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[GameplayWhore]

Stretching to me implies modifying the image negatively.

Upscaling is modifying the image negatively. Unless it's literally upscaling by an integral factor. (sorry, way delayed answer, but I always like to chime in when people discuss upstretching)

I also bought Super Paper Mario…

…great games I can play on the Wii U from the previous gen that I missed out on at cheap prices.

Heh, heh, heh…

Spoiler

I personally loved SPM, but keep in mind that it frequently practices tedium as a joke on the player, and it generally will not respect you as a gamer. That's one of the reasons why I enjoyed it, but it pisses off most people.

It sounds to me like some of the update (and other) problems were caused by everyone jamming servers at once. Are download times for the megapatch getting shorter yet?

 

[TheApatheticOne]

For those like me that missed most of the Wii library, I can highly recommend Xenoblade Chronicles and Muramasa The Demon Blade (so gooood!). Also picked up The Last Story, but cant say too much about that one yet.

 

[Dreamwriter]

Let me ask this question. Why would anyone buy the basic version over the deluxe version? At a price difference of only $50 and the deluxe version having Nintendoland included as well as a much larger internal memory and the stands I just can't understand why. If it's the color of the system then I guess that's hard for me to fathom.

Because I didn't want Nintendo Land (because it has no online and I rarely have other people over at my place to play games). And I'm not planning on using internal memory for anything but games saves since I'm going to be downloading as many games as I can rather than buying them on disc - 32GB wouldn't be large enough for that, so I got an external hard drive. Before you say "...but the discount on downloaded games!" realize that a person would have to buy $550 worth of games to get enough discount to just break even on that $50 extra (or in my case, $350 since I did buy the cradle/stand package for $20).

And, you know...not boring black, which every game system ever released after the SNES has been available in.

 

[randomengine]

posting on my wii u. anyone know how to highlight spoiler text on this thing?

 

[GameplayWhore]

For those like me that missed most of the Wii library, I can highly recommend Xenoblade Chronicles and Muramasa The Demon Blade (so gooood!). Also picked up The Last Story, but cant say too much about that one yet.

I picked up Muramasa not too long ago. As soon as I get that last stupid tooth in Rayman (and explore whatever's unlocked after that), I'm planning to install it and try it out. I have a feeling that I'm expecting something more actiony than what it is, but it'll probably be fun nonetheless.

 

[Zing]

Where are the toilet pics people?

I've only seen one post here so far from someone who got it to successfully work far enough to reach a bathroom. It seems the range is shorter than even the standard Wii Remotes.

 

[Gahiggidy]

I am playing on a tv with one of the mini boxes. It has xfinity on the front and says it was manufactured under license of Dolby Labs. I don't see any other names on it.

Mine's an hd-dvr box. Are you using standard def cable on your setup? Anyways, you ought to be able to at least turn the inputs and change volume until, hopefully, an update or code can be found for your digital-converter box.

 

[shadyspace]

I'm nearly regretting getting one at this point, that might change once I get my hands on it (still shipping) but if it doesn't I know I'll be glad I have one the second they show off a 3D Mario, Metroid, Zelda, basically any Nintendo developed game that isn't 2D Mario or Pikmin.

 

[Baconsammy]

One of the great things about Miiverse that people aren't yet speculating upon is that it will be a real-time look at how popular any given game is. No need to dig into sales numbers, the Miiverse can tell you how well your game is doing relatively.

This wont be accurate. Popular games dont always sell the most. I bet Monster Hunter will have far more posts than a great many high selling titles.

posting on my wii u. anyone know how to highlight spoiler text on this thing?

Hold the stylus over a part of the spoiler, and then drag to highlight. If that doesnt work, switch to the mobile GAF site.

 

[Dreamwriter]

This wont be accurate. Popular games dont always sell the most. I bet Monster Hunter will have far more posts than a great many high selling titles.

I don't get your point? If lots of people are playing the game, thus making tons of little Mii's hover around that game's icon, then either it sold a lot, or lots of people are pirating it.

 

[oatmeal]

I was at TRU yesterday and they had Skyward Sword for 29.99.

Thought that was pretty solid.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

next update needs to have folders

okay I connected ZombiU to uPlay this thing has achievements? heh

anyway carelessly died before i got to the safe house meh I am going to suck at this game should have put it on 'Chicken'

 

[Darryl]

I found out earlier today that there's a symbol in Miiverse when posting that signifies that you own/have played the game. That's hilarious. They've effectively put a stop to this in the community:

 

[randomengine]

This wont be accurate. Popular games dont always sell the most. I bet Monster Hunter will have far more posts than a great many high selling titles.



Hold the stylus over a part of the spoiler, and then drag to highlight. If that doesnt work, switch to the mobile GAF site.

it wont be accurate on sales per se but definitely based on interest level and popularity. it appears that my miiverse is populated with the most popular games and apps. makes a good barometer. getting a game there will be important to publishers. probably filled with nintendo dev games only in a year or two.

 

[BlankaBR]

Yea these long ass load times are starting to piss me off.

Its so annoying , how can they manage to offer such a shitty experience, its 2012

 

[GaimeGuy]

I got my copy of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom in the mail today.

I also bought Super Paper Mario, Twilight Princess, and Punch-Out!!

Tons of great games I can play on the Wii U from the previous gen that I missed out on at cheap prices.

Prepare to be disappointed by SPM

 

[evilromero]

When it works, I'm really enjoying Miiverse. This will be a great app on my iPad when it gets released.

 

[schuelma]

Note to self- never ever question why a thread was made and do not under any circumstances beg for a megathread, especially less than a week before a console launch.

Picked up a deluxe unit Sunday, here are some early thoughts:

-Love the gamepad. Just love it. Screen, size, feel, etc.

-On similar lines, the experience of being able to play games and mess around on the controller is going to be incredibly valuable for me. I can see why people without families who have the tv to themselves find it not compelling, but for someone with a wife and kid, this setup is just perfect for me. The ability to just pick up the gamepad and start playing is awesome.

-Impressed by Miiverse. I'm wondering about the moderation and insular nature of it a bit- I've checked out communities for a lot of the launch games and its about 95% extremely positive about every game. I suspect that is a lot of early adopter enthusiasm, and I'm optimistic that in the future it will be able to weed out poor games.

-I haven't actually bought one game, besides Nintendoland which came with the system. I'm already in the doghouse for the initial purchase, so I must be judicious. I'm planning on picking up 1 game this week and maybe 1 at Christmas. I have it narrowed down to ZombiU, CoD, Darksiders 2 and AC3. Was honestly tempted to buy Batman but the impressions make it sound like complete ass. Any suggestions for those who have played those titles? Leaning towards Zombiu as the Miiverse and gaf reactions have been very positive.

-I am in this really weird position of loving the system, the controller, and its potential, without feeling like there is any must have software right now. Frankly, the reason I bought this system day 1 is so that I can play Monster Hunter the day it releases in March and be part of that gaf community. I figure there is a non-remote chance systems are still hard to come by in March, so I thought it best to just get it now. Add Monster Hunter to Pikmin and Wonderful 101, and I'm going to be playing the shit out of this thing by March.

-Nintendoland is good. Legitimately good. It doesn't hold the immediate pick up and play appeal of Wii Sports, but I think most people will get more use out of this software. I also think it could help raise awareness of Nintendo IP's with people not too familiar with them- for instance, my wife loves the Pikmin game and I could see her getting into Pikmin 3 next year.

-Biggest issue for me is the lag in the OS, which I am hoping can be fixed up eventually. Seemed faster yesterday. I understand some of the gaf negativity, but like most things gaf is full of hyperbole right now.

-I have had a few locks, mostly with Nintendoland. Annoying.

- Overall I am incredibly optimistic about the potential of the system, and I suspect it will do well.

PS- NNID- Schuelma.

 

[Meelow]

I love Miiverse! Better then expected.

(I'm back on GAF as well)

 

[BlankaBR]

By Kotaku:

The super-slow OS is worrisome. A console powerful enough to run Assassin's Creed III and Mass Effect 3 should not struggle and take 20 seconds to go from its system menu to its system settings app. It should not take 15 seconds to close a game and go back to the main menu. This kind of tardy performance was barely tolerable on the Wii in 2006. It's worse on the Wii U and desperately needs improvement. But when I asked Nintendo if they could or would make this better through a firmware update a rep said that the company had nothing to announce at this time.

 

[Meelow]

By Kotaku:

The super-slow OS is worrisome. A console powerful enough to run Assassin's Creed III and Mass Effect 3 should not struggle and take 20 seconds to go from its system menu to its system settings app. It should not take 15 seconds to close a game and go back to the main menu. This kind of tardy performance was barely tolerable on the Wii in 2006. It's worse on the Wii U and desperately needs improvement. But when I asked Nintendo if they could or would make this better through a firmware update a rep said that the company had nothing to announce at this time.

My OS is running pretty fast, there was only this one time when loading to Miiverse was slow but that was the only time.

 

[Marty Chinn]

Man Amazon just notified me that the Hori Screen Protector won't be available until December 19th now. Gamestop just lists it as PreOrder. WTF? Man I don't know what to do now. Is the PDP that bad? Are people just going naked? I can only imagine the type of scuffs the stylus is going to do. Anyone know of any retailer carrying it? Fry's maybe?

 

[schuelma]

Maybe some people are a little disappointed that Nintendo stuck with an unforgivably archaic and insecure account system, had to deal with slow update servers just to access the online goodies for every game and the system itself, and that almost (if not) every third party port suffers from performance and/or graphical issues in comparison to their current generation counterparts.

Or they have an anti-Nintendo agenda. Who knows!

That is absolutely fair and valid. Painting all criticisms of Wii U with that sort of brush is incredibly inaccurate.

On the other hand, I do think it is fair to observe that in the half dozen or so negative Wii U threads on the front page, many posters in those threads do not have the system, do not intend on every buying the system, and have been waiting to make these posts for months if not a year. Gaf is amazing, but gaf piles on and goes insanely overboard for almost everything.

 

[BocoDragon]

-On similar lines, the experience of being able to play games and mess around on the controller is going to be incredibly valuable for me. I can see why people without families who have the tv to themselves find it not compelling, but for someone with a wife and kid, this setup is just perfect for me. The ability to just pick up the gamepad and start playing is awesome.

Even though I live alone and have a TV to myself, now that I have the option of not using the TV, I often want to do so. Sometimes you don't want to stare up at a giant screen.

The big surprise is how good playing on the pad is. You hear that it's an HD console and that it's streaming sub-HD to the pad and it's like ".... in an emergency, I guess", but that screen and resolution is nice enough that it's pretty much the same experience as on the TV. It's perfectly fine to use the pad instead of the TV.

 

[Kokonoe]

I don't understand how Nintendo Network Premium works. Am I suppose to enable it somehow? I own the Black Wii U.

 

[GameplayWhore]

I've only seen one post here so far from someone who got it to successfully work far enough to reach a bathroom. It seems the range is shorter than even the standard Wii Remotes.

That would make sense, as the Wii remote doesn't have to work in such a short, bi-directional window of time, and it has far less data to coherently transfer.

I've seen a bunch of posts around here about people using the GamePad successfully in other rooms and even other floors.

Wii U Gamepad: User Feedback & Distance Limitations

"Works in just about every room of my house"

"I can play fine in the bathroom, my bedroom, and the bathroom in my bedroom (2 walls/doors and 30-35 feet)"

"Mine worked decently once I stopped moving in my room. I live in a 2 story apartment and my room is downstairs, probably like 40 feet away, diagonally through walls."

"It works in my Bedroom and there is another bedroom between my bedroom and the living room."

"I have access to it within the key areas of my house"

"Wii U is in my living room... Pretty close to the center of the downstairs. I can go all over the downstairs just fine except my kitchen where it needs to go through a couple of walls because of a weird layout. Upstairs is 100% fine too in both bedrooms…"

While most of the above don't explicitly mention bathrooms, it's implicitly suggested that they're getting far enough that a bathroom would be included in the range. Mind you, I cherry picked, but there's definitely a multitude of GAFfers who can do bathroom gaming.

I'm nearly regretting getting one at this point, that might change once I get my hands on it (still shipping) but if it doesn't I know I'll be glad I have one the second they show off a 3D Mario, Metroid, Zelda, basically any Nintendo developed game that isn't 2D Mario or Pikmin.

You're in luck, Nintendo released such a game at launch!

Spoiler

 

[BocoDragon]

I've only seen one post here so far from someone who got it to successfully work far enough to reach a bathroom. It seems the range is shorter than even the standard Wii Remotes.

My gamepad works throughout the entirety of my 1 bedroom apartment, bedroom, bathroom and all. Yay for low-income housing!

 

[Baconsammy]

I don't get your point? If lots of people are playing the game, thus making tons of little Mii's hover around that game's icon, then either it sold a lot, or lots of people are pirating it.

Sorry, I thought Miiverse was being discussed. I'm not sure if Wara Wara Plaza is a reflection of number of gamers playing or number of gamers posting messages about the game since it appears to be in Wara Wara you need to have written something while playing/owning the game.

My OS is running pretty fast, there was only this one time when loading to Miiverse was slow but that was the only time.

Everyone's Wii U runs as he described. It's not a function of online connections. It's just an abysmally slow UI/OS. They need to patch it.

That is absolutely fair and valid. Painting all criticisms of Wii U with that sort of brush is incredibly inaccurate.

On the other hand, I do think it is fair to observe that in the half dozen or so negative Wii U threads on the front page, many posters in those threads do not have the system, do not intend on every buying the system, and have been waiting to make these posts for months if not a year. Gaf is amazing, but gaf piles on and goes insanely overboard for almost everything.

Even those of us, me, that clearly own one and post about all the shit Nintendo did wrong with the Wii U, we get labeled as anti-Nintendo. It's garbage. I'm not going to hold Nintendo to a lower standard just because that's all they ever appear to aim for with their hardware. The good things I've also pointed out. But right now, in my own opinion, the Wii U is not worth a purchase unless you desperately need to own NSMBU and Nintendoland. The ports of other games are embarrassingly bad (not Nintendo's fault most likely). The servers Nintendo are using to serve games and updates are a joke (Nintendo's fault). The UI/OS is laughable (Nintendo's fault). Nintendo's strong point is they seem to be able to find at least one thing to grab you despite much of the rest being awful. In this case it's Miiverse. As someone said earlier, the console feels alive at all times. My 360 feels alive all the time too due to a large friends list of friends and family. I have zero people on my Wii U friends list atm, and the console still feels alive. That's brilliant. It's a community straight out of the box. The problem is, I can also get that on any tablet or PC (social networking). This thing desperately needs better third party support and a huge patch (another one) to address the multitude of issues.

 

[Darko]

to the people who have had their system freeze one them, do you have the wiiu console in verticle position using the stands?

 

[Darko]

I've only seen one post here so far from someone who got it to successfully work far enough to reach a bathroom. It seems the range is shorter than even the standard Wii Remotes.

mine reaches my bathroom and bedroom
was playing blackops in bed last night

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Ars: How Nintendo DRM trapped $400 of downloaded games on my failing Wii

 

[Baconsammy]

I can't wait until this thing hits 99 dollars at some point in the future. I'll buy one and just plug it in near my bed to serve the gamepad. As a handheld, it's leaps and bounds better than the Vita/3DS.

 

[EloquentM]

I don't understand how Nintendo Network Premium works. Am I suppose to enable it somehow? I own the Black Wii U.

http://ddp.nintendo.com/

I can't wait until this thing hits 99 dollars at some point in the future. I'll buy one and just plug it in near my bed to serve the gamepad. As a handheld, it's leaps and bounds better than the Vita/3DS.

That'll take like 6+ years lol.

 

[BocoDragon]

I can't wait until this thing hits 99 dollars at some point in the future. I'll buy one and just plug it in near my bed to serve the gamepad. As a handheld, it's leaps and bounds better than the Vita/3DS.

Yeah as someone who mostly plays handhelds at home, what a surprise to suddenly have the best handheld ever.

 

[randomengine]

baconsammy is wrong. wara wara plaza has the most popular games on it regardless of your own activity.

 

[smr00]

I can't wait until this thing hits 99 dollars at some point in the future. I'll buy one and just plug it in near my bed to serve the gamepad. As a handheld, it's leaps and bounds better than the Vita/3DS.

Unless something goes horribly wrong within the next year and it ends up being dreamcast 2.0 which it won't you are gonna be waiting a good 5-6 years.

Also, my Zombi U download took a horrible turn and is downloading extremely slow

 

[brandonh83]

Yeah as someone who mostly plays handhelds at home, what a surprise to suddenly have the best handheld ever.

I was pretty mindblown by the fact that I was able to wake up this morning, turn everything on on the gamepad, boot up Black Ops II, plug headphones into the headphone jack on the gamepad, go into multiplayer and actually be playing a match in under 10 seconds after searching for one. All without having to disturb my gf who was still asleep with any noise.

This thing is awesome.

 

[Beckx]

http://ddp.nintendo.com/

So many unanswered questions, though. Will our consoles automatically apply this in December? Or does each Deluxe owner need to remember to go to the site and register? What happens with purchases made between Sunday and the start date? (That's answered, sorry.) For a selling point, this hasn't been adequately documented.

The credit thing is better than a stick in the eye, but if it's at all to blame for the NNID situation, then...couldn't we have talked about that stick, first?

 

[GameplayWhore]

mine reaches my bathroom and bedroom
was playing blackops in bed last night

:|

This sort of post makes me regret not getting a Wii U at launch a little. If there wasn't this maelstrom of patchmageddon and interface slowness and system freezes and late features and so forth, this thread might have convinced me to go forward.

I'm really looking forward to the TVii impressions so that I can know if this'll be useful to me. SMB client and reasonably useful codec support would pretty much seal the deal, allowing me to set up videos on the sly while my friends are watching other shows, and getting rid of the network cable connection currently being used by my media player.

I can't wait until this thing hits 99 dollars at some point in the future. I'll buy one and just plug it in near my bed to serve the gamepad. As a handheld, it's leaps and bounds better than the Vita/3DS.

Not universally. Vita has higher resolution and a touchpad on the back, and both Vita and 3DS have better AR features on account of forward-facing camera. 3DS also has that 3D feature, which I personally still like a lot. That's not to say that they're "leaps and bounds better" than the GamePad, but there are certainly unique and arguably superior features all around.

 

[smr00]

http://ddp.nintendo.com/


That'll take like 6+ years lol.

So since i bought Zombi U today i will get essentially $5 back?

 

[guek]

if it weren't for speed, the wiiu os would be far superior to the 360 dash. in terms of funcionality, accessibility, overall design, it's not even close.

of course, that's just my opinion, but i reeeeeally like the os. they just need to speed it up (which they've said they're workin on)

 

[Linkhero1]

-I haven't actually bought one game, besides Nintendoland which came with the system. I'm already in the doghouse for the initial purchase, so I must be judicious. I'm planning on picking up 1 game this week and maybe 1 at Christmas. I have it narrowed down to ZombiU, CoD, Darksiders 2 and AC3. Was honestly tempted to buy Batman but the impressions make it sound like complete ass. Any suggestions for those who have played those titles? Leaning towards Zombiu as the Miiverse and gaf reactions have been very positive.

Why no NSMB U? I think it's a much better NSMB game than any of the other ones out. It does everything better. It's true the music and graphics/art could have been better but so far it's a blast to play alongside Nintendoland.

if it weren't for speed, the wiiu os would be far superior to the 360 dash. in terms of funcionality, accessibility, overall design, it's not even close.

of course, that's just my opinion, but i reeeeeally like the os. they just need to speed it up (which they've said they're workin on)

I agree, but they also need to somehow fix the transitioning between channels/apps. It should be seamless so I don't have to keep going back to the Wii U menu in order to watch Netflix. I should be able to access it when I pause the game D:

 

[GameplayWhore]

So since i bought Zombi U today i will get essentially $5 back?

Only if you buy DD games. Didn't somebody say that the points don't count towards downloaded retail games?

 

[Got the Shakes]

Let me ask this question. Why would anyone buy the basic version over the deluxe version? At a price difference of only $50 and the deluxe version having Nintendoland included as well as a much larger internal memory and the stands I just can't understand why. If it's the color of the system then I guess that's hard for me to fathom.

I actually had a pre-order for one deluxe and one basic, decided to go with the basic and returned the deluxe. I don't really care about Nintendoland since I don't do much local multiplayer. If it had online, it would be another story. I don't need the controller stand and cradle, and even if I decided I wanted them, I could get them for $4 and $8 on the Nintendo website. I can buy the console stand from Nintendo for $4 if I wanted it. I have an external hard drive already that I can use for extra storage should I need it. Also, the digital promotion doesn't do much for me since the only games I'd buy from the eShop are ones that I couldn't pick up at retail. I already have a built in 6% discount on games from Amazon since they don't charge sales tax, and with a lot of releases I'm sure they'll offer $10-$20 promos with a pre-order which I can use to purchase future games. I also like the look of the white, and don't like that the black one is a fingerprint magnet.

 

[smr00]

Only if you buy DD games. Didn't somebody say that the points don't count towards downloaded retail games?

So it only counts towards non retail digital games? That is dumb.

 

[Linkhero1]

Only if you buy DD games. Didn't somebody say that the points don't count towards downloaded retail games?

Whats your NNID? I must have it

Edit: Just realized you didn't get one >_<

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Hmm...

Ah because it's trash huh? Seriously better than the majority of wii games in general. For me I enjoyed super paper Mario for what was, and not because of it not living up to some standard or expectation set by ttyd. I would easily call it a "great" game and a must have for any wii owner or Mario fan. I always found it puzzling how many people hate this game.
But to each their own.

 

[Beckx]

So it only counts towards non retail digital games? That is dumb.

This doesn't appear to be true. The website uses a $59.99 price point as an example.

 

[EloquentM]

So many unanswered questions, though. Will our consoles automatically apply this in December? Or does each Deluxe owner need to remember to go to the site and register? What happens with purchases made between Sunday and the start date? (That's answered, sorry.) For a selling point, this hasn't been adequately documented.

The credit thing is better than a stick in the eye, but if it's at all to blame for the NNID situation, then...couldn't we have talked about that stick, first?

im sure Nintendo will send out a press release and a spotpass notification to Wii u's when it's ready.

So since i bought Zombi U today i will get essentially $5 back?

yes

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Ah because it's trash huh? Seriously better than the majority of wii games in general. For me I enjoyed super paper Mario for what was, and not because of it not living up to some standard or expectation set by ttyd. I would easily call it a "great" game and a must have for any wii owner or Mario fan. I always found it puzzling how many people hate this game.
But to each their own.

..I never said or implied it was 'trash'.