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Wii-mote In Action

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the answering-your-questions dept.

Jack Lancer writes "Gameworld Network (which is either a network of gameworlds or a gameworld of networks) has posted an epic collection of streaming E3 videos which clearly depicts each and every playable Wii game and how exactly one has to swing, wave, shake, point, wiggle and/or jostle the Wiimote in order to play." And once again this poses the question — is this the future of gaming UI? Sure seems like a great idea for a FPS.

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  1. Hoo-hah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This ol' first post, it ain't what it useta be, ain't what it useta be, ain't what it useta be...

  2. Ok, I was interested before but now.... by Iguru42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm SOLD. I want this console! I want this console! I want this console! Check out the video for Red Steel. Finally a console where playing an FPS isn't stupid! Please excuse me, I have to go clean myself off.

    1. Re:Ok, I was interested before but now.... by rmadmin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Swinging a controller all over hell to get a character to move? Hell, I was doing that on the NES. JUMP MARIO! *makes upward motion with controller*. Guess Nintendo has been paying attention to their customers :P

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    2. Re:Ok, I was interested before but now.... by lowrydr310 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I realized I got too immensed in a game when I went for a drive after playing GTA for six hours. I ended up running a red light to pass a city bus (on the right side!) that was about to stop and pick up passengers. Fortunately I didn't jump out of my car to pick up the Porsche 911 that was stopped at the next light.

    3. Re:Ok, I was interested before but now.... by AuMatar · · Score: 4, Funny

      You fool! Any time you have a chance to draw them into gaming you take it. Once you have them hooked, they no longer yell at you to get off the damn computer and spend time with them.

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    4. Re:Ok, I was interested before but now.... by Neoncow · · Score: 2, Funny
      JUMP MARIO! *makes upward motion with controller*.

      Am I the only one that heard the jump sound when reading that line?
    5. Re:Ok, I was interested before but now.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      someone with a user id that low picked the name wiii?

    6. Re:Ok, I was interested before but now.... by idonthack · · Score: 2, Funny
      Once you have them hooked, they no longer yell at you to get off the damn computer and spend time with them.
      Yeah. And now my mom tells me to get off the GameCube so she can play Animal Crossing.
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    7. Re:Ok, I was interested before but now.... by Cocoa+Radix · · Score: 2, Funny

      That reminds me so much of my dad, when he first got us a SNES for Christmas (I was five). He used to play it more than me and my two younger brothers combined (not that a one-year-old can play SNES all too well, but a three-year-old can). I remember whenever he got the cape and was flying through a level, he would stand up and keep raising the controller higher and higher above his head, and my mom would ask him, "Honey, what the hell are you doing?"

      And he used to practically shout, "The higher you hold it, the higher he flies! Look! Look at him!"

      "Maybe you should let the kids play now..."

      Ah, nostalgia...

  3. A Collection of Videos on /. ??? by Pieroxy · · Score: 4, Funny

    posted an epic collection of streaming E3 videos

    And someone jealous decided to destroy it all by posting it to slashdot. Bye bye bandwidth!

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  4. Great, more confusion by 99luftballon · · Score: 5, Funny

    First it was Bluetooth headsets that made it tough to decide if the person coming up behind you was on the phone or a schizophrenic. Now I'll be wondering if the kids on the underground are gamers or epileptics.

    1. Re:Great, more confusion by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, since the Wii isn't a portable device (yet), it's still safe to say that they're epileptics.

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    2. Re:Great, more confusion by steveo777 · · Score: 4, Funny
      Just wait until the devices are implanted in your molars. Then people can think you're a skitz again! My girlfriend's dad thought I was nuts because I was talking to my brother with a bluetooth headset. My phone was in my pocket, no wires. Just... talking... to thin air.

      A few strange looks later and a warning to his daughter and I finally caught on.

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    3. Re:Great, more confusion by kjorn · · Score: 3, Funny

      A fun game is to clip a bluetook headset on, then go down town and rant at people. After some choice words, turn your head so they can see the headset and carry on your imaginary conversation.

      A good start is to look someone in the eye and say something like "Fod fucks sake, you prick..." Turn, point to head set, then carry on with "...Jeff, I told you to get those documents to me by four."

    4. Re:Great, more confusion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      To quote Hobbes "I bet your natural charm has made you a great sprinter"

  5. Picture it by MrSquirrel · · Score: 5, Funny

    To make Jack Thompson happy, someone should make a fighting game where you hold the wii-mote and physically smack the other person. "Ah ha, see, video games do cause real-world violence". That's what I call force feedback!

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  6. Riiiight by tickbox · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think having to flick the mouse around is more than enough physical exertion for the average FPS gamer. What makes you think they'll take to this?

  7. Re:Wireless PS2 Remote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, basically because a WiiMote wouldn't work on my PS2

  8. Hot Coffee by Eric+Coleman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can you imagine the kind of movement you have to do for the Hot Coffee mod on this console?

    And the speaker in the wiimote could make some noises as well. Squishy wet noises of... um... hot coffee, yeah!

  9. Re:That's true. by trix7117 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know slashdot is land of the bad analogy, but are you really trying to relate playing a video game to soldiers in Iraq?

  10. Fitness Machine??? by used2win32 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could they pair the Wiimote and upper body movements with a DDR type pad for lower body movements? You could get quite a workout - oh wait.... Gamers don't too much of that, except for bicep curls. 'Curling' that beverage to their mouth. You know, 16oz curls, 32 oz curls, 0.5 or 1 liter curls...

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  11. How to tell if someone has a Wii or a PS3 by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 4, Funny

    The person who has toned arm and leg muscles has the Wii.

    The one with the weight problem has the PS3.

    I guess the one with the xBox360 is a Borg. Or at least dresses like one.

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  12. Re:Total Revolution - flame on by Pollardito · · Score: 2, Funny

    so you're here advertising for onpoint aren't you?

  13. Re:What about the traditional non-gamer crowd? by kamapuaa · · Score: 2, Funny
    I've been trying to keep people educated about the new generation of systems vs. the old. Sometimes it's funny, other times I want to call it pathetic.

    Indeed, making it a life goal to keep people educated about the new generation of video game systems is pathetic, but at the same time it's kind of funny anybody would do that. So either choice is correct!

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  14. Re:Hope it has a wrist strap by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Funny

    if your TV is so cheaply built that a 3 ounce plastic remote can go through the front glass then you either need to stopping for AV equipment from the back of vans in parking lots or have someone go with you to buy your gear to keep you from buying things made from tinfoil and thin plastic.

    My Panasonic 48" Plasma can take a 6 ounce remote being thrown HARD at the screen without damage.

    Having a friend over that drank way too much at the Superbowl party was that way to discover that one.

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