Well, my wife found a Wii at the local Wal-Mart on Friday. As we spent pretty much all day Saturday playing Wii games, I couldn't help wondering if analysts will ever be able to correlate reduced productivity with initial launches like Wii, WoW, etc.
That said my biggest peeves against Wii are the high cost of controllers, and the fact that to play gamecube games I have to also purchase gamecube controllers. So right now I own two Wii Remotes, two Nunchuks, two Classic Controllers, and a gamecube controller. And it still isn't enough to enable two-player gamecube games or 4 player Wii games. There is a significant market for Wii controllers, I think. How long til 3rd party controllers show up on the market?
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label games. Show all posts
Monday, February 5, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
gamers surprise
Well, while I've been waiting to find a Wii available for purchase, I decided to buy a new game, Star Wars: Battlefront II, for my PS2.
I expected I would enjoy this (in part because I'm kind of a Star Wars nerd), but I thought my wife, who loves video games but doesn't have any experience with shooters to speak of, would not enjoy it.
To my surprise, we have played the game quite a bit in the past several days in split-screen mode, and she has thoroughly enjoyed it. Note that she is not a Star Wars afficianado (I have frequently had to tell her which ships were friend-or-foe when playing the space missions -- she doesn't know the difference between an ISD and an A-Wing. Fortunately I was around to help out. :-)
The multiplayer experience in this game was surprisingly satisfactory, and my only complaint is that the story mode was a bit short. That is made up for in part by the Galactic Conquest strategy game, though compared to some of the story missions it might be a bit too easy.
She's getting good enough at this, that I may soon feel willing to start playing competitively against her, instead of just doing cooperative missions. Still, I wish more developers would do games that allowed for cooperative play.
I expected I would enjoy this (in part because I'm kind of a Star Wars nerd), but I thought my wife, who loves video games but doesn't have any experience with shooters to speak of, would not enjoy it.
To my surprise, we have played the game quite a bit in the past several days in split-screen mode, and she has thoroughly enjoyed it. Note that she is not a Star Wars afficianado (I have frequently had to tell her which ships were friend-or-foe when playing the space missions -- she doesn't know the difference between an ISD and an A-Wing. Fortunately I was around to help out. :-)
The multiplayer experience in this game was surprisingly satisfactory, and my only complaint is that the story mode was a bit short. That is made up for in part by the Galactic Conquest strategy game, though compared to some of the story missions it might be a bit too easy.
She's getting good enough at this, that I may soon feel willing to start playing competitively against her, instead of just doing cooperative missions. Still, I wish more developers would do games that allowed for cooperative play.
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