The best reasons to own a Wii, as decided by me

in response to "what exactly is it about"

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The gameplay, same as with a normal controller.  Controls are just something to be utilized that can enhance this.

Well thats "official"

The wii is a joke. I have owned and sold 2 wiis. If I was a gamer on a budget I would never have bought a wii. I bought the first off of hype, and sold it due to no games. Then bought another one when SMG came out. After I beat smg and a few other games it just collected dust. I needed money for a clutch and sold it. I will never buy another one, IM sure there will be a few good games here and there just like the GC but they are so spaced out its not worth it. Having a 360/ps3 I dont see the need to ever have a wii. 

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The Wii has definately gotten a lot of crap in recent months (or years, depending on who you are talking to), but it already has a pretty great lineup of hardcore games, especially if you include Madworld, which comes out tomorrow and has recieved a 9.0 from IGN.

Please let me know what you think, and whether or not i left anything obvious out.

Great games for Wii, as measured by whether or not they are better than Lost Odyssey *lol* (these are the ones that are already available)

Super Smash Bros Brawl

Super Mario Galaxy

Metroid Prime 3:Corruption

Nights Into Dreams

No More Heroes!!!

Zack and Wiki

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Mario Strikers Charged (Sparked a love for Soccer in this gamer)

Games that benefit most from the unique Wii control scheme

Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition

Madden 2009 (I don't actually own it, but I own 07 and i've played the awesome changes in 09)

Okami

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Medal of Honor Heroes 2

Upcoming Awesomeness

Madworld

The Conduit

Disaster Day of Crisis

Monster Hunter 3 tri

Arc Rise Fantasia

Muramasa: The Demon blade (For gods sake port Odin Sphere already!!!)

No More Heroes 2

Sin and Punishment 2

Fatal Frame Mask of the Lunar Eclipse

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Fair enough Kratos81, but i for one have really enjoyed the games Nintendo has made over the years. There is something about a Nintendo game that is different from other games, and it makes the games fun for me. I can see how someone starved for FPS or in need of a powerful system with great graphics would want something else, and thats why i bought a 360. but i don't think i could ever go without a Nintendo console, unless they really start only making Wii Fit and Sports and such.

Wolverine, I'm not saying that there aren't good reasons to get a 360, im just saying these are the best reasons to own a wii. Buy both if you want to. The 360 has some great (exclusive) stuff too. 

Okay, here's a simple way to put it.

Good Controls =/= good gameplay

Good gameplay = fun

True, but I never said the game didn't have good gameplay. I said that graphics don't matter as much on the Wii. It not only has good controls, but also good gameplay. And I'm suprised you are championing gameplay when you go gaga over lost odessey and blue dragon.

"True, but I never said the game didn't have good gameplay. I said that graphics don't matter as much on the Wii. It not only has good controls, but also good gameplay. And I'm suprised you are championing gameplay when you go gaga over lost odessey and blue dragon."

The lack of Ninjabread Man on this list makes me psychotically depressed. :*(

Thats an interesting way to look at gameplay, though i can't say i agree with your definition. After all, Super Mario Bros has pretty bad graphics, yet people still love it because the gameplay is strong. On the flip side, Lair was a beautiful game, but it was almost unplayable. Adding up all of the features of the game, like gameplay, controls, replay value, graphics, and story, is how you determine the quality of a game, and the importance of each of those pieces varies with each genre. 

There is almost no Wii game I'm interested in this coming year. 

I'm on the "no Wii for me" side. I just listed my Wii in the paper for sale, because it sits on the shelf collecting dust. After the intial "gee-whiz" factor of the motion controls wears off, and the lack of quality games for "core" gamers sinks in, there's really no point in owning one.  That's marketing hype at its finest.

"I'm on the "no Wii for me" side. I just listed my Wii in the paper for sale, because it sits on the shelf collecting dust. After the intial "gee-whiz" factor of the motion controls wears off, and the lack of quality games for "core" gamers sinks in, there's really no point in owning one.  That's marketing hype at its finest."

Your list lacks excite.

Oh how I wish I could agree. Anyway, now that my 2nd 360 broke, I'm giving my Wii another shot. It's been completely rejected for approximately 8 months. If you ask me, none of the sequel games I've played on Wii are as good as their Gamecube counterparts. Yes, I am even saying that Super Mario Sunshine is a better game than Super Mario Galaxy. Twilight Princess was solid overall, but failed to be the true next-gen Zelda experience we were all hoping for, as it relied far too heavily on the series tried-and-true mechanics, could be frustrating as heck because of some poor design choices, and had some dumb new ideas that proved to be an annoyance. Despite all that, it's still worth playing no doubt, but far from my choice of the best Zelda game. Metroid Prime 3 may be the only Gamecube game I've played that I can fully respect. It's fantastic. Not quite as good as Metroid Prime 1, but considering that Metroid Prime was one of the best games of last gen and of all time, that's hardly a criticism. The game did get a little repetitive at times, and I'm still not convinced that it wouldn't have worked as well on a traditional controller, but I tip my hat to it either way. Okay, well I'm not going to sit here and continue to ramble on about the Wii, but in truth, it's time I give it another go. There's some interesting games I missed and a few upcoming ones I should pay more attention to.

Right now, I'm currently wanting to get my hands on de Blob, Endless Ocean, Mario Kart Wii, No More Heroes, House of the Dead: Overkill, Zack & Wiki, and now Madworld. Probably a few others too. Maybe I'll give Smash Bros Brawl another shot, though I found it to be instantly boring before because I felt it was like so much of the same game I played way too much of on the Gamecube, Smash Bros Melee. I tried out Okami (it was a game I missed on PS2 I always wanted to play) and had a pretty decent time with it, though I'm not sure I'd rent it again. I can't lie. As much as I was disappointed with what little they've done with Animal Crossing: City Folk... I'm kind of tempted to play it. Animal Crossing is probably my most-played games of all time. I could pull out my GC version and play that free, but I think I ought to at least rent City Folk. There you have it. TheGreatGuero is turning over a new leaf. He will use these desperate 360-less times to go back to his Wii.

i was going to buy a wii at launch but then i realized that it is a piece of shit when i played it at my cousins house

my cousin owns the best wii games, he realized it was crap and bought a ps3
He never plays wii, my other friend owns a wii but never plays it

its a garbage system, if you say grapics don't matter your on crack because the wii's gameplay with the shitty motion controls dont make up for it

if you say grapics don't matter your on crack because the wii's gameplay with the shitty motion controls dont make up for it"

I decided that the original Paper Mario on the Virtual Console is way worth it.

"Th3_James said:

if you say grapics don't matter your on crack because the wii's gameplay with the shitty motion controls dont make up for it"

In response to that I will say graphics don't matter, but gameplay does first and foremost, and that is where the Wii fails hardest. "

Well yeah, there are a lot of great games on the VC. I probably have way too many, and still need more. 

Whatchu talkin bout willis?  Madden SUCKS ASS on the Wii

Are you kidding? I've played Madden so much on the Wii that I'm controlling 7 different teams in franchise mode, and know most of their stats. I think i'm in the year 2020 on Madden 07 right now, and I'm so jealous of the improvements made in 09, like the Call Your Shots thing where you draw up routes on the fly using the pointer. Not to mention its one of the few games to get motion control right. Hiking, passing, and stiff-arms all work great!

The REAL only reason to own a Wii:

"Kratos81 said:

"Th3_James said:

"TheGreatGuero said:

"Th3_James said:

if you say grapics don't matter your on crack because the wii's gameplay with the shitty motion controls dont make up for it"

In response to that I will say graphics don't matter, but gameplay does first and foremost, and that is where the Wii fails hardest. "

the wii's gameplay is bad, but i am saying that graphics are very important for a games story telling, Emerson, and believability oblivion and fallout 3 wouldn't be as good if they were on the wii, and those games have okay graphics"

I really wish nintendo would have grown up with me.  A HD zelda with and a actual combat system would be awesome. The closet zelda ever had to a combat system was wind waker, my favorite zelda in the series. Tp was a joke on the wii wrist waggle for the sword=fail."

I have a feeling that the next Wii Zelda will do a much better job in the sword-swinging department, especially if it incorperates Motionplus."

"The wii is a joke. I have owned and sold 2 wiis. "

There is no doubt about it that Nintendo dropped the ball with the Wii Remote. They could have done something really special, if they had simply included the tech found in the Motion Plus. imagine how much better Red Steel would have been. Imagine what Zelda could have been. However, that doesn't make the games that use the current remote effectively any worse.

The fact that every first party Nintendo game is on the Wii makes it impossible for me to dislike the system. Metroid and Brawl alone won me over, everything else (Virtual Console, all of the game that are coming this year) is icing on the cake. A whole lot of icing.

I play my 360 more, though.

Edit: When I put "person" I meant "party".

The Wii has definately gotten a lot of crap in recent months (or years, depending on who you are talking to), but it already has a pretty great lineup of hardcore games, especially if you include Madworld, which comes out tomorrow and has recieved a 9.0 from IGN.

Please let me know what you think, and whether or not i left anything obvious out.

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I didn't add Mario Kart Wii or Animal Crossing because both are better on DS, and i didnt add Paper Mario because i didn't like any of the paper mario games.

The Wii is a good side console to have with the high end machines, I can always go back to the wii to find something to play, right now i downloaded Ogre Battle, because that game was the shit back then, and it still holds up well today.

The reason why the Wii is a good console is because of its options and variety. You don't have to play the Wii games if you don't want to, the fact that its one system that can allow you to play Neo geo, nes, snes, n64,Master system, genesis, turbo graphic 16, and comedore 64 of all things not to mention gamecube games and WiiWare games, onto ONE console without the need to running emulators is a plus in my book. Sure yes it may collect dust for some time in between "major" releases but it still has some options for you to go back through and play. Only big downfall to the system is that it's memory is qutie small and could have at least put a 2 gig memory in there.

I'm not going to say its a better console then the 360 or ps3, and im not going to say that the 360 or ps3 is better than the Wii, because they are different types of systems, and I know I won't be able to convince some of you people and your bullshit highschool thinking on the matter either, but for what the system is, it is a good console. Period.

The best reason to not bother with a Wii, as decided by me....

• I bought one.
• Didn't use it since there were no good games.
• Sold it.

"Th3_James said:

 i have fond memories of zelda, and would like to see a graphically amazing zelda with awesome physics "

Quoted because it made me laugh."

I love how anyone who says anything bad about the Wii is getting negative ratings. Seems to me like somebody here is getting their feelings hurt. Awwwwwww. :'(

Really? everyone on this second page has a 0 or higher rating.

"Super Mario RPG"

i think you could probably still get a decent price for it AnimZero, though you are right that it won't be worth as much. I'd recommend just keeping it. I'll bet that Chrono Trigger demand dropped after the DS port too. Not to mention the VC just got Ogre battle.

I only got a Wii because I was given a gift certificate from my boss before Christmas and nothing really to spend it on. I am really glad I got one, and disappointed I didnt get one earlier. I have had a ball playing such games as No More Heroes, Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess etc. Even Wii Sports and Fit etc. I still would have gotten a PS3 and a 360 before getting a Wii but i shouldnt have disregarded it the way I did up til 2-3 months ago.