The Wii U: From "cool" Sony to evil Nintendo
11-14-14, 09:31 AM
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Re: The Wii U: From "cool" Sony to evil Nintendo
Toys R Us will have a Black Friday Wii U bundle, although it's the 8 GB Skylanders Swap Force one. Still only $200, though, and it does include Nintendo Land.
11-14-14, 11:11 AM
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I filled up my Wii U internal memory and now need to buy a USB external drive. Super Smash Bros takes like like 15 gigs!
11-14-14, 01:19 PM
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Bizarrely, all sorts of stuff from press demos and Sega-released screenshots -- different lighting, different levels, hub locations, cutscenes, etc. -- all got yanked from the final game, even compared to the E3 build. There's a story here, and I'm curious what it is. Nintendo got the short end of the stick with that 3-Sonic-exclusive deal with Sega. The 3DS Sonic Boom game is being savaged too.
Sega is pretty much ruining their best franchise. With most of the games since Sonic Adventure 2 being bullshit I just can't believe they wouldn't have taken the time to make a better game after the bad pub at E3.
Because it's Sonic I may pick it up eventually when it's $20 or less, depending if they create patches to fix most of the problems with it.
11-14-14, 01:39 PM
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How bizarre. I had all intentions of picking it up next weekend.
Sega is pretty much ruining their best franchise. With most of the games since Sonic Adventure 2 being bullshit I just can't believe they wouldn't have taken the time to make a better game after the bad pub at E3.
Because it's Sonic I may pick it up eventually when it's $20 or less, depending if they create patches to fix most of the problems with it.
Sega is pretty much ruining their best franchise. With most of the games since Sonic Adventure 2 being bullshit I just can't believe they wouldn't have taken the time to make a better game after the bad pub at E3.
Because it's Sonic I may pick it up eventually when it's $20 or less, depending if they create patches to fix most of the problems with it.
11-14-14, 03:14 PM
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I have a 13 year old daughter that requested a more violent type of video game a few months ago, I have no qualms about this. She mentioned CoD, and while once again no problems there, I'd rather something more fantastic than realistic, so I was looking into Bayonetta 2. I had not played the first, but looking at the gameplay footage it looks like a very Devil May Cry-ish sort of game, but all the reviews play up the character as being very sexualized and nudity being prevalent. Obviously the game is rated M, but how much are those elements actually played up? If the rating is more for violence and language that might be more passable.
11-14-14, 04:49 PM
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11-14-14, 06:54 PM
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Never been a huge Sonic fan, but Generations was fantastic. As are Sonic Racing Transformed and Sonic Dash on mobile.
So not totally ruined. Just one out of every 4-5 games is any good.
So not totally ruined. Just one out of every 4-5 games is any good.
11-14-14, 07:11 PM
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Mario Kart 8 DLC is out and it's got some really good tracks. I was worried at first because the first track in the DLC "Yoshi Circuit" is boring and the worst track in the game and then it's followed by the Excitebike track which isn't bad just bland. Thankfully it picks up after that. The F-Zero, Legend of Zelda and Wario's Gold Mine are all top tier tracks. Love that they switched the coins on the LoZ course to rupees and they make the rupee noise when you pick them up.
11-14-14, 08:42 PM
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Mario Kart 8 DLC is out and it's got some really good tracks. I was worried at first because the first track in the DLC "Yoshi Circuit" is boring and the worst track in the game and then it's followed by the Excitebike track which isn't bad just bland. Thankfully it picks up after that. The F-Zero, Legend of Zelda and Wario's Gold Mine are all top tier tracks. Love that they switched the coins on the LoZ course to rupees and they make the rupee noise when you pick them up.
11-15-14, 06:55 PM
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Re: The Wii U: From "cool" Sony to evil Nintendo
Unless you're getting the Skylanders Swap Force bundle, I don't think you can get a new 8GB model anymore. I see 8 GB refurbs at Gamespot, but the 32GB refurbs direct from Nintendo are cheaper (and likely superior in quality). The only thing is that if you get an 8 GB system and plan on playing basically anything you download from the eShop (bearing in mind that Nintendo does give away games with a bunch of their promotions), you'll need to buy an external hard drive too.
11-15-14, 08:33 PM
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Re: The Wii U: From "cool" Sony to evil Nintendo
Yeah, I was considering that Skylanders model. I'll probably just get the 32 GB next time it comes around for 260 (since the Black Friday deal isn't exactly a deal).
11-16-14, 09:54 PM
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The refurbished black/32gb model is still only $200 direct from nintendo.
https://store.nintendo.com/ng3/brows...tId=prod150200
https://store.nintendo.com/ng3/brows...tId=prod150200
11-17-14, 08:30 AM
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Speaking if which, in which century are we going to get cloud saves for Wii U? Has anyone heard anything about that recently?
11-17-14, 09:21 AM
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11-17-14, 10:16 AM
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Re: The Wii U: From "cool" Sony to evil Nintendo
I have a 32 gig system with a few 'free' eShop games (Game and Wario, Wii Party U, and Wii Fit U), and I still have tons of space.
If you're going to be primarily physical with just a few full game downloads, you don't need to fret about a hard drive.
11-17-14, 11:13 AM
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Yeah, less than a year in, I've already had to delete game info from my PS4 to free up space for new games, whereas my Wii U still has a ton of empty space. But to be fair, the PS4 installs massive amounts of game info for every game, where as the U mostly just reads games off disc.
11-17-14, 11:19 AM
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Super Smash Bros is around 15 gigs. I had to delete some games to make room for it. An external harddrive for the Wii U is now on the xmas list.
11-17-14, 05:54 PM
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Yep just the fact that Super Smash is 15 gigs. I like to download demos and stuff, so 32gb is paltry for me.
11-18-14, 11:12 AM
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I have a 32gb and after freeing up space for Smash Bros, i only have Mario World, Mario Kart 8, and like one other game (windwaker, i think).
