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curl-6 on 27 December 2015
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Azuren said:
curl-6 said:

As a Nintendo fan and a hardcore gamer, I gotta completely disagree with you there.

If you ask me, Nintendo's first party output on the Wii is some of their very best, right up there with the SNES and N64. Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 are among the finest games they have ever created, and I'd argue that both these and games like Metroid Prime 3 and Skyward Sword would not have been as enjoyable without pointer/motion controls.

As for third party games, there was plenty worth playing; look passed the shovelware and there were gems like Sin & Punishment 2, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Monster Hunter Tri, The Last Story, Goldeneye 007, Little King's Story, Silent Hill Shattered Memories, etc.

I'd rank the Wii above the Wii U, above the Gamecube, above the PS3 or the Xbox 360.

Mario Galaxy, while popular, added little more than gravity mechanics to what was Mario 64/Sunshine.

Metroid Prime games played MUCH better without the Wiimote, as did Twilight Princess (can't speak for Skyward Sword since I had fully sworn off my Wii by that point).

As for your list of third parties? MH3 and 007 played better with gamepads. Tatsunoko vs Capcom, a fighting game, definitely would benefit from real inputs. Shattered Memories played better on the PSP (which is just embarrassing) because it had real controls. And based on that list, though I haven't played them, I'm going to assume the others would have benefitted from real controls as well. 

The Wii is easily the worst generation to have been a Nintendo fan. Yeah, it sold well by enticing not-gamers... But at a steep cost. 

Just gonna have to flat out disagree here. I'm a longtime hardcore Nintendo fan who started with the SNES in '94, and the Wii generation was second only to the SNES as the best generation I've lived through; definitely better than Gamecube, N64, or Wii U. 

And in the case of those games, I had the option to play with a Gamepad if I so desired, but in every instance opted for Wiimote + Nunchuk because the controls simply felt that much better.