I hold the Wii pretty high in my head. However, I also know that the grass is often very green on the other side.
Is it actually as fun as I remember? I see that a lot of the classic games are pretty rare so that is not reassuring.
It depends if you like motion controls to be honest as majority of games used it. Wii is not my cup of tea personally but I love playing The House of The Dead 2 & 3 Returns as I don’t have an CRT to play lightguns games.
The good games were great. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is probably the best Mario game full stop.
The controllers were crap for traditional games.
There was so much shovelware.
Has a lotta great titles people still remember fondly, and it’s heaps easy to hack it to get emulators on it. Win win!
It has about 15 good games and some of them had to be trimmed down to be able to run on Wii.
I love the Wii and I’m sad mine broke (it won’t read the discs anymore and all attempts to fix that at home failed). It is one of the very few consoles my husband could use, him having cerebral palsy. We played that together constantly! It was great.
I have quite a few consoles from most of the generations and honestly Wii is my favourite. I love playing Wii games, I love the idea of playing on this console and I love collecting for it. I think I actually have 3 or 4 Wiis but I use my WiiU for the HD (I do have a dongle for the Wii as well). There is no video game updates every time you put the disc in, there are no trophies or gamer score, no communities, social media features, ads. You boot it up and enjoy. Because it was so much different from what was on the market, developers couldn’t simply port games onto it. They had to develop with the console and its hardware in mind and that’s what made it special. I know that on paper Switch is just a better Wii as it has the best of both worlds (it has motion controls and its beefy enough to play more demanding games) but as the focus is mostly to catch up with the other consoles, I think it lost a bit of that magic.
I’m really interested in emulation as you can do upscaling which should make the older titles look and run pretty well.
The wii is still a staple of party nights in my friend group. It’s hardware is frankly kinda shit but the quality game design and innovative controllers are just not something any other console or computer can ever replace.
It’s too bad Nintendo stopped doing cool shit and is just a lawyer-run IP milking house now.
Yeah, it’s a great party console.
The Wii has Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
There hasn’t been a Super Mario Galaxy anywhere else besides the Wii.
The Wii is awesome.There was a Switch version.
The Wii is great. Play games that make the most of the wiimote and nunchuck, those are the best.
My favorites were Metroid Prime Trilogy made/remade for the wii controls, and Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess / Skyward Sword. And the fun arcade/sports games like bowling, golf, Mario Galaxy, etc
Looks like I missed House of the Dead 2 and 3, so I may try to find a used wii and used copies to play em. It’d be awesome if Nintendo released a Wii Classic like the NES and SNES Classics.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/top10/1637-the-top-10-wii-games-that-make-the-best-use-of-the-wiimote
https://old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/4nvthu/which_wii_games_make_the_best_use_of_the/
…so we just gonna skip over the N64 classic and gamecube classic then?
Much less robust hardware
Why does the idea of a Wii classic inherently debt the possibility of an n64 and GameCube classic?
Also in my opinion I don’t think any other classics are happening, think Nintendo are all in on NSO for their old games now
Because NES classic came first. SNES came like a year later. If we WERE going to get another classics line, it would clearly be N64 classic. Then Gamecube classic, THEN Wii Classic.
Then they could do WiiU classic, but in keeping accurate with historical console sales, they’d only produce 50 total.
Except who actually is old enough to remember the N64? It is old enough that that demographic is small
The same people who are old enough to remember the NES/SNES, and anyone slightly younger
Older Millenials and Gen X, the same ones that grew up with the NES and SNES. Not small at all
Edit: Roughly 180 Million people in the US alive today, were 7 years old or older when the N64 released in 1996. Which is about 55% of the US population.
https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/united-states-population-by-age/
I have a Wii and a whole bunch of games just collecting dust. Even now that I’m reminded of it I don’t have any desire to play.
I do really want to grab a CRT TV and a NES and SNES. I miss those games far more than anything on the Wii!
Wii was the only console I ever bought. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse, so consoles were never really my focus.
I had a lot of fun with it, it had some amazing games that made good use of the controllers. It was a great family console that even older people or people that don’t usually play could use.
It was also great at running old school emulators for other consoles (SNES, Genesis) after some tinkering.
It also drove home my main hate regarding consoles: they are closed systems, owned not by you but by the manufacturer. The games were and still are expensive, unlike PCs where games get cheaper over time. They can also disable the servers providing services for your console (news channel, weather channel) when they feel like you should move on and buy their next console.
So I won’t buy another console again, even if I still love my Wii, that I power on occasionally.
I wish I had kept mine because I would kill for some Wii Resort ping-pong or bowling.
I have 11 Table Tennis in VR and somehow the physics just don’t feel nearly as good as Wii Resort/Wii Sports. Various bowling games in VR I’ve tried are the same… IDK how the motion controls can be worse when I literally use my hands. 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe you’re just bad at bowling and the bad controls on the Wii compensated for it! 😂
The Wii was a console system for people who were unaware of or didn’t like console systems.
So if you’re in that co-hort, or an active Nintendo fan… yeah, it’s a great console.
It says a lot that the best selling titles on it largely came with extra plastic bits that are likely collecting dust now.
Full disclosure, I own a Wii, it’s hooked up and running and everything. Other than occasionally showing off the absolute insanity that is Muscle March, I really can’t think of any game on it I’d still play.
I just got a Wii to play RE4, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, and a couple GameCube games. I still need to get the component cable (I’m on composite, which isn’t ideal) but I’m finding it just as fun as I remember.
The novelty of it was amazing, and as fun as you remember, but I also remember my Wii collecting dust not too long after we got it.
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I’d not recommend a wii u for Wii games actually, it has worse visual quality than an actual wii, the scaler in the wii u is horrible and destroys picture clarity
I have both and hadn’t noticed much difference from the results of the HDMI output of the WiiU over a Wii using Component Cables through the same Elgato, but you’re probably right about a direct feed to a TV, or adding better quality devices in the chain. I’ve played OG Xbox through the setup using the Official HD Pack for a long time and have low expectations probably.
Trust me, the difference is massive, especially when comparing to a Wii using component. Like I mentioned the internal scaler in the Wii u is horrid, it makes games blurry, zooms in and lowers brightness, a Wii over component is miles better.
With an early model Wii you obviously also have full GameCube back compat, with games and almost all peripherals, yes you can run GameCube through Nintendont in vwii on wii u but then we’re getting into grey areas
Yes…methods…
