Thanks for the comments, guys. I thought about what Mark said previously, too--I would hate to spend upwards of $300 getting all this setup, only to play for a few weeks and then shelve it. Then again, I doubt it's something I would play a lot solo, except perhaps for the Zelda game. It'd be great to have point-and-click games for it, though I'm not sure how that would work without a mouse.
Well, it comes with Wii Sports, which has the bowling, golf, baseball, tennis and boxing. The only ones that I find really fun are the bowling and the baseball. The others are flawed in my opinion.
You'll have to pick up a second Wii-mote and preferably matching nunchucks. You can take care of the second controller need by doing what most people do and that's by buying it bundled with Wii: Play, which is more mini-games, though definitely erring on the mediocre side.
Again, if you have wireless Internet in your home/apartment, then you can get online with the Wii out of the box. You would then pay for individual games. Right now they have not released any adventure games through the online (download) interface, but they will soon. You've already played Sam and Max, but the Strongbad game looks like fun. Generally speaking, as you'll see when you first turn on the console and tweak the controller's sensitivity (mine is cranked to the max), you can get pretty good point and click action by moving the Wii-mote (it also picks up rotation, etc.). It's still not quite as great as a mouse/trackball, but it's probably the next best thing and something you can pick up quickly.
Matt Barton wrote:
If I do buy this unit, it will be almost entirely for multiplayer games I can enjoy with the wife. I'd like to get some type of Worms game, and of course the bowling has been recommended by everyone. I'd also like to check out the fitness options. I tend to spend way too much time on my butt, so it'd be nice to have a game that was more active.
It tends to be skewed to multiplayer gaming, so that's not a problem. They have a Worms game for it that's either coming or is already out. Thus far, the stand alone bowling games have been garbage, but luckily the one it comes with is lots of fun (obviously). The only major fitness option is the soon-to-be-released Wii Fit, which I'm sure you heard a lot about ($90 - $100). No doubt if that takes off like expected, we'll see lots of offshoots of it.
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Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Thanks for the comments, guys. I thought about what Mark said previously, too--I would hate to spend upwards of $300 getting all this setup, only to play for a few weeks and then shelve it. Then again, I doubt it's something I would play a lot solo, except perhaps for the Zelda game. It'd be great to have point-and-click games for it, though I'm not sure how that would work without a mouse.
Well, it comes with Wii Sports, which has the bowling, golf, baseball, tennis and boxing. The only ones that I find really fun are the bowling and the baseball. The others are flawed in my opinion.
You'll have to pick up a second Wii-mote and preferably matching nunchucks. You can take care of the second controller need by doing what most people do and that's by buying it bundled with Wii: Play, which is more mini-games, though definitely erring on the mediocre side.
Again, if you have wireless Internet in your home/apartment, then you can get online with the Wii out of the box. You would then pay for individual games. Right now they have not released any adventure games through the online (download) interface, but they will soon. You've already played Sam and Max, but the Strongbad game looks like fun. Generally speaking, as you'll see when you first turn on the console and tweak the controller's sensitivity (mine is cranked to the max), you can get pretty good point and click action by moving the Wii-mote (it also picks up rotation, etc.). It's still not quite as great as a mouse/trackball, but it's probably the next best thing and something you can pick up quickly.
If I do buy this unit, it will be almost entirely for multiplayer games I can enjoy with the wife. I'd like to get some type of Worms game, and of course the bowling has been recommended by everyone. I'd also like to check out the fitness options. I tend to spend way too much time on my butt, so it'd be nice to have a game that was more active.
It tends to be skewed to multiplayer gaming, so that's not a problem. They have a Worms game for it that's either coming or is already out. Thus far, the stand alone bowling games have been garbage, but luckily the one it comes with is lots of fun (obviously). The only major fitness option is the soon-to-be-released Wii Fit, which I'm sure you heard a lot about ($90 - $100). No doubt if that takes off like expected, we'll see lots of offshoots of it.
Wii: 1345 2773 2048 1586 | PS3: ArmchairArcade
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director | Armchair Arcade, Inc.
***************************
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.