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Nintendo Begins Advertising Wii U (Games) Again in Japan
- Thread starter StreetsAhead
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i think so
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Just had some nice green grapes. Love grapes.
Is the girl yelling "DAMEEEE!" in the Nintendoland Commercial Sailor Moon?
Nope, the girl in this ad is a lot younger than the Sailor Moon actress.
What's that mean? Is it a japanese figure of speech or something?
The recent 3DS ads have been pretty good, so who knows.
She says "kawaii jan" which is a short form of "kawaii ja nai". It basically means "Cute, ain't it?"
-Pyromaniac-
Member
By the way that funny peach gif reminds me of this one, peach should get her own mature Wii U game:
StreetsAhead
Member
)abstract alien
Member
If they can go from this:
to this
and this
to this
in a little over 12 months on what is ostensibly a modified Wii engine, imagine what they can do with a ground up game.
I really have been in the dark about this game. I had no idea it's been improved that much.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
lol stop. Surely it's just that Bowser's locked her up somewhere, and Luigi unexpectedly shows up to save her while she's waiting for Mario. Right? RIGHT?
Jesus wtf. Not sleeping tonight I guess.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
This is why I dislike handleds.
This is the best thing ever.
I gess you're bound to a happier ending using your inmagination than watching the actual result...
That was fucking adorable mang.
whyreggielie
Member
OMG can I please have that Pikman ad here in the US? Anytime I make a level in smash bros. that's the song I pick and I know it word for word.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
I gess you're bound to a happier ending using your inmagination than watching the actual result...
Looks like your post backfired, that looks great. I have a hard time inmagining a better looking Mario game.
StreetsAhead
Member
I gess you're bound to a happier ending using your inmagination than watching the actual result...
That game has had 18~20 months development and still looks better than Pikmin 3 after nearly 3 years dev on Wii U hardware.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
That first pikmin commercial is fucking adorable.
Oh wow, never realized this, thanks for the comparison.
I respectfully disagree.
Well, I think you're right on that snowy screenshot. The rest of the game looks surprisingly good though, if you have some decent screenshot quality, that is.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
I just honestly don't know what you were expecting from a HD Mario title. Photorealistic graphics? The colours pop, and the lightings good.
I respect your opinion, but would love if you could describe exactly why because personally I'm sitting on the other side of the fence
Herb Alpert
Banned
The Luigi ad is great. I really like the sense of humor around the character of Luigi.
More fun ads and less always smiling families!
More fun ads and less always smiling families!
Color is great indeed. Is not that I want photorealistic graphics on Mario (please don't post that creepy Mario render) but everything looks so unnatural, bland and empty. They only way I have to know Mario & co. are walking on snow is to look at the snowman. Everything looks made of the same non-natural unrecognizable soft material, even the chacters themselves. Even with transparency involved, the new pipes don't look like made of crystal or pastic. They're made of "Mario Transparent Pipe Material". Lightning is good but flat, and doen't even set a versatile tone like Pikmin's. There is a lack of expression in 3D world's look. Mario games had surrealistic landscapes but they were credible and looked made of things you could recognize. 3D land seem like it's made of "videogame materials" that don't exist in the real world and don't convey any real emotion in the way they are displayed. It seem there was no effort in making them appealing because it's just videogame land, so they made it look completely artificial, wich doesn't tell anybody nothing about the world Mario is it. Excecpt that is 3D.
Mario had levels that look just entirely pactical from am art direction perspective, but most of them were extra levels in sunshine or galaxy. but having and entire game that the only thing it can say about itself is that it's a videogame... it's just bland and basic.
Also, if anyone wants to continue this conversation just with me please send me a PM, this thread was clearly not about this and I apologize if anyone didn't like how I took it in this direction.
Of course it looks "unnatural". It's based on a cartoon style, not realism. Nintendo games typically have their own style away from photorealism. Photorealistic graphics are not the only way graphics should be.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
I dont know sounded like cute or somethin..
Dont Nintendo have some kind of meeting today?
Again, I'm not saying it sould look photorealistic. I am saying that the artstyle should be able to say something bouth the world and characters. They are cartoony by nature, but so are Pikmin, Dokey Kong or Wonderful 101 and yet they all are able to communicate with the player or someone waching by looking at them. I am not even asking for graphical detail. I am saying that the only purpose 3D world graphics serve is being a videogame, instead of belonging to Mario's rich and interesting world.
Nonsense. Pikmin isn't cartoony, barring the characters and enemies. The rest is photorealistic. I have never seen a game with a more realistic strawberry or leaf in my life
Yeah, it was their annual general meeting. Nothing really happened, just the instatement of people in positions as had been said in the past couple of months
I gess you're bound to a happier ending using your inmagination than watching the actual result...
This looks amazing.
Breathtaking.
plank
Member
The E3 shops will be glorious.
I hate to break it to you, but Wii U hardware and the dev kits weren't finalized 3 years ago. In fact, from all the reports we got, the hardware reached its final form pretty late in development.
StreetsAhead
Member
I'm just going by what Miyamoto said.
Since this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0NNte7C8ac
which advertised Karaoke features back in April, but otherwise...yeah, Game & Wario was the last ad campaign for an actual game.
I don't know what he said, but it doesn't change the facts. If they already changed the game to Wii U in 2010, the hardware would be in a very very very early stage. I doubt in 2010 the game had already jumped to Wii U.