Josh64

I had a look through the songs on Karaoke U and it certainly has a wide variety! I haven't got round to playing it yet because I've had no one over but if it comes to it I'll just play it by myself on Monday :p And I like the Mii outfits.

I started playing this today and I can't get over how cute Link is. All those crazy facial expressions :P I was crawling along to catch this pig and Link had the biggest frown. As far as the HD is concerned, it's hit and miss for me. Some parts look amazing and then other parts (like the forest at the top of Outset Island) look hella ugly.

I couldn't stick to my 'no new games' rule ...and travel insurance!

Is the tesco thing running yet? I might go after work to get wind waker an just dance but don't wanna go if they're not selling Wii U games :p Ugh, they sell Just Dance at work but only the Wii version

Just finished Season 8 and it actually did pick up near the end. Whilst some episodes were terrible there were some really good ones too so I'm at least back in the HIMYM mood in time for this final season! ...Though sadly I watched 18 episodes in like 480p and then they all arrived in HD on Netflix :p

Well now I'm excited.

I think the wisp powers can always be justified by the inclusion of... DRILL. Man, that thumping music is reason enough to drill the day away. But yeah, the Colours abilities are very hit and miss. I thought they did a great job of giving variety to Colours but at the same time there certainly were some that could have been improved or left out altogether. I'd forgotten about that damn CUBE and remember one particular level where the cube drove me insane.

Thanks for suggesting it guys, that really was fantastic It makes the ending all the more bittersweet. EDIT: And I take back what I said about the presenter, he can be annoying but I guess his heart is in the right place :p

I agree with everything up to the Colours point. I really want this game and am hyping myself up but... at the same time I haven't ever been blown away by any of the trailers or anything. And on the subject of colours, it's actually my favourite 3D Sonic title, apart from the Laser. I fucking hated that thing. I dunno, I guess after Galaxy 2 I'd had just about enough of the whole crazy gravity thing and shooting to different platforms and even after all this time it still doesn't look like quite the right fit for a Sonic title. I'm sure it will still be great though and I'll buy it without a doubt. And yeah, I share your thoughts on the deadly six. They just seem so... Skylanders-ish.

I'll give it a watch but there's something about the presenter that rubs me up the wrong way.

@Ashley BANANA SLAMMA' (It's on Love Film instant, if anyone's interested :p) Aaaaaaand I don't know if I should be excited or not. It could be great, then again, it could turn out like.... Sonic Underground.

That doesn't surprise me actually, I've seen a lot of very recent merchandise with this kind of 'classic' art-work on it. From cups to easter eggs and tshirts. It makes sense really, especially considering how often people use the image of 'Paper Mario' when a lot of people probably don't even know about the Paper Mario series. He's coming to an age where his image is that of Mickey Mouse, I think. And my god, this trailer is just so good. I watched it again and that music. I love that it has an open world stage as well where Mario is just messing about trying to catch things as the cat. It brings back memories of just messing around with things in Mario 64 for ages and not worrying about objectives or time constraints.

I did think it was odd that we'd still seen barely anything about this. It's a shame but the 3DS could do with a few more first-party releases next year.

Shit, if that's the case then YouTube is almost useless on the browser because at least half the videos I watch on YouTube seem to have adverts. It did almost seem too good to be true before though when the browser would let you just skip to the very last second of an advert and then move on to the proper video.

That Luigi WiiMote looks wonderful! I just wish they weren't always so expensive And I updated my Wii U today, I probably won't use many of the new features but they sound cool. One thing I did hear is that youtube is fixed on the internet browser which was music to my ears. Buuuuuut I seem to be getting 'video can't be played on this device' on like every other video I click on :S Is anyone else getting this? My internet is usually really weird though, so it could just be me. And I'm slightly disappointed that Nintendo TVii didn't spring to life after this update but i'll still keep the faith. ...I just hope it doesn't turn into another tab cube situation I'm still healing after that.

I couldn't, in my wildest dreams, match Shibata. I thought he was good after his rendition of Call Me Maybe, but today had me floored. ____________ And I thought the direct was good, 3D Worlds looks MILES better than the first trailer shown. It has thrown all my fears out of the window (those being that it would be pretty rubbish in single player) as a lot of levels look very much like Galaxy just with less gravity trickery (which was pretty much stretched as far as it could go in Galaxy 2 anyway). I couldn't care less about Donkey Kong Country, I think I've made my feelings clear many times on here why I don't like it so I won't go into details :P But as a whole I think it IS bad that it has been delayed. I know it's good to pace out games but Nintendo need literally all they can to turn the Wii U around, especially with the PS4 and XBONE around the corner. They'd have had a great christmas with strong advertising for Wind Waker, Mario, Donkey Kong and Sonic. Heck, it's like 4 of gamings most popular characters on one system in the space of 3 months. I don't think it's the end of the world though. Like you guys said, Wii Sports Club and Fit U will help, and Mario really does look great now, so with the right advertising, it could be the next New Super Mario Bros (sales wise) And what's all this hate for Karaoke U? If it's not a genre for you then fine but did you really not expect to see these kinds of titles on Wii U? It's stuff like this that made the original Wii the success it was. And it's not like some cheap shit they're churning out at the last minute, it's an inventive way of selling a party experience at a cheap price. One of the main downfalls of Karaoke games is the price and the music. After a few hours you've exhausted all the songs on there and won't play it again for a year so that £50 feels like a waste. But £1.49 (or whatever it was) for an hour or two is a great idea.

Has anyone got a clip of Shibata and Karaoke U by itself and not part of the whole Direct video?

Oh man that was amazing!

I was totally obsessed with this when the album first came out and now the video is out, I'm obsessed all over again.

Has she given you any closure? Or had a final 'proper' conversation as oppose to just that text? That's the least you deserve after being together for so long. Either way, I hope you're okay!

5000? Holy shit. I thought we'd never go lower than the Gamecube days but this really is something. All year I kept thinking Nintendo would have a dramatic 3DS-like turn around but it's going to take a LOT to save the Wii U. And I don't buy the advertising thing. Nintendo had plenty of launch titles they could have advertised all year, Nintendo Land and NSMU for example, and could have pushed Pikmin 3 and 101 in the Summer. It really does feel as though they're not even trying anymore.

After a good week off work it was back to reality today and uuuuuuurrrgh yeah, it's one of my work posts. You should skip probably. I basically use this thread as a diary. :p Anyway yeah, it's been a 'first world problems' week for me. Nothing in particular, just that my life is currently best described with the theme. But yeah, one thing that has been bugging me is my damn wrists. I don't know what I've done but the past few weeks whenever I lift anything even vaguely heavy I get a shooting pain in them It started as just my right one but then today it started happening in my left one too. Anyway, back to work. I get in and it's the usual. Get spoken to like a piece of shit straight away and told that we may get a visit because the guy is in aberystwyth (which is about a 2 hour drive from where we are so it's slightly ridiculous). Anyway, we're seriously understaffed atm, used to have 2 people per aisle, now we have 2 people on a shift (there are about 6 aisles to cover in the day :P). The manager for our department is busy on some course so I'm the only one in on the department so they give me the managers phone, tell me to round up 4 people off other departments with a list of jobs all these guys have to do. So I have to walk around, getting random people from the store and telling them to do all these different jobs because this guy might be coming. Obviously these people aren't too happy and don't see the fact that I've been told to do this and instead just get all arsey. But I don't take it to heart, if one of them randomly came up to me and started giving me orders I'd probably be a bit annoyed too but everyone seems to take the job too seriously and because I had to tell a few supervisors what to do they were all like 'why should we listen to you?'. Some people wonder why I keep myself to myself at work but when you have dicks like that it's no wonder. But yeah, the whole day was just the two store managers on my case the whole time, telling me to do one thing, then changing their minds 2 mins later to something else. I was literally all over the place all day. It didn't help that I had to go on alcohol as well because man, dragging those around are pretty heavy for me anyway, and they just ruined my wrists that bit more. In between doing 10 things at once all day were the damn customers and man, they are all just fuming lately. Most of them just kept asking me why there are hardly any staff around and complaining about everything. This one lady asked me why we only do our own brand stuff now in the cake section and I said I'm not sure, I can only imagine it's to do with sales. She wasn't happy and asked to speak to a store manager so I tried ringing them but no answer. After about 2 mins of trying to get hold of these 2 guys she told me she doesn't have the time to stand around, asked for my name and said she'll have a word with customer services. So there's one strike against my name :p It all sounds trivial, and I guess in the grand scheme of things it is. But it just annoys me how literally everyone, staff and customers, don't speak to me as a human. Going to work reminds me of playing Xbox online, it's just a load of people shouting abuse at me and telling me I'm shit. But I have been looking for other work and haven't had much luck yet, so I'll just suck it up and take the age old 'at least you have a job' thing.

I got about £40 for my Club Nintendo Mario coin on eBay. ...And I kind of wish I didn't sell it :p That thing looked nice. Also sold my yellow Pikmin for £15 and KK Slider CD for about £10. This was when I was de-cluttering my room and trying to look somewhat like a normal 20 something before I did a U-Turn and started buying all sorts of crap again. It's the circle of life, I guess. And omg, I might have to get a Pikmin keyring. Though I was hoping they'd have a rock Pikmin, those things are so cute.

I've already booked my trip to Mars on flight 247

That's all I've been thinking, too. It doesn't look terrible, but put Brawl in HD and I'd say there isn't much difference at all. I think the new visual style doesn't help either as it makes some things look less detailed (such as Mario's clothing).