Game Debate #37: Wii Sports

[Jeevan | 8,911]

5/10, wasn't my favorite, but was ok.

[Sumez | 2,950]

I have zero love for these kinds of bundles of lazy minigames. Some of them might be entertaining to play, but then it's usually via the context in which you play it, with a bunch of buddies, rather than to the credit of the game itself.

And even in that situation, there are many much better choices you could go for. Stuff like Wario Ware Smooth Moves or even that Rabbids game are much better bets at waggle party games..
I can't imagine voluntarily putting this on for a single player experience more than once ever.

2/10. I'm sorry.

[DefaultGen | 5,403]

I went 8. It was in the center of Wii madness which was a fun time in video games, and it was free! I’d probably feel ripped off if I paid like I did for 1-2 Switch. 

[LeatherRebel5150 | 1,056]

6/10 it was an okay play to bust out once a year at Christmas for the older family members to play with the younger ones.  Always had an issue with the angle of the tv vs where we sat and how to get things to go straight such as throwing the frisbee or getting a straight shot in golf. Also I have and will always F'ing hate Mii's. Their design just comes off as so lazy and "clean" it comes off as some cheap wooden toy doll from FAO Schwarz you would get from some Great Grandmother. "This is what we used to play with back in the day sonny!" Yea thanks Gram 

[AstralSoul | 502]

Let's be honest, people only played this game because it came with the system. I know I would've never bought it on its own. I didn't think it was all that impressive and I never got used to or liked the motion controls th Wii forced on everyone. Wii Sports is, at best, a demo of the shoddy motion controls and I think the games fun lasted me an hour at most in it's total lifespan. 4/10

[Link | 2,709]

I give it a 6. It’s like Pong of its time. Anybody can play it and it’s great with friends. I could play/watch it for hours at a party.

4 hours ago, LeatherRebel5150 said:

I have and will always F'ing hate Mii's. Their design just comes off as so lazy and "clean"

same

[Tanooki | 4,933]

I hated when a game forced you to make a Mii or you couldn't save your game...that was infuriating.  I dislike them just because of the style and cheapness of what they are.  They're just not fun, other than for kids.

[peg | 370]

0/10. One of the worst atrocities to ever blight gaming.

[DarkTone | 984]

On 2/19/2021 at 11:39 AM, CasualCart said:

Shoot - @JamesRobot you beat me to it haha!

-CasualCart

Love it. 

[RegularGuyGamer | 2,013]

GOAT game for me, 10/10. No shame. It defined an era and revitalized Nintendo home consoles after a decade of duds.

I maxed out my score on Tennis one summer, played golf with my friends for money and bowled with my grandma before she passed. 

I can't even think of a party game that might be a close second. Wii Sports blow the competition out the water. 

[MrWunderful | 2,927]

7/10

because I got to glay video games with my grandma, that had polio (remember that?) Game itself was as simple as it needed to be, and Mii’s of yourself were cute.

 

For the youngins, Polio is a disease that isnt really around anymore and means she couldnt walk. 

[Tanooki | 4,933]

20 hours ago, RegularGuyGamer said:

GOAT game for me, 10/10. No shame. It defined an era and revitalized Nintendo home consoles after a decade of duds.

I maxed out my score on Tennis one summer, played golf with my friends for money and bowled with my grandma before she passed. 

I can't even think of a party game that might be a close second. Wii Sports blow the competition out the water. 

While I didn't give it a 10, it has it's issues in how it works, but it's basically impossible to argue against that too.  I'd be far more questionable of anyone slapping it with anything under a 6 really as it had quite a few redeeming values.

[Sumez | 2,950]

What are its redeeming values?
I guess it has things you can do in it, but so do most video games.

Going by the meaning of the 1-10 ratings, at least 4 definitely implies a game will still have some redeeming values, while 2 and 3 at least allow for it. I personally went with a 2 because I don't see them personally. I feel like it's a well deserved score.  

Edited February 24, 2021 by Sumez

[RegularGuyGamer | 2,013]

12 hours ago, Sumez said:

What are its redeeming values?
I guess it has things you can do in it, but so do most video games.

Going by the meaning of the 1-10 ratings, at least 4 definitely implies a game will still have some redeeming values, while 2 and 3 at least allow for it. I personally went with a 2 because I don't see them personally. I feel like it's a well deserved score.  

The meanings of the 1-10 ratings are defined above. This isn't an arbitrary "how good iz da game" scale.

4 means there's better alternatives, just wonder what alternatives do you recommend that are better than Wii Sports in the same genre?

A 2 is recognizing the game has redeeming qualities but you just don't care for the genre, or style of gameplay. Like you can recognize that Fifa is better than Mario Strikers, but you don't care for soccer games so you don't like either of them regardless of the redeeming qualities.

 

[Sumez | 2,950]

Isn't that exactly the same thing I said in the post you quoted?  

I actually already dropped a few much better alternatives in my first post in the thread, but overall the Wii has a ton of better alternatives. The platform is completely flooded with waggle minigame bundles like this, and even though a lot of them are shovelware, there are a few of them with qualities of their own.

[OptOut | 8,884]

On 2/19/2021 at 6:15 AM, Reed Rothchild said:

Weekly reminder to rate based on personal preferences and not historical significance

Wot u gonna do about it? 

[OptOut | 8,884]

On 2/19/2021 at 7:43 AM, BortLicensePlate said:

Oops, my bad

Own it dude. You MEANT to vote that way. Reed has no power over you, does he?!

[YOURTURN | 1,256]

I gave it a 6 out of 10. Because while it was not as entertaining as Pokemon Snap, both bowling and the rest helped get me out of my "Meh." phase that the N64 put me in. At least when it came to home consoles. Hence the 2 point reduction.

[Sumez | 2,950]

If Wii Sport's "historical significance" was spawning an onslaught of waggle minigame shovelware, then a rating based on that would only put it even lower.  

Edited February 26, 2021 by Sumez

[RegularGuyGamer | 2,013]

On 2/21/2021 at 3:13 PM, Sumez said:

Stuff like Wario Ware Smooth Moves or even that Rabbids game are much better bets at waggle party games

https://imgur.com/t/memes/digcsE7

 

Edited February 26, 2021 by RegularGuyGamer

[WhyNotZoidberg | 585]

8/10.

If the motion controls had worked as well in every event as they do in bowling and golf I’d give 9.

[G-type | 2,481]

Wii Sports is really all about the Bowling..  Tennis is a nice bonus. The others don't rate at all. But it's still an 8/10, just for Bowling.

[Tanooki | 4,933]

I want to agree but I can't.  Tennis is a snore and baseball well it wasn't that accurate so it was kind of a swing and a miss if you were going for points.  Golf strangely it worked well, and it was a 3D recreation of the original black box Golf courses too which was cool.  Bowling was the jewel in the end, but even at that, the controls weren't the best but it was enough to enjoy, but forget doing really well unless you could find some way to cheat the swing.

[RegularGuyGamer | 2,013]

On 3/2/2021 at 11:38 PM, Tanooki said:

Tennis is a snore and baseball well it wasn't that accurate so it was kind of a swing and a miss if you were going for points

A snore? Have you seen what the AI is like when you approach the highest ranks? It's insane. 

[Tanooki | 4,933]

I just don't care for tennis, just bores me even if it does get fast I don't enjoy it.  I won't even bother playing Mario Tennis and I've put some time on that one on Gameboy too, and got stuck with the one that came with Virtual Boy as it was a pack-in.