Wii U

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Mario Kart 8 is pretty amazing! I like the Wii U Mario games better than anything since SNES. Looks way better than anything I've seen on xbone or ps4. The motion controls are pretty much perfect; this is the best controlling racing game I've ever played.

Also I love that it is simply called "Mario Kart 8" and not "Super" "New" or anything.

We just discovered the slow motion option for replays. SO COOL.

ugh I am gonna have to order a ton of Wii U Pro controllers or whatever the fuck and buy this game, on a major local multiplayer kick right now and this is the price I pay

This was a bad week for us to accidentally hoover up and destroy the cable on the AC adaptor for the wii u gamepad.

i keep hearing about pikmin 3, is it really good

have you played either of the earlier Pikmin games? It's pretty much more of the same, just a lot prettier. It's really good, short but with a lot of replayability.

just be cool and play pikm0n

my pikmin let me show u them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIIPkyWaiu0

I took it as my free game with mariokart, only played maybe 20 mins so far but yeah, feels lovely so far.

soooooooo ffaaaaaarrrr

considering getting a wii u for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHAfJturexI

I played Mario Kart 8 the other day and it was amazing. Beautiful, absolutely locked on frame rate, hard but not stupidly so like the Wii edition. Not enough to get me to buy a Wii U, but seriously awesome nonetheless.

I think of Mario Kart games as things that are largely fun among friends. Is there any fun to be had a single player?

No clue. Played it with a friend.

nah man online is sick fun

Like online against strangers or online against friends who also have Wii Us?

Hi guys just came here to post this delightful video thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t5DetuBMOY#t=88

First set of MK8 DLC tracks arrive Thursday and they look awesome.

I picked up Bayonetta 2 over the weekend and will probably start it this week. Never played the first, and am not sure if I should start there or not.

I've never really been a Zelda fan, but played the Hyrule Warriors demo and thought it was fun and something I could get into.

xp that video was delightful!

Wha? DLC tracks??

I just got a Wii U and MK8 "for my kids" last week, and my wife and I have been playing the shit out of MK. So pretty. Can't wait for Smash Bros!!!

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-s-plan-to-quietly-kill-the-wii-u/1100-6418177/
yikes! any speculation about what nintendo's "quality of life" system will be? is the wii u P.U.? i'm rooting for them.

lol what a ridiculous article, QoL is not a gaming platform, it's a bunch of standalone health products that use the cloud via your wifi. They may kill off WiiU early but it would be nothing to do with this, which is all about diversifying their product lines beyond the limited gaming space.

Oh it's from March, nvm

i've been waiting to load up on my first next gen system + games with whatever one failed first.

Smash tomorrow~~~

Can't wait!

there was a three block line going on around radio city including kids dressed as pikachu. i guess they're waiting for the midnight Nintendo store opening

I suspect Smash will be as polished glitch free and fun as MK8 and right now other developers are making that look like a legit herculean accomplishment

Smash is AWESOME. A friend got it last night and we played it way too much. Spent a lot of time in homerun derby. So much fun smacking that punching bag...

really thinking about grabbing one of these today

Do it. Confirm Smash is awesome and I haven't even played with friends yet.

We were playing a Mario vs. Mario match and there is this headbutt he does that is just BRUTAL. We were in absolute hysterics over Mario grabbing his opponents head and smashing it into his own repeatedly. Wish I had an animated gif of it. I was like "Damn, Mario!"

8-player is pretty frantic! PacMan also has a good move if he's surrounded, which my kid exploited for a bunch of kills...

got one of those Pro controllers the other day and good grief this thing feels so nice to hold, like it was ergonomically calibrated just for me.

http://i.imgur.com/voUfl.gif

I officially suck at Smash. Maybe idgi, but not having played the previous games, my technique alternates between finding where I'm at on screen, mashing buttons, and getting knocked off the platform. I plan to pick a consistent character and put some time into Training Mode.

Captain Toad is out now, and those were some of my favorite levels from SM3DW, so I'll probably get that one. I think I have enough eShop cards laying around…

hi its a me mario

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECWlFInyFM

I'm going to have to buy a Wii U when this new Zelda comes out. Looks amazing. I love having the map on the controller.

prefer smushed cartoon link

Just caved and bought one of these things. I'm already perplexed by the whole transfer system, it seriously just keeps all your old Wii stuff in a separate interface without integrating it with any of the Wii U controls? Its cool that it transfers your points but the fact that there are two separate stores, the old store seems to have a lot more VC stuff right now, though it may be because I can't figure out much on the Wii U store, it just seems like a bunch of links to different subsets of products rather than like an actual list of stuff you can buy.

That said the gamepad is a seriously neat piece of hardware and I'm having a blast with the New SMB Wii U, I'll never get sick of these games, I know they likely never will, but wouldn't it be cool if they did DLC for new worlds on this one periodically? I mean it's the same game as the regular Wii one give 'er take a few things (even reusing most of the music), so why not?

Sounds like Mario Maker is the upcoming Wii U release for you.

They did release dlc for that, I think? New luigi U or something?

oh. that one's on the disc I have

Ah, there you go then.

the Wii OS was hacked so comprehensively that when they decided the WiiU would have backwards compatibility the Wii part had to be completely fenced off to prevent hacking of the WiiU OS. this also means that most if not all previous hacks of the Wii can run in Wii mode on the WiiU - for example with Nintendont you can play most Gamecube games on the WiiU straight from an SD card or USB device with minimal setup, and its next to impossible for Nintendo to detect or patch it. I believe it also supports that Smash USB adapter thingy so you can use a wavebird if you want!

haha, I totally forgot that was the reason for their fenced-off mode

maybe another reason is that their transfer system just involves storing everything on an SD card which technically you could then open up with a hex editor on a PC and give yourself 100000 Wii points (and yes, I realize this isn't the way you do it anymore, but I haven't 'hacked' anything since I was 14)

the idea that I would have to buy something like SMB3 again on the Wii U if I want to use the new controller is a real bummer. that said it's literally a dollar right now, so whatever

I still think they are missing a huge opportunity by not doing online leaderboards or anything for the VC stuff, nor any sort of online capability - wouldn't have to be much more complex than what your standard issue emulator does. Like with New Super Mario Bros. U you can kinda see them adding in some challenges specifically for the high-difficulty/speedrun crowd, why not take it a step further and let people speedrun SMB3 with the possibility of getting on a leaderboard/making the video available for all to see