Best Wii Games

Excite Truck is more fun than it deserves to be, especially once you start playing with your own soundtrack.

Is it a driving game?

half driving, half flying

I mean yes technically it is a "racer"

though it is far and away the most ludicrously unrealistic racing game I have ever played, including F-Zero and Mario Kart

Twilight Princess is/was my Game Of The Year. I felt the controls were fantastic personally, even as the wolf.

you may or may not enjoy Metroid Prime depending on your attitude towards very drawn-out boss fights

I think Metroid Prime is still not out here yet, but it's got really good reviews everywhere. Twilight Princess sounds cool, I always loved Zelda but never quite got into the N64 ones. I liked Resident Evil when I played it except that I don't know if I ever want to play an RE game again after RE2. Being terrified (by zombies combined with a lack of decent control system to escape them) is not fun!

RE4 = they are crazy cult members, not zombies, and the controls have been completely overhauled.

I thought you didn't have a Wii yet!

I played it on GC. It's already a world of difference control wise from RE2 and the other PS1/DC/GC games, and the Wii version is supposed to be even easier.

easy is where I do my best work

I figured as much.

you are a detective

I'm trying to play Dead Rising on 360 right now, it's almost making me wish I liked easy games. Not to mention how stupid hard Persona 3 is getting near the top of Tartarus.

MARIO GALAXY LOOKS AMAZING

Yeah if I'm going to get a Wii for anything, it will be that.

super paper mario just dropped so i'd definitely get that

paper mario is pretty great.

0) (hoping for) mario galaxy
1) twilight princess
2) super paper mario
3) metroid prime -- too bossy

I'm trying to play Dead Rising on 360 right now, it's almost making me wish I liked easy games.

This is so OTM for me right now

I beat that shit already. It's really not that bad once you get Frank past Lv. 12 or so, he's really weak before that. You can even restart with your stats if you want to power level first, but I just soldiered through it and the game got really fun after that.

I'm about halfway through Eternal Sonata right now, which I think I like even more than Persona.

Any opinions on Rayman Raving Rabbids? Price just dropped, I am hungry for new Wii games. (not that I'm running out of things to do in Zelda and Paper Mario, just need a no brain break every once in a while).

Bump.

I've finished Resident Evil 4 and that was ace. However most games for the Wii that look like I might like them seem to get shit reviews all the time.

Is Scarface any good? Tomb Raider Anniversary? Anyone got any other recommendations? Particularly older/cheaper games, cos fuck paying £40 for a game tbh.

zak & wiki
super mario galaxy

zak and wiki make a porno

Anniversary is a great Tomb Raider game, but I played it on PS using a gamepad, I don't know what the Wii controls are like.

De Blob is really good game, if you are a fan of Katamari then you'd love it. the controls aren't perfect, the levels are far too long with no save points, the draw distance is too short, the camera goes a bit wonky at times etc etc but the sheer charm & addictive "must paint every building" gameplay wins through.

OK so I just moved home where we have a Wii and I just picked up MadWorld and Zack & Wiki, and they are fun and all but I keep longing for the sort of sprawling, engaging gameplay of, say, FF VIII or Ocarina of Time. What should I pick up next? Twilight Princess is on my to-do list (though I hate spending over $20 on a game) but really I'm looking for something looooong that can't just beat in a few days or a week. I hear Okami's good too, and of course SM Galaxy was one of the best games I've ever played and I will be picking up SMG2 when it's more affordable.

but I keep longing for the sort of sprawling, engaging gameplay

but that's not really what the Wii is known for, is it?

I haven't played them myself, but I've heard a few people say good things about Little King's Story, Monster Hunter Tri & Shirin the Wanderer - maybe for a little of that longer experience - you may want to look up some info on those? In regards to Okami, I found the controls to be very annoying / semi-broken, ymmv.

Resident Evil 4 is great on the Wii.

Still searching for that elusive great two player game

Mario Kart maybe but something a bit more involving?

you mean local 2 player? and not a 2D platformer?

Local 2 player. Any kind of game, really. Simultaneous two-person play preferred

New Super Mario Bros Wii is the best local 2-4 player game i've ever played. they are bringing out a Donkey Kong Country game & a Kirby game this year with simultaneous 2 player controls.
The Trauma Center games have simultaneous co-op gameplay modes which are fun.
if you like soccer the PES games have great co-op modes.
and of course there are the lightgun games, House of The Dead Overkill is probably the best, but is very very sweary.

Smooth Moves, although it helps if you are insane.

oh and Monster Hunter Tri, but i haven't played that yet.

I had a lot of fun the one time I played New Super Mario Bros Wii 2-player. Soccer games are always good. Also MLB Power Pros. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.

zelda: toilet paper is ridiculously stretched out. it is long enough for you but as a consequence it takes an hour to get a sword, an hour to get a shield, etc.

NSMB was loads of fun in co-op, though Penny Arcade was on the right track calling it "Divorce Mode". It may be most (hilariously) anti-cooperative cooperative game I've played since Gunstar Heroes.

Should I get

Zelda: Twilight Princess or Mad World or Okami or Resident Evil 4?

Would be swayed by anything 2 player so I can play with my wife. Also she is fan of old school Zelda and doesn't like game violence...

RE4 is definitely the best of those (haven't played madworld but i hear it's not very good)

for 2P, boom blox bash party and wii sports resort

haha, great display name

Madworld is extremely fun but not very challenging, and sort of short. But it's certainly worth the $7 it cost last time I checked Amazon.

For 2 player, go for any of the Lego games (except batman, that's a bit poor). The most fun my gf and I have had on the Wii is on House of The Dead: Overkill, which is an awesome on-rails zombie shooter presented as a shitty 70s horror b-movie, but maybe your wife doesn't like shooting zombies . . .

HOTD:overkill is good good times, have spent several nights doing drunken jump in group runs through that one

Games are great aren't they?

What is your nomination for the WEIRDEST game for Wii?

Holy crap Dolphin is AMAZING. Playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii right now in 1080p and it looks pretty flawless. It's even not that big a chore to play using mouse & keyboard! I'm checking out Super Mario Galaxy 2 later.

It's just all the more amazing because I remember going to the library (back in the AOL days) to dl SNES9X and have it struggle with playing the simplest 16-bit games. Dolphin is really damn impressive!

Have you got much grunt? I remember trying out Dolphin about a year ago on my rig (quad-core 3GHz 4G ram) and it was awfully stuttery. I put it down to not having enough oomph - has it got much better?