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One Weird Wii Control Scheme

Kotaku writes: "Imagine, if you will, a flying game called Sky Crawlers controlled by Wii remote and nunchuck. Guess the control scheme. You probably guessed wrong.

To control an airplane in a Wii game, I have held the Wii Remote like a paper airplane. I have held it like a flashlight, dipping and raising it to orient where my plane's nose is pointing.

These schemes failed me when, unsupervised by representatives in attendance at publisher XSeed's New York demo event last night, I took up Wii Remote and nunchuck and sent my World War II dogfighter into the drink.

mau646209d ago

I just want to use a controller... thats all

Reibooi6209d ago

sounds interesting and could work well once you get used to it although i would bet alot of people would rather use a normal controller or a flight stick.

Ziriux6209d ago

Yea a flight stick is much better, feels natural and it's simply bad a**. I remember countless nights of Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick.

Wonderfulwest6209d ago

if it aint broke dont fix it, comes to mind

Reibooi6209d ago

if that's the mindset then the Wii mote itself would have never came into existence.

Ziriux6209d ago

Exaclty. The Wii needs a lot of fixing in their software department, of course Zelda, Mario, Metroid no need to be touched.

jerethdagryphon6209d ago

hopefully once this is released thell go back and do ace combat 6/7 on ps3

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.

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ActualWhiteMan79d ago (Edited 79d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg78d ago

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.

Smellsforfree78d ago

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.

Loktai78d ago

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.

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Hideo Kojima put Low Roar in Death Stranding because gamers need more culture in their lives

It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.

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Mojang partners with Merlin Entertainments for the Minecraft theme park, Minecraft World

Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.

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