and teens and adults can play with it alike. But then again, you already knew that, or already expected that, from Nintendo and commercials and everything.
So then, Ray and I made our Mii's. Ray started off making his guy look like Ray, but then at the end turned it to look like Neo. My guy... he doesn't look like bulbaosaur from Tony Hawk games or the guy from Karaoke Revolution... no no. My guy... I think he looks like a crazy Morgan Freeman. With crazy hair and everything. He's old, that's why he loses at Tennis. ... yeah. that's why.
Anyway, making characters is fun. I hear you can make up to 100, so I think I will do that, hahaha. It's addictive, hehe.
Wii Shop channel's not bad - there are a few games to buy now, from Zelda to Fzero to Mario 64, with also some older ones like Pinball and Soccer. I'll have to get a Wii sometime soon... it's a lot of fun. It feels so happy while you're playing it. Anyway, that's it for the Wii for now.
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FAMGUY1: 0
FAMGUY2: 1
FAMGUY3: 2 (I didn’t count Alan’s random thing)
Anyway, I wrote most of the 3 blog entries already on Monday, I just didn’t post them – so if something sounds like I wrote it on Monday, then it’s because I DID write it on Monday.
Monday morning has been a pretty unbusy day. I was feeling a bit sick, but if it's an unbusy day I should go to work, right? I wonder if that makes sense... I should save my sick days for when I'm both really sick, and there's too much stuff to do at work so they'll have to delegate it to someone else... bwahahaha. Yeah - go to work when sorta sick with nothing to do. bwahaha. Anyway, David asked me to blog about the Wii when I get one, but I didn't get one yet, but I did get to play it a bit at Ambrose's. He bought Zelda (who wouldn't?) and Trauma Center but hadn't opened them yet, so Ray and I played some Wii sports and made some Mii characters. Before you ask, Mii characters are basically avatars of yourself (Mii = me) - so you make characters, like in a lot of games, like Karaoke Revolution - and then you use them in games, like Wii sports and other Nintendo tech demos. So first we played bowling. The controller is just a remote with a couple buttons, so it's pretty intuitive - like, you can't really get confused even if you wanted to. Instead of trying to find out where X, Y, B, A, L, R, Z are, or triangle, square, x, circle (I still don't know where those are), there's a d-pad, a big A button, the big B button trigger, and a 1 button and a 2 button, as well as some other ones. There's also the nunchuk attachment for some games, which is just a joystick that you hold in your other hand. I keep getting offtrack - but so first we played bowling. Hold down the trigger, swing your arm and let go of the trigger when you want to let go of the ball. Before you throw the ball, you use the dpad and buttons to align yourself and turn yourself in some direction. Then you hold down the trigger, and throw the ball like you would. You can even spin the ball, which makes it all the more fun. Other games on Wii sports include Tennis, Golf, Baseball, etc... those are all pretty intuitive I guess - and then there's Boxing. Boxing is cool. I imagine it's like how EyeToy for PS2 was like. You do stuff, and your character on TV does the same kind of stuff. In boxing you use your remote and nunchuk, and you put up the remotes (your hand) to block, and you punch and shift and all that stuff, just like in real life. It's games like this that make the Wii what it is. I find that when I'm playing the Wii, at least for now, it's less about winning or losing but more about having fun. It sounds weird when I say that because it has implications about non-wii games - as if I only care about winning when I play on non-wii things. No, non-wii things are fun too, but it's... different on the wii. Truthfully, you do look sorta... silly when you play. If you can forgive that in yourself, then Wii is truly a fun system. Little kids and teens and adults can play with it alike. But then again, you already knew that, or already expected that, from Nintendo and commercials and everything. So then, Ray and I made our Mii's. Ray started off making his guy look like Ray, but then at the end turned it to look like Neo. My guy... he doesn't look like bulbaosaur from Tony Hawk games or the guy from Karaoke Revolution... no no. My guy... I think he looks like a crazy Morgan Freeman. With crazy hair and everything. He's old, that's why he loses at Tennis. ... yeah. that's why. Anyway, making characters is fun. I hear you can make up to 100, so I think I will do that, hahaha. It's addictive, hehe. Wii Shop channel's not bad - there are a few games to buy now, from Zelda to Fzero to Mario 64, with also some older ones like Pinball and Soccer. I'll have to get a Wii sometime soon... it's a lot of fun. It feels so happy while you're playing it. Anyway, that's it for the Wii for now. |