Minecraft: Story Mode Arriving on Wii U after Other Platforms

Surprise, surprise.

I'm not surprised to be honest, but at least it is coming, one day.

Better late than never. Hopefully the extra time adds feature support for the Gamepad.

Makes sense, they will probably release a physical version for Wii U once the 5th episode has been released.

Well obviously, you have to make sure it doesn't sell.

i sware if there planning on release on Wii U and cancelled afterwards it really going to tick me off. (and yes i'll say why even annouced on wii u if you're going cancelled it.) but where not sure if that well happen
so ridiculous man, i hope they do release it (might get it on Xbox One or PC if there no Wii U release planned)

So Ucraft is kill now?

Seriously?

Though as @Grumblevolcano said, maybe Nintneod doesn't like episodic games - though it's tried it's damndest w/ Summer of Splatoon in all but name and pricing policy - so maybe Wii U has to wait for all 5 to release as 1 package? I know 3D Shad that Moon Chronicles game in 4 episodes but I can't think of any on Wi U.

Probably because they've only decided to port it over recently.

"The series will also be coming to Wii U and PlayStation Vita."

The two red headed stepchildren of this gen, of course. Not interested anyway.

I'll just assume it's all coming out in one pack on Wii U as the individual sales wouldn't be worth it.

@Wouwter That one made me laugh out loud, well done sir.

So is this only a minecraft game in title only? I'm still waiting to see how U Craft fares before grabbing either that or Cube Life. But if this is basically the same thing but with an infused story line...

Whattttttttttttttt

Welp, there goes another 3rd party with Ninty.

@Mrclaycoat
This is absolutely in no way similar to Ucraft.

This is a Telltale game, like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us or Game of Thrones. Point and click story-based adventure.

This just makes a story about fictional Minecraft characters in the Minecraft Universe.

This has no more similarity to playing Minecraft than a movie about Michael Jordan's life has to actually playing basketball.

@shyguylink "This" is my favourite word! I use it all this time!

@JaxonH Ah that's what I figured, that's for clearing that up for me. I've never played Minecraft so I don't know what I'm missing as of yet but since the Wii U is my main console, I'd rather support either U Craft or Cube life

I think Minecraft is a little too late to the Wii U party. I'm already sold on UCraft so I won't bother with this, even if it was the actual Minecraft game.

Woo.

Well this is their first Wii U release so take your time. October is also when The Walking Dead is apparently releasing on Wii U too

I've never actually even tried Minecraft on PC yet, so I doubt I'll be getting it. Way too much mainstream-ness for me to get into.

@rjejr the wii had the " strongbad " game which was one of the first if not the first episodic game for consoles.

Wii U wins!!

@Donutman I barely remember that, but now that you mention it you are correct. So there goes that theory.

Well, they shouldn't expect it to sell very well then.

@Savino They announced it's coming within september, had to go through approval first. Quite an extensive update, that is.

So something hit the plan and it wasn't worth it to bring the Wii U and Vita versions out on time.

i bet it will be canceled. only the wiiU version of course

IDK why anyone didn't expect, let alone be upset about, this. They announced the Wii U version later than the others, and the Wii U isn't very port friendly. Almost every Wii U indie game gets delayed and if not that, then they're released full of bugs. Therefore, it's not completely Telltales fault here.

Also have any of you even PLAYED a Telltale game before? Releasing it later is probably for the best considering the unfriendly Wii U hardware. I love Telltale, but they can't program worth a shovel.

Patton Oswalt is the voice of the (male) main character. Done deal. I'm playin'.

@Captain_Gonru Can't compare Strongbad to Minecraft though, even if this is basically a non-interactive Youtube video. That's what my kids will do, watch it on Minecraft, doesn't seem like they'll be missing much.

Played and starred your SMM levels, very nice. Only finished about half of Jax.

Here's a little story - once upon a time there was a game named Little Big Planet, a 2D platformer w/ a robust level editor. But some of the levels in the game were very hard, even w/ checkpoints, so they gave people checkpoints w/ unlimited lives. Now here we are 5 or so years later, and Ntineod can't even give us a checkpoint. Don't 2D Mario games usually have checkpoints? Granted lives don't matter, except in those 10/100 challenges, and we can't upload "worlds", only individual levels, so we can't make lives matter for groups of levels either, but a checkpoint sure would be nice. Almost every difficult level I play there's always that one point about halfway thru when I say - there really should be a check point here. A lot of levels are just gimmes and don't really need them. Could have used one in 2-4.

When they patch those in I'll replay Jax levels.

Why does it have to come out later on Wii U...that's something that I never get. Release them all at the same time, and see where it sells better, that would be my theory. Anyways, as I didn't like Minecraft (didn't get it and couldn't do anything when I had it on PS3), I doubt I'll get it anyways, but still...here's to thinking it will be cancelled, since they mentioned the two systems that are at the bottom of lists (Vita and Wii U). Oh well, maybe nintendo's next console won't get this kind of bad treatment.

@Captain_Gonru My 10 year old made a level to rival Jax in the difficulty dept, though there's no ryhme or reason, just difficulty, I'm not even sure how he beat it to put it up there, I'm can't and spent 45 minutes trying. The final jump is on one of those musical notes and you have to get the maximum height to jump over Bowser at the end. There's a calm platform right in the middle to catch your breath, if there was a checkpoint there I probably could have beaten it. Also possible I could have beaten it had I not spent 2 hours playing thru all of yours and Jax's levels first, my hands and Gamepad skin were soaked in sweat at that point, and my thumb was aching. I'll get you guys the code once I remember to write it down. Stupid #$@#%^$ codes.

@Captain_Gonru Don't know how much I'll be creating, still only have the 2nd group unlocked, but I'll let ya know if I upload anything. How did you follow me w/o a code, is it a "I followed you so you can follow me" thing? My kids have had their own accounts since day 1, we had a PS3 for a few years before and some of those games sort of required it. And some made it better, like Little Big Planet where you could actually play w/ your own account skin, very cool. I suppose eventually SMM will get a patch where we can follow people who the people we follow follow, like on FB and Twitter.

Time for lunch.

And after it's released on other platforms, Wii U version is cancelled, haahaa.

@Captain_Gonru - "I just feel like this game was made by someone..."

... who wanted to make a whole lot of money w/ very little effort.

Man, I hate the new Miiverse layout. But if we can see the codes for every level our friends upload I will start having to use it again. I suppose we still have to manually enter the code, nto just click a link or something? Oh well, I'll go try it out later, thanks for that.