Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
If you ignore the lazy shovelware, there were plenty of games that used the Wii Remote well. Like No More Heroes, MadWorld, and Nintendo's first party games. And the Wii was far from dark times, they perhaps one of the best times. Maybe not for the pretentious "hardcore" crowd who takes the medium way too seriously, but for everyone, it was fine. If anything, another Wii or DS is probably what Nintendo needs right now after the mess the Wii U made.
I'm definitely a "hardcore" gamer, if you mean someone who plays a lot of games (it's not just a casual hobby). Pretentious? Don't know about that. I adore games like Katamari Damacy that are just off the wall and have a wide or pick-up-and-play appeal, I just couldn't stand the waggle. I think there were like four games that I thought were better with the motion controls (one being the excellent Skyward Sword). But, there were so, so many games that forced you to use the wiimote and it was just ill suited to serve way too often. Stuff like the Metal Slug Anthology - you have to shake the controller to throw grenades. Why? It's terribly slow and clunky in what is a very frantic 2D shooter. Also, the wiimote tilted sideways is one of the worst controllers I've ever used dating back to the NES.
And the likes of Wii Sports and Resort I thought were entertaining in short bursts, but totally devoid of depth. I knew something was amiss when Wii Sports was first shown on stage and the movement of the players didn't seem to be controlled (in tennis), you just had to swing the remote. I give Nintendo a tip of the hat for getting my mom to purchase a Wii and actually play some videogames. That's pretty freakin' amazing. However, she also boxed up the one or two games she bought about six months after purchasing and used the system solely for Netflix. I'm not surprised in the least Wii sales plummeted near the end. The fad was over and people moved on.