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@Yalaa have you actually played the game or are you judging based on reviews??

Art style looks cool but not enough of a gameplay hook to pull me in right now. Maybe when my backlog is lighter 😉

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you all have a great day of big plates of food and top score's!! Make sure to smile whatever you do 😁

Good list but missing a few of my favourites like how to survive, stick it to the man and Tipping star's.

@imageform happy Christmas guys, have a good one. Excited to see what you produce next year. Like mentioned above, it'd be great to see the tower defence game make a comeback in some form. Fingers crossed for a multiplayer game in the future too 😁

At the risk of sounding too negative 😉, good luck if you're ordering from Nintendo UK. I've just come off their Facebook page and there are allot of seriously pissed Xmas shoppers kicking off!! Nothing to do with my Xmas but they seem to be struggling at the moment......

Whoooo the Wii u still has a pulse!!!

This looks amazing but it's a completely impractical dust magnet in reality. For collectors only me thinks😉

Ive had allot of fun playing 2d platform games on my Wii U. It has really re-sold the genre to me which has been great!
I've 100%ed all the games in this feature except Luigi bros which I'll get around to one day😉. It's a hard choice between rayman and tropical freeze for my favourite, they were both fantastic title's!

@OorWullie make sure to grab steamworld heist mate, it's a great game. I finished it the other day and will play it through again straight away. I NEVER do this so that's a massive compliment!
The house stuff is going fine by the way, the bank are still talking to me so that's a good sign. It's a slow stressful process I guess 😥

I'll grab teslagrad at that price, looks great and I'm sick of looking for it cheap on disc. I see it as a sub£10 game.

So the Nintendo wheel of misfortune landed on MK8 DLC this week eh!?!.....
@rejr is gonna love this , makes complete sense as always🤔

@OorWullie that is a great example of broken prices right there!
Out of curiosity, do they sell Wii u's in Thailand at all or did you just want the pal model in particular? I lost 4hrs in MBK in Bangkok once, I was sure you could buy ANYTHING in that place.....it was mental!!

Meh......

The Wii U has been my favourite Nintendo console. It has brought me allot of joy and I love the hardware and most of the games. It's a shame the 'market' didn't agree and that it has been let down so often but there are valid reasons for this. I'll remember it fondly when it finally becomes a treasured dust magnet!!

@CharlieSmile did you ever try stealth inc2? Cool game that whilst it isn't visually that unusual, has a great 'outside of the box' mentality! Also stick it to the man was great and very different to your average game....

Thats cool! I was put off buying a part one of something that might have stung me later down the line. I'll probably buy this while it's cheap now I know it's not having parts 2+3 moved to switch!😋

Waste of time.......

Yeah, yeah Wii u owners get screwed again, same old story.......
I'm just so sick of having to be understanding of another commercial/technical problem that means some companies are not going to do what they said they would do on this console. There have been countless lies and broken promises regarding Wii u games in its short time on the market and it's just a horrible experience overall.

Strange one this year. I've barely played and 'new' games is seems!?!
I'm playing steamworld heist now and I've got Starfox zero/guard but hardly played them yet. I've spent so much time playing XCX that my game count is way down. Plus I've been playing ps3 allot cos I needed a gore fix😉

Well it's the same old story. Nintendo are really not very good at anticipating the market overall. They have failed to release their products in decent number, at the right time of year and to all regions for a very long time. Consistently.

Wow, what a cynical world!!
I'm betting some people would rather shoot at a beaded man I a red suit giving out gifts rather than let people take them!?! Do people not see the irony in hating on giving gifts at Christmas.......

What a complete load of bull.......
They only made games for mobile because they weren't making enough money elsewhere and came under pressure. Nintendo never wanted to make mobile games. EVER! They simply had to to keep relevance in the eyes of share holders.....

@Mahe the consensus that the game was better on Wii u was picked up from multiple reviews. I spend allot of time on metacritic 😉
I guess it just comes down to personal preference really. Assuming the views I read were based on the features you prefer not to have, it's obvious you wouldn't come to the same conclusion. There's nothing wrong with that. I 100%ed the game on Wii u and then later helped a friend on on an Xbox one and found it had ,imo , over simplified the element of skill in co-op play. That timing of a button press was easier that sliding a block up for example and I liked the difficulty harder. So long as you enjoyed the game like I did, who cares eh? 😁

@Mahe that's a strange thing to say!?! The game has been universally praised for embracing the Wii u hardware to great effect. Obviously everyone has their own preference, but I'm really curious to know your reasoning on why it's better on other platforms as it's such an unusual opinion in this case?

For me, DK:TF and rayman are way above the rest.
There are lots of good games in that list and I've enjoyed all the Wii u ones with the exception of shovel knight (I'll get round to that soon😉). However the only 2 games I'd call 'special' were rayman and DK. They were simply the most original, fun, rewarding and perfectly crafted games of their type I've ever played and I couldn't think of a way they could be better. Both even have incredible soundtracks!! Hard to choose between them but I'd probably say if I could have played only one, I'd pick DK:TF as I remember distinctly the the buzz of getting to 100% being just so satisfying, hard but rewarding game!

Just finished this last week, great game. Took me nearly 300hrs to get my fill and I'll probably be my last RPG of this type I'll ever play. At 32 I simply can't commit to another massive game like this again, all good but too much for me tbh 🤕

@rjejr agreed on the strange timing of these amiibo! Simply makes no sense having an interactive toy that doesn't interact with anything yet. I'm tempted to say that this undermines their whole argument that they are 'not collectibles but an interactive tool for getting the most out of games'......
I'm with @SLIGEACH_EIRE on this, the amiibo was the only thing giving Nintendo a decent margin of profit at one point so the business planning were throwing them onto the market quicker than the devs could think of ways to make use of them in game. Devaluing , imo, the entire market that the product was based on in the process by flooding the market with a demand for a product people people didn't know how/why to use gaming wise. (Possibly even causing the cancellation of skylanders/infinity, but this could just be the fad ending?)
Furthermore, I'm actually getting a little suspicious of the manufacturing/ethics process of Nintendo. The constant under supply and hype demand of their products is strange to the extreme. I have to fight the thought that they engineer short supply (Wii/smash pad/amiibo/nes mini etc..) in order to magnify their sales opportunities and create global demand beyond the relevance of the product. Short supply of a heavily demanded product is just poor business sence otherwise!?!

Can you get a tiny magnifier/light accessory!?!

Hahaha, that sonic looks so wonky!!

Nothing exciting at all really. Having said that, Starfox guard probably won't be any cheaper at any point and pullblox world has been on my wish list for three years now. May as well buy just to be done with it and have them ready for another time. I've finally finished XCX now so my back log it going to get some attention!!

@clvr im pretty sure this was just an exclusive mate. The others like bayonetta and devils third were helped with funding and this granted nintendo exclusive distribution and publishing rights. This will have been exclusive due to a deal, which has presumably been renegotiated or expired!?!

Really good game. No shame in more people playing this.....

@OorWullie yeah, you do an awful lot of exploring and wandering in XCX. Ive lost about 300hrs to that game and ive not done everything! It gets less tedius and more fun once you get your skell, its a bit of a tipping point.
Youve got me worried about yooka laylee not coming out on wii u now. Im probably not going to jump strait in on the switch!?!

Mortgage application approved btw!

@OorWullie i wish i could say i was saving for the switch!! Im buying a house, so much more stressfull and will effect me for longer. Means i can fully customise my man cave if the sale goes through though. Ive got tons of retro hardware in boxes and id love some shelving and stands so i can play stuff when i want without having to pull everything out.....
Ive got the last story chapter of XCX saved as a reward for when i get back from a meeting with my bank today. That game is a budgeters dream, its got me 6 months of no new game purchases!!!

Nothing much going on here to jepordise my saving money plans. I really want to pick up oddworld but i can wait, i do have an awfull lot of back log to clear still.....

I would love this to mean something. A new wave race would be amazing!!

Get in the sea Nintendo, you are insulting us with this waste of time junk!!

This news is interesting but doesn't mean anything at all.
Those screens are really hard to find now so it makes very little difference to modders like me as you still need a bank of parts. I've got a stack of game boy colours at home and tons of gameboy advance models all waiting for screen mods.
The hard part is finding back-lit mod packs (mostly discontinued) or finding an advance sp with the better screen inside at a good enough price to afford to butcher it!!
Please tip me off if anybody has any links but I'm REALLY struggling for screen and MOD parts right now. Pokemon go blowing up is not helping retro handheld collectors 😜

@kamikazilucas they're shutting down the online!?!
I actually still wanted to pick this up, it's on my list of 'interesting but not essential' games. Is it literally not worth bothering with for single player?

These guys are full of it......their handling of the Wii u/project cars fiasco was a complete disaster!!

Old news guys.... keep up 😜

@SLIGEACH_EIRE nano assault is quite good little game, little steep on the difficulty curve mind. You're right though, it's never had a good sale price! I bought it at the same time as trine 2 in the early days and that's always on sale!?!

@MortyKoopa people have opinions you don't like. Shock. Horror!! Grow up dude, the world is full of things we wouldn't choose to have there. It's normal. It isn't normal to have someone personally attacked for said opinions. You sound like Donald Trump!

Nintendo's attitude of continuing to shaft the Wii u userbase in favour of impressing their 'new' customers does nothing but frustrate me 😵

Wow, even the discounted options are pathetic!! Makes me slightly concerned as I've only got 1 chapter of story left in xenoblade x......who am I kidding, I could still get another 50 or so hours out of that game 😉

The score at the top of the screen is wrong!?! The conclusion says 6 but the top of page summary says 8...

Insert rocket science here.......

To my shame I've never finished this!! I found the controls on the gamecube a little confusing. I'm looking forward to playing through the trilogy on my Wii u 😁

I'm not sold on this info at all. Only Nintendo themselves can work comfortably with that space. Wasn't Lego city undercover 20gb on the Wii u for starters??