If You're a Core Gamer That Hasn't Purchased a Wii yet

[Doobie_wop]

Metallicube said:

Doobie_wop said:

Metallicube said:

I dunno, maybe it's because I'm a little biased, but to me I can't fathom how a financially smart gamer could want to own multiple consoles and NOT have a Wii as one of them, which is far different from the other two, and cheaper. Yet people seem to have no problem buying both HD consoles, with near identical libraries, and similar features.

Wii's library is vastly different, so I would think it'd be most financially sound to own one HD console AND the Wii, since you cover the most bases with this combo, while saving the most money. Either that, OR obviously owning all 3 consoles if you can afford it.. But someone opting for the PS360 combo while passing on the Wii has always been baffling to me, since they are so similar and cost the most money, while you're missing out on the most exclusives.

PS3 and 360 have a ton of great games, don't get me wrong, but the vast majority of them are cross platform. I can count the number of each of these console's exclusives worth buying a console for with my one hand.

People could just not like the games, I've had the Wii for a while, I also have a healthy income coming in weekly and I buy game's pretty often. When I go to a store and I look at the game's on offer, I can't bring myself to buy any of them because I believe from what I've seen that they are very low quality games. The only game's I see that are worth owning on the Wii are the first party game's and they are much more expensive than the software on every other platform (Brawl and Galaxy are still $80 each). 

I gave the Wii a fair go, I borrowed and rented a lot of the big game's and I didn't like any of them enough to buy (except for No More Heroes). The control's aren't for everyone, I tried to play Brawl and Mario Galaxy on the Wiimote and it was just disgusting. Red Steel was a broken game, Ghost Squad was just a short low quality rail shooter and Raving Rabbids was decent. 

It's also hard finding the good game's on the Wii when my gaming purchases are limited to Barbie Party, Masterchef and My Word Coach. I'm not saying their the only game's that the Wii have, but it's what's shoved at me every time I got to a store and I'm not spending more on a game just so I can get one from Ebay.

I blame a lot of the problem's I have with the Wii on Nintendo, but I'm also happy that they're successful once again and I hope that in the future they at least try and slow down the amount of shovelware piling up on their system, incorporate some better hardware, try and pull some better Third Party Software in and not limit my gaming method's to a pretty (IMO) rubbish controller.

I don't get how people get this idea in their heads that because Wii has a tremendous amount of shovelware that it somehow means there are no or few good games. Take away all the shovelware, and Wii still has dozens upon dozens of great games. By now, I have played probably 40-50 Wii games over the course of 3 and a half years, either from purchase, renting, borrowing, or playing at family and friends' houses, and a good portion of those games I would consider at least good, if not great - and I would consider myself somewhat of a picky gamer.

Not to mention there are still tons more Wii games I have NOT played that are supposedly very good based on reviews and what I've heard from people, (No More Heroes 1 and 2, Red Steel 2, Endless Ocean 2, Capcom vs Tansunoko, De Blob, Boom Blox, Rabbids Go Home, Fragile, Cursed Mountain, COD: Reflex, Animal Crossing, Sky Crawlers, The Godfather, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, A Boy and His Blob, Fire Emblem, Battallian Wars 2, Elebits, Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Rune Factory: Frontier, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New World, Deadly Creatures, Monster Lab, Nitrobike, Okami, Dead Space: Extraction, Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles, Trauma Center: New Blood and Second Opinion, etc etc..)

I think many of these games simply get lost in the shuffle from the lack of advertising and lack of hype, and all the shovelware burrying it. But that doesn't mean they are not there. You just have to look a little harder. Most of it just doesn't get right up in your face with bombardments of advertising like software on the HD consoles tend to do.

That said, I know the Wii isn't for everybody. I'm just saying just because you don't see very many Wii games worth checking out, doesn't mean they are not there.

I pretty much said that in my post, the Wii does have good game's but when I walk into a store looking for them their usually not in stock or their priced so high because the store has a tight shipment and don't want to drop the price. 

An example would be Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, I'd heard on VG Chartz that the game was meant to be really good and Silent Hill: Homecoming wasn't doing it for me. I also loved Dead Space on the PS3/360 and really wanted to play Dead Space: Extraction. So I went to EB Games looking for the game's and they don't have any in stock, Big W has nothing, GAME doesn't have it in stock either. In the end I bought Dark Void which was horrible and returned later on.  

That's pretty much my experience with Wii game's in Australia, they over stock on Mini Ninja's but they never have the niche game's that I like, I was lucky I even found No More Heroes (which you haven't played and I recommend). Half the game's you've listed I've never even heard of and the other half I never see in stores (except Resident Evil which is everywhere). A lot of the HD guy's probably go through the same thing.