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#1

So, I pretty much have no friend codes for the Wii! I have quite a few multiplayer games too. I am so excited for Animal Crossing City Folk

For those who don;t know… Animal Crossing is basically like a second life type of game… you litterally would have to play the game for 3 years to see everything in the game…actually…they added a new Updating feature… the game will never end now.

On Halloween you trick or treat…in the game on Christmas you give presents to the people in you’re town, you look for eggs on Easter… and it’s basically just like real life, the time even changes during the seasons… Winter it snows and Summer it’s sunny… I couldn’t explain the whole game but it’s in the top 100 Nintendo games ever made… Me and my wife both play it for the DS

animal-crossing.com/cityfolk/

#2

I also have a Wii, it’s a pretty cool game consol. I love wii sports, especially golf.

#3

me too…i love golf. I want to get Wii Music next…

#4

I play with a Wii. My favorite game is Super Smash Bros Brawl.

#5

Wii FTW! I’ve only got a handful of games, though. My favourite would have to be, without a doubt, Super Mario Galaxy. If you don’t have it, you have to get it. It’s pretty much the perfect game and very fun, not to mention the music is awesome (a mix of orchestrated new stuff, mixed with retro SMB we all know and love.) I also play Super Paper Mario, which is fun (I like the pixels) and if you like the old Super Mario Bros. games, you’ll enjoy that one. I’m interested in getting the 2D new Wario game that’s out, but I usually spend my moneys on something else, rather than video games, or I just go back and play SMG again.

I haven’t ever played Animal Crossing, but I’ve heard good things about it. Wii Music? Never heard that one before, but I’m reading that you can play with over 60 instruments, and you can play Nintendo songs - cool! I’ll have to consider getting that one. My sister is considering getting Guitar Hero, or the one with the drums included, which is really fun to play, you look like a bit of an idiot playing on a plastic guitar, but who cares? Heh.

If anyone wants my friend code, I can give it to them, but I wouldn’t be able to do anything except send you messages and Miis, because I don’t have any online multiplayer games…

#6

At first, when I first saw the graphics of Wii… well, you imagine how I felt then, but of course, I had not comprehended the great technology of it then, so naturally, I wasn’t too excited about it.

But even after I know about its virtual reality aspect, it was kinda difficult for me to buy one. :laughing: But yeah, it’s a great piece of entertainment, a first step into the gaming world, literally.

#7

graphics are overrated and boring to me… they mean nothing…graphics don’t make a story, they have nothing to do with having 10000 buttons on a controller or game play. I love originality, and innovation and the Wii is currently the only system on earth that gets the person interacting with the game…i’ve see people do so many things with the Wii controller alone…from moving robot arms as they move their Wii remote to rigging a Wii Fit Board enable to him control the robotic vacuum cleaner to vacuum his home.

Now, if they somehow intertwined 3d like with the glasses and stuff and the wii…people would flock to it. Innovation is the key to the future

#8

[quote="crostskates":1ccoysqb]graphics are overrated and boring to me… they mean nothing…[/quote:1ccoysqb]
Nothing’s perfect, eh? :wink: Besides, the imagery is part of the ‘reality’ in virtual reality, no? If I want to have a controller which does whatever I want to do in a superbly realistic manner, I’d just hit the arcades; [i:1ccoysqb]Jump Jump Revolution[/i:1ccoysqb] is one of such games.

Of course, I’m not criticizing the console with its level of graphic. The graphics presented in the games aren’t that bad, really - they just don’t sooth my eyes, that’s all. ‘Eyecandy’ is the term. Plenty of eyecandies and you get something like "Gears of War" - superbly well done in the graphics section, but lack in the ‘reality,’ despite the ‘gun-controller’ presented for the XBox console (which probably copied the technology created by the makers of Wii).

Now, if we have XBox meets Wii, that would be something spectacular, and that’s where the abovementioned gun-controller (a controller in the shape of a gun, obviously…) comes in. Sure, it uses the technology created by Wii, but it’s productive, no? It at least brings us hardcore gamers one more step into the game world, but of course, Wii will always be the top-gun in virtual reality. :wink:

Too bad it probably still costs as much as Playstation… One. :-\

#9

I have been tempted by the Wii, despite being an avid PS3 fan, since it seems like it’d be such a completely different type of gaming to the PS3- probably a bit more light-hearted and fun. But although it seems to have gone down in price a little, it still seems perhaps out of my budget for the moment.

#10

ps3s are £270!

#11

I noticed I haven’t played with my wii in a while. Probably because I got really, really hooked to my PS3.

#12

Yes, but it was much more important for me to get my PS3 than to get a Wii. :laughing:

#13

oh ok.

#14

Playing with the wii for a while can tire out your arm if you know what I mean. I mean, all of those arm jerking and swinging.

#15

Then I’m sure you haven’t heard of the Quantum 3…which is only for the wii and is said to come pretty darn close to the “ps3 and xbox 360” graphics…not only that but the software is inside the disc, no further memory needed. The first game that’s coming out (don’t remember the name) will be able to use a keyboard to chat with people and talk through a mic and is like Halo (better artwork than Halo I think)

Pixar is innovative, and original. Apple is Original and innovative . Nintendo…has something brilliant on their hands. Think about it… how big of a difference is the Game cube from the Wii… No denying the huge difference. Now what about X box… I don’t really see that much of a change other than bits and pieces of new software and a bigger hard drive and maybe a better graphics card. They would need to reconstruct the entire system to impress me… I don’t really need another PC…or something that does stuff similar to one. I’m pretty positive Nintendo is what “gaming” is all about, and I’ve always say that that Nintendo paved the way for gaming…and games all around the world

it’s very similar to how a lot of the people from Pixar we’re inspired by Disney. In my own way I’m a little saddened by the lack of people who support Nintendo.

If you want to see a difference in the world you have to be different

#16

Pretty darn close, crostskates, but not close enough. :sunglasses:

Don’t get me wrong, though, Wii is great, no kidding. It’s like the Pixar of the gaming world. It’s just that some people grew up watching Pixar films and ended up loving it while other grew up watch Cartoon Network, some Nickolodean, and in this case, some grew up playing PS, some XBox, etc, etc.

As you said, I don’t need another PC which does the same thing.

#17

I LOVE the Wii!!! Like croskates, the graphics don’t matter TOO much to me, because I like the active part (even if it does get tiring sometimes, TSS). My friends and I have Wii parties (I know, nerd alert, right).

#18

Actually, this is a pretty interesting peice of article.

"High Voltage Software, using a Wii-specific engine called Quantum3. Upgrading the game engine, which had previously been used by the developer in several other titles, began in October 2007.[8][19] This engine allows for “full 16-TEV stage material pipeline using up to eight texture sources and a host of innovative blend operations,” and as also quoted in IGN’s exclusive look at the game, the engine “allows the developer to create graphic effects normally seen on other consoles with vertex and pixel shaders.” These effects include bump-mapping, reflection and refraction, light and shadow maps and projections, specular and Fresnel effects, missive and iridescent materials, advanced alpha blends, gloss and detail mapping, motion blur, interactive water with complex surface effects, and animated textures, among other things.[7] The Quantum3 engine also includes advanced artificial intelligence, allowing for enemies in the game to possess “human-like behavior.” According to Eric Nofsinger, “Our [High Voltage Software’s] goal is to be the most technically innovative Wii developer on the plane”

If you ask me, I don’t see a whole lot of difference…pretty much unless you squint…you most likely wont even be able to tell the difference…

I sort of get what you’re saying… I mean I did grow up on Nintendo when it first came out and then the super nintendo and then the sega and the 64…which was the first 3d gaming system there ever was… then my teenage years I was all about the PlayStation…I played it non stop…i LOVED IT

Little did I know Sony and Nintendo had in fact teamed up to make SNES-CD discs… Nintendo signed the contract and everything only to discover that Sony greedily wanted complete control over any and all titles written on the SNES CD-ROM format (this was before PlayStation)

Here’s an article of what happened

"The SNES-CD was to be announced at the June 1991 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). However, when Hiroshi Yamauchi read the original 1988 contract between Sony and Nintendo, he realized that the earlier agreement essentially handed Sony complete control over any and all titles written on the SNES CD-ROM format. Yamauchi decided that the contract was totally unacceptable and he secretly canceled all plans for the joint Nintendo-Sony SNES CD attachment. Instead of announcing a partnership between Sony and Nintendo, at 9 a.m. the day of the CES, Nintendo chairman Howard Lincoln stepped onto the stage and revealed that Nintendo was now allied with Philips, and Nintendo was planning on abandoning all the previous work Nintendo and Sony had accomplished. Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa had, unbeknown to Sony, flown to Philips headquarters in Europe and formed an alliance of a decidedly different nature—one that would give Nintendo total control over its licenses on Philips machines.

After the collapse of the joint project, Sony considered halting their research, but ultimately the company decided to use what they had developed so far and make it into a complete, stand alone console. As a result, Nintendo filed a lawsuit claiming breach of contract and attempted, in U.S. federal court, to obtain an injunction against the release of the PlayStation, on the grounds that Nintendo owned the name. The federal judge presiding over the case denied the injunction and, in October 1991, the first incarnation of the new Sony PlayStation was revealed. However, it is theorized that only 200 or so of these machines were ever produced.
PlayStation Memory Card.

By the end of 1992, Sony and Nintendo reached a deal whereby the “Sony Play Station” would still have a port for SNES games, but Nintendo would own the rights and receive the bulk of the profits from the games, and the SNES would continue to use the Sony-designed audio chip. However, Sony decided in early 1993 to begin reworking the “Play Station” concept to target a new generation of hardware and software. As part of this process the SNES cartridge port was dropped and the space between the names was removed.

Nintendo has a lot of research done with Sony and their project. Sad it had to end how it did. Back when the supposed PlayStation was “the best” nobody knew Nintendo had some doing in it lol I certainly didn’t. I don’t hate any system, but for me there’s no school like that old school