|
Are you getting the Wii U? This poll is closed. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes |
|
9031 | 65.25% |
| No |
|
1191 | 8.60% |
| Maybe |
|
808 | 5.84% |
| I'm an idiot |
|
460 | 3.32% |
| Waluigi |
|
1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
|
748 | 5.40% |
| Total: | 13841 votes | ||
|
So I just picked up a passport hard drive for my Wii U and it recognized it when I plugged it in and asked me if I wanted to format it despite not using a Y-cable or whatever it is. That means I should only need the one USB port, right? 
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 03:05
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 31, 2024 13:52 |
|
|
ChaosArgate posted:So I just picked up a passport hard drive for my Wii U and it recognized it when I plugged it in and asked me if I wanted to format it despite not using a Y-cable or whatever it is. That means I should only need the one USB port, right? Sounds right. This list pertains to Wii compatibility, but I imagine if it works with the Wii, it should work fine with the Wii U. Looks like WD Passports are generally good to go.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 03:10
|
|
|
Speaking of, what do you guys recommend for external USB drives? I would like to have more than one game installed at a time.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 03:23
|
|
|
Cialis Railman posted:Speaking of, what do you guys recommend for external USB drives? I would like to have more than one game installed at a time. WD Passports seem pretty good, if the two posts above you are anything to go by. I grabbed a 1 TB one so I should be set for a good while. It also doesn't require a power supply or need two USB ports to garner enough power to it. ChaosArgate posted:So I just picked up a passport hard drive for my Wii U and it recognized it when I plugged it in and asked me if I wanted to format it despite not using a Y-cable or whatever it is. That means I should only need the one USB port, right? enojy posted:Sounds right. This list pertains to Wii compatibility, but I imagine if it works with the Wii, it should work fine with the Wii U. Looks like WD Passports are generally good to go.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 03:25
|
|
|
Cialis Railman posted:Speaking of, what do you guys recommend for external USB drives? I would like to have more than one game installed at a time. Are people hitting issues with third party games? I have NSMBU, Pikmin 3, Wind Waker, Shovel Knight, NES Remix 2, SMB2, and the Wonderful 101 demo, and I still have like half of my storage left.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 03:26
|
|
|
Cialis Railman posted:Speaking of, what do you guys recommend for external USB drives? I would like to have more than one game installed at a time. Anything with its own power supply, that way you only have to be using one USB port at a time. I'm using a 3 year old 2TB WD MyBook and its been working great. Fremry posted:Are people hitting issues with third party games? I have NSMBU, Pikmin 3, Wind Waker, Shovel Knight, NES Remix 2, SMB2, and the Wonderful 101 demo, and I still have like half of my storage left. Some games are stupidly huge. Like Tropical Freeze is something like 15GB.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 03:26
|
|
|
Smash Bros + GC Adapter + GC controller bundle available for pre-order. I think pre-ordering games is dumb, but I want to do this for some stupid dumb reason. I picked up Brawl day of release and played it with all day with my buds. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 03:47
|
|
|
jivjov posted:Anything with its own power supply, that way you only have to be using one USB port at a time. DK is about 10GB. Most other Nintendo games I have don't go over 3GB by much.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 03:52
|
|
|
Stan Taylor posted:Smash Bros + GC Adapter + GC controller bundle available for pre-order. I think pre-ordering games is dumb, but I want to do this for some stupid dumb reason. I picked up Brawl day of release and played it with all day with my buds. Honestly the only thing stopping me from preordering this is that I really want to play it the night of release, so I'm buying digitally. (Plus with it just on my console I can always have Smash at the ready!)
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 03:57
|
|
|
Cialis Railman posted:Speaking of, what do you guys recommend for external USB drives? I would like to have more than one game installed at a time. jivjov posted:Anything with its own power supply, that way you only have to be using one USB port at a time. Thanks for the advice. I'll try to pick one up in the near future.  Fremry posted:Are people hitting issues with third party games? I have NSMBU, Pikmin 3, Wind Waker, Shovel Knight, NES Remix 2, SMB2, and the Wonderful 101 demo, and I still have like half of my storage left. I only own two downloaded games (Everything else is on disc,) but they're both really big. I just barely run out of room.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 04:35
|
|
|
I got W101 shortly after it came out and played a bit then, a bit between then and now, and finally just sat down a few days ago to actually sink my teeth into it and enjoy. But the more I play it, the more I get terribly frustrated and angry at it and hate it.  And I don't think the difficulty of the gameplay is a large part of my issue. I don't mind getting bronze medals and having to use continues on some bosses. But I don't understand SO MUCH of what's going on! The Unite Sphere sounds like it should be an upgraded dodge, but it moves slower than I do while holding Y and I'm not immune like I am during spring (plus, since spring is R and sphere is double-R, I keep accidentally starting it when I just want to spring a few times over). Why does every punch or sword swing take an entire Unite battery when I'm playing a single character? It runs me to nothing even while throwing only 1 or 2 punches between short bursts of dodging and dashing, which could be their intention but feels like I've screwed up. Why did that item just bounce out of the level and hover where I cannot go, taunting me? And I have at least a handful more questions than that. So much tearing my hair out over this game.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 08:23
|
|
|
Am I correct in assuming Mario Kart promo codes are region specific? Not that I need new games desperately. Managed to get ZombiU for fifteen bucks and Pikmin 3 (pre-owned) for fifty.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 08:24
|
|
|
Hydrocodone posted:I got W101 shortly after it came out and played a bit then, a bit between then and now, and finally just sat down a few days ago to actually sink my teeth into it and enjoy. Watch Chip Cheezum's LP and be enlightened.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 08:29
|
|
|
Hydrocodone posted:I got W101 shortly after it came out and played a bit then, a bit between then and now, and finally just sat down a few days ago to actually sink my teeth into it and enjoy. Don't feel bad friend, W101 is very obtuse, moreso than your average Platinum game. I honestly don't even know if I wanna play it more, the aesthetic and sentai thing is nice but the gameplay is abysmal.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 09:43
|
|
|
The game is amazing and gives you all the tools you need to succeed and they all work near-flawlessly, it just doesn't tell you how to use any of them and also some of them it doesn't even tell you they exist at all. As the other dude said, watch Chip's LP of it, he breaks down all the mechanics and explains them very well.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 09:55
|
|
|
Alteisen posted:the gameplay is abysmal. Ah, the sign of someone who doesn't grasp the combat system. (This is no fault of your own but you could least say that much and ask for advice if you want to continue v v )
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 13:24
|
|
|
Cialis Railman posted:Thanks for the advice. I'll try to pick one up in the near future. Just don't buy anything bigger than, say, a 500GB drive. The WiiU won't do partitions, it insists on formatting the whole thing, so buying a 1TB+ drive would be a real waste of money and hard drive space. Even 500GB is almost definitely too much (even if every game ran to 10GB, the WiiU isn't likely to get 50 must-have titles before end-of-life), but there's probably not a huge price difference between 300GB and 500GB these days, and you may as well have the extra for the small price increase.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 13:24
|
|
|
Nintendo has a kind of compilation trailer now, something to show if people ask about current and upcoming games, I guess.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 14:26
|
|
|
Astro Nut posted:Nintendo has a kind of compilation trailer now, something to show if people ask about current and upcoming games, I guess. I stole your post and put it in the Coupons thread about refurbished Wii U's because people have been asking what games are on the Wii U in there. Also, Xenoblade Chronicles piqued my interest in this, so I went and looked at the E3 Treehouse thing for it. Holy Crap! That's another game added to my list that I didn't even know anything about. I have always associated Xenoblade with Xenogears and completely written it off because I do not like traditional RPGs. I had no idea it was an open world real-time action RPG.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 15:38
|
|
|
Astro Nut posted:Nintendo has a kind of compilation trailer now, something to show if people ask about current and upcoming games, I guess. That part at the start where you see the Xenoblade robots soar over water had me thinking it was Star Fox for a second. 
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 15:45
|
|
|
Fremry posted:I stole your post and put it in the Coupons thread about refurbished Wii U's because people have been asking what games are on the Wii U in there. This was a huge mistake on your part, because Xenoblade is an excellent game.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 16:29
|
|
|
I will destroy anyone who degrades the glory that is Wonderful 101. Game is seriously my new Viewtiful Joe, which was my go-to action game for Gamecube.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 17:36
|
|
|
sulphix posted:I will destroy anyone who degrades the glory that is Wonderful 101. It is really good but it demands a bit of time investment before you really start to have fun with it. And of course it just isn't for everyone.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 17:48
|
|
|
Silver Falcon posted:This was a huge mistake on your part, because Xenoblade is an excellent game. I didn't have a Wii, so I would have missed that either way.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 18:12
|
|
|
Monkey Fracas posted:It is really good but it demands a bit of time investment before you really start to have fun with it. And of course it just isn't for everyone. Very true. Game also doesn't teach itself hardly at all beyond the basic inputs. Learning which attacks should be blocked v evaded, when to dump battery on multi-morphs, juggling, and getting good with custom blocks (ex Ukemi) definitely take a bit of time to ingrain. I still get my rear end handed to me on most of the shmup sections.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 18:27
|
|
|
So I was in the middle of playing Mario 3D World with my daughter and the console popped up a message saying the disc was dirty. It was a little smudged so I cleaned it up and put it back in, but then it said it was unreadable. I rebooted, and then it just shows up as "Invalid Disc." So I tried Mario Kart 8 - same deal. Not dirty at all. Is my Wii U hosed? It won't seem to read any discs. Is this a known issue? Googling seems to show a load of people saying the same thing at launch, but I was wondering if it was a widespread, persistent thing or anything.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 19:33
|
|
|
Fremry posted:I didn't have a Wii, so I would have missed that either way. Luckily for you, the WiiU is backwards compatible!!!
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 19:46
|
|
|
Blackbelt Bobman posted:Luckily for you, the WiiU is backwards compatible!!! I was thinking about going back to the Wii library, but honestly, I have so much to play on the Wii U right now, that I'm going to hold off for a while until I get to a glut. Edit: My backlog right now is - -Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze -Most of Wind Waker HD -Pikmin 3 -Half of Super Mario 3D world -Half of NES remix 2 -Most of Mario Kart 8 And doesn't include Bayonetta 2 and Toad Treasure hunter when they come out. Fremry fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Aug 12, 2014 |
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 19:50
|
|
|
ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Ah, the sign of someone who doesn't grasp the combat system. (This is no fault of your own but you could least say that much and ask for advice if you want to continue v Oh I grasp the combat system quite well, I had to watch some videos for it actually which is kind off insane, doesn't mean I enjoyed it. Irrelevant anyway as I managed to secure a trade, 3D world for my W101 which I'm quite excited about as I've been itching to play 3D world for a long time.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 20:10
|
|
|
Fremry posted:I was thinking about going back to the Wii library, but honestly, I have so much to play on the Wii U right now, that I'm going to hold off for a while until I get to a glut. You should probably still consider playing Mario Galaxy since it's better than all of these.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 21:26
|
|
|
Has there been any word on introducing folders to the Wii U interface like the ones on 3DS? Its gotten to the point where I have a good handful of digital titles and I'd like a slightly cleaner way to organize them.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 21:44
|
|
|
jivjov posted:Has there been any word on introducing folders to the Wii U interface like the ones on 3DS? Its gotten to the point where I have a good handful of digital titles and I'd like a slightly cleaner way to organize them.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 21:55
|
|
|
Akuma posted:So I was in the middle of playing Mario 3D World with my daughter and the console popped up a message saying the disc was dirty. It was a little smudged so I cleaned it up and put it back in, but then it said it was unreadable. I rebooted, and then it just shows up as "Invalid Disc." So I tried Mario Kart 8 - same deal. Not dirty at all. Sorry to hear that Akuma. If this issue has happened to anyone else in the thread they might be able to help you out. Otherwise you could try contacting Nintendo support, they might be able to give you some steps to follow.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 23:46
|
|
|
Akuma posted:So I was in the middle of playing Mario 3D World with my daughter and the console popped up a message saying the disc was dirty. It was a little smudged so I cleaned it up and put it back in, but then it said it was unreadable. I rebooted, and then it just shows up as "Invalid Disc." So I tried Mario Kart 8 - same deal. Not dirty at all. I'd give the Wii U Lens Cleaner a shot.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 23:52
|
|
|
CatsPajamas posted:Sorry to hear that Akuma. If this issue has happened to anyone else in the thread they might be able to help you out. Otherwise you could try contacting Nintendo support, they might be able to give you some steps to follow. I haven't heard anyone say anything about it in the 3 months I've been in this thread, but that doesn't mean that there aren't lurkers with the issue. The issues I remember people talking about was the console freezing until the power was removed.
|
|
#
?
Aug 12, 2014 23:53
|
|
|
Fremry posted:Are people hitting issues with third party games? I have NSMBU, Pikmin 3, Wind Waker, Shovel Knight, NES Remix 2, SMB2, and the Wonderful 101 demo, and I still have like half of my storage left. I was going to download Lego City Underground until I saw that it's something like 22GB! So much for the digital promotion points on that one...
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2014 01:14
|
|
|
Slymox posted:I was going to download Lego City Underground until I saw that it's something like 22GB! So much for the digital promotion points on that one... Oh poo poo yeah, that's like all of the 32GB system's memory after formatting and OS.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2014 01:32
|
|
|
I hope we get the file size on Smash 4 fairly soon, I want to know if I can just delete a game or two or if I should just resign and get back to discs.
|
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2014 02:20
|
|
|
Astro Nut posted:Nintendo has a kind of compilation trailer now, something to show if people ask about current and upcoming games, I guess. Sonic: RINGS! NOMONOMONOMONOMONOMNOMONOMOM Uhhh....
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2014 03:16
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 31, 2024 13:52 |
|
|
Sonic Boom must buy confirmed. Seriously though, I think I own and or plan to own every game featured in that video, except probably Sonic Boom. Maybe it will be amazing or something, but I've never liked Sonic games. I think that Sonic being hungry for rings is hilarious though. greatn fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Aug 13, 2014 |
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2014 03:18
|
|