Wii U Pre-Launch Discussion

Star Lord · 04-02-2013 11:45PM

We love the Rayman Legends demo, especially the music level!

Deano7788 · 04-02-2013 11:49PM

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

We love the Rayman Legends demo, especially the music level!

That was my favourite too

. Hopefully there'll be a few of time. I think they're replacing the treasure levels from Origins, which were possibly the highlight of it for me.

wampyrus77 · 05-02-2013 12:38AM

Disney Infinity, a new game that's coming out for Wii U, 3DS and Wii in June 2013.

Just as in similar to Skylanders you can transport these disney characters into the game using a special portal called The Infinity Base.

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/45725/disney-infinity-everything-you-need-to-know-release-date-price-play-sets-figures/

Dozen Wicked Words · 05-02-2013 12:44AM

wampyrus77 wrote: »

Disney Infinity, a new game that's coming out for Wii U, 3DS and Wii in June 2013.

Just as in Skylanders you can transport these characters into the game using a special portal called The Infinity Base.

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/45725/disney-infinity-everything-you-need-to-know-release-date-price-play-sets-figures/

Looks brilliant, but figures are going to cost getting on for €20 each, small fortune if its anything like Skylanders where you need a certain figure (or kind of figure) to open various parts of the game.

Skylanders are like crack for my lad so dare say these will be like heroin.

Also on other formats so think he will have to make do with PS3 version sadly. Unless Wii U have a big price drop anytime soon!

wampyrus77 · 05-02-2013 01:10AM

dooferoaks wrote: »

Looks brilliant, but figures are going to cost getting on for €20 each, small fortune if its anything like Skylanders where you need a certain figure (or kind of figure) to open various parts of the game.

Skylanders are like crack for my lad so dare say these will be like heroin.

Also on other formats so think he will have to make do with PS3 version sadly. Unless Wii U have a big price drop anytime soon!

in smyths toys, u can get 3 figure set for €45 of skylanders

even so figures cost €18.99 each separately

im sure they sell the disney figures

as same way as skylanders

DARK-KNIGHT · 05-02-2013 01:28AM

playing blops 2 this evening savage lol gamepad is tough going getting used to playing without tv....

CastorTroy · 05-02-2013 02:19AM

Don't think it was postd yet, so how about the new Lego City Undercover trailer. Fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDWoFmNNzTY

wampyrus77 · 05-02-2013 03:18AM

and say star wars figures come out for Disney Infinity because Disney owns star wars now

DARK-KNIGHT · 05-02-2013 10:58AM

Anyone find using the gamepad for blops tough going??

Deano7788 · 05-02-2013 11:01AM

Disney Infinity has the potential to destroy Skylanders. Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones. Just imagine, Han Solo meets Wolverine, Fantastic Four and the Incredibles, Iron Man and Buzz Lightyear, Darth Vader vs the Avengers. If they do this right, Skylanders could be screwed.

DARK-KNIGHT · 05-02-2013 11:08AM

Deano7788 wrote: »

Disney Infinity has the potential to destroy Skylanders. Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones. Just imagine, Han Solo meets Wolverine, Fantastic Four and the Incredibles, Iron Man and Buzz Lightyear, Darth Vader vs the Avengers. If they do this right, Skylanders could be screwed.

Have any of you played sky landers? Doesn't appeal to me tbh. Remember before Santa came I was in smyths and a man bought sky landers and few figures and cost well over 140 euro FFS rip off

Deano7788 · 05-02-2013 11:17AM

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Have any of you played sky landers? Doesn't appeal to me tbh. Remember before Santa came I was in smyths and a man bought sky landers and few figures and cost well over 140 euro FFS rip off

I've played a bit of it at a cousin's house. It's pretty decent, certainly above average for a children's game, but it's definitely not worth the money required to unlock everything.

Deano7788 · 05-02-2013 11:45AM

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/389309/scribblenauts-unlimited-suffers-last-minute-european-delay/

Scribblenauts Unllimited delayed again. No new release date's been revealed.

wampyrus77 · 05-02-2013 01:48PM

Deano7788 wrote: »

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/389309/scribblenauts-unlimited-suffers-last-minute-european-delay/

Scribblenauts Unllimited delayed again. No new release date's been revealed.

well according latest review in

Official Nintendo Magazine and Wikipedia its scheduled this friday on 3DS & Wii U,

Deano7788 · 05-02-2013 02:32PM

wampyrus77 wrote: »

well according latest review in

Official Nintendo Magazine and Wikipedia its scheduled this friday on 3DS & Wii U,

Yes but if you read the link it's literally happened at the last minute. The magazine would have been written a few weeks ago. This has only just been announced.

Dozen Wicked Words · 05-02-2013 04:36PM

Deano7788 wrote: »

Disney Infinity has the potential to destroy Skylanders. Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones. Just imagine, Han Solo meets Wolverine, Fantastic Four and the Incredibles, Iron Man and Buzz Lightyear, Darth Vader vs the Avengers. If they do this right, Skylanders could be screwed.

Not sure the market Skylanders has already got, the younger kids, has the same high opinion of Disney, Marvel or Star Wars for that matter. They relate to the characters of Star Wars as much to lego games as the originals! But you are absolutely right that Infinity could do over Skylanders, it has 4 player online, Skylanders has announced its doing figures you can mix and match different bits of them, but still only 2 player local.

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Have any of you played sky landers? Doesn't appeal to me tbh. Remember before Santa came I was in smyths and a man bought sky landers and few figures and cost well over 140 euro FFS rip off

Mostly its a bit too easy for older gamers, plays well enough though and they have made a decent looking game. The figures are expensive enough, and even the original adventures figures haven't really dropped a lot in price. The Disney infinity figures are going to be even more expensive.

Both games, and associated bits of plastic mean expense for parents one way or the other!

Deano7788 · 05-02-2013 04:52PM

dooferoaks wrote: »

Not sure the market Skylanders has already got, the younger kids, has the same high opinion of Disney, Marvel or Star Wars for that matter. They relate to the characters of Star Wars as much to lego games as the originals! But you are absolutely right that Infinity could do over Skylanders, it has 4 player online, Skylanders has announced its doing figures you can mix and match different bits of them, but still only 2 player local.

I'd possibly agree with you regarding Disney or Star Wars, although I think it's debatable, but would disagree with Marvel. With the success of the Avengers movie, and new movies being released every year, I think they've never been more popular with kids. The Lego Marvel games later in the year will only help matters.

smokingman · 05-02-2013 05:40PM

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

Anyone find using the gamepad for blops tough going??

Wiimote with no bounding box for me; anything else and you'll be handed you a$$ pretty quickly online dude. Have played it on the pad but it just ain't the same.

MrVestek · 05-02-2013 05:50PM

smokingman wrote: »

Wiimote with no bounding box for me; anything else and you'll be handed you a$$ pretty quickly online dude. Have played it on the pad but it just ain't the same.

The Pro pad is actually quite nice for playing blops 2 with.

Dozen Wicked Words · 05-02-2013 05:58PM

Deano7788 wrote: »

I'd possibly agree with you regarding Disney or Star Wars, although I think it's debatable, but would disagree with Marvel. With the success of the Avengers movie, and new movies being released every year, I think they've never been more popular with kids. The Lego Marvel games later in the year will only help matters.

I think you might well be proved right but I still think the avengers was for 12 year olds (in theory at least, and I know younger kids will have seen it), I just think Skylanders has pitched 5 or 6 years younger than that, and they are the ones more likely to get their parents to collect figures. You get to a certain age and it's no longer cool to collect figures unless you are a nerd (like me). Marvel have figures out for younger kids, the marvel super hero squad, they are fantastic, my kids love them, but they barely register on the shelves of toy shops here, even after the blockbuster films.

Time will tell, my hope would be a bit of competition might drive the prices down! And apologies for dragging the thread off topic.

Deano7788 · 05-02-2013 06:10PM

dooferoaks wrote: »

I think you might well be proved right but I still think the avengers was for 12 year olds (in theory at least, and I know younger kids will have seen it), I just think Skylanders has pitched 5 or 6 years younger than that, and they are the ones more likely to get their parents to collect figures. You get to a certain age and it's no longer cool to collect figures unless you are a nerd (like me). Marvel have figures out for younger kids, the marvel super hero squad, they are fantastic, my kids love them, but they barely register on the shelves of toy shops here, even after the blockbuster films.

Time will tell, my hope would be a bit of competition might drive the prices down! And apologies for dragging the thread off topic.

I'm actually curious as to how long the interest will remain in them. The actual figures are pretty stationary so interest may wane when the next big thing comes along. That may be Infinity or it may be something else, time will tell. I can't see it being sustained.

To bring it more on-topic, how long before Nintendo jump on the bandwagon and release a Pokemon equivalent? They wouldn't even need a base, just use the NFC in the gamepad.

Also, apparently the graphical capability of the WiiU has finally been revealed through quite a difficult sounding process (it involved reverse engineering).

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-wii-u-graphics-power-finally-revealed

Banjo · 05-02-2013 06:22PM

Jaysus don't give them ideas... The last thing we need is 650 rfid-enabled statuettes at 20 quid a pop...

the marvel / star wars thing could work if they incorporate it into normal figures and vehicles - so they function as standard toys that also work with the game. Even if it's just a matter of the toys coming with a small base stand (like the talking SW Episode 1 figures from about 10 years ago) that works with the game. Frees the figure up from having to fit the "portal" and be free-standing, makes it a more appealing toy for kids.

Deano7788 · 05-02-2013 06:45PM

Banjo wrote: »

Jaysus don't give them ideas... The last thing we need is 650 rfid-enabled statuettes at 20 quid a pop...

the marvel / star wars thing could work if they incorporate it into normal figures and vehicles - so they function as standard toys that also work with the game. Even if it's just a matter of the toys coming with a small base stand (like the talking SW Episode 1 figures from about 10 years ago) that works with the game. Frees the figure up from having to fit the "portal" and be free-standing, makes it a more appealing toy for kids.

Cough.. X and Y...700... Cough

Oh, of course you won't be able to buy some of the legendaries in shops, they'll only be available at certain locations for a limited time.

Actually, they could create a monster and release 28 varieties of Unown and regular and shiny versions of each Pokemon, the 4 formes of Deoxys, Genesect with the different drives, Arceus with the different plates and the 2 formes of Shaymin, Giratina, Kyuerem, Landorus, Thundurus and Tornadus. What is that, around 1500?

wampyrus77 · 05-02-2013 08:34PM

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2

is Wii U this friday even so wikipedia says February 7th, Games usual come out on friday, I say this friday for Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_Star:_Ken%27s_Rage_2

Deano7788 · 05-02-2013 08:35PM

wampyrus77 wrote: »

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2

is Wii U this friday even so wikipedia says February 7th, Games usual come out on friday, I say this friday for Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_Star:_Ken%27s_Rage_2

It's only available on the eshop so the 7th is right.

DARK-KNIGHT · 05-02-2013 08:44PM

what am i missing with pokemon games??

i missed the whole pokemon phenom and was squareyed looking at zelda games mario games and buster busts loose..... btw buster busts loose is ****ing class snes game...

i used to think i was a gunslinger playing duckhunt had me a little stetson etc oh how very sad.....

wampyrus77 · 05-02-2013 08:57PM

Rayman Legends

is out February 28, 2013 according to wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayman_Legends

Deano7788 · 05-02-2013 09:03PM

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

what am i missing with pokemon games??

i missed the whole pokemon phenom and was squareyed looking at zelda games mario games and buster busts loose..... btw buster busts loose is ****ing class snes game...

i used to think i was a gunslinger playing duckhunt had me a little stetson etc oh how very sad.....

An excellent RPG series that can go extremely deep if you want to. It can offer a lot of different things depending on what you want. You can just play the main game, you can do all the trading and try to catch them all (good luck with that) or you can get involved in competitive battling. It's probably my favourite handheld series

wampyrus77 · 05-02-2013 09:19PM

Need for Speed: Most Wanted

is out 21 March 2013 according to wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_Most_Wanted_%282012_video_game%29

wampyrus77 · 05-02-2013 09:34PM

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct base on tv show is The Walking Dead PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 and PC March 22, 2013
wii u version March 29, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walking_Dead:_Survival_Instinct

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