E3 2011

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figmentPez

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external USB hard drives.
This is promising. If I can plug in any USB hard drive and use that for storage, then I'm less worried about this, but cheaping out on internal storage better not mean that Nintendo is putting arbitrarily low limits on the size of downloadable games and content.
 
They left out that bit of info in the article and that's a little less infuriating. The built in flash memory better be at least multiple gigs.
 
I am fairly underwhelmed. While the tech demos were cool, Reggie stressed during the GT interview that almost none of them were actual games, or even games-to-be, just tech demos. In other words, nothing else is being run, or prepped to run, in the memory.

Also, I could do pretty much all of this with a new Vita (which actually had clear launch dates and working title demos) and the PS3 I already have. Unless the WiiU comes in at $250, the value prop is going to be a hard one to make.

I would have said that Nintendo's 1st-party support is a huge plus on their side, but said support hasn't shown up on the 3DS, or even really (at least for the last couple years) on the Wii.
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If Nintendo had some clear non-port-looking launch titles definitely in the works, and the console didn't look like it was going to be prohibitively expensive, and Reggie didn't dodge every single question in the GT post-presser interview, I would be a lot more confident that this would be worth it.
 
Yeah, there were a lot of cross plat games but it looks like no publishers are willing to go exclusive thus far that we've seen.
 

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I likes the WiiU stuff I'm seeing so far. That screen on the handheld is gonna solve a lot of the TV fights at home. :D
 

figmentPez

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Offical WiiU Specs
Hmmm, no mention of Dobly Digital or DTS sound. C'mon Nintendo, stop hating on surround sound! Six-channel PCM is nice, but how about throwing a bone to those of us with older speaker systems?

Unless Nintendo is holding back something, I don't think I'll be buying this at launch.
 
Nintendo has yet to let me down! The new controller looks funky but I can't wait to see how they utilize it. I just hope that game developers utilize it well... it took a while to see the Wii and DS functions used well, but the games that used them well did great! I'd hate to see that extra screen being used to simply display a map.
Pretty sure there will be a "normal" controller released for the games that obviously won't need that extra screen. Also hope that the battery on the WiiU controller is rechargeable. I can only imagine the battery life on that thing. :confused: Also, I hope they change the name. WiiU sounds terrible, but all-in-all, I can't wait to get my hands on it!

Also... Luigi's Mansion 2??? XD
 

figmentPez

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Nintendo has yet to let me down!
They've let me down plenty. Only two face buttons for the GBA. No headphone jack on the GBA-SP. No digital audio for the Gamecube, and then again none for the Wii. Terrible support for online multiplayer. Eliminating "Player's Choice" titles (which they finally brought back). Multiple counts of short-sightedness about the Wii Shop.

Nothing unforgivable, but a lot of nagging little issues. The WiiU looks great, and I'd love to be able to play my Wii games on my nice HDMI equipped computer monitor (instead of an aging SDTV) but I'm just not seeing enough from the console to make up for the features it lacks that I really want. I'll probably get one at some point, but nothings made me want to rush out and grab one.
 
Nothing looks good to me. I am against all these things the developers seem giddy about, like screens on controllers, 3D and motion control handhelds, floor-based hula hoops...

I'm turning into an old man.
 
Nothing looks good to me. I am against all these things the developers seem giddy about, like screens on controllers, 3D and motion control handhelds, floor-based hula hoops...

I'm turning into an old man.
I feel the same way.

Mass Effect 3 did NOT need it and I'm scared the quality of product will be affected by it. Bioware should be 100% focused in providing us an amazing finale to these series, not focusing gimmick products. We'll see but I'm really starting to get nervous about the game now that it has been pushed back and this shit has been added to it.

I'll be honest, I don't want to fucken talk to my screen. I don't want to MOVE. If I was playing Wii Bowling fine. But this is fucken mass effect and whether I can choose to use it or not is completely irrelevant, all I know is they got resources to add that shit to the game, where it could have been elsewhere.
 

figmentPez

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I'm going to be keeping an eye on Far Cry 3. I really enjoyed FC2, it was flawed but I felt like a total bad-ass for well over half the game, and it told an amazing story. This trailer for FC3 looks to have at least that amount of depth to the world.

 
I am in the middle on how I feel about Nintendo's new system. On one hand it is intriguing and I so want to hope for the best from Nintendo but at the same time I have been lied to and let down too often to get my hopes up to high at the moment.
 


Man, Vanillaware makes some pretty games. This is apparently George Kamitani's spiritual successor to the old D&D Capcom sidescrolling brawlers.
 
They've let me down plenty. Only two face buttons for the GBA. No headphone jack on the GBA-SP. No digital audio for the Gamecube, and then again none for the Wii. Terrible support for online multiplayer. Eliminating "Player's Choice" titles (which they finally brought back). Multiple counts of short-sightedness about the Wii Shop.
I know a lot of people tend to complain about sound/graphics/etc with Nintendo products, but I love Nintendo for its games and for how innovative they always are.
I admit I didn't have a GBA when they first came out, I was happy with my brick Gameboy for a long while and played with my brothers Gameboy Color (I never had my own! T^T). When GBA-SP came out, I needed one asap and loved it so much that I ended up with 3 colors (OMG they released so many colors!). I never use headphones, so that was cool with me.
Online multiplayer... okay, I kind of wish there was better support for this, but I rarely play online as-is. I have XBL so I can use Netflix, Pandora (music while cleaning, yay! >.>) and every once in a while I'll play a game or two with friends.

So with my gaming style, I love them. I definitely see why others have been upset by Nintendo (3DS game launches, recently... but those games that didn't come out at launch are almost out now, so meh), but I guess I'm just too optimistic for my own good. ;)
 
I wish Nintendo was AS innovative as they were but they continue to release the same games dressed in different clothes over and over and over again. The innovation is gone.
 
Everyone has sequels. I don't mind because I love most the series of games, though. I'm always stoked for new Mario and Kirby. And oh hey, new Sonic coming out! And a Halo relaunch! *squee* It'd be nice to see brand new titles, but I do like what's already been announced.

In other news, I NEED a PSVita for Dragon's Crown. Big fan of Muramasa and Odin Sphere, can't wait for Dragon's Crown.
 
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Man, Vanillaware makes some pretty games. This is apparently George Kamitani's spiritual successor to the old D&D Capcom sidescrolling brawlers.
I have to say, that's probably the most interesting thing I've seen in this whole thread. Thanks for the post.
 

figmentPez

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I've been watching trailers and gameplay for Zelda: Skyward Sword. I like the art style, except for humans. The environments, the enemies, the animals are all pretty good, but people, especially Link, just look creepy and wrong. Link looks especially horrible when he's trying to emote. It's just sad.

Here's what I want Nintendo to do with the Zelda series: make Ganon the hero. Make up some plot bullshit about the triforce of wisdom being destroyed, resetting history. Wisdom is blue and the source of water in the world, so the world is largely desert, instead of forest. (And not just bland sandy desert, either, there are a lot of different types of desert in the world to make the place more interesting.) So with no wisdom guiding the royal family of Hyrule, they've become despots ruling with an iron fist, and Link is imprisoned as a rabble rouser. So Ganondorf remains to be the hero, and is faced with the horrible choice of trying to restore the world, knowing that restoring the triforce of Wisdom will bring back Ganon as the evil villain.
 
That would be rad, but it also wouldn't be a retread of the very first Legend of Zelda, so it'll never happen.
 
If every Zelda game counts as a retread of the very first Legend of Zelda, then every adventure/RPG game created over the past 25 years is the same. Sure, the basic structure of the game is the same. Protagonist in green outfit, princess needs saving at some point, use sword + tools to navigate dungeons to save her, and fight bosses (the most frequent of which is Ganon). But hey, that's the genre, and it's fun.
 
Nintendo's upcoming lineup for the next year or so.

Nintendo

Wii Play™: Motion

June 13
Mystery Case Files™:
The Malgrave Incident™

June 27
Kirby™ Wii

Fall
Fortune Street™

Holiday
The Legend of Zelda™: Skyward Sword
Holiday
Mario Party™ 9

TBA
Rhythm Heaven™

Holy fucking shit Nintendo, that is some seriously weak shit. I'ma say it, to me the Wii is the worst console I've ever owned and I own a fucking 3DO.
 
Those sorceress tits are awesome. Every woman on this planet needs to aspire that level of ripeness.
 
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