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Off the top of my head:
Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Metroid Prime: Corruption, Metroid: The other M, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Kirby’s Return to Dream Land, Super Smash Bros Brawl., Zelda: Skyward Sword, Mario Kart Wii, Sin and Punishment: Star Successor, Trauma Center, Punch-Out!!, Super Paper Mario, New Super Mario Bros Wii.
Ma’am, if that’s shovelware I’ll be glad to be buried alive.
I’ll be glad to list out phenomenal 3rd party games for the Wii too, as well as some non-core 1st party titles that I neglected to place in the list above. Here’s a teaser for some 3rd parties, just for tits: No More Heroes, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Sonic Colours, Red Steel 2, Zack & Wiki, Mad World… Just give the word. I’m itching to list out more amazing games in the Wii library - 1st party or 3rd!
You see, the games certainly are there. Quality games, too. Motion, non-motion, or a bit of both. Now I wouldn’t say it’s unfair to claim the Wii has shovelware on it, but I WILL say it’s unfair to say Nintendo isn’t trying, or that their games are uninspired, or that there are no good 3rd party games (a common claim by HD twin whores), or that the Wii is the only console to ever have a large batch of shovelware titles from bad developers (take a gander at the library of any console that was dominant for its own generation).
Now it’s fine that you dislike motion controls - no one is making you play those games. I mean, you’re missing out on some fantastic titles but that’s your choice. However, it seems to me you’ve done what almost every other quote unquote ‘hardcore gamer’ has done this generation and dismissed the Wii due to frivolous conjectures passed on by people and quite probably ‘journalists’ who wouldn’t know a quality device or piece of software if it bit them in the dicks.
Again, the Wii hate is very much unfounded. The garnered distaste for the Wii among the ‘hardcore’ is spurred by the fact it isn’t a powerhouse console (laughably by the same people who don’t realize Nintendo’s GC was stronger than the PS2, or that the N64 was stronger than the PS1), and by the fact that Nintendo tapped into a previously ignored market that is their sisters, parents, and grandparents who are some how going to ruining gaming as we know it by pumping more money into the industry.
See what I mean when I say Nintendo can’t win? Nintendo caters to the “hardcore”? No one buys and they lose money (N64, GCN). Nintendo caters to the “casuals” (Wii marketing)? Nintendo makes money but the hardcore that ignored them in the first place give them shit. Nintendo caters to everyone (which is what they actually did this generation)? Nintendo makes money, the “casuals” have fun, the “hardcore” bitch because that’s all they’ve every done and will do.
Meanwhile, the people like me - who enjoy a good god damn Mario game or love a god damn classic Zelda or get excited to see fresh and unique 3rd party games - will always be happy.
…But don’t you ever, EVER, MOTHER FUCKIN’ EVER TELL ME, THAT MOTHER FUCKIN NINTENDO DON’T TRY, OR THAT THEY DON’T DO WHAT THE FANS WANT THEM TO DO, OR THAT THEY PUMP SHOVELWARE, OR THAT THEY’RE GAMES ARE UNINSPIRED, BECAUSE YOU WANNA KNOW SOMETHING? THAT’S A SHIT DAMN PISS WHORE LIE
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phew
glad i got that one off my chest