Wii U

i don't know. even Sunshine had some pretty trippy stuff!

want a wiiu but waiting on inevitable price drop

me too.

it might be this generation's Dreamcast, so decent chance. at least the 3DS is doing well for Nintendo

I'd disagree on that too. I'm not much of a gamer but I STILL have dreams about Mario 64 (which I have not played in about 9 years!) I think that the controls and freedom of movement in that game felt so natural and intuitive that it wound up being more immersive than intended. That does odd things to the brain...I've never felt vertigo in any real life situation but the last couple levels (mostly Rainbow Ride) made me feel queasy in a way that I haven't felt with anything else. I remember just dicking around on that level once, getting to the top and wondering "If I long jumped off the top of this, would I survive?" - I already had 120 stars, nothing to play for, and even then, I was reluctant to actually jump off and I can't explain why.

thinking about getting one soon. how easy it is to transfer vc games and such from the original Wii to this?

yeah, someone explain to me that weird Wii passthrough thing

didn't even know you could do that? we just got one last night. plan is wii u will be the coop/netflix box and i'll do mah srs gaming on pc. buh bye xbox/ps.

first negative - mario u, you essentially need 3 controllers to play 2 player co-op b/c the gamepad inexplicably only works on 1 player. neat, another $35.

what exactly does that mean. you can't just play with old Wii controllers?

oh good timing, i just got one of these for £149 in a Black Friday deal.
the Wii transfer thing is pretty simple but full of maddening Nintendo bullshit (of course)
you just need yr Wii console, yr new WiiU and an SD card.
you then need to download an app from the Wii shop to the Wii, which guides you through the process.
its an all or nothing thing, you can't pick and choose which ones to transfer, and a very small amount of games can't be transferred at all (e.g. Lost Winds)
the WiiU has a Wii built in, that's how you play them. so if you want to play a VC game you have to boot up the Wii interface which is completely walled off from the WiiU (i guess since the Wii was hacked to hell and back). oh and you can't use the Gamepad controls at all.
there are a small amount of VC games in the WiiU store that can be bought to play directly on WiiU and have save states, Gamepad functionality etc - if you have bought the game on Wii before (and transferred over) these have an upgrade cost of $1 or something.
in summary: the usual Nintendo clusterfuck when it comes to digital gaming. did i mention no real account system yet?

never had a wii so i dunno.

wii u comes with just a gamepad. we ordered a wii remote with it. thought that would be enough for two player co-op but nope, not for mario bros u.

tbf the assumption that most Wii U owners already have a Wii collecting dust in the closet is fair. i never got one either, though

ahhh ok. because I have 4 Wiimotes (though, frustratingly enough, the Wii only can sync 2 at once even though all four are operational)

I played new Mario w someone with only one Wii mote and the Wii U controller. There may be some special stages you can't do that with but you don't NEED two Wii motes.

I bought one of these fucking things, which based on past history means I expect it to be a really great system that kills the company.

So you owned a Dreamcast as well, eh?

yeah dreamcast was my favorite system ever

I feel kinda weird buying a system that seems so doomed but it has like 5 games that look great and all the Ps4/XBox1 games look like ass

yeh its dead really but 4/5 great games would make it worth it imo. been playing Pikmin 3, sooo fuckin good.

so, what are the 5 great games? haven't been keeping up and kinda want one of these too.

just got it so i don't know for sure - for me the 5 would include Pikmin 3, Mario 3D, MH3U and in the future X, SMT x Fire Emblem, Zelda. people like that Wonderful 101 game, haven't tried the demo yet though.

well not all of them are out yet but wind waker, SM3DW, X, Mario Kart all look great to me. I hope they do more HD remakes, the system would be worth it just for that.

oh yeah, x. that does look good.

mainly want this for the new mario game even tho I couldn't get into galaxy. old habits die hard.

X?

the xenoblade sequel type thing

hm! yeah that would maybe have me buy in

#yearofluigi

https://24.media.tumblr.com/6e166b17aba04f752d8d60c3ddcb5ca7/tumblr_mxjtk540dn1qednkoo1_500.png

well not all of them are out yet but wind waker, SM3DW, X, Mario Kart all look great to me.

Not much of a gamer, but I likes me my Mario games, so take this w/ a grain of salt if you will. My friend has a Wii U and SM3DW looks amazing (see here) but the 3D gameplay on a 2D track sometimes means you're just slightly on the wrong plane, often to the point of frustration. I can't count the number of times I've missed the question block or flagpole for being just slightly off, which is something that the straight-3D games always seemed to be more forgiving about. Some of the levels I've played so far force you into running along narrow ledges at 45° angles, so using the Wiimote like on NSMB is out of the question as you really need the analog stick.

I still plan on getting the Wii U though, if only for Mario Kart 8. NSMBU and Luigi U are great fun, too. Wii Party U is OK if you have a bunch of people around. No clue why the Virtual Console is so limited on titles compared to Wii.

has anyone messed with homebrew at all? pondering hacking ours some to try to get a little more functionality.

it's pretty weak as a "media centerpiece" which i guess its not supposed to be. no dvd/blu-ray player, file format is annoyingly not windows compatible so you can't just pop in a thumb drive, and no built in ethernet adapter. looks like our 360 will live on.

i jailbroke my original wii and it was super easy.. didn't really do much with it though

as for the wiiU, i recently tried out the "no-homebrew" version project-m and it worked fine but that's about it

new super mario bros u: eh, pretty good

super luigi U: FUCK YEAH

loving this. almost 100% on 3d World. Also: the browser and youtube apps are surprisingly good?

i have been streaming mostly through plex media server to the web app.

we just finished pikmin 3 which was pretty good. been trying the wonderful 101, which has some really unintuitive controls and weak instructions....and for co-op, requires the pro controller. so this would be the third time we have to buy another controller.

So I got one of these

I'm having such a great time with mario 3d world. I've actually been limiting myself to a couple of levels per session so it doesn't end too soon.

should i buy dankey kang tropical

im definitely gonna buy it once i finish rayman

yeah rayman is pretty good. does co-op well too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95HuSMQSUVo

this game is pretty good, hot soundtrack

reminds me of the gabriel knight 1 score, this song

or the nevilles' yellow moon

great track!

Yeah I tried promoting the amazing tropical freeze soundtrack here Donkey Kong Country 2 OST highlight?

it is so good. the more time i spend with the game the more i like it--the level design is impressive, it's visually creative and often beautiful. mostly, though, it has that DKC precision. mario has fluidity, where your inputs and the actions on screen move from one to the next in a logical way that makes some allowance for user error. dankey does exactly what you tell him to do right when you tell him. it can be infuriating but it is always fair.

Hey gamers, Nintendo existential crisis here. We have two kids, age 9 and 6. When the older one was much younger we briefly had a Wii, but she was too young to use it and we were too tired to use it, so away it went. Years pass, everyone's older, and the kids are probably ready for the Wii.* Now, an older Wii is obviously an option, but it bugs me to get something without HD graphics (just as it did when I bought the Wii the first time), not to mention getting stuck with the older versions of games while eyeing cool updates or new games like Marvel Lego, which looks like fun. On the other hand, Wii U looks like total dead console walking, so even though it's backward compatible, and even though I'd have access to new games, there really don't seem to be many new games, and that's a trend that does not appear to be changing anytime soon. Because dead console walking.

So what do I do? Used Wii and just deal with it? Wait this Nintendo lull out? Wait for the Wii U to go fire sale pricing?

*Never had much interest in the Xbox or Sony, since this is mostly for kid/family stuff, which Nintendo does well, and also I think the cool games for those other systems are just too fucking hard for me, but I suppose could be convinced.

Mario Kart and Smash Bros are coming out this year on Wii U and should provide plenty of family fun on their own

Mario 3d world is also supposed to be a lot of fun multiplayer

Get a 3DS instead

was about to suggest the same

360 plus minecraft plus all the lego games.

We have enough personal handheld screens, so I don't want to get a 3DS.

360 is Xbox, right?