G C
- 1080° Snowboarding
- Animal Crossing
- Custom Robo
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Tales of Symphonia
- Viewtiful Joe 1 & 2
W i i
- Animal Crossing: City Folk
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
- MadWorld
- Metroid Prime Trilogy
- Muramasa: The Demon Blade
- Okami
- Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
any to recommend?
Wii:
- Opoona
- Fragile Dreams
- MaBoShi (Wiiware, pirate it)
- Another Code R (Play the DS title first! Europe only)
- Disaster Day of Crisis (Europe only)
- Dokapon Kingdom (With friends only)
- Elebits
- Geometry Wars: Galaxies
- Kirby's Return to Dream Land
- The Last Story
- Little King's Story
- Mercury Meltdown Revolution (A little crashy however)
- No More Heroes 1 and 2
- Sin and Punishment: Star Successor
- Super Paper Mario
- The 3 Trauma Center games
- Wii Sports Resort (Needs Wii Motion+)
- Xenoblade
- Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
- Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth (Wiiware, pirate it)
And that's just what I've played. The One Piece games are fantastic collect-a-thons for example
More:
https://vsrecommendedgames.fandom.com/wiki/Wii
No joke, I read about that game in Nintendo Power prior to it's release (yes, I read Nintendo Power in 2006), and pre-ordered it, second Wii game I owned after Twilight Princess.
I still own the little plush Elebit they gave out with pre-orders, I don't immediately know where it is, but it's definitely at my parents house somewhere.
Elebitplush.jpg
Game is actually a pretty fantastic play, it's not much, but that not much is fun as hell
The Wii truly was the last bastion of mid-tier games made by big devs. The console has a shitload of fantastic gems like this that was generally ignored by the big press back then during the dumb AAA gold rush
Still have these tracks in my phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJIcvYmvkXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKTWYrCG24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R6XI1pIJcg
@coolboymew @indigo @coyote
>The Wii truly was the last bastion of mid-tier games made by big devs. The console has a shitload of fantastic gems like this that was generally ignored by the big press back then during the dumb AAA gold rush
Too bad most of it was buried under a mountain of shovelware, but that's a guarantee for any insanely popular console. However, I think the Wii was more egregious since it has the motion control gimmick, so every no-name casual dev was throwing everything they can at it just to see what would stick.
I agree that the Wii was the last bastion of mid-tier gaming though. It probably helps that it was on a technical level of the sixth generation of consoles (the last good console generation), and despite being the first Nintendo console with a somewhat in-depth online, it wasn't a victim of the cancers that came with it like microtransactions.
My biggest regret with the system was not buying anything off the Wii Shop Channel because the VC was never good since. Plus, there are clearly some hidden gems on WiiWare that are never brought up.
The Rebirth games, MaBoShi (I cannot stress this one enough), Madstones, Pokemon Rumble (Yet to beat this Mewtwo fucker) and probably a few others that even the /v/ wiki missed, there was some decent stuff on there
I'm surprised they even got Dive: The Medes Island Secret. I used to pirate Wiiware games for the heck of it, and while there was a lot of trash, there were some surprising games too
@coolboymew @indigo @coyote
I heard that they had some very strict file size limit, but that was understandable given the limited amount of internal storage the Wii had, so it's no big surprise that most of it was shovelware trash, but it was really cool to see Nintendo opening up to indies years before the whole indie craze happened in the early 2010s.
>I used to pirate Wiiware games for the heck of it
Oh yeah. I also regret not modding it, but it was my family's console and I didn't want to brick it. The Wii seemed to have one of the most vibrant homebrew scenes, maybe besides the PSP, DS, and Dreamcast.
The Wii is as easy as ever to hack with Letterbomb I believe
We hacked it very early and it was nice to play burnt games here and there, but I still tried to purchase what I wanted
I believe the Wii U is even better for emulation now? Especially due to the gamepad. How easy is that to pirate?
@coolboymew @indigo @coyote I heard Nintendo tried to update the Wii U a while back just to stop piracy even though they were supposed to be done with updates on that system.
@coolboymew @indigo @coyote It just goes to show that Nintendo would go out of their way to stop piracy and homebrew even on their obsolete consoles.
@coolboymew @indigo @coyote You could probably say the same with the original Wii though. Most recent release was back in July 2020. I don't know why it's still being supported. Most of them have probably been collecting dust for years in people's closets.
@coolboymew @indigo @coyote There's also Let's Sing and re-releases of Retro City Rampage. Just checking the Wikipedia list, it seems like only Australia and parts of Asia are getting new releases.The strangest being Spongebob Truth or Square since that's a tie-in for a ten year old TV special. I guess it's a budgeted re-release or something like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games
The last official PS2 game was released in 2013 after all.
@indigo @coyote @coolboymew The Wii is outlasting the PS2 now, but I doubt it's going to be around for much longer. I think Nintendo only kept it alive because the Wii U wasn't doing well and the Wii was obviously insanely popular. But with the recent success with the Switch, I don't see any justifications for keeping it alive at this point. I'm pretty sure the homebrew community will continue making games for it if there is a demand.
As a side note, Nintendo's gotten way worse about the planned scarcity stuff recently so if you want any Nintendo stuff produced in the last few years get it while you can (I should be taking my own advise here seeing as I still do not own a Switch).
@indigo @coyote @coolboymew
>also anticipate Wii games are going to shoot up in price soon too, they already have to a certain extent.
Wii games shot up in price back during quarantine. I guess people tend to feel nostalgic during extreme boredom and isolation, or it's just those who weren't lucky enough to get Ring Fit Adventures for the Switch and were looking for an exercise game. Right now, it seems like 6th gen consoles are the ones people want to go back to as kids who grew up with them are now adults. I think we need to wait a few years until it's the same with the 7th gen (possibly even more because it lasted much longer).
It gets more subtle every cycle though. When the generation that grew up on NES came of age it was 8-BIT everything, everywhere, that was game related. With the world how it is now though, and the lack of the same intersection between demographic age and disposable income that was present in the early 2000's, I don't think nostalgia pandering/marketing will never hit that pitch again, atleast as far as gaming is concerned.