Wii Collecting Thread--Discussion, Information, Tips, and The Future

[dgdgagdae]

Hmm, I might need to finally pick up a Wii. Amazon has the old style ones available, which I'd prefer, as I don't have a GameCube.

[T2KFreeker]

Cool thread, you've got a nice start of solid titles there. A couple I noticed that were missing that I enjoyed were Calling and Cursed Mountain.

You got another vote for Cursed Mountain here. Very, very cool survival horror title. One that DOESN'T involve Zombies, for a change. Unique in that it involves Mountain Climbing as the core basis of the story. Very spooky ghost story going on here. The game was sadly relegated, unjustly, to the shovelware pile. Basically, it got lost amongst a bunch of bad games. It's got a very inherent Silent Hill feel to it and it's also an early Deep Silver game, the studio that went on to do Dead Island. Last I checked, the Collector's Edition, a rarity in itself for Wii games, was less than $10.00 on Amazon. Comes in a really nice steel case with different artwork than the standard editions, a DVD with the making of the game as well as a soundtrack CD. Well worth the price of admission. I really do feel that once word finally starts spreading about this game, it will end up being one that fetches quite the price on the evilbay. Not that many were made and it's not a well known title, at this point. It's also a pretty unique experience for the Wii. I think it might have been available for the PC, but can't remember. Mark my words, it's a really good game.

[GREEN00]

Cool thread. Seems like a good companion to a couple other Wii threads ("Rare" Wii games and is there a Wii release thread?)

Question though, I've been thinking of getting Pandora's Tower. It is available from Amazon, new, for regular retail price ($40). Is its listing above as 'uncommon' speculation? Has it been re-released or something? Just curious. Probably I should just go ahead and pick it up. Similar seems to be true with Fragile Dreams.

Here are some reasons I suggest you buy Pandora's Tower today if you have any interest in it,

1.It's the Wii's last significant game. Games released at the end of console's lifespan are often amongst the rarest/most desirable.

2.XSEED is the publisher. XSEED published games have low printings.

3.Pandora's Tower's MSRP is $40, it's already a bargain.

4.The "Operation Rainfall' trinity games are almost certain to have a special aura surrounding them in the future.

5.Wii will likely gain collector interest in the years to come simply by virtue of being a Nintendo system, and Pandora's Tower will get more attention at such time.

6.From what I've heard, Pandora's Tower is a great, unique game. I bought it for myself for this reason alone

[Rev. Link]

Nice! I never understood the complaint that there were "no good games" on the Wii... granted, there was lots of shovelware, but any popular console will have a lot of crappy quick-buck games (NES, Playstation, Atari, etc). I believe there are at least 100 games worth owning for the Wii and the fact many of them are dirt cheap now means now is the time to buy for anyone even remotely interested in the Wii library.

At the store where I work I'm always trying to tell people how good the Wii was. True, when gen 7 was in full swing I played more 360 than anything else, but once I got over my motion control prejudice and gave the Wii library a fair look I found a lot of gems. You just have to be willing to dig through all the junk.