Mario Party 8 and Skyward Sword at the very least and are some of my favorite on the system. Maybe mention some more of the Wii games like Wii Play and Wii Party. The Wii was the system that got me hooked into gaming as a whole. I'm also excited for the eventual Wii U episode. Also, if Nintendo would have remade Epic Yarn on the Switch instead of the 3DS, I would have bought that day one.
The Wii made a great light gun style system. Games such as House of the Dead Overkill, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles, Gunblade NY, L.A. Machine Guns, Ghost Squad, Dead Space Extraction, House of the Dead 2 & 3, Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles, Link's Crossbow Trainer. Are all excellent gun games.
Totally agree here. I've got a traditional CRT for my real light guns on other older consoles, but the Wii is still an excellent choice for your rail shooting fix. Gunblade NY/LA Machine guns alone is worth it for the Wii on top of the others mentioned, especially House of the Dead and Ghost Squad.
My dad never liked video games, but he did like the Wii. I. Remember him sneaking into my room early in the morning while I was sleeping, waking up seeing him playing Wii sports.
17:00 Yeah, I got a Wii on launch day, and it's still under the television at my mom's house 16 years later. Still gets used every Christmas for Wii Sports and Wii Music.
Even if I’m not interested in every last topic covered in sone of the videos, the amount of effort put into each one really is incredible Joe! There’s very, VERY little content here on TH-cam I can honestly say is legit good, worthwhile and well put together but I can honestly say Game Sack is one of those very few. Happy to subscribe and support the channel, keep up the outstanding work! The production values and effort are more than good enough for this to be a series on a TV network! It should be!
@@bast01 it's good. If you can get passed the very amateurish presentation, music is great, sound effects are great, picture wise its terrible. I've seen one man team indies do better.
As the Wii ages, people are looking back at that incredible library and a great console experience. What a generation! PS3, 360 and Wii was chalk full of great gaming.
@@paulclinton6414 It did but that was easy to ignore. It’s not like most of those were on the eShop. You just buy the big 1st party games and good 3rd party games from AAA publishers. Not short on good games to play
"chock full" Not chalk full, unless you ground up pieces of chalk and forced the powder into the disc tray, because you thought there was a little elf who lived inside the Wii, who grabbed the disc and pulled it in. And you assumed it was hungry, so you fed it chalk.
The Wii is my second favorite Nintendo system behind the SNES. I was in college when it released and I remember having parties and introducing ladies to gaming with it. Then later on discovering TG16 and Japan exclusive games on the VC. Not to mention gems like No More Heroes, Monster hunter Tri and Klanoa.
To this day I never spent a lot in retrogaming things because I can simply plug my Wii on my CRT TV and play shit like Castlevania Rondo of Blood in 240p without a care in the world.
The Wii really got me into the retro scene. I love the system and still enjoy playing games from it on Dolphin but for the most part I spent my time playing new to me Turbografx, Genesis, Snes, and Nes games.
Great system, just watch yourself, like atari 2600, the amount of shovleware is insane if not from a major game company ea/sega/sunsoft/Nintendo buy at your own risk, as some don't use motion controls, alot of games were made to be budget games 10 to 20 buck releases and it shows, bowling on wii sports is great, yet individual bowling games mainly such
@@petewillson205 thanks for the advice. It’s a great system. For me, it’s a worthy system to own just for the Mario galaxy alone! Such unique and fun game. I love it. Oh yeah I got the Xenoblade chronicles and a classic wii controller. Great game. It’s massive. And it won’t force motion control on you.
Fun Fact: The sensor bar is not actually required and can be replaced by two candles. It's all about the infrared. There aren't any actual sensors in the bar, it's just LEDs.
@@madfinntech No. It's not required. What's required are two infrared emitters. It *would* be required if it wasn't easily replacable by something else. As that is not the case, the bar itself is not required.
Wii Homebrew turned the Wii into things who wasn't supposed to do.. I love my Wii until this day.. Best console I ever had and I own all the Xboxes and most Nintendo consoles but a hacked Wii is the best thing to ever have.. Wii MC and USB Loader is the best thing I love about it..
I've got 12 consoles hooked up and ready to go. The Wii tends to be the one that gets used the most. I'm always on the lookout for games in charity shops, Cex etc. I've got 200+ titles so far.
I love my Wii.. I have all my Xboxes hooked up and most of my Nintendo Consoles hooked up but The Wii gets most of the play.. if that thing had a 720p resolution it would have sold more units..
The Wii will always have a place in my gamer heart. I've mainly stuck towards FPS games through my life, and some of my favorite memories are playing Conduit 2 for countless hours with my friends online. Everyone I know thinks I'm crazy, but I still vastly prefer Wii motion aiming over twin sticks. Not only that, but the small communites from Wii FPS games were very tight knit and awesome. We almost all knew each other, some still keep in touch with each other even today in discords. It actually felt like a welcoming community, it was something special. Thank you Wii, you may have been the joke of many school playgrounds, but you were different and unique.
The best game for me on Wii is Metroid Prime 3 / The trilogy, it really made good use of the motion controls where all others felt like they added them after.
Yeah man, I actually PREFER Prime 1 and 2 on Wii over GC, the motion controls actually feel super good once you get used to them and *immersive*, like you're in the suit pointing the gun-arm. Plus the difficulty levels they added, I was completely addicted to those games and beat them on each difficulty pretty much back to back and didn't get tired of them lmao. Metroid Prime 4 can't come soon enough!
There’s one other FPS that got motion controls great if not better than PRIME 3. That’s Red Steel 2, play it and you’ll see. One of the Wii’s well crafted games
Between the Wii with it's motion controls, the Xbox red ring of death, and PS3 costing a fortune I honestly believed at the time that we were seeing the end of console gaming and PC gaming was all that would be left. Obviously I was wrong but it seemed touch and go at the time. Even the Wii's popularity seemed like a fluke, just a trend, and it would come crashing down after. Looking at what happened with the Wii U I wasn't entirely wrong. But for a long time I despised the Wii. Except for Mario, Zelda and Metroid the only other games I saw people playing were Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution. I didn't know other games even existed. Wouldn't know it from everyone I knew who had one. As time has gone on I've come to appreciate it. Once I started learning of games, some of which you mentioned, such as Sin and Punishment, Xenoblade Chronicles (my favorite game on the system and a very close second to the longest game I've ever played. That honor goes to Breath of the Wild but only by like 5-10 hours), No More Heroes, Rayman Origins, Madworld, and House of the Dead: Overkill changed my opinion on the Wii.
The irony is despite these problems on that generation of consoles, they were more popular than ever, especially the X360. Nintendo Gamecube was a huge flop for the company at the time despite it's very vocal fanbase, even the N64 wasn't big outside of North America, the company was in serious trouble without the Wii's success and could have gone the way of Sega quitting the console business completely with another failure. The success of the DS really highlighted that the vocal gamer audience that hated "touch control gimmicks" and touted it's doom were very much a minority with it's massive success, so went more experimental with the Wii instead of competing with the other big 2.
I always skip sponsor ads, but this one is so hooky that I didn’t only watched it, but kept me going back to watch it again and again. TAAAAATE MOOOOOOOOOODE!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
When the Wii came out I was walking to work and there was a very long queue of people outside a games retail outlet waiting to get their hands on one. So I walked up to the front of the queue and asked the lead guy "Has anyone said it yet?"...he looked confused and asked "Said what?" So as loud as I could I shouted "You're all queuing up for a Wee!" (which is slang in England for Pee). A massive Mexican wave style cheer went up and I continued to work, thinking...my work here is finished! 😎
There definitely needs to be a part 2 for this video. There are so many great games on the Wii that need more attention. Joe didn't get to Zack & Wiki, Little King's Story or the games that were released as a result of Project Rainfall. I really dig the sponsored game at the beginning of the video. Alas, I can't play shmups anymore. It looks like something I would have gone wild for ten years ago. More of your videos should be sponsored by games. At least you're not telling us lies about RAID: Shadow Legends.
@@16xthedetail76 I have permanent brain damage to my cerebellum. My motor skills and reflexes are severely downgraded, which makes my playing of shmups comically impossible. Trust me, I would if I could, but I stick to games that are slower paced, like JRPGs.
It's crazy that the entirety of the 6th generation is now retro at over 20 years old, and next is the 7th generation. In just a few years Xbox 360 will be retro... I remember being fairly wowed by it as a teenager even though it wasn't that big of a jump, really. Then it's Wii and...PS3?!
During that time (sixth generation?) I had a Wii, DS, PSP, and 360, and despite how much I enjoy handhelds, and how cool they have become, the last only major jump in gaming has been getting into PC gaming, which is really enjoyable, in its own eccentric way. Other than that, the last big jump was with the SNES, which I feel is even superior to the N64. Oh, I know that this is becoming a lengthy comment, but please excuse me, I'm excited... As I mentioned earlier, how I like handhelds, I am hyped to get my Steam Deck, if you could even call it a handheld. Lol
It's very awesome to see a video from Game Sack this early, especially if you are covering The Wii, Which was actually my first console and introduced me to some of my favorite videogame franchises, keep doing awesome videos.
I have some great memories of the Wii, including hunting one down back in the day. Was honestly expecting to get mugged walking out of the store with that, it was like finding a gold bar back during the launch >< now they're £10 in every charity shop in town :D
They were still sold out like 2 years after release, it was insane. Think it was probably the first time I had seen scalpers really come into play because the demand was just unprecedented.
Just hooked up my Wii recently and gotta say it is such a gem of a console to this day. Wii Fit and the balance board is great for home workouts. Wii Sports still is tons of fun to this day. Let alone the many great exclusive games that came out on this console made it such a breath of fresh air.
I remember being 1 of 6 people able to get a Wii at my local Meijer on launch day. We had a great 24 hours or so waiting “in line” in side the back of the store where the games were at the time. Everyone was discussing different purchases & their thoughts on the overall system. Definitely an experience that the future generations will miss out on. Crazy to think that was over 15 years ago now.
@@3dmarth They did that with the Castlevania Series.. They released the Arcade and Home Console Ports together while they released the Handles Versions together separately..
@@kenrickkahn It has been great to see these classic titles becoming available for purchase at a decent price again. And Konami just announced their TMNT collection, so this looks like an ongoing trend, which I'm happy to see continue. The Castlevania Advance collection only included the GBA games + the SNES version of Dracula X, though. No sign of the DS trilogy or Rebirth. Similarly, Contra 4 and Rebirth are nowhere to be seen. I have the Castlevania games for DS already, but not everyone picked them up the first time around. Also, it would be nice to see Contra 4 return as DLC or something.
Damn Joe you sure can sell! TATE MODE followed by YUZO KOSHIRO is like a knockout combo. Oh and there's another fantastic episode of Game Sack on the Wii too!
Loved the hell out of my Wii and probably tied for most played with my wife and brother with the SNES if not higher given the amount of multiplayer and party games on Wii.
My god, I forgot how many games I adored were on the Wii. Played a ton of Wii Sports/Resort. (Was a force to be reckoned with in swordplay) I had Zelda TP on it. Smash Bros Brawl was a mainstay Had the Sims 3 on it. Super Mario Bros Wii was a game my mother really liked, Also had Mario Galaxy, which the soundtrack really is an absolute GEM. Unfortunately, Due to use and abuse, Our Wii and the games bit the dust a few years ago. It's sad remembering that.
Great video Joe. Wii gets overlooked a little as people quote shovelware a lot but there are a tonne of great games as you’ve shown. I love my Wii games. Mario Galaxy remains the greatest 3D Mario, Metroid Prime Trilogy makes a case to be the best ever Metroid, 2 great Zeldas etc Great console
The Wii makes for an excellent retro console... once you hack it to smithereens. I even had it running MSX games! Actually, I've gotta ask, Joe... I've heard the Wii is a pain in the rumpus to get back together once you pull it apart. Did you find this to be the case after you pulled it apart for the internals demonstration?
Hi Joe, I appreciate all your hard work that you put into your videos. Its always a joy to watch and learn something new. Thank you so much for all the amazing content throughout the years.
wii is a perfect demonstration that game consoles still hit the “junk” phase before becoming collectible. you can get a console for £10 and most games are under £5 right now.
I'm sure that has something to do with the fact that they manufactured more than 100 million of them, of which 30 million were purchased by the elderly school who are now dead. Enjoy your new old Wii, now with 17% more ghosts. Old people ghosts, too. The worst kind.
I loved the Wii. It was and still is a great game console. It was also a great way for me to access my Gamecube games in 480P which was a great bonus. Never thought I would appreciate this generation of games as much as I do now in the modern area. To have games that were just designed to be fun and would play right from the disc with no downloading, unless it was digital only, and to have the games ship complete with no "updates" needed to play correctly and no micro transactions is a beautiful thing. Another great thing about the Wii was that it brought back light gun games to modern TVs. Other games that I think deserve to be mentioned are The Last Story, Zack & Wiki, Excite Truck as well as World of Goo, Rage of the Gladiator and both Lost Winds games on WiiWare. BTW thanks for the tip on playing the Rebirth games in 4:3.
We grew up pretty poor so I was always a generation behind on game systems. The Wii was the first console I bought when it was current. I got a GameCube when it was current but that was a gift from a friend.
I love the Wii. I play mine every day.."House of the dead Overkill," "Mario Kart Wii," "pinball Hall of Fame Williams Collection," "Excitebots Trick racing," "Dead space Extraction," as well as my Namco museum, "Crazy Taxi," via GameCube compatibility....So many great games. Hidden gems. And of course "Wii sports!" I bought my first Wii back in July 2021 and have collected 45 game discs so far. CIB
@@kenrickkahn Also done, next is PS4. Not sure if it will sell as much as a PS2. If they enable more media playing capabilities, it might help. A lot of people had a PS2 because it was a good DVD player.
I fucking love this. You are increasing becoming my favorite channel. So hard to get quality coverage for vintage stuff like this and you’re still nailing the stop motion intros. Very few people will appreciate how much effort it takes to put into a video like this. I run a very, very small TH-cam channel and I know how many hours it takes to film, edit, script and voice this stuff. Keep it up man.
It’s great to see some of the lesser-known Wii games get a bit of attention here, while also discussing some of the biggest ones. While I’m not a huge motion control fan, the Wii remote did lead to a resurgence in light gun games, which I absolutely enjoy. Aiming is pretty precise with the Wiimote. Heck, you could possibly do a shorter episode on these alone. Thanks again for your continued hard work.
My main memory about the Wii is how Nintendo fanboys all insisted that motion controls are now The Future Of Gaming. "20 years from now, we'll be playing every game on every console with some type of motion controls and it'll all be due to Nintendo innovating yet again!" Dare to disagree with them and you'd get yelled at about how you hate innovation.
@@tonk82 VR is a completely different kind of gaming experience that requires a completely different kind of controller. Nintendrones weren't saying "Motion controls will rule all... because we'll all be playing VR!" and even if they did, they'd still only be half right because VR isn't mainstream. That aside, no one is seriously using VR controllers to play Elden Ring on a normal display, waggling their hands around spastically to cast a spell.
I stood in line overnight to get one at launch. I simply HAD to have Twilight Princess! Funny thing is me & my friends ended up playing Wii Sports Bowling more than anything else lol. It was stupid fun w friends! Many a night of drunken bowling was had.
I would love to see Blastworks on a follow up video. Its a really cool Smup with Katamari mechanics as you can pick up fallen ship parts to make a monstrosity. You could also unlock other Smups which were fun too. Also for Klonoa you can choose between the dub and the gibberish in the options.
I get a weird sense of nostalgia from watching your videos. Not from the subject matter, but the [presentation of the video. Game Sack takes me back to that late-2000s era of youtube with the format and simplicity of the videos.
I've never understood the baseline dislike for the motion controls on the wii, they're what defined the console! Sure, there are definitely some bad implementations, but the first party games do not fall into that list. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've always loved the wheel and motion controls on Mario Kart lol
I played a lot of Super Swing Golf and its sequel on Wii. It was pretty fun to swing the Wiimote like a golf club even though I didn't have to. I believe I got a hole-in-one only ONE TIME, and I'll cherish that moment forever.
18:59-19:08 I think you might be playing it wrong. The controls actually respond very well. It's just that most people expected it to play like Wii Sports Boxing but more responsive, when that's not the case at all. The Wiimote and Nunchuck controls for punching are more like playing a drum with drumsticks rather than swinging around and pretending you're boxing.
when you think one of your great episodes are over the sketch comes on and it gets even better. Love your stuff bro! (Even your adds are fun and entertaining!)
For me I spent a lot of my time on Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, Metal Slug Anthology, MLB Power Pros, Zelda Twilight Princess, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Resident Evil Umbrella and Darkside Chronicles. And yes, I did have the Zapper.
The Wii is 90% shovelware with gimmicky motion controls, but the remaining 10% makes this console very much worthwhile and not all motion controls were bad. I personally found no issue with DKC Returns' motion controls. Sure they weren't necessary and probably could've been compensated for with Classic Controller support but I still managed to 100% percent that game and enjoyed every bit of it. The Wii is also an excellent rail shooters machine, giving us titles like House of the Dead, Gunblade NY/LA Machine Guns, Ghost Squad, Dead Space Extraction and many others. If you're one of the rare people out there like I am who likes old school Yu-Gi-Oh stuff then the Wii also has Wheelie Breakers and Duel Transer. If I had to name my favorite Wii title other than Super Smash Bros Brawl it would probably be one the two Kirby games. Not sure if its Epic Yarn or Return to Dream Land since they're pretty different from one another, but either are great to play. Kirby's Dream Collection is also cool but I don't count that as a Wii title since it's a compilation of older Kirby games from past consoles.
MadWorld was my favorite game on Wii. The art style worked, the controls all together flowed well, and it was just fun to play. Red Steel 2 was fun, just not a great game
I liked the for 5 minutes by using accessoires to turn your wii remote into a bowling ball,a golf stick,a tennis racket etc,, just to play wii sports with some realism feel to it,as if you play golf or tennis in real life.
I am so glad that you are still going with these. I love these videos so much. You guys both helped me with getting some games for my collection and the editing is always so amazing. Keep up the amazing work.
Hey the gameplay capture looks excellent! Great video! How could I have that type of video quality output for a Wii? I'm thinking collecting Wii games, but I don't know what should be the proper setup. Are you using a retrotink 5?
Thank goodness they removed the motion controls for DKCR on the 3DS. I'm typically fine with adapting to motion controls on most games but for that one specifically, I hated them. Play the 3DS version instead.
I’d recommend No More Heroes (1 & 2), any of the Tiger Woods games that used the Wii Motion Plus (2010, 2011 or 2012), and Rock Band 3 for the ‘Wii Part 2’ video. Also Muramasa, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Tetris Party and the Lost Winds games.
I have to admit the intro commercial was actually very well done, if most commercials were that good I wouldn't skip them, great job Joe! Not to mention "it's a little short, yeah I get that a lot..."
Which games should I cover when I get around to doing Wii part 2?
Trauma Center: Second Opinion, Zack & Wiki, Okami, Zelda TP for my bumhole. :D
These are all good choices
Sonic Storybook series, Sonic Colors, Tatsunoko vs Capcom.
Mario Party 8 and Skyward Sword at the very least and are some of my favorite on the system. Maybe mention some more of the Wii games like Wii Play and Wii Party. The Wii was the system that got me hooked into gaming as a whole. I'm also excited for the eventual Wii U episode. Also, if Nintendo would have remade Epic Yarn on the Switch instead of the 3DS, I would have bought that day one.
Star wars the last Airbender
The Wii made a great light gun style system. Games such as House of the Dead Overkill, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles, Gunblade NY, L.A. Machine Guns, Ghost Squad, Dead Space Extraction, House of the Dead 2 & 3, Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles, Link's Crossbow Trainer. Are all excellent gun games.
Yeah, and on the homebrew side of things it was a good way to play retro light gun games on a modern lcd/plasma/oled.
@@saysbadman The Wii did everything and I loved it.. if the Wii was 720p it would have sold more..
@@kenrickkahn 100 million units is still good.
Yeah. Its the perfect console for the rail shooter fan!
Totally agree here. I've got a traditional CRT for my real light guns on other older consoles, but the Wii is still an excellent choice for your rail shooting fix. Gunblade NY/LA Machine guns alone is worth it for the Wii on top of the others mentioned, especially House of the Dead and Ghost Squad.
Thank you for keeping this going Joe. Any day there's a new Game Sack episode is a good day.
Just as I expected, once Game Sack gets a video game sponsorship (and it's a well-regarded game), the ad just explodes with 40 mega power.
I watched it twice. It's pure art.
I know it was just an ad, but I was kinda disappointed that it didn't include that same old Yuzo Koshiro picture that appears every time.
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TAAAAAAAATE MOOOOOOOOODE!!!!!!
Ad needed a little Green dog..
My dad never liked video games, but he did like the Wii. I. Remember him sneaking into my room early in the morning while I was sleeping, waking up seeing him playing Wii sports.
You have a full stop in the wrong place but otherwise I enjoy the comment.
@@HolyGoddessMotherAnne This comment is very heartwarming..
@@HolyGoddessMotherAnne Dramatic effect full stop.
@@16xthedetail76 He sounds like he had a stroke at the word I.
The Wii was a great secondary console to go with my PS3, I appreciated a lot of the unique experiences on it. I still power it up a few times a year.
Can you give me PS3 EXCLUSIVE recommendations? Preferably every exclusive that is worth playing.
@@hybs9473 Ridge Racer 7, Gran Turismo 6, Pupeteer, God of War Ascension, Flower
17:00 Yeah, I got a Wii on launch day, and it's still under the television at my mom's house 16 years later. Still gets used every Christmas for Wii Sports and Wii Music.
Dude these videos are incredible. Thanks for all the work you put in.
Even if I’m not interested in every last topic covered in sone of the videos, the amount of effort put into each one really is incredible Joe! There’s very, VERY little content here on TH-cam I can honestly say is legit good, worthwhile and well put together but I can honestly say Game Sack is one of those very few. Happy to subscribe and support the channel, keep up the outstanding work! The production values and effort are more than good enough for this to be a series on a TV network! It should be!
i think this is genuinly the FIRST time in my life that i see an ad of a game that actually looks fun and also relevant to the channel! :)
Umm.. About that..
@@DuckAlertBeats what about it
SHADOW LEGENDS!😵🤣
@@DuckAlertBeats what? The game isn't good?
@@bast01 it's good. If you can get passed the very amateurish presentation, music is great, sound effects are great, picture wise its terrible. I've seen one man team indies do better.
Mario galaxy 1 and 2 are two of my all time favorite games. Both masterpieces
As the Wii ages, people are looking back at that incredible library and a great console experience. What a generation! PS3, 360 and Wii was chalk full of great gaming.
Wii also had a record amount of shovelware.
@@paulclinton6414 It did but that was easy to ignore. It’s not like most of those were on the eShop. You just buy the big 1st party games and good 3rd party games from AAA publishers. Not short on good games to play
*Chock full
"chock full"
Not chalk full, unless you ground up pieces of chalk and forced the powder into the disc tray, because you thought there was a little elf who lived inside the Wii, who grabbed the disc and pulled it in. And you assumed it was hungry, so you fed it chalk.
The Wii is my second favorite Nintendo system behind the SNES. I was in college when it released and I remember having parties and introducing ladies to gaming with it. Then later on discovering TG16 and Japan exclusive games on the VC. Not to mention gems like No More Heroes, Monster hunter Tri and Klanoa.
Same
To this day I never spent a lot in retrogaming things because I can simply plug my Wii on my CRT TV and play shit like Castlevania Rondo of Blood in 240p without a care in the world.
I finally got myself a Wii after wanting one all of my childhood. Better late than never.
The Wii really got me into the retro scene. I love the system and still enjoy playing games from it on Dolphin but for the most part I spent my time playing new to me Turbografx, Genesis, Snes, and Nes games.
I feel old. I was *born* into the retro scene.
I remember that all my friends either bought a PS3 or an Xbox 360, but I was a proud owner of my Wii. My Wii and PC were good enough for me.
Good for you
lucky you ,i only got ps3.
PS3 and X360 players struggling with 13~25 fps while Wii AAA games were smothering with rock solid 60fps.
Yeah, I have always felt that PC and Nintendo were the best gaming hardware companions.
May soon fit the Steam Deck in there, as well.
@@danielricardo5029 now with the switch, players get 13~25 fps on 2014 type graphics while the rest of the world get solid 60 fps on modern day games
The Wii was the reason why I got into video games. It's so nostalgic! Good times
My favorite Wii "hidden gem" is Mushroom Men, a great 3D platformer with INSANE music.
I never had a Wii but just bought one like 3 days ago! Modded it and then bam you post this for me! Thank you Game Sack!
Great system, just watch yourself, like atari 2600, the amount of shovleware is insane if not from a major game company ea/sega/sunsoft/Nintendo buy at your own risk, as some don't use motion controls, alot of games were made to be budget games 10 to 20 buck releases and it shows, bowling on wii sports is great, yet individual bowling games mainly such
@@petewillson205 thanks for the advice. It’s a great system. For me, it’s a worthy system to own just for the Mario galaxy alone! Such unique and fun game. I love it.
Oh yeah I got the Xenoblade chronicles and a classic wii controller. Great game. It’s massive. And it won’t force motion control on you.
Fun Fact: The sensor bar is not actually required and can be replaced by two candles. It's all about the infrared. There aren't any actual sensors in the bar, it's just LEDs.
perfect, I always wanted to play wii while doing some sort of spirit ritual
Oh great, two MORE candles my wife can leave burning unattended.
So, in other words, it's required. Because if there's nothing, the thing doesn't work.
@@madfinntech No. It's not required. What's required are two infrared emitters. It *would* be required if it wasn't easily replacable by something else. As that is not the case, the bar itself is not required.
@@kok0nut That's misleading. There are no sensors in the bar. The sensors are somewhere else. The more correct term would be "emitterbar".
The Wii's motion-control lives on in gyro-aiming in Splatoon and Zelda: BotW. It's very comfortable and precise.
The best thing about the Wii was The Homebrew Channel and being able to hack it. I played a lot of Japanese games with my hacked Wii.
Still do and light games on mayme
Wii Homebrew turned the Wii into things who wasn't supposed to do.. I love my Wii until this day.. Best console I ever had and I own all the Xboxes and most Nintendo consoles but a hacked Wii is the best thing to ever have.. Wii MC and USB Loader is the best thing I love about it..
I've got 12 consoles hooked up and ready to go. The Wii tends to be the one that gets used the most.
I'm always on the lookout for games in charity shops, Cex etc. I've got 200+ titles so far.
I love my Wii.. I have all my Xboxes hooked up and most of my Nintendo Consoles hooked up but The Wii gets most of the play.. if that thing had a 720p resolution it would have sold more units..
I have 5 hooked up... the MiSTer gets the most use.
The Wii will always have a place in my gamer heart. I've mainly stuck towards FPS games through my life, and some of my favorite memories are playing Conduit 2 for countless hours with my friends online. Everyone I know thinks I'm crazy, but I still vastly prefer Wii motion aiming over twin sticks.
Not only that, but the small communites from Wii FPS games were very tight knit and awesome. We almost all knew each other, some still keep in touch with each other even today in discords. It actually felt like a welcoming community, it was something special. Thank you Wii, you may have been the joke of many school playgrounds, but you were different and unique.
Red Steel 2 a top 5 or 10 game on the console that barely gets mentioned at all. It’s fantastic.
A classic example of the principle, “a game’s sales reflects the previous entry’s quality”
The best game for me on Wii is Metroid Prime 3 / The trilogy, it really made good use of the motion controls where all others felt like they added them after.
Begone, check mark commenter
Yeah man, I actually PREFER Prime 1 and 2 on Wii over GC, the motion controls actually feel super good once you get used to them and *immersive*, like you're in the suit pointing the gun-arm. Plus the difficulty levels they added, I was completely addicted to those games and beat them on each difficulty pretty much back to back and didn't get tired of them lmao. Metroid Prime 4 can't come soon enough!
There’s one other FPS that got motion controls great if not better than PRIME 3. That’s Red Steel 2, play it and you’ll see. One of the Wii’s well crafted games
Well, I mean, the others DID add them after. And yes, the Prime Trilogy was amazing and I can't wait for them to finish 4. :-)
Wii Sports would like a talk with you
Between the Wii with it's motion controls, the Xbox red ring of death, and PS3 costing a fortune I honestly believed at the time that we were seeing the end of console gaming and PC gaming was all that would be left. Obviously I was wrong but it seemed touch and go at the time. Even the Wii's popularity seemed like a fluke, just a trend, and it would come crashing down after. Looking at what happened with the Wii U I wasn't entirely wrong.
But for a long time I despised the Wii. Except for Mario, Zelda and Metroid the only other games I saw people playing were Wii Sports and Dance Dance Revolution. I didn't know other games even existed. Wouldn't know it from everyone I knew who had one.
As time has gone on I've come to appreciate it. Once I started learning of games, some of which you mentioned, such as Sin and Punishment, Xenoblade Chronicles (my favorite game on the system and a very close second to the longest game I've ever played. That honor goes to Breath of the Wild but only by like 5-10 hours), No More Heroes, Rayman Origins, Madworld, and House of the Dead: Overkill changed my opinion on the Wii.
The irony is despite these problems on that generation of consoles, they were more popular than ever, especially the X360. Nintendo Gamecube was a huge flop for the company at the time despite it's very vocal fanbase, even the N64 wasn't big outside of North America, the company was in serious trouble without the Wii's success and could have gone the way of Sega quitting the console business completely with another failure. The success of the DS really highlighted that the vocal gamer audience that hated "touch control gimmicks" and touted it's doom were very much a minority with it's massive success, so went more experimental with the Wii instead of competing with the other big 2.
@@cattysplat bro, don't forget the handheld console monopoly-like status of Nintendo. It never went down since the birth of og gameboy in 1989.
I don’t care that they’re easy, I absolutely loved the Kirby games on Wii.
I always skip sponsor ads, but this one is so hooky that I didn’t only watched it, but kept me going back to watch it again and again. TAAAAATE MOOOOOOOOOODE!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Bout time GameSack did a video looking back at the Wii. This is going to a classic video.
Yeah with this mobile trash ad at the beginning it is really going to age like fine wine.
@@FrancoisRoy It's not mobile.
@@FrancoisRoy yeah I don't subscribe to anyone with ads in their videos. I'm currently not subbed to anyone.
I love how much love gamesack puts into the presentation of the consoles they review
So glad Klonoa is getting a re-release!
Same. I actually didn't know about the re-release/remake back when I recorded the games for this episode.
When the Wii came out I was walking to work and there was a very long queue of people outside a games retail outlet waiting to get their hands on one. So I walked up to the front of the queue and asked the lead guy "Has anyone said it yet?"...he looked confused and asked "Said what?" So as loud as I could I shouted "You're all queuing up for a Wee!" (which is slang in England for Pee). A massive Mexican wave style cheer went up and I continued to work, thinking...my work here is finished! 😎
The Wii is still my favorite Nintendo console next to the GameCube
Thanks for mentioning Xenoblade and Sin & Punishment
There definitely needs to be a part 2 for this video. There are so many great games on the Wii that need more attention. Joe didn't get to Zack & Wiki, Little King's Story or the games that were released as a result of Project Rainfall.
I really dig the sponsored game at the beginning of the video. Alas, I can't play shmups anymore. It looks like something I would have gone wild for ten years ago. More of your videos should be sponsored by games. At least you're not telling us lies about RAID: Shadow Legends.
Why can't you play shmups? They're really easy apart for maybe ketsui death label and r-type.
@@16xthedetail76 I have permanent brain damage to my cerebellum. My motor skills and reflexes are severely downgraded, which makes my playing of shmups comically impossible. Trust me, I would if I could, but I stick to games that are slower paced, like JRPGs.
@@partridgestorm I'm sorry to hear that
It's crazy that the entirety of the 6th generation is now retro at over 20 years old, and next is the 7th generation.
In just a few years Xbox 360 will be retro... I remember being fairly wowed by it as a teenager even though it wasn't that big of a jump, really. Then it's Wii and...PS3?!
During that time (sixth generation?) I had a Wii, DS, PSP, and 360, and despite how much I enjoy handhelds, and how cool they have become, the last only major jump in gaming has been getting into PC gaming, which is really enjoyable, in its own eccentric way.
Other than that, the last big jump was with the SNES, which I feel is even superior to the N64.
Oh, I know that this is becoming a lengthy comment, but please excuse me, I'm excited...
As I mentioned earlier, how I like handhelds, I am hyped to get my Steam Deck, if you could even call it a handheld. Lol
It's very awesome to see a video from Game Sack this early, especially if you are covering The Wii, Which was actually my first console and introduced me to some of my favorite videogame franchises, keep doing awesome videos.
My god, you are a baby and or I'm too old
@@jiraiya0698 we're old 😂 ... My first system was the NES 😔
If you're unfamiliar with games on the Super Nintendo, if I may, I would suggest checking out E.V.O the search for Eden, and Goof troop.
I have some great memories of the Wii, including hunting one down back in the day. Was honestly expecting to get mugged walking out of the store with that, it was like finding a gold bar back during the launch >< now they're £10 in every charity shop in town :D
They were still sold out like 2 years after release, it was insane. Think it was probably the first time I had seen scalpers really come into play because the demand was just unprecedented.
Just hooked up my Wii recently and gotta say it is such a gem of a console to this day. Wii Fit and the balance board is great for home workouts. Wii Sports still is tons of fun to this day. Let alone the many great exclusive games that came out on this console made it such a breath of fresh air.
I remember being 1 of 6 people able to get a Wii at my local Meijer on launch day. We had a great 24 hours or so waiting “in line” in side the back of the store where the games were at the time. Everyone was discussing different purchases & their thoughts on the overall system. Definitely an experience that the future generations will miss out on. Crazy to think that was over 15 years ago now.
Yeah I'm so sorry I'll miss out on standing in line for 24 hours. Sounds like one hell of a time.
You've FINALLY done an episode dedicated to the good old Nintendo Wii. I knew you were gonna do it eventually, and its ABOUT BLOODY TIME TOO!
Man those Rebirth games should have been included in their respective Anniversary Collection releases.
Absolutely.
Here's hoping Konami recognizes the value in re-releasing their old games, and does a DS/Wii collection.
I was hoping that when I bought the Contra collection.. I was disappointed a little but hey it's still worth the buy..
@@3dmarth They did that with the Castlevania Series.. They released the Arcade and Home Console Ports together while they released the Handles Versions together separately..
@@kenrickkahn It has been great to see these classic titles becoming available for purchase at a decent price again. And Konami just announced their TMNT collection, so this looks like an ongoing trend, which I'm happy to see continue.
The Castlevania Advance collection only included the GBA games + the SNES version of Dracula X, though. No sign of the DS trilogy or Rebirth. Similarly, Contra 4 and Rebirth are nowhere to be seen. I have the Castlevania games for DS already, but not everyone picked them up the first time around. Also, it would be nice to see Contra 4 return as DLC or something.
"TATE MOOODE" is the one of the best running bits on this show! Also, get rekt, Kirby.
The Wii was a phenomenon. Everyone and their grandma had one.
Damn Joe you sure can sell! TATE MODE followed by YUZO KOSHIRO is like a knockout combo.
Oh and there's another fantastic episode of Game Sack on the Wii too!
Loved the hell out of my Wii and probably tied for most played with my wife and brother with the SNES if not higher given the amount of multiplayer and party games on Wii.
My god, I forgot how many games I adored were on the Wii.
Played a ton of Wii Sports/Resort.
(Was a force to be reckoned with in swordplay)
I had Zelda TP on it.
Smash Bros Brawl was a mainstay
Had the Sims 3 on it.
Super Mario Bros Wii was a game my mother really liked, Also had Mario Galaxy, which the soundtrack really is an absolute GEM.
Unfortunately, Due to use and abuse, Our Wii and the games bit the dust a few years ago. It's sad remembering that.
If you do all 1500 games in a single episode, I'll become a patreon.
Damn you think very highly of your money hahaha
Hahaha 10 hour video
I miss when I first discovered this channel and watched every single video within a week. Great stuff Joe. Thank you for your hard work
Great video Joe. Wii gets overlooked a little as people quote shovelware a lot but there are a tonne of great games as you’ve shown. I love my Wii games. Mario Galaxy remains the greatest 3D Mario, Metroid Prime Trilogy makes a case to be the best ever Metroid, 2 great Zeldas etc Great console
16:26 Golf is fun too and you didn't have to wait months after the game released to enjoy it!
The Wii makes for an excellent retro console... once you hack it to smithereens. I even had it running MSX games!
Actually, I've gotta ask, Joe... I've heard the Wii is a pain in the rumpus to get back together once you pull it apart. Did you find this to be the case after you pulled it apart for the internals demonstration?
Hi Joe, I appreciate all your hard work that you put into your videos. Its always a joy to watch and learn something new. Thank you so much for all the amazing content throughout the years.
wii is a perfect demonstration that game consoles still hit the “junk” phase before becoming collectible. you can get a console for £10 and most games are under £5 right now.
I'm sure that has something to do with the fact that they manufactured more than 100 million of them, of which 30 million were purchased by the elderly school who are now dead.
Enjoy your new old Wii, now with 17% more ghosts. Old people ghosts, too. The worst kind.
I loved the Wii. It was and still is a great game console. It was also a great way for me to access my Gamecube games in 480P which was a great bonus. Never thought I would appreciate this generation of games as much as I do now in the modern area. To have games that were just designed to be fun and would play right from the disc with no downloading, unless it was digital only, and to have the games ship complete with no "updates" needed to play correctly and no micro transactions is a beautiful thing. Another great thing about the Wii was that it brought back light gun games to modern TVs. Other games that I think deserve to be mentioned are The Last Story, Zack & Wiki, Excite Truck as well as World of Goo, Rage of the Gladiator and both Lost Winds games on WiiWare. BTW thanks for the tip on playing the Rebirth games in 4:3.
Lol Joe sure does love him some Monkey Ball! I bet he's talked about the series more than any other.
We grew up pretty poor so I was always a generation behind on game systems. The Wii was the first console I bought when it was current. I got a GameCube when it was current but that was a gift from a friend.
28:29 "If a game actually needs slowdown at it ,it's poorly designed"
Try Gradius 3 or Super R Type without slowdown ,it is actually very brutal
Try literally any bullet hell shmup lol
I know, they should've been designed so they don't NEED slowdown.
@QF Dan . I think that was his point
I love the Wii. I play mine every day.."House of the dead Overkill," "Mario Kart Wii," "pinball Hall of Fame Williams Collection," "Excitebots Trick racing," "Dead space Extraction," as well as my Namco museum, "Crazy Taxi," via GameCube compatibility....So many great games. Hidden gems. And of course "Wii sports!" I bought my first Wii back in July 2021 and have collected 45 game discs so far. CIB
Great episode love your editing skills.
My god, what a treat. I somehow missed this episode when it first came out. A new Game Sack on a Friday afternoon? I’m living my best life.
Joe was correct, the switch has indeed surpassed the wii
The Switch is about to pass the PSX.. The Switch is still selling like Hotcakes...
@@kenrickkahn its also passed the psx
@@kenrickkahn Also done, next is PS4. Not sure if it will sell as much as a PS2. If they enable more media playing capabilities, it might help. A lot of people had a PS2 because it was a good DVD player.
I fucking love this. You are increasing becoming my favorite channel. So hard to get quality coverage for vintage stuff like this and you’re still nailing the stop motion intros. Very few people will appreciate how much effort it takes to put into a video like this. I run a very, very small TH-cam channel and I know how many hours it takes to film, edit, script and voice this stuff. Keep it up man.
Joe and Dave,
You have made my life better for decade (s).
I love you and your families.
It’s great to see some of the lesser-known Wii games get a bit of attention here, while also discussing some of the biggest ones.
While I’m not a huge motion control fan, the Wii remote did lead to a resurgence in light gun games, which I absolutely enjoy. Aiming is pretty precise with the Wiimote. Heck, you could possibly do a shorter episode on these alone.
Thanks again for your continued hard work.
Video starts at 1:07
Sol Cresta
Actually 0:55 and I have it timestamped.
Omg I forgot about this channel. So glad I found it again. Amazing work
My main memory about the Wii is how Nintendo fanboys all insisted that motion controls are now The Future Of Gaming. "20 years from now, we'll be playing every game on every console with some type of motion controls and it'll all be due to Nintendo innovating yet again!"
Dare to disagree with them and you'd get yelled at about how you hate innovation.
Well... it depends where you look at. Motion Controls are very big in VR
Both the Switch and the PS5 use motion controls, and the PS4 had them and should've used them more. They make FPS far better.
@@tonk82 VR is a completely different kind of gaming experience that requires a completely different kind of controller. Nintendrones weren't saying "Motion controls will rule all... because we'll all be playing VR!" and even if they did, they'd still only be half right because VR isn't mainstream. That aside, no one is seriously using VR controllers to play Elden Ring on a normal display, waggling their hands around spastically to cast a spell.
I stood in line overnight to get one at launch. I simply HAD to have Twilight Princess! Funny thing is me & my friends ended up playing Wii Sports Bowling more than anything else lol. It was stupid fun w friends! Many a night of drunken bowling was had.
Hey Joe, was Game Sack not a nominee for lamest jokes in 2021?
That's right! What the hell??? I was robbed!
Thanks for showing us all how you play with your game sack.
I would love to see Blastworks on a follow up video. Its a really cool Smup with Katamari mechanics as you can pick up fallen ship parts to make a monstrosity. You could also unlock other Smups which were fun too.
Also for Klonoa you can choose between the dub and the gibberish in the options.
This was great! Would love to see a video on WiiU & 3DS, sadly those eshops closing
I get a weird sense of nostalgia from watching your videos. Not from the subject matter, but the [presentation of the video. Game Sack takes me back to that late-2000s era of youtube with the format and simplicity of the videos.
I've never understood the baseline dislike for the motion controls on the wii, they're what defined the console! Sure, there are definitely some bad implementations, but the first party games do not fall into that list. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've always loved the wheel and motion controls on Mario Kart lol
I played a lot of Super Swing Golf and its sequel on Wii. It was pretty fun to swing the Wiimote like a golf club even though I didn't have to. I believe I got a hole-in-one only ONE TIME, and I'll cherish that moment forever.
18:59-19:08 I think you might be playing it wrong. The controls actually respond very well. It's just that most people expected it to play like Wii Sports Boxing but more responsive, when that's not the case at all. The Wiimote and Nunchuck controls for punching are more like playing a drum with drumsticks rather than swinging around and pretending you're boxing.
Maybe, but nothing can beat pressing buttons and the D-pad.
That bowling game from wii sports is responsible for breaking more tv screens than anything in the world🤣
when you think one of your great episodes are over the sketch comes on and it gets even better. Love your stuff bro! (Even your adds are fun and entertaining!)
Great video! It brought me back to those Wii days when I loved that console, especially first few years.
Got a Wii for my birthday 2020. Best gift ever I use it all the time and building up a good collection. So slept on
yes my grandma loved the wii and wii sports in her nursing home.
For me I spent a lot of my time on Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility, Metal Slug Anthology, MLB Power Pros, Zelda Twilight Princess, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Resident Evil Umbrella and Darkside Chronicles.
And yes, I did have the Zapper.
The Wii is 90% shovelware with gimmicky motion controls, but the remaining 10% makes this console very much worthwhile and not all motion controls were bad. I personally found no issue with DKC Returns' motion controls. Sure they weren't necessary and probably could've been compensated for with Classic Controller support but I still managed to 100% percent that game and enjoyed every bit of it. The Wii is also an excellent rail shooters machine, giving us titles like House of the Dead, Gunblade NY/LA Machine Guns, Ghost Squad, Dead Space Extraction and many others. If you're one of the rare people out there like I am who likes old school Yu-Gi-Oh stuff then the Wii also has Wheelie Breakers and Duel Transer. If I had to name my favorite Wii title other than Super Smash Bros Brawl it would probably be one the two Kirby games. Not sure if its Epic Yarn or Return to Dream Land since they're pretty different from one another, but either are great to play. Kirby's Dream Collection is also cool but I don't count that as a Wii title since it's a compilation of older Kirby games from past consoles.
Still love my Wii today and like playing it's games from time to time.
MadWorld was my favorite game on Wii. The art style worked, the controls all together flowed well, and it was just fun to play. Red Steel 2 was fun, just not a great game
That Banana Blitz HD footage was insane, I'm shocked people didn't get motion sick after playing for a while
I liked the for 5 minutes by using accessoires to turn your wii remote into a bowling ball,a golf stick,a tennis racket etc,, just to play wii sports with some realism feel to it,as if you play golf or tennis in real life.
I am so glad that you are still going with these. I love these videos so much. You guys both helped me with getting some games for my collection and the editing is always so amazing. Keep up the amazing work.
I just turned 22 and I got my black Wii/MkWii bundle all the way back for my 12th birthday..... Damn, time flies...
I still have my Nintendo Wii to this day, 15 years and counting.
Hey the gameplay capture looks excellent! Great video!
How could I have that type of video quality output for a Wii?
I'm thinking collecting Wii games, but I don't know what should be the proper setup.
Are you using a retrotink 5?
For marble mania, you can rotate the entire stage in any way you want, including around the marble.
Thank goodness they removed the motion controls for DKCR on the 3DS. I'm typically fine with adapting to motion controls on most games but for that one specifically, I hated them. Play the 3DS version instead.
i kinda dig it that your sponsor is a retro-related videogame. No VPN, no razorblades, no knifes, no whatever. Just a videogame. Nice.
The first few years of the Wii were incredible. It was pure magic and excitement
I’d recommend No More Heroes (1 & 2), any of the Tiger Woods games that used the Wii Motion Plus (2010, 2011 or 2012), and Rock Band 3 for the ‘Wii Part 2’ video.
Also Muramasa, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Tetris Party and the Lost Winds games.
i cant express how happy i am when i see game sack pop up on my page best feeling nowadays
I have to admit the intro commercial was actually very well done, if most commercials were that good I wouldn't skip them, great job Joe! Not to mention "it's a little short, yeah I get that a lot..."