Josh64

I've been meaning to sell the steaming garbage that is NSMBU and Luigi U for ages, better get em on ebay before these new RRP's come into play. Feel a bit of a nob doing it but A MANS GOTTA MAKE MONEY

Tropical Freeze is incredible. I was so bored of 2D platformers by the time it came out but it blew me away, it feels so fresh and new, with amazing music, beautiful graphics, great platforming and so much replayability. Also the first DK game in YEARS celebrate its history instead of ignoring everything great about the series before 2000.

JAPAN TRIP IS BOOKED! Gonna be at the Hilton Hotel in Tokyoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SO PUMPED

I forgot about that in Wii Sports Club, it's a shame that game was a bust as online Wii Sports could have been awesome. From what I remember though, it was awful, like... Worse than Mario Kart DS online. You couldn't even exit the search screen! If you changed your mind after 30 seconds of searching and not finding anyone you just had to... Wait for the game to let you free.

The original N64 game supports widescreen but this one doesnt, the option is still in the menu it just doesn't do anything. Serious input lag at times, trying to shoot can be really hard in some sections. Some sections have messed up textures which wasn't the case in the original. I think there's more but I didn't end up playing it much on Wii U in the end so I don't know.

Nintendo aren't against releasing virtual console games with sub-par performance - look at DK64

Full gyro is a bit rubbish but WITH twin sticks is amazing. I like aiming in Splatoon and fefining it with a little tilt but the best use was in Gravity Rush, using the sticks to get in position and then moving it ever so slightly in any direction with the gyro. This is mostly because I suck at dial analouge control though.

There's not much on Wii U this year but with the announcement of Paper Mario, Jpop fire emblem, recently released TP, Pokken and Mario and Sonic Olympics it certainly has a better lineup than the last year of Wii. I could see them just about getting through this year without a new console if Zelda does appear on Wii U in November. But if that happens then it'll be a March NX launch. It's hard to make a call atm. Judging by current games though, I'd definitely say a console NX will arrive before a handheld one.

Starfox looks ok! But at this point I think I'll pick it up on the cheap. Jpop Fire Emblem looking good as always, will probably get that on release, and Mario and Sonic is always a must! I just hope it's up to the levels of fun seen in 2012. They usually have an awesome roster of sonic and Mario characters too so I was a bit saddened to seem them weird bosses from Lost World. I was pumped for paper Mario until I saw them cards on the gamepad. Will have to find out more about the game and if it does play like sticker star, which I suspect, then I'll give it a miss. I would have been pumped for Rhythm Heaven 3DS a few years ago but I'm kinda over that series now, especially considering that game is mostly old minigames which I've played to death before. SNES games on 3ds has come a bit too late for me :p would have died for some of them a few months ago but had a retro binge recently and played most of them titles in the past 6 months.

My favourite Direct moment, I hope we get more gold like this.

I don't know how many dev teams there are or who is responsible for what but looking from purely a game perspective, Splatoon seems like the last 'proper' release on Wii U. As the others seem like outside work, such as the porting of TP and Mario Tennis/Amiibo festival. Even Mario Maker, while great, can't have needed anywhere near the budget or team as a 'proper' new entry in the Mario series. As I said, I'm not up on 'who's who' within Nintendo so perhaps someone with more knowledge can give an idea as to what they've all been up to. Nintendo aside, Retro have been beavering away at something since Donkey Kong TP, which released 2 years ago and was no doubt finished a couple of months before its release. With that in mind, it seems that Nintendo's development is surely mostly in NX now, and has been for some time.

It's time for a sequel

I read somewhere the project robot thing (and the other one) are gonna be incorporated into Starfox Zero.

Is there no 'General Pokémon thread'? I think there should be :p But I'm too scared to make it so this is the best fit. As a huge KPop fan, my worlds collided recently as love of my life Jung Joon Young, amazing ballad singer and more recently rock artist in 'JJY Band', sang the theme for the latest Pokémon film in Korea. This guy is awesome, so either this is a massive scoop or the Pokémon anime is massive in Korea, either way, it was a bizarre cross-over of worlds for me. The song itself is pretty good (but his mega deep voice could make anything sound heavenly), though the video is very jarring, as I've only ever known him to be a sullen ballad singer, so his over the top singing stances seem... odd. Either way, I love that JJY and Pikachu are dancing in a studio together, it's like some weird day-dream come true. I wanna catch him in a Pokéball //creep

Mario Kart 64 on Wii U VC. There's a lot to be said for simplicity. I have Mario Kart 8 w/DLC but we spent far more time on this game tonight. The 64 game is far more accessible for casual gamers and fun from my point of view too. I can easily powerslide my way to victory in MK8 but the playing field really was equal all round with this, and I got bested far more times than I'd like to admit to. The 64 game also has a classy arcade feel to it, feels much more like a SEGA game than anything. Anyway, I'm drunk on red wine so I could just be rambling. It was worth the money for nostalgia alone (and the sound clips were way better back then, Mario is genuinely adorable in the 64-bit era)

I've been an on-looker as oppose to frequent poster ever since my late teens now, so I kind of really enjoy the drama :p Jokes aside though, it seems like a much more light-hearted place and the staff are working their asses off to bring back that Nintendo magic that drew us all in as pre-teens, as the N-E Show proves. I hope we can continue that, forget all the stupid fanboy shit and just enjoy Nintendo for what they are, whilst enjoying our other consoles at the same time.

holy shit, I just turned it back to the Mario Galaxy style and its made me sick with nostalgia. I had it on this skin for YEARS

I'd love to see a Pokemon party game, the minigames in the stadium titles were super fun and the sheer amount of crazy Pokemon would allow for some pretty interesting ideas. With the prominence of Mario Party, the existence of poke park and the fact we probably don't need more party games right now, I'm guessing we won't see it.

I'm still holding out hope for that rumoured Diddy Kong Racing Wii U to emerge as an NX title

Whilst their games are always great, the section for their titles on that site just goes to show how few we get. At this point it's pretty much one game per generation. And their logo reminds me of a brand of batteries.

Partly inspired by love the art, hate the artist - what things have been right up your alley and you were really looking forward to watching/playing/listening, as well as being told to countless times by friends, to only be disappointed by? My favourite videogame series of all time is DKC. I love the first game and the second game is flawless. But the third game, despite trying to play it countless times, just does nothing for me and no matter how much I've forced myself to play and tried to enjoy it, I just can't. I'm a big fan of the Walking Dead and was told by pretty much everyone I know that I HAVE to watch game of thrones because I'll love it but I really struggled through season 1 and didn't see the appeal at all, gave up after that. Finally, and this is probably my own fault due to over hyping, I'm disappointed by pretty much every new album I listen to. I'll get majorly into a band, love all their music and be excited as hell for their new release to only be disappointed as hell when I first listen. This usually changes after a few listens though.

Rare had helped so much in the N64 era @Serebii and did plenty after the buyout. Sure they had a slight wobble initially dealing with the change in console and audience but I think any developer would. They went on to make some fantastic new series in Viva Piñata and kameo, Nuts and Bolts was great but scolded for daring to be different and Kinect Sports was the evolved version of the tech demo that is Wii Sports. Not only that but their upcoming title Sea of Thieves looks fantastic and is a return to their pirating ways, headed by Gregg Mayles who was in charge of Donkey Kong Country 2. To say they were 'done' before Nintendo sold them off is ridiculous. And I don't know if it was apparent the stamper brothers wanted out before Nintendo sold Rare but they didn't actually leave until 2007 so I'm not sure about that being a reason either.

Around Christmas I knew I had the week with intense family interaction and a lot of downtime, along with plenty of gifted Nintendo points so decided to finally see what this Minecraft stuff was about and got the Wii U Version, assuming it would fill the festive gap. Alas it caught me more than I'd ever imagine, now over 90 hours in on the Wii U game. After finding out about my recent obsession my friends convinced me to get it for 360! I'm very impressed I can get a Banjo skin but that aside... damn, I like to waste money. Luckily I bought this with credit from my sold 3DS or 'ultimate dust collector RPG only machine' as it's otherwise known, so no big loss.

The reason Nintendo do lazy shit like this and release it as a full price retail game instead of a £20ish eShop title as it should be is because they know they can. I bet it will sell pretty well for a Wii U title. The only time this hasn't worked is very recently with Amiibo Party and Smash Tennis Ultra.