Wiikly Wares: LONPOS, Snowboard Riot, and Sonic Chaos

... WHAT would by why? The fact that there are puzzle games? Or Sonic games? What exactly is the problem here, and why does it ruin WiiWare/the Virtual Console every other week and make Mega Man 9 or Ocarina of Time less worth buying?

WiiWare alone is already superior to XBLA in my book. Even though it's flooded with shitty puzzle games...

@Roto13

Hmmm, maybe the fact that snowboarding games released in 2008 don't look much better than 1080 for the N64.

@D_average

If you judging how good XBLA or wiiware is based on graphics I REALLY think you missing the point. There's plenty of bad LOOKING games on both.

@samfish

castle crashers, bionic commando rearmed and braid are better than anything on wiiware.

@ 8-bit.artist

So I'll bite at the lame bait.
...but first...I want a list of every WiiWare game you've played.
I expect it will include 0 games...
...my guess is that your ignorant.

It's really the only explanation for such a remark.
There are stunningly good WiiWare games, just like there are stunningly good XBLA and PSN games. You could enjoy them...or just act like you have sort of gamer supremacy due to your ignorance and inability to really consider anything beyond what you already know. If you remove your prejudice, you'd find the world [including the gaming world] is a much better place than you may realize.

"castle crashers, bionic commando rearmed and braid are better than anything on wiiware."

WiiWare's a new service, and we already have LostWinds, a LAUNCH game, which was amazing, Mega Man 9 (sure it's multiplatform, but it's a better experience on a Wiimote. No, not fanboy babble, I've played on both 360 and Wii), plus, you've got all the Virtual Console games, which you may not be counting, but you can't play Sin & Punishment on XBLA, can you?

...then again, XBLA has the original Banjo games...

8.bit

I think both services are great... WiiWare has a very good selection of games, specially for a relative new service compared to the 3 year Live Arcade service.

Dr. Mario, Bomberman, Tetris Party, Art Style series, LostWinds, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Mega Man 9, World of Goo, an episodic series from Telltale Games, Alien Crush, Space Invaders: Get Even... and in the next week WiiWare will have Bit.Trip.Beat, and later Cave Story, Evasive Space, the new Bubble Bobble, Icarian, LostWinds 2.

Both services have a great selection of games... problem is, people like you only see the bad games, but don't want to remember the good selection of games.

World of Goo is better than anything on the XBLA.

What, this particular week when one credible looking game and one blah looking game are released? (Oh and a VC game, meh.) That's the whole reason you're not buying anything from them? One week?

If you don't have much disposable income then sure avoiding WiiWare is an easy way to save a few dollars, but there are several fantastic WiiWare games and lots of pretty good ones. And they're managing to uphold a fairly good mix of genres (ignoring the puzzle-game half of releases, which is to be expected).

Anyone played the snowboarding game? I guess I'll wait for a review. It looks pretty good (for a WiiWare game obviously - if it was full retail I'd probably be complaining about 57,000 copies of the same tree) and I like racing type games but, yeah, could probably suck... maybe I should buy that retail one instead, it got pretty good reviews...

Tetris Party on WiiWare is better than Tetris Splash on XBLA. Luckily however, they are both incredibly awesome.

I think it somehow has been miss tagged... I don't get why this is showing up under the DS tab either.......


Hey, Joystiq, fix? maybe? please.

It was better when everything on the "fanboy" sites appeared on their respective pages only. We used to have some semblence of a community on each site of actual PLAYERS of the represented consoles. Now we get every single troll on Joystiq - and there are a lot of them - instead. No thanks.

Actually, yeah, that's my bad guys. Still getting used to the new site and everything. Sorry!

Hi David,

It's not really your fault. Like Haohmaru said, if everything was back to "normal", you wouldn't have to select what story is what. With that being said, what's the point of me just visiting the separate joystiq tabs? Now the reader has to search for "featured" articles on their respective systems. All of the stories on the tabs are just found on the main page, so when I visit the tabbed versions, it's like I'm just looking at the same exact thing. Why even bother? Are the "featured" articles really that great that I need to be bombarded with the same information? It's rather irritating. If I wanted one single place for all my gaming news, I would go to IGN. I loved that fact that Joystiq gave me everything I wanted/needed in a blog form. And if I wanted to read about my respective systems, I could go to the fan boy site where there was a community. Now, it's basically just a mosh pit for console users. And yes, I own a Wii and a DS, but that doesn't mean I want my DS news rolled in to news about the Wii. I know there is a "DS" tab, but it really doesn't break up the content as much of the "news" is both tagged for the Wii and DS. This ends my rant.

-snapa

Oh Dave, you sound like you are working hard, but you're still getting stick for the site, but like snapa said it's not really your fault.

Anyone know if Snowboard Riot is any good? I guess I'll wait for the review. And is VC Monday madness gone?

And I agree completely with Haomaru, the fact that we have all the trolls consolidated into one website just brings me nothing but irritation whenever I check the comments section now.