My favorite game was Rune Factory Frontier, it was the first game I played for over 100 hours (although DQ9 on DS would later beat that, and also be the first and only game I played over 200 and 300 hours). I had many others.
The greatest Wii memories were the social gaming memories, playing with University friends with Wii Sports and Wario Ware. Later playing Just Dance in my first Just Dance Party, drinking alcohol, and just having situations where 4 would play, and 10+ more wanting to play; and I have been to many Just Dance parties since - and it is the only real true party game I have ever played (not geek rock and parties with that banging plastic noise and rock music, but parties with girls and champagne, and dancing to cool music).
I don't agree about the Virtual Console, I thought it was a great addition, and I got most of my favorite classics off of it. Why would you not want or like that? It had the best lineup of classic games of any platform ever.
My disappointments were Metroid Prime 3 (the Balrog ripoff scene seemed cool, and people kept praising Retro - but I found the game a huge bore), Madworld, Zack and Wiki, and No More Heroes (at least it had awesome boss battles and some cool story stuff, but I hated everything else which was the other 95% of the game). These are all games I was hyped for and paid full for them, and didn't like them.
Ending on a good note - Wii Fit really surprised me, I played it a lot and its expansion - I felt it was superior to its copy cats (you know, Wii Fit actually works, the other games I played were terribly unresponsive, buggy, and annoying). Just Dance really took its place in the long run, and is a more fun form of exercise - mostly because it is played with friends and alcohol makes it more fun.
Overall, the Wii is the first Nintendo home console I played a lot since SNES. The N64 had some gems, but there were more good games on PSX by far. When a drought occurred on the Wii, it was when Nintendo didn't release games for a while, but other companies released plenty - on N64 a drought was when no one released any games (I am talking absolute zero games) - seriously, it was like a full 2.5 years before the N64 even had 40 games on it and PSX had over 800. Gamecube was kind of a PS2 junior, it had a few games on it that stood out, but was overall a filler console just so Nintendo could keep the tiniest bit of relevance in the home console market while they survived off of GBA and DS. Wii sort of marked that return to the home console industry for Nintendo, after being out of the game for 8 years (Ocarina of Time was kind of the last of Nintendo's greatness on home console until the Wii launch). I can hardly wait for Wii U, and I look forward to it because I probably won't need any other home consoles next generation because of it.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
