Wii - Big Three Look to EXCEED Expectations

[Nicholasp27]

do we need a prop bet? all 3 will be released by xmas

[Spota]

Does anybody have The Bigs? The trailer looks awesome.

Cant post a link for some reason:
http://www.gamespot.com/wii/sports/thebigs/index.html

[Sooga]

I don't like The Bigs at all. The pitching is ok, the fielding/throwing is not very good, and the hitting is flat-out awful, with there being a very noticeable swing lag.

[JaredL]

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I don't like The Bigs at all. The pitching is ok, the fielding/throwing is not very good, and the hitting is flat-out awful, with there being a very noticeable swing lag.

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This is a big disappointment because my favorite game on Wii sports is baseball. I still play that reasonably often even though it's obviously very shallow with no fielding. I would take a simple mii baseball game where you moved the fielders using the nunchuk and could somehow run the bases and make throws.

[Jack of Arcades]

I dunno, I never really thought there was a swing lag, you just had to react faster than in wii-sports. But from actually swinging to it swinging on the game it was fine.

The game's problem was that it was way too repetitive, I got tired very quickly.

[Sooga]

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I don't like The Bigs at all. The pitching is ok, the fielding/throwing is not very good, and the hitting is flat-out awful, with there being a very noticeable swing lag.

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This is a big disappointment because my favorite game on Wii sports is baseball. I still play that reasonably often even though it's obviously very shallow with no fielding. I would take a simple mii baseball game where you moved the fielders using the nunchuk and could somehow run the bases and make throws.

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I hear ya, I thought with the ultra-simplified gameplay of Wii Sports baseball that it'd suck, but it's one of the games I play most often.

In a Wii baseball game, I'd like to see the throwing/fielding be nunchuk-based, like in 'typical' console baseball games in the past, where you'd point the d-pad to whichever base you want, and then press a button to throw/run to it. In The Bigs, if you want to throw to a base, you'd hold down a button, then jerk the wiimote to the (right/up/left/down corresponding to 1b/2b/3b/home), and release the button. Sounds halfway decent, except sometimes when you're throwing, say, to first, it won't register the throw, but as you're moving the wiimote back to where it was, it'll register that as the throw instead, causing you to throw to third. God, that's annoying.

In an ideal Wii baseball game, the pitching would be almost all wiimote-based, the hitting would be all wiimote-based, but the fielding would be almost all nunchuk-based.

[TheCroShow]

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I don't like The Bigs at all. The pitching is ok, the fielding/throwing is not very good, and the hitting is flat-out awful, with there being a very noticeable swing lag.

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no clue what you're talking about. there is zero swing lag for me and fielding and throwing is simple.

i'm lovin the bigs, it's a fun arcade style baseball game.

[Sooga]

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I don't like The Bigs at all. The pitching is ok, the fielding/throwing is not very good, and the hitting is flat-out awful, with there being a very noticeable swing lag.

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no clue what you're talking about. there is zero swing lag for me and fielding and throwing is simple.

i'm lovin the bigs, it's a fun arcade style baseball game.

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zero swing lag? you have to start your swing like a half-second early, which is very noticeable. Also, the swing lag has been well-documented in many of the reviews (google for 'the bigs wii swing lag' and there will be a slew of complaints). And just to make sure, you are talking about the Wii version right? As far as I know, the PS3, 360, and PS2 versions are pretty good.

[Nicholasp27]

reviews stated the ps3/ps2/360 also had swing lag; that it was built into the game for some inexplicable reason

[Sooga]

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reviews stated the ps3/ps2/360 also had swing lag; that it was built into the game for some inexplicable reason

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Oh, I didn't read the reviews for the ps3/2/360; I'd just assumed the swing lag was something inherent in the wiimote interaction. Built-in swing lag? God that's retarded.