Some Wii ideas

steviec

Ok E3 is next week and all will be revealed, but I thought it might be fun to compile a few ideas of our own before we see what Nintendo plans for using the controller.

So here's the question. You're a game designer. You've just received your brand new Wiivolution devkit. What do you design?

Using it as a mouse, using it as a lightgun, using it as a sword, using it as a fishing rod, using it as a steering wheel and other obvious ideas are banned. I want to see something really original.

It's actually quite difficult. Some things floating around my head were a snowboarding/ski jumping/gymnastics game where you actually flip and catch the pad yourself to do tricks and it can measure how safe a landing it was. It could result in many broken wiisticks though...

Another game idea might be a typical platform game played holding the pad in the traditional NES way... but you can tilt the pad to tilt the world around. Now I know neither platformers or tilty world games or all that new, but having total control over your character with a dpad and buttons and being able to seamlessly tilt the world at the same time could make for interesting gameplay.

Orr a rock climbing game. Your controller is your pick, you need to hit into the rock in the right position and at the right speed so you hook it without causing too much damage. I've never climbed in my life so that could be completely wrong but hey its late at night

A surgery game that requires a delicate hand... I think the DS has already done that actually. A next gen version of the classic game Rampage would be cool, where you just swing your fist to swing the monstors massive fists into buildings, very visceral!

Just a few random thoughts, mostly rubbish, but I thought it might be interesting to see what people can come up with.

QuadLeo

Can't really think of anything original but I have a few ideas about how the wii might work with the ds. So here goes:

1) We all know that the ds and wii can connect wirelessly. So maybe up to 8 ds can connect to the one wii. It would be great to be able to download the old N64 multiplayer games such as goldeneye and perfect dark and play them with 8 players. Each using their ds as the controller and personal screen and the tv displays a master map of the level. Wii could act as a server for the handhelds.

2) Mario Kart wingmirrors. It would be cool to be able to open the ds up like a book and place it on your lap while playing mario kart or any racing game on the wii (god that sounds stupid). But anyway, the top and bottom screen on the ds would now be left and right screens and could be used as windmirrors, streaming the images live from the wii.

3) Another idea I had was for the likes of strategy games or survival horrors. Like if you were playing resident evil and you had to pick a lock or dispose a bomb, it would be great to be able to use the stylus and touch screen on the ds for it. Instead of the present situation where you just press A.

4) This one could work for most games. The ds top screen could be used as a map, and the bottom as the inventory. No need to constantly pause the game etc..

I have a lot of other ideas too. But i doubt any will happen. Most people buying wii won't have a ds. And there are probably a lot of compatability and programming issues too.

Irish Halo

Most people buying wii won't have a ds

I think people are more likely to own a DS and Wii then they were a GBA and GC. The numbers for the DS are massive and I can only assume Nintendo aim for similar ones for the Wii, maybe a DSLite/Wii bundle?

sprinkles

I know you banned the idea but the whole steering wheel thing I don't really see working too well.......maybe it's just me.

Anyway, the add-ons for the stick could be very interesting. using 2 wii's together (it's actually starting to sound ok to me....nintendo wii) as drum sticks for the new donky konga...

or perhaps a 2 player sword match.....can you imagine standing in the room with your mate, mock acting a sword fight and your every swing is replicated on screen.....cool....on that note the next soul calibre should be good

I'm a little short on ideas but then again I'm not crazy and I'm not japanese so I guess I'll leave the ideas up to the experts

danbhala

how about a flight sim kinda game (pilot wings esque)...

when you turn the remote in certain directions the aeroplane moves too. and perhaps you could use the num-chuck as the throttle etc...

it would tie in nicely with the traditional way kids play with toy aeroplanes, running around the room with the plane in their hand shootin *bang-bang* and stuff...

or perhaps a mario paint style game... you use the remote as a brush and the strokes are replicated with the brush on screen.... dont see that bein too exciting tho... maybe it would feature as a mini game in something...

i like the sounds of the drum sticks, i remember seeing one chap playing air drums in one of the promo vids several months ago... you could possibly bend it to the likes of a xylophones also... or even conducting an orchestra!

im looking forward to e3 a feic load

flogen

I know fishing rod is out of the question, but I can see it working really well in a game like Animal Crossing; the nunchuk being the directions and the controller acting as a fishing rod/bug net/shovel/watering can/etc.

Another idea would be for a Trauma Centre type game... but enough stealing existing ideas..

original... hrmmm.

Using it as a lasoo in a cowboy game

A nextgen paperboy where you "throw" (but don't actually) the controller instead of the paper

A cookery game (flipping a pancake, chopping meat )

A pool/snooker game, use the Wii as a cue

Same as above for golf and tennis/pingpong

I'm all out for now

sprinkles

The tennis thing could be really good...never thought of that.

failsafe

The FPS is what i'm really looking forward to using it for. A nice rifle extension for the controller like the IGN one and i can see it now, standing in my living room in the dark, walking around in the next res evil with laser light on screen pointing were I point. Like a lightgun game only i have a control stick to walk around.

A good multiplayer game could be a white water rafting thing where you have two or four people in a boat and each person uses the controller as a paddle.

Most of these would best for minigames in a monkey ball/mario party style game as opposed to the basis for a whole new game.

Vegeta

how about a male prostitute game where you turn tricks and have to arouse the the wii controller by stroking it or rotating the stick. Maybe one for the playboy series then

Vegeta

Darts, track and field games will never be the same again

bring back duck hunt I say

flogen

Kind of an obvious one, but Boxing.
Two controllers, one for each hand, the rest is self-explanatory really... you could pull your hands up to block, dodging could be difficult... maybe hit the trigger on each controller to dodge in that direction, pulling your hands back to dodge backwards... or you could have a strap that puts a third controller on your face to record your head movements

Irish Halo

flogen wrote:

or you could have a strap that puts a third controller on your face to record your head movements

I would love that, love it!

I am hoping we get two Wii sticks with each Wii as standard. It would increase the likliehood of something different involving both hands and a Wii stick in each happening as they could kind of bank on everyone having two then.

flogen

flogen wrote:

I know fishing rod is out of the question, but I can see it working really well in a game like Animal Crossing; the nunchuk being the directions and the controller acting as a fishing rod/bug net/shovel/watering can/etc.

Another idea would be for a Trauma Centre type game... but enough stealing existing ideas..

original... hrmmm.

Using it as a lasoo in a cowboy game

A nextgen paperboy where you "throw" (but don't actually) the controller instead of the paper

A cookery game (flipping a pancake, chopping meat )

A pool/snooker game, use the Wii as a cue

Same as above for golf and tennis/pingpong

I'm all out for now

I hate to toot my own horn but so far I've been spot on about the trauma centre game, cookery (in Warioware), golf and tennis... Nintendo, HIRE ME!!!!

(paperboy is to show up on Live Arcade, so I should get half a point for that as it was mentioned at E3!)