darkjak

I'm surprised that noone's made a thread about this before. Battlefield 3 is briliant and the console ports were by far inferior. If Dice pull this off correctly, THIS could be the game that proves the Wii U's power. Not to mention that I LOVE BF3, my definitely favorite shooter in multiplayer. Well, at least it was until DICE started to listen to fans and nerf this, nerf that, reduce recoil on this, until you had no choice but to use automatic weapons. http://wiiudaily.com/2012/08/battlefield-3-on-wii-u/ Hopefully this is true and DICE won't listen to COD-whiners wanting the game to be more Michael Bay-ish, with weak full auto guns. Anyhows: Battlefield 4 for the Wii U, what are your thoughts?

They created a Pokédex software as well. I hope that the person who made those decisions becomes unemployed. Nintendo gave the finger, now the assinine shareholders and "casual gamers" are going to want the whole friggin hand!

Yeah. Where you can share your patterns online. And it should not only knit. I'd love it if the machine would be able to for example make seamless t-shirts. I'd never need to buy clothes again

I do agree with Hogge here. Why did Nintendo go through the trouble of getting car licenses only for a five second tech demo? Possibly it was some kind of Rare project. I recall reading about it in Nintendo Official Magazine back before the Gamecube was announced.

I play CoH a lot myself. I see no problem with CoH being for the Wii U. We're talking about a console that has a touch screen and stylus. And buttons. And analogue sticks. Potentially, this could make controling the game faster than even keyboard and mouse. I normaly would agree with you. Controllers are hardly optimal for playing RTS game (although I find it laughable when people claim that console FPS games are unplayable). But with the Wii U, you have every conceivable advantage to the controls. Only thing I can't answer how you should do, is the right click. But as I've said before, a clever game designer can surely crack this. I do get your point, for sure. But I want Nintendo to start bringing out good games for the Wii U, something that's been lacking so far.

Care to elaborate? If you're referring to people owning the first being PC gamers: Franchises have swapped formats god knows how many times. Final Fantasy for the Playstation? Perfect Dark for Xbox? Bayonetta for Wii U? And to my knowledge, CoH 2 isn't even connected to CoH 1 in terms of story. If you're referring to strategy games not working for consoles: a clever designer could get it to work with the Pad. Maybe even better than keyboard and mouse. If Nintendo want the Wii U to compete with more powerful consoles and still win over gamers, Nintendo need to use every dirty trick in the book!

This. Also, I hope Nintendo bring out their giga wallet and just snag EVERYTHING up. CoH2 Wii U exclusive? Plus Saints Row 4? Yes, please!

Let me ask you: have you at all seen a non-Nintendo community? Like Youtube or Gametrailers? The general consensus, even among my Nintendo loving friends is that the lineup is dirt poor. I have a friend who got every single Nintendo console since the SNES on launch day and he's not sure he'll get a Wii U at all. Where I live, noone's displaying the Wii U. A friend of mine works at Gamestop and he told me that his store isn't making a big fuss about the Wii U because they sold out all EIGHT Wii U's they were sent. I was there the day after launch and they displayed NOTHING! A lonely poster in the back of the store and a tiny, tiny anonymous shelf and that was it. All I know is that, despite having hundreds of gamer colleagues, not a single soul cares about the Wii U lineup, bar Bayonetta and Pikmin. Bayonetta is deffo a step in the right direction. However, it remains a game we know way too little about. It's a game that caters excellently towards luring people over from Microsoft and Sony over to Nintendo. However, I do hope that they'll port B1 as well.

Yes, I'm aware that there COULD be anything coming out next year. But the fact of the matter is that the casuals have migrated to Facebook and Smartphones. Most of the core already own PS3's and Xbox360's, formats which in all probability will get high-powered successors announced next year. But what I and the general gaming community know is that Nintendo have announced a bunch of games noone cares about: a waste of talent. A bunch of games to cater for the part of the gamer community that has abandoned gaming consoles: non-gamers. For the loyal gamers, there's but ONE game announced so far. They are also aware of what the lineup looked like for the original Wii. Stopping third parties from announcing stuff is even worse, if they in fact are doing so. What everyone knows, or at least believes to know is that the Wii U won't receive Grand Theft Auto 5, which is going to be an earth shatteringly important game next year.

Nintendo have messed up on a level that just seems incomprehensible. What games are officially announced? Mario Bros U Nintendoland Wii Fit U Animal Crossing Pikmin 3 Of all those games, Pikmin is the only one worth a damn. The WHOLE rest can and should get canned for all I care. The rest are cheap and graphically unimpressive. What did we get when the Wii was announced? An official promise of Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros and Metroid within 18 months of release. Plus that Nintendo showed off Project Hammer and Disaster: Day of Crisis. Didn't they also show Endless Ocean while they were at it?

Well, let's put it this way: How loyal to the Bond franchise was Goldeneye? REALLY? And in particular: how loyal to the MOVIE was Goldeneye? Do you remember the part where Bond knew about the Goldeneye satellite to begin with? Remember how Bond actually was in Severnaya during the Goldeneye attack? I still believe this game has potential to be completely amzing, although it seems a bit like it's Left4Dead with Aliens.

As someone who hates everything Nintendoland stands for, I'd recommend you to get either the Basic pack or the ZombiU Pack.

It's all a matter of opinion of course. My personal opinion is that God Hand has stiff controls, stiff character animations and a basic combat system where you can win by just mashing buttons. Which is quite terrible in a game where all you do is to punch people (with the awkward shooting ships mini game from time to time). Not to mention that graphically there was nothing that couldn't have been done on the N64. I do know some people who love God Hand, so I do realise that it has an appeal. Although that appeal may very much be ironic. They have a great laugh watching your character performing crotch stomping QTE's every single time an enemy falls over for example. I can't talk about the gameplay wise qualities of T!T!T!, but I'm positively surprised regarding the ammount of unlockable content and don't quite agree with GT's claim that everything looks terrible. It is very primitive and all around incredibly unimpressive graphically. And of course, I still don't understand why there isn't even an option to shoot in a different direction than you're heading.

Considering that Nintendo Land and New Mario U aren't what I'd expect from a launch line up, I hope that this turns out to be a 3D platformer. Preferably it'd have level layouts etc more similar to Mario 64 than the slightly (note: special emphasis on slightly) CoD-ised Galaxy.

One problem: there aren't any that are graphically impressive. Nor have any been announced. I feel bad for Reggie, as he probably knows that Nintendo are messing up, but he has to obey the japanese bosses.

Never got around to buying that back in the day... But it'd be amazing to see a new version, only as long as it's cheap.

Yeah! Duke Nukem Forever will remain the worlds best game forever! With Too Human in second place :p On a more serious note: this seems to become quite excellent. Any news, though?

Sure that they're minimal, but this is a next-gen system, it does not have the right to look worse than current gen systems. It's unacceptable that both Batman and Mass Effect have lower framerates than the Xbox 360 versions. I would say OK if there were noticable improvements graphics wise, but from what I've seen in comparing pictures, at least Batman seems to have more low res lightmaps. None of the exclusive titles got overwhelmingly good reviews. Nintendoland was average, ZombiU was considered "an interresting idea with flawed execution" by nigh on every review I've seen and New Mario Bros also was a bit so-so.

Well, by not doing either, they have probably shot themselves in the foot. Casuals have moved over to casu... I mean cellphones. The core gamers are firstly very spec oriented, secondly very software oriented. To me, when I chose to buy an HD console, it wasn't because I was waving my arms above my hand shouting "HD, HD, HD", like the PS3 fanboys were. I just saw that the software lineup was poor. When I made my choice between PS3 and XB360, I only looked on ONE thing: software. Which console had more stellar titles? Well, the 360 had Forza 2, while Gran Turismo 5 was being eternally being pushed into the future, the Xbox had Fable and Mass Effect while the PS3 at that time... didn't. If the Wii U is so underpowered that it's just marginally better than current gen systems, then there'll be a multiplatform game drought and without any casuals that can be tricked in to buying the ancient tech... game over! Don't get me wrong, I've preordered the Wii U and I think I'm going to buy all multiplat games I can for the Wii U rather than my 360 and I'll avoid buying the PS4/Xbox3 if I can. I'm rather talking about this from a business standpoint.

Frankly, this post-launch period has been dreadful. Reviews have been mediocre, the games too few, games have had graphical issues, it's questionable if the Wii U is at all more powerful than its competitors and not a single new game has been announced by anyone. No new screenshots or info from Pikmin, arguably the only proper game Nintendo have announced so far, and definitely the only game that might in some way graphically push the envelope and prove the Wii U to be a true next-gen system. Beyond the stuff that's been announced before, I'd get hyped if Nintendo bought back a bunch of Rare IP's, like Perfect Dark, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Jet Force Gemeni and then give them to Retro Studios. Microsoft aren't using them anyways. I've played Perfect Dark on the 360 and I can tell you that the AI is supperior to anything found in any modern FPS and it still works excellently online, although I wish they'd add drop in multiplayer. If modernised correctly, rather than Modern Warfare-ised, it could be excellent.

No surprise here.

Zombie U and... err... that's it Might get Batman later.

As this to my knowledge is developed by an in-house studio: no. What I'm asking for is for them to make something in no way whatsoever similar to Nintendo Land (apart from perhaps making a true game based on one of the IP's that the minigames are based on) next time. Like ANY of the things I mentioned. Or something completely different, like a new core IP.

The thing is that it's not just that I don't like it. I've got LOTS of Nintendo loving friends and the general consensus when looking through Nintendos first party roster over the last console generation is: "WTF is this s**t?". Your analogy is WAY off. If we're to make an analogy, it's more comparable to wishing for a certain political party X to flop during the coming election, so that no other party in the government will ever try to copy the policies that party X stood for. Or if the analogies need to regard killing people, it's more like killing an awful person which has the ability to amuse people for five minutes while attempting to exterminate a nations unique culture, so that a great, innocent person loved by milions can come back from the dead. Look at my list and try telling me exactly how many of those games even came out for the Wii. Despite the Wii being Nintendos most profitable and widely sold consoles for over a decade, the sad answer is: no more than half. Not to mention that the Wii didn't see a single darned new core IP from Nintendo themselves.

I never considered it to be a slap, I more considered it to be a stereotypical karate chop. Very informative, but I wish that he'd shown some early beta footage and gone more in to detail regarding how the game changed throughout development. I've seen a site where people have extracted a bunch of unused 3D-models from the game. Like the keychain from Living Daylights and a strike helicopter. I'd really love to see how they were supposed to fit in the game.