A Request for Opinions

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by ijdgaf

Very few.
...but Wii Sports really is a killer app as well. Based soley on the way its simplicity has turned non-gamers everywhere into Wiiphiles.

Right there is why I'll never ever own one. Wii Sports? Did they even stop to think about that for a second?

Why I'll probably never own a PS3 is down to mainly backwards compatibility (or the extremely patchy nature thereof), though the fact that we're paying more for it in the UK that most places and Sony's inexplicable decision to change the spec of the consoles sold in the European market are pretty big factors too.

[Nate the Great]

Change the specs? How?

[Chancellor Valium]

More to the point, why is a console wearing glasses?

That should surely indicate shoddy workmanship, if the PS3's eyesight is that bad.

[ijdgaf]

Valium, care to clarify your apparent disdain for Wii Sports? Have you ever even played it? It's not really something you can understand from screen shots or commercials. You really have to play it to get it.

[Derek]

Wii Sports is awesome. I had my brother and his girlfriend over a couple weeks ago and they played it and are thinking about getting the console for themselves because of it. I had my parents over the other night and they played it and loved it. I had another group of people over and showed off Wii Sports, and they thought it was great (and some of these people are grandmother-age). It is awesome. You swing the remote like a tennis racket. What could be easier?

[Nate the Great]

Why is a console wearing specs? Because a trapper has more lint than what's good for it.

(In case you're lost, it's an extremely old and lame joke based on Static Shock. Feel free to consider me three fries short of a Happy Meal now)

[Hejira]

I packed up my Wii to take to my father's unit a little under a month ago to see if he'd play. He didn't, but that was okay.

I haven't unpacked it since.

My Wii needs a killer app more than I do. Don't get me wrong, I love it. I just don't have anything fun I can do with it. Playing Wii Boxing with my feet could only keep me amused for a certain period of time.

[Chancellor Valium]

I never even mentioned Urination Games. I have nothing against it other than the name, and I have no idea what it is.

[mudshark]

Sounds like something that should work with TiSP.

[Zeke]

What about TP, Hejira?

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

I never even mentioned Urination Games. I have nothing against it other than the name, and I have no idea what it is.

I believe IJD meant to say "PHJ," not "Valium."

[ijdgaf]

Wow. No idea how I made that mistake, either. Coulda sworn it was Valium who said that.

[Chancellor Valium]

O_o

And that's all I have to say on this.

Late-night posting?

[Zeke]

The important thing is, BRAAAAAAAIIIINS!

[Hejira]

Originally Posted by Zeke

What about TP, Hejira?

*clears throat*

*prepares for fanboy onslaught*

*clears throat again*

Meh.

Yes, I meh'd TP, and it meh'd back. Two damn hours it took me to catch a damn fish for that damn cat. Why should Link have to suck at fishing because I do?

[ijdgaf]

Fishing is easy in the game. The explanation the game gives you on how to fish is... well, it's shit.

Don't give up on the game because of that though. The game has a bit of a slow start and takes a while to get going, but once it does it's great.

Here's a brief explanation on how to fish, just because:

1) drop line into water. Try to keep the bobber near the surface.

2) as soon as the bobber starts to sink, yank up.

3) if this doesn't work the first time, just keep trying. It shouldn't take too many tries using this method.

4) After the fish bites, you don't have to hit anything. Link automatically pulls it in.

I know this the hard way. At one point in the game I spent four damn hours trying everything and no fish were buying. The reason? Because nobody ever explained how absurdly easy it was to fish in the game. I was making it too damn hard. Finally I was so frustrated I registered on the Penny Arcade forums just to ask how to fish. Once it was explained, took me a minute or two to get things right.

I have no idea why Nintendo dropped the ball on that tutorial -- normally, that sort of thing is extremely polished, and indeed the rest of the game is sparkling in this regard. But seriously, don't give up on TP because of one minor glitch. The instructions above will yield you a fish in five minutes or less. And the rest of the game is top-notch. Don't give up.

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Hejira

*clears throat*

*prepares for fanboy onslaught*

*clears throat again*

Meh.

*applauds*

[Nate the Great]

For the record, fishing in OOT stinks too. So is horseback archery. The only things that I need to do to get 100% on that game involve horseback archery. I hate it. A lot. Repeat "I hate it. A lot." about a hundred more times while you're at it.

May I ask why you need to get a fish for a cat? I thought that Zelda was supposed to be beyond the usual fetch quests. Sure, OOT has a few, but those are for optional upgrades. It's not required.

[ijdgaf]

It's not really an in-depth fetch quest or anything. I honestly don't remember all the details at this point, that was so early in the game. I think you're helping to rescue a lady's cat that has run off so that she'll give you... something... don't remember what.

Not so different from the "catch five of my cukoos" thing from OoT, or the "my nose is very sensitive to powders" thing in LA.

[Nate the Great]

"My nose is very sensitive to powders?" Who talks like that? "Powders irritate my nose" is better.

[ijdgaf]

You see how well you talk when you're transformed into a mystical racoon.