cornishlee

Still no word from Capcom then, oh well.

We've all said it. It's nice to see Nintendo confront the issue and, at the same time, the Western publishers who so often seem to criticise without fear of contradiction.

This kind of looks more like an arena based fighting game than a hack and slash brawler. Hope I'm wrong though.

This sounds worrying.

"This sudden upsurge of interest can surely be contributed to the fact"

attributed?

It would certainly encourage me to buy games at launch instead of waiting for a price drop.

Get your act together NOE.

Still no Capcom?

I'm always interested in an RPG with decent combat. Hopefully this will come to light and, at that stage. be more fleshed out with less empty environments than what they can show here.

Good news. I hope his new studio can deliver something as good as DS2 for Wii U.

'If by chance you're one of the three people that hasn't yet played Rovio's mega-popular Angry Birds series'

Hello. No, I'm still not interested.

'Choiceful' is not a word and I have no idea what it's meant to mean in this context.

Looks good to me.

Let's not start the "next gen" semantics debate again though.

What happened to those Capcom remasters? I thought they were meant to be arriving in June.

Nazo no Murasame Jō? Please let it happen. That alone would make my Wii U worthwhile.

Not necessarily a bad thing as I see it. Plenty of people have voiced concern here that this could be seen as a re-release of an old game on a Nintendo platform which might suffer lower than expected sales and thus be used as an inaccurate measure for projecting future sales of mature titles. As long as this is marketed equally and releases at the same time the sales figures can at least be fairly compared.

"there may be some Wii U owners without a rival system or gaming PC that look at titles such as The Last of Us and wish for equivalents."

Yes.

@MadAdam81
My first thought too.

@KeeperBvK
I disagree. I was brought up to think of Sunday as the first day of the week.

Retro?

That's a nice birthday present for me.

Well, good, except I have the Megadrive version on Wii virtual console and, while save states will be useful on these I'll be waiting to pay the reduced update fee. Hope the Sega consoles appear before the end of the year.

It at least sounds better than Nintendoland. I don't think I'll be getting it though.

@Flashman
Agreed. What kind of compensation does he expect? He paid c. £40 for a product he didn't like. I guess we still just don't understand that culture on this side of the Atlantic, even if the plethora of 'accident at work' adverts on TV suggests that it's changing, sadly.

I had to get rid of my Windows 'phone due to Microsoft's insistence on cloud storage. Frankly, cloud storage is not for me and cloud gaming even more so. I understand some people may want it, in which case offer it as an option. I'd much rather Nintendo's approach though than one which means you always need to have access to the internet (which means paying) to access your own files.

Well, it looks interesting and novel but I really have no idea exactly what this game is. I'll keep an eye out for it but the fact that it's being developed for iOS doesn't fill me with confidence.

I'm intrigued by the office related problems since the separate business premise restrictions are meant to have been removed.

That third paragraph's the key one.

If I'm lucky, a new IP. No guns. No Sci-Fi.

Wasn't Mega Man already announced for this week?

Like I said yesterday: that's what Platinum games are like - clarification shouldn't have been needed but I guess it was for some people.

With all this noise are we finally getting close to a release date?

@LittleIrves
That's exactly the game the trailers keep reminding me of.

Platinum games are usually pretty short if you can complete them without dying.

Now, can we have a release date?

That is weird.

@Kifa
Thanks again.

@Kifa
Thanks for the detailed response. I'm still confused though (maybe it's my age?); does standby mode only apply to downloads? i.e. does it go into 'standby mode' for downloads and then shut off fully, or does it stay in standby mode the way that that the Wii did if you didn't hold the power button down forever?

If the latter, I'm starting to think they should have just called it 'download mode' instead of Standby or SpotPass.

@SCAR392
No I don't, but I would point out that it's mentioned separately from being able to download in standby. That last point I don't really see as a benefit - I'd rather have the auto-shutdown feature than have my electricity bill go up through the console constantly being on standby. It's nice that they give you the choice though.

If that is all SpotPass is (and I'm not saying you're wrong, as I say I don't really understand what it is) then why give it a gimmicky name? That's just asking for confusion. 'After a planned system update the exchange of information via SpotPass will also be available' makes it sound as if this is an additional feature (probably coming into effect after the summer update) over the download in standby one.

@Kifa
It says something about SpotPass too. Since I don't own a 3DS I've turned stand-by off, I really don't see the point of it. but then there's always a chance that I'm missing something crucial.

Nice to see that 60hz is being maintained.

@manu0
Thanks, that's very good news. I wonder why it wasn't mentioned...

@Fusion14
I know nothing about that game.

That's a lot of different features improved/added. I'm happy.

I'm not in the US so I can't comment on that but otherwise, yes.

@sweetiepiejonus
They never are. That's my point. I enjoy playing them but I don't like being reminded how much time I've spent doing so.

I don't know anything about 'bunches' or 'whores' or what that particular profession has to do with video games. Maybe you know something I don't though.

To be honest, all I know about achievements is people asking for them - I only have a Wii U and they don't exist on there.

It's beginning to feel like half the games on the Wii U will be survival horror games.

I couldn't vote in the second poll for the simple reason that I haven't seen any adverts before reading this - that wasn't an option.

I actually thought the first three were pretty good as a family entertainment device. The fourth one though, what was that? I thought it was an Apple advert to begin with.

Also - Jordan's a boy's name now? You learn something new every day...

I confess I'd never heard of Nordic this morning but they're making all the right noises and reaching out to the fans, so I hope it works out well.

I really don't get the 'achievements' thing. They're anything but. I have no wish to be told how much of my life I've frittered away on something non-constructive.

@luminalace
Thanks, that isn't clear in the review. One to two minute levels and the whole game completed in under three hours suggested that there isn't much of a challenge.

@kdognumba1
That's exactly what this auction was for. All IP has now been bought.

OK, I wasn't convinced by this game anyway, but can anyone tell me how a game with levels that can be completed in one to two minutes gets an eight? Any help would be appreciated.