Tyler Weir » Wii

Mario Kart Wii

Tyler — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:53:38 +0000

I’m officially an old-man, casual gamer. I don’t have the time or desire to work through an 80 hour RPG or grind through a game like Devil May Cry.

Games like Mario Kart Wii are perfect for me, sit down for 15 minutes and run a few tracks, done and done. Almost everything on the DS is a good fit as well. 15 minutes here and there, that’s all I can afford.

I’m amazed at the people that can fit World of Warcraft into their lives, there is no way I could manage dedicating that amount of time to a game.

Super Metroid is on the Virtual console today.

Tyler — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:24:14 +0000

This will be the first game I buy for the Virtual Console.

Visual Studio on Parallels / Red Steel.

Tyler — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:34:13 +0000

After installing Parallels on my MacBook Pro I installed Visual Studio C# Express to see how it would perform. Without any sort of metrics I’ll say that it seemed faster than my T60, notably compilation appeared to be much faster.

Laura rented Red Steel for the Wii. Um.. I burned through the first two levels and the entire time I was fighting with the controls. It’s not a bad game, in fact, it’s quite good for a launch title. I think that more time with the controller and more time on the cut scenes and this game would have been great. As it is, the control scheme knocked me out of the experience.

Unlockable Trucks you say.

Tyler — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:26:49 +0000

It appears that Excite Truck was made with me in mind. It offers unlockable trucks and paint jobs as you progress through the game. Now unlockable content is certainly not new, but Nintendo adds one vital bit of information that hooks me. They tell me that I only need three more races or two more wins to unlock a new truck. That simple addition keeps me playing for hours.

Wii day

Tyler — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 02:44:12 +0000

Laura and I will attempt to pickup a Wii tomorrow.

Hope this works.

Update: Denied at FutureShop… the person right in front of me got the last one.
Still hope with Laura at Toys’ R Us.

Update 2: Laura FTW!! Picks up a Wii!!!

Update 3: Wii Sports is ridiculous amounts of fun. And PHOTOZ!!!!

Update 4: The Wii on standby uses 2 watts. Disappointing to say the least.