Fishing Game From Wii Generation Resurfaces On The Nintendo Switch

Huh. Might be fun with the fishing rod attachment.

But can I use the LABO rod instead? Either way, interested to see a fishing game work out. I enjoy LABO fishing more than I should, and frighten the dog

Where is Switch Sports though!

@hatch ...You’re a fish in disguise, aren’t you? You thought you were safe on the Switch. The jig is up, plankton breath!

There's gotta be more deserving games on the Wii... How about a Tatsunoko vs. Capcom port or something?

Go Vacation
Sports Party
Carnival Games
Bass Pro Shops

and those comments from 2K about how they plan to support Switch but with games tailored for the platform. I don't really like where this is going.

I'd be all over this but yeah I hope the third party support is not limited to these kinda of releases. The Wii had some cracking exclusives port some of them!!

Labo compatibility or no buy tbh

I can't deny it... that rod peripheral looks pretty damn sweet.

I can see the charm of this. I imagine my dad, someone that grew up fishing, will be excited to see this on store shelves.

Championship edition? Does this let you play as the boss fish? If so I'm sold

I need a Switch Sports from Nintendo!

I just wanna cry. Oh well it’s not for me but at least that anti matter guy will be pleased. He loves this stuff

Wii games that should be ported:

-Little King’s Story
-Dead Space: Extraction
-A Boy and His Blob
-Tatsunoko Vs Capcom
-Trauma Center/Trauma Team
-House of the Dead Overkill
-Sonic Colors
-Mario Galaxy 1 and 2
-Metroid Prime Trilogy
-Excitebots/Excitetrucks
-Mario Strikers
-Wii Sports/Resort

Games we actually get

-Go Vacation
-Carnival Games
-Bass Pro Shop Fishing

Gee, I can’t wait until Happy Birthday Games is ported!

http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/bass-pro-shops-the-strike

Im not a fan of attachments but a fishing rod sounds fun.

As someone who's an avid fisherman, you'd think these games would appeal to me but they never seem to be all that fun. With that said, i would have given this one a try but reviews of the Wii version are pretty mixed and the majority are pretty poor. I'll wait for a NL review before im all in

@ReaderRagfish and when they release that edition I will hold you to buying that.

This must be one of the games they held back from the E3 presentation. It's been an exciting year for the switch....

a...wii port? that is...well. extremely odd.

its not even some kind of small emulated re-release, its just a straight port of a...what looks to be really crappy 9 year old game.

Im usually a bit anti-port (due to the heavy amount we've been getting since the console's launch).

But when it comes to Wii games, a lot of them were severely underrated and sold terribly. So I hope they get a second chance to shine on this newest console.

Some examples include Mad World, Red Steel 2, The Conduit, Marble Saga (Kororinpa) and so many others....

The Wii was full of hidden gems. but sadly a lot of people only remember the console for its shovelware reputation.

Please don’t turn the Switch into Wii 2.0. I mean, games are games, but these aren’t the games I think deserve ports, if we have to have fishing games surely they could develop a new one, they’ve had two gens to improve on the genre...

I find the lack of Labo compatibility disturbing.

For gaming Grandpas everywhere.

Also yeah, why no labo compatiblity?

I can go Fishing from Go Vacation Switch.

@diablo2

Marble Saga was so fun! I totally forgot about that game!

@BanjoPickles Indeed. Total gem (and great use of the motion controls)

Sigh...another third party Wii port...

I've been waiting for a fishing game, rod and reel since last year, so if this pans out well, it'll definitely be on my list.

@Aerona It's a disgrace that that game hasn't resurfaced on any platform. Literally the best crossover fighter going in my opinion.

@ShadJV Who are you talking to? If people wish to release games they will.

I give it a: knack/mario 2

@YANDMAN I’m not talking to anyone in particular, just voicing my opinion like anyone else here. The Wii has quite a lot of shovelware that played off the motion control gimmick and it tended to drown out the gems later in the system’s life. If any studio wants to rerelease any games that is their decision, sure, but I can still have an opinion on it.

Would like to see Wii Fishing Resort, it was never released in Europe.

Is this any good? I'm on the lookout for a fishing game.

Is this any good? I'm on the lookout for a fishing game.

@BanjoPickles Oh man, that birthday game on the Wii has to be one of the worst games I've ever played. Honestly, you can have more fun staring at a blank screen.

@nessisonett

Don’t worry, they’ll make it fun for the Switch rerelease. 😂

This kind of stuff is the true 3rd party support, not DOOM Eternal

@1UP_MARIO - You rarely miss an opportunity to type @Anti-Matter ‘s name. Can you explain your infatuation in a way that’s not creepy or bigoted?

I first read the title as fighting game.

And wondered what fighting game you’d play with a fishing rod.

@OorWullie

I don't like this either. I mean, I'm not saying these games shouldn't exist. I know some people who love these type fishing games. But I'm kind of worried about third party support. I would understand a rationale based on hardware and costs of porting as the Switch is closer in performance to consoles from the previous generation than the PS4 and XB1, but so far, what thrid parties are saying is that they base their decision purely on what they think Switch gamers want. And all they think they want, is the same thing they somehow wanted on the old Wii. Mario, Zelda, with tons of casual distractions and shovelware.

Nope. Switch owners don't want what sells milliopns on the other systems. They are very different gamers. Fishing, party minigames, casual stuff, catz, dogz, horse stables, and cheap kart racers wannabe. Yep, that's all these gamers want.

@bimmy-lee I’m so bad I am

Ah.... just what we needed: a relaxing and realistic fishing game...
And just look how beautifully realistic the water looks in that first picture...

@1UP_MARIO I was wondering about the same thing as @bimmy-lee was, and you guessed wrong as well: judging by his own, ill-grammared comment, he doesn't seem to like the idea of this game at all...

You have to keep in mind, that he only likes cutesy chibi stuff, preferably ridiculously muscular male chibi figures, so a realistic fishing game would be a hard sell for him...

If there's a Noctis amiibo to unlock a Noctis skin I'll consider it. 😉

@ThanosReXXX i agree. I judged wrong. We need more fishing games with joycon peripherals for the switch 😉

Honestly, I had a game similar to this on the dreamcast (and had the rod) and really liked it. I don't want the switch to start getting a ton of shovelware, which I'm legit worried about, but one fishing game with this peripheral would be fine.

It was actually a fun game for friends to play at parties on the Dreamcast. Everyone thought it was so funny that you could fish on a game with a "real" rod. Ohhhh those were simpler times.

@ThanosReXXX - That water is a 10/10, would swim. My dad briefly played a fishing game on his Wii, and I think this was the one; but I have to double check. If it is, it wasn’t very good then.

@Grumblevolcano Absolutely game of the year.

@BanjoPickles I wasn't aware of that Birthday game on Wii.There was a couple of them 'It's my Birthday' and 'Birthday Bash', both from 2k. I just checked out reviews and found this part from a user review rather amusing.

"Oh yea before I go on I got this game for 10 dollars. Not that much but wasting ten dollars on this is like wasting 1 billion dollars on a speck of dust.".

Rather have Sega Bass Fishing, but this might be ok.

I hope it gets labo support. I'll pick it up when it is cheap. I like fishing games since I never get to go IRL.
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@1UP_MARIO Think nothing of it. Being able to make mistakes, only makes you more human, which is a good thing...

@bimmy-lee I don't think I've ever played a fishing game on the Wii, or if I did, I don't remember it, but I did play quite a few on the Sega Dreamcast, and the Pro Bass games were actually one of the better series of fishing games, so I'd be surprised if this one was a bad game.

Average perhaps, but not bad. Unless of course, you don't like fishing games...

@bimmy-lee As for my comment on the water: to this day, I still marvel at how good the water looks in Wave Race Blue Storm, so either I'm quite easily amazed/satisfied, or I'm just not a very reliable judge of how water in games should look...

Obviously, I'm just kidding, and neither is true, and the water in Wave Race Blue Storm does indeed still look pretty damn good. Especially considering the game's age...

Terrible

@ThanosReXXX - I’ve been amazed by water in games since SMB, so I was sort of agreeing with you while also acknowledging the (admittedly played out) Miiverse water guy and IGN memes. It was either this game, or a Rapala game I played on Wii. I’m probably a poor source on the subject though as I tend not to like sports and outdoor simulation games, but really like arcade/arcade sim sports and outdoor games. The water in Blue Storm and 64 was amazing.

@bimmy-lee Yeah, it was, and to me, it still is. It really shows what the GameCube was capable of. Water never looked that good in any of the other consoles' games at the time.

But it was not just the look, but also the physics, which still hold up very well too.

But back when I first got Wave Race Blue Storm... man, I was completely blown away. For quite a while, it was actually the only game I played, for hours on end.

I was already a fan of the N64 version, but this was literally of a whole other level. And speaking of the N64 version: although the graphics are obviously not too great anymore, the physics in that game as well, still hold up pretty good to this day.

I also remember just playing around with the splash screen (pretty aptly named, in this case... ) for minutes at a time, just moving that invisible orb around the screen and over the Wave Race logo, making ripples and waves go rolling across the screen.

Simple as pie, and yet somehow quite mesmerizing to me. Good times. Good times, indeed...

@hatch

Oh yeah! The Wii had some absolute killer games, which is why I’m puzzled by the resurgence of the bottom of the Wii Barrel. Let’s resurrect some of those hidden, and more obvious, gems!

@OorWullie

Ha! That sounds about right! The console had a ton of great games, but man, some companies set the bar insanely low!

@ThanosReXXX - Agreed. GC is the only Nintendo hardware generation I missed due to life circumstances at the time, but I played a lot of Blue Storm in its time with a friend. The visuals and physics are great. I was still getting mileage from my 64 then, still do, and I still play Wave Race. I’ve never been easily tempted by racers either. And I looove an interactive splash screen. I’ve said before that I spent an embarrassing amount of time plucking at Mario’s face on 64. I think that subject would make a fun feature. “Games with interactive splash screens”.

@bimmy-lee It could certainly be promising. So, by all means, open up a new forum topic about your own experiences with splash screens/loading screens and invite other people to tell about theirs.

I'll bet you'll be surprised how many people will respond with stories of their own...
EDIT:
We can shake hands on that Mario 64 thing, because I've spent too much time with that as well...

@ThanosReXXX Sega Marine Fishing on the Dreamcast is the only fishing game I've ever liked. Catching barracuda near the beach was fun, but deep sea fishing while whales swam in the background was awesome. Still have the game and peripheral but hooking ùp the Dream cast is difficult these days with the HMDI tvs.

@rjejr I think I've played that one too, but it has been quite a few years ago, so I'm not really sure.

But hooking up the Dreamcast being difficult? Either just use a straight VGA Box, if your TV has an input for that, or the Hanzo VGA Box, which actually comes with an HDMI connector.

Fishing Resort is the fishing game I want to see return.

@ThanosReXXX Well I'm sure I could figure it out, but it's been nothing but HDMI for awhile now, I can't be bothered trying to match up colored cables. I never got a VGA box but I did purchase a Dreamcast s-video cable, and those things are a pain, the little pins are probably all bent by now.

Weather update - still no AC, 90' today and tomorrow. Might just drink beer until I pass out both nights.

@ThanosReXXX - I just might make that forum, but I’ll hold off for a while in hopes Alex sees this and turns it into a video feature.

@rjejr Can't even match up three colored cables? A VGA box only has one input, and that is where the Dreamcast's cables go in, and since they're color coordinated, you can't go wrong. The output is a single connector VGA cable, hence the name, and that has no colored cables.

But the Hanzo VGA is probably best for current model TV's, since most HD or UHD TV's don't have a VGA input anymore, and like I already mentioned, the Hanzo has a HDMI cable, so you can stick that straight into your TV.

And S-Video doesn't even come close, picture quality-wise, so you might want to reconsider getting a true VGA Box.

Here's the Hanzo:
https://www.beharbros.com/hanzo
And here's the one I got:
https://www.amazon.com/Retro-Bit-VGA-S-Video-Adapter-RETROBIT/dp/B000SL4IIG

I did some browsing on that beharbros website, and it seems they have quite a few other interesting products...

@bimmy-lee Okay, give me a heads-up if you do end up making it.
I'm not always keeping an eye on the forums, so I might miss it otherwise.

@rjejr As for the weather: things have luckily calmed down here again, for the time being, so the heat wave is most definitely over for now, and we're back to 70°F - 78°F tops.

@hatch

Omg, yes! Zack and Wiki was so good!

@ThanosReXXX For the price of one of those boxes I'll wait for the Dreamcast Mini. Surely Sega has to roll one out eventually.

Our weather looks like that starting Sunday, very much looking forward to it. I caved and we're going out to dinner tonight, too hot in here to cook.

I bought an artificial Christmas tree today for $12.50 at the closing K-Mart. It's up in my living room now, wanted to check it out. Not much of one but just enough, and seeing it up makes me happy. I'll put it away in the morning when it's cooler.

@rjejr I paid 45 euros for mine. Currently, they're out of stock, which is probably what's driving up the price. And there's not going to be a Dreamcast Mini.

And even if there is, it is only going to have so many games installed, and what about the controllers? Would they come with the VMU's? I highly doubt it.

But regardless, I can understand that a VGA Box isn't for everyone, because not everyone is going to dust off their Dreamcast for more than once a year, if even that, to play some games on it, in which case, it probably wouldn't be worth it.

But my response was more to your thinking it would be a hassle, with all the colored cable plugs and all, while the initial setup is all but done in a minute, so that would never be an issue, even for the biggest a-technical person out there.

Hope your neighbors don't see the Christmas tree standing in your living room. You wouldn't want them to get an even more weird impression from you, than they already have...

@ThanosReXXX It's a pretty small tree, 6" if it stands on it's tippy toes, and without it being decorated nobody would even notice. I came in tonight from dinner and almost bumped into it and didn't even notice it.