@Haxonberik Like you, only somewhere between 5 and 10, unless it was one of those stupid staggered release things where the demo is all I have for six months because I'm in the "wrong" region and only then would 30 plays be borderline.
That said, a lot FPS games in the past typically limited the play to one map, whether online or offline, and if online multiplayer, limit the player cap and the game-type (TDM, CTF-only, etc) and respawn points. Play as many times as you like.
May also be that the same reviewers expect the central characters to be Hollywood action heroes or tough guys, not 'real' people, who in the rest of the world, don't know how to fire a gun from the word go, and in a Zombie apocalypse, aren't blessed with infinite ammo, and a BFG for good measure.
It's not a game for Generic-FPS heroes regardless of how it appears...
@kkslider5552000 I was going to say "Yeah, a bit like the free Megaman game" but I think the mob are still thirsting for blood.... and miss the point that I meant being "the lengths people will go to"
So whilst gingerly avoiding the blades that are hacking the corpse Capcom, what is stopping any indie developer on the consoles from doing exactly the same thing as PC Good-guy?
Surely if it was due to Capcom not being arsed to buy the guy dev-kits for half a dozen or so platforms for a series that they themselves don't have the heart to commit to, wouldn't a truly fan-made, Capcom-"endorsed" release be better served by engaging the talents of studios the likes of those who made Mutant Mudds, for example?
It's ok to vent but to vent and not be constructive is a waste of energy, IMO....
After reading "no component video; no SD card" along with the stuff we already knew, I began to wonder if this was Nintendo's equivalent of "a laptop for every child" project. It certainly seems more of a third-world target-market, which beggars the question "Why Canada?"
Is it the result of some rather skewed market-research?
There is no incentive whatsoever that I can imagine to buy this over a pre-loved, unknobbled Wii, particularly at that price-point.
The score: Nintendo 0 - 2nd-hand market 1 .
Nobody should lose on their home turf...
Anyone old enough to remember box-art from back in the days when games had tomes for manuals (and more physical content thrown than you could poke a stick at) will remember the reality gap you had to bridge between the sweaty paladin and the fierce dragon on the box-art, and the 8x8 pixel - or 16x8 pixel - stick-figures in the game itself.
It's funny how those graphics never stopped you having fun
Makes a change to be happening in Japan, though... this is usually the domain of US companies like Apple and Microsoft:
'... yeah that's right, we like totally patented this idea of doing stuff and we like call it "iNternet" so... ahh... like anyone that's not us, see, can like pay us squillions cos we got fancier lawyers and dumb patent approval'...
Just wondering if this release is a 'toe in the water' thing.
Most casual gamers aren't likely to be bothered with online, so if they have Wii and it breaks down, here's a low-cost alternative. It'll also have inherited the current Wii's lack of GC backward-compatibilty for the same reason (casual gamer with no prior Nintendo demeanours...)
The rest, they figure, will buy a Wii U, which despite contrary protestations in other threads, is relatively cheap for a new HD console that has backward-compatibilty.
All arguments critical of the Wii U RRP that I've read seem to forget that the other consoles (ok, specifically the PS3 since I bought one at launch) were up to twice as costly on launch - possibly three times factoring in inflation -, it was pathetically supported in terms of launch titles, and the degree of 'compatibility' varied with region and I wonder how much of the protestation is due to personal finances rather than making a credible point. It will become cheaper - relatively static technology, such as consoles - always does, or you get more for the same price-point - as with dynamic technology, such as PCs.
Looks reminiscent of a portable dvd player - I take it's a top-loader?
That'll bring costs down heaps as well.
Any chance of pics 'with the hood open', Damo?
In spite of the tongue-in-cheek opener to this post that style of game can be a lot of fun, although as a guitar hack (not good enough to be a 'player') I think Rock Smith provides the 'evolution' of this genre that the team in this article were attempting - use a real guitar and learn how to play a real guitar
I've seen some absolutely fantastic artwork - I've seen some crappy art work too (I'm in amongst the latter) - but it encourages people to give it a shot.
I, too, have been surprised at the lack of trolling in the BLOPS community with some troll-free and fanboy-free interactions on what the game is like on this platform.
@JayRydah if you are a gamer - regardless of platform - you will like this console.
Much better supported release than the Wii and PS3 from personal experience.
Just as long is there's no repetition of the over-abundance of sub-par waggle-stick mini-game compilations and games ending in 'z' and there will be a broader spectrum of gamers kept happy
My hard-core gamer sons (26 & 23) have played a few of the attractions and they have become endeared to the game and the Wii U. The older one knew of the Wii U but not the game, the younger one nothing other than the console's name - a testament to Nintendo on both counts. These two are PS3 owners but gamers first and foremost. It was great hearing the young bloke chuckle as he was playing DK's Crash Course
@MadAussieBloke Haven't worked out what credit I'll get from EB yet but if all the Wii U is getting as a bonus for BLOPS2 is the tin cover, I'd rather pay the discounted price for the placky cover and get ZombiU.... or.... NSMBU... or... another controller.... with the balance.
@Magikarp Not my recollection when waiting for PS3 games to pass certification and following up to find there's green blood to coded and such as well as multilanguage support that we don't need. I don't live under that big of a red rock the R18 is long overdue but the costs is a new one - games yes but not classification. @dambuster re: sony suggestion... 42?
I got the 3DS early enough to have been an Ambassador and due to dodgy eye-sight traded up to the 3DSXL but what's this? All of a sudden ANZ is not included in "Europe" for this promo? I have no issue if it means we are no longer shackled to tortuous Euro classification processes in terms of game release but somehow it feels like the same old "shaft the Antipodeans" again... mind you Ninty manages to show us more love than another Japanese console company when it comes to goodies...
@dragonrider most decent partitioning and imaging tools create a boot disk that's... wait for it... linux-based. It's the only OS that is capable of reading and creating a wide variety of drive formatting options. You may get a Windows version but a linux version will be first. Actually as I answer this, wiping the drive first, performing a logical partition of the drive, then letting th Wii U do it's thing to the first partition, then formatting the second partition might work but my experience with upgrading the PS3 hard drive suggests otherwise. People shouldn't be surprised if the Wii U performs a low-level format on the whole drive, thus wiping out any partitioning created beforehand.
@Kirk You and I are looking at the same thing and I'm not saying your visualisation of bulky mess is wrong. What I'm saying is how you're relating a completely different controller to 'bulk' is based on existing console paradigms. The game pad does not have to sit next to the Wii U. The power brick sits on the floor.
I'll concede the hard drive, when viewed as a supplementary system drive is a little more desktop space, but you could hide that too if you wanted to. In terms of having an extra drive connected, though, it's no different than hooking up a drive to the PS3 or a Smart TV. I can't believe that Nintendo - a company in a country where space is a premium - would intend the design to be centralised and therefore as ungracefully bulky as you perceive it will be.
I suppose rather than try to have you break the rigid mental image you seem to have, I should have asked you that given what these devices do - tablet-style controller and external drive to keep release-costs down - how else would you design it?
The only rule is that you can't say "like the PS3" because this isn't a PS3.
Probably not. My understanding is that the Wii U's use of the HDD is exactly like the PS3's in terms of completely taking over the whole drive.
You might be able to partition the drive after letting the Wii U do it's thing first but there's no guarantee that won't upset things when the Wii U goes to write to a section it thinks it has access to and it can't see it. Depending on any protection strategy being employed, this could potentially lock the drive down as 'failed' at some future point. Of course, if partitioning was going to be possible, you won't find a Windows or OSX tool for it....
@Kirk
Well this is your second post about bulky brick power adaptors. You don't like them, that's fine.
But repeated commentary like this is trolling, albeit a lot more polite.
It's an opinion which has some sense to it but nobody's holding a gun to your head to buy one.
I'm well aware of the cables but I think you're assuming that everything has to be fed from a point near the TV. What would you rather do - have your Gamepad on a cradle-charger next to your chair or to have to go over to the TV cabinet and disconnect the untidy usb cables from the console then have to hide them somewhere.
You don't need a power brick for all external hard drives either - whatever works with the Sony - since that's your benchmark - will work exactly the same way with the Wii U -from a power supply perspective with LESS untidiness because the usb ports are.... well... you go find out
Instead of acting like an old fart (and I should know because I am one) and sticking with what you think you know, open your mind to the possibilities. Where else can you tidily charge the PS3 controllers for example?
Yes, I own a PS3 so I know where you're coming from - I had the Phat which had linux taken out because of that hacking tosser GeoHot (he's like the idiot who didn't stop talking in class so we all got punished), and now a 'Mk I' Slim with backward compatibility removed, no card readers built-in and less usb ports at the FRONT.
But this is a site for Nintendo-related exchanges, so I only drag up my Sony experience since it seems that it is all you can relate to and not be trolled into accusations of fan-boy gainsaying.
Is there any site where it's posted exactly what hoops developers have to jump through for European release. I still stand by my 'universal English' releases open to all territories with a globally quantified rating system. Continental Europeans generally have a better handle on English than Anglophonic regions do on 2nd languages so this option should be available to all.
On tomorrow's to-do list, we invade Antarctica.....
So a 'core' game like CoD on the Wii was a mass hallucination? whoaaaa....
I don't get this whole 'they shouldn't' attitude, what is the fear?
Failure? Competition?
I would wager that a reasonable percentage of 'core' gamers with a second console would have had a Wii as the number two platform.
In fact, aside from the trolls, most 'core console' owners only ever pay out on the other, and typically reserved a soft-spot for the Wii
If you can merge the experience of both platforms into one, why not?
It might have been kinder for Ninty to follow Sony's lead and allow updates from an external drive since this minimises the risk somewhat. And they'd better have local mirrors - we'll (A&NZ) be in trouble if the source servers are overseas...
Hurry up the NBN, MAB... 5Gb will take anywhere between 2 and 4 hours on my ADSL 1, assuming Nintendo has a mirror set up in Oz / Perth...
Ahhh, now before I go, if GC titles come to Wii U VC, then there better be Animal Crossing in there somewhere so my better half can warm to the new console...
@Ron_DelVillano What's your typical network speed, mate. I'm only on ADSL 1 and an hour's download can be about 1Gb if there's little traffic and the server has "fat pipes".
If you know what you could download in bandwidth in an hour, that'd give you some guesstimation of the update size.
I'm putting my money on an image around 2Gb unless it's so slow simply due to server overload
@MadAussieBloke #30 I didn't know EB employed pasty-faced 12 year-olds with pubestaches Don't get me wrong if I was rich and had time on my hands I'd own a 360 as well but fanboys of any 'denomination' just beg ridicule I like that EB employs Gamer-Grrls as well but sadly there's none my age - and I think they all assume I'm buying for grand-kids- lol!
@MadAussieBloke - this feels like a bit of a warm-up for us in Oz, hey?
Not that I can imagine Reggie being outside of EBGames in Hay Street (Perth) hanging around to hand me my Wii U in two weeks time.
I seem to have got over my region-envy quite early and am anticipating the US release almost as much as if I was there myself.
I'm hanging out to hear reports from fellow Nintendo Lifers in the US but it'll be Sunday lunchtime (our time zone) before anything happens (won't it?)
So how many of the nay-sayers are actually parents?
You all seem to be answering from your own injured and/or clinical perspectives, none of which are any more right than they are wrong.
Calling this censorship, whilst it seems apt, is possibly the most ludicrous application of the word I've seen.
Any discussion about the long-term effects on this guy's daughter are pure time-wasting conjecture and probably more about personal hurt which should have been long dealt with.
This particular Dad loves his daughter enough to provide a choice for her to identify with and for that I admire the guy.
After all it's a game, for crying out loud, not a belief in some ritualistic childhood untruth and certainly not one perpetuated for a lifetime.
(Well I should have checked my facts about Coca-Cola inventing the modern Santa first so this tail-piece has been edited with the link to reflect that )
Is it just me or is most of this thread debating as if WiFi ethernet as the only way to connect to a Broadband modem? Wireless routers are becoming more common internet gateways as nearly every connected device, from fridges, to smartphones, to TVs , as well as PCs and game consoles, relies heavily on a wireless network in order to interact, so it makes sense for Nintendo to follow suit, so to speak. However, if you have broadband but not a wireless router, I'm pretty sure that I read that the Wii USB to Ethernet adapter works with the Wii U, so you should still be able to get online if that is the case. That said, having a "blue hose" trailing from the back of your console through the house to your modem may not make you popular with the "household authoritiy" either! As far as the availability of decent broadband, unfortunately that's in the hands of your local telcos and government.
@redclow that's metaphorically like asking what's so good about Pokemon. If you know someone with a copy, you have to play it and judge for yourself.
Try "Animal Crossing is to The Sims what Pokemon is to RPG/TBS"
@TheHermit I'm 50. Age has nothing to do with opinion or choice. Don't be a slave to age-ist stereo-typing. I have my Wii U pre-order.
Regarding IGN's editorial style - and here's the opinion of your Dad or Grand-dad - they seem to be the biggest bunch of xenophobes on the internet. This comes from the tone of their reviees giving rise to the perception that if a non-hand-held gaming platform doesn't come with Made In The USA stuck on the back, then it's no good. Rarely have I read nit-picking reviews - which was a service I used to subscribe to - about the same title on the 360 or PC. They are the Fox News of Gaming... in my opinion
As I mentioned in my Wii U forum post - it's time to demand a unified rating system and stop this BS .. and to whoever suggested it's Australia that makes you wait in Europe. go and do your homework. It's us who has to wait for multilanguage translations and modifications to code to suit every Euro country's classification laws. I appreciate multi language versions for Continental Europe but for UK and ANZ it doesn't make sense.
If I thought I could own three HD consoles and with my hand my heart state that I would use each one then yeah I'd get 360 as well. This pitch will make some kind of sense to casual or non-gaming parents who know little of the Wii U's backward compatibilty. Add into the mix that there will be "Tweenies" for whom Nintendo is no longer "cool" jumping on this guy's release and using it as leverage. However, for the informed Wii owners, whether or not they classify as fan-boys, stepping up to thd Wii H seems the most logical step - it's up to Nintendo not to screw the pooch again as they did on the Wii's release - that more than anything will influence the "informed" consumers' decision in the immediate future more than any press release by competitors for the gaming dollar/pound/euro.
So the 1080 zealots are prepared to sacrifice gameplay and shorter development times so that they can see '1080p' briefly flicker on their TV's overlay screen?
You seriously cannot have been playing any current gen HD console games released over the last few years.
I would almost put money on you not being able to tell the difference. Like you lot, it used to tick me off that certain games weren't in full 1080 HD but you know what ? When you never bothered to check the game resolution and you're into PLAYING a game that you bought - you remember, that main reason why you bought it - it comes as quite a surprise when you discover later that it's actually NOT 1080p.
You don't generally have time to give a rat's about the sweat on the ant's forehead on the blade of grass that you're about to run over with your tank when you're in the middle of a fire-fight.
If all you want is HD eye-candy, go buy a blu-ray 'aquarium' disk - you'll have plenty of time to count the parasites in the fishes' scales, then
The main reason, I would believe, is the same reason why the Wii was only Component Video at best and that is that publishing a 1st party title at 720p will capture all of the HDTV market that a Wii U can connect to.
That is, the "HD Ready" 720p market as well as the "1080p HD" market AND within a decent development cycle time-frame
The other thing you have to remember is that it generally takes about 12 to 18 months for developers to discover how to exploit a new console's capabilities.
Rumour has it that it's an elaborate scam by Michael Pachter - the real inspiration behind Bowser - to prove his prediction correct.
First, light a candle in a factory somewhere in a country/region near a Nintendo plant.
Second, let the internet do the rest... candle story becomes "firestorm raging throughout southern China!!!"
Third, speculation given an air of authenticity by having a Pachter mole working in Macquarie Bank, who's credentials on the matter aren't mentioned beyond 'analyst'.
@Arakine for some reason your one-liner just reminded me of the Arrested Development character, Tobias Funke, and his contraction of his job title of Analyst-Therapist
@Queix - it really depends on what you want to do. I faced a similar dilemna (or dilemma) but I own PS3 as well as the other two.
I figured I'd get it for the 3DS first since there was nothing else released (yet) that I really wanted to play on that platform and that I could always get a starter pack for one of the other consoles sometime down the track because they come with three different figures to the 3DS (whereas across the PS3, 360, and PC I think they're all the same) as well as the relevant game and portal for that platform.
When you're running each of the 'quests' you might get by with the two characters you have 'portalled' into your 3DS and can play that quest through anywhere and anytime, however you may need more than the two characters to finish a quest completely in one go and if this is what you want to do then the only advantage is that you can set yourself up anywhere as opposed to being in front of a TV but I can't see this extending to working on a bus or commuter train journey !
In Oz it's been out since Thursday and I'm very surprised that none of the Aussie gaming media has bothered to review it as yet - probably have to wait for the syndicated Big Brothers in the US to do the reviews.
The bigger non-gamestore retailers over here - who'd equate to the Northern Hemi's Tescos and Wal-Marts - have been selling the starters, add-on packs, and singles for about 15-20% off RRP. Most starter packs from these stores are currently Au$80.00 and include either a limited edition figure exclusive to that chain, or a competitor will throw in a single to 'match' the deal.
The gameplay on the 3DS - since it's different to the non-portable versions - is a 3D platformer which plays similarly to Crash Bandicoot; apologies for the non-Ninty reference but it's the only 3D platformer I've played which I can compare it to.
The graphics are nice & colourful and the game looks great with the 3d slider off and even better with the slider on.
I can't give you any sort of recommendations on how good the actual gameplay would be for more experienced platform-game players and those with a much better eye-to-hand co-ordination than I have but for the very little I've managed to have the time to play so far I've been happy with.
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Re: Nintendo Says The Play Limit On Demos Is Set By The Publishers
@Haxonberik Like you, only somewhere between 5 and 10, unless it was one of those stupid staggered release things where the demo is all I have for six months because I'm in the "wrong" region and only then would 30 plays be borderline.
That said, a lot FPS games in the past typically limited the play to one map, whether online or offline, and if online multiplayer, limit the player cap and the game-type (TDM, CTF-only, etc) and respawn points. Play as many times as you like.
Re: ZombiU Producer "Disappointed" By Early Reviews
May also be that the same reviewers expect the central characters to be Hollywood action heroes or tough guys, not 'real' people, who in the rest of the world, don't know how to fire a gun from the word go, and in a Zombie apocalypse, aren't blessed with infinite ammo, and a BFG for good measure.
It's not a game for Generic-FPS heroes regardless of how it appears...
Re: Virtual Boy Title Bound High Goes Into Production 16 Years Late
@kkslider5552000 I was going to say "Yeah, a bit like the free Megaman game" but I think the mob are still thirsting for blood.... and miss the point that I meant being "the lengths people will go to"
Re: Japanese 3DS Lifetime Sales Overtake PlayStation 3
Would that be the same Vita that trolls keep wanting people to buy over the Wii U?
Re: Street Fighter X Mega Man Is "A Bit Of A Mea Culpa"
So whilst gingerly avoiding the blades that are hacking the corpse Capcom, what is stopping any indie developer on the consoles from doing exactly the same thing as PC Good-guy?
Surely if it was due to Capcom not being arsed to buy the guy dev-kits for half a dozen or so platforms for a series that they themselves don't have the heart to commit to, wouldn't a truly fan-made, Capcom-"endorsed" release be better served by engaging the talents of studios the likes of those who made Mutant Mudds, for example?
It's ok to vent but to vent and not be constructive is a waste of energy, IMO....
Re: Hardware Review: Wii Mini
After reading "no component video; no SD card" along with the stuff we already knew, I began to wonder if this was Nintendo's equivalent of "a laptop for every child" project. It certainly seems more of a third-world target-market, which beggars the question "Why Canada?"
Is it the result of some rather skewed market-research?
There is no incentive whatsoever that I can imagine to buy this over a pre-loved, unknobbled Wii, particularly at that price-point.
The score: Nintendo 0 - 2nd-hand market 1 .
Nobody should lose on their home turf...
Re: Castlevania: Mirror of Fate's Boxart Comes With Lashings Of Belmont And Added Alucard
Anyone old enough to remember box-art from back in the days when games had tomes for manuals (and more physical content thrown than you could poke a stick at) will remember the reality gap you had to bridge between the sweaty paladin and the fierce dragon on the box-art, and the 8x8 pixel - or 16x8 pixel - stick-figures in the game itself.
It's funny how those graphics never stopped you having fun
Re: SEGA Takes Legal Action Against Level-5 Over Nintendo DS Patent Dispute
Makes a change to be happening in Japan, though... this is usually the domain of US companies like Apple and Microsoft:
'... yeah that's right, we like totally patented this idea of doing stuff and we like call it "iNternet" so... ahh... like anyone that's not us, see, can like pay us squillions cos we got fancier lawyers and dumb patent approval'...
Life was simpler when we were lung-fish....
Re: Give Your Wii U A Retro Makeover With This NES Skin
@Lan Maybe something like "Intendo" would have attracted too much attention from the Hounds of Litigation...
Re: Feature: We've Unboxed A Wii Mini So You Don't Have To
@Damo Cheers!
Just wondering if this release is a 'toe in the water' thing.
Most casual gamers aren't likely to be bothered with online, so if they have Wii and it breaks down, here's a low-cost alternative. It'll also have inherited the current Wii's lack of GC backward-compatibilty for the same reason (casual gamer with no prior Nintendo demeanours...)
The rest, they figure, will buy a Wii U, which despite contrary protestations in other threads, is relatively cheap for a new HD console that has backward-compatibilty.
All arguments critical of the Wii U RRP that I've read seem to forget that the other consoles (ok, specifically the PS3 since I bought one at launch) were up to twice as costly on launch - possibly three times factoring in inflation -, it was pathetically supported in terms of launch titles, and the degree of 'compatibility' varied with region and I wonder how much of the protestation is due to personal finances rather than making a credible point. It will become cheaper - relatively static technology, such as consoles - always does, or you get more for the same price-point - as with dynamic technology, such as PCs.
Re: Feature: We've Unboxed A Wii Mini So You Don't Have To
Looks reminiscent of a portable dvd player - I take it's a top-loader?
That'll bring costs down heaps as well.
Any chance of pics 'with the hood open', Damo?
Re: Guitar Hero 7 Was in Development With a Six-Stringed Guitar
It's just MB's Simon sexed-up for the Noughties....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%28game%29
In spite of the tongue-in-cheek opener to this post that style of game can be a lot of fun, although as a guitar hack (not good enough to be a 'player') I think Rock Smith provides the 'evolution' of this genre that the team in this article were attempting - use a real guitar and learn how to play a real guitar
Re: Feature: Taking Off to the Miiverse
I've seen some absolutely fantastic artwork - I've seen some crappy art work too (I'm in amongst the latter) - but it encourages people to give it a shot.
I, too, have been surprised at the lack of trolling in the BLOPS community with some troll-free and fanboy-free interactions on what the game is like on this platform.
Re: Review: Nintendo Land (Wii U)
@JayRydah if you are a gamer - regardless of platform - you will like this console.
Much better supported release than the Wii and PS3 from personal experience.
Just as long is there's no repetition of the over-abundance of sub-par waggle-stick mini-game compilations and games ending in 'z' and there will be a broader spectrum of gamers kept happy
Re: Review: Nintendo Land (Wii U)
My hard-core gamer sons (26 & 23) have played a few of the attractions and they have become endeared to the game and the Wii U.
The older one knew of the Wii U but not the game, the younger one nothing other than the console's name - a testament to Nintendo on both counts. These two are PS3 owners but gamers first and foremost. It was great hearing the young bloke chuckle as he was playing DK's Crash Course
Re: Review: New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U)
@MadAussieBloke Haven't worked out what credit I'll get from EB yet but if all the Wii U is getting as a bonus for BLOPS2 is the tin cover, I'd rather pay the discounted price for the placky cover and get ZombiU.... or.... NSMBU... or... another controller.... with the balance.
Re: Nintendo of Europe Gives Free Retail Game to 3DS XL Owners
@Magikarp Not my recollection when waiting for PS3 games to pass certification and following up to find there's green blood to coded and such as well as multilanguage support that we don't need.
I don't live under that big of a red rock the R18 is long overdue but the costs is a new one - games yes but not classification.
@dambuster re: sony suggestion... 42?
Re: Nintendo of Europe Gives Free Retail Game to 3DS XL Owners
I got the 3DS early enough to have been an Ambassador and due to dodgy eye-sight traded up to the 3DSXL but what's this? All of a sudden ANZ is not included in "Europe" for this promo?
I have no issue if it means we are no longer shackled to tortuous Euro classification processes in terms of game release but somehow it feels like the same old "shaft the Antipodeans" again... mind you Ninty manages to show us more love than another Japanese console company when it comes to goodies...
Re: The Godfather of Video Games Is Baffled By The Wii U
What @daznsaz said at #74... or thereabouts.
Generating discussion is one thing but given an inch of lee-way quickly becomes troll-bait.
I'm sick-to-death of reading the regurgitated naysaying of namby-pambies, regardless of the platform.
And while on the subject of naysayers, do not ever quote anything from IGN under the current regime as being worth more than monkey-fling...
Now, gimme my goddamn Wii U and let me decide for myself !
The Schprock Hath Spoken...
Re: Guide: Using USB Storage with the Wii U
@dragonrider most decent partitioning and imaging tools create a boot disk that's... wait for it... linux-based. It's the only OS that is capable of reading and creating a wide variety of drive formatting options. You may get a Windows version but a linux version will be first.
Actually as I answer this, wiping the drive first, performing a logical partition of the drive, then letting th Wii U do it's thing to the first partition, then formatting the second partition might work but my experience with upgrading the PS3 hard drive suggests otherwise.
People shouldn't be surprised if the Wii U performs a low-level format on the whole drive, thus wiping out any partitioning created beforehand.
Re: Guide: Using USB Storage with the Wii U
@Kirk
You and I are looking at the same thing and I'm not saying your visualisation of bulky mess is wrong. What I'm saying is how you're relating a completely different controller to 'bulk' is based on existing console paradigms. The game pad does not have to sit next to the Wii U. The power brick sits on the floor.
I'll concede the hard drive, when viewed as a supplementary system drive is a little more desktop space, but you could hide that too if you wanted to.
In terms of having an extra drive connected, though, it's no different than hooking up a drive to the PS3 or a Smart TV.
I can't believe that Nintendo - a company in a country where space is a premium - would intend the design to be centralised and therefore as ungracefully bulky as you perceive it will be.
I suppose rather than try to have you break the rigid mental image you seem to have, I should have asked you that given what these devices do - tablet-style controller and external drive to keep release-costs down - how else would you design it?
The only rule is that you can't say "like the PS3" because this isn't a PS3.
Re: Guide: Using USB Storage with the Wii U
Probably not. My understanding is that the Wii U's use of the HDD is exactly like the PS3's in terms of completely taking over the whole drive.
You might be able to partition the drive after letting the Wii U do it's thing first but there's no guarantee that won't upset things when the Wii U goes to write to a section it thinks it has access to and it can't see it. Depending on any protection strategy being employed, this could potentially lock the drive down as 'failed' at some future point.
Of course, if partitioning was going to be possible, you won't find a Windows or OSX tool for it....
Re: Guide: Using USB Storage with the Wii U
@Kirk
Well this is your second post about bulky brick power adaptors. You don't like them, that's fine.
But repeated commentary like this is trolling, albeit a lot more polite.
It's an opinion which has some sense to it but nobody's holding a gun to your head to buy one.
I'm well aware of the cables but I think you're assuming that everything has to be fed from a point near the TV. What would you rather do - have your Gamepad on a cradle-charger next to your chair or to have to go over to the TV cabinet and disconnect the untidy usb cables from the console then have to hide them somewhere.
You don't need a power brick for all external hard drives either - whatever works with the Sony - since that's your benchmark - will work exactly the same way with the Wii U -from a power supply perspective with LESS untidiness because the usb ports are.... well... you go find out
Instead of acting like an old fart (and I should know because I am one) and sticking with what you think you know, open your mind to the possibilities. Where else can you tidily charge the PS3 controllers for example?
Yes, I own a PS3 so I know where you're coming from - I had the Phat which had linux taken out because of that hacking tosser GeoHot (he's like the idiot who didn't stop talking in class so we all got punished), and now a 'Mk I' Slim with backward compatibility removed, no card readers built-in and less usb ports at the FRONT.
But this is a site for Nintendo-related exchanges, so I only drag up my Sony experience since it seems that it is all you can relate to and not be trolled into accusations of fan-boy gainsaying.
Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited Delayed In Europe Until 2013
Is there any site where it's posted exactly what hoops developers have to jump through for European release. I still stand by my 'universal English' releases open to all territories with a globally quantified rating system. Continental Europeans generally have a better handle on English than Anglophonic regions do on 2nd languages so this option should be available to all.
On tomorrow's to-do list, we invade Antarctica.....
Re: Analyst Believes Nintendo Shouldn't Compete With Sony And Microsoft
Can you say "Bollocks!" on this show?...
So a 'core' game like CoD on the Wii was a mass hallucination? whoaaaa....
I don't get this whole 'they shouldn't' attitude, what is the fear?
Failure? Competition?
I would wager that a reasonable percentage of 'core' gamers with a second console would have had a Wii as the number two platform.
In fact, aside from the trolls, most 'core console' owners only ever pay out on the other, and typically reserved a soft-spot for the Wii
If you can merge the experience of both platforms into one, why not?
Re: Wii U GamePad Can Play Assassin's Creed 3 in 3D
Must... resist....the... "because-I-can" factor.....
....and stop letting Bill Shatner ghost-write my posts...
Re: Premium Wii U Owners In The UK Need To Spend £62.50 To Receive £5 eShop Voucher
@THENAMEISNORM there's a slight difference in tax paid on pre-discounted and full RRP.
Pay tax on full rrp first leaves you more out-of-pocket in terms of recoverable cash - which would you prefer to pay, tax on $40 or tax on $36 ?
Re: Premium Wii U Owners In The UK Need To Spend £62.50 To Receive £5 eShop Voucher
@ThePoms putting b_willers post another way, you can't expect Nintendo to give you a discount for money that the Government took from you
Re: Premium Wii U Owners In The UK Need To Spend £62.50 To Receive £5 eShop Voucher
@MadAussieBloke Paper punch or pin-punch ?
Re: Review: Skylanders Giants (Wii)
... this reminds me... I need to get a non-TreeRex Giant to level up before I next see my youngest nephew or I will be pwned - LOL !
Re: Halting Wii U System Update May Brick the System
@jamm132 NOOOOOOO!!!! You poor bugger
It might have been kinder for Ninty to follow Sony's lead and allow updates from an external drive since this minimises the risk somewhat. And they'd better have local mirrors - we'll (A&NZ) be in trouble if the source servers are overseas...
Re: Nintendo Download: 18th November 2012 (North America)
Hurry up the NBN, MAB... 5Gb will take anywhere between 2 and 4 hours on my ADSL 1, assuming Nintendo has a mirror set up in Oz / Perth...
Ahhh, now before I go, if GC titles come to Wii U VC, then there better be Animal Crossing in there somewhere so my better half can warm to the new console...
Re: Nintendo Download: 18th November 2012 (North America)
Please add:
Still waiting for the Wii U to come to my region
to the poll, Tom!
Re: Feature: Wii U Launch Day, Live!
@Ron_DelVillano What's your typical network speed, mate. I'm only on ADSL 1 and an hour's download can be about 1Gb if there's little traffic and the server has "fat pipes".
If you know what you could download in bandwidth in an hour, that'd give you some guesstimation of the update size.
I'm putting my money on an image around 2Gb unless it's so slow simply due to server overload
Re: Reggie Surprises Nintendo World Store Campers 24 Hours Before Wii U Launch
@MadAussieBloke #30
I didn't know EB employed pasty-faced 12 year-olds with pubestaches
Don't get me wrong if I was rich and had time on my hands I'd own a 360 as well but fanboys of any 'denomination' just beg ridicule
I like that EB employs Gamer-Grrls as well but sadly there's none my age - and I think they all assume I'm buying for grand-kids- lol!
Re: Reggie Surprises Nintendo World Store Campers 24 Hours Before Wii U Launch
@MadAussieBloke - this feels like a bit of a warm-up for us in Oz, hey?
Not that I can imagine Reggie being outside of EBGames in Hay Street (Perth) hanging around to hand me my Wii U in two weeks time.
I seem to have got over my region-envy quite early and am anticipating the US release almost as much as if I was there myself.
I'm hanging out to hear reports from fellow Nintendo Lifers in the US but it'll be Sunday lunchtime (our time zone) before anything happens (won't it?)
Re: Father Gender-Bends Link For The Benefit of His Zelda-Loving Daughter
So how many of the nay-sayers are actually parents?
You all seem to be answering from your own injured and/or clinical perspectives, none of which are any more right than they are wrong.
Calling this censorship, whilst it seems apt, is possibly the most ludicrous application of the word I've seen.
Any discussion about the long-term effects on this guy's daughter are pure time-wasting conjecture and probably more about personal hurt which should have been long dealt with.
This particular Dad loves his daughter enough to provide a choice for her to identify with and for that I admire the guy.
After all it's a game, for crying out loud, not a belief in some ritualistic childhood untruth and certainly not one perpetuated for a lifetime.
(Well I should have checked my facts about Coca-Cola inventing the modern Santa first so this tail-piece has been edited with the link to reflect that )
Re: You'll Need To Update Your Wii U To Play Wii Games
Is it just me or is most of this thread debating as if WiFi ethernet as the only way to connect to a Broadband modem?
Wireless routers are becoming more common internet gateways as nearly every connected device, from fridges, to smartphones, to TVs , as well as PCs and game consoles, relies heavily on a wireless network in order to interact, so it makes sense for Nintendo to follow suit, so to speak.
However, if you have broadband but not a wireless router, I'm pretty sure that I read that the Wii USB to Ethernet adapter works with the Wii U, so you should still be able to get online if that is the case.
That said, having a "blue hose" trailing from the back of your console through the house to your modem may not make you popular with the "household authoritiy" either!
As far as the availability of decent broadband, unfortunately that's in the hands of your local telcos and government.
Re: Nintendo World NYC Gearing Up For Wii U Midnight Launch
Normally I'm envious of you guys in the States getting gear before us (Nov 30th in Oz) but I'm actually excited for you guys
Can't wait to hear the reports and hope you have helped sort out any potential teething troubles in time for RoW (rest of world ) release.
Re: Out Now: Animal Crossing: New Leaf Starts Life in Japan
@redclow that's metaphorically like asking what's so good about Pokemon. If you know someone with a copy, you have to play it and judge for yourself.
Try "Animal Crossing is to The Sims what Pokemon is to RPG/TBS"
Re: Rest Easy, You Can Replace The Wii U GamePad Battery Yourself
Well if NoA loves us so much...
WHERE THE HELL IS MY LUNCH!?!?
Re: Molyneux: "I Struggle To See Anything Amazing Coming Out Of Nintendo"
@TheHermit I'm 50. Age has nothing to do with opinion or choice. Don't be a slave to age-ist stereo-typing. I have my Wii U pre-order.
Regarding IGN's editorial style - and here's the opinion of your Dad or Grand-dad - they seem to be the biggest bunch of xenophobes on the internet. This comes from the tone of their reviees giving rise to the perception that if a non-hand-held gaming platform doesn't come with Made In The USA stuck on the back, then it's no good.
Rarely have I read nit-picking reviews - which was a service I used to subscribe to - about the same title on the 360 or PC.
They are the Fox News of Gaming... in my opinion
Re: Retro City Rampage Isn't Headed Down Under
As I mentioned in my Wii U forum post - it's time to demand a unified rating system and stop this BS .. and to whoever suggested it's Australia that makes you wait in Europe. go and do your homework. It's us who has to wait for multilanguage translations and modifications to code to suit every Euro country's classification laws. I appreciate multi language versions for Continental Europe but for UK and ANZ it doesn't make sense.
Re: Wii Owners: Microsoft Wants You To Buy The Xbox 360 This Holiday Season
(apologies for typos that I don't seem to have a way to edit - fingers too big for portrait-mode keyboard on S2 phone)
Re: Wii Owners: Microsoft Wants You To Buy The Xbox 360 This Holiday Season
If I thought I could own three HD consoles and with my hand my heart state that I would use each one then yeah I'd get 360 as well.
This pitch will make some kind of sense to casual or non-gaming parents who know little of the Wii U's backward compatibilty. Add into the mix that there will be "Tweenies" for whom Nintendo is no longer "cool" jumping on this guy's release and using it as leverage.
However, for the informed Wii owners, whether or not they classify as fan-boys, stepping up to thd Wii H seems the most logical step - it's up to Nintendo not to screw the pooch again as they did on the Wii's release - that more than anything will influence the "informed" consumers' decision in the immediate future more than any press release by competitors for the gaming dollar/pound/euro.
Re: New Super Mario Bros. U Confirmed as 1080p, Or Not
So the 1080 zealots are prepared to sacrifice gameplay and shorter development times so that they can see '1080p' briefly flicker on their TV's overlay screen?
You seriously cannot have been playing any current gen HD console games released over the last few years.
I would almost put money on you not being able to tell the difference. Like you lot, it used to tick me off that certain games weren't in full 1080 HD but you know what ? When you never bothered to check the game resolution and you're into PLAYING a game that you bought - you remember, that main reason why you bought it - it comes as quite a surprise when you discover later that it's actually NOT 1080p.
You don't generally have time to give a rat's about the sweat on the ant's forehead on the blade of grass that you're about to run over with your tank when you're in the middle of a fire-fight.
If all you want is HD eye-candy, go buy a blu-ray 'aquarium' disk - you'll have plenty of time to count the parasites in the fishes' scales, then
The main reason, I would believe, is the same reason why the Wii was only Component Video at best and that is that publishing a 1st party title at 720p will capture all of the HDTV market that a Wii U can connect to.
That is, the "HD Ready" 720p market as well as the "1080p HD" market AND within a decent development cycle time-frame
The other thing you have to remember is that it generally takes about 12 to 18 months for developers to discover how to exploit a new console's capabilities.
Re: Factory Fire Will Not Affect Wii U Production
Rumour has it that it's an elaborate scam by Michael Pachter - the real inspiration behind Bowser - to prove his prediction correct.
First, light a candle in a factory somewhere in a country/region near a Nintendo plant.
Second, let the internet do the rest... candle story becomes "firestorm raging throughout southern China!!!"
Third, speculation given an air of authenticity by having a Pachter mole working in Macquarie Bank, who's credentials on the matter aren't mentioned beyond 'analyst'.
@Arakine for some reason your one-liner just reminded me of the Arrested Development character, Tobias Funke, and his contraction of his job title of Analyst-Therapist
Re: Kevin Butler Actor Seen Near Wii Console... Sony Takes Him to Court
"... and the animals looked from Sony to Apple and Apple to Sony and could not tell them apart..."
Re: Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
@Queix - it really depends on what you want to do. I faced a similar dilemna (or dilemma) but I own PS3 as well as the other two.
I figured I'd get it for the 3DS first since there was nothing else released (yet) that I really wanted to play on that platform and that I could always get a starter pack for one of the other consoles sometime down the track because they come with three different figures to the 3DS (whereas across the PS3, 360, and PC I think they're all the same) as well as the relevant game and portal for that platform.
When you're running each of the 'quests' you might get by with the two characters you have 'portalled' into your 3DS and can play that quest through anywhere and anytime, however you may need more than the two characters to finish a quest completely in one go and if this is what you want to do then the only advantage is that you can set yourself up anywhere as opposed to being in front of a TV but I can't see this extending to working on a bus or commuter train journey !
Re: Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
In Oz it's been out since Thursday and I'm very surprised that none of the Aussie gaming media has bothered to review it as yet - probably have to wait for the syndicated Big Brothers in the US to do the reviews.
The bigger non-gamestore retailers over here - who'd equate to the Northern Hemi's Tescos and Wal-Marts - have been selling the starters, add-on packs, and singles for about 15-20% off RRP.
Most starter packs from these stores are currently Au$80.00 and include either a limited edition figure exclusive to that chain, or a competitor will throw in a single to 'match' the deal.
The gameplay on the 3DS - since it's different to the non-portable versions - is a 3D platformer which plays similarly to Crash Bandicoot; apologies for the non-Ninty reference but it's the only 3D platformer I've played which I can compare it to.
The graphics are nice & colourful and the game looks great with the 3d slider off and even better with the slider on.
I can't give you any sort of recommendations on how good the actual gameplay would be for more experienced platform-game players and those with a much better eye-to-hand co-ordination than I have but for the very little I've managed to have the time to play so far I've been happy with.