1UP has posted their thoughts on which current VC games warrant a purchase and which don’t. From the article: “Virtual Console still has a few kinks to work out, but on the whole it’s a solidly-realized service that’s starting strong and should only improve. Certainly it’s more robust in most respects than Xbox Live Arcade or Sony’s PS3 service were at their respective launches.”
Click the source to see which games they recommend. What VC titles have you enjoyed most so far? And can someone please import that awesome Wii Shop Channel background music for use in this week’s podcast?
I just bought SimCity last night on VC. I've actually never played this game before. Yeaaaahhhh, I basically have no idea how to play this game. But I love the manuals they give out. It's a lot better than just scanning in the old ones. Very intuitive interface. Hopefully they will help me out later tonight when I really try to get into it.
Aww man, they stretch the image on a widescreen? I am a purist when it comes to this, I'd much rather have black bars than a stretched image. Is there no way around this? Maybe cycling through TV options?
@ KevinYeah, I'm assuming all you have to do is just set your TV to a 4:3 ratio. Should work out fine. Even if you set your Wii to widescreen, the TV setting should override it.
Can anyone with a Wii and a widescreen test this? I haven't bought one yet, and this would make me less excited… Not to mention that Megaman1,2,3 isn't available yet.
Bit strange that they name the lack of online multiplayer as a VC shortcoming TWICE (point 4 & 7). Edit, people, c'mon!I agree with their evaluation of the games, though! This is but the first batch and Altered Beast is the only real stinker (Pinball and Donkey Kong are passable).Roll on 8 december! Make papa proud! 🙂
I remember a friend's Grandmother (!) being insanely good at Wario's Woods.
I picked up Bonk since it was about the only one I didn't play before. It's fun, but I don't know how many games I'm going to be shelling out $5+ for. I still think Nintendo is making a big mistake on pricing. I'd be much more likely to impulse buy a bunch of games for $0.99 each than one for $5-10. As it is, I know I'll buy a couple games I've really wanted to play, but that's it.
I couldn't agree more! 99c is the only fair price in my eyes. Why would I pay $5 for a "license" of a game when I could buy the actual cart for a dollar at a used games store?I'm still hoping in the back of my mind that there will eventually be VC releases of games that never officially made it to the states. A game like Policenauts would totally be worth the price in my eyes.
@ RyubenWell how I see it, I think they are justified for how much they charge. I mean no one is just gonna be sitting there buying all the games, there gonna buy one or two and wait for a while until something they want comes out.They are probably charging this much, In response to not making you pay a monthly fee for the service, I rather be able to buy a game for 5$ once every three months, then pay a Monthly fee, and have nothing to that i want to Download.