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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

So here's a great video of some WarioWare: Smooth Moves gameplay that makes me want to jump for joy. I might get a Wii before Mario Galaxy comes out after all.

The Pikmin micro-game in particular delights me.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

The starfox boss thing gave me a huge boner.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I realize it's more retro-rehash-nintendo bullshit, but goddamn that video got me excited.

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Hey wait, does this mean we might see the power glove games show up somewhere in WarioWare?

Mister Toups · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject:

3d balloon fight!

count me interested.
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Joe · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179

This is . . . genius.
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B coma · . Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 279

probably even better fan service than smash brothers. getting this and two extra remotes when it comes out.

dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

Is there anywhere else I can watch this thing? For some reason videos on that site always just show up black on my work computer.

dongle · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 290

Good to see Warioware back in good form. Looks like it is once again making interesting investigations of human interaction with a given control set, something that Touched! missed.

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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

You guys weren't interested in WarioWareWii before?
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silentmatt · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject:

I've yet to play any incarnation of WarioWare... but I definitely think I'll be picking up this one when it comes out.

Looks like it will be a great "party" game. I've been finding that Wii Sports (and Bomberman) is the only title I have that really fulfills those circumstances at the moment - both Red Steel and Zelda are more single player experiences. And, to my astonishment, it is hard to coax a group of friends into watching two people go through Golden Axe - haha.
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churippu · . Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 22 Location: Alabamy

I want to do the Animal Crossing fishing part! I might just have to get myself a Wii.

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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

Will this one have multiplayer modes? I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high for this one because touched proved that the forumla is not infallible, but multiplayer could be automatic success.

edit: cool pictures I found while looking for the video on wii.com

(She was the coolest thing about Touched, so I'm glad to see she's back)

It looks like maybe everyday they are going to add stuff? Link

And I found this on the page and translated with google:

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Yes, four players.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

times a bazillion.
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject:

I really like the visual style on the baseball game. Nintendo are continually giving me reasons to buy their console.
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

That gave me a Nintenboner.

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Also you will be happy to know that when you boot the game up he says 'It's-a Wii, Wario!'

GSL · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:24 am Post subject:

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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

That's a plenty good point. It's something I'll have to think about when I actually play the game. As of right now, I still like the idea, though.
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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

Dracko, have you played a Wario Ware game before? I recommend Twisted.

Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

honestly i would sooner recommend the original.

not DRAMATICALLY sooner, mind.

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Does it look like it's gonna be Wiimote only, or nunchuck?

I'm lucky enough to land 4 remotes, still need 2 more nunchucks, but maybe by the time it comes out...

FWIW, Monkey Ball seems to be one of the best collections of minigames right now (loved how they use the upright controller as both a lunar lander and a flight stick) but I've heard some good things about that Rayman game too...

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Update: just watched. WOW.

I just hadn't thought through what a "true console" port of WarioWare would look like.

The GameCube version, which is just a regrouping of the original's, plus a few enjoyable select-who-goes-first-games, really didn't do anything with the fact that it's on a powerful console. Somehow, I never even really thought of Nintendo Nostalgia later than the SNES (w/o the custom chips for StarFox, to be specific) but now that it's shown to me... I am filed with vast quantities of want. I hope the non-Fanboy versions are just as cool.

Actually... the big problem is going to be avoiding mastering this game in single player mode and saving it for friends time.

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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

I didn't see anything wrong with what you wrote, Player 2, but that barrier in most videogames really doesn't bother me as much.

I guess a better way to say this would be: That people who don't play videogames don't immediately understand how to work a lot of the interactions is not a problem. There's a degree of vocabulary to understand in terms of how input works within the playing-the-game interface, and I think it's natural that there is a period during which a new player or someone new to the medium in general is still trying to figure things out. I'm okay with videogames--individually--only being accessible to those willing to put in the effort to understand how to work them. In fact, I think that the process of learning how a certain videogame works with our input is essential to the medium.

Hey, I want to talk this out, because I'm just putting together for the first time some of the thoughts I just typed.
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silentmatt · Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:49 am Post subject:

I can see both sides to that argument - the complexity of the controls (and the satisfaction gained from mastering them) versus their degree of user-friendliness.

The difference, at least to me, lies in the games' purpose. Is it an utterly immersive experience designed for single-player use? I am thinking along the lines of Twilight Princess or Red Steel here.... which, to watch someone else play, is near dreadfully boring but to actually play is vastly more interesting.

Or is the game meant for a party atmosphere? Multiple people, many of whom probably have never played the game/the genre/the console before, trying to have fun?

In the second scenario, the idea behind the controller must be more intuitive than in the first scenario. For the single player games, the player has the ability to sit down, at her or his leisure, open up the manual... take it in page-by-page, garner hints and take the game at their own pace. In the second scenario, it is do-or-die.

As awkward as it is, even something designed to be the epitome of the second scenario (Wii Sports) can be too complicated for some people. Especially for games like bowling or golf, where multiple buttons need to be pressed, it takes a few minutes extra of instructions to get friends to understand how to play. That being said, Wii Sports is infinitely times easier than explaining Red Steel - which most people just roll their eyes at.
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DaleNixon · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 179

http://www.truedoogie.com/ETFinalreally.mov

Watching this there's no way I can't feel the froth.

Tim · . Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 54 Location: Millersville, MD

Wow. I'm nowhere near that good at Excite Truck.

And also, about Starfox on Wario Ware! That made the video for me. The rest was already great, but when I saw Starfox with Wiimote control I lost it. I've been daydreaming about it all day. I mean, that would be so wonderful, even if they just stuck a port of the game as an unlockable in the next crappy(?) Starfox game they make.

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227