Comments on: Wii will hurt you

By: Pog

Pog — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:06:15 +0000

Using the Wii mote for any games which require “mouse like” use of it for pointing cause me to suffer from a very sore right hand after about an hour. This is much worse than any other controller I have ever used (although I do also have problems with the nintendo DS… I think they are designed for much smaller hands than mine or something).

By: tm

tm — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:01:25 +0000

>There already is a controller for the Wii called the ‘classic’

uh, yeah, I know, I referred to it above.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:50:00 +0000

Having never played the previous ones I found the learning curve to be rather steep but now I’ve got the hang of kicking the heads off the necks of zombies I’m on fire!

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:27:47 +0000

I bought RE4 last week but haven’t even opened it yet. Been play Earth Defence Force 2017 on the 360.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:02:34 +0000

There already is a controller for the Wii called the ‘classic’ – I have it. It’s mostly for downloaded GC games. I also have a GC controller plugged into my Wii (it handily has all the ports the GC had, effectively making it a GC and Wii combo)

Resident Evil 4 is, I can confirm, an absolute crippler to play. I get ‘Nintendo Claw’ after about 30 minutes on it.

By: tm

tm — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:55:07 +0000

Well, how they do it is nintendo’s problem. You already pointed out the obvious issue if they don’t.

Got yourself pokemon for your DS yet?

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:18:02 +0000

Buggered if I know. ;-)

By: tm

tm — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:07:33 +0000

But n64 games manage to use either a wii style ‘classic’ controller OR the gamecube controller ports, so cross compatibility between the different controller systems is obviously possible.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:52:29 +0000

>>(why would it need to be?).

Cos it would piss you off if you spent £30 on it and found out that you had to buy another controller if you wanted to play GC games.

By: tm

tm — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:09:53 +0000

I meant a wii controller that looks and feels roughly like a gamecube one but isn’t necessarily compatible with a gamecube itself (why would it need to be?).

of course to truly use any such controller (of any kind) with a wii an alternative way of browsing around the menu is needed if you don’t want to have to swap controllers. Either that or some kind of point and click function has to be built into the controller as well – which I guess wouldn’t be that difficult since the infrastructure already exists in the wii and the ‘standard’ controller hardware I would have thought.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:58:45 +0000

AFAIK for it to work with the Gamecube it would have to have a wire as well as wireless. (The same reason why you need a memory card for the GC games – the hardware is still pretty seperate)

By: tm

tm — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:13:51 +0000

Yeah, I would expect there to be a ‘wii gamecube controller’ at some point. In fact I think I may even have seen photgraphs of a mock up once.