Personally, I wouldn't have but obviously it was your decision. The wii was my first and only current gen system up until Nov. in which I racked up around 15 games...Most of these were in fact first party, but included plenty third party ones also. Honestly, there are plenty of games on the system itself but few that seem worth the "risk" of trying, at least for me, so it has indeed been a while since I bought a game for the wii. The latest games I've been getting on my ps3 lately since its my newer console but I will be playing the wii again for MadWorld and a few others (if and when they are revealed) and when certain buddies come over...I want to try deadly creatures for example(its supposedly pretty good), but my funds aren't in great supply; I gotta get street fighter 4 and killzone 2...I'm loving variety..
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Eh, when a system has sucked for two years despite having every reason to succeed, I'm extremely wary of claims that "Oh well THIS is the year!".
If the Wii has some sort of major turnaround and a lot of good games come out for it (highly unlikely), I'll just buy another one. It's not like I lost any money on it when I sold it, thanks to Nintendo's artificial shortage. I felt the same way about my Gamecube DarkView! My problem with the Wii is that there really aren't any exciting titles on the horizon. I'd much rather have some extra cash for the hordes of awesome Xbox 360 titles that are available right now. | |
Silk, get Frontlines: Fuel of War.
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Jeff8500 wrote:
Yeah, what happened to the good ol' days when parents would buy their kids Halo and GTA? Also, you must not really like any good games :P. The Wii has Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and a few other good games. It's common sense that Nintendo would continue its best selling franchises, and that they would dominate the market, so if you didn't like those, why did you get a Wii? That was my bad, I didn't really write out what I meant that well. I understand that it is good to have video games for kids, but it seems it is all Nintendo has. I still think it would be cool if they created some fine action games that worked well with their controllers, as I stated before. It's not that I don't like good games (I mean, who hates good games?) it's just that I never got into games like Zelda or Metroid because I never played them, and by the time I wanted to try them out, they already released about 200 games for them, so I would have started later in the storyline. Games like Zelda, well, it's good to know everything about the story before diving into their 75th game. I do have Super Smash Bro's Brawl, that game is so damn fun, no doubt. It would be a lot better if they made better online modes. All they have for it is a small 2 minute match, I mean, really? They couldn't do anything better than that? Is it really that hard to have full online mode for that game? The game is also gets a bit boring after playing it for awhile (but that is all games). It's not like you can stop playing it and hop on another Wii game until you want to play it again, because the Wii doesn't really have a large selection of good games. I also have Super Mario Galaxy. I bought it awhile ago. It was pretty fun, but I felt like a child playing it (especially when my 5 year old cousin told me he plays it). They make their games to kiddy-like. That is fine and all, but like I said before, every console needs some action games for adults. Although, I can't get past the last 2 levels in the dark castle, so I stopped playing it a long time ago. | |
How about a hack & Slash stress release game like GTA, with alot of different weapons, and a lightsaber.
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Cavern, try playing some of the later Mario Galaxy levels. It really is a good addition to the mario series, after you've passed the tutorial (I.e., the first 50-75% of the game). And even the tutorial has some cool bits.
Other good games for the Wii - Super Paper Mario, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Brawl, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. I have noticed that most of the third-party stuff is shit, though, and they're really letting themselves down in the wireless department. Brawl wireless is just crap - even friend matches (Although that might just be my internets). Pokemon Battle Revolution wireless is poorly-designed, too, but the reasoning behind why it's poorly designed wouldn't make sense to anyone that isn't a pokemon nerd, so I'll leave it. :P I think what's happened is that the serious-business games developers were sort of wary of the Wii - because it's different to other consoles and Nintendo hadn't been selling very well for the last two generations. And then the Wii took off in some very nontraditional sectors - so all the shovelware developers jumped on the bandwagon, because there was a big audience of the people that play shovelware. And that sort of reinforced the whole lack-of-hardcore-gamer thing, so the serious developers did some stuff with the Wii - it does have a big audience, after all - but they essentially produced shovelware for it. Wii homebrew is reasonably awesome, though. Good things happening there. | |
Cavern wrote:
It's not that I don't like good games (I mean, who hates good games?) it's just that I never got into games like Zelda or Metroid because I never played them, and by the time I wanted to try them out, they already released about 200 games for them, so I would have started later in the storyline. Games like Zelda, well, it's good to know everything about the story before diving into their 75th game. (A slight digression, but meh) Actually, the storylines in most Zelda games are virtually stand-alone... Some of them make references to previous titles, and there are some connections made outside of the games in books, magazines, internet articles, etc. (for instance, there's a loose timeline of the order they each take place), but for the most part you can jump into the "series" with any single one of them, play them in any order, and be no worse off... In fact, the characters in most of the various games are even said to be entirely different "generations" of that character... As in, Link from one game might not actually be the same Link from another game (they may or may not be descended from each other, maybe they're some sort of reincarnation, or some such) This is basically a cop-out to explain why Link has to gather the same set of weapons/items over and over in each game ("I got the Boomerang in the last game! Why do I have to find it again?!" "Simple! This isn't the same Link!") There are a few cases where two versions are in fact directly sequential (IE, the same characters, the same time period, the storyline takes place after the previous one, etc.) but even in these cases, you're likely to be just fine playing the latter game with no knowledge of the events of the previous one... And in a few cases, the storyline of one game is actually more or less the same as another (for instance, the N64's "Ocarina of Time" is essentially a rehash of the SNES's "Link to the Past" when you look at the overall progression of the game, and its major featured themes) But anyways, the point is that there's no trouble in playing virtually any of the Zelda games without playing the ones before it... | |
On topic, though, I'm a bit conflicted about my Wii...
On one hand, there are a handful of games on the thing that I really enjoy, and some of them that are only possible on this console with its unique control scheme/gimmick... And the Virtual Console and WiiWare titles (and/or their potential) are incredible... One huge drawback here, though, is the system's limited internal storage and lack of fluid exchange between an inserted SD card and the console's internal space... I'd be perfectly happy with having to use supplemental storage, if only the Wii would read directly from the card, instead of having to transfer files manually into the Wii before being able to use them... It would be so much better to just be able to move downloaded Virtual Console titles onto a card, and play them directly from the card through the system, instead of having to shuffle files back and forth to access/store them... Also unfortunately, there is indeed a huge amount of shovelware from second-rate third party developers, and a real lack of earnest attempts to use the Wii's full potential... The thing could do some amazing things if only there were developers (outside of the Big N themselves) willing to focus on it... Just look at WarioWare... Even though the game consists of nothing but simplistic mini-games (mini-tasks?), it serves as a sort of demo of various ways in which the Wii's unique controls can be put to use... The trouble is, no one has seen fit to put most of them to good use in an actual full fledged game... So all in all, though I'm not angry at the system, or willing to part with it, I'm also not incredibly impressed, and actually a bit disappointed at all of the wasted potential... | |
Just be glad you never got a PS3. I hear they're still waiting for a flagship game too.
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Jp wrote:
Cavern, try playing some of the later Mario Galaxy levels. It really is a good addition to the mario series, after you've passed the tutorial (I.e., the first 50-75% of the game). And even the tutorial has some cool bits. Other good games for the Wii - Super Paper Mario, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Brawl, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. Oh man, I am an idiot. I meant that I have Super Paper Mario. Not Galaxy. Super Paper Mario is really fun, but like I said, I couldn't get past the last 2 levels in the dark castle, so I stopped playing. I might check out the Metroid game though. SuperSaiyanGokuX wrote: But anyways, the point is that there's no trouble in playing virtually any of the Zelda games without playing the ones before it... Okay, I think I will pick up Twilight Princess. I hear really great things about Zelda so I guess it couldn't hurt to start with this game. | |
Twilight Princess is a Gamecube game ported to the Wii.
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Cavern wrote:
Jeff8500 wrote: Well, I jumped right into Zelda: TP. It really isn't that hard to get, he's a country boy in Medieval-like times that gets thrust into a giant battle. It explains itself, I never played any other games in the franchise but the original, which I played on virtualnes.com. There are actually some pretty cool games coming out for the Wii, though. There's already No More Heroes, and Mad World is going to come out soon. Conduit looked interesting, but I didn't actually look into it; I just saw a few screenshots. | |
SuperAntx wrote:
Just be glad you never got a PS3. I hear they're still waiting for a flagship game too. I'd have to disagree..If anything, I'm waiting on the prices of some older games that I want to catch up on to come down...Noticed that the 360 has a lot of of the same games for a low price and plenty other cheap ones.. | |
Mecha Destroyer JD wrote:
I'd have to disagree..If anything, I'm waiting on the prices of some older games that I want to catch up on to come down...Noticed that the 360 has a lot of of the same games for a low price and plenty other cheap ones.. I wasn't really talking about the price, my brother has a PS3 so it's not like I have to go out and buy one. What I mean is they don't really have any good "flagship games" outside of MGS4 and the newly released Killzone 2. | |
Yeah I know, I was just referring to my own case really...Also, what do ya know..Dead Space prequel on wii...Could be fun..
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Jeff8500 wrote:
There are actually some pretty cool games coming out for the Wii, though. There's already No More Heroes... Meh. No More Heroes was crap. | |
Galaxy and Mario Kart is actually good u must suck at it this is why u hate them
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So it might have been bad to sell it.