I played the Wii today, and had tons of fun :D
I didn't like how they made everyone wait, though. It was an hour wait to get in the Wii area alone, then more waiting to actually play some games. I played WarioWare first, since there was only like one person on that. It's more of a "Wii remote 101: HOW THE FUCK DO I USE THIS THING" type of game. I know WarioWare involves doing simple tasks in a short amount of time, but this was kinda ridiculous. They give you five seconds to have a guy on screen do a squat, and I barely got one in after 4 or 5 tries, so I don't know if it was me or the controller. They had cool names for all the ways to hold the remote like "The Umbrella" "The Dumbell" "The Waiter" "The Big Cheese" "The Samurai"...it goes on.
Then I waited a while to play Metroid Prime 3. This used the Nunchaku extension. In order to use the grappling hook, I had to "throw" the extension part forward, and pull it back. This took me several tries, but I think I got the hang of it. There were also a few occasions where if I had to drift the cursor off the screen to turn, and bringing the cursor back onto the screen would cause a misalignment between the cursor and the remote. I really REALLY hope they fix that. The demo itself was pretty good, more or less, but I haven't played any Metroids before this. I also got booted off about 3/4 of the way through the demo so someone from GameSpot could cut in line ;_;
I watched people play The Legend of Zelda and Mario Galaxy, which were both very impressive. The gameplay on both seemed easier to play than Metroid, but I didn't get a chance to actually play them. I noticed that every time enemies were damaged on both games (whenever Link hit someone with his sword or Mario hit a boss), it paused for a noticable fraction of a second. It got kind of annoying, but I don't think this will be a problem at launch, however.
I played Deadrising, and had tons of fun just destroying hordes of zombies. This photographer in game wanted me to take a picture of him kicking zombie ass, except he didn't do it whenever I was in camera mode. Plus, a there were already tons of zombies biting my neck. My breaking point was when the guy did this jumping roundhouse kick, and ended up hitting me in the face. So I picked up a large-ish metal bookshelf and went to town on him. The demo ended when I ended up being mobbed by zombies after killing my partner in crime. A perfect ending, since everyone laughed when I beat down the photographer.
I saw Spore being demonstrated. The wait was pretty short considering the size of the line. There wasn't too much new information...the creature editor looked more "complete" than the video from the last time it was shown. There's an encyclopedia of all the galaxies, solar systems, planets, and creatures you find, and they're in card form. They also have the original designers of each species on the cards, which lists stats on the race. These can be printed out for a card game (I'm starting to paraphrase here) which they plan to release(?) You can have buddy lists, which allows more of those people's content to be imported into your game.
The rest of the time, I just wandered around getting free crap and playing an occasional demo, having done everything I wanted to do. I looked at the video game art exhibit, got some posters, and almost walked into multiple interviews being filmed. I'm probably not going tomorrow since I have a midterm, but at least I've seen everything I wanted. I also visited the Bethesda booth to see if I could see my boss, but it was just a giant enclosed tower for press only. I couldn't even get a pamphlet, even after explaining that I'm working on one of the games being shown
Pics are coming soon, I swear
They turned out to be 2592 x 1944 and 2MB per pic. Multiply that by exactly 130. I'm zipping this up I type this, and I'll probably rapidshare it. Sorry
I'll probably take some more pics later on of the free crap I got :/
So, reflecting back on the halls filled with smoke machines, bright lights, and the morbidly obese, I can say I had a really good time. I'm looking forward to a lot of these games coming out, and I hoped you people enjoyed reading about my experience :D
" but you actually have to hold the remote at the screen, and aim it well. At first, you'll have to repeat certain movements over and over again to have them register on screen. After a lot of practice, though, you should be swinging that thing around like a pro. I don't know how much endurance you'll need to have while constantly having to point at the screen, but I guess it depends on whether you're sitting or standing, holding your arm out or just pointing with your wrist. The nunchaku extension is the same way in having it work with the remote at the same time. I believe that once people get used to the controller, it will work pretty well. So, steep learning curve, but you'll get used to it.
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