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[Chimkey]

Have spent 50 hours on ZombiU alone ( Survivor mode I hate you) it's just one of those games for me.

 

[marc^o^]

I played the demo and was mighty impressed with the use of the game pad in the game. Just wondering though that every shot i took when shaking the gamepad and touched the goal I scored...Just wondering if that could be a bit overpowered?

It definitely helps but situations where you have the time to use it are not that common. The most impressive and effective feature is controlling your teamates runs. I love to send my striker in a long run and send a through ball above defenders.

Fifa 13 on Wii U is not as deep as Playmaker concerning teamates controls, but what it adds to FIFA makes the whole package very close to my ideal soccer game. It's bloody fantastic.

 

[Freezie KO]

Help please. Anybody know why my Wara Wara Plaza no longer shows game icons? It just has Nintendo app icons and a lot of posts from Nintendo.

I checked my parental controls. Everything is still unrestricted.

 

[Pharros]

Help please. Anybody know why my Wara Wara Plaza no longer shows game icons? It just has Nintendo app icons and a lot of posts from Nintendo.

I checked my parental controls. Everything is still unrestricted.

This happens to me if I'm not connected to the internet. Perhaps you were disconnected and it just hasn't reloaded the plaza yet so it's still showing the original Nintendo ones.

 

[gkryhewy]

Help please. Anybody know why my Wara Wara Plaza no longer shows game icons? It just has Nintendo app icons and a lot of posts from Nintendo.

I checked my parental controls. Everything is still unrestricted.

It has been doing this for me since the second firmware update. I've given up, at least until the next update (evidently Nintendo is aware of this issue). From googling around, apparently a system reset will fix things, but who wants to do that?

 

[Freezie KO]

This happens to me if I'm not connected to the internet. Perhaps you were disconnected and it just hasn't reloaded the plaza yet so it's still showing the original Nintendo ones.

Weird. Thanks. Because I'm definitely connected to the net. Hopefully it reloads soon.

It has been doing this for me since the second firmware update. I've given up, at least until the next update (evidently Nintendo is aware of this issue). From googling around, apparently a system reset will fix things, but who wants to do that?

A reset as in a hard power down? Or do I have to wipe the memory and such?

 

[gkryhewy]

A reset as in a hard power down? Or do I have to wipe the memory and such?

Factory reset in the system settings. Not sure about memory, etc.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Weird. Thanks. Because I'm definitely connected to the net. Hopefully it reloads soon.



A reset as in a hard power down? Or do I have to wipe the memory and such?

whoa whoa whoa do nothing go to miiverse and post like normal it reloads after a while

you can always unplug the system to refresh but no need to delete stuff

 

[gkryhewy]

whoa whoa whoa do nothing go to miiverse and post like normal it reloads after a while

What, is this a lurker penalty?

 

[blu]

Maybe I didn't find the option but I couldn't display the video on my gamepad.

Also the buffering could be better (some long video failed to start in a reasonable time span).

Ah, you're speaking of the youtube app. Don't use it - use the browser - it can play both on the pad and on the tv (while you can continue browsing on the pad) and the buffering is robust.

 

[BruiserBear]

Can anyone tell me definitively, if Virtual Console games look any better on the U?

 

[polyh3dron]

Can anyone tell me definitively, if Virtual Console games look any better on the U?

Worse. If you have your HDTV set to 1:1 pixel mapping aka full pixel mode as you should, you'll have a black border on the edge of your screen, and also you don't get the games in their proper 4:3 aspect ratio.

So no. Nintendo took a huge shit yet again on those of us who paid them to fill up our "fridge" with VC games.

 

[Amir0x]

Sorry if my opinion offends you in some way. I'm just being completely honest compared to some negative comments on here.

Of course it "offends", as much as any comment about videogames can offend anyway. Which is to say it doesn't offend at all, it's just completely absurd.

I'm sure there are plenty of people being a little melodramatic with their negativity (people spend money on these things, obviously it's irritating when the device fails to even come close to living up to its promises), but when the words "I wish load times were longer" actually comes out of your mouth, no matter what the qualifier is afterwards, it's time to take a step back and reflect on just how crazy blind your fanaticism may be

 

[BruiserBear]

Worse. If you have your HDTV set to 1:1 pixel mapping aka full pixel mode as you should, you'll have a black border on the edge of your screen, and also you don't get the games in their proper 4:3 aspect ratio.

So no. Nintendo took a huge shit yet again on those of us who paid them to fill up our "fridge" with VC games.

Are you sure you can't play them in the proper ratio?

 

[Nostremitus]

I'm very satisfied. The wife and I took a cross country road trip for the holidays to see family. I plugged the wii u into the car and we took turns playing ac3.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

What, is this a lurker penalty?

Not saying lurkers get a penalty but using Miiverse helps this issue because it has something fresh to choose from.

Wara Wara has everything to do with your friends list, your favorited communities and your posts.
You are not using Miiverse it really has nothing to choose from, it is not as random as you think.

these are the steps of a Wara Wara Plaza loading screen as I see it.

1) FAMILY: First you see your Mii and other Mii's (NNIDs) that tide to your console (they wave and some of them bow greet Japan style) I have 6 NNIDs on my console to test all features.

Zooms out First Wave walk in to go under software Icons

2) FRIENDS: After zooming out a bit from your Console Family, your friendlist buddies come walking down and stay around your core Family Miis they walk in pretty much the same moment as the first wave but do not go to the Icons.

that wave might be Friends List and maybe those you follow on Miiverse are mixed here some stay in the center but if you control the Wara Wara Plaza some even walk out to the very edges outside the circle

3) WORLD: This is a second wave that walks in and joins the Icon Groups

So yes being Active helps this load screen it will have choices to update. If it has nothing it makes it harder not to get the default Nintendo Miis.

Follow some Miiverse users, Post Replies, Yeah some stuff, Add Friends, Favorite some communities, all of this should reflect on what goes on in your Wara Wara Plaza. That plaza is not as random as people think it is. It has some randomness but your activity helps personalize it.

 

[VanWinkle]

Are they planning virtual console games for the Wii U? I'd like to buy the Donkey Kong Country Games and maybe the Mario games, but I don't want to get out my wiimote for it and would rather use the gamepad. Not to mention it would be nice not to have to go into the wii interface.

 

[Refreshment.01]

My wife loves the thing to death, plus she looks fantastic from the lighting emited by the console's games, a very natural and soft glow.

 

[JaseMath]

Are they planning virtual console games for the Wii U? I'd like to buy the Donkey Kong Country Games and maybe the Mario games, but I don't want to get out my wiimote for it and would rather use the gamepad. Not to mention it would be nice not to have to go into the wii interface.

Nintendo needs to fix the VC being tethered to Wii issue - it's far and away my biggest issue with the Wii U. They're the wrong aspect ratio, they look worse, you can't use the Pro Controller.... it's a slap in the face to those of us who spent hundreds of dollars investing in a sizable VC library.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

My wife loves the thing to death, plus she looks fantastic from the lighting emited by the console's games, a very natural and soft glow.

ah love is cool.

show her this post lol

 

[Refreshment.01]

ah love is cool.

show her this post lol

+1 for love and love making. Our sex life has improved, nothing gives a bigger hard on than playing Mario on the bed while the wife climbs my mount Everest.

Totally worth it. So im satisfied in more than one way!

 

[10k]

My Wii U sucks

Spoiler

game discs

Am I doing it right?

 

[BruiserBear]

Nintendo needs to fix the VC being tethered to Wii issue - it's far and away my biggest issue with the Wii U. They're the wrong aspect ratio, they look worse, you can't use the Pro Controller.... it's a slap in the face to those of use who spent hundreds of dollars investing in a sizable VC library.

I don't even own one yet, and that's my biggest issue. It's ridiculous in its current implementation.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

+1 for love and love making. Our sex life has improved, nothing gives a bigger hard on than playing Mario on the bed while the wife climbs my mount Everest.

Totally worth it. So im satisfied in more than one way!

well gawd damn... now thats how U Play Next!

 

[RaidenZR]

Nintendo needs to fix the VC being tethered to Wii issue - it's far and away my biggest issue with the Wii U. They're the wrong aspect ratio, they look worse, you can't use the Pro Controller.... it's a slap in the face to those of use who spent hundreds of dollars investing in a sizable VC library.

I wish I could "Yeah" this post. And send it to Nintendo with a big fat uppercut.

 

[Christberg]

Nintendo needs to fix the VC being tethered to Wii issue - it's far and away my biggest issue with the Wii U. They're the wrong aspect ratio, they look worse, you can't use the Pro Controller.... it's a slap in the face to those of use who spent hundreds of dollars investing in a sizable VC library.

I would absolutely love it if they launched WiiU VC with the ability to transfer your Wii VC titles for free. Not holding my breath though.

 

[RaidenZR]

I would absolutely love it if they launched WiiU VC with the ability to transfer your Wii VC titles for free. Not holding my breath though.

They could be enjoying a whole resurgence in the Virtual Console revenue stream with the WiiU, by way of potential new adopters or rekindled shop visits from knowledgeable fans. Instead they've completely limited the access in the most negligent way. It's really sucky.

 

[Chopper]

Thank you. They're not the best are they.



I made this point in another thread, but I don't think the "you should have known what you were getting yourself into" line covers all circumstances or all eventualities.

Before I bought my Wii U, I didn't know:

1.) That I was done with 2D Mario platformers. The most enthusiastic I can get about NSMBU is that I'm overwhelmed by indifference towards it.
2.) That I would dislike Nintendo Land more as a single player experience than I actually thought
3.) That my friends and family wouldn't like Nintendo Land anywhere near enough to ever play it again multiplayer
4.) That the image quality of Sonic All Stars Racing would be absolutely appalling
5.) That the OS would actually be as slow and irritating to use as people said it would be
6.) That The Wonderful 101 would still have no release date by January
7.) That Pikmin 3 would be pushed to Q2 2013
8.) That the Rayman Legends demo would do absolutely nothing for me
9.) That I'd end up using Off Screen Play way less to play something like COD than I do my 3DS or iPad in the same TV-less scenarios
10.) That I would lose all interest in Miiverse after a week
11.) That the disc drive would prove distractingly noisy and be a problem for my Off TV Play sessions
12.) That the GamePad range would extend no further than the front room in my house

That's 12 things I learned about after launch, or that I was expecting the opposite of to happen, that have soured my experience with the Wii U. Some of those things might sound trivial to others, but I think they're all examples of things that people couldn't have known about prior to launch week.

There is a caveat here in that I'm only selling my Wii U because I'm building a gaming PC, and am managing to sell my Wii U and games without losing a penny from what I paid for it all, which will go quite a way to helping me with the PC. If I was going to lose money or I wasn't building a PC, I might have kept the system and slogged through the launch issues and underwhelming launch games (particularly from Nintendo), but as it stands the trade value of the Wii U is worth more to me than the Wii U is. Should I have waited? Absolutely yes, but I didn't on the basis that I wouldn't encounter the above 12 issues. I bought it expecting to like it, expecting a certain level of quality from the hardware and software, and expecting to like more of the games I tried than ZombiU and a Call of Duty I already owned elsewhere. That's the sort of stuff you can't account for unless you buy the system and try it yourself.

Decent points. I will politely forgive most of them and simply state that you have the best NNID and Mii in the entire Miiverse and I will miss you.

 

[JaseMath]

I wish I could "Yeah" this post. And send it to Nintendo with a big fat uppercut.

I sent an email to Nintendo corporate earlier. Not about the Wii VC specifically, though I did touch on it. Being a NTDOY stock holder has been...difficult lately.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Wii U VC when it comes will have nothing to do with Wii VC so I am not sure I would set myself up hoping to transfer my Wii purchases.

As long as they launch the thing with games I can play Off TV on the gamepad. That is all I need

 

[RaidenZR]

I sent an email to Nintendo corporate earlier. Not about the Wii VC specifically, though I did touch on it. Being a NTDOY stock holder has been...difficult lately.

I know these feels.

Too well...

Wii U VC when it comes will have nothing to do with Wii VC so I am not sure I would set myself up hoping to transfer my Wii purchases.

As long as they launch the thing with games I can play Off TV on the gamepad. That is all I need

It would be nice if they addressed this in their Nintendo Directs, and soon. I don't feel like waiting for E3 to find out their what their then-prolonged 12 month goal/strategy for Virtual Console is going to be. And that's assuming that they even have one.

 

[Christberg]

They could be enjoying a whole resurgence in the Virtual Console revenue stream with the WiiU, by way of potential new adopters or rekindled shop visits from knowledgeable fans. Instead they've completely limited the access in the most negligent way. It's really sucky.

They could be, unfortunately they probably (rightly) figure that they'll gain more sales than they'll lose by making you rebuy them with higher internal rendering resolutions and off-TV play options. They rewrite their emulator to work directly with the Wii U hardware and voila! 1080P 4XMSAA Mario 64 and FZero GX. You and I both know that the peeps who care about this stuff WILL buy.

Just an educated guess but yeah, don't count on it. I'd say chances are pretty low, but then if it were any other manufacturer I'd say "when pigs fly" would be a more appropriate response.

 

[Arkam]

The more I use my WiiU, the more I love it. I cannot stop playing NSMWU, teh off screen play has me grabbing the gamepad every time i have to start rending a Maya scene.

The only things I think they need to work on are the speed at which it boots up and loads apps. I mean it does everything I want, i just have to wait about 20-30 seconds from a cold boot until the web browser is up and running. Not a big deal, but that is 10-20 seconds more than i have to wait when I grab my iPad.

I wish there was a low powered state of "always on" so i could access things like Web/MiiVerse without any wait time.

Oh well I guess Nintendo has teh next few years to work out these minor kinks.

 

[RaidenZR]

They could be, unfortunately they probably (rightly) figure that they'll gain more sales than they'll lose by making you rebuy them with higher internal rendering resolutions and off-TV play options. They rewrite their emulator to work directly with the Wii U hardware and voila! 1080P 4XMSAA Mario 64 and FZero GX. You and I both know that the peeps who care about this stuff WILL buy.

Just an educated guess but yeah, don't count on it. I'd say chances are pretty low, but then if it were any other manufacturer I'd say "when pigs fly" would be a more appropriate response.

Oh, I'm completely counting on them charging for the same games again. I've posted as much in the couple of WiiU info threads pre-launch. A lot of people seem willing to rebuy shit, as is evident in the Nintendo Downloads thread where there is always excitement at shilling out money for portable Ghosts and Goblins and Punch Out, even when people there have purchased them on the Wii. I don't get it... And don't feel like doing that.

That said, I still think they fucked themselves by narrowing access to the VC downloads at the start of this WiiU thing. Doesn't do them any favors to make it 10 or so UI steps-deep into the Wii menu, where very few people are interested, or experienced enough to travel. Let alone go back there repeatedly for entertainment and new purchases. On a second store... with a second currency... Yeah. Brilliant.

Anyways, this is the satisfaction thread. Sorry to derail. Been playing the system pretty regularly since day one and I have been surprised by the software. I was not expecting much from NintendoLand but it has really captivated me. And I 100%'ed New Super Mario Bros. U last night. Great level design, and I think it was a huge step up from NSMB2.

 

[oatmeal]

Yeah, my biggest concern right now is VC. I have enjoyed everything except the fact that I still have a 512MB fridge in the Wii mode when those games should just be available in the Wii U menu.

Im hoping they address this. I know (hope) that the current system is not what it will end up being.

 

[partime]

Would you rather play Tekken on the bed or ZombiU on the TV?

Purchasing through the WiiU store so I think Tekken would be better because it's more of a "pick me up and play" game that requires no disc, but I'm not interested in multi-player.

 

[Meelow]

I love the Wii U, I got it on launch day, and I find the Gamepad conferable (much more conferable then I thought) and I find Miiverse awesome.

I've been a Nintendo fan since NES days and I hope the Wii U gets even better in the future.

 

[Bumhead]

Decent points. I will politely forgive most of them and simply state that you have the best NNID and Mii in the entire Miiverse and I will miss you.

Haha! I'm shocked both the NiN and Mii lasted this long to be honest.

I will miss my Mii as well actually. Hopefully Nintendo will entice me back to Miiverse later down the line. My decision to essentially swap my Wii U for PC parts now doesn't mean I don't want the U to be successful and I hope the console will entice me back in somewhere else down the line.

 

[shouamabane]

Yeah, my biggest concern right now is VC. I have enjoyed everything except the fact that I still have a 512MB fridge in the Wii mode when those games should just be available in the Wii U menu.

Im hoping they address this. I know (hope) that the current system is not what it will end up being.

Nintendo has announced that there will be a Wii U VC. They haven't announced any details yet though.

 

[AzaK]

The more I use my WiiU, the more I love it. I cannot stop playing NSMWU, teh off screen play has me grabbing the gamepad every time i have to start rending a Maya scene.

The only things I think they need to work on are the speed at which it boots up and loads apps. I mean it does everything I want, i just have to wait about 20-30 seconds from a cold boot until the web browser is up and running. Not a big deal, but that is 10-20 seconds more than i have to wait when I grab my iPad.

I wish there was a low powered state of "always on" so i could access things like Web/MiiVerse without any wait time.

Oh well I guess Nintendo has teh next few years to work out these minor kinks.

Yeah I was surprised it didn't have this feature, especially given its low power goals. Be nice to have system updates downloaded for me ready to go and get notification flashes on the GamePad even when the thing's not really on.

 

[AzaK]

I made this point in another thread, but I don't think the "you should have known what you were getting yourself into" line covers all circumstances or all eventualities.

Before I bought my Wii U, I didn't know:

1.) That I was done with 2D Mario platformers. The most enthusiastic I can get about NSMBU is that I'm overwhelmed by indifference towards it.
2.) That I would dislike Nintendo Land more as a single player experience than I actually thought
3.) That my friends and family wouldn't like Nintendo Land anywhere near enough to ever play it again multiplayer
4.) That the image quality of Sonic All Stars Racing would be absolutely appalling
5.) That the OS would actually be as slow and irritating to use as people said it would be
6.) That The Wonderful 101 would still have no release date by January
7.) That Pikmin 3 would be pushed to Q2 2013
8.) That the Rayman Legends demo would do absolutely nothing for me
9.) That I'd end up using Off Screen Play way less to play something like COD than I do my 3DS or iPad in the same TV-less scenarios
10.) That I would lose all interest in Miiverse after a week
11.) That the disc drive would prove distractingly noisy and be a problem for my Off TV Play sessions
12.) That the GamePad range would extend no further than the front room in my house

That's 12 things I learned about after launch, or that I was expecting the opposite of to happen, that have soured my experience with the Wii U. Some of those things might sound trivial to others, but I think they're all examples of things that people couldn't have known about prior to launch week.

There is a caveat here in that I'm only selling my Wii U because I'm building a gaming PC, and am managing to sell my Wii U and games without losing a penny from what I paid for it all, which will go quite a way to helping me with the PC. If I was going to lose money or I wasn't building a PC, I might have kept the system and slogged through the launch issues and underwhelming launch games (particularly from Nintendo), but as it stands the trade value of the Wii U is worth more to me than the Wii U is. Should I have waited? Absolutely yes, but I didn't on the basis that I wouldn't encounter the above 12 issues. I bought it expecting to like it, expecting a certain level of quality from the hardware and software, and expecting to like more of the games I tried than ZombiU and a Call of Duty I already owned elsewhere. That's the sort of stuff you can't account for unless you buy the system and try it yourself.

Fair enough points really. There's some sad things about the Wii U that we just weren't really aware of or understood fully until we had them but that's just the risk an early adopter takes.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Wii U has made me see how useless Amazon is making Netflix out to be all movies I want to stream on Netflix are DVD only or not there at all. While Amazon has mostly everything but expensive

any news on Thursday's eShop games?

 

[BD1]

I have been away from home for a week b/c an illness in my girlfriend's family. The house we're staying in doesn't really have a place for me to hook up a console to the TV.

Needless to say, I threw my Wii U in a backpack and Off Play TV has been the best thing Nintendo has ever conjured up. What a wonderful feature.

 

[Christberg]

Oh, I'm completely counting on them charging for the same games again. I've posted as much in the couple of WiiU info threads pre-launch. A lot of people seem willing to rebuy shit, as is evident in the Nintendo Downloads thread where there is always excitement at shilling out money for portable Ghosts and Goblins and Punch Out, even when people there have purchased them on the Wii. I don't get it... And don't feel like doing that.

That said, I still think they fucked themselves by narrowing access to the VC downloads at the start of this WiiU thing. Doesn't do them any favors to make it 10 or so UI steps-deep into the Wii menu, where very few people are interested, or experienced enough to travel. Let alone go back there repeatedly for entertainment and new purchases. On a second store... with a second currency... Yeah. Brilliant.

Anyways, this is the satisfaction thread. Sorry to derail. Been playing the system pretty regularly since day one and I have been surprised by the software. I was not expecting much from NintendoLand but it has really captivated me. And I 100%'ed New Super Mario Bros. U last night. Great level design, and I think it was a huge step up from NSMB2.

It's fine to talk about this stuff here as far as I'm concerned. We don't have a mega thread and the state of VC in a thread by itself wouldn't get past 2 pages.

The whole "fridge" bit has more to do the Wii being completely hacked to shreds I'd guess. They have to run Wii software in a sandbox otherwise they run a pretty high risk of the same attack vectors that worked with Wii working with Wii U. The only other option would be to hotlink it to the menu and have it boot into the Wii mode sandbox every time you started a piece of software. Which would be ridiculously slow and terrible from an online store perspective. Better for them to retool their emulator and relaunch the VC service at a later date so they can present a properly integrated experience that takes advantage of the hardware instead.

I agree that the situation sucks. I'd like it to be better as well, but it's best to be realistic about these things. When you look at it from that perspective forced double dipping ala recent "HD collections" is a reasonable expectation. Would they buy a bunch of good will by copying the VC forward and giving folks free access? Yes. Do I think it'd translate into more sales than they'd gain out of forcing folks to rebuy? Not at all.

And yes, I love my Wii U, even if I find the backwards compatibility to be generally garbage.

 

[Diddy Kong]

Nintendo needs to fix the VC being tethered to Wii issue - it's far and away my biggest issue with the Wii U. They're the wrong aspect ratio, they look worse, you can't use the Pro Controller.... it's a slap in the face to those of us who spent hundreds of dollars investing in a sizable VC library.

This. I would be really disappointed if they made me purchase my games again. C'mon Nintendo

 

[radcliff]

Worse. If you have your HDTV set to 1:1 pixel mapping aka full pixel mode as you should, you'll have a black border on the edge of your screen, and also you don't get the games in their proper 4:3 aspect ratio.

So no. Nintendo took a huge shit yet again on those of us who paid them to fill up our "fridge" with VC games.

You can set the Wii U to output in 4:3 in system settings so VC games will output in the right ratio. A hassle, yes, but it works.

 

[Meesh]

I'm still satisfied...but more RPGs would be good.

 

[JaseMath]

This. I would be really disappointed if they made me purchase my games again. C'mon Nintendo

Judging by the 3DS, they likely will. Then again, there's a stark difference between home and handheld consoles so I'll stay cautiously optimistic.

I guess I just don't understand how VC games work on Wii. From what I understood, the Wii isn't being emulated via hardware at all - it's literally built into the machine. If that's the case, why can't they simply put an SD card link on the main Wii U menu?

 

[shouamabane]

Wii VC games were always stretched for me. I had to set my TV to 4/3 mode. Has that changed with Wii U?

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

I really wish Ubi were doing Far Cry 3 for the U. I'm on my second trip through BLOPS II's campaign and I love this controller for FPS. The analogs are so smooth, the triggers are easy to pull and the distance between your hands is surprisingly comfortable. Plus, remote play + having headphones plugged into the controller for quiet TV play.

Hopefully Colonial Marines will turn out well.