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TLZ

Banned
Someday in the future, Nintendo will release a "Nintendo Wii Mini" with 40 games and I'll buy it day one. I think it's my favorite Nintendo console, and it's certainly their best-selling, but among die hard Nintendo fans I feel like I am a minority in that opinion. Most people point to SNES, N64, or GC as their favs.
I'm genuinely curious to know why it's your favorite.
 

DunDunDunpachi

Patient MembeR
I'm genuinely curious to know why it's your favorite.
Feels like the furthest evolution of "arcade brought to your home TV". The pointer controls and overall theme of the system screamed 80s/90s arcade to me. The message and ambition of the system resonated with me. Some all-time greats like Sin & Punishment, Wii Sports Resort, Dead Space Extraction, and Resident Evil 4 are forever locked to the system (in my heart) until Nintendo revisits the concept someday.
 

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Resident Cheap Arse
Sod it, Challenge accepted:

List extracted just from my own collection:

Trauma Center: New Blood
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Red Steel 2
Muramasa
The Munchables
Project Zero 2
Opoona
Nights: Journey of Dreams
The Sky Crawlers
Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Skies
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New Wold
Zack and Wiki
Tatsunoko vs capcom: Ultimate All-stars
Kororinpa
Marbles Balance Challenge
Deadly Creatures
DeadSpace Extraction
Disaster Day of Crisis
Boom Blox
Boom Blox Bash Party
Ghost Squad
The House of the Dead: Overkill
Fragile Dreams
Bit Trip Complete
Fling Smash
Eledees
Let's Tap
A boy and his Blob
Another Code: R
Endless Ocean
Endless Ocean 2: Blue World
A Shadow's Tale
Pandora's Tower
The Last Story
Xenoblade Chronicles
Monster Hunter Tri
Eldar Saga
Resident Evil: The Dark Side Chronicles
Mad World
Little King's Story
Rodea; The sky Soldier (Wii version is the good one)
No More Heroes
No More Heroes 2
Donkey Kond Country Returns
Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Metroid Prime 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Warioware Smooth Moves
Wario Land: The Shake Dimension
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Sports Miz
Mario Strikers
Excite Truck
Excite Bots
Batallion Wars 2
Punch Out
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Kirby's Adventure Wii
Mario Kart Wii
 
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TexMex

Member
Sod it, Challenge accepted:

List extracted just from my own collection:

Trauma Center: New Blood
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Red Steel 2
Muramasa
The Munchables
Project Zero 2
Opoona
Nights: Journey of Dreams
The Sky Crawlers
Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Skies
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New Wold
Zack and Wiki
Tatsunoko vs capcom: Ultimate All-stars
Kororinpa
Marbles Balance Challenge
Deadly Creatures
DeadSpace Extraction
Disaster Day of Crisis
Boom Blox
Boom Blox Bash Party
Ghost Squad
The House of the Dead: Overkill
Fragile Dreams
Bit Trip Complete
Fling Smash
Eledees
Let's Tap
A boy and his Blob
Another Code: R
Endless Ocean
Endless Ocean 2: Blue World
A Shadow's Tale
Pandora's Tower
The Last Story
Xenoblade Chronicles
Monster Hunter Tri
Eldar Saga
Resident Evil: The Dark Side Chronicles
Mad World
Little King's Story
Rodea; The sky Soldier (Wii version is the good one)
No More Heroes
No More Heroes 2
Donkey Kond Country Returns
Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Metroid Prime 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Warioware Smooth Moves
Wario Land: The Shake Dimension
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Sports Miz
Mario Strikers
Excite Truck
Excite Bots
Batallion Wars 2
Punch Out
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Kirby's Adventure Wii
Mario Kart Wii


To each their own, and there are definitely some great games here - but some of these are massive stretches to be calling them "Great" games. Excite Truck? Let's Tap? C'monnnnnnnnnnnnnnn man c'monnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
 

belmarduk

Member
Does the Wii even have 40 great games?

The Wii had three of the best games of ever. Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 and then Twilight Princess. It also had Arc Rise Fantasia... which is a criminally underrated JRPG and Tales of Symphonia 2, which was absolutely a great game but probably most wouldn't agree at all. Mario Kart Wii was great but not terribly innovative. So that's 6?
 

TexMex

Member
The Wii had three of the best games of ever. Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 and then Twilight Princess. It also had Arc Rise Fantasia... which is a criminally underrated JRPG and Tales of Symphonia 2, which was absolutely a great game but probably most wouldn't agree at all. Mario Kart Wii was great but not terribly innovative. So that's 6?

I agree it has some great games. Just few and far between. Mine would be:

SMG 1/2
Twilight Princess
A Boy and His Blob
Mario Strikers
Prime Trilogy
Okami (best version)
Epic Yarn
DKC Returns
And still the best version of the Virtual Console
 

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Resident Cheap Arse
To each their own, and there are definitely some great games here - but some of these are massive stretches to be calling them "Great" games. Excite Truck? Let's Tap? C'monnnnnnnnnnnnnnn man c'monnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Excite Truck is awesome. One of the best racers of that generation.

Let's Tap is very much a party game. Play it solo and I'll agree it's not amazing, but with friends it's an absolute hoot and the tapping mechanic becomes frantic and hilarious which is what takes it into that category.
 
The Wii was my Metroid machine, nothing else. I played the shit out of that Trilogy and I just want Nintendo to release it on the Switch.


Yes, I never played a Mario or Zelda on the Wii (at the time I was too edgy for Nintendo games). Wish I could play them now.
 

carlosrox

Banned
The Wii had a ton of great games. My library was also around 50+ and I was missing tonnnnns of games.

People who talk shit about the Wii library have no idea what they're talking about.



So I'm guessing we won't get any major news from Nintendo til after 3D World releases? Maybe March after their fiscal year or whatever is over?
 

Andyliini

Member
Yeah, Wii had some awesome titles, some of them are even now still exclusive to it and have been out of print for a while. That reminds me, I still have not played Another Code R, despite owning it for years.
 

Aldric

Member
The Wii is an interesting case, its success was built on super casual shallow motion control games and its exclusive entries in Nintendo's historical franchises were underwhelming if not terrible like Other M or Skyward Sword but it also had a lot of excellent games in rather niche genres like Sin and Punishment 2, Zack and Wiki, Tatsunoko vs Capcom or weird experimental midbudget titles like Pandora's Tower or Disaster Day of Crisis that made it feel like a kind of second coming of the PS2 in a way. Its library is probably underrated when all's said and done.
 

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Resident Cheap Arse
Still hoping The last Story and Pandoras tower get ported to Switch.

Two very good games that are slowly getting lost to history.

Pandoras Tower in particular doesn't get a whole lot of love these days but it was a genuinely interesting concept and the execution was good. I'd like to see a re-master but given how poorly it did originally and how little hype there is for it now... well, I think my Wii copy will have to serve indefinately.

The Last Story is gradually picking up a bit more traffic so there is some demand but I'm not sure that there is enough to get it on the remake radar.

All three of the Rainfall games were solid. Pround of the community for managing to get them brought to the west in the first place.
 

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Resident Cheap Arse
Yeah, it was dark. The whole concept was. And the whole feeding mechanic really added a layer of stress to adventuring in the dungeons that prevented the usual leisurely grind that that type of game normally has.
 
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Xaero Gravity

NEXT LEVEL lame™
The Wii was PS2 part 2, it was the last hurrah of the old industry.
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I've been feeling like replaying Fire Emblem TH. Dunno which house to choose this time, I was Golden Deer on my first play through.

I still have to finish Xenoblade and Bayonetta 2 (almost at the end for sure). And I still wanna buy a new game, dunno if I should go for the Mario All Stars Collection or Odyssey, or just wait for the new one coming.
 
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Shaqazooloo

Member
I've been feeling like replaying Fire Emblem TH. Dunno which house to choose this time, I was Golden Deer on my first play through.

I still have to finish Xenoblade and Bayonetta 2 (almost at the end for sure). And I still wanna buy a new game, dunno if I should go for the Mario All Stars Collection or Odyssey, or just wait for the new one coming.
Probably should go Blue Lions, its a really good route just like Golden Deer.
 

Danjin44

The nicest person on this forum
Probably because he said the Switch was his main platform.
Switch is slowly becoming my main platform. With each generation PlayStation having less and less Japanese titles. I have PS5 but I’m afraid Sony big focus is western games and we going to see even less Japanese exclusives from Sony.
 
Christ, just seen a Ninty add for Bowser’s Fury on YouTube. It’s a bunch of guys all playing online together, but literally using their phones at the side of them to communicate.
The Switch Online app working as intended then? I still don't know what Nintendo was thinking when they made that thing.
 

Astral Dog

Member
I don't think Platinum fully owns TW101 IP even now, if I remember correctly Nintendo of America renewed the TW101 copyright a few months ago.
Yeah i never heard they 'gave' the IP to Platinum, just let them license the game.
This recent news about AC is so surprising because its not news at all

Edit:didn't noticed this was three pages old 😳
 
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Christ, what a goddamn RIDE. Thank you so much Newly Vacant Newly Vacant , Evangelion Unit-01 Evangelion Unit-01 , @SLoWMoTIoN, Eevee86 Eevee86 and everyone who forced me to finally play this gem. Finished it late last night and my mind is still stuck in AWESOME mode. I need a short break from long ass JRPGs, but soon I'll dive into Torna and the first Xenoblade as well.

Japan man. Dudes are saving gaming and we take them for granted. What a country.
 

Evangelion Unit-01

Master Chief
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Christ, what a goddamn RIDE. Thank you so much Newly Vacant Newly Vacant , Evangelion Unit-01 Evangelion Unit-01 , @SLoWMoTIoN, Eevee86 Eevee86 and everyone who forced me to finally play this gem. Finished it late last night and my mind is still stuck in AWESOME mode. I need a short break from long ass JRPGs, but soon I'll dive into Torna and the first Xenoblade as well.

Japan man. Dudes are saving gaming and we take them for granted. What a country.
Glad you enjoyed it, brother! A Lionel game through and through.
 

Eevee86

Member
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Christ, what a goddamn RIDE. Thank you so much Newly Vacant Newly Vacant , Evangelion Unit-01 Evangelion Unit-01 , @SLoWMoTIoN, Eevee86 Eevee86 and everyone who forced me to finally play this gem. Finished it late last night and my mind is still stuck in AWESOME mode. I need a short break from long ass JRPGs, but soon I'll dive into Torna and the first Xenoblade as well.

Japan man. Dudes are saving gaming and we take them for granted. What a country.
Told you it just kept ramping up to further levels of awesome.
 
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