Josh64

I really want to do something for Halloween this year but will have to wait and see, will be starting my job on Monday so I think it's too early to be asking for days off :p When I do know my hours though, if I've got Halloween off I'll be sure to dress as something. Any excuse to dress up and wear makeup.

Anyone watch the new episode this week? What did you guys think?? And Seasons 1-4 are now on Netlflix and Now Tv, Now Tv will also have the new season 5 episodes

Is there a way to unlock new moves for specific characters? I have plenty of stuff for my Mii but most characters I've gone to customise haven't had many options (or any at all)

Will the new ship be called Titanic 2? Because I can't imagine that'd do much for customer confidence. It'd be like Nintendo's next console being called Wii U 2.

I have such mixed thoughts about this game! I was loving it initially, then ripped it apart when discussing it with a few people but then, today, saw the light once more. I was on the train home, playng the starfox stage, I was Ness against a level 9 Pikachu. This intense battle was happening and then I suddenly thought of my fat 13 year-old self and all the time I'd spent on that stage. That's when I thought shit, I'm playing a perfect re-creation of that level, perhaps with even better graphics, in 3D, on my handheld console, on a damn train. I think my young self would have had a heart attack. In that moment, I nearly did. It may come short in some regards, but it's still a technical marvel. I just wish it retained more of the Melee charm.

FINALLY gonna start my new job soon (Friday!) . My DRB has came back! Only thing is, it took so long to come back that the person who was gonna train me is now in south africa? So I'll have to travel to a nearby city to get trained. I was slightly worried but did the journey today and it wasn't so bad! Mainly though, I'm just excited and... a bit scared to get started :p I'm glad it's happening, just this really long build up is letting me overthink things. I plan to give it my all though, and I keep reminding myself how toxic my last job was, and that this really is 100% the right thing. So before I get back into work and the real world, I'm gonna have some good nights out. Tonight was one, but after a whole dominoes to myself, I've sobered up quite well. Just gonna listen to my Kpop or Kylie playlist to drift off now.

I don't know why you put yourself through it :p They're bad enough with the live feeds but at least we get decent new gameplay footage with those

@flameboy yeah that's definitely the way to go, I would say wait until a sale though as it's not worth the asking price. The only way I kind of justified it was that I got £10 from that Wii U premium promotion thing so it ended up being £25 I'd say £20 would be the sweet spot.

If they don't patch it in for future and some existing games now then man... yet another controller to add to the pile. Wii Remote and Nunchuk Classic Controller Classic Controller Pro Wii U classic Controller GameCube controller and oh ofc, GamePad. All of those work on select games. It's so confusing for new-comers. I guess at least the GamePad does work across all of them but when it comes to multiplayer things can get confusing. Remember to have a Wii Motion Plus and not just a normal Wii Remote too, a normal Wii remote will only work with about half the games! Some games like both! Play some NintendoLand minigames and a Wii Remote is fine, but others? You'll need that Motion Plus! I hope they have one controller next gen that can do everthing, a mix of the U Pro controller and Gamecube. Wii Fit Plus is the craziest. Wii U GamePad, Wii Fit Board, two Motion Plus Wiimotes and a nunchuk required to play all of the minigames. U Walker meter thing as an optional extra.

@Cube - Thanks, thought as much. As nice as they look then, I'll avoid it. I've never had a good experience with third-party controllers.

Holy cow, how could I forget about that! I think I actually left mine on a camping trip Also, BOWSER punching bag! Though given it's size, only feeble punches. It was just pretty awesome to have this blow up bowser on my desk :p again, don't know where that ended up either.

I would be tempted but I assume officially licenced is slightly different to just official? Because they look a bit fatter than the official GC controllers. Still, would love them to go with my Wiimotes.

Holy mother of pearl! Forget what I said in the other thread, I'd pay £30 for this thing :p Just imagining DK Tropical Freeze with a GC controller... oh man, the wait for a true DK experience is finally over. Will play the shit out of that again now. Hopefully Nintendo will realise the error of their ways and make the next console have an improved GC controller. I never did like the 'classic controller', even the pro version, glad I didn't buy another Wii U specific one now.

I hadn't played it for a good month, fired it up yesterday though whilst recovering from Smash Bros claw hand and had a lot of fun. It's deffo worth firing up now I have a lot of Mii's on it, and the StreetPass gifts are cool. I wouldn't bother if it was a cart but being on my system all the time it's cool to just put on every now and then to see how all my mii's are doing

I had to scoff at that too. That Nintendo difference. ;D I'd say £22 GameCube controller with adapter would be reasonable.

There's no doubt there will be a time when Xbox and PS magazines go too but I still give it a few years. Ninendo gaming itself is dying along with the magazine industry so that didn't help, heck, I'm pretty sure there are still some unofficial Xbox ones out there as well as the official one.

I think there's a higher chance of Nintendo going third-party than there is a new F-Zero game :p (so yeah, it's still quite likely HAH) I'm still dumbfounded by how uncertain the whole Amiibo situation is, it's like Nintendo really have no idea what they're doing with them. Finally, there's a release date for them but we still don't really know what they do and on the video it says "Designs not final"

Holy crap, think I still have that somewhere, I watched that DVD so damn much, don't think I've been so excited about a console since.

Wow, a final release date is great, even if I was hoping for mid-November :p Really surprised they didn't announce this in a Nintendo Direct

Yeah hopefully, if Tomodachi life can have legs then hopefully Smash can too

@S\.C\.G - Some of their free gifts in the GameCube era were crazily good. I still have my SMASHING LIVE cd, best free gift from any magazine, I'd say. But yeah, they had all sorts of crazy stuff, Zelda playing cards, Zelda through time CD, Animal crossing key chains. Sadly even the free gifts had gone to pot the last few years. Literally every month was either a free poster or 3ds skin

It's a sad day for Nintendo as the last remaining Nintendo magazine in the UK (shocking to think there were once 3 fighting for our attention) will come to a close this month. The website is due to close shortly after in November. No staff are to be laid off but instead moved into different areas in future. Apparently this was a joint decision between Future and Nintendo, not one or the other. The website doesn't seem to be working right now but there's this from GO Nintendo:

Just as with Wii, Nintendo failed to see the big picture and didn't make a console that is future-proof in any way. Now, as well as sales, it's weak hardware is against it. What a mess.

Yeah, there has to be a direct soon because these things still seem so pointless even after reading the smash usage. I mean, is it just another CPU that you somehow train up? I don't get it at all. A direct HAS to happen in a few weeks, we're already in October! The things are little over a month away and we still know barely anything and have seen no advertising. Then again, they seemed to take that stance with Wii U in general so why would Amiibo's be treated any differently? :p

I'm really surprised it's that low actually, I guess it doesn't help being released just after FIFA. But man, the UK's obsession with FIFA is beyond me.