Wednesday, Nov 22, 2006
Yupers, I got my Wii on Sunday (I had a pre-order), took me 3 days of enjoyment to come back to gamespot 
...Gamestop opened at 11 am, while everyone opened way earlier 
Then I went from store to store looking for nunchucks, as Gamestop only got two in for some reason...After 3 stores, I found them in Toys R Us, they had a whole bunch...I got 2 as well as 2 wiimotes, I couldn't bring myself to buy a 4th set for $60 more But later I found out there was a shortage of nuchucks everywhere, so I was glad I snagged some. And I picked up a 24 pack of batteries!!! 
So that's my system and controllers. I got the stand from Target last month and it came with the blue and black gloves (figured since the gloves are $10 a pop, I may as well pay the $5 extra for the stand...). I bought the red one when I got the nunchucks. They have matching straps, and I like that...but they don't have the extra piece that tightens like the Nintendo straps have...so I'm going to switch the straps if little kids want to play...or maybe I'll just switch them back permanently when I get over the prettiness of them matching The gloves give great texture to the wiimote...but it sinks the buttons down, but you can still get to them easily, except for the home button. People pick their favorite color....And you know which is which...so I know that the blue one is down one battery notch. The stand looks pretty, I like it a lot more than the grey stand Nintendo gives you. It holds 4 wiimotes, and 5 game cases...or whatever you want to put, I orignally had the nunchucks, but then I just put them in the basket with my other controllers. Seeing it set up, I don't mind the white anymore. Given the choice I still would've bought black, but it looks nice so I'm happy with it.
Um..games...I got Zelda, Rayman and Red Steel. I play Zelda a lot more than the other two games...cuz it's Zelda! Duh I love it!!!! It's fun! It's gorgeous, Wolf Link handles great, the controls work...and what's with Midna...she's...strange And I've been waiting for an OoT style game for years and I'm so happy with it so far Rayman's cool. I still love the bunnies, and the games varied and strange and figuring out the minigames is half the fun. I haven't played much Red Steel, I watched my nephew play more than I've played. Oddly, I've played Wii Sports more than any other game...but really that's just by default, when people come over they want to play and I play with them. It's simple, but it's fun to play, especially with non-gamers and light gamers because you know they're enjoying a game for a change And the more people love the Wii, the better! It's also hilarious to see everyone jump around...and yes, you have to be careful no one hits you while trying to return your serve Everyone likes bowling the most, as do I.
I haven't connected to online yet, (I have the adapter, remember), and I figure I'll wait another week as to avoid any initial problems, though they sound rare...I made my Mii, doesn't much look like me...and I've played with the photo channel. Glasses for everyone!
Elite Beat Agents and Yoshi's Island kept me busy until the Wii launch. I love Elite Beat Agents. It's really fun and addicting, I have my non-gamer sister hooked She takes my DS out of my purse all the time! Some songs are annoying (Lala, Skater Boi)...Cher's Believe remains with D scores as I can't bring myself to listen to it to improve my score...but the majority of the songs are great (September, Canned Heat, Let's Dance, Walkie Talkie Man) and more than make up for Cher (bah!!!)..*side note, they're covers*. Yoshi's Island is fun too...but it sticks to the original formula mostly...yet it scored higher than TP..yes I'm one of the angry ones I got it at Circuit City and they gave me a free Yoshi case and sylus set...It's very green
...Gamestop opened at 11 am, while everyone opened way earlier Then I went from store to store looking for nunchucks, as Gamestop only got two in for some reason...After 3 stores, I found them in Toys R Us, they had a whole bunch...I got 2 as well as 2 wiimotes, I couldn't bring myself to buy a 4th set for $60 more But later I found out there was a shortage of nuchucks everywhere, so I was glad I snagged some. And I picked up a 24 pack of batteries!!! So that's my system and controllers. I got the stand from Target last month and it came with the blue and black gloves (figured since the gloves are $10 a pop, I may as well pay the $5 extra for the stand...). I bought the red one when I got the nunchucks. They have matching straps, and I like that...but they don't have the extra piece that tightens like the Nintendo straps have...so I'm going to switch the straps if little kids want to play...or maybe I'll just switch them back permanently when I get over the prettiness of them matching
The gloves give great texture to the wiimote...but it sinks the buttons down, but you can still get to them easily, except for the home button. People pick their favorite color....And you know which is which...so I know that the blue one is down one battery notch. The stand looks pretty, I like it a lot more than the grey stand Nintendo gives you. It holds 4 wiimotes, and 5 game cases...or whatever you want to put, I orignally had the nunchucks, but then I just put them in the basket with my other controllers. Seeing it set up, I don't mind the white anymore. Given the choice I still would've bought black, but it looks nice so I'm happy with it.Um..games...I got Zelda, Rayman and Red Steel. I play Zelda a lot more than the other two games...cuz it's Zelda! Duh
I love it!!!! It's fun! It's gorgeous, Wolf Link handles great, the controls work...and what's with Midna...she's...strange And I've been waiting for an OoT style game for years and I'm so happy with it so far Rayman's cool. I still love the bunnies, and the games varied and strange and figuring out the minigames is half the fun. I haven't played much Red Steel, I watched my nephew play more than I've played. Oddly, I've played Wii Sports more than any other game...but really that's just by default, when people come over they want to play and I play with them. It's simple, but it's fun to play, especially with non-gamers and light gamers because you know they're enjoying a game for a change And the more people love the Wii, the better! It's also hilarious to see everyone jump around...and yes, you have to be careful no one hits you while trying to return your serve Everyone likes bowling the most, as do I. I haven't connected to online yet, (I have the adapter, remember
), and I figure I'll wait another week as to avoid any initial problems, though they sound rare...I made my Mii, doesn't much look like me...and I've played with the photo channel. Glasses for everyone! Elite Beat Agents and Yoshi's Island kept me busy until the Wii launch. I love Elite Beat Agents. It's really fun and addicting, I have my non-gamer sister hooked
She takes my DS out of my purse all the time! Some songs are annoying (Lala, Skater Boi)...Cher's Believe remains with D scores as I can't bring myself to listen to it to improve my score...but the majority of the songs are great (September, Canned Heat, Let's Dance, Walkie Talkie Man) and more than make up for Cher (bah!!!)..*side note, they're covers*. Yoshi's Island is fun too...but it sticks to the original formula mostly...yet it scored higher than TP..yes I'm one of the angry ones I got it at Circuit City and they gave me a free Yoshi case and sylus set...It's very green Comments
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Posted Nov 22, 2006 8:30 am PT
Lovin' the gloves! Congrats on getting it (AND Twilight Princess... grr)! I wish I could see that Yoshi carrying case and stylus. Have fun, and forget what vantran says; air is for losers and the hormonally imbalanced. Take care!
Posted Nov 22, 2006 10:46 am PT
Sweet, Sweet and more sweetness. Everything sounds great. Thanks for sharing with your pictures and words.
Posted Nov 22, 2006 7:07 pm PT
I hate you!
I really, realllllly badly want a Wii and everyone showing off their own just increases my anticipation. I mean, Zelda just looks so freakin' good!
You must post more Red Steel impressions later. I'm very curious about that one, but we all know what GS said.
I really, realllllly badly want a Wii and everyone showing off their own just increases my anticipation. I mean, Zelda just looks so freakin' good!
You must post more Red Steel impressions later. I'm very curious about that one, but we all know what GS said.
Posted Nov 22, 2006 7:35 pm PT
Oh man! I'm so jealous, I want the Wii so bad!! Say would you care to lend me $500?
Posted Nov 22, 2006 8:27 pm PT
Good for you Angelbaby.
Posted Nov 23, 2006 4:43 am PT
Looks nice, but I'll pass. There's a great article here that explains my thoughts on the system perfectly. I knew when I first saw it that the Rev would be a novelty that quickly wore off; like a fad that goes bad. I based part of this on my own experience with Nintendo products. The GBA fiasco was the first, then the abandonment of the 'Cube, and finally the much touted dual screen DS. So far I love playing the DS, but I have yet to see a dirge of games that utilize the touch screen functionality. You would think there would be lots of them. I mean, after all, wasn't that the main selling point of the system? Case and point, I can see the same thing happening to the Rev.
Posted Nov 23, 2006 6:22 pm PT
Lol, DC...that guy lost my respect when he refered to Metroid Prime as simply "a sci-fi title". Cuz it's Metroid!!!! But also cuz that's an unfinished game...Anyhoo, My nephew had a hard time playing Red Steel (he played before me) because his screen would end up turning in circles. I played it the next day and had no trouble with it, and I showed him how to use it. It's simple bounding box issues. My sister does it all the time in the Wii menu.
He's also wrong about a couple of things. I thought I was too good to stand up to play Wii Sports...I played bowling sitting down, but then in tennis, my sister started flailing around madly, and we ended up standing up. So though you COULD sit down...that's not the spirit you get into, unless you're a black hole of a person devoid of having fun No one who's played has played sitting down. And it is pretty accurate. I only have trouble putting in golf. Everything else is accurate...so much so that even in regular bowling I have a natrual tilt to the left, and I was amazed the game picked up on it. My nephew can hit baseballs way better than I can The problem with Tennis is since it doesn't use the nunchuck for simplicity, you can't chase the ball...and other things have been dropped for simplicity. I assume full sports games won't have those limitations.
And as for the DS syndrome, early DS games were kind of iffy, but it's kicking major tail in sales, it's far from a fad.. Now games know how to use the stylus well, and they've figured out what works and what doesn't. I'm sure eventually the Wii will figure out all it stuff. And there will be games to satisfy normal gamers...after all my non-gamer sister loves the Wii but she's not interested in Zelda or Red Steel.
But also cuz that's an unfinished game...Anyhoo, My nephew had a hard time playing Red Steel (he played before me) because his screen would end up turning in circles. I played it the next day and had no trouble with it, and I showed him how to use it. It's simple bounding box issues. My sister does it all the time in the Wii menu.He's also wrong about a couple of things. I thought I was too good to stand up to play Wii Sports...I played bowling sitting down, but then in tennis, my sister started flailing around madly, and we ended up standing up. So though you COULD sit down...that's not the spirit you get into, unless you're a black hole of a person devoid of having fun
No one who's played has played sitting down. And it is pretty accurate. I only have trouble putting in golf. Everything else is accurate...so much so that even in regular bowling I have a natrual tilt to the left, and I was amazed the game picked up on it. My nephew can hit baseballs way better than I can The problem with Tennis is since it doesn't use the nunchuck for simplicity, you can't chase the ball...and other things have been dropped for simplicity. I assume full sports games won't have those limitations.And as for the DS syndrome, early DS games were kind of iffy, but it's kicking major tail in sales, it's far from a fad.. Now games know how to use the stylus well, and they've figured out what works and what doesn't. I'm sure eventually the Wii will figure out all it stuff. And there will be games to satisfy normal gamers...after all my non-gamer sister loves the Wii but she's not interested in Zelda or Red Steel.
Posted Nov 24, 2006 4:59 pm PT
I see you have also picked up your Wii, and tricked it out with some hot accesories, great choice of games aswell, those bunnies are a riot Angelbabe, Great to see you're enjoying yourself aswell, have fun!
Posted Nov 26, 2006 10:51 pm PT
Thats Awesome, The Console Stand Looks Pretty Cool. How Are The Games?
For NZ 9 More Days Till Wii Comes Out!!!
For NZ 9 More Days Till Wii Comes Out!!!
Posted Nov 27, 2006 9:33 pm PT
those shells for the wiimotes look cool
Posted Dec 12, 2006 1:24 pm PT
I may have to come round your house and steal all that lovely Wii stuff!
Posted Dec 12, 2006 10:43 pm PT
great post...but I'll hold off on the Wii till I really see a game that blows me away.
Posted Dec 22, 2006 7:10 am PT
That looks soo sweeet.
Posted Jan 3, 2007 4:10 pm PT
Nice Wii collection, do tell what your favorite Wii game has been so far?
Posted Mar 14, 2007 12:32 am PT
Congratulations, I hope you're really happy with your purchase! Yeah, my friend has the green version of the Wiimote sleeve and he enjoys it too!
Posted Mar 26, 2007 10:32 am PT
The Wii is pretty cool. I love Super Mario Galaxy, but my 360 gets alot more attention.
Posted Dec 6, 2007 11:48 am PT
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