Kendo on the Wii

[Badger]

Who here wouldn't love to see a kendo game on the wii? How awesome would that be?
From the game play I've seen with sword in games like red steel it is plausible.
Could it possibly even help us train?
Discuss, I'm off to sleep!

[The great I AM]

Sod kendo on the Wii, I've got the dojo for that.

Now what I AM enjoying is my Wii Balance Board. Snow boarding, slalom, ski jumping, yoga, bizarre muscle training exercises, all check. And fun! And a bizzare game where your Mii is dressed as a penguin balancing on an iceburg trying to catch fish. You control the iceburg....

[JoonShik]

I dont know how that would work to be like a real kendo match. The sensors probably wont be able to detect zanshin and if the hit was good or not in general.

[Andrew S]

Feedback when you get hit would be a problem. And tai-atari would pose a few difficulties as well.

[dwez]

Sod kendo on the Wii, I've got the dojo for that.

Now what I AM enjoying is my Wii Balance Board. Snow boarding, slalom, ski jumping, yoga, bizarre muscle training exercises, all check. And fun! And a bizzare game where your Mii is dressed as a penguin balancing on an iceburg trying to catch fish. You control the iceburg....

Sod penguins and iceburgs on the Wii, I've got hard drugs for that.

[Charles Lockhar]

I just saw, like fifteen minutes or so ago, a demo of fencing with the Wii on the teevee. Couldn't really figure how worthwhile it was though.

-Charles

[don don]

Never mind Kendo on Wii... think of the potential for simulated gore effects! How cool would that be????:dog:

[ne0r]

I wouldn't like kendo on the wii, either. Kendo is just too complex to put everything in a game satisfactorily.

By the way: I played red steel and I hated the sword fights. It is the usual thinking: block, then hit. And besides, I hate fighting nitoh with a broken sword.
But the shooting was jolly good fun, really!

[nikozamo]

kendo on wii: no way
''the way'': metroid prime 3
:D

[hyuna]

personally, i don't think that guitar hero is any less fun just because it isn't much like playing a guitar. same goes for karaoke games, DDR, shooting games, fighting games, driving games, and, well, actually pretty much all games...

the point of having a kendo game isn't to practice kendo -- the point of having a kendo game is that it would be awesome!

[ne0r]

Hm. That's a good point.
I agree with you, hyuna.^^

[Badger]

Hmm, I was thinking maybe it would be boring for people who don't train in kendo? Or maybe it would influence more people to start kendo?

[Richard Kim]

I would think kendo people wouldn't like it. While visiting relatives for Christmas, I was playing the Wii sports package CD that comes with the console. The tennis, boxing, and bowling games were all were definitely not 'true-to-life' as your motion doesn't track realistically. I do think Wii is on to something because the games were fun despite that (and I'm not a video game person) but any skill you might have in the real world currently won't translate onto the TV screen . . .

[verissimus]

The Wii would essentially limit the kendo shiai / practise to a first-person, shooter view. However, I think the side view is usually more enjoyable from the point of view of action. Makes it easier to critique footwork and posture too.

So, while it may work, I think I'd get tired of it pretty soon.

[neko kenshi]

Sod kendo on the Wii, I've got the dojo for that.

Now what I AM enjoying is my Wii Balance Board. Snow boarding, slalom, ski jumping, yoga, bizarre muscle training exercises, all check. And fun! And a bizzare game where your Mii is dressed as a penguin balancing on an iceburg trying to catch fish. You control the iceburg....

You mean this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYBmAVuBns)? haha.

[ne0r]

I think you meant this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_mBLWpdwnI&NR=1

(How do you make those links that show a word instead of the linked page's address?)

[Neil Gendzwill]

How do you make those links that show a word instead of the linked page's address?
<url=www.something.com>A Word</url>, using square braces instead of angled ones.

[samurai80]

I always thought kendo could be cool as a video game if it were made in the same fashion as Fight Night. By the way, its a video game. Does any game truely get everything as realistic as possible.

"Hey, this Mortal Kombat game is fun! I don't want to play it anymore though, 'cuz in real life I can't freeze people."

[The great I AM]

You mean this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYBmAVuBns)? haha.I note your jealousy because I have one and you don't, and I therefore shower you with pity. Haha indeed.

That vid is a good pisstake, but the Wii fit is dam good fun!

[Celtic Tiger]

When the Wii came out, some friends who fence commented that the Wii would be a perfect system for a fencing game. I think that it would work very well for kendo as well.

Daniel

[absenteekendoka]

There was an interesting story on the news last night about Wii related injuries :) I am sooo not making this up!! There appears to be a high incedence of sprains , strains, ligement and tendon injuries.....as well as broken noses!!!!! People get a little exhuberant with it! My kid brother got one and we played it Christmas eve.........the tennis left me sore as hell and the boxing...well I think I threw something out..LOL!! If they did a Kendo one it could be interesting...maybe throw in a super mario level :)

[bobdonny]

my wife and myself were playing tennis on it... she was getting into it and my 4 year old daughter had the unfortunate idea to get a toy in front of my wife (who was REALLY into the match)

BANG

after a few tears and an embarassed mommy all was sorted ;)

[Nige]

http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/ some of the things people manage to do are unbelievable, they must have sweatier hands than me!

[Celtic Tiger]

I don't know the truth of it, but I had heard of people throwing the controller at the television when pitching in the baseball game. Thinking that it acted like a base ball??

Daniel

[Nige]

I don't know the truth of it, but I had heard of people throwing the controller at the television when pitching in the baseball game. Thinking that it acted like a base ball??

Daniel

I wouldn't be surprised if people were that stupid..

[Sparv]

I wouldn't be surprised if people were that stupid..

That's no stupidity, that's reflex. A friend of mine who often play golf ALWAYS use his hand to protect his eyes when he looks at the ball after swinging on the wii. He just can't help it.

Stupidity is when you don't put the loop aroud your wrist.

[JoDuncan]

The fencing game on the Mario and Sonic Olympics is proper gash... proper gash.

The sprinting is good practice for any horse semen extractors i guess.

Sony PS3 superior Nintendo Wii inferior

[Sparv]

Sony PS3 superior Nintendo Wii inferior

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Man, you're posting from a computer right? You don't have any decent non-japanese RPG on the PS3 right? And what about RTS? And Severance: Blade of darkness?

PC rules!

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The bad thing is that all the games are under Win.

[JoDuncan]

The only "Japanese" game I have got is some arcade style button bashy slashy one I got for £12.

I'm on a shitty laptop that absolutely freaks out if you try to play a big game on it e.g. Medieval Total war.. can anything play that i wonder?

[Charuzu]

The only "Japanese" game I have got is some arcade style button bashy slashy one I got for £12.

I'm on a shitty laptop that absolutely freaks out if you try to play a big game on it e.g. Medieval Total war.. can anything play that i wonder?

God, I have Medieval II: Total war on mah PC.

Such a good game. It's so addictive, the expansion is awesome as well.

Not to mention.... FREAKING ROCKET ELEPHANTS!!!!!!

<3 History

[JoDuncan]

God, I have Medieval II: Total war on mah PC.

Such a good game. It's so addictive, the expansion is awesome as well.

Not to mention.... FREAKING ROCKET ELEPHANTS!!!!!!

<3 History


Do you have an Alienware PC? :alien::eek:

[Sparv]

Do you have an Alienware PC? :alien::eek:

Med II total war on my PC, no problems (good quality):
AMD Barton 2600+ (+12% of performance from overclocking)
1G of DDR2
Radeon X1950GT on an AGP port (+15-20% from O/C)

The motherboard is three years old, the processor and the graphics cards are two years old.

Even Crysis run on low settings in 1024*768 (and it's very nice on my 19" flat screen). Fuck alienware. For med 2 TW or 90% of today's games you don't need this kind of shitty price/perf ratio.

Med II TW is agood game... If you like the genre. It's definitely not for me.

[JoDuncan]

I love you Sparv.

[Sparv]

I love you Sparv.

You can as long as I'm not involved. :p

[imouto]

Well it's not quite kendo....
Ninja Reflex (http://www.mtv.ca/news/article.jhtml?id=5695)

[imnothere]

not a good idea.

i love the smell of bogu, the defeaning yelt of demented kendokas and the occassional pain from missed hits.

no way i am gonna swap it for some 3-D game... :laugh:


there is Soul Calibur 1-4 (i own Soul Calibur 1), but the ronin character Mitsurugi is using kenjutsu, just...not...the...same

(p.s. I do love SC characters... except for Dodjimitsu..sorry Yoshimitsu and Voldo due to their dodginess and S&M clothing)

[Bogu Headache]

Even before the Wii was released, there was one collective idea everyone wanted.

1:1 motion lightsabre game.

DO IT.

Also, Med II was weak. AI was apalling. Shogun is still better. (Though night fights with flame arrows and cannon were pretty sweet, no denying that.)

[Maku-san]

Let me know when Beer Keiko I is launched for Wii. :D

I wanna be virtually drunk when I get home.

[Kenzan]

I remember the good old days, when folks used to go outside and you know,


do stuff.

[absenteekendoka]

I remember the good old days, when folks used to go outside and you know,


do stuff.

They still do...its what gives us all that sweet ninjery goodness we see on youtube. :)

[SamuelRiv]

I'm not much of a gamer, so I don't have extensive knowledge of everything that has come out in the history of gaming, but the best sword-fight game that I have played is Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. The other JK games were less good, but this one was exceptional in that it pretty much followed a "one-hit-to-kill" rule while using the lightsabre, such that when fighting other jedi, you seriously had to look for openings and maintain distance - you couldn't really get away with just button-mashing (though admittedly it worked sometimes). It also had some pretty impressive moves, and some pretty stupid ones, but in general I recommend it if you want to see a good example of video swordplay.

There is also Leon Paul 3D Fencing, a freeware game that runs way too fast to have much strategy beyond button mashing (but perhaps some of you might have better luck), and an abandonware game called budokan game that had a bit of 2D kendo in it. Finally, I think there was an SNES game that had kendo in it, but you used your shinai in 2D to kill monsters.

[Sparv]

Also, Med II was weak. AI was apalling. Shogun is still better.

You son of a Troll! Shogun's AI is even worse than Medieval's.
The game is already hard enough not to need a strong AI ;) .


Leon Paul 3D Fencing, a freeware game

Do you have a link? I googled it, and didn't get any useful result.

[Mr. T.]

I remember the good old days, when folks used to go outside and you know,


do stuff.

You old geezer :laugh:

You make me feel, young again :confused: Uhhh, I'm that old allready, damn :eek:























OK, never mind, I guess it's bed time. :confused2

[SamuelRiv]

Leon Paul Fencing is at http://www.leonpaul.com/download/games.htm

Budokan is at http://abandonia.com/en/games/1/Budokan+-+The+Martial+Spirit.html

The SNES game is "Kendo Rage", available to download at http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/54096/snes204/Kendo-Rage.html and a video of play are at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqnVSnGhdU8

For JK: Jedi Academy, you'll have to go to your favorite bittorrent tracker. A tad illegal, but the game is a tad too old to find a seller.

[Badger]

In kendo rage... There doesn't seem to be a lot of kendo.

[MAZ77]

Leon Paul Fencing is at http://www.leonpaul.com/download/games.htm

Budokan is at http://abandonia.com/en/games/1/Budokan+-+The+Martial+Spirit.html

The SNES game is "Kendo Rage", available to download at http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/54096/snes204/Kendo-Rage.html and a video of play are at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqnVSnGhdU8

For JK: Jedi Academy, you'll have to go to your favorite bittorrent tracker. A tad illegal, but the game is a tad too old to find a seller.

I loved budokan. I had it back on my PC when it came out. Took me 4 months to beat. My least favorite (before i even knew of kendo) was having to fight with kendo. Plus the game made it look really horsey and you moved SOO slow. I liked the tonfa.

[imouto]

I remember the good old days, when folks used to go outside and you know,


do stuff.

So umm, you don't go out and do stuff anymore? That is a shame.
:laugh:

[Maku-san]

Grandson has most of the Star Wars games for PS2. I kicked his a** on them many times and I don't play at all (he, on the other hand, camps out daily in front of that infernal machine).

Goes to show that age and cunning will ALWAYS beat youth and skill. :D

[Maku-san]

My grandson has most, if not all, of the Star Wars games for Playstation. I've kicked his a** on them many times. Considering the fact that I don't play AT ALL and he does (practically camps out daily in front of that infernal machine), I think I do purty well! :D

Goes to show that age and cunning will ALWAYS beat youth and skill. :D

Mark :beard:
a.k.a. Obi-wan Boyardee, Jedi Master of the Canned Italian Cuisine

[Kenzan]

Goes to show that age and cunning will ALWAYS beat youth and skill. :D


And if by that you mean "Unplugging the little crumb-snatchter's controller when he isn't looking"....



Then AWWWRIIGHT.
lol

:D

[Dervish]

In kendo rage... There doesn't seem to be a lot of kendo.

That game looks a lot like the Valis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis_%28video_game%29) series.

[Kendoka_Han]

Who here wouldn't love to see a kendo game on the wii? How awesome would that be?
From the game play I've seen with sword in games like red steel it is plausible.

It is, if the developers would take the time to implement inverse kinematics with matrix functions, since the controllers are of a Geo-sync 2D acceleration measurements, and not fully 3D (because you cant get pure "3D" control anyways), but due to the infra-red it makes it an artificial 3D calculation.


Could it possibly even help us train?

Doubt it. Unless you have a big enough room, with a 270* degree TV with the controller in a real shinai. What about taking hits back?

50% realism at best I reckon. But it can be done.

[Maku-san]

And if by that you mean "Unplugging the little crumb-snatchter's controller when he isn't looking"....



Then AWWWRIIGHT.
lol

:D

Orrrrr.... press every bloody button combination there is under the sun very fast and hope at least one will offer a neat-o action that lays his player flat on his arse. Oh, and like I once told him, "Make sure you pick the Big Gorilla of all the characters and give him a massive stick." :laugh: