sabrage wrote:I'm sure that there's dozens of Wii games that "could be fun with friends" on the Wii, but that doesn't make them particularly worthy. I had a shitload of fun with Fusion Frenzy back in the day, but I recognize that it's a terrible game. It's irritating to look at a list of Wii games I would possibly want to try, and then have Carnival Games stick out like a tumor. But regardless of its individual merit, we've already got Warioware on the list and that's enough minigames for everyone.
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I agree. Bad games can still be fun, even if they don't deserve to be part of the list. But many of my absolute favorite games on Wii won't appeal to the majority of gamers, so do they belong either?
I loved
Blast Works and dropped a ton of time into the campaign, additional games, and level editor.
Baroque was an absolute blast and swallowed dozens of hours of my life.
Castle of Shikigami is a fine game, but is super-niche. All of these games are on the list and are "keepers" in my collection... but are hard to recommend to others because they have limited mainstream appeal for today's gamer.
So where do we draw the line for this list?
Monopoly doesn't appeal to me, but I think
Fortune Street and
Dokapon Kingdom were both a blast and they really aren't that different.
Onechanbara and
Monkey King didn't do it for me... but who am I to say they won't be the right games for someone else when I'm loving
Mushroom Men and
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus? And as much as I dislike
Carnival Games, it has found a receptive audience who apparently enjoy it much more than I do.
(Of course, the disadvantage of saying "don't judge" is that silly trolls take advantage... but there's not much that can be done about that. This is the internet after all.)
