nintendo wii: 4-18-08 - 12-6-09. you will not be missed.

so i owned a nintendo wii for over a year and a half. the final straw came when i noticed there were no games at all coming out for the system, so i decided to trade it in at a local gamestop for some mega, huge store credit.

i kinda felt led to do it, i felt that someone else might need it more than me, and that someone else may find more enjoyment in it than i ever will. not to say that i didn't have good times with it, though those times were scarce at best. i figured that maybe some kid whose parents don't have enough money to buy a brand new wii could by my old one for half the price, thus making their kid(s) x-mas worthwhile.

the wii purchase was an impulsed one. once tatsunoko vs. capcom was announced for the system, i said to myself "holy shit, a wii-exclusive?? i gotta buy this system cuz i want that damn game." i was pretty vocal about me wanting the system. smash bros. brawl had just came out, and i've been wanting to play mario galaxy for the longest, considering the rave review it got. i was pretty much sold on the system.

after getting a ton of cash from a refund check, i was on a mission to buy it. sadly, i had a large phone bill to pay (this was before the better phone plan i have now.) and most of the funds from my refund check went to the bill.

my brother and i decided to split the costs, and a few weeks prior to the actual purchase, three of my friends chipped in (to my surprise) to buy me two wii games. (brawl and mario galaxy.) once i started up the system it was nothing but those two games nonstop, until they were beaten and i had nothing else to play.

i went out to gamestop by my former job frequently, checking to see if there were any good preplayed titles that were worth looking at.

i bought no more heroes, and i had a fair amount of fun with it. the open world segments were severely lacking, but the action, the concept, and crazy story/ characters had me playing the game. i bought the second nights game because i loved the first nights. luckily it played just like the first game, albeit more colorful, and less grainy, but it still wasn't a looker when compared to zelda or mario galaxy. the game's boss battles were really great, and the bosses themselves looked pretty astonishing.

i got a hold of sonic and the secret rings, and i actually had some fun with it, but i disliked the storybook setting and the forced running mechanic, even though it did work, sometimes it didn't. in late 2008, i bought copies of skate it and sonic unleashed. skate it had great motion controls but the visuals were disgusting, and the locales were claustrophobic when compared to it's ps3/xbox 360 counterparts. sonic unleashed was fun, aside from the werehog levels. the high speed levels reminded me of sonic rush. overall, it was a fun game. nothing super spectacular, and not as fun as it's ps3/xbox 360 versions.

by december, i snagged a copy of tatsunoko vs. capcom, and i pretty much geeked out over it. i loved the fact that it was bringing back that classic MvC style back in 2008, and it was also a neat break from super turbo hd remix.

in early 2009, the last two games for my wii were mad world and dead rising : chop til' you drop. mad world was one hell of a game, in all of it's stylistic bloody, gory, glory i'm surprised this title didn't catch on.

dead rising made use of the resident evil 4 engine, though it didn't look particularly great and it's entire game structure was sloppy it was nothing compared to it's 360 version.

overall my experiences with the wii were pretty good, though, not as good as my 360. after the novelty of the wii wore off, after brawls flare, and TvC's craziness/ appeal dissipated, i grew tired of the system.

i boxed it and it stayed in my closet for about a month.

then i proceeded to sell it.

i kinda came to the realization that, out of 100 new wii games that come out, only less than 3 of them turn out to be truly great, which justifies why my library of wii games was incredibly small.

overall i wasn't meant to have the system. it's a casual's system with casual appeal, nothing for a gamer like myself to really, fully embrace.

and it sucked a load of ass for fighting games. seriously, all wii has is TvC, KoF Orochi Saga (and who cares about THOSE games..) and the naruto clash of ninja games. (which haven't done anything new since 2004.)

i was having way more fun with my PS2 for christ's sake. and my interest in the 360 didn't really peak til' last winter.

the bottom line is:

if you have kids, or younger siblings, i guess the wii is the way to go. but if you're a GAMER, steer clear from this system and save yourself the 200.00 bucks.