# Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 22, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589 "2008-01-22T23:37:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/1 "2008-01-22T23:37:24Z")
Well I’ve finally taken the plunge and ordered my Wii which should arrive either tomorrow or the day after. Looking forward to some psychadelic time chasing stars as Mario and searching (for the umpteenth fucking time) for the princess in Zelda. Can anyone recommend any good games to me to try out? Ones I already have on my list are the Trauma Centre games, Zelda and Metroid and probably the Simpsons game as well. Grateful for some reflections that don’t come from the pens of professional computer game reviewers for a change. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/2 "2008-01-22T23:49:40Z")
Are you planning to go online with your Wii? Post your console code; I’ve gotten lots of neat Mii’s from the people on this board. I highly recommend Zelda (it starts out a bit slow, but there’s a nice spin on the “find the princess” bit). How about Super Mario Galaxy? Oh, and don’t forget about the Virtual Console for classic games. ---
**Author:** ![hekk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@hekk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hekk)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/3 "2008-01-22T23:51:29Z")
Avoid the Simpsons game at all costs, it’s like seasons 13-Now all over again,in game form. WarioWare is essential! Funny and fun to play, with innovative uses of the Wiimote and nunchuck. The Wii Zapper and Link’s Crossbow training is a blast. All the games you listed are good choices. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/4 "2008-01-22T23:52:40Z")
You might choose to ignore my advice based on my sig, but here goes… Excite Truck is awesome. “Driving” a truck with the Wiimote is so cool. I can’t wait to try it in Mario Kart. Everyone tells me Super Mario Galaxy is great and I’ve got it at home, but I haven’t tried it yet. I’m a big fan of the Wii Zapper and at $20 for the Zapper itself and Link’s Crossbow Training, it’s a steal. Finally, be prepared to spend a lot of time on Wii Sports. It will take over your life for the first few days. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/5 "2008-01-22T23:58:33Z")
“Rayman’s Raving Rabbids” is goofy fun. For Christmas I got a game called “Mercury Meltdown”, which is kind of like one of those marble-maze games except you are navigating a blob of mercury instead of a solid ball. I was telling my wife a few weeks ago that somebody should do a “Star Wars” type of game for the Wii where you can have light-saber duels. Just a couple days later I was reading an article about a game being developed for the Wii called “No More Heroes”, where you are an assassin with a laser katana. It’s coming out today, I believe. I may have to check that one out. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/6 "2008-01-23T00:04:17Z")
I haven’t had as much fun playing a game as I have with Super Mario Galaxy in a long time. Also, Wii Sports is the best game ever that has come packaged with a console. I’m not kidding. It’s better than Super Mario Brothers, and even better than Super Mario World. Once you get the hang of tennis and bowling, you might not feel the need to buy another game for a few weeks. You made a great decision to buy this system! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/7 "2008-01-23T00:09:33Z")
[QUOTE=Shoeless] I was telling my wife a few weeks ago that somebody should do a “Star Wars” type of game for the Wii where you can have light-saber duels. [/QUOTE] Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is coming over the summer and will have Lightsaber duels. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/8 "2008-01-23T00:10:42Z")
[QUOTE=Shoeless] I was telling my wife a few weeks ago that somebody should do a “Star Wars” type of game for the Wii where you can have light-saber duels. Just a couple days later I was reading an article about a game being developed for the Wii called “No More Heroes”, where you are an assassin with a laser katana. It’s coming out today, I believe. I may have to check that one out. [/QUOTE] There’s also an actual Star Wars game in development called Force Unleashed, which will presumably have some lightsaber dueling action. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/9 "2008-01-23T00:29:15Z")
Buy Guitar Hero III, it’s a good game you can pick up and play for just 15-20 minutes and it is fun. Zelda, Metroid are more games you would play if you have at least an hour block of time. So when mjy wife says she will be ready in about 5 minutes, I know that means 30 minutes and I can play some GHIII. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/10 "2008-01-23T00:40:59Z")
The most annoying thing about the 3-letter-word search limit is trying to find the threads from before where people were sharing their Miis. I added pretty much everyone from both threads I could find, but haven’t gotten much of a response. Feel free to post yours, though–I’ll keep an eye on this thread. My console is 8694 4375 0173 0781, for what it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/11 "2008-01-23T11:59:01Z")
[QUOTE=Drain Bead] The most annoying thing about the 3-letter-word search limit is trying to find the threads from before where people were sharing their Miis. I added pretty much everyone from both threads I could find, but haven’t gotten much of a response. Feel free to post yours, though–I’ll keep an eye on this thread. My console is 8694 4375 0173 0781, for what it’s worth. [/QUOTE] You’ll have to enlighten me - what is this Mii thing you speak of? I have wireless at home so will indeed be potentially up for online gaming. The virtual console, am I right in thinking that’s the Nintendo back catalogue of games from previous systems that you can access/download? ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/12 "2008-01-23T13:42:24Z")
The Miis are your virtual avatars. If you enter the console number of your friends, and they enter yours, the Miis will end up wandering around and mingling with one another. It’s very cute. They also have a Check Mii Out channel, where you create themed Miis for contests or upload Miis you’ve created. It’s fun to create celebrity Miis. The Virtual Console is exactly what you think it is, and it’s addictive. You may need a “Classic controller” to run some of the games, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/13 "2008-01-23T14:25:28Z")
You _must_ buy Super Mario Galaxy and Super Paper Mario. I also like the Simpsons game and Wii Play. I’m looking forward to getting Lego Star Wars, WarioWare, and Zelda: Twilight Princess. Also, in case anyone is interested, my Wii number is 3527 0289 0185 8083. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/14 "2008-01-23T14:35:20Z")
And I found the [Mii-sharing thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=401850). ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/15 "2008-01-23T14:42:19Z")
Though I haven’t actually played it myslf, I say buy Mario Party 8. The previous ones where wicked fun if you played them with some mates. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/16 "2008-01-23T14:42:58Z")
Don’t forget, in order to receive Miis from another person you both have to have each other in your respective systems. ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/17 "2008-01-23T14:48:49Z")
Just another note, I don’t know if you already had a GameCube before getting your Wii, but if not, the whole GameCube library is now open to you as well. _Soul Calibur II_ (including Link as a bonus character!) was worth the price of the GC all by itself, and there are a bunch of other great games you might want to check out: _The Wind Waker_, _Skies of Arcadia_, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/18 "2008-01-23T15:00:47Z")
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus] You’ll have to enlighten me - what is this Mii thing you speak of? I have wireless at home so will indeed be potentially up for online gaming. The virtual console, am I right in thinking that’s the Nintendo back catalogue of games from previous systems that you can access/download? [/QUOTE] Our whole family have set up individual Miis so we can keep track of how we are doing in the Sports games. For New Years Eve we had a Wii bowling party with our friends and their kids and had a blast. The Virtual Console let us download the classic Nintendo games we loved including _Starfox_, _Zelda: Ocarina of Time_ and _Yoshi’s World_ (my wife always thought it was cute :rolleyes: ). Seconded (thirded? Seventh? Whatever) for _Galaxy_, _Zelda_, _Metroid_ and _Wario_. If you have kids the _Cooking Mama_ is cute and funny (my 7 YO loves it). Stay away from _Nights_. Horrible controls and frustrating. Word of warning: Keep the wrist straps tight! We have two holes in the wall from over excited tennis players. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/19 "2008-01-23T15:10:26Z")
[QUOTE=Drain Bead] The Virtual Console is exactly what you think it is, and it’s addictive. You may need a “Classic controller” to run some of the games, though. [/QUOTE] I’ve found that trying to play Virtual Console games with a GameCube controller is ridiculously hard because the controls are mapped to buttons that make no sense intuitively. But the Classic Controller will map all of the controls to their “correct” buttons from the SNES or N64 days. NES games can just be played with a Wiimote held sideways. Instant NES controller! ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589/20 "2008-01-23T16:07:41Z")
[QUOTE=Slypork] Stay away from _Nights_. Horrible controls and frustrating. [/QUOTE] _Lies_! I think NiGHTS is fantastic and highly recommend it. Also - Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii/434589.md?page=2)