Topic: The officially un-official "What game should I get" Thread

[Stogi]

I just thought I'd let you guys know I found a Wii!

*Applause/cheering*

I stopped by Wal-mart on my way home from work to refill my water jugs and also get some rotisserie chicken (mmm....rotisserie). I decided I might as well see if they got any Wii's in stock, even though they probably don't. To my surprise they had 1 left...........behind the counter, hiding. I barely spotted the damn thing.

The funny thing is I gave up looking for it the day before and would just check if I happened to be in a store that sold them.

I'll write a first impression/opinion of the Wii in a bit, but right now I am in the market for a game. I already bought Wii play, seeing how it comes with a controller. And I purchased a second nunchuck controller.

I want to know what games you might recommend I play. I would like something multi-player so I can play with my brother (who LOVES wiisports/play), but I won't turn down suggestions for a deep single-player games either (like trauma center).

Anyway, thanks for your help in advance.

P.S. I am not connected to the internet. I will be in the next couple of weeks, and I'll post my Wii code.

[vudu]

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I'll write a first impression/opinion of the Wii in a bit

wow, You have an Wii?  LUCKY!!!!  Is it kewl?  I cant wait to try motoin controller.

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I want to know what games you might recommend I play.

Far Cry Vengeance

[Mashiro]

Single player: Legend of Zelda: TP and Resident Evil 4

Multiplayer: ::Shrugs:: lol

[Stogi]

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Originally posted by: vudu
I'll write a first impression/opinion of the Wii in a bit

You know what I meant. Don't be a prick.

And isn't far-cry the game that Kairon likes..........

Also Mashiro, I have already played and beaten both Zelda and RE4. As cool as the controls might be, I don't think I would be interested in buying them (seeing how I already own them).

Then again, isn't RE4 going at a discounted price? Does anybody know that price?

[Kairon]

What's your brother's taste in games?

For the old school arcade aficionado, Metal Slug Anthology has 7 official Metal Slug Games games and unlimited continues and is a beautiful time waster.

Trauma Center can be multiplayer if one of you is willing to play "Nurse" and hold the nunchuck.

Alien Syndrome is great for Gauntlet fans if you can get past the PSP graphics and get right into the 4-player co-op multiplayer and huge levels.

[vudu]

I'm a prick; deal with it.  

RE4 retails for $30.  It's worth playing again, especially for the extras that weren't in the original GCN version.  If you were good at the game the first time around, do yourself a favor and download a completed save file for the Wii version so you can jump right into Professional Mode.

[Mashiro]

Skip Zelda if you played it on GC (Controls don't make that much of a difference on the Wii version) but as Vudu said RE4 is worth playing again with the new controls.

And yeah it's only 30 bucks =) every sale also helps in making Capcom realize RE5 should be on Wii! I hope >.<

[ShyGuy]

Godfather and Super Paper Mario

[vudu]

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P.S. I am not connected to the internet. I will be in the next couple of weeks, and I'll post my Wii code.

Please hurry; BlackNMild and TVman are lonely.

[ShyGuy]

Now THAT'S funny.

racist

[Mysticspike]

I would say that Tony Hawks Downhill Jam is a great multiplayer game. I have it and love it. It's pretty easy, but a great game to play with other people, cause if they don't know what they're doing, you can pretty much own them.

I have two good single player games to suggest. Spiderman 3 is a fun game. It gets really difficult at times, but I love it, and it can be fun just to swing around doing sub-missiony tasks. For an easier single player game, I would suggest the Transformers game. Like I said in the Transformers thread, the camera control is a little hard to get used to, but you can fiddle with it in the settings. Once you to master the camera control though, it's a great game. A lot of the missions can be difficult, but with a few tries, you can take them down. Like Spiderman 3, it can be fun to just drive (or fly) around to get to the sub-missions, or just for the heck of it. I spend a lot of time practicing in the sub-missions when I can't beat a mission.

All three of these games, I would say, definitely try. They are all great games.

Hope I helped.

[Kairon]

I... I have TH downhill Jam and just didn't understand it at all when I played it. Maybe I'm just not a Tony Hawk gamer though.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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Originally posted by: ShyGuy
Now THAT'S racist!

funny

fixed

segregationist
j/k

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Originally posted by: KashogiStogi
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P.S. I am not connected to the internet. I will be in the next couple of weeks, and I'll post my Wii code.

I think you know who you should be passing that info around to first.... brotha

[Nemo]

RE4 is worth playing again especially at the price with the extras. Zelda would only be good if you didn't already play it.

For multiplayer, I'd recommend renting Rayman Raving Rabbids and/or WarioWare. I'd say buy 'em if they were $20, but they're $50.

[therat]

RE4
Zelda
Mario Strikers (next week)

How is SSx? anyone get that?

Maybe Alien syndrome if you like smash tv games and bad graphics (i gotto try this game)

Either GOdfather OR Scarface if you like GTA games... Seems godfather is the better of the two by a point or so (i havent tried either)

Cooking mama, wario ware and brain age are fun for a few days

Thats ALL id suggest for now if even. great games are on the horizon though. (check out my post on the best games of 07, ull get a variety of good things to come)

I gotto add vudu and mashiro to my wii, when i get home tomorrow ima send you guys my wii number...will you be my friends?

[Kairon]

Okay, I guess I have to contradict some people now that Pale's forced me to commit AGAINST some titles.

I would NOT suggest RRR for multiplayer. It's a neat concept alright, but has some issues that come with it since it's a launch title: some minigames are rather shallow, the game relies mostly on its charm, not all games are multiplayer, AND if you want to play the minigames outside of story mode... you've got to navigate through a TON of menues just to go from one game to another, if you can even find the game you're looking for since the game forces you to go to different menus of different jigsaw puzzles with only the game title to remind you what it was about. It's basically menu hell, that game's party mode.

I also really didn't "get" Tony Hawk Downhill Jam. It's basically the most disappointing Wii game I own... but perhaps I've never understood the Tony Hawk games? Either way, it isn't a Tony Hawk game, it's an SSX clone... and you might as well get SSX Blur if that's what you want...

Now to end on a positive note!

For single player games, you've got the improved-by-mere-use-of-the-wiimote ports Godfather and Scarface (which were already decent games before the Wii treatment, I believe). Super Paper Mario is an interesting platformer-with-hit-points rendition of the Paper Mario series, and must have a little bit of magic, considering my roommate borrowed it from a friend and proceeded to beat it in a matter of days. (that reminds me, I have to get my copy of godfather back...). If you're an old-school/arcade gamer who wouldn't mind some "you're not allowed to get hit" or "collect X rings" challenges, then the loose-and-fast Sonic and The Secret of the Rings is there, just acknowledge some slight losseness in tilt sensing from the wiimote.

Oh... but are you gonna be asking for VC recommendations too so that when you do get connected, you can be ready?

[Stogi]

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Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1

I think you know who you should be passing that info around to first.... brotha

Who? Bill?

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Oh... but are you gonna be asking for VC recommendations too so that when you do get connected, you can be ready?

Naaa....There are only a few select games for the VC that I would actually buy (Super Mario, Super Metiod, Majora's Mask, Pilotwings, just to name a few). Plus, most of those games haven't been re-released yet.

Anyway, my brother bought RE4 for me today (mentioning how he needs to contribute to my $320 purchase) and I played it for a bit. It's still pretty fun and definitely still intense, I just hate the fact that I have to play it all over again on normal. If I had an SD card, I'd plug that sh!t into my laptop, download a save file, and be done with it; but I can't!

I rented Red Steel too (Funny how no one recommended it). My brother's having a blast playing it. To him, it is the "Rawest Game Ever." I've played it a little too, and I though I can see where all the negativity comes from, I am actually enjoying this game very much.  The controls are definitely not the best, but in a way, it is still very refreshing the only way shooting somebody in the face can be.

I was thinking of picking up Trauma Center since my brother is currently studying to be a surgeon, but I thought I'd just wait.

I appreciate your guys' help but I realized that even though the Wii has a nice selection of games, I am not interested in many of them and it's kind of disappointing. Then I look at what the PS3 and 360 have to offer and it's even more disappointing (though Fifa 2007 is the best soccer game I have ever played).

It makes me think "Why should I even bother?" Like, "Why should I pay for a console, when I'll only buy a couple games?" But then I go and play Wiisports and all disappointments fade away.  

[Kairon]

LOL. Your bro got you RE4 anyways and took the decision out of your hands!

Wow! And Red Steel! That was the one game I was telling myself NOT to recommend. It's not that it's not fun, per se, it's just that for some reason I can't stand replaying it. Here's hoping the sequel fulfills all the promises the first one made.

Yeah, the pickings are there for the Wii, but they are slim. This is par for the course at this time in a console's life though. Have you given any thoughts as to what Wii games you're gonna gun for this fall? Or is it time to start saving up in anticipation of an XBox 360 price drop? Or do you just not have enough time anyways?

[Mashiro]

Yeah don't feel bad Kashogi, I rarely ever play my Wii now that I am done with RE4. Things will pick up in about a month with Metroid Prime 3 =)

[Kairon]

A MONTH?!?!?! ... I COMPLETELY forgot about MP3. In fact, it's my younger bro's job to get it himself, and I'm just gonna borrow it when he finishes it.

[Stogi]

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Originally posted by: Kairon
Have you given any thoughts as to what Wii games you're gonna gun for this fall? Or is it time to start saving up in anticipation of an XBox 360 price drop? Or do you just not have enough time anyways?

Yes. No, there's only one game I would buy for it, and the next iteration is being made for the Wii with Mii's! (Fifa 08). Sorta.

Like I said, I'll probably pick up the new Trauma Center. I'm definitely going to pick up Prime next month. Brawl and Forever Blue (I like this name better) are next up on my list. Forever Blue seems like the perfect way to unwind after a stressful day. I don't know if I'll pick up Galaxy right away. I'll probably bee to busy with school and other games to play it.

And Mashiro, don't worry. I'm not discourage, just disappointed.

[Smoke39]

No one's mentioned Excite Truck?  That's the only Wii game that I've played that I'd recommend.  I thought Super Paper Mario was boring and stopped playing it, and I like the 'Cube version of Zelda better than the Wii version.  Red Steel's okay, but renting it instead of buying it was probably a good choice.

[vudu]

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I would say that Tony Hawks Downhill Jam is a great multiplayer game. I have it and love it. It's pretty easy, but a great game to play with other people, cause if they don't know what they're doing, you can pretty much own them.

I have two good single player games to suggest. Spiderman 3 is a fun game. It gets really difficult at times, but I love it, and it can be fun just to swing around doing sub-missiony tasks. For an easier single player game, I would suggest the Transformers game. Like I said in the Transformers thread, the camera control is a little hard to get used to, but you can fiddle with it in the settings. Once you to master the camera control though, it's a great game. A lot of the missions can be difficult, but with a few tries, you can take them down. Like Spiderman 3, it can be fun to just drive (or fly) around to get to the sub-missions, or just for the heck of it. I spend a lot of time practicing in the sub-missions when I can't beat a mission.

All three of these games, I would say, definitely try. They are all great games.

Hope I helped.

Okay, mysticspike is now a confirmed dupe account.  Before there was the remote possibility that he was just a moron.  That possibility has ended.

The best part is the first time I read this post I thought it was Shift Key just being a jerk and recommending horrible games.  About three minutes later I did a double take and went back and discovered my error.  I laughed.

[IceCold]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn you, vudu, why must you steal my thoughts? As soon as you quoted Spike and I read your sentence about him being a dupe, I remembered how I thought it was Shifty who posted that since he has the same Metroid avatar. I have Quick Reply at the bottom, so I started to write how I was fooled, and how I did a double take too.

Then I glanced back at your post and the paragraph below, and discovered that you had written nearly exactly what I was about to.

[blackfootsteps]

If Mario Strikers is out over there I'd recommend for both single and multi. Its quite a bit more difficult than other Mario Sports titles and the online seems busy enough.