Yeah while Tri didn't have the largest lineup, I did like that almost every one was new with they didn't pad out the roster with subspecies. Monsters like Lagi and Barioth remain among my favourites to this day.

And yeah, it was definitely one of the better looking games on Wii with its naturalistic environments and lifelike monsters. Rock solid performance too.

Yeah I played MH3G on Wii U and MH4U on 3DS, but skipped Generations and World at the time; jumped back in with Rise and loved it, it's become my most played Switch game just as MHTri was my most played Wii game.

Monster Hunter is very much an acquired taste; it is deliberately weighty, methodical, and complex, you have to carefully plan each hunt and every move. A lot of people bounce off it because of this, and I almost did at first too, but the more I played it, the more I got used to it and came to love it. If you're looking for a more accessible entry point, Rise and World have a lot of quality of life improvements and are easier to get the hang of.

I wouldn't say this is the best one but I wanna bring up the Wii version of Pikmin 2 cause it's likely my favourite one that hasn't been mentioned yet. I can't imagine playing it without the motion aiming.

This thread is making me realize just how much money developers are leaving on the table by not re-releasing Wii titles on Switch. There is so much nostalgia for that system and its quirky games. Next gen may see a revival of some of these titles.

That + the DS and 3DS libraries if the rumors if that 2nd screen attachment to the Switch 2 are true.

Another really cool thing about the Wii was that it revived 2D games as a serious mainstream genre with success of games like NSMBWii, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Kirby's Return to Dreamland, etc. which paved the way for the likes of Tropical Freeze, Metroid Dread, and Mario Bros Wonder in the years since.

Well, tens of millions of gamers grew up with the Wii. There's bound to be nostalgia for it, and if you were a kid back then, you're an adult now with your own disposable income. Look at the success of Switch Sports, a game that harkens back to the Wii era.

Super Smash Bros Brawl easily is my most favorite if you exclude Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2.

Love the single player campaign mode and overall great cast of characters/roster up to that point of its release.

My pick. You are welcome.

Lmao I remember this from way back in the day.

Wiiware, while limited by very tiny file sizes, did have some real gems, like World of Goo, LostWinds 1 & 2, Jett Rocket, Fast Racing League, etc.

40MB is indeed tiny, but the internal SSD of the Wii was only 512MB anyway.

Xbox 360 had a file limit of 50MB originally, in order to fit on a 64MB memory card.
Eventually they increased the limit to 150 MB, then 350 MB, then 2048MB and then enabled sizes over 2GB.

So launch Xbox 360 vs Wii was fairly competitive when comparing WiiWare and Xbox Live Arcade.

It's a shame Nintendo didn't enable larger sizes and made people use SD Cards, because things like Super Meat Boy would have been awesome to see on the console.

Mega Man 9, Brawl, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Resident Evil 4, and Kirby's Epic Yarn, in no particular order.