So your more optimistic about the console than most.
Wii U Speculation thread IV: Photoshop rumors and image memes
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So your more optimistic about the console than most.
-Pyromaniac-
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Green, will glow in the dark.
Nintendo pulled some pretty good graphics with the Wii. It's just hard to compare the games when they are different both technically and stylistically.
LegendofJoe
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Brown, with the power to dig short distances.
Nice, I like this idea. It could be great with the u-pad.
MadOdorMachine
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Someone mentioned this a while back but they should make a mario game with crazy shit happening in the distance.
Truly is majestic.
That's a good idea. Those storm clouds would be better suited in Star Fox though. I would love to have to avoid those tornadoes!
GameplayWhore
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The impression I get is that the cpu is only a little superior to what we have in the Xbox 360 (at the very least, it apparently has the same number of cores) and that the gpu has at least three times the raw floating-point output. If your program is entirely gpu bound, that means you could be getting a ~200% increase in performance. Granted, you never see an exactly linear increase like that, but it can be fairly close when you can highly parallelize, such as in graphical routines.
I could be wrong, and I'll have no problem with that if it's the case.
I hope this too. And not try and push some environmentalism message at us in the main plot, like having Olimar try and "fix" the planet or some shit, ala WALL-E. (not to mention the planet looks like it's doing better than ever)
I liked Pikmin's story because it becomes blatantly obvious where you are, but you get to experience everything like the "if an alien landed on earth and saw..." metaphor. You sort out your own personal dilemma of getting home, and thats it.
GameplayWhore
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I admit that I might be blown away by a graphical update to the Solar level that doesn't in fact change any game play. This is a bit unusual for my tastes, but the specific visuals in that level simply beg for tons of particle effects.
Oh my.. winner, winner.. chicken dinner! I love it.. they can burrow, and you can direct them from the other side of the obstacle!
Indeed - it's intentionally simple. Just you, your horde of little warriors, and a direct mission. No real drama.
Lots and lots of Pikmin chat.
GameplayWhore's revelation that he has a special talent for Nintendo game subtitles.
More talk about WiiWare woes and third party support.
Some discussion about how the Wii U is indeed more powerful and "next gen," and related discussion on what the term "next gen" entails.
And more Pikmin chat. That's about it. The usual stuff.
Absolutely. I'd love to take his exams and get him through academy training, and inadvertently get the planet in trouble before having to save it with my rag-tag, misfit friends.
GameplayWhore
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The Two Guys From Andromeda are getting back together again! Best Megaton Ever!
As long as it doesn't interfere at all with the game being mostly a rail shooter, I don't care what the plot is.
Someone mentioned this a while back but they should make a mario game with crazy shit happening in the distance.
Truly is majestic.
A WiiU Kid Icarus with stuff like that going on in the distance would be amazing. There's already stuff like that in the 3DS game but on a smaller scale.
snowdog1971
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The best thing about that was that nobody heard even a whisper about a sequel, then they showed the trailer and said, 'Oh, by the way...it's out in a few weeks!' Lololol. They're very good at keeping things quiet, I think we're all in for a few pleasant surprises in June from both Nintendo and third parties.
I think we can take it as given that we'll see U SKUs of Tiger Woods, FIFA, Madden and a possible Battlefield exclusive (seeing the return of Command Mode) from EA which will all benefit from the DRC as well as news from Capcom about Resident Evil 6 and Monster Hunter. And I think we can all take it as given that Activision will continue to milk the CoD franchise. They haven't improved the CoD franchise since the original imo, Carantan is still my all-time favourite multiplayer map of all-time, and I've found all this perk business to be pretty tiresome...guess I'm an old-school gamer showing my age lol.
Hopefully we're going to see third parties actually marketing their games on the U, so many good games were stealth-released this gen for the Wii and deserved to sell better.
invaderzim69
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Thats a neat idea, maybe a blue pikmin and a yellow pikmin can do a little fusion dance and combine to do that. FUSION HA!!! :0
MatthewB92
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radioheadrule83
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Anyone think that Halo 4 might be Microsoft's best Wii-U counter attack this year?
I know they've launched a few games since Halo 3, but they haven't put a significant marketing effort out on the franchise since then - comparatively... I'll never really forget the Summer of Halo... it was everywhere:
The amazing Believe trailer - http://www.gametrailers.com/video/believe-90-halo-3/24927
which was followed by another four in the campaign (all five here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sz7bFN8B9U)
the special edition console
the Pontiac G6 GXP Street Edition
the stock exchange
Slurpees
The London IMAX
Burger King survival packs
Mountain Dew Game Fuel
it was the biggest campaign I'd seen for anything since Super Mario Bros 3.
We'd probably know by now if MS was going to do something similar for Halo 4 but wow, that'd be something to contend with.
I know they've launched a few games since Halo 3, but they haven't put a significant marketing effort out on the franchise since then - comparatively... I'll never really forget the Summer of Halo... it was everywhere:
The amazing Believe trailer - http://www.gametrailers.com/video/believe-90-halo-3/24927
which was followed by another four in the campaign (all five here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sz7bFN8B9U)
the special edition console
the Pontiac G6 GXP Street Edition
the stock exchange
Slurpees
The London IMAX
Burger King survival packs
Mountain Dew Game Fuel
it was the biggest campaign I'd seen for anything since Super Mario Bros 3.
We'd probably know by now if MS was going to do something similar for Halo 4 but wow, that'd be something to contend with.
Oh mannnnn, i totally love this concept, Hip Hop & Gaming ! I could have done this !
Well, as this niche is already occupied, i'll do Metal & Gaming ! Or Trance & Gaming ! Imagine a wanabee Armin Van Buuren or Tiesto behind its turntable, talking about video games ! Yeahhh, i'll do dat !
AceBandage
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They'll put a giant sack of money into it regardless.
I dunno how much it'll effect Wii U sales, though, since late in the generation games tend to slow down, even with popular franchises.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not Darksiders Vita! Then I'll have no choice but to buy one! D:
AceBandage
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The impression I get is that the cpu is only a little superior to what we have in the Xbox 360 (at the very least, it apparently has the same number of cores) and that the gpu has at least three times the raw floating-point output. If your program is entirely gpu bound, that means you could be getting a ~200% increase in performance. Granted, you never see an exactly linear increase like that, but it can be fairly close when you can highly parallelize, such as in graphical routines.
I could be wrong, and I'll have no problem with that if it's the case.
Out of all the rumors, the one about the CPU being only a little better than the 360's doesn't sit well with me.
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Rösti
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And there the IBM 1Q 2012 Earnings Announcement concluded. No information on Wii U given, no analyst asked any questions about it. Most guidance was for the public sector and the overall market in Japan and Europe, as asked by analysts and investors.
Here's the earnings release: http://www.ibm.com/investor/1q12/press.phtml
Next stop is AMD's Q1 2012 Earnings Conference Call on the 19th of April. While it probably won't bring any Wii U details either, at least it is more relevant to gaming.
Here's the earnings release: http://www.ibm.com/investor/1q12/press.phtml
Next stop is AMD's Q1 2012 Earnings Conference Call on the 19th of April. While it probably won't bring any Wii U details either, at least it is more relevant to gaming.
I still have doubts that Wii U will get DSII
since THQ may not last until Wii U's launch.
AceBandage
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Much like Elder Scrolls and Resident Evil PSP, they were just names that Sony got to try and get people to buy the system without ever having to actually deliver on them.
I think at that point, Nintendo might help fund the release of the game. We shall see, though.
Rösti;37039310 said:
The absolute most they would say is that they are providing the GPU for the system.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
You should post that in this thread about the Baldur's Gate thing, where Oster claims that Wii owners only bought Wii Sports
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=470611&page=6&highlight=baldur+s
Im just trying to wrap my head around the fact that Nintendo's NDA is so ironclad,
that the developer cant even say that the WiiU version of their game will be better.
You would think that Nintendo would like the positive press.
I think there will be a lot of this going on for mascots (Mario, Kirby, Pikmin, etc) whose designs are not particularly conducive to the increase in power. People are often asking "what would Mario look like in HD?", there's a lot that can be done with environments, lighting, effects, etc etc that can still have a massive impact on cartoony style games. Look at Ratchet and Clank or Banjo and Kazooie.
Don't say that stuff, man! Not cool!
Also, that NDA seems to be even more tighter than we think. They can't even talk about how in general the system is, they can't talk about shit.
AceBandage
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GameplayWhore
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Eh, it doesn't really affect his arguments, does it? WiiWare third party sales legitimately did suck overall. That's my impression, at least. And Nintendo apparently was extremely difficult to work with due to their general mentality, even though they do seem to be opening up tremendously this time around.
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Rösti
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test_account
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Sounds like good ways to use the controller yeahThe best example I've seen so far is a Fatal Frame style game where you only see the ghosts if you life up the DRC and look through it, aiming around like a spirit camera.
The Aliens game, using the DRC as a radar is similar to the default "put the HUD off the main screen!", but it is different enough semantically to make a mention of.
Also I wanted to note that in those games where you do the inventory management on the DRC (like "Resident Evil: Tricell Chronicles"), the game doesn't have to pause and in fact could detect (using the camera) if you're looking down at it, picking the most inopportune times to cause a monster to suddenly creep at you!
Also rear view window in racers has been brought up.
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Speaking of aiming the DRC, something akin to that city demo from last E3 would be nice, where you're in a tank, and the main view is the forward view, but you swivel around to shoot at them Russkies while you're going forward. I don't think this one appeals to me specifically, but I can see people liking the feel of being inside the action.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
I edited my post. There's a lot of people agreeing with Oster's comments that people with Wiis only buy Wii Sports and nothing else in that thread.
We'll see. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure the the hacked together tech demo at E3 2011 ran at 720p with no anti-aliasing, so you might not get 1080p.
Alpha Kit, blah blah, rushed demo, blah blah
One thing that's going to be interesting is whether your standard RTS type of view (Map, scrollable, select units etc) is going to actually be user friendly on a resistive screen. For this type of game I'd probably prefer to use my finger but I find resistive screens to be pretty bad for finger control due to the pressure you need to apply. If you have to use a stylus then that limits how you can hold the unit and use all the sticks and buttons if you have to switch between buttons/sticks and screen play.
"lol, it's Nintendo" :^\
BTW: Just watched that Hip-Hop gamer (There's something loveable about that guy) interview with the Darksiders II dude and I was quite happy to hear his response to the Wii U question.
GameplayWhore
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Oh. Well, that's an annoyingly untrue statement. I retract my objection for that particular context.
AzaK said:
Well, resistive screens have been getting more and more sensitive as time goes on. I have not tried it out, but I've heard that the 3DS is pretty good in that regard. Would you agree with that, or is it not quite in the zone you're looking for?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMxfqr0Dnz8
Btw, this is what's possible on resistive screens.
You know, it might not specifically be Nintendo saying first hand to individual devs that they can't say anything. It could just be that their NDA covers such a broad area that people take it to mean "I can't say jack" even if Nintendo may not actually be too concerned if people go "Wii U is far superior to the 360".
I doubt before an interview devs try and contact Nintendo to ask what they can talk about. They just look at the NDA and make a call.
test_account
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The latest talk i've seen about Bioshock Vita is about one month old. Ken Levine said the game was still in production. This is what he said:
"we're working on it. We're trying to figure that [announcement timing] out. I ideally wouldn't have talked about the Vita game when I did. It was understandably important that, you know, Sony wanted us to share that information."
It seems that Sony is kinda supporting this when they "made" him announce it earlier than he wanted.
And concidering that this is suppose to be an unique game (as in not being a port), i dont think that we will see anything from the game before in 2013 since i'm sure they will only focus on Bioshock Infinite first. Maybe, just maybe, we will see some teaser stuff for the Vita game at this E3, but that is the most i'm expecting to see/hear, if anything at all.
AceBandage
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The way he talks about it, it seems like he's dodging having to say anything.
I mean, at least with Elder Scrolls PSP we got screens.
test_account
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The quote where he mention that it was important for Sony to announce it, and he did it, makes me think that this isnt another Elder Scrolls case.
AceBandage
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But then we can point to Resident Evil PSP, which Sony felt was important to announce as well to try and bolster the PSP's image.
You can still post there, but don't It has a good ending post right now.
test_account
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The Resident Evil PSP game was only a logo and mentioned by Jack Tretton for like 15 seconds or so. I feel that it is different when Ken Levine himself announced it. And he also said that they are still working on it.
AceBandage
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I'm just highly skeptical, is all.
There is good precedent to believe it's not happening, but we shall see.
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