They completely botched the Zelda demo. That's a shame. I sure hope that it plays a lot smoother when everything is working properly. Even before they reached the bow & arrow section, I felt the control is awkward and unresponsive.

Overall, I'm happy with the conference...

Mario Sports Mix & Wii Party: Meh. Not for me I suppose.

Donkey Kong & Kirby: Meh. 2D platformer overload.

Kid Icarus: YES!!

3rd party support for 3DS: AWESOME!!

lol! that's awesome!

Wii Music 2

What worries me most is the controls. You supposedly play it with the Wiimote held sideways (which isn't ideal already), having to point at the screen to go first person, which'd mean you can't move during those parts, which is annoying. I don't get why they don't just have you use the Nunchuck, seeing as the gameplay seems to be a bit too frantic to be played with a small D-Pad.

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My thoughts exactly! The current control scheme really concerns me. It sounds awkward and cumbersome.

At the very least, they should give us a choice to play the game with a Wiimote and Nunchuk. I don't want to play this game with just the Wiimote.

All right, can anyone clear this up for me? The IGN guy says this:

[QUOTE="IGN"]You play it for the thrill, for the rush of adrenaline that almost lifts you off the ground at the end of a forty-five minute battle with a dragon forty times your size. Monster Hunter offers some of the biggest challenges in gaming, and it's worth the pain of constant defeat for the incomparable exhilaration of victory.JordanElek

That doesn't sound like very much fun. I'm willing to give this game a shot, but the descriptions I've been seeing don't seem very appealing to me.

So to anyone with at least some Monster Hunter experience... is the challenge frustrating? Because it sounds to me like it would be frustrating, even if you get a thrill once you beat a monster. And don't beat around the bush and say "well it doesn't matter because it's so awesome when you kill something!!!" Is it frustrating in the process?

You will either LOVE Monster Hunter or DISLIKE Monster Hunter. I'm in the DISLIKE camp. :)

I've played the PSP version before and I didn't enjoy the game at all. It's not really frustrating, I would describe it more as REALLY tedious. Everything about the game takes forever to do. Killing bigger monsters takes forever. Some monsters would even run away from you (and go off to other sections of the map) when you deal enough damage. So, you can expect hacking and slashing a monster for 5-10 minutes...then it would run away...you spend 10 minutes running around looking for it...and when you finally find it, you see that its health has regenerated. Urgh!

Also, crafting weapons and armors lots of farming and grinding. You need 10 of these, 5 of that, 3 of those... So, expect to play some previous missions over and over again to get enough different monster body parts that you would need.

Not my idea of fun. You'll need lots of patience to enjoy this game.

It certainly looks amazing!

I just pray that they give us the option of playing the game with the nunchuk attached. Using the d-pad to control Samus in 3D space + the fast pace nature of the game = my thumb will completely fall off. Plus, I don't like the idea of constantly flipping the wiimote to switch between 1st and 3rd person perspective.

If it's just HD, then no. Nintendo and third parties aren't even pushing the Wii to its limit, so what is the point of getting a more powerful system.

It needs to be more than HD.....or 3D.

Well then you missed the best part: when the 4th pillar of the Torch didn't come up, some explosions came out of the ground, then a mime popped out and "manually" pulled the pillar up.bob_newman

Yeah, that was hilarious! Is it just me or did the mime look a lot like Mario? :D

Having Catherine Lemay Doan relit the torch was awesome!

Too bad the rest of the ceremony was really disappointing and dull.

Great Thread!! A very insightful observation worthy of discussion. :)

I disagree with your Zelda example, but I'll give you another one. Wii Sports. In Tennis, all you do is swing. The game will do all themovement for you. In baseball, all you do is swing or throw. The game will do everything else for you.

I don't think it's a strategy per say. But auto-aim, auto-movement, and auto-actionare there to hide the inadequacies of the controller.

With their heavy hitters gone, one has to wonder what the launch titles for a new system would be.Arc2012

This is why I doubt Wii 2 is coming out anytime soon. Nintendo won't launch a system without Mario or Zelda.