Got me thinking into one of those questions you make when you’re bored: “what would you loose, a leg or an arm?” For me, it would be my left leg. If I still had my right leg I could still drive and play drums (except for opening/closing the hi hat but than can be fixed with a second hi-hat) and play most videogames with ease. Loosing an arm would seeeeriously limit my hobby.

Now with that random thought out of the way, what are some of the Wii games you have trouble controlling?

I can try and compare like this: the Classic Controller is like a Keyboard on a computer… you have no problem pushing buttons with both hands just like you have no problem typing with fingers on both hands. However unless you’re ambidextrous I doubt you can write very well with your “off” hand or throw a baseball with it. Think of the Wiimote as handicapping me with either the choice of writing/pitching with my “off” hand or going against the game design (on games that don’t allow left/right handed choices) and forcing my brain/fingers to go against everything I’ve been doing for 24+ years of gaming.

When they designed the Wiimote/Nunchuck… they broke apart a standard controller so you could hold each half in a hand. The problem for me… is that they designed it for right handed people (which obviously they would, as most people are right handed).

There are a few things that I do like, pointing at starbits to grab them, pointing at stars and clicking to pull myself toward them, a few little joys that a classic controller couldn’t do that they wisely stuck in.