When you see how the mainstream press is reacting to the Wii U this time around it becomes very apparent Nintendo threw the core under the bus to get the big hype machine going at least for now
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Nintendo E3 2012 Conference Thread
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When you see how the mainstream press is reacting to the Wii U this time around it becomes very apparent Nintendo threw the core under the bus to get the big hype machine going at least for now
Aquavelvaman
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My humble, Star Fox-inspired tribute to you, sir:
General Pepper Reacts To E3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-H-CoQA9w
So good
Metroid Hunter
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At least Wario understands.
Can't believe I almost overlooked this. At least a classic quote came out of all of this.
You may run into a Zombie Elizabeth and Phillip. In the live gameplay Demo the female survivor they spawned had an objective to get into Buckingham Palace and search around
So Philip is already amongst the undead. I always had my suspicions.
Valjean Lafitte
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That GIF is too awesome. Where's the face from?
Until 2003, after that even shitty ports ceased for the most part.
He couldnt help himself at the Olympics and bit a gymnyst when she didnt like him asking if she was an exotic dancer and the virus spread
I just came out from socializing and I've cooled down a bit compared to earlier.
I decided I'm getting a Wii U at launch because the core games will eventually come. I'm definitely getting Rayman Legends and NSMB. The Wii U will have to great platformers within launch window. I'm still upset they didn't show what I wanted, but I'm fine with the launch line up.
I decided I'm getting a Wii U at launch because the core games will eventually come. I'm definitely getting Rayman Legends and NSMB. The Wii U will have to great platformers within launch window. I'm still upset they didn't show what I wanted, but I'm fine with the launch line up.
Is the game made by French?
My humble, Star Fox-inspired tribute to you, sir:
General Pepper Reacts To E3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-H-CoQA9w
I'm sorry for yet another quote, but this is fantastic. Well done sir!
Yep. Was some fun trolling for them to release a trailer showing the end of English Civilization with a dark God Save the Queen playing on Jubilee day
The one aspect about Nintendo's conference that I did like was that most of the games shown were not the scripted cinematic games that the industry loves to peddle so much. Also, no long game demos was a plus. There was too much talking though, and Scott Moffitt really needs a lot more practice speaking on stage.
Yeah, the dissapointment has worn off to acceptance. The games will eventually come, I'll just wait some more. I have my backlog and the Steam Summer Sale to hold me until then.
Hoping for at least one bomb will be dropped between the 3DS Games Conference and the Developer Roundtable.
Hoping for at least one bomb will be dropped between the 3DS Games Conference and the Developer Roundtable.
I think it was just Nintendo being conservative and focussing on the sorts of games that are basically guaranteed sellers, as opposed to trying to chase an audience which might never come back to them. I'm actually thinking that Nintendo are going to have a Nintendo direct or something that's targeted towards "core" gamers at some point before launch, judging by the fact that Activision are still saying "no comment" to BLOPS 2 on Wii U. My expectations for it are pretty low by this stage, but maybe they'll decide to be generous with us and show a clip of whatever Retro's working on.
Yep. Was some fun trolling for them to release a trailer showing the end of English Civilization with a dark God Save the Queen playing on Jubilee day
Ok so its a must buy then xD
Valjean Lafitte
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Thanks! Believe it or not, with my crappy PC that 33 second video took at least 3 hours to make.
Are any sites live blogging the developer round table tonight or is Nintendo streaming that?
Overall while there was somethings I liked I think in genreal I'm torn. Not disappointed or happy but very meh about the whole thing. Thinking more it's easy to see what Nintendo did really wrong. Where they wasted a LOT of time.
I cam out of it liking the following.
Pikmin 3
Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition (I have yet to play it on other systems. Still have my copy of Asylam that came with my PS3 unopened for various reasons but I did like what I saw.)
ZombiU (liked the most)
Paper Mario
Lugi's Mansion
Lego City
Wii Fit U (I have the other two games in the series)
The rest either disappointed or I simply wasn't interested in. Nintendo Land is clearly something I won't be able to play by myself so no matter how fun it might be it's worthless to me. They wasted to much damn time in the end.
I hate saying this but Sony's was the best conference for me. Not that crap All Stars but The Last of Us, the new game from the Heavy Rain studio and a few other things.
Overall while there was somethings I liked I think in genreal I'm torn. Not disappointed or happy but very meh about the whole thing. Thinking more it's easy to see what Nintendo did really wrong. Where they wasted a LOT of time.
I cam out of it liking the following.
Pikmin 3
Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition (I have yet to play it on other systems. Still have my copy of Asylam that came with my PS3 unopened for various reasons but I did like what I saw.)
ZombiU (liked the most)
Paper Mario
Lugi's Mansion
Lego City
Wii Fit U (I have the other two games in the series)
The rest either disappointed or I simply wasn't interested in. Nintendo Land is clearly something I won't be able to play by myself so no matter how fun it might be it's worthless to me. They wasted to much damn time in the end.
I hate saying this but Sony's was the best conference for me. Not that crap All Stars but The Last of Us, the new game from the Heavy Rain studio and a few other things.
Greatest gif of all time, next to that the last of us gif. lolol
Eggplant Wizard
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There's usually a liveblog somewhere. A video of it will be released afterward, I think.
An anime called Space Brothers.
I liked they they explained what was going on when they showed game footage. Biggest pet peeve on E3 for me is when someone just stands on stage playing a game in total silence. Please take note that you are boring me to death for a billionth year running Mr.COD.
Valjean Lafitte
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Ah, I remember reading a review of that on Anime News Network. Sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out sometime. Thanks!
Yeah total silence is awkward. Sony's God of War demo was a good example of how to do a poor demo. But Eguchi I think spoke too much. That segment didn't seem well-rehearsed.
lettermassing
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There are more launch titles that I'm interested in than there ever have been in any console launch. The conference wasn't great but you can't ignore the games that are there so far.
ViewtifulJC
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I laughed way too hard at this post
What probably happened is that Nintendo didn't want to overhype WiiU's launch like they did with 3DS and focused only on titles in development that would be ready within the launch window. With 3DS they showed games like Paper Mario Sticker Star which hasn't even come out yet and it bit them in the ass. Hopefully they are working on the big games we want but it was really disappointing not to see them.
Green Yoshi
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At least my other self in a parallel universe had a nice E3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P50d9xsLzB0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P50d9xsLzB0&feature=player_embedded
Metroid Hunter
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IGN and the site you Go to for Nintendo news.
What about time? I think last time it was around 11 or 10 ET? Same thing this time around?
zeioIIDX
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Wow, I totally thought Nintendo Land would be built-in software :/ Then again, Wii Sports was not built-in although it was a pack-in...I found ZombiU to be interesting and...that was about it. Ah well. I have a HUGE backlog of games for 360/Vita/3DS/PC/etc anyway so I think Wii U can wait, for me at least.
All I'll say is that I'm let down but it wasn't a terrible conference. Optimistic that, aside from the fact that this is just a conference and not an actual launch aftermath (yet), I'd much rather see the Wii U prove itself over the next few years than go the way of blue giant star Wii-01X bloated with hype.
Hopefully it does at least a little better than 3DS, however. Probably not getting it on launch day, but by the end of this year for sure.
Also I totally called this:
Hopefully it does at least a little better than 3DS, however. Probably not getting it on launch day, but by the end of this year for sure.
Also I totally called this:
Apophis2036
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Was a reader of the Wii U speculation thread since part 3 and posted a few times in parts 4 and 5.
I can't begin to describe my disappointment with todays Nintendo E3 conference.
As soon as i seen Pikmin 3 i knew they were in trouble, it looked to me like Pikmin 2 upscaled to HD with a few graphical improvements like water / fire.
NSMB U is a nice game for the casuals and im sure will sell well but i have had my fill many times over of 2D Mario.
ZombiU looks graphically on par with PS360 like visuals and the constant 'look at the Wii U screen' prompt would ruin any sort of immersion in such a game.
The rest isn't even worth talking about.
No player profile with an Achievement like system shown.
No big first party games like Zelda, 3D Mario, Metroid, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, F Zero, Starfox, Donkey Kong, Pilotwings, Waverace ect.
No Retro studios game.
No major third party support in the form of Blops 2, MoH 2, Resident Evil 6, GTA V, Crysis 3, Tomb Raider, Bioshock, Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, Splinter Cell Black List to name but 10.
Im sure the Twitter like Home Page, NSMB 2 and Wii Fit U along with the Tablet pad and video chat will go down well with casuals but i will now not be buying one at launch and not until it has at least 4 or 5 must have exclusive games.
I would like to know how the so called 'insiders' like BG, Iheere and Ideaman explain a system that runs games that look like Wii HD ports and PS360 games after going on for months about 2GB's of Ram and a 480 FLOP GPU's at least, (thats 40 times the power of a Wii GPU and 17 times more Ram), Utter Bullshit.
That Zelda tech demo was CGI imo.
What a joke...
I can't begin to describe my disappointment with todays Nintendo E3 conference.
As soon as i seen Pikmin 3 i knew they were in trouble, it looked to me like Pikmin 2 upscaled to HD with a few graphical improvements like water / fire.
NSMB U is a nice game for the casuals and im sure will sell well but i have had my fill many times over of 2D Mario.
ZombiU looks graphically on par with PS360 like visuals and the constant 'look at the Wii U screen' prompt would ruin any sort of immersion in such a game.
The rest isn't even worth talking about.
No player profile with an Achievement like system shown.
No big first party games like Zelda, 3D Mario, Metroid, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, F Zero, Starfox, Donkey Kong, Pilotwings, Waverace ect.
No Retro studios game.
No major third party support in the form of Blops 2, MoH 2, Resident Evil 6, GTA V, Crysis 3, Tomb Raider, Bioshock, Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, Splinter Cell Black List to name but 10.
Im sure the Twitter like Home Page, NSMB 2 and Wii Fit U along with the Tablet pad and video chat will go down well with casuals but i will now not be buying one at launch and not until it has at least 4 or 5 must have exclusive games.
I would like to know how the so called 'insiders' like BG, Iheere and Ideaman explain a system that runs games that look like Wii HD ports and PS360 games after going on for months about 2GB's of Ram and a 480 FLOP GPU's at least, (thats 40 times the power of a Wii GPU and 17 times more Ram), Utter Bullshit.
That Zelda tech demo was CGI imo.
What a joke...
Portugeezer
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Where was the megaton? The Retro Studios game? I expected more hardcore titles to be shown at the conference. Wii U graphics were underwhelming.
Nintendo still cared too much about casual, but 3DS is still going strong and Pikmin 3 was finally shown, Zombi U looked like it made good use of the Wii U.
Ultimately my final feeling is: "that's it?"
Nintendo still cared too much about casual, but 3DS is still going strong and Pikmin 3 was finally shown, Zombi U looked like it made good use of the Wii U.
Ultimately my final feeling is: "that's it?"
IceDoesntHelp
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Lol, calm down.
Metroid Hunter
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I doubt the number of characters have to do with anything. The size of the "scratch" things are probably relative to one another.
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I doubt the number of characters have to do with anything. The size of the "scratch" things are probably relative to one another.
It was in real-time. Attendees could control the camera and mess with the lighting.
Valjean Lafitte
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In this universe, all Nintendo would have to have done is show that video and that video alone, and Wii U would be an instabuy for everyone in this thread..
er, this isn't a matter of opinion. it was real-time. fact.
Regarding lack of EA Sports games on Wii U, just had a really funny thought. What if EA was pushing Nintendo to make Origin their online game provider (e.g. EA president at last year's E3 talking about Wii U online infrastructure), Nintendo decided to stay with the Wild West option (i.e. everyone do their own thing for online play), so EA withheld the sports titles in retaliation. Hard to imagine such a large third-party publisher "taking their ball and going home" when they don't get their way, but that'd certainly explain the turnaround from EA being at last year's conference to only ME3 being on Wii U for launch. The Xbox Smart Glass play-calling seems like a perfect fit for Wii U's pad, for example.
/conspiracy theory
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/conspiracy theory
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