darkjak

Anyone know if there are more people playing online yet?

I don't really picture how 3D Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, Waverace, 1080, F-Zero, Starfox, Earthbound, Mario Kart or Excitebike is less fun or way too serious. I respect that you think that this is fun, but the bottom line is that the first party line up is way too too short term distraction-ey, if that makes any sense. I can't imagine myself sitting down and playing either New Mario Bros or Nintendo Land for a week straight. If Nintendo had launched with one party game and a second, meatier game, I wouldn't complain. Heck, if Pikmin would've been a launch title, that would probably make me happy to. Or if Nintendo would've done as with the Wii and said "You'll be playing Zelda, 3D Mario, Smash Bros and Metroid within 18 months of release", I'd be happy too. But what I'm seeing now is three announced games: 2D Mario, Nintendoland and Pikmin. I recently watched an episode of Play Value regarding the console war between Sega and Nintendo and I think they hit the nail on the head. Sega used to churn out lots of solid B-titles, crafting new franchises all the time, while Nintendo released two A-titles every year. Nintendo are still releasing very few games each year, but they are no longer A-titles across the board.

Truth of the century! Also: pleasflop, pleaseflop, pleaseflop, pleaseflop! Plus, hope that this game bombs, tanks, fails and the discs spontaneously combust. BONUS: I hope the person who decided to have this made instead of virtually any better game of comparable budget, catches a disease.

As you know, I've been angry with Nintendo for still not releaseing a competitor to Gran Turismo. Just now I saw this demo on the GC, so I wonder: was there perhaps something such in the works?

Which part of that did you find potentially hype inducing?

That's the precise opposite of what our games are going to be.

Angry birds: Tiny game that earned tons of money, and then convinced all publishers and investors that all developers should churn out cheap s**t. The fact that it's no longer 2008, and that 50 000 games a year are launched for cellphones doesen't matter. Now idiots are asking for Nintendo to start doing the same. I'm personally looking forward to the whole app bubble popping and teaching investors that the only customers worth serving is the knowledgable core market.

A level editor, like what was in that 64DD expansion. An online mode would be great. I'm not certain about having a leveling system, but considering how nearly all cars were locked in F-Zero GX, I don't see it'd be too much of a problem. I'd like the possibility of creating clans with your mates, and have some kind of collective win/loss ratio, collective unlockables etc. The single player needs to be easier. That I need to play tournaments to unlock new campaign missions is pure BS, and the campaign missions themselves were nigh on impossible at times. In general, the single player is too short. Race through a preset number of cups, then repeat them on increasingly high difficulties. Also, I'd love to see a whole slew of extra game modes. Arcade style checkpoint races, police evasion, team cooperation etc. And also, 30 vehicles isn't that much anymore. Up the vehicle count to let's say 100. And the track design could perhaps contain a few shortcuts.

Great to get it confirmed that friend codes are dead and buried. Beyond that, this Nintendo Direct was...

The system features better be f***ing spectacular to justify half the RAM being dedicated. Atless they essentially blow me away, I'm considering to start a campaign to make Nintendo remove said features, and make more horsepower be used for the one and only thing I'm buying a Wii U for: GAMES! Oh, and on that topic: ANNOUNCE MORE GAMES! Oh, and where can I see this Nintendo Direct?

My hype level hit rock bottom the very moment I read that Miyamoto thought that we didn't want a new F-Zero. Which essentially confirms that F-Zero ISN'T in development. I could use very harsh language, stating that Miyamoto is a washed up has-been whom hasn't done anything of value since Pikmin. But I'm not. I'm just going to leave it at: I've lost all hype over the Wii U and Nintendo in general.

So... is it official? Is "Land" the name gimmick that's going to be the Wii U's equivelant for everything being "Super" on the SNES and everything being the 64th installment on the N64? On a more serious note, the graphics are quite nice, if nothing extraordinary. I'd mercilessly bash Ubi for making this game, if they didn't make ZombiU as well. But since Ubi actually did, I'll go ahead and say: nice adition.

You hit the nail on the head! We haven't had an F-Zero, a very beloved franchise, in seven years. And Nintendo make this seriously flawed mini game as part of a minigame compilation which probably had the budget which probably would be enough to develop a real F-Zero. This is a very sadistic tease... like the most gorgeous woman in the world standing naked in front of a virgin guy... only there's a sheet of glass between them.

Well, from my point of view, I want grand adventures: worlds to explore, challenges and a lore to dig in to. Or I want to experience things I can't/wouldn't do in real life, like racing a high performace sports cars worth over a milion Euro or save the earth from invading aliens. So when I ask for new IP's, I want more immersion, more freedom, more vivid and amazing worlds, better graphics. I want new IP's to do things that weren't possible when the old ones came to fruition. So of course I get disappointed when for example the amazing concept behind Disaster: Day of Crisis gets ruined by being a light gun game, rather than a third person shooter. Nor can I help being pissed off when Nintendo use their amazing talents on doing trash like Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Music, Wii Fit etc. I could understand it if Nintendo used the money they earn from doing these cash cows, to develop more and better core experiences. But unfortunately, I feel that Nintendo have chosen to churn out these cash cows INSTEAD of doing cool new games.

When I saw the comparsion images, I wasn't sure which version was which. The Wii U clearly has more colorful graphics, but beyond that I couldn't tell much difference. I even thought that one of the underwater pics look better on the original Wii. Seeing how I didn't get the Wii version, I might pick this up, but this really does not feel like a game for a next gen console.

The trailer looks amazing. My main concern is how many cars that will be in the game. The reuse of the same few cars in the whole trailer slightly worries me.

The prospect of EA bringing out the trilogy for the Wii U if this sells enough makes me want to buy it. The knowledge that I in a year or two might be able to buy the whole trilogy for the Wii U for probably the same cost as ME3 makes me not want to buy it. If EA bring out some Nintendo exclusive DLC, like a Varia suit, an Omni-Mastersword or a mission where you meet the Starfox team (whom then become a war asset, which appears in the big spacebattle cutscene towards the end of the game), I might get more interrested. Jokes aside, this hasn't made me very happy.

Problem is that Sega had built up a big fanbase. A lot of people bought the format because they loved Sega games. The Wii is built on the foundations of casual gamers. And casual gamers are in my experience not loyal gamers. They won't buy the Wii U because they're hoping for a new Wii Sports might come out some time. They'll buy what's trendy. I dated a girl who was going to buy an Xbox 360 with Kinect, because all her friends played it at their boyfriends' place. Then they got boored and stopped playing, resulting in the girl I was dating not buying any game system at all. The casual gamers who'll desire to buy an HD console will probably buy the much cheaper PS3 with its clown nosed d***o. Or they'll move over to the next craze. Like Pogs or skateboarding. Don't get me wrong, no chance in hell that the Wii U will do as badly as the Saturn or Dreamcast. I'm saying that the previous consoles emphasis means that one part of Nintendo's customer base won't buy the new console. They've still got millions of true fans and they seem to want to win back the core. Perhaps with time, they'll win back the casual as well.

This had better be a budget release. No way this is worth more than 30 Euro.

I'm trying to make the best out of a "bad" situation. :awesome:

Personally, I don't want to see a Mii in any game ever again, except for perhaps a secondary option, like in Mario Kart 7. Grumpyness aside, Metroid Blast looks like it could turn out to be at least a bit of fun. Unlike anything in Wii Play or Wii Sports, this feels like a proper game. I hope that if you'll have an ME3 save file or something, you'll be able to put your Mii in an N7 uniform :awesome:

Well, Bayonetta 2 to me shows that Nintendo at least are willing to put out money to give us exclusive titles, something they have been completely unwilling to do during the Wii days. Let's hope they'll do this more often. Like WAY more often. I'm talking about Nintendo going out on a friggin' shopping spree and buy out every developer with a good track record but little money. I'm all about software, and right now nothing seems very interresting. Yes, Pikmin and ZombiU seems quite good. But the whole rest seems either old or sub-par. That you can play using four Pro Controllers (I first thought they were only tablets without a touchscreen), which is nice. I think that the idea to waste half the RAM on pointless apps is among the dumbest decisions ever made throughout the entire history of the game industry. It means that gamers will have to pay for the full 2GB ram and then not get to use it. It's like Koenigsegg would use half the power of their 1000 hp+ engine on airconditioning and satnav. The unfathmable level of stupidity will only be more evident when the PS4 and Xbox 720 will be unveiled. But no. I had much bigger faith in Nintendo after last years E3 than this year. Nintendo KNEW that people were unsatisified due to the lack of games at E3 2011. So, on paper they fixed that by unveiling 20+ Wii U games. They opened strongly with Pikmin 3, but then made a total hash of things by only unveiling ONE more game... a spiritual successor to the dreaded, vile and disgusting Wii Sports. People were outraged, so you'd think that now when they held the Nintendo Direct conferences, they'd learned their lesson. Well, just no. They unveiled ONE game. So the total ammount of exclusive games one might be even remotely interrested in buying is up to a grand total of... three! So no, over the last three months, my faith in Nintendo has deteriorated quite rapidly.

This is actually quite brilliant news. I didn't expect it, but it's a really convenient feature. Kudos for Nintendo!

This is looking better and better. Great gameplay mechanics and perhaps the only modern survival horror, considering how everything else's turned into GoW with zombies. Just hope it lives up to expectations better than erherm... Red Steel.

This game looks promising. I just hope it doesen't get sunk by the same problem as Goldeneye: the linear levels. But taking the key action sequences from multiple movies is a stroke of genious.