Has anyone made a list of the top 50 Wii games?

[Nu-Eclipse]

Bit.Trip Complete
Minna no Rhythm Tengoku AKA Rhythm Heaven Fever AKA Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise
Captain Rainbow
No More Heroes
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Taiko no Tatsujin Wii
Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Do Don to 2 Daime
Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Kettei-Ban
Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Minna de Party 3 Daime
Tetris Party Deluxe/Tetris Party Premium
Donkey Kong Country Returns (3D on 3DS is better though - superior controls)
GoldenEye 007 (a homage to the Rare N64 classic that is better than expected)
A Boy and his Blob
MadWorld

[dataDave]

World of Goo is awesome. Charles is way off the mark with his comments.

I just recently CFW'd a colleagues Wii for him and his kids. Here's some of what I put on his HDD...

Personal highlights are in bold.

Animal Crossing Wii
Battalion Wars 2
BIT.TRIP COMPLETE
Dead Space: Extraction
Donkey Kong Country Returns
DONKEY KONG JUNGLE BEAT WII
Elebits
ENDLESS OCEAN
Endless Ocean 2
Excite Truck
ExciteBots: Trick Racing
FIRE EMBLEM: Radiant Dawn
GHOST SQUAD
Gunblade NY / LA Machineguns
Kirby's Epic Yarn
LINKS CROSSBOW TRAINING
MadWorld
Mario Strikers Charged Football
MarioKartWii
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Metroid: Other M
Monster Hunter Tri
New SUPER MARIO BROS. Wii
NO MORE HEROES
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Okami
Punch Out
Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition
Pinball Hall of Fame: William's Collection
Sin and Punishment 2
Sonic Colors
Wii Sports
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
SUPER PAPER MARIO
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
TATSUNOKO VS. CAPCOM ULTIMATE ALL-STARS
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2 AND 3 RETURN
The House of the Dead:OVERKILL
THE LAST STORY
[B]The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword/[B]
The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
Trauma Center Second Opinion
TRAUMA TEAM
Trauma Center New Blood
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Wii Sports Resort
Xenoblade Chronicles
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

[smouty]

I just recently CFW'd a colleagues Wii for him and his kids. Here's some of what I put on his HDD...

After he bought them of course.

[wakka]

Dave's list reminds me: Trauma Team is a brilliant game and one of my favourites on Wii - a very enjoyable mix of visual novel and dexterity based surgery minigames. The best in the Trauma series for me, and probably the only 2 player visual novel type game I've played.

This thread has also reminded me that there are still a few bits on Wii I'd like to pick up, A Boy And His Blob amongst them - I love Wayforward's stuff usually.

[charlesr]

World of Goo is awesome. Charles is way off the mark with his comments.

It's a great concept and I enjoyed playing it, but I wish I had played it for OCD kudos the first time around. By the time I'd finished playing it through and completed every single level first time (there's absolutely no challenge), I didn't have the will to play through again for the extra challenges.

I guess I just prefer games that are a bit harder.

[speedlolita]

If TvC was on any other console it would be totally ignored. Rubbish Marvel clone, avoid.

[fuse]

Knew I wouldn't be the only one using this thread as a shopping list

Will try and have a rifle through what I've got later on and see if there's anything I can add, but plenty of really solid lists being shared here.

Dave's list reminds me: Trauma Team is a brilliant game and one of my favourites on Wii - a very enjoyable mix of visual novel and dexterity based surgery minigames. The best in the Trauma series for me, and probably the only 2 player visual novel type game I've played.

This is US/JPN exclusive, right? I have heard nothing but love for it; a really bizarre omission from the UK release list.

If TvC was on any other console it would be totally ignored. Rubbish Marvel clone, avoid.

It already is totally ignored, until people actually get talking specifically about the Wii's library. I personally quite like it, and on the contrary think that if it was on any other system, that it'd have been far more popular (but likely still overlooked by many).

[wakka]

That's right [MENTION=3822]fuse[/MENTION] - the English language version is a US exclusive. Agreed that it's an odd omission, a great game that's well worth a play.

Another great Wii game that I've mentioned before (and often gets overlooked) is You Don't Know Jack. Brilliant party game that is again a US-only release. To some extent it's superceded but newer versions of the game on PS4 etc, but their smartphone-based multiplayer controls are far less responsive than the Wiimotes, and can lead to frustration. A very solid 73 'episodes' means it has a ton of content too - but make sure you have at least 1 friend to play with.

Fortune Street and You Don't Know Jack with 4 Wiimotes is a great games night

[fuse]

Has anyone made a list of the top 50 Wii games?

I have YDKJ on the 360; believe it's the same version as the Wii and would agree on that one - it's great fun. Would imagine PS3 is the version of choice for most given the region-free aspect of it, but number of controllers might also factor into it.

[dataDave]

It's a great concept and I enjoyed playing it, but I wish I had played it for OCD kudos the first time around. By the time I'd finished playing it through and completed every single level first time (there's absolutely no challenge), I didn't have the will to play through again for the extra challenges.

I guess I just prefer games that are a bit harder.

A few of the levels had me scratching my head, but yeah it's not an overly taxing game. Although in saying that it's about the same difficulty as everything else really. I like games that take different angles on each and every stage. There's only this and SM3DW that have done that in recent memory.

The soundtrack too!

[charlesr]

The visuals too - very distinctive, living structures.

[Kit]

Strange. I completed a fair few Wii games but only recall TP, Smash Bros, Mario Galaxy, and the resi 4 port.

[Asura]

Thanks everyone, there's a bunch of stuff here I might check out. I've snipped out the titles I'm interested in from your posts (as many of you either mentioned duplicates, or the obviousl dozen or so Nintendo first-party titles):

Zelda Skyward Sword.
Dead Space Extraction.
Dragon Quest Swords )Lots of fun this).
Lost in Shadow.

Question, is Dragon Quest Swords a full Wii version of that plastic-sword TV game? As I had that briefly when I lived in Japan. It was great fun; I'll definitely pick this up.

Fragile Dreams

This sounds particularly interesting.

Excite Truck was one of the first and best, such great control.

Jambo Safari by sega also great fun tearing about catching animals

I actually have Excite Truck but have never got around to playing it. Also, is Jambo Safari based on the arcade game? As I've played that before and it's superb daft fun.

Mario Strikers
The Conduit

I've seen these come up in a few places - are they really that good?

Battalion Wars 2
ENDLESS OCEAN
Endless Ocean 2
Sonic Colors

I have Battalion Wars 1 for the Cube, but it's on my "to play" pile.

Also Endless Ocean? Are these particularly good?

I've heard pretty decent things about Sonic Colors. Certainly the Colors level in Sonic Generations was decent, so I might check this out soon.

If I could add one recommendation for people, it'd be:

Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games

However, make sure you get the Wii game, not the WiiU one. The WiiU game is far narrower in scope; in particular it doesn't support the Wii balance board, and that's one of the previous game's best features.

[dataDave]

All of the games I listed are alright. Perfectly legit if comprising a top 50.

Endless Ocean is quite a nice relax'em up. It was well favoured here by the few who played it anyway.

[dataDave]

How are we going to build this top 50 then? We should make it a feature for the site.