God Of War Creator loves Nintendo Wii

[Guest Radio Flyer]

In some interview. Fair enough he hates Wii Boxing but what I don't understand is that he complains about the accuracy of the Wiimote. I've heard this complaint from other people too.

My wiimote is, like, 100% accurate, you know? It points exactly where I point it. What the dickens are people on about?? I got Wii Play the other day and, well, the target game works exactly like a light gun game, I point it and shoot, no delay or anything.

The Nunchuk is shit though.

http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/11397...ntendo_Wii.html

[metallicfrodo]

It points exactly where I point it. What the dickens are people on about?? I got Wii Play the other day and, well, the target game works exactly like a light gun game, I point it and shoot, no delay or anything.

You have to be in the perfect position for that to be the case though. Most of the time I have to aim higher than where I actually want the pointer to be but it's all down to positioning relative to the TV and your seating/standing position.

With the cursor though it isn't a massive issue as you at least know where it is the Wii thinks you are pointing.

[Guest Radio Flyer]

My TV isn't that big, maybe that's it.

[Beertiger]

I would agree with him if he didn't claim the Wiimote broke Trauma Center. I had a quick blast and was slicing and dicing with great skill. In fact it sold me on the use of the controller and the game. Now if only Nintendo would sell it to me.

I also thought it was going to be David Jaffe because surely he's the creator of the series, Corey Barlog has taken over from 2 onwards.

[Guest Radio Flyer]

You know how the sensor bar is apparently just harldy anything, couldn't you rig one up so it's in the middle of your screen, one on each side? Wouldn't that solve everything?

[Karzee]

Saying that the Wii is "pretty sweet" is hardly slagging it off now is it. Why not just rename the thread, "Game Creator Expresses Some Disappointment with the Wii - How DARE He!!".

[Smitty]

Why not just rename the thread, "Game Creator Expresses Some Disappointment with the Wii - How DARE He!!".

It's a well observed phenomenomommo. (sic)

[Rudderless]

In terms of accurate thread titles, this is up there with that "watch this, it's really funny" one.

[rgraves]

Saying that the Wii is "pretty sweet" is hardly slagging it off now is it.

No, but saying this could be considered to be:

The wiimote was woefully inaccurate and sapped the fun of the game.

...it has me worried that the whole “what new thing can you do with the controller” fad will wear off after awhile and I will have left is a much slimmer wireless gamecube.

Agree or disagree as you like, but you certainly can't say he was heaping praise on it!

[Guest Radio Flyer]

Saying that the Wii is "pretty sweet" is hardly slagging it off now is it. Why not just rename the thread, "Game Creator Expresses Some Disappointment with the Wii - How DARE He!!".

Well if the Wiimote isn't accurate then, well, the whole system fails, you know? I was just saying that mine is accurate so why's he saying his isn't? You know what I'm saying?

He damned it with faint praise, and I'll not let that stand.

Has anybody else got a Wiimote that isn't accurate?

[DarhkFox]

eh? wasnt this "hates" nintendo wii and hour or two ago?

[Roboplegic Wrongcock]

eh? wasnt this "hates" nintendo wii and hour or two ago?

It was wasn't it? i thought i was going mad.

[Eighthours]

In-bed-with-Sony developer in slags-off-competition shocker.

[Smitty]

Wii criticism is heresy and/or the result of being bribed.

[metallicfrodo]

Has anybody else got a Wiimote that isn't accurate?

Everybody has in the sense you are talking about, it all depends on where they are relative to the sensor bar and it's position to the TV. It appears that your seating position and sensor bar positioning means that it seems 100% acurate to you. As I've pointed out it isn't for me (and this is on both the TV's I've tried, both a 37" and a 28"). But then I didn't expect it to work just like a light gun so it didn't really bother me.

[phresh]

You know how the sensor bar is apparently just harldy anything, couldn't you rig one up so it's in the middle of your screen, one on each side? Wouldn't that solve everything?

Using my l33t electronic skills I actually did this, and although it was as nigh on 100% accurate, they were too far apart for the distance I was sat away so the wiimote wouldn't recognise them half the time (32" CRT, wiimote distance about 2m).

I've messed around with the wiimote at varying widths and it does effect accuracy, it also avoids having to move your seating position like it asks during calibration in Zelda TTP. Regarding accuracy I was on top of the large pillar in Lake Hylia and managed to shoot down 5 or so crows in a row (there is a flock to one side) with barely a pause in between, something that would be impossible with an analogue stick, it felt incredible.

[Guest Radio Flyer]

Everybody has in the sense you are talking about, it all depends on where they are relative to the sensor bar and it's position to the TV. It appears that your seating position and sensor bar positioning means that it seems 100% acurate to you. As I've pointed out it isn't for me (and this is on both the TV's I've tried, both a 37" and a 28"). But then I didn't expect it to work just like a light gun so it didn't really bother me.

Quite, I mean, it was still completely accurate, right? To the sensor bar? It's not like it was going all over the shop. He said it wasn't accurate. It's not just him, I've heard other peopel calling it vague and stuff and I was just worrying that I had terribly low standards.

[Sir DangerM]

Nothing he says is incorrect.

I love the wii regardless though.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Has anybody else got a Wiimote that isn't accurate?

Mine if fine, but you have to be relatively close to the sensor bar otherwise the pointer glitches. Considering I got a 45" screen I would have liked it to be a bit more accurate at distances over 10 feet. As it is now, I move the couch a bit closer to the screen when I need the pointer-functionality of the remote.

[metallicfrodo]

Quite, I mean, it was still completely accurate, right? To the sensor bar? It's not like it was going all over the shop. He said it wasn't accurate. It's not just him, I've heard other peopel calling it vague and stuff and I was just worrying that I had terribly low standards.

Not straight out the box it wasn't. When I had it set up in the living room I had to do the calibration thing so that it was picking up the sensor bar properly, before that it would just lose the Wiimote and the cursor would slowly drift off to the side. To be honest I didn't have it in an optimum postition, leaning back on the sofa it seemed I was too far away from the sensor bar, however the window was directly behind the TV so there was a lot of light noise behind the senor bar.

... I would have liked it to be a bit more accurate at distances over 10 feet. ....

Yeah 10" was about where I found the problem started to occur.

[Uncle Mike]

It's not just him, I've heard other people calling it vague and stuff and I was just worrying that I had terribly low standards.

I think it very much depends on the game. Wii Bowling, for example, feels very accurate, but Wii Boxing is terrible. I think hardware-wsie, the remote is very accurate. Software-wise, it depends on implementation. No surprise there.

Wii Boxing isn't a great advert for the system.

[Dude Ranch]

My Wiimotes are flawless, I'm still amazed at how well it all works.

The movement/accuracy debate is a bit odd, I'm not sure what's being said. The movement is relative rather than the end of the Wiimote directly siting at the screen like a light gun.

[Graham S]

Mine if fine, but you have to be relatively close to the sensor bar otherwise the pointer glitches. Considering I got a 45" screen I would have liked it to be a bit more accurate at distances over 10 feet. As it is now, I move the couch a bit closer to the screen when I need the pointer-functionality of the remote.

If you're a long way off, it can't see the dim LEDs on the sensor bar so well. If you get a third party sensor bar or make one yourself with brighter light-sources you can increase the range almost indefinitely (until the wireless connection reaches its maximum range) without glitching. You can also try adjusting the sensitivity, if you haven't already.

Sadly for me, ordinary light bulbs reflected in the mirror over the fireplace look just like a sensor bar to my remote, which can be a bit irritating from certain angles. Otherwise I've been pleasantly surprised with the accuracy.

[phresh]

If you're a long way off, it can't see the dim LEDs on the sensor bar so well. If you get a third party sensor bar or make one yourself with brighter light-sources you can increase the range almost indefinitely (until the wireless connection reaches its maximum range) without glitching. You can also try adjusting the sensitivity, if you haven't already.

Sadly for me, ordinary light bulbs reflected in the mirror over the fireplace look just like a sensor bar to my remote, which can be a bit irritating from certain angles. Otherwise I've been pleasantly surprised with the accuracy.

From my testing it wasn't so much the brightness, as the distance between the 2 ends of the sensor bar that effected the wiimotes effectiveness at different distances.

Napoleon, you can very easily make your own sensors, without soldering, if you don't mind them looking a little less tidy. Mobile phone charger or usb cable, 4 IR LED's, 2 resistors/potentiometers, some cable and some terminal blocks. It's a 5 min job and would save you changing your seating arrangements.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

From my testing it wasn't so much the brightness, as the distance between the 2 ends of the sensor bar that effected the wiimotes effectiveness at different distances.

Napoleon, you can very easily make your own sensors, without soldering, if you don't mind them looking a little less tidy. Mobile phone charger or usb cable, 4 IR LED's, 2 resistors/potentiometers, some cable and some terminal blocks. It's a 5 min job and would save you changing your seating arrangements.

I might try this sometime, although I'd rather buy a tidy supercharged sensor bar, third party or not.

At the moment it's not a problem, just a minor inconvenience.

[metallicfrodo]

Napoleon, you can very easily make your own sensors, without soldering, if you don't mind them looking a little less tidy. Mobile phone charger or usb cable, 4 IR LED's, 2 resistors/potentiometers, some cable and some terminal blocks. It's a 5 min job and would save you changing your seating arrangements.

Or alternatlively you could just light two candles.

[phresh]

Or alternatlively you could just light two candles.

Those smoke marks will look lovely on a LCD

[Alex W.]

A lot of people seem to assume that it's meant to shoot the pointer at the screen or something so you could sight along the remote, but it doesn't, it just tracks where it's pointing based on the sensor bar. It's perfectly accurate at this and unless you are actually holding the remote under your nose you can't tell any difference. When it comes to the motion sensing, boxing is really weird because it's trying to interpret some very complex movements.

People having problems with distance: have you tried bumping up the sensitivity in the menu? It's not pointer sensitivity, it's the sensitivity of the sensor in the end of the remote. If you turn it up you get more range, I got about 15 feet away before I ran out of room.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

People having problems with distance: have you tried bumping up the sensitivity in the menu? It's not pointer sensitivity, it's the sensitivity of the sensor in the end of the remote. If you turn it up you get more range, I got about 15 feet away before I ran out of room.

No I haven't, will give it a shot tonight. But I'm quite happy with the sensitivity as it is, I don't really want it to go any faster when I up that setting.

[Alex W.]

It's not how fast the pointer moves. It simply lowers the "threshold" for the sensor in the remote so that it can make out the sensor bar at longer distances, at the cost of picking up more false signals from light bulbs and such.