Topic: Recommendations for the Wii

[Lunar Knight Zeke]

Today's my birthday and I'm finally gonna be getting the Wii. I was wondering if you guys know of any games I should consider getting for the Wii, besides some of the obvious choices like Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii and such.

[HyperSonicEXE]

Well now, that would depend upon your definition of 'obvious choices', so I'll just list 'em all for the sake of posterity.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Kart Wii
Super Mario Galaxy
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (good for one play)
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (good for one play)
Super Paper Mario (good for one play)

Tiger Woods PGA Tour '10
Wii Play
Zack and Wiki
Metal Slug Anthology

Wii Points Card(s) (for various downloadable games)

[Emiri Landeel]

Grab a Wii points card, then buy Megaman 9 and Contra Rebirth.

[VixyNyan]

To the people who says Wii doesn't have games.

A Boy & His Blob
Arc Rise Fantasia
Boom Blox: Bash Party
Bust-A-Move Bash! / Puzzle Bobble Bash!
Bust-A-Move Plus! / Puzzle Bobble Wii
Captain Rainbow
Castle of Shikigami III
Castlevania Judgment
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop
Disaster: Day of Crisis
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 / Sparking! Neo
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 / Sparking Meteor
Dragon Ball: Tenkaichi Daibouken
Dragon Quest X
Elebits
Excite Bots: Trick Racing
Excite Truck
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon
Godzilla Unleashed
Harvest Moon: Animal Parade
Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
Koronipa: Marble Madness
Marble Story: Kororinpa / Marble Saga: Kororinpa
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
Let's Tap!
Link's Crossbow Training
Little King’s Story
Mad World
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Strikers Charged
Mario Super Sluggers
Metal Slug Anthology
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Metroid: Other M
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis
New Play Control! Pikmin
New Play Control! Pikmin 2
New! Super Mario Bros. Wii
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams
No More Heroes
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Okami
Phantom Brave: We Meet Again
Pikmin 3
Pokemon Battle Revolution
Punch-Out!!
Puyo Puyo 7
Rabbids Go Home
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Red Steel
Red Steel 2
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil
Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil 0
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
Rune Factory Frontier
Samba de Amigo
Samurai Shodown Anthology
Sin and Punishment 2
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Sonic and the Black Knight
Sonic and the Secret Rings
Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
Sonic Unleashed
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Paper Mario
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou
Suzumiya Haruhi no Heiretsu
Super Swing Golf / Swing Golf Pangya
Super Swing Golf Season 2 / Swing Golf Pangya 2nd Shot!
Taiko no Tatsujin Wii
Takt of Magic
Tales of Graces
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars (Cross Generation of Heroes)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
TMNT
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return
The House of the Dead: Overkill
The King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga
The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda (New Announced Game)
Wario Land: Shake It!
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
Wii Play
Wii Sports
Wii Sports Resort
Yatterman Wii: Bikkuridokkiri Machine de Mou Race da Koron
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

If you want Virtual Console games, click the country you want.
If you want Wii Ware games too, click the country you want.

I can narrow down some VC and Wii Ware games that you should have later. You can look at the ones I own right here.

I'm glad I could help nya~ ^^

[Solar]

They'll just say "lol casual/port/it sucks," anti-Nintendo fanboys will never admit they're wrong =/

Good list, but I see a lack of SNK titles.

[TheDivine]

To the people who says Wii doesn't have games.

It has games, it just doesn't have games that are fun for more than a half hour.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Should only be played on Gamecube.

[VixyNyan]

Gamecube version is the only one I have. No problems here. ^^

[Hypershell]

Well, let's see, here's my list of recommendations.

First of all, the "obvious" ones.  You absolutely can't go wrong.
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Punch-Out!!
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Here are my other favorites among those I own:
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - Length, challenge, great story.  Will keep you busy for a very, very long time.
Excite Truck - Don't own 'bots yet, but this one's worth a look regardless for one reason: custom soundtracks.  Love the adrenaline rush.
Godzilla Unleashed - If you're any kind of giant monster fan, this game is the ultimate.  Suffers some text and sound bugs, but otherwise gold, no matter what those idiots at IGN say.  Biollante alone is worth the price tag.
Mario Kart Wii - Definitely buy *IF* you intend to play online.  The CPU is the worst ever, but the game is also Nintendo's best online presentation.
Metroid Prime 3 - Rocks all socks, but at this point you probably want to wait for Trilogy.
Any "Rayman Raving Rabbids" game - They are all incredibly awesome, best party games ever.  TV Party is perhaps the weakest due to a poorly organized menu, but it's frikkin hilarious all the same.
Sonic and the Secret Rings - Great stage design, can't complain too much with this one.
Super Paper Mario - You spend an excessive amount of time in menus switching characters and pixls, but other than that, incredible game.

[Gotham Ranger]

I can't help but notice Vixy more or less posted every title that isn't a minigame collection or shovelware crap.

[Hypershell]

I hate to speak against Vix, but I have to object to NiGHTS up there.  I hated that game.  And the sad thing is, even though I never got to play the original, I could still see the potential of the core mechanics in Journey of Dreams.  But they just bog it down with too much mandatory minigame crap, not to mention Sega designed perhaps the worst Wii remote pointer setup I have ever seen.  When I got to the part where NiGHTS turns into a raft, I thought "that's it, boss fight was awesome, but it's not worth this".

Should only be played on Gamecube.

[tornado fang] that, I enjoy my four item slots.

That being said, it'd be nice if the sun didn't come up in the west.  But that's a pretty minor complaint.

[VixyNyan]

I noticed the bosses were almost the same throughout the game, with different obstacles to push the boss through. The game has some down points to it, like the British voice acting, and the cutscenes are slow to watch. Loading between levels were a bit longer than usual too, but it isn't that painful. The original game is definitely better than this one, but this game still has a few points of goodness. Besides, I got the game under $10 bucks, so I didn't lose much for it. It's not a horrible game, but it still has some bad things that needs fixing. ^^;

I can't help but notice Vixy more or less posted every title that isn't a minigame collection or shovelware crap.

You mean I did a good job? o.o;

[Hypershell]

Almost.

*smacks Vixy with his magical talking fish*
No excuses for not listing Godzilla Unleashed.  I'm disappointed in you.

EDITS: Nevermind, that's better.

[VixyNyan]

No one gave me the chance to play it.

Posted on: July 18, 2009, 20:05:58You know, I wish that there really was a boot disc way to play games from other regions...

The Freeloader was great until Nintendo went the update path. I do want to be faithful to the 3rd parties and Nintendo by buying their games, but with the age of the internets, it just won't work like we want anymore. My Gamecube works perfectly for both USA and Japanese games with just a flip of a switch.

I'm too careful so that some of my systems won't break or brick, because I can't afford anymore systems if I mess up (unless I wait a few years. I had to wait 2 years until I could finally afford my own Wii, and have my parents yell at me in the process). So the other safe way is to wait until I can afford another Wii in the future.
That way I can hack it all I want. Kyahahahaha~!!

Huh, wasn't there a hack for the Wii that doesn't ask for a Twilight Princess disc to load? o.o;

[Protoman Blues]

Almost.

*smacks Vixy with his magical talking fish*
No excuses for not listing Godzilla Unleashed.  I'm disappointed in you.

EDITS: Nevermind, that's better.

*Force Grabs magical talking fish and smacks Shell with it*

PLAY SUPER MARIO GALAXY!

[Blackhook]

You and your new gen consoles.....I´m still happy with my NES of Famicon or whatever it is called in Europe....oh wait it´s broken  ....Well, there is still the commodore 64...oh wait I don´t know how to play games on that  .....I suck....
BTW why did Vixy list games that haven´t been released yet?

[Lunar Knight Zeke]

Okay I have an idea of what I'm getting, but I'm still open to suggestions. Thanks Vixy for the list of Wii Ware and Virtual Console games.

[Hypershell]

*Force Grabs magical talking fish and smacks Shell with it*

PLAY SUPER MARIO GALAXY!

*shoves a red-hot cactus up PB's nose*

PLAY MEGA MAN XTREME 2!

[Protoman Blues]

*shoves a red-hot cactus up PB's nose*

PLAY MEGA MAN XTREME 2!

NEVER!  MAKE THE CONTROLS BETTER!

[Blackhook]

It is better than X4-X7

[Protoman Blues]

It is better than X4-X7

From what I heard, the story might be.  The controls certainly are not.

[Gotham Ranger]

You mean I did a good job? o.o;

Fantastical job.

[Hypershell]

From what I heard, the story might be.  The controls certainly are not.

Lies.  One air-dash, and you know what Blackhook means.

[Protoman Blues]

Lies.  One air-dash, and you know what Blackhook means.

LoL, you mean to tell me that Air Dashing was better in the Xtreme games than X4-X7? 

On topic - I didn't see Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 up on that list.  I love that game.  It's just such a shame the online sucks so much.  Hopefully that's fixed with BT4.

[Hypershell]

LoL, you mean to tell me that Air Dashing was better in the Xtreme games than X4-X7? 

"Game" singular, Xtreme1 didn't air-dash.  And that is EXACTLY what I mean.

Default walking/dashing slashes started here.  You can one-two slash into infinity with the saber.  Cross-charge doesn't limit you nearly as much as X3.  Fastest and most seamless Scramble Change of the entire series.

On topic - I didn't see Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 up on that list.  I love that game.  It's just such a shame the online sucks so much.  Hopefully that's fixed with BT4.

I can only imagine.  I wasn't willing to pay fifty bucks for a yearly update, or at least not on DBZ.

[Protoman Blues]

I found BT3 to be SOOO much better that BT2.  It's just that the online sucked.