Wii sports question/problems

[Goatboy]

Do you find it to be inconsistent?

I have (had) a pro rating in bowling built up over the weekend, best frame of 205.

Last night I played and couldn't hit a damn thing, I have a trusty fallback shot where I place the cursor in a certain position and do a slow throw, had something like a 70% strike rate with it. Last night not a single strike using it. No matter what I tried and how good the approach looked I was barely able to strike, one or two pins left every time, I tried everything!

Similar thing happened with baseball, from getting 7/10 home runs I was down to 2/10. Lots of fouls and things clipping the top of the bat.

I don't know if I somehow got drastically worse overnight or if it's the game?

I have a major gripe with two player boxing, punches don't register properly, I was jabbing away to the point of exhaustion and nothing registered at all. I was able to get body shots to register most of the time but 95% of the jabs I threw resulted in nothing. I've had no problem at all with the same thing in single player.

Anyone else?

 

[trojan698]

I don't have a Wii but prior Nintendo games always got harder the better you got. So if you're playing really well the AI would step up a notch to keep things interesting.

 

[VIRII]

I mentioned the lag / non registering punches in the boxing before.
However as it is only a mini game and not a real game I did not get too fussed by it.
I'd want more realism and accuracy from a £40 full game though.

 

[R0B75]

I've never played it and probably never will but with it being a game control by physical actions suggests that it is playing true to life. You cannot always be brilliant at something. Pro's don't hit home runs all the time and Pro bowlers don't get massive scores every time.

 

[DeFrEaTs]

Do you find it to be inconsistent?

I have (had) a pro rating in bowling built up over the weekend, best frame of 205.

Last night I played and couldn't hit a damn thing, I have a trusty fallback shot where I place the cursor in a certain position and do a slow throw, had something like a 70% strike rate with it. Last night not a single strike using it. No matter what I tried and how good the approach looked I was barely able to strike, one or two pins left every time, I tried everything!

Similar thing happened with baseball, from getting 7/10 home runs I was down to 2/10. Lots of fouls and things clipping the top of the bat.

I don't know if I somehow got drastically worse overnight or if it's the game?

I have a major gripe with two player boxing, punches don't register properly, I was jabbing away to the point of exhaustion and nothing registered at all. I was able to get body shots to register most of the time but 95% of the jabs I threw resulted in nothing. I've had no problem at all with the same thing in single player.

Anyone else?

I'd have to say that I'm 99% sure this is you. The same goes for 'real' sports. One minute you can be doing amazing, the next with the same technique you are laughably bad.

Practice makes perfect indeed, but we all have bad days.

As for the 70% strike tactic, it's surely a good thing that this doesn't work every time else the game would get very dull, very quickly.

 

[monkeyspank]

I know what you mean about the boxing but only when I was punching too fast. If I slowed down a bit pretty much all of the punches register. You have to make sure movements, of course.

Bowling is making my head hurt. I can't stop hooking the ball to the left now. I used to be able to send it both ways.

 

[Goatboy]

As for the 70% strike tactic, it's surely a good thing that this doesn't work every time else the game would get very dull, very quickly.

It was working, even people playing their very first go get spares on almost every shot after looping the ball up in the air and it rolling up to the pins, a single pin is far too easy to pick up.

 

[Windle]

Nah my girlfriend thought she'd found a surefire technique to get strikes, worked for quite a few games then didn't work. Not sure if it's the game adjusting, or just like real life sometimes you just get some bad games and don't get in the groove. You have to remember that it's pretty sensitive in Bowling with regards to movement of the wiimote.

 

[DEL 707]

Me and my bro had a pretty heavy bowling session tonight, he's actually pretty decent at it...damn the unemployed!

I thought the curling was down to the way the controller was held, but he actually showed me it was down to how straight the throw was, and sure enough, I can curl it left and right with little difficulty now

Any1 got any tips for boxing, was really getting into it early, hence, now I'm completly knackered.
How do you throw hooks, uppercuts etc...

 

[Kreeeee]

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[DEL 707]

Wish there was a way to record these fights.

Took out opponent no.6 with style.
Hit him with 2 nice body hooks, he came back with a jab which I matrix dodge and I finished him off with a left jab followed by a mean right hook.
Poor bugger flipped over before he hit the floor

My next opponent is skill lvl 773, but I gotta stop, my arms are killing me.