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fjl:
lol, whats that from?

By the way, what are these 99% party games you speak of? Besides MarioKart what other games are good for gathering the folks together for some fun?

versapak:

--- Quote from: efjayel on June 22, 2008, 08:40:56 pm ---lol, whats that from?

By the way, what are these 99% party games you speak of? Besides MarioKart what other games are good for gathering the folks together for some fun?

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Is that actually a serious post?

It is far easier to make a list of that %1 that is not good for gathering the folks together.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: versapak on June 22, 2008, 09:02:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: efjayel on June 22, 2008, 08:40:56 pm ---lol, whats that from?

By the way, what are these 99% party games you speak of? Besides MarioKart what other games are good for gathering the folks together for some fun?

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Is that actually a serious post?

It is far easier to make a list of that %1 that is not good for gathering the folks together.

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Well to be fair, the vast majority of the party games on the Wii are the shovelware crap that no one should be playing. If you're only looking at the better games on the system, then it's easy to think it mainly has single player games. By using the same method I used to make the list of good single player games (go through the list of top 50 Wii games on gamerankings.com), I'll make a party game list. And I haven't played the vast majority of the games in this list, so it could have a lot of non-party games in it, I'm just trying to make sure not to miss any:
Boom Blox, Guitar Hero 3 (works for both lists), WarioWare, WiiFit, Mario Strikers, Raving Rabbids, Trauma Center?, Super Monkey Ball, Super Swing Golf, Sega Tennis, Mercury Meltdown, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart

So it seems of the top rated games on the Wii, there are at least twice as many mainly single player games. Now just to be clear, I agree there are far more party games on the Wii then single player games, but the vast majority of them are shovelware.

versapak:
What is the list of top rated single player games?

For the record, I gave no thought to multi-platform titles, because 9 times out of 10 I find them to be better on the more powerful 360. Obviously that is a bias that may not influence others.

Also, lots of games have single player, but that isn't necessarily where their fun is to be found. (Guitar Hero, even when playing solo, is a million times better with a group of people taking turns)

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: versapak on June 22, 2008, 10:57:03 pm ---What is the list of top rated single player games?

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--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on June 21, 2008, 12:03:52 pm ---Lego Indiana Jones, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, Okami, Res. Evil 4, Res. Evil Umbrella Cron., Metroid, No More Heroes, Zack & Wiki, Zelda, Guitar Hero 3, Bully, Trama Center, The Godfather, Excite Truck, Elebits, Fire Emblem, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Tiger Woods PGA, Mortal Kombat, Scarface, Tomb Raider, several Dragon Ball games, Medal of Honor, Metal Slug, and Battalian Wars.

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And I actually left out several games from the single player list such as Sims 2, Geometry Wars, and SSX to name a few.

If your curious, just go to gamerankings.com or metacritic or whatever rating site you prefer and pull up a list of the top 50 games on the Wii and then count the number of games you would consider to be party games. I think you'll find that of the top rated games, there are far more single player ones.

And I can understand your comment about multiplatform games, but since we're only comparing games on one system, they should be included in the comparision.

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