11.30.06
Wii Like To Party
Quick shots before I head into work. I’ve undertaken a minor little side project to get all my music organized, and that means rating each and every one of my 18,000 some songs. Fortunately, I’ve managed to work it out; 1700 songs a day, and I should have it taken care of in no time flat. I bet I could even do better on the weekends, y’know, if I got really bored.
World of Warcraft continues apace. I figured out a system, actually– I play on the weekends, exhausting my character’s rest bar, and then let her sit idle all week. So, yeah, nobody here cares. Gotcha. Oh, and City of Heroes’ Issue 8 did hit on Tuesday. So full of love for that, but I need to play my villain more. I might go ahead and skip that, though, ’cause a lot of the new content is hero-exclusive. The one thing that would really help my villain is the trenchcoat, which is something that a Carmen Sandiego clone really needs to have, y’know?
I got my hands on a Wii. Well, a Wiimote, actually. I saw the EB demo kiosk running Excite Truck, and handed over my (almost empty) wallet to give it a try (the controller was not tethered to the machine, so to prevent theft it was necessary to temporarily trade your ID for the remote). I can honestly say that I’m underwhelmed by Excite Truck. The game uses the remote as an almost-traditional controller, except that steering and jumping are tilt-controlled. Overall it’s not a bad game, just kind of… meh. What did fill me with absolute giddiness was the Mii Channel (yes, I started poking around the system’s menu, what of it?). After taking a few seconds to orient myself with the controller as pointer, I was quickly zipping along. It was a pretty unique experience, making a replica of myself on this machine. While the proprietors weren’t going to change the disc (it was 8:45p by then and he was busy with other, paying customers), I was excited to know that once Wii Sports did make its way into the machine, ‘I’ would show up. Ah well. Maybe next time.
Last thing: I picked up the boxed set of Crest of the Stars last night. However, it was close to 11:00 by the time I got home and finished dinner, so that’s something that will have to wait until the weekend. But rest assured, I will (finally) watch it.
Ismail Saeed said,
11.30.06 at 10:16 am
Well, Excite Truck, judging by reviews, is a pretty token launch title. Like Excitebike 64, I think the benefit will be in number of courses, editable courses, and multiplayer. And I damn well hope it still has all three of those characteristics, or it’s simply not Excite* franchise material. (Granted, the first Excitebike wasn’t multiplayer, but that was then)
I’d probably play it as if it wasn’t on a tilty controller rather than thinking of it as an exhibition of Wii behavior.
And it’s about time. Enjoy. Although you’ve read novel 1, so naturally some of the episodes will look like the shortened adaptation to you it always actually was for the lucky Japanese viewers.