No longer a Wii-virgin...need your help on best games for:
- driving
- horror
- FPS
- action/adventure
- yer flat-out favorite
Not gonna be doing online (methinks).
Some rationale and a replay rating would be cool to hear too!
These will mainly be played by a 'mature' middle-aged kid :poly142:
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- horror
- FPS
- action/adventure
- yer flat-out favorite
Not gonna be doing online (methinks).
Some rationale and a replay rating would be cool to hear too!
These will mainly be played by a 'mature' middle-aged kid :poly142:
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edit: My Wii doesn't get much play. It is more of a Mario, Metroid & Zelda box. So yeah Super Mario Galaxy is tons of fun. Zelda might look a bit dated but it's good.
edit 2: Wii Sports Resort for the Frisbee Golf. More of a party game with others over as you drink away.
After a few months you'll realize the wii is a piece of shit and there are almost no fun games around for it.
Wii fit is fun however with some friends and beer around. You just fall off that damn thing!
Twilight Princes for sure.
Punchout is awesom.
Band Hero is a blast.
THere are some fun games to get off wii ware, like Lost winds and Lost winds 2
As mentioned the Metroid bundle.
hmmm what else,
I suppose the Mario Titles are good too. Not really a fan of the new one it's a bit complicated, but I play with my kids so that's a factor.
I hear Resident Evil 4 is bad ass on the wii.
I have also wanted to try the New Cabella's big game hunter, hahahaha. It looks cool shut up.
Wii Fit is fun too.
Also get Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year Door - it's a GameCube game, but much better than anything to have been released on the Wii, IMO.
That's pretty much all the decent Wii games on one list. Don't forget to dive into the back catalog of Gamecube games, as there's some gold still in there.
Disclaimer: I don't have a Wii, and don't plan on getting one.
House of the Dead 2 and 3 are fun too play, just for the laughable voiceovers (games not THAT bad either)
Wii Play is fun just for the pool...
That Cabela's game isn't too bad, if you MUST play it though, get it on 360.
Bass Pro Shop's The Strike is fun (But my second love is fishing so you may not think so)
Twilight Princess bored the crap outta me, and I love Zelda games so take that for what its worth...
That's about all I have for the Wii. I have the Wii sports and Fit, but those get old REAL quick.
- The second starfox game for GC is awesome so far (NOT the one with dinosaurs)
- Megaman/MegamanX collection if you can find them
- That FZero game, sooooo fast
Have fun!
Resident Evil 4 (WAAAY better with the Wii Mote)
Metroid
galaxy is decent aswell, just couldnt be bothered to find all the stuff unlike with the new mario bros.
zelda is sweet and mario cart is always good if you have people around.
Anyway:
Smash Bros Brawl
Okami
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Zack and Wiki
No More Heroes
Mario Galaxy
Any of the lightgun games. I have Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles and it stroked my Resident Evil boner just fine before any other games came out. If you're not a fan you probably want Dead Space: Extraction or House of the Dead overkill, which I also plan to get. Come to think of it, I wish they did a port of the original Area51, I played so much of that in crappy arcades.
Future purchases, if it helps:
Muramasa the demon Blade
Dead Space Extraction
House of the Dead Overkill
New Super Mario Bros
Twilight Princess
Has anyone played it?
Other games I highly suggest:
Dokapon Kingdom: Lesser known Atlus game, but INCREDIBLE amounts of addictive fun. It's what would happen if a JRPG and Mario Party had a baby... a cracked-out, AMAZING, hilarious baby.
Speaking of Mario Party, Mario Party is a great game too if you want a fun game to play with friends
Wii Sports & Wii Sports Resort are good fun
Paper Mario is a good suggestion, along with Okami, Twilight Princess, Muramasa, Metroid Prime, and of course the new Super Mario Bros is a must (IF you can find a copy). Punch-out is really good too, so I've heard.
super paper mario
mario galaxy & galaxy 2 (coming soon)
new super mario bros (great fun with 4 of you on screen)
Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker
Speedball 2
Cannon Fodder VS Sensible Soccer
I just got this. Absolutely love it. Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned.
Developed by the same group that did Godhand and Bayonetta
Mario Galaxy
Twilight Princess
The Metroid Trilogy
Resident Evil 4
Wii Sports Resort
Raving Rabbids TV Party
Okami
Dokapon Kingdom
and the new Punch Out is awesome!
Also pick up some classic NES and SNES games in the VC store, and you should be busy for quite a while. I suggest The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
Ooops...forgot the Boom Blox games. Those are good fun too. Like many Wii games, even better with friends.
Thanks for all of the feedback dewds and dewdettes!
I'm going to start with Resident Evil 4 (since I kinda gravitate to
shooters) for now and work my way thru the lists...don't think
the wife will have as much fun with RE as me, but she seems to dig
the basic 'sports' so far...so maybe 'Resort' next.
Grazie again for all the titles and advice!
It's Nintendo, what are you expecting, seriously? They aren't known for their "gamer" type games, their known for being bubbly, cute, convenient, and being able to throw the same 20 characters into hundreds of different games that don't typically make a whole ton of sense.
The Wii accomplishes this.
Nintendo have always made games for gamers, marios and metroids and zeldas are pretty harcore when you go to actually play them. The trouble is Nintendo are always the only ones to make the best games on their consoles, and the only ones to really utilize the tech, plus only to stick to the cutesy and the already well established.
They must do something to scare other devs away, or have a clause which tells anyone they are not allowed to make any games better than them.
I think its well known that they arent making a shit ton off of games not compared to the other consoles. They arent making the games that the buyers want otherwise the sales of the games would be higher.
It doesnt take a genius to work out they just need to keep making the games they've made before or games similar to the other consoles, but with more fluid controls, not gimmicky controls.
The games are a little shallow but the real innovation here is they have captured the casual gamers market, and brought an unconventional control device to the mainstream - and made it work - where so many other peripherals fail (sega!)
I haven't gotten too far into the game, but from what I did play I was very pleased with the integration of the motion controls. I have only ever played the first Metroid Prime game, so that was the one I started off with on the Trilogy. The controls don't take very long to get used to, and are quite intuitive. They are a good fit for the explorative nature of the game.
I also picked up a copy of Punch Out at Game Crazy. It's Punch Out. It is very much like the original NES game, only with much cleaner 3D animations, sound effects, and interface. The core game has not changed. (for many of us, this can be considered a good thing)
Anyway, for a recommendation, since I'd never played the other 3D Metroid games, the trilogy was a great buy and extremely fun to play.