BioWare's Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka speak about how the Wii should be seen, whether as a toy or something much deeper.
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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Square Enix was the other one.
Is that why Square Enix is making games for the Wii? Bioware has not been around long enough for them to talk down on Nintendos machine. Especially when they're making peanuts compared to the Money Printing Wii.
Not a toy. I can enlighten you here. If it is considered a toy due to its apeal to the casual market then why do we see so few adults with the latest Barbie or Hot Wheels? If it is a toy then since the PS2 apeals to the casual market as well it should be safe to say that the PS2 is a toy too. I would dare say it is a negative thing to say it's a toy and that negativity spills over onto the entire video game market. It's a console, no matter how you slice it.
I've had high hopes for the Wii, but honestly I don't seem satisfied. I do enjoy some of the games, but they haven't held my interest for long. I find myself enjoying DS, PSP + 360 way more.