Frankly, I can’t think of any better idea than limiting the 13-year-old dipshits who seem to make up the majority of online gamers to preset phrases.
How about the option the option to turn on voice chat for friends only, and the option to turn it off completely? It can even by off by default and locked by parental controls. When you’re playing with friends online, voice chat makes it more like they’re there with you playing. It’s a much better social experience.
Does the Wii have any way of hooking up a mic? I’d check myself but I’m busy.
Dude I hate to say it and I’m not trying to start a pitting here or anything but you are, bar none, the biggest fan boy I have encountered on this forum. When anyone says anything even remotely disparaging about the Wii you jump to it’s defense like it’s your little sister.
The Wii has a WAY higher ratio of crappy to good games than any other console in recent memory. Multiplatform games are ALWAYS worse on this system. Take N out of the picture as a software developer and the Wii is not a good console or a good value at $249.
Sorry bro, but it’s true.
Which I believe to be mainly due to the radically different controller. It’s just harder to map the controls to the Wiimote unless the game is designed for it in the first place. Games that are Wii-only work better, from my impression of things.
Not always: compare Scarface on the Wii to the other platforms, for example. The graphics might be PS2 quality, but the controller actually makes the game a lot better.
Good thing we live in the real world where Nintendo is a software developer, huh?
It’s not good value at half the price of the PS3???
It could connect to the expansion port on the Wiimote (where the Nunchuk goes), which is how the original Xbox’s microphone worked too.
Is anything in the post you quoted untrue? How am I a fanboy if all I’m doing is telling the truth to people who are misinformed?
This is a ridiculous statement. Without Nintendo as a developer the Wii would never have been released as is. It would have been a completely different animal or wouldn’t have existed at all.
And by your logic, the PS3 would be equally as crappy if Sony wasn’t developing games for it.
I don’t care. That’s not an excuse. If the game is crappy then it shouldn’t be released. Have some quality control.
The same way the remotes connect: Bluetooth. I’m not sure if that would mean you’d reduce the total number of remotes you could connect, but it wouldn’t be too often you’d have four local players and also be playing online with voice chat.
Dude, Nintendo’s biggest problem right now is that they can’t make the Wiis fast enough to keep up with the demand. They had to discontinue a still vital model of the DS to get enough factories operating to even come close. More than a year later, people still can’t just walk into any store at any time and buy one. They’ve released some great games and there’s some more on the horizon. I hear about some cool new non-gaming use for Wii technology about every other week.
The jaws of victory have clamped shut. The polls are closed and you’re wondering how the nominee is going to lose to McCain as the new Democratic president gives their inauguration speech.
You weren’t being so protective. Well, not as much, at least.
You get the good with the bad. There should be ways to filter out the younger and older crowd if that’s what you’re into.
I don’t mind the 13 year olds. I’m better than they are anyways.
Honestly, I’d say it’s even. That’s being generous, too.
I’m VERY happy with my 360. It’s got a bunch of titles that I’d like to get to, but I’m too busy playing the really good titles I have. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day until tax season is over with.
The PS2 and GBA - great systems, and the monarchs of shovelware - say hi.
As do Resident Evil 4 (single best version available anywhere), Godfather, and Bully: Scholarship Edition.
I also like how it’s being “protective” of a console to point out when someone is wrong for trashing games that they haven’t even played :rolleyes:
It’s essentially the video gaming version of Godwin. The longer a thread goes on, the more likely it is someone will be called a fanboy. Even if their arguments are based on facts and not fanboyish in any way.
Why is it Nintendo’s fault that 3rd-party developers are lazy?
Are you suggesting that Nintendo break out the ridiculous “Seal of Approval” system from the NES days?
I’m going to buy one of the current-gen consoles before Christmas - but it certainly won’t be a PS3. Even if it had a dozen “killer apps”, $500 is a ridiculous price. I didn’t buy a Neo Geo back in the day and I won’t buy a niche system now.
An XBox 360, maybe.
(yes, I know the PS3 has a Blu-Ray player and would have to be $1,000,000 or something in order for Sony to turn a profit on it - but that’s their fault)
Why is the Wii scarce for you guys anyway? They have them everywhere here.
An open question to anybody who has issues with the Wii’s current library that I think would be interesting -
The Wii has been available for about fifteen months.
Gamerankings.com lists twelve games that have an average score of over 80%, which I think is a fair indicator of a “pretty good” game. There are 25 games with a score of 75% or more. There are three games with scores over 90%, and one of them is the second-highest reviewed game on the entire site.
There is considerable variety among those titles. You have a minigame collection in Wii Sports, a 3D platformer in Mario Galaxy, a first-person adventure game in Metroid Prime 3, a lightgun shooter in Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, an adventure/puzzle game in Zack & Wiki, arcade-y medical sims in the Trauma Center games, action RPGs in Zelda and Super Paper Mario, sports games in the Maddens and Super Mario Strikers, and more.
In two days, we’re getting what will probably be the Wii’s second-best selling title after Wii Sports, and what will undoubtedly be one of the top-selling games of this entire generation. Soon after, we’re getting two more huge games in Mario Kart and Wii Fit.
At this point in the console’s life, what do you expect from its library? Which consoles do you feel had more robust libraries at this point in their cycles?