Picking up an old Wii...

[Banards]

A friend is hooking me up with a Wii that he never plays. Aside from knowing that I can pick up some nice classics on Virtual Console, I know nothing about the games available. I need some direction about what's good. So let me know what I should look at getting. 

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Well, there's Mario.

[Sirgin]

Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
Super Paper Mario
new Super mario bros. wii
The Last Story
Pandora Tower
Xenoblade Chronicles
Metroid Other M
No More Heroes 1 & 2
Zelda Twilight Princess
Zelda Skyward Sword
Monster Hunter Tri
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (or Metroid Prime Trilogy)
Sin & Punisher: Star Successor
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Okami (if you don't have the PS2 version)
Zack & Wiki
Muramasa
Red Steel 1 & 2

[Cobra]

The games Sirgin listed are all great.

Depending what part of the world your in, Disaster: Day of Crisis & Project Zero 2 are both must haves.

If your after some awesome light gun fun try Dead Space: Extraction, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles, House of the Dead: Overkill, House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return, Ghost Squad.

I'd also say Madworld and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn are worth picking up.
Also if you want to get any WiiWare, my fav is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King.

[Leynos]

Xenoblade
The last Story
Pandoras Tower
Muramaa
Okami
Smash bros
Madworld
No More heroes 1 & 2
Fragile Dreams
Klonoa
Little Kings Sotry
House of the Dead Overkill
Rayman Origins
Lost in Shadow
A boy and his blob
de blob 1 & 2
Kirby Epic Yarn
Kirby 20th
Dragon Quest Collection
Metroid Prime 3
Metroid other M (game is good story is good but the VA sucks but only play the game if you know all about Metroid Lore..most people didn't get the lore so they thought thr story sucked)
Pikmin 2
RE4
Sengoku Basara Samurai heroes
Sonic Colors
Sin & Punishment
Sega All Stars Racing
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Ultimate All-Stars
Fire emblem
Arc Rise Fantasia is a decent game but atrocious VA
Zak & Wiki
Earth Seeker

[bombatomba]

Get yourself a cheap set of component cables and a Gamecube controller and memory card and you now have a great way to play GC games in Pro Scan.  Also, while there are some great games to play, there are also some epically bad games as well.  Ju-On for example.

[Link41]

Get yourself a cheap set of component cables and a Gamecube controller and memory card and you now have a great way to play GC games in Pro Scan.  Also, while there are some great games to play, there are also some epically bad games as well.  Ju-On for example.

How about the horrible Zorro game? The Wii was in no short supply of shovelware crap lol

[Cryptid Collector]

I have to third No More Heroes(both of them). Those two games alone are good enough reason to keep a Wii around and can be had cheap AFAIK.

[russlyman]

I stopped playing No More Heroes after a couple days. I'll have to try and pick it up again.

I also like
Ghostbusters
Punch Out
Lost in Shadow
Wario Shake it

[Banards]

Holy crap, thanks for the awesome suggestions guys. I had no idea how versatile the Wii is and had no idea that it has light gun games. I didn't know Xenoblade was a Wii game either, is that part of the Xenosaga series? Same universe maybe?

[Leynos]

Holy crap, thanks for the awesome suggestions guys. I had no idea how versatile the Wii is and had no idea that it has light gun games. I didn't know Xenoblade was a Wii game either, is that part of the Xenosaga series? Same universe maybe?

No, unrelated. Namco owns the IP to Saga. However the original title was Monando Begining of the word but later changed it because it sounded cooler. I think Xeno is now just used for marketing. Nintendo owns Monolith Soft since 2007 so their next game looking like a maybe semi followup to Xenoblade is X on Wii U and yes will be coming to the US.

[Banards]

Good to know, I can't wait to play it!

[Cobra]

Another one to add to the growing list, I've just been playing Calling and would definitely recommend it to.

[Link41]

Depending what part of the world your in, Disaster: Day of Crisis & Project Zero 2 are both must haves.

Still pissed about them not coming to NA...

[Banards]

Calling has been added to the list Cobra!