Worst,MOST Overrated and Underrated Wii game

Ok, keep titles like Ninja Bread Man and any Ubisoft game with the letter Z in them. I would like to know what peoples thoughts are on the topic. As I said before, keep the shovelware out, but everyone has their own opinion on shovelware so I'll name mine...

WORST WII GAME EVER!
Alone in the Dark - The only half decent thing about this game is the music score and the VO isn't bad. Other than that, it has the worst controls, invisible walls, awful graphics and gameplay. I bought it for $10 and played about 30 minutes worth. I would of played less but I was trying to find something in this garbage. Quite possibly the worst $10 I have ever spent on a game and I've been playing video games since the COLECOVISION.

MOST OVERRATED WII GAME: (Had to name 2)
No More Heroes - NMH had some cool character and dialog, the gameplay with the sword was pretty fun, but I thought the rest of the game was kinda half baked. Buying shirts (which was really just a pallet change) wasn't interesting, the jobs weren't much fun and why would you go around picking up coconuts for cash?? The hub world should not have even of been there, there's nothing to do in it but drive from A to B with nothing happening in between. The game designers should of just let the players pick where he wants to go instead of driving around in an empty boring hub world. I know it sounds like a crappy concept but no better than their hub world is pointless and time consuming.

MadWorld - Madworld has alot going for it, but the gameplay here is my biggest problem. I don't think I quite understood it. I found it hard and frustrating to get massive combos, all I could muster were crappy combos that barely got me any points. But that's probably just me as I know others on here love this game. And it seems for a few stages, I would get to the end boss almost without leaving the spot where I was and just waiting for baddies to run up to me. I preffered this game over NMH, but I couldn't get a grasp of the gameplay elements.

MOST UNDERRATED WII GAME:
The Conduit - Sales are picking up on this game so I'm quite happy. A few things I didn't like... Trying to connect to a game took forever and when you did, most of the time in my case, I was stuck with only my hud and a black screen with only the sound of gunfire coming from the speakers. The main character's dialog wasn't interesting and there were a few glitches in the game which I forget what they were. :) But I absolutely loved the controls, the weapons, graphics, pacing were all excellent. Played through the game twice in a few short months which is more than I did with Call of Duty: World at War (X360).

Anyways, don't hate me for hating on NMH and Madworld. I guess I'm a little bitter over the fact that I'm a loyal Wii owner who spent full price on those 2 games at launch and didn't get much enjoyment out of them.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks!!

Underrated: Castlevania Judgement, Onechanbara Bikini Zombie Slayers, Baroque.

Most Overrated???

I'm stuck on this one... I'd say it's a tie between NMH, Super Mario Galaxy, and Twilight Princess

Underrated: Trauma Center games, Sonic and the secret rings, house of the dead overkill, Mario Galaxy

Underrated: Trauma Center games, Sonic and the secret rings, house of the dead overkill, Mario Galaxy

JuarN18

balls of fury makes alone in the dark looks like a masterpiece so balls of fury is the worst wii game overrated wii game smash bros brawl its good but for an arcade brawler it focuses to much on muitl player and not enough on solo player underrated rune factory it gets great reviews but only half of all gamings magazines or web pages been reviewing itelbert_b_23

You do realize that's the point of an arcade brawler, right? They also added the Subspace Emissary, which some may not have liked, but it was an enormous step for single players over the previous two games.

[QUOTE="elbert_b_23"]balls of fury makes alone in the dark looks like a masterpiece so balls of fury is the worst wii game overrated wii game smash bros brawl its good but for an arcade brawler it focuses to much on muitl player and not enough on solo player underrated rune factory it gets great reviews but only half of all gamings magazines or web pages been reviewing itKhadaj32

You do realize that's the point of an arcade brawler, right? They also added the Subspace Emissary, which some may not have liked, but it was an enormous step for single players over the previous two games.

No, Melee was just as fun by your self you could play against three computers and it was fun. In brawl the computers are horrible and the new features were not very good. So I agree that SSBB is the most overrated wii game. The most underrated is Little Kings Story.

[QUOTE="Khadaj32"]

[QUOTE="elbert_b_23"]balls of fury makes alone in the dark looks like a masterpiece so balls of fury is the worst wii game overrated wii game smash bros brawl its good but for an arcade brawler it focuses to much on muitl player and not enough on solo player underrated rune factory it gets great reviews but only half of all gamings magazines or web pages been reviewing itCruse34

You do realize that's the point of an arcade brawler, right? They also added the Subspace Emissary, which some may not have liked, but it was an enormous step for single players over the previous two games.

No, Melee was just as fun by your self you could play against three computers and it was fun. In brawl the computers are horrible and the new features were not very good. So I agree that SSBB is the most overrated wii game. The most underrated is Little Kings Story.

You can do the same in Brawl >_> And I found the AI to be appropriate, acting accordingly to the challenge you set them to. The new features are based on pure opinion, but it doesn't change the fact that they added a new solo feature, whether you like it or not. I think a lot of people are just butt-hurt over the lackluster online, which I agree is a big let-down. Though that falls under the category of multiplayer...

Worst Game for the Wii?

Monkey Mischief! Party Time

Why? Waggle and you'll win I promise.

Overrated game?

New Super Mario Bros. Wii or Wii Music I'm not sure but one's good and one should have been good but it's not really.

Underrated?

A Boy and his Blob and I can now safely say that FFCC: The Crystal Bearers is a underrated game.

I'll second A Boy and His Blob as being underrated.

For the money, House of the Dead: Overkill is probably the most fun. It's short, but that's okay, because you only really need so many different scenarios that you can kill a zomb- uh, I mean mutant. The replayability is really indefinite. Sure,anyone will eventuallyget sick of shooting the undead, but you just can't help going back to it. Especially with friends.

Not sure about overrated, but Mario Baseball or Olympic Games seem like they could be up there. I just can't imagine that either one is worth the asking price.

Overrated: Madworld

Underrated: Boom Blox (and a ton of others like Lost Winds, Silent Hill, Zack and Wiki...)

Worst Wii game: Alone in the Dark isprobably the closest answer I can think of. I gave the game so much chance, but it farted on itself again and again in SIMPLE CONTEXT SENSITIVE AREAS. At least in Far Cry, you can laugh at how bad it is. But this is a inferior port to one of the worst disappointments of last year. And that's saying something. Runner up goes to Mario Party 8.

Most Overrated: New Super Mario Bros Wii. I've played this game before. It was called Super Mario World, which was madeover 15 years ago.I can understand the term 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' but all I saw was a crap load of rust on what wasonce a squeaky wheel. Second place goes to Deadly Creatures - the game sucked in too many places for it to even consider '7' territory'.

Most Underrated: On impulse, No More Heroes, since I think it's a masterpiece -but because a group of like-minded people actually *get* the insanity I'll say Geometry Wars Galaxies. No one bought this game. You Little King Story fanatics and Zack and Wiki hoons claim you care about quality 3rd party stuff, but you most likely failed in buying the best.

I'll say Geometry Wars Galaxies. No one bought this game.

Optusnet

Under-rated:

Zelda: Twilight Princess

Although it was indeed a gamecube port and the waggle controls were merely tacked on, if one refrains from comparing it to previous Zelda instalments...Twilight Princess is a highly enjoyable adventure.

Over-rated

The Conduit

What a piece of crap. Horrible controls, horrible graphics, horrible a.i., horrible story-line, horrible level design, horrible pacing, the list goes on. The fact that the Wii can in fact handle a high quality FPS was proven successfully with Metroid Prime 3, the Conduit being held in such high praise is like insisting that there is nothing wrong with eating yellow snow.

Why do people like stating that NMH is overrated? It was something different in a sea of copy cats.This game (other than SSBB) made me a Wii Owner. There's no need to downplay the game just because NH2 is coming out.

[QUOTE="JuarN18"]

Underrated: Trauma Center games, Sonic and the secret rings, house of the dead overkill, Mario Galaxy

MonsieurX

IMO of course

Why do people like stating that NMH is overrated? It was something different in a sea of copy cats.This game (other than SSBB) made me a Wii Owner. There's no need to downplay the game just because NH2 is coming out.

InfinityMugen

No More Heroes is one of those games on the Wii board that has a very love/hate relationship. Some people are gonna put it in the "Underrated" column and others are gonna simply put it in the "Overrated" column.

My own personal overrated Wii game would have to be, as others have already mentioned, MadWorld. It just got really repetitive for me way too fast for me to find any enjoyment in the game.

As far as a game being underrated is concerned, and I'm kind of surprised no one else has mentioned this yet unless I missed it: De Blob. De Blob is an amazing game with kind of a new concept and a great soundtrack. I simply loved that game and it's definitely one of my favorites on the Wii.

Why do people like stating that NMH is overrated? It was something different in a sea of copy cats.This game (other than SSBB) made me a Wii Owner. There's no need to downplay the game just because NH2 is coming out.

InfinityMugen

As someone who thinks NMH is the best game on Wii, I can see how more people think it sucks than people who think it's good. People claim it's all style and no substance, but it's easy to not realise that it's style IS the substance. You didn't want to do the boss fights because of its deep combat system - but rather for how chock full of personality each one was.

The story was purposefully told off-key and in erratic fashion. The 'job' moments were a postmodern message to compulsory fetch quests and pointless minigames. Suda's already said the new minigamewith Jeane is a message towards the Petz series. And if you don't get the reference or the developer's self-indulgence or fourth-wall breaking, you simply didn't 'get' No More Heroes. Which is totally normal.

Most Underrated: On impulse, No More Heroes, since I think it's a masterpiece -but because a group of like-minded people actually *get* the insanity I'll say Geometry Wars Galaxies. No one bought this game. You Little King Story fanatics and Zack and Wiki hoons claim you care about quality 3rd party stuff, but you most likely failed in buying the best.

Optusnet

I got geo wars galaxies. Great game and the best of any of the geo wars games.

I'd also say deblob is under-rated...though not amazing.

I like eating yellow snow.

Why do people make stupid comments like "the Conduit being held in such high praise is like insisting that there is nothing wrong with eating yellow snow" when they don't agree with your choice?

The Conduit isn't perfect, it got mixed reviews for sure and I understand, and I'm not going to argue on those comments. But horrible controls? Come on... Most reviews that I've read, even the bad ones, praised the controls. So i don't think they can be that bad.

Under-rated:

Zelda: Twilight Princess

Although it was indeed a gamecube port and the waggle controls were merely tacked on, if one refrains from comparing it to previous Zelda instalments...Twilight Princess is a highly enjoyable adventure.

Over-rated

The Conduit

What a piece of crap. Horrible controls, horrible graphics, horrible a.i., horrible story-line, horrible level design, horrible pacing, the list goes on. The fact that the Wii can in fact handle a high quality FPS was proven successfully with Metroid Prime 3, the Conduit being held in such high praise is like insisting that there is nothing wrong with eating yellow snow.

chefstubbies

But no game on Wii is in quite the situation that Dead Space Extraction is in. A very good game - truly enjoyable and well made - it suffers from completely undeserved bashing from people who have never played the game and refuse to. Upon pressing, some of these people will even admit that it's probably a very well made game, but they are just going to continue bashing it regardless. It has received so much unfair criticism by people who haven't played the game that it's a "lazy effort" -- a judgment they base merely on its genre and none of those factors that actually testify to the quality of a game. So DSE is already stigmatised by most core owners and unknown to most others. But then it suffers from a further and wholly unique phenomenon that when someone acknowledges that they really truly enjoy the game and say it's underrated (for example, in GOTY awards) this evokes so much wrath and bitterness towards the game such as I've never seen before. Even people who enjoyed the game and said they loved it suddenly turn against it and attack it viciously. Sure, NMH and Okami might have been great and sold poorly. Sure, Deadly Creatures and LKS were brilliant and clever. No doubt too many people ignored Dawn of Discovery. But I have never seen a good game so unfairly maligned, that is the target of so much anger and resentment, and is so begrudged any recognition at all as Dead Space Extraction.clicketyclick

Couldn't agree more. The hatred people have for DSE is just unfounded.

Overrated:

Super Mario Galaxy - I have played Mario games since I first started up my NES with the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cartridge and have loved all of them until Sunshine which I was mildly disappointed by. Super Mario Galaxy is a terrible game with broken mechanics, bland level design, and terrible gameplay. It has destroyed everything that was great about Mario.

Underrated:

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - I would consider this the best game available for the Nintendo Wii. The strategy elements are perfectly entwined within this game and the difficulty is just right. I am sick of games, like Super Mario Galaxy, that just hold your hand for every step of the way. It is a great game and deserves more than the 6.0 that GS rated it.

I like eating yellow snow.

Why do people make stupid comments like "the Conduit being held in such high praise is like insisting that there is nothing wrong with eating yellow snow" when they don't agree with your choice?

The Conduit isn't perfect, it got mixed reviews for sure and I understand, and I'm not going to argue on those comments. But horrible controls? Come on... Most reviews that I've read, even the bad ones, praised the controls. So i don't think they can be that bad.

[QUOTE="chefstubbies"]

Over-rated

The Conduit

What a piece of crap. Horrible controls, horrible graphics, horrible a.i., horrible story-line, horrible level design, horrible pacing, the list goes on. The fact that the Wii can in fact handle a high quality FPS was proven successfully with Metroid Prime 3, the Conduit being held in such high praise is like insisting that there is nothing wrong with eating yellow snow.

Stucazzo

Why are you refering to a comment in my post as "stupid comment"?...Is the yellow snow not sitting well?

And what do you mean "when they don't agree with your choice"?...Who is "they"?

I didn't quote anbody, I was simply making my own individual personal opinion about what I feel are under-rated and over-rated games on the Wii. And with the controls in the Conduit...yeah...they were horrible, especially when I compare them to Metroid Prime 3.

How can a game released a year and a half prior have superior controls? By being over-rated.

Stop eating yellow snow...that's just stupid, :P