How's your Wii doing?

[loempiavreter]

Play Ghost Squad a lot still plug it in sometimes, play the max score route and get better.

Gunblade NY & LA Machineguns, decent lightgun shooter dont play it as often as Ghost Squad or HOTD 2, but still get's play.

HOTD 2 & 3, mostly play 2 since I play 3 on Xbox with 2 shotguns (transformable snipers), and Im to lazy to hook up the lightgun for the dreamcast since I don't want to go through the boxes with hardware stuff.

HOTD Overkill, Like all the other lightgun games and rail shooters play those a lot

Sin & Punishment: Star Succesor I replay the last stage all the time, that boss gauntlet is probably the best part of the game.

Coutner Force is antoher rail shooer, saw it in the arcades a few times as Ex-Zeus. Not one of the higher quality titles and I don't really like mechs.

MadWorld gets some replay, it feels like Shadow of Rome with lesser fighting system... but I love the designs and re-fighting some bosses from time to time.

No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, No More Heroes should have a "VS Boss" mode like in Desperate Struggle, like to play that mode on DS and still doing that every now and then, No More Heroes had better bosses... but I dont wanna play through the game again for the 6th time to get to the boss fights.

Spyborgs has the issues of a western 3d Beat'em Up but I enjoyed it, still looking for those damn invisible tapes! But haven't touched it in a while.

Pirates Plundarrr is a slightly inferior castle crashers rip off type of belt scroller, theres some cool weapons in it. Art direction is pretty bad though.

Red Steel 2, I like this one reminds me of a First Person slasher (flashbacks of Maken X while playing this game). Swordfighting is fun, could get a little more attention to get an adequate fighting system but the wii controls work, theres a bit of lack on boss fights, but the bosses who are there are fantasticly designed it reminds me of Moebius work. I redo a bit of the stage to do a boss fight from time to time.

Soul Calibur Legends I actually play this haha... Finished it once wasnt THAT bad.

Saint like a budget shmup based on a chinese manhua comic hehe.

Sengoku Basara 2 + Heroes
Same formula as always, played this in multiplayer a lot but barely touched it lately.

Toshinden isnt that bad, took me a while to figure out you have to buy your character moveset in the combo make menu, and then yo ucan make those chain combo's.

Twinkle Queen is a decent 2d Fighter... but I havent really touched it in fear of all the loli art direction aaargh...

Zangeki no Reginleiv is like Earth Defense game... Probably my favorite japanese import.

Captain Rainbow... all sorts of dissaspointments for me... Guess you have to be a japanese speaking nintendo fan to enjoy this parody.

Ougon no Kizuna this game is buggy freezes a lot, its a few generations too late. But Its kinda like Sengoku Basara with some small rpg elements and huge ass boss fights, and fucked up frame rate and enemies who appear out of nothing very close near you

Wiiware

Zombie Panic in Wonderland is a decent Wild Guns type of game, replay it often as wit hall of these type of games.

Eco Shooter: Plant 530 another Lightgun shooter, play this one the least probably of the eco theme. Its has some decent mechanics though.

GhostSlayer is rail slasher, its pretty fun game. Ok it cannot compare to Konami's Tsurugi: The Sword or Namcos Mazan: Flash of the Blade which are arcade quality lightsword games (for the lack of better word for the term ).

Rage of the Gladiator is some arena type of wiimote slashing, works great with the motion controls, hate the art direction for it though.

Overturn is a fun little Virtual On type of game, never played it online though.

Onslaught is a Japanese FPS and one I like as the emphasis is on scoring and fast paced gameplay (without it being a deathmatch game).

Tomena Sanner is a quirky little japanese title I havent actually touched it al lthat much but it looks vibrant

Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth ok not such a big fan, but it isn't bad.

Contra Rebirth I liked it better then Contra 4, I play this one from time to time.

Frobot is a funny puzzler with some action segments, and enough boss fgiths to satisfy my needs.

Pole's Big Adventure is a Japanese SEGA wiiware title that parodies their rivals and theirselves. It isn't great gameplay wise but it's immensly great fun for the gags if you can manage to get this one.

Discipline, now this is some weird fuckign game that at one point should've gotten a western release by Xseed, but they dropped out of it (wyrdward please change their minds again!). The brain behind this, Kazutoshi Iida is working @ Grasshopper Manufacture now, but this is some twisted little adventure game with reminince to Kenji Eno's sound stuff, as it plays a big part in this game. Your trapped in a prison which you need to escape and u use this David Cronenberg-like machine to spray fluid and that effects sound its really bizarre. There used to be a playthrough of this on youtube, wanted to psot it here but theyve been taken off unfortunately, here are some scans:


What Im looking forward too is mostly Wiiware stuff now:

Ark of Sinners looks like a decent platformer in the Ninja Gaiden vein, Horizon Riders is a rail Shooter like the wiiware version of Sin & Punishment and La-Mulana remake.

I might try Last Story in the future, looks more Hack 'n Slash-y then your usual RPG and maybe Muramasa but Im reluctant to try that one since I heard its grind-y?

And for a change Im actually looking forward to a lot of new games on Ps3/Xb360 with Shadows of the Damned, Anarchy Reigns, Asura's Wrath, El Shaddai, Ninja Gaiden III, Rise of Nightmares, Project Draco, Child of Eden, Codename D, Mortal Kombat, Moondiver, Lucha Fury.

[hidetoshidecide]

For me, the Wii is a secondary Netflix streaming box and toy for the kids. There are a lot of gamers' games that I would like to play on it, but it almost always loses out to the convenience of my handhelds or, if I play a console, lounging in bed while playing the PS3.

[evilakito]

It's really not fair for me to answer this question since I'm not really actively playing any of my game systems. I use my PSP every now and then to chip away at the Ys games, and Hard Corps: Uprising has given my PS3 a little bit of use, but that's pretty much it. However, my Wii probably gets more use than any of my other game systems, but that's only because of Netflix (of all the consoles, I like the Wii Netflix interface the best).

[thethird]

Most all of my game systems are gathering dust lately, but the Wii has seen a lot of action since Christmas, what with me acquiring Sin and Punishment 2, Kirby, and Donkey Kong.

That being said I expect it to go back to relative inactivity, though my brothers still play it lots.

[Lash]

Almost strictly Virtual Console.

[kitten]

Huh, I thought I posted in here. My net must have went down hours ago when I tried to post it, I remember some message not going through.

Anyway, I don't think I've played a Wii game for more than an hour since No More Heroes 2 (aside from test-running Other M, which I'll go back to when I get back in a gaming mood). It's pretty much strictly Virtual Console and Rebirth games, now, and I only play those a couple times a month, tops :S

[X-pert74]

I've been playing the odd game here and there. I have homebrew on my Wii which is awesome. I haven't really played my Wii lately, but part of that is because I haven't bought many Wii games over the past year or two. I still don't even own New Super Mario Bros. Wii yet, although I enjoyed what I've played of it.

[Kyrael Seraphine]

I, uh, don't own one? I kind of wouldn't mind one, I just never got around to getting one.

[Shellshock]

Well, so far it seems like most of us are still using it here and there. I didn't expect it, really.

[kitten]

You should have really included a "playing it fairly regularly, and for more than just one purpose" option, to see how many people are actually getting a lot of use out of it as opposed to the amount of people who rarely do anything with it.

[Warchief Onyx]

Mine's been collecting dust since I beat Other M last year.

I'll see what E3 holds in the future. If there's nothing that interests me, I'm selling it.

[hidetoshidecide]

Checking up a bit on the Wii library, pretty much everything seems to be available for next to no money. I may have to catch up at some point.

[megatronbison]

I use it solely for the homebrew stuff- and even then...very rarely
Mind you I tend to take a while to dedicate my time to playing anything these days.

[TheGunheart]

Mar 27, 2011 16:49:11 GMT -5 Shellshock said:

Is Red Steel 2 worth it with Motion Plus?

Seeing how I got it for $20 for the whole bundle, yes.

It's a bit different from your average FPS in that the levels are more based around an explorable hub with you carrying out missions from checkpoints.

The combat is really fun, with the guns and sword being pretty well balanced at the start, though latter on you can get upgrades that bypass most of the enemies' defense against bullets. It's also a little grindy if you want all the upgrades.

Still a very fun game, though. The big problem is that the difficulty never really escalates, meaning the first boss is the hardest and the final one is the easiest.

[kog3100edw]

The wii is used quite a lot in my house.

We don't have a ton of disc-based games for it, but it just seems like every other month or so there's a must-own game released for it: Muramasa, Sin&Pun2, Sonic Colors, Epic Mickey, Mario Galaxy games. In fact, I'd put the first two as Game of the Year in their respective USA release years, and Sonic Colors is probably the best 3d Sonic since the Dreamcast years.

Fair amount of lightgun game use too... since HDTVs don't get along with older console lightgun systems.

We use it for wiiware and Virtual Console even more than for discs.

So for me, it certainly isn't gathering dust. I think its third party content could be a lot better, but as I said, it seems like every so often a biggie hits. I second anger over no Xenoblade in the West... Illvelo too.