1) Smash 4
2) Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
3) Splatoon
4) MK8
5)SMB 3d world
6) SMB U
7) SMM
8) Pikmin 3
9) Captain toad
10) Nintendo Land

I have botw on Switch

I've done this before but I'm sure this list won't match the others I've done

1. Bayonetta 2

2. Smash 4

3. Batman Arkham Knight

4. Xenoblade Chronicles X

5. Splatoon

6. Wind Waker HD

7. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

8. Mario Maker

9. Captain Toad

10. Nintendo Land

1. The Wonderful 101
2. Xenoblade Chronicles X
3. Deus Ex HR
4. Bayonetta
5. Bayonetta 2
6. Super Smash Bros.
7. Pikmin 3
8. Splinter Cell: Blacklist
9. Rayman Legends
10. Captain Toad

Those are games on the system that I truly like. To this day I still need to play ones like Tropical Freeze and Tokyo Mirage Sessions, while I didn't like so much other ones that are surely going to be referred overtime, like Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8.

So you've declared everyone's favorite game as BOTW I the poll? Seems odd.

IMO list of top 20 Wii U games (don't look to much in order of list) would be something like this:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2. Splatoon
3. Zelda WW HD
4. Super Mario 3D World
5. Mario Kart 8
6. Pikmin 3
7. Zelda TP HD
8. Yoshi's Woolly World
9. Super Mario Maker
10. Super Smash Bros 4
11. Nintendo Land
12. ZombiU
13. Donkey Kong Country : Tropical Freeze
14. Xenoblade X
15. Bayonetta 2
16. Lego City Undercover
17. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
18. New Super Mario Bros. U
19. The Wonderful 101
20. Deus Ex

Despite owning one I haven't played that many, i'd say Super Smash Bros is my favourite though :)

The Wii U had a handful of games for me that were worthwhile, but sadly, as stoked as I originally was for the system, I owned and liked FAR more games on Wii than I did on Wii U, which is surprising, because I didn't love tacked-on motion controls for most games.

Right off the bat, Breath of the Wild is easily the best game on the system. And it only drives home how badly the system NEEDED that game a year or two earlier. You easily could have pointed to BoTW and said "THIS game is THE reason you need to own a Wii U". That would have been a very compelling argument. But as it stands, it's a convenient/polite release, alongside the version that they actually WANT you to buy, the Switch. Having said that, BoTW is still, hands down, the best game on the console.



Outside of that, there are a few games that HAD a chance to be something really special, to me personally at least, to be games that I point to and say "THAT game rocks". Unfortunately, Nintendo did this thing on Wii U, over and over again, where they made VERY curious or outright idiotic game design choices, that made what would otherwise have been GREAT games, into just OK ones, or in at least one case, kind of a bad game. Those games were: Mario Kart 8, Smash Bros. Wii U, Pikmin 3, and Star Fox Zero. Or for people that cared about Mario Tennis, that can easily be included as well, as that was a very lazy development effort, as was the crappy "Animal Crossing" game they pushed out.

MK 8 is brilliant as a racing game, but has the laziest excuse for a Battle Mode ever conceived. Smash has a great roster (Except for Ice Climbers being gone), but has ZERO Adventure Mode, not even a shitty, bare-bones one, which to me was a massive detriment. Pikmin 3 is a solid game, but COULD have been on par with it's predecessors, if not for facepalm worthy exclusions of certain key elements, the most important of which being manual swarming, which was literally 50% of the gameplay and strategy of the first two games. And then of course they give us an already on-its-face lazy Star Fox release, basically just being a "Star Fox 64 Remix" type affair, but it could have at least still been FUN, if not for them tacking on god awful motion controls that no one asked for or wanted, and made that the ONLY control option. And thus the game sold like shit, giving Miyamoto and Co. further excuse to not bother making another one for years, because "no one buys Star Fox" (hint: they would if you'd quit fucking around and make an actual GOOD one again).


All in all, I am sad to say that my Wii U ownership was not as worthwhile as it should have been. I bought it at launch, and I can't honestly tell you that the system felt like something I was glad I spent my money on. That doesn't mean it DOESN'T have some good games, it does. But they were too few and far between, IMO, and overall, I think a strong argument can be made that Wii U was Nintendo's weakest home console they've ever put out. Gamecube had it's issues, as did Wii, but both had far better third party support than Wii U, and IMO, a better array of exclusives to boot.

Having SAID that, I did still enjoy some games on it, and am still currently loving (and getting frustrated by) Breath of the Wild. Here are my top Wii U games:

1. Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2. Shovel Knight
3. Hyrule Warriors
4. Super Mario 3D World
5. Mario Kart 8 (minus shitty battle mode)
6. New Super Mario Bros. U
7. Shantae & The Pirate's Curse
8. Lego City Undercover
9. Yoshi's Wooly World
10. NES Remix

1. Xenoblade Chornicles X - I love this game so much. I did not finish playing it on the Wii U because my external hard drive crashed and took the save file with it and plus I do not really have time to play this type of game for long periods on a TV, so I hope a Switch port eventually happens so I can play it on the go.

2. Zelda BOTW - I played the Switch version because of portability, but I am sure I would have loved the Wii U version.

3. Bayonetta 2 - Another game I would not mind getting a port of for Switch

4. Mario Kart 8 - this was for me the best Mario Kart game ever. I was not really a fan of the series before this entry (this game is now tied with my other all-time favorite karting racer, which is Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing Transformed).

5. Rayman Legends - I bought this game on Wii U, Vita, and PC and I am super glad I did (in fact I plan on picking it up on Switch as well). This game is one of the most polished and creative platformers I have ever played.

6. Smash Bros 4 Wii U - It was a fantastic game to play with friends.

7. Game & Wario - I love the WarioWare mini-game collection series and I thought this to be a good entry. IMO it was the best tech demo for Wii U.

8. NSMBU - Best NSMB game and the second most innovative one for the series (the first being NSMBW, which introduced local single screen co-op); but still was disappointed with how little they changed the formula (Rayman Legends was a much more innovative game)

9. Super Mario 3D World - Co-op was great and I really liked the art style and stage design. Definitely not my favorite 3D Mario though (I think Sunshine, Galaxy, and Galaxy 2 all surpass it).

Here are some exclusives that I have not played extensively enough to formulate an opinion on: Pikmin 3, Tokyo Mirage Sessions, Pokken, and Paper Mario Color Splash.

Veknoid_Outcast said: Congrats GNM, you just blew the IGN list out of the water :)

Oh thanks ^^ But to be honest, making a better list than IGN has no merit at all xD

1. The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
2. ZombiU
3. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
4. The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth
5. Shovel Knight
6. Bayonetta 2
7. Bayonetta
8. Rayman Legends
9. Mario Kart 8
10. Super Mario 3D World


Something like that...