The Nintendo Wii U is Great Thread

[eRonin]

I really ought to finish off Tokyo Mirage Sessions (and Windwaker HD? Maybe) before Zelda drops. I'll be playing it on the Wii U because nothing else on the Switch launch window is enticing enough. 

[dartmonkey]

Just finished Captain Toad. I liked it, although it never quite clicked like I wanted it to. I know the game relies on the player rotating the camera but it never felt quite good enough. Maybe I'll return to collect every last thingamebob in the future, but for now I'm done.

And Tropical Freeze just isn't grabbing me. It looks and sounds great, but I keep rolling off platforms by tapping the pound button while I'm moving and it's irritating as hell. I'm probably being a total idiot with the controls but I won't be going back to it for a while, if ever.

 

One thing I have just completed and absolutely loved is Affordable Space Adventures. It's one of maybe four games that really uses the gamepad well. Short and sweet, some subtle Miiverse integration at the end - really great game.

 

And that's pretty much it for the Wii U.  I'm looking to move everything from my external HDD to a stick to store with the console. I've shaved it down mercilessly to a few gbs, but it's still too big for the internal storage (without deleting DLC, which I don't want to do.)

[Twig]

It's worth noting maybe that you have a lot of leeway with jumping after rolling off platforms in TF.

 

It's definitely a different feel from other platformers, though. It took me a bit to really get into it. Liked it a lot in the end, although not enough to finish all the collecting nonsense.

 

Affordable Space Adventures is definitely one of the highlights of the system for me. Love it.

[RubixsQube]

9 hours ago, dartmonkey said:

One thing I have just completed and absolutely loved is Affordable Space Adventures. It's one of maybe four games that really uses the gamepad well. Short and sweet, some subtle Miiverse integration at the end - really great game.

 

I really, really liked Affordable Space Adventures. I've played through it with a couple of different friends, and it is such a neat idea, done just perfectly. It's sad that there aren't that many fun asymmetric co-op games. It's so much fun to work with someone in a kind of silly way. 

[Kolzig]

Nifflas really makes great games. I'm extremely happy that he made Knytt Underground and Affordable Space Adventures on Wii U.

 

While I'm not planning on getting Switch until maybe in a few years time, I hope Nifflas continues to support Nintendo platforms.

[eRonin]

I've played through half of Affordable Space Adventures, but I'm no longer in touch with the partner I played it with, so now I'm in a weird predicament of having to find someone new to play it with, but already knowing how the puzzles in the first half work. It was really great though; really liked what I saw of it. I guess I'll play through the remainder at some point, solo if I really have to?

[Twig]

I played it by myself.

 

Guess I'm just a sad lonely boy. ):

[dartmonkey]

Ditto.

[Kolzig]

http://nintendoeverything.com/axiom-verge-getting-physical-release-on-wii-u/

 

Looks like Thomas Happ's Axiom Verge will be the last physical release on Wii U. Shame that these indie physical releases are always coming so late. I've already bought the digital version ages ago so not going to buy again.

 

 

[dartmonkey]

So I finished the Splatoon single player. Such a fun game - I'm glad it'll be back on Switch. Going back to the Wii U, the gamepad really feels like an upmarket Fisher-Price tablet. It's comfortable but so heavy and chunky! The buttons feel massive.

 

For Europeans who have no interest in Switch but might consider getting a Wii U for cheap, I saw a deal in FNAC today - 32GB Wii U+Mario Kart 8+Splatoon for 159€. That'd be pretty sweet for someone who skipped Wii, too.

[Roderick]

Damn, that is a GREAT deal on the Wii U. Is that all throughout France and Belgium or just local FNACs? (Still hoping fervently for a big singleplayer blowout in Splatoon 2.)

[dartmonkey]

I'm in Spain and I'm pretty sure it was a local deal. I saw a pile of Wii Us with MK8 in Carrefour the other day. At some point soon they're not going to be worth the shelf space.

 

They might make a great first console for someone with young kids. A massive cheap library of child-friendly games. But hey, maybe even 5 year olds want PS4s now.

[SAMPLE MCSAMPLE]

Just picked up Super Smash Bro's to play with the children; I've been meaning to get it for a while now.

[eRonin]

How are you finding Smash Bros? I'm a big fan of it, I've clocked hundreds of hours in all the games except the N64 one.

[SAMPLE MCSAMPLE]

I've never played any of the series, so I'm totally new to it, but so far so good although playing with a Wiimote is painful (my son is using the gamepad). I think I'll have to see if I can find one of the dongles that lets you connect Gamecube pads to it.

[eRonin]

if you can't find the official one, the Mayflash brand gamecube controller adapter is just as good. Also if you have a 3DS lying around, you can use that as a controller (you need to download an app from the eshop that lets it connect to Smash Wii U); otherwise literally any control option works, really. 

[SAMPLE MCSAMPLE]

Cheers for the tips; we do have a 3DS so I'll give it a go

[Kolzig]

Cars 3: Driven to Win is apparently coming to Wii U this week in both physical and digital form. For sure that game is shovelware, it has to be.

 

But just to update you guys, the Wii U ain't dead yet for 3rd party. 

[Kolzig]

So, since Nintendo is in my opinion stupidly killing off Miiverse in November, I ask you which games had the most connection too Miiverse? New Super Mario Bros U has the messages pop up at places as hints etc from other players, Smash had a Miiverse stage and Mario Maker had Miiverse stuff in it for posting levels etc. Some games had Miiverse stamps like Mario Kart 8 and Tengami. Hyrule Warriors had achievements in the form of Miiverse posts.

 

What other games are on Wii U that had a deep connection with Miiverse? I suppose on 3DS side the whole Miiverse connection was always kind of slow and not much used other than for regular commenting.

 

I have still oh so many Wii U games that are not completed so I suppose I have to start going through the Wii U backlog at least regarding the Miiverse integrations to see the games in their full form. Also I wonder what will happen to the functionalities, when Miiverse is destroyed then will it just break the game in those parts? I just wish Nintendo would leave Miiverse as is in a legacy form and just disable from people posting new pictures and comments there since they don't want to act as admin there anymore to keep up the system. Then the functionalities would still work.

 

This hurts me like the Gamespy server closing did in Wii and DS era. I loved playing online with Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii. I also enjoyed downloading puzzles for Layton games and levels for Warioware D.I.Y.

[marginalgloss]

It's a bit of a shame that they're closing this, though I guess it was inevitable ever since the Switch launched without it. I imagine it was quite costly to develop and maintain, and I can't quite picture the business case that would allow it to survive. I'm pretty sure they've said that nothing will be 'broken' for any games - it would just be as if you were playing them offline, I guess.

 

I've seen people on Twitter saying that Affordable Space Adventures uses Miiverse integration for something very special late on in the game. I've played the game but never got far enough to discover it.

 

ZombiU and the port of Deus Ex had some interesting online features whereby you could encounter other players in the game for the former, and in the latter you could leave Dark Souls-esque messages (even in audio form!) in places on the map. I don't know if those were tied to Miiverse, though. I suspect they were.

 

Shovel Knight on Wii U also has a thing whereby you could leave messages and hints to other players on specific screens; the messages actually appeared in game, though you had to switch to a separate menu to see them, which rather takes you out of the experience. 

 

There's Mario Maker but the Miiverse integration in that wasn't especially useful because there was no way to get directly into a level from the UI. Apparently online course sharing will still work, though you won't be able to comment on levels any more. 

 

There's the Tingle bottles in Wind Waker HD. I can't remember what they do.

 

You could share videos from Mario Kart 8 but the interface for it was kind of a fudge and I think they might have turned that part off already. 

 

I think the loss of the drawings by other players in games like Splatoon and SM3DW will be the biggest cultural loss. You couldn't really say that that they added a great deal to the games, as such - but they were nice. And some of them were amazingly good. The forum aspect was also really useful for specialist games like Fire Emblem and Monster Hunter for asking (or answering) specialist questions about the game which wouldn't really fit anywhere other than, like, GameFAQs.

 

Oh, and as slow as it is, Miiverse on the 3DS is actually quite useful as one of the few dependable ways to get screenshots out of any game which doesn't support saving them directly to the SD card. You can even save up to three screenshots while you're offline, and then post them to your account when you get back online. I presume this feature will be totally gone now. Boo.

[SuperBiasedMan]

I never had a Wii U, but the posts in Spla2n are such a delight that I wish I could be getting something similar when playing Breath of the Wild. It's such a simple way to add a community integrated into a game, I hope they continue including it in certain games at least.

[miffy495]

I am super choked about the loss of Miiverse. I think it was such a great and unique part of Nintendo last generation and was shocked that the Switch launched without it. I get that they want to erase the memory of WiiU, but we could at least keep one of the best things about it.

 

For me, it wasn't about game integration, but about documenting. I have travelogues of my playthroughs of Earthbound and Paper Mario that I took through the Miiverse screenshots, and when I attempted to do the same thing with BoTW on Switch, I immediately stopped because the only place that I could upload to was facebook/twitter and I didn't want to annoy people with that. Keeping it contained to a games platform allowed me to save and post whatever I felt like because I knew that the only people who would see it were also using a Nintendo system to view it, so they wouldn't be annoyed by it. I'm going to have to ask Nintendo for that zip file of my posts to keep those journals. I had a really good time with them. Farewell, Miiverse.

[SuperBiasedMan]

I've been documenting a playthrough of Breath of the Wild just by taking screenshots and then mass grabbing them from my SD card to my PC. I am then uploading them though, just onto tumblr instead of twitter. The journaling is a lot of fun, I'd definitely like to do it for other games on the Switch that have the right feel. Unfortunately I don't think my other main game Spla2n quite has the right fit...

[Kolzig]

http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27329/~/miiverse-service-discontinuation-faq

[WARP DOGS]

On 9/8/2017 at 1:32 AM, SuperBiasedMan said:

I've been documenting a playthrough of Breath of the Wild just by taking screenshots and then mass grabbing them from my SD card to my PC. I am then uploading them though, just onto tumblr instead of twitter. The journaling is a lot of fun, I'd definitely like to do it for other games on the Switch that have the right feel. Unfortunately I don't think my other main game Spla2n quite has the right fit...

I tried doing the same thing! But the process of transferring pics really got to me. I think I took maybe 1,000 photos total (no exaggeration!)