I’ll never forget my first experience playing Wii Sports. We loaded up some tennis and in the first game alone I smacked the chair two feet to my right, I took out the person I was playing with on my left, and I literally dove for a shot and almost went headfirst into the television. It probably won’t come as a surprise to hear that I’m currently sitting here with a broken foot. Coordination problems, I haz them.
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Posted by marissa's dad on June 22, 2009 at 3:19 pm
While playing Wii Boxing, the nephew was lunging to deliver a nasty uppercut.
Yeah, he delivered one, all right, right to the chin of the basset hound.
Posted by Marksman on July 5, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Lol, don’t say that! Wii Boxing is the only Wii game that DOSN’T make me lose my sanity!
Posted by nixproto (Drake) on June 22, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I was playing boxing for like 2 or 3 days straight and I built up one heck of a bicep! But it’s gone now… :(
Posted by LAZR Blade 14 on June 22, 2009 at 4:22 pm
“Motion controls are eventually going to face the fact that people play games to unwind, and no one unwinds by waving their arms around like an air traffic controller covered in beetles.”
-Yahtzee
Posted by Tentimook on June 22, 2009 at 5:43 pm
What happened to having fun?
Posted by Qix on June 22, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Oh, I enjoy having fun. For me though, a mouse/gamepad IS more fun than the waggle controls. Being force fed weird control schemes are not fun. They are annoying. The Wii is also not very accurate. I can be much more precise with a mouse. There is a reason FPS’s have not gone very far on the Wii. Maybe its a generational thing though. I grew up with a NES gampad, then a mouse in Sierra adventure games and Id’s shareware FPS’s. Its what I know, what I’m good with.
Posted by bs angel on June 22, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Fun? Since when is gaming about fun? It’s all about the WIN bitches!
Posted by LAZR Blade 14 on June 22, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Well, you have a point there. But, another beef I have about motion controls is that once you get past the gimmicky titles such as sports and what-not, what then? There are a lot of things in video games that can’t be impersonated in real-life, no matter how fancy-schmansy motion controls get.
Posted by Marksman on July 5, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Well, that too, and the fact that all other games than the “ones where you wave your arms like an air traffic controller covered in beetles” on the Wii are the endless….*shudder*…Mario Games. ARRGH
Posted by Lincoln on June 22, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Heh, I’m always calm about the Wii games and usually win. As always in video games, laziness prevails. =)
Posted by Queen 0f Blades on June 22, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Broken foot? Ouch. :/
I’ve never broken anything or flailed around with the wiimote, for the most part. Can’t say the same for my friend Amanda who decided that she was tired of losing at bowling and decided to beat me with the wiimote instead.
-.-
Posted by TofuDragon7 on June 22, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I have also decided that the Wii is totally biased to the physically handicapped gamer. I suffer from rheumatoid arthritis in most joints, including elbows, wrists and fingers – and henceforth I’m completely shit at playing Wii games (I once played Sonic and Mario Olympics and couldn’t finish the sprint!). Now in Xbox 360/Playstation games I kick a bit more arse thankfully.
Posted by newguy2445 on June 23, 2009 at 1:57 am
No offense but what would you like Nintendo to do?
Posted by soulofaqua on June 23, 2009 at 4:04 am
Well Nintendo always was fond to try and help their handicapped gamers as shown with 1989’s NES Handsfree
http://gizmodo.com/5242463/nes-hands-free-let-you-control-mario-with-your-tongue
and for the Wii there are handicapped controllers as well but they eliminate what makes the Wii just that slight bit less of a PIECE OF CRAP. The special motion controls.
Posted by TofuDragon7 on June 23, 2009 at 7:46 am
Newguy2445 – I think you misunderstood my post and thought I was being deadpan serious, I am not. Yes, I have joint problems and struggle playing Wii and I don’t expect Nintendo to bring out something like Sonic and Mario Special Olympics for gamers with similar difficulties (although the game concept seems like fun for all the wrong reasons). I was merely pointing out another reason why I should not buy this little white console turd.
I would like to like the Wii but it’s just a bit too casual and kiddie for me. Only games I’ve enjoyed playing are the quiz ones.
Posted by newguy2445 on June 22, 2009 at 7:35 pm
I broke the fan the first time I played =P
I jumped to make a high shot in Tennis and smashed the fan XD
Had to get it fixed the next day as it was Summer and I was melting. Still on the occasions I play Wii Sports I find it rather fun.
Posted by AusQB on June 22, 2009 at 8:40 pm
I’ve nearly gotten hit in the head a few times playing Tennis, since we play sitting down.
Posted by the Light Show on June 23, 2009 at 2:16 am
ive playd a wii once and i ,oveyou!
Posted by Admiral Madden on June 23, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I don’t know how it works, but my little cousin can beat anyone at boxing on the WII… that was until I stopped facing the screen and “Played” in her general direction.
you can still see the bruises…
on me. Her moms a body builder so she’s bloody ripped.
*trembles when cousin wants to play the WII*
Posted by Grazer on June 23, 2009 at 7:10 pm
NEVER playing boxing with siblings.
Posted by A Deaf Boy on June 24, 2009 at 5:15 am
My 10 year old cousin always beats me at Wii Baseball.
I always swing to damn late, lol :(
Posted by Fezzer on July 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm
LOL. Thanks for reminding me of your mishaps. You gotta admit, a fun time was had despite the ‘accidents’.
Posted by bs angel on July 4, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Those LANs were the best ones I have ever been to. So much fun!! Gotta make my way down to a Texas one at some point. :)