Wii reccomendations?

[r0bot j0nes]

I picked up a Wii last weekend after hearing how easy it is to mod it for emulation, and seeing how cheap used Wii's have become since the Wii U was released.

My girl wants to get into gaming, but she's not very adept at anything "complicated" and is pretty casual, so I want to nab her some mini-game collections and shooting games for us to play together. I nabbed a couple of simple titles like Carnival Games and Game Party, but I see that most mini-game collections are shovelware.

What are some decent mini-game collections for the Wii?

And as for me....

Are games like The Conduit and GoldenEye 007 still popular online? I wanna nab those with a Wii Zapper. Any other arcades shooters like HOTD worth recommending?

[Exhuminator]

What are some decent mini-game collections for the Wii?

Wii Party is actually quite a bit of fun despite the twee graphics.

Other than that of course Mario Party 9.

Any other arcades shooters like HOTD worth recommending?

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor is god tier. Acquire it as soon as humanly possible.

If you strictly mean first person style shooting, definitely get RE: Umbrella Chronicles and RE: Darkside Chronicles. And absolutely don't miss Dead Space Extraction, it's the best on rails FPS for the Wii. If you want a laugh give Ghost Squad a try if you can get it for $5. Worth it for the bikinis and dolphin guns (you'll see).

[ZeroAX]

Isn't she into 2D platformers? New Super Mario Bros Wii, Kirby's Epic Yarn, ect. should be right up her alley.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Any other arcades shooters like HOTD worth recommending?

Good choice on the Wii. It is a great system, and now is a great time to be buying games for it...especially if you like arcade shooters like HOTD.

I heartily recommend:

Ghost Squad
Gunblade N.Y. & L.A. Machineguns
HOTD 2 & 3 Return
HOTD: Overkill
LoZ: Link's Crossbow Training ($0.50 at Gamestop!)
RE: Darkside Chronicles
RE: Unbrella Chronicles

If you enjoy your light gun games covered in cheese, I also recommend:

Mad Dog McCree Gunsluinger's Pack
Target Terror

Finally, I am curious about, but have not played:

Attack of the Movies 3D
Dino Strike
Gunslingers
Martian Panic
Nerf N-Strike
Wild West Shootout

Does anyone have any thoughts on these?

[Exhuminator]

Gunslingers
Does anyone have any thoughts on these?

I actually beat this one with some other people. The interesting thing about it is it offers up to 4 player simultaneous co-op. It's not amazing by any means, but it was a decent western themed shooter with enough variety to stay entertaining until we finished it. I remember we beat it in one night so it's not very long. I'd say if you see it for $10 it's worth getting but not worth more than that.

[Jagosaurus]

Check out Mad World.

Play it after your kiddo hits the hay though.

[r0bot j0nes]

Thanks guys! Already looking forward to building up a library with this system!

[prfsnl_gmr]

Have fun! There are a lot of really fun games that you can pick up at Gamestop right now for less than $3!

[FerretGamer]

If you're going to be doing on-rail shooters, you have to get a pair of these:



http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Shot-Wii- ... s=nyko+wii

You can dual wield them and play as both 1P/2P!
The official Wii Zapper is pretty meh, IMO.

[Exhuminator]

Thanks guys! Already looking forward to building up a library with this system!

It's a slippery slope! I bought a Wii a few years ago just for a few choice titles, and then I found out it's probably the most underrated console ever. I mean there are a LOT of good-to-great titles that got missed by the average gamer due to the shovelware piles on top of them.

Here are a just few more to look into if you're bored sometime:

JRPGS:
Arc Rise Fantasia
Opoona
FFCC: The Crystal Bearers (Got middling reviews but I had a ton of fun with it.)

FPS:
The Conduit 2
Red Steel 2

Survival Horror:
Cursed Mountain
Silent Hill Shattered Memories
Fragile Dreams
Escape From Bug Island (I may be the only person who actually bought this.)

RTS:
Battalion Wars 2
Little King's Story

Flying:
The Sky Crawlers (Made by the folks behind the Ace Combat series.)

Platforming:
Lost In Shadow
The Kore Gang

Adventure:
Trauma Center series (Seriously great games not to be missed.)
Zack & Wiki

And a game that I enjoyed that no one ever talks about:

Deadly Creatures
Be a tarantula or a scorpion and kill many things.

Those games are just a tiny bit of what's out there for the Wii. The Wii's got a pretty nice library of highly decent titles hidden beneath the bargain bin waggle crud. I own over 100 Wii titles personally and only a dozen or so are even first party Nintendo developed ones... the rest are all third party efforts. I think in years to come gamers will realize the Wii was actually a bastion of innovative fun after all, and there will be a revived interest in its library. I'm just glad I bought all my stuff when it was still cheap due to the "lol dust off my Wii" hivemind.