RE4 on Wii is freaking fun! Using the Wii-Mote to control combat is a blast!
While RE4 isn't a pure first-person shooter, I fail to see how Nintendo hasn't lined up a long list of shooters for its console. Are companies like Activision with COD4 and Valve with Half-Life simply not willing to dumb down the tech specs of their game to make it Wii friendly?
Wii has the same power of Xbox 1 and shooters like Wolfenstein, Halo 2, Far Cry Instincts, and more weren't half-bad shooters.
Using the Wii-Mote to aim would make for the best shooter on a console to date. Dare I say, it might even be more immersive than a quick mouse control system?
What gives Nintendo? Why spend so much time and money on rhythm and mini-games, when you have a huge market for shooters? Seems like a waste with so many people already owning the new Nintendo console. :|
First off, Half Life 2 doesn't have good graphics anymore. It simply looks dated. Artistically it looks beautiful, but so did games on the SNES. From a technical level, it came out in 2004 and it looks like a 2004 game. And as for the physics, perhaps you haven't heard of Elebits. 
Where're your precious contradictions now? 
Hee hee hee... Tell me, did I say it looks bad? Of course not. The game looks great, but it looks great from a stylistic and art standpoint. The fact you have to bring up a mod speaks volumes as to where it now stands technically. Either way, it's far from the cutting-edge graphics Mr. 128 would have you believe it is. As for the physics, yes Elebit's physics do tend to be floaty, but they're also employed in game on a larger scale than the physics in Half Life 2. Either way, it stands as evidence that the Wii is plenty capable when it comes to physics. 
If you're going to make claims like that, you'd better be able to back them up. Your entire argument hinges on the proposition that the Wii couldn't run Half Life 2. However, as has already been shown in this thread, the Wii is a more powerful system than the original Xbox, a system on which Half-Life 2 was released. If Half Life 2 was released on a weaker system (Xbox), why couldn't it be done on a stronger system (Wii)? Oh, and just to make this post a bit more bitter for you, 
Why must people insist upon putting words into others mouths? Once again, tell me where I said it looks bad. Not where you inferred I meant it, because such a basis is a fallacy. I said "It doesn't have good graphics" and "It looks dated" as a critique not of its graphics as a whole but as a critique on a technical level, the part of the graphics I stated I was critiquing repeatedly throughout my posts. And I'm not the only one think this. For example, in their review of The Orange Box, GameTrailers commented on the appearance that the Source engine was "beginning to look rough around the edges". But apparently you're focusing entirely on that, iignoring where I stated it did look great, from a stylistic and art standpoint, parts which last much longer than technical superiority. Now you need to answer another question: How does Half Life 2, unmodded, stack up against games like Crysis, Gears of War, or Uncharted? 
I thought so. Give you enough rope and you'll hang yourself. Yes, that does look worse that the PC version. You're right. It's Half-Life 2 "...without it's beautiful environments..." Hm. Haven't we heard that before? 
Grow up? For what, approaching a board whose purpose is to argue about video games (a fun but triffling matter) with a sense of humor, and on April Fools Day no less? And I'm the one who needs to grow up? I think not. Now your comments on Half-Life 2's graphics reveals something: the power of style. Compared to more modern games, the textures, the lighting, the other touches are themselves nothing special, but they come together to look great. Why? Because they're put together with great style. That's what I'm complimenting here, and what I believe to be of greater importance. After all, the texture work in Hour of Victory is superior to the texture work in Half-Life 2, but yet Half-Life 2 looks so much better. Why? Style. The game has a certain aesthetic it's going for and it nails it. But you seem to disregard this. This impression of mine is furthered by your comments on Elebits. Simple textures and geometry? That's the style it's going for, it's a cell-shaded game. Not every game need to aim for realism. That's boring. Please, be more considerate of style in the future when considering "graphics". As for the technical issues with Elebits, it's a Wii launch game. It was largely developed using an early Wii SDK, which was nothing more than a GameCube with a Wiimote & Nunchuck attached. In otherwords, for most, if not all, of Elebit's development it was made by only using basically half of the Wii's power. Now think of what it manages to accomplish with that. Suddenly the physics in Half-Life 2 go from seeming impossible to very possible. 
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