Good Wii games

[houstonlibrarian]

Do they exist?
I bought the World of Goo online and it was ok. The other games are just not very good. I had Call of Duty 3, but it was too easy. I have Zelda, but it's just not too fun. I had Manhunt 2 I believe, and it didn't do anything for me.

[Fuzzball24]

Eh, those games aren't that great. Especially Call of Duty 3. I didn't like Manhut 2.

Try Super Mario Galaxy and Dewy's Adventure.8-)

[Hawksmoor]

Well, what constitutes "good games" is very subjective. I think the Wii has quite a few "good games", but what I like and what you like may well be quite different. Here are a few I would suggest:

Super Mario Galaxy
De Blob
Madworld
Zack & Wiki
No More Heroes
Punch-Out
Warioware
Wario Land: Shake It
Mercury Meltdown

[portnoyd]

Huge generalities approaching:

Good: Anything by Nintendo

Bad: Anything not by Nintendo

[Rob2600]

Top 35 and Bottom 40 Wii games (including WiiWare) (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109135)

I haven't updated the thread in several weeks, but the lists in the original post are still very accurate.

[Loremaster]

I've gotta add a few here.

Good:
Super Paper Mario
Nascar Kart Racing [I know, it seems weird, but it really is fun]
Mario Kart Wii [Though not as good as prior games in the series]
Pikmin New Play Control [I find it much more intuitive than the GCN version]
Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers [I must add that you will only enjoy it if you enjoy mindless hack'n'slash games. Gaming Snobs will NOT like this budget title]

Iffy:
Sonic and the Secret Rings [I don't like it too much, but that's due to me finding it difficult to control. I've heard that others don't have such trouble]

[j_factor]

Well, what constitutes "good games" is very subjective. I think the Wii has quite a few "good games", but what I like and what you like may well be quite different. Here are a few I would suggest:

Super Mario Galaxy
De Blob
Madworld
Zack & Wiki
No More Heroes
Punch-Out
Warioware
Wario Land: Shake It
Mercury Meltdown

I second all of these except Punch Out, which didn't do anything for me (but then, I wasn't a fan of the original either). I would add:

Broken Sword
The Conduit
House of the Dead 2 & 3 / Overkill
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
Trauma Center: Second Opinion / New Blood
Okami
Tomb Raider Anniversary (best version IMO)
Bully: Scholarship Edition (ditto)
Blast Works
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
Geometry Wars Galaxies
Boom Blox
Deadly Creatures
Fire Emblem
Super Paper Mario

[Swamperon]

"do they exist?" I knew that would be the opening the line. Regardless, I would consider any of these good, depending on your tastes:

- Zelda: TP
- SMG (I don't even really like mario and I enjoyed it)
- Super Smash Bros Brawl
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
- No More Heroes
- Little Kings Story
- Boom Blox/Boom Blox Bash Party
- Madworld
- Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz
- Trauma Center: Second Opinion/New Blood
- Mario & Sonic
- Sonic & Secret Rings (divided opinions on this one, black knight is bad tho)
- Zack & Wiki
- MySims

And most of these can now be picked up pretty cheaply. Also, I haven't played the following but have heard they are good:

- Endless Ocean
- Wario (2d platformer game, can't remember its name)
- Punch Out!
- Conduit
- Okami

So yes, they do exist.

[sebastiankirchoff]

I recommend Super Smash Bros Brawl as a great fighting game that (in my opinion) is the best in the series.

I haven't really played much on the Wii, but this is a game that I played for about 120 hours and have achieved almost everything.

[houstonlibrarian]

I didn't like Super Smash Bros Brawl. It seemed too random to me. Like you were just punching buttons and hoping for the best.

Maybe I needed to give it a more in depth try before I closed the book.

[Kim Possible]

I really like Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, and I'm not a big fan of first person dogfight sims, but it was a lot of fun and easy to pick up and play.

I found Elebits to be pretty fun, although I did need an occasional break.

Cooking Mama Cook-Off is a blast

LEGO Indiana Jones and LEGO Batman are both really fun.

Mario Kart Wii is stupid insane fun. Stupid insane fun.

[hellfire]

mario strikers charged is insanely fun

[crom]

Do they exist?.


no......

[cheesystick]

Of course you have heard of these:

Mario Galaxy
Super Paper Mario
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Kart Wii
Zelda Twilight Princess

But maybe you haven't heard of these:

No More Heroes (Great gameplay mechanics with a bit of frustration. Can't wait for the 2nd)
King of Fighters: The Orichi Saga (Good solid fighters)
Namco Museum (Inexpensive and fun)
House of Dead Overkill (Good mindless fun, no learning curve)
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Possibly the best game on the Wii)
Blast Works (Inexpensive and inventive)
Lost Winds (Cool little downloadable game)
SNK Anthology Vol.1 (great collection of games, including Metal Slug)


Also, has anyone played Samurai Shodown Anthology for Wii?

[j_factor]

Cooking Mama Cook-Off is a blast

Cooking Mama: World Kitchen is good, but I'd avoid Cook Off. The controls are pretty bad.

[placebo]

Don't know what you're into, but I've been playing a lot of Dokapon Kingdom lately. It's not a Wii exclusive, but I'm having a good time with it. All my other suggestions have been covered by others.

[Tron 2.0]

This heck i've ranted about this game at any forum i post at.

Muramasa The Demon Blade Preview
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/preview-muramasa-the/48399

Muramasa is supose to hit the u.s next month and if you enjoy vanillaware,Odin Sphere on the PS2 then it's worth a look.

[Kim Possible]

Cooking Mama: World Kitchen is good, but I'd avoid Cook Off. The controls are pretty bad.

That's odd, because I have had the opposite experience. I love Cook-Off but just can't get into World Kitchen due to the change in interface. Ah well, to each...!

[kupomogli]

Do they exist?

Like a needle in a haystack.

Super Smash Bros Brawl is good, but the fact that unless your friends are on, you'll literally have no one to play with. On the other hand, the game isn't even half as good as Melee because worse balance.

Fire Emblem is good, but sortof like the Brawl/Melee thing. There is no reason to get one FE over another because the gameplay is identical. Get a FE for storyline only, which makes this title more of a rental than anything.

I haven't played the Tales game, but as long as it doesn't have a boring storyline like Symphonia, it's guaranteed to be a good game due to the tried and true gameplay of just about every Tales game ever to be released.

Dragon Ball Revenge of King Piccolo looks awesome. I'm sortof a DB fan, but the games after hitting the PS2 are all high quality. Except Sagas, that blows. Stay away from anything pre-PS2 except for maybe Ultimate Battle 22 which is slightly decent(same as all the others just refined more.)

Dead Rising. Played the amazing 360 game. If the Wii game is as good or close, it'll be the best game the Wii has or close.

Wii Sports. A tech demo, which just so happens to be one of the Wii's best games.

Wii Sports Resort. I want to play this. This game is what got me thinking to purchase a Wii. I resisted the temptation of a system with the majority of games being crappy, but I still thought about it.

Metroid the Other M. The other game that got me thinking of purchasing a Wii. Two amazing looking games in one year(if it's 2009 instead of the speculated 2010.) Has Nintendo ever released two legitimately good games in the same year since the N64? No. But they were close. One good game in a year is almost there. Thank Team Ninja Nintendo fanboys.

[Icarus Moonsight]

I have a rule about not keeping games that I don't like and I have over 40 Wii games. I'll let that speak for itself. :)

Recommendations that haven't been mentioned or are less obvious;

Blast Works
Boom Blox (recently got a sequel. Haven't played it yet, but I hear it's also good)
Battalion Wars 2
Castle Shikigami III (2D vertical shmup)
Counter Force (warning: This is very love it or hate it. Try it first.)
Dragon Quest Swords (It's light on the RPG elements, which I like for a change. It's more of a on-rails first person light-gun-esque thing with your sword. Magic works like the typical light gun fair. It has it's wonkiness to it, but I found it very entertaining in small doses.)
Fire Emblem (stratRPG... It's Fire Emblem! Nuff said. :) )
Kororinpa & Marble Saga: (Think the board game Labyrinth on the Wii. Good stuff and suprisingly so.)
Metal Slug Anth. (8 games, 1 disk, some control issues, but still awesome. PS2 also, that version is recommended over this one IIRC.)
Nights (Fans only. If you didn't play or didn't love the Saturn games, go ahead and skip it.)
Zach and Wiki (Point and Click adventure type.)

One guess;
Sam and Max Season 1 (same as Zach and Wiki. I don't own it and haven't played it, but I hear that it's fun.)

Finally, do yourself a solid and Pre-order Muramasa. :D

[Kid Fenris]

Castle Shikigami III (2D vertical shmup)


I second this. It's not that far above average as a shooter, but the intentionally sloppy localization really elevates the whole thing.

[Icarus Moonsight]

I second this. It's not that far above average as a shooter, but the intentionally sloppy localization really elevates the whole thing.

Awesomely bad is still awesome. :D