BC Magazine writes:
"First, let me preface by saying that I am a huge Wii fan.
It is the first console I have owned in over 10 years. In my gaming career I have owned an Atari 2600, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super NES, and the Nintendo 64. Every console that came out thereafter had controllers with about 523 buttons on them (more added with each generation) and this odd joystick that took ages to master unless you could hold your tongue just right. It was about this time that I became a PC-only gamer: If I have to use a controller with loads of buttons, it may as well be my keyboard. And controlling with a mouse is so much easier.
Here are two reasons that my anger burns with the Wii..."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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you have to be pretty stupid to not be able to learn buttons on a controller. he must fail in all sorts of things in life if learning button maps is a chore.
He makes a good point. Everything he doesn't like happens to be something Nintendo could easily fix. Especially USB ports. How hard is it to write a small patch code so that USB stuff works? I don't know why, but Nintendo is choosing to leave these things out for the time being, and as a Wii gamer, it frustrates the heck out of me.
Every console that came out thereafter had controllers with about 523 buttons on them (more added with each generation)
PS1 had 16,PS2 had 16, PS3 17(the ps button) yeah tons of new buttons there and its also really close to that 523 he pulled out of his ass.
when will Wii owners get it through their think childish skulls... If you TRULY want a Next-Gen experiance you NEED to own either a PS3/360 (whatever your preference is)
You cannot enjoy all the great games that come out this gen owning a sh*tty as* console like the Wii.
Does it have good games? yes.. all made by Nintendo. Does it have good 3rd party games? Hell no!
Do your selfs a favor... buy a next gen console
Competing with PS3/360 =/= Next Gen
His two gripes about the Wii were the lack of a PSN/XBL service, and storage space.
I don't see where controller buttons come into this, especially since he is a PC GAMER! Since it's late at night I guess people don't pick up sarcasm too well huh.