Jack Suber Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 I am not a big video game fan. My son is into them but I have tried to avoid buying them as I would rather him be outside, playing tennnis, fishing, hunting, shooting, riding etc. A few weeks ago, a therapist suggested that a Wii might be a good reinforcer for my daughter (who is autistic). So, my wife and I discussed and figured everyone could use it, it doesn't really encourage sitting on your butt, and more importantly, it could help the therapist with my daughter. So, I bought one last week. Holy sh*t, this thing is cool! We have been having a ball with it. I think I might have hurt my shoulder Friday night playing tennis . Well, the Bestbuy flyer arrived with the paper this morning. Guitar Hero has caught my eye as well as Big Game Hunter and some flight simulator-type games. Looks like I will be visiting Bestbuy this afternoon. Even my wife likes it...which I never thought would happen. If only somene made an IPSC type game for it.......that would be the Bomb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bore Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 We got one for xmas and the kids love it. I don't mind it either. I got the game FARCRY for myself and it is not that great but I am going to try some others. My 10 year old kicks my ass at Guitar Hero and my 5 year old kicks everyones ass boxing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Pretty groovy eh, Jack? All disagreements between the wife and I are now settled with a bowl-off. That, and I can't get over playing the OLD NES games that I grew up on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineshootah Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Jack, If you want an @$$ kicking workout... Get DDR for it. Dayyuum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganShootist Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Is it even better than Pong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ledge Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 My 10 year old kicks my ass at Guitar Hero and my 5 year old kicks everyones ass boxing. My 7 year old is the Guitar Hero master in our house, and the 3 year old rocks in boxing as well. I don't know what it is about the little guys that makes them so effective at boxing. The wife and I always end up playing Super Mario Brothers and Super Mario Brothers 3. I find great humor in the fact that we end up sitting around evenings playing a video game from 20 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Suber Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 Jack, If you want an @$$ kicking workout... Get DDR for it. Dayyuum! What's DDR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Suber Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 My 10 year old kicks my ass at Guitar Hero and my 5 year old kicks everyones ass boxing. My 7 year old is the Guitar Hero master in our house, and the 3 year old rocks in boxing as well. I don't know what it is about the little guys that makes them so effective at boxing. The wife and I always end up playing Super Mario Brothers and Super Mario Brothers 3. I find great humor in the fact that we end up sitting around evenings playing a video game from 20 years ago. I am going to pick up Guitar HEro tomorrow. I have got to have it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Suber Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 Pretty groovy eh, Jack? All disagreements between the wife and I are now settled with a bowl-off.That, and I can't get over playing the OLD NES games that I grew up on. Yep. We (my wife and I) were up late last night bowling and playing golf. I hate to admit it, but she has been kicking my butt bowling. Golf, however, is my ringer.... Its Best Buy at lunchtime tomorrow..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz-0 Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Jack, If you want an @$$ kicking workout... Get DDR for it. Dayyuum! What's DDR? dance dance revolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Suber Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 Has anyone tried the following for the Wii: Big Game Hunter Medal of Honor Call to Duty Blazing Angels Ghost Squad Battle for the Pacific Madden NFL Any thoughts/opinions would be appreciated. I am going shopping at lunch..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reneet Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Jack, If you want an @$$ kicking workout... Get DDR for it. Dayyuum! What's DDR? dance dance revolution. DDR Child Prodigy Video - You Tube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spankymac Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Has anyone tried the following for the Wii:Big Game Hunter Medal of Honor Call to Duty Blazing Angels Ghost Squad Battle for the Pacific Madden NFL Any thoughts/opinions would be appreciated. I am going shopping at lunch..... Jack, My favorite Call of Duty 4, we have it for the 360 also Matt's favorite list The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Super Smash Bros. Brawl The Wii is like legal crack Banks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Suber Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 The Wii is like legal crackBanks Banks, I am beginning to see that. What is an absolute riot is that my wife loves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.J. Norris Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Jack, Medal of Honor is fun, however the playability is somewhat low for most people. It has a fairly big learning curve to learn the movements, and perhaps bigger, the buttons of the Wii Remote are very ill-suited to a complicated first-person shooter like MOH. It uses every button on the remote, plus the directional keypad for character operations like switching guns, throwing grenades, etc. Since the buttons aren't close together at all, and your other hand is busy with the nunchuck, it makes it hard to real hard to do stuff, while keeping yourself level and not pointing towards the sky. Another bad thing is ammo isn't very common as it is in other MOH and COD games, it's not very much fun to run out of ammo and have to grenade somebody to get some... Although, throwing grenades is just about the coolest thing ever done, I suspect it's just about as close to the real thing as most of us will ever get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outerlimits Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 now that the xmas rush is over, figured i pick one up for the family...can't find them anywhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warpspeed Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 It has been a hit around here since Xmas. they play it in spurts. Bigbore & Ledge have it down - the little ones excel. My 7 year old thrashes everyone @ bowling. Something about that evens the playing field. I've wanted the Big Game Hunter but just haven't done it yet. Perhaps for Father's Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz-0 Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 now that the xmas rush is over, figured i pick one up for the family...can't find them anywhere... Yeah, that x-mas rush has lasted for two years now. You basically have three choices to get one. Just check anyplace that might have one anytime you happen to be there and hope you get lucky. Befriend the local UPS or DHL guy and find out when he makes deliveries, or stalk a particular store to find out the same, or pay someone trying to reem you with bunlde pricing and markups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Suber Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 now that the xmas rush is over, figured i pick one up for the family...can't find them anywhere... I bought ours on Ebay because no one here had it. I bought the Wii Sports (2008) NIB for $318 delivered from a guy in Tampa Fla. He had several in stock when I bought mine. It was on my doorstep 2 days later. I bought Guiotar Hero 3 at lunch along with Blazing Angels and a Barbie Game for my daughter. Madden NFL and Big Game Hunter are next. It would be awesome if the made NCAA Football for the Wii. Might have to leave the office early today to go "do some outside research...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reneet Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 now that the xmas rush is over, figured i pick one up for the family...can't find them anywhere... Yeah, that x-mas rush has lasted for two years now. You basically have three choices to get one. Just check anyplace that might have one anytime you happen to be there and hope you get lucky. Befriend the local UPS or DHL guy and find out when he makes deliveries, or stalk a particular store to find out the same, or pay someone trying to reem you with bunlde pricing and markups. I lucked out last weekend and picked one up at Target. It's a Christmas gift for my son and since he was with me, I told him I was purchasing to flip on fleabay. I'm going to have all of my Christmas shopping done before the summer this year for the 1st time in many years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrawandDuck Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 I had KICKED my PS3 habit but now I am REAL close to getting one of these after reading the post.......please STOP with all the cool recommendations!! I want to hear how it sucks and does not work right 90% of the time!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bore Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Tried Call of Duty 3 this weekend I don't care for it. The shooting is OK but when you get to the drive the jeep I found it almost impossible to steer. I would just as soon use the arrows. From limited experience I do not think that games made for other units work that well on the wii. The next shooter will be probably Metroid which was desingned for the wii. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek45 Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I got my kids a wii for Christmas. At the advice of the GAMESTOP employee chick, I also got 2 GAMECUBE controllers and memory. We've rented and bought some GAMECUBE games, they REALLY like LEGO STARWARS. The cool thing about the wii being backwards compatible, is the GAMECUBE games can be had for $12-$20 used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineshootah Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Jack, If you want an @$$ kicking workout... Get DDR for it. Dayyuum! What's DDR? dance dance revolution. DDR Child Prodigy Video - You Tube Exactly... now do that at 35.... UG! Sweat machine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I downloaded Punch Out!! yesterday and have been in nostalgic bliss ever since! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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