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« on: December 31, 2007, 01:04:22 am » |
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Anyone found this? To be honest, I'm disappointed in Nintendo for making a console and one of it's key features is built in WiFi to play games over the internet. Yet I'm finding a distinct lack of games that support it. Wii Sports, the game that's shipped with it, and sells the console out to millions of people. Does not support one of the Wii's key features. Will it ever? Here's a list we found on Wikipedia (THE most reliable source of information..ever...HAHA!) of all the games for the Wii that are online playable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_Wi-Fi_Connection_gamesvs the number of games released for the Wii.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_gamesI find it, quite frankly, appauling. If it wasn't for the unique design and novelty factor of the way you play this console, I'd have settled for an XBox 360. More expensive, yes. But better online playable software library :| |
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« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2007, 01:38:02 am » |
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oh if only some third party company could port one of the many popular FPS from last generation to the wii, revamp it and add online....oh it's such a shame no third parties are stepping up and making anything new and worthwhile....oh well.
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« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2007, 04:21:16 am » |
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I imagine the amount of online games for Wii will kind of be like how it was for the DS. A list of games that grow slowly. It took a while for the DS to get a decent number of Wi-Fi compatible games. I think the Wii will get more and more slowly. I'm really looking forward to Mario Kart Wii next year. I think another part of it is developers are put off by the friend code system. It must be extra work to cater to such a "specialty." Searching for random battles is fun, but when creating a "friend list" and you always have to deal with friend codes, meh. It's a major turn-off for online play. I still don't quite understand why Wii Codes couldn't be used as "friend codes" for games, at least that way you wouldn't have a unique FC for every online game on the Wii. I'm still sad that Mario Party 8 wasn't Wi-Fi compatible.  |
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dan
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« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2007, 11:48:34 am » |
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well this is it. we have 5 games for the wii now. not one of them we can play online, and know that various other people here have the same games. they're multiplayer and all, just you can't go online to play with other people who can't be in your living room to play with you. though i saw that rayman raving rabbids 2 is online playable. though i only have the first one, if anyone else has the second, i'll go out and buy it  |
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« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2007, 04:02:57 pm » |
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It's not a direct player-vs-player on Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, dan. On the first game, they allowed you to convert your scores into a code that you could enter onto their website to display your scores .... now, it can display your scores on the site directly using Wifi.... I believe that's the only thing online that it can do..
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« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2007, 04:27:46 pm » |
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oh..then that sucks  |
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« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2008, 08:45:04 pm » |
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Personally, given that "online" games tend to have a strong focus on the "online"/multiplayer part, and less on the "offline"/single player part, and given that I don't really care for playing games online and prefer single-player games (sure, it's nice to be able to play someone else in Tetris DS or something, but, that's about it), I'm happy there aren't many online games.
Aside from Puzzle games, and every now and then a Racing game, most games that I'm interested in wouldn't work well as a multi-player game at all, and so in turn wouldn't make much sense to be online. So, as I said, I'm happy to still have a focus on the games I'm interested in, as opposed to everyone being an "online/multiplayer" game. I'm just not that interested in that sort of experience, or the types of games that usually go along with it. It's not like you can just shoehorn an online mode into a game where it makes no sense to have it.
Just my point of view anyway.
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« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2008, 01:29:43 am » |
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Lack of online games? How about just a lack of games in general?
Nintendo's made up it's mind: they're catering to the casual audience. The casual audience doesn't care as much as it being in depth or online, or any of that. At this point, it's just "Hey! This is fun for awhile!"
Unfortunately, most of us passed that point somewhere in the 1990's. Games are being made not as art, but solely to sell to this target audience that doesn't realize the video game potential - yet.
If they keep it up, their wants will expand to the average "hard core" gamer, and then they'll want more online, more storyline, etc. Until then, I'll still wait for a decent game in general on the Wii, online or not.
I've bought three games since launch and one was so bad I traded it in once there was a promotion. So I've got three games for Wii - one of them is Wii Sports. The other two I haven't touched in awhile. None are online. I use my 360 for online and for in-depth games.
The Wii? I use it for the Internet Channel. Once every three months.
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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2008, 02:24:08 am » |
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as Boogie said... I expect the Wii to follow in the DS's footsteps...
it hardly had any killer apps in the first year, and look at it now!
I say we give it time and wait for the online games to start trickling in, before we know it, there will be so many we wont be able to keep up. *cowers at the thought of a swamped FC Database thread* XD
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