Topic: What are your most-played Wii games?

[vudu]

Thanks to the new Nintendo Channel we can now learn our most-played Wii games!

Here's my top 10.

Rank	Game Title	Length of Time Played	Number of Times Played
#1	Super Smash Bros. Brawl	110 Hrs. 50 Min.	63 Times
#2	Mario Kart Wii	74 Hrs. 7 Min.	72 Times
#3	Okami	70 Hrs. 33 Min.	41 Times
#4	Twilight Princess	59 Hrs. 20 Min.	34 Times
#5	Little King's Story	54 Hrs. 6 Min.	42 Times
#6	Super Paper Mario	51 Hrs. 32 Min.	42 Times
#7	Metroid Prime 3	38 Hrs. 29 Min.	23 Times
#8	Zack and Wiki	33 Hrs. 15 Min.	31 Times
#9	Super Mario Galaxy	29 Hrs. 20 Min.	21 Times
#10	No More Heroes	21 Hrs. 2 Min.	15 Times

Nothing too surprising in my list, but how the HELL did I spend so much time on Zack and Wiki and No More Heroes?  I must have paused those games and walked away for several hours (thereby artificially increasing the play time).

This exercise has reminded me that I need to go back and play Mario Galaxy again, because it's a crime that Super Paper Mario has more play time than Mario Galaxy.

What's your top 10 look like?  In order to find out, click the 'Records' button in the lower right corner of the main page on the Nintendo Channel and then click on 'Game-Play Records'.

Just for fun, let's take a look at my top 5 VC games.

Rank	Game Title	Length of Time Played	Number of Times Played
#1	Super Mario RPG	20 Hrs. 32 Min.	15 Times
#2	Super Castlevania IV	9 Hrs. 16 Min.	13 Times
#3	Star Fox 64	8 Hrs. 49 Min.	6 Times
#4	Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts	8 Hrs. 44 Min.	34 Times
#5	The Legend of Zelda	7 Hrs. 49 Min.	3 Times

In order to get a nice, neat table like me, you might want to quote my post and then edit in your info.

Note:  This thread is inspired by Steven Totilo's article at Kotaku.

[stevey]

I wouldn't take anything in the Wii history system at face value. From what I seen peeking at my logs from day to day that it's really buggy.

[EasyCure]

oh man.. i can't wait to show you how Rune Factory Frontier has easily garnered all my wii-time.

[Tanatoes]

Awesome!  I love this.  Here's how hardcore my gaming on the Wii has been.

1)  Wii Fit                                                      409 Hrs. 28 Min.   470 Times
2)  Animal Crossing City Folk                             379 Hrs.   3 Min.   320 Times
3)  Internet Channel                                       360 Hrs.   8 Min.   367 Times
4)  The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess          78 Hrs. 30 Min.     31 Times
5)  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption                          50 Hrs.  25 Min.     16 Times
6)  Rune Factory: Frontier                                 39 Hrs.  11 Min.    11 Times
7)  Super Smash Bros. Brawl                              37 Hrs.  16 Min.    15 Times
  Rock Band 2                                               33 Hrs.   5 Min.      23 Times
9)  Mario Kart Wii                                              30 Hrs.   2 Min.      17 Times
10) Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World  27 Hrs.  22 Min.  10 Times

No real surprise with Wii Fit and Animal Crossing - though that's mostly my wife playing those.  The times played seem mighty low for some of the other games though.  I mean, really, I only urned on Smash Bros. 15 times?  Maybe in the first week I had it.. I suspect that there's some data that didn't get polled.

Still: Some interesting stats.

Does the 158 games listed at the top represent 158 games played on my Wii or 158 games that they sample data on?  Since I haven't sold back a single Wii game to date and have only rented maybe 10 or 20 that means I own a lot more Wii games than I thought!  (VC games included, but still...)

[vudu]

How did you manage to put 360 hours into the Internet Channel?  Don't you have a computer!?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

These numbers are not validated by teh N-P-D and are therefore inconclusive.

[Morari]

How did you manage to put 360 hours into the Internet Channel?  Don't you have a computer!?

Porn.

[Mop it up]

I'll have to go check you get you the numbers, but I can already tell you what my top three are:

1. Mario Kart Wii
There is no way I've played any other Wii game as much as this one. I don't think I've gone a week without playing it ever since I bought it.
2. Animal Crossing
I was a "late adapter" to this game you could say but I've really gotten into it. A friend that I don't really talk to much anymore bought this game, and it has brought us closer together even though she's all the way across town and still can't visit in person very often.
3. Super Smash Brothers Brawl
I don't like this game and the only reason I've played it so much is because it was one of the few games I had for a couple of months. That and I hate to leave games unfinished. This game is pretty easy to beat even on the hardest difficulty setting, all it takes is time to complete it.

[Tanatoes]

How did you manage to put 360 hours into the Internet Channel?  Don't you have a computer!?

I spent about six months last year with no computer.  (Broke the monitor on my hand-me-down laptop and it took me a while to get a replacement.)  And, no, hardly any pr0n.  It just doesn't feel the same on a Wii...

[ThomasO]

1. Mario Kart Wii                     476 Hrs. 44 Min.      252 Times
2. Super Paper Mario               172 Hrs. 48 Min.       105 Times
3. Super Smash Bros Brawl      160 Hrs. 3 Min.      80 Times
4. Super Mario Galaxy              158 Hrs. 8 Min        129 Times
5. Wii Sports                           151 Hrs. 23 Min      180 Times
6. Legend of Zelda: TP             105 Hrs. 56 Min      41 Times
7. Wii Fit                                 100 Hrs. 0 Min        126 Times
8. Animal Crossing: City Folk     91 Hrs. 50 Min.        68 Times
9. Wii Music                             88 Hrs. 53 Min         82 Times
10. WarioWare: Smooth Moves   77 Hrs. 25 Min         102 Times

[vudu]

HOLY COW

Are those times accurate?  172 hours with Super Paper Mario?!  Did you beat it like 4 times?

[ThomasO]

More like 5 times. 

Too bad the GCN couldn't easily log any of this, I wanted to see how much I've played Luigi's Mansion, when I played through it 30+ times, and PMTTYD, at 6 times.

I completed LoZTP three times, and got 121 stars with both Mario and Luigi in Super Mario Galaxy twice. I am in my third playthrough, at 103 stars with Mario. However, I have also played up to 60 stars in another file with my mother in Co-Star mode.

Everyone in my family plays Wii Sports and Wii Fit, but I make up the bulk of that time.

I also never realized that I played Wii Music or Animal Crossing that long.

My least played game is Link's Crossbow Training, at 2 minutes, 1 time.

[Pale]

I don't want to most my times.

I will be flooded with a whole bunch of "You aren't a REAL gamer" responses.

Note that I haven't even looked mine up yet.

[King of Twitch]

It should look something like this:

#1 Wii Sports

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everything else

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

This chart wouldn't include the countless hours I've spent playing with friends on THEIR Wii.

The results are already skewed.

[broodwars]

Alright, just a disclaimer here: these numbers are extremely skewed.  My Wii has spent probably around a year with my best friend, who played a lot of Fire Emblem; Smash Bros. Brawl; Tales of Symphonia 2; and Metroid Prime 3.  That said, I am a little surprised at some of the games on this list (especially since I never beat 2 of them):

1.  Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn -      146 Hrs. 29 Min. -      83 Times.
2.  Super Smash Bros. Brawl -      129 Hrs. 6 Min. -      49 Times.
3.  Okami -      79 Hrs. 54 Min. -      11 Times.
4.  Metroid Prime: Trilogy -      76 Hrs. 50 Min. -      10 Times.
5.  Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World -      61 Hrs. 37 Min. -      21 Times.
6.  Metroid Prime 3: Corruption -      58 Hrs. 4 min. -      25 Times.
7.  Opoona -      44 Hrs. 15 Min. -      5 Times.
8.  Super Mario Galaxy -      41 Hrs. 2 Min. -      12 Times.
9.  Zack & Wiki -      38 Hrs. 40 Min. -      15 Times.
10.  The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess -      38 Hrs. 22 Min. -      9 Times.

Wow, how'd all that time rack up on Opoona of all games?  I never even beat that one, and I probably played Symphonia 2 for a grand total of 10 hours.  Interesting that 3 games that I hated (Okami, Opoona, and Tales of Symphonia 2) all ended up on my Top 10 Most Played list.

[Mop it up]

The record-tracking of the Nintendo Channel is definitely not 100% accurate. It shows that I have played Little King's Story for 9 hours, which I KNOW is false because my file has 20 hours on it. I don't know what might cause the channel to miss data, but it certainly does.

Anyways, my top ten, which should come as no surprise to those who know my taste in games:

Rank	Game Title	Length of Time Played	Number of Times Played
#1	Mario Kart Wii	774 Hrs. 16 Min.	369 Times
#2	Animal Crossing City Folk	302 Hrs. 26 Min.	142 Times
#3	Super Smash Brothers Brawl	230 Hrs. 28 Min.	136 Times
#4	Internet Channel	172 Hrs. 45 Min.	154 Times
#5	Mario Super Sluggers	131 Hrs. 54 Min.	61 Times
#6	Mario Party 8	57 Hrs. 39 Min.	24 Times
#7	Super Paper Mario	40 Hrs. 38 Min.	20 Times
#8	Wii Sports	39 Hrs. 35 Min.	41 Times
#9	Super Mario Galaxy	38 Hrs. 12 Min.	26 Times
#10	Wii Play	25 Hrs. 22 Min.	26 Times

Like Tanatoes, I went through a period without a working computer, and that's why I got the Internet Channel. I rarely use it now, only for the occasional YouTube browsing.

[BeautifulShy]

Well my Number 1 on my list isn't a game and I have used it since June 2007.

#1 Internet Channel.
7,002 hrs 45 mins 812 times.
I know I use the channel alot but this is wild.I'm using it now.

# 2 Zelda TP 245 hrs 56 mins 41 times.
Some of this was when some friends played.Not much though.

#3 Brawl 239 hrs 8 mins.188 times.This is probably the game that I always go back to.

#4 AC:CF 132 hrs 27 mins 99 times.Don't play it as much as when I got it.

#5 MP3:Corruption 112 hrs 59 mins. 36 times. Still need to beat on Hyper Mode.

#6 Mortal Kombat Armageddon 104 hours 8 min. 31 times.Played lots of the Story mode. Finding all of the secrets.
#7 Tales of Symphonia:Dawn of the New World. 61 hrs 25 mins 15 times. Need to get back to this again. Beat it already.

#8 Super Mario Galaxy 54 hours 12 mins. 36 times. Still need to get all of the stars for Mario.I think i have 1 or 2 left.

#9 Mario Kart Wii 50 hrs 58 times. Still have a few things to unlock.

#10 Resident Evil:The Umbrella Chronicles. 46 hrs 14 times.
Need to S rank lots of things.

......

I find it odd that since coming here I have played less time than when I wasn't a member. Odd.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I've basically given my Wii to my mom, but if I were to go over there and look at the time, I'm sure it woul dlook like this:

Wii Sports - 600hrs
WiiFit - 300hrs
Grand Slam Tennis - 120hrs
Wii Sports Resort - 55hrs
SMG - 20hrs
TLoZ:TP - 15
Z&W - 13
HotD:O - 6hrs
.....
.....
.....
Wii Channel Screen (Home Screen)- 5hrs
Game Channel Screen (Start Game Screen) - 1hr 15min
MadWorld - 1hr
Controller set-up/reconnect screen - 52min

[vudu]

The record-tracking of the Nintendo Channel is definitely not 100% accurate. It shows that I have played Little King's Story for 9 hours, which I KNOW is false because my file has 20 hours on it. I don't know what might cause the channel to miss data, but it certainly does.

Do you ever turn off your Wii console without first existing back to the main menu?

[Caliban]

I want to join in on the fun.

Rank	Game Title	Length of Time Played	Number of Times Played
#1	Super Smash Bros. Brawl	96 Hrs. 32 Min.	30 Times
#2	TLoZ Twilight Princess	57 Hrs. 35 Min.	27 Times
#3	MP 3 Corruption	46 Hrs. 7 Min.	11 Times
#4	Okami	44 Hrs. 57 Min.	9 Times
#5	Super Mario Galaxy	34 Hrs. 38 Min.	14 Times
#6	Super Paper Mario	28 Hrs. 33 Min.	12 Times
#7	Mario Strikers Charged	16 Hrs. 38 Min.	8 Times
#8	Marble Saga Kororinpa	15 Hrs. 26 Min.	7 Times
#9	The Conduit	14 Hrs. 39 Min.	7 Times
#10	Wii Sports	13 Hrs. 15 Min.	19 Times

I don't really consider The Conduit to be on this list because it's going to be traded in, but Zack and Wiki QfBT would be on my list at #10 with 10h22m with 7 times played.


Hey, I do play VC games.

Rank	Game Title	Length of Time Played	Number of Times Played
#1	Mega Man 9	24 Hrs. 42 Min.	8 Times
#2	TLoZ Ocarina of Time	17 Hrs. 34 Min.	7 Times
#3	Super Metroid	14 Hrs. 24 Min.	3 Times
#4	Super Mario World	11 Hrs. 29 Min.	8 Times
#5	Super Mario 64	11 Hrs. 29 Min.	8 Times

Of special note, Super Mario Bros. 8h8m with 13 times played. For such a short game I think that says how much I love the game.

[Mop it up]

Do you ever turn off your Wii console without first existing back to the main menu?

All of the time, the only time I return to the menu is when I switch games. I looked at the play history for all days since getting Little King's Story, and the time adds up to about 21 hours. It is being recorded but for some reason the Nintendo Channel isn't registering it.

#1 Internet Channel.
7,002 hrs 45 mins 812 times.

7,000 hours? That is pretty crazy. I have no idea how you could spend so much time using the Internet Channel, especially if you don't have a USB keyboard.

I see a lot of commonality amongst everyone's lists. I'll bet I'm the only one to have Wii Play on their top ten... or at least the only one proud of it!

[BeautifulShy]

Oh I have one Mop_it_up. I think I got one around the time AC:CF was coming out.Keep in mind I DL the channel I believe a couple days before it was going to be 500 points the first time around. June 24th 2007 I believe. So needless to say It has got substantial use since then.

[vudu]

Do you ever turn off your Wii console without first existing back to the main menu?

All of the time, the only time I return to the menu is when I switch games. I looked at the play history for all days since getting Little King's Story, and the time adds up to about 21 hours. It is being recorded but for some reason the Nintendo Channel isn't registering it.

My theory is that this is the problem.  I never turn off my system without jumping back to the main menu first and all my times seem pretty accurate.

[stevey]

Rank	Game Title	Length of Time Played	Number of Times Played
#1	Internet Channel	230 Hrs. 51 Min.	383 Times (long periods of no computer/laptop/Internet)
#2	Super Smash Bros. Brawl	62 Hrs. 46 Min.	29 Times
#3	TLoZ Twilight Princess	48 Hrs. 37 Min.	18 Times
#4	Super Paper Mario	28 Hrs. 27 Min.	11 Times
#5	MP 3 Corruption	25 Hrs. 16 Min.	15 Times
#6	Super Mario Galaxy	24 Hrs. 15 Min.	9 Times
#7	Mario Kart Wii	23 Hrs. 39 Min.	22 Times
#8	Mario Strikers Charged	22 Hrs. 40 Min.	8 Times
#9	Metal Slug Anthology	19 Hrs. 53 Min.	11 Times
#10	Sonic and the Secret Rings	11 Hrs. 26 Min.	4 Times
#Last Place	Super Mario RPG: Legend of the 7 Stars	0 Hrs. 2 Min.	1 Times

I really need to play Mario RPG sometime....