Gaming Cafe Diem Baby: The Nintendo Wii U Discussion

Wish my local stores still had Donkey Kong amiibos, they sold out a while ago (not that many stores in my area and they don't keep much in stock).

Note to self, get Bayonetta 2 sometime soon. Don't have time to play it, but might as well register the Club Nintendo code. Gotta remember to spend the rest of my coins on something too. Hm, maybe the retro Mario t-shirt.

 

Glad you guys can finally get the DKC trilogy off the eShop now, I wonder what the delay was for your region.

Yeah, I saw the rewards that Japan are getting, that Mario Kart 8 OST should be good if it comes our way though would wish for DKC Tropical Freeze OST.

I might pass on the gold edition Mario. Already scalpers are posting up on eBay preorders that are around $200.

Also... the hunt continues for more Amiibo. Didn't surprise me to see that Australia/New Zealand was only allocated 3% of the production stock and that explains the scarcity here as we sold about 98% of it. They are now slowly restocking Wave 1 characters again by importing them from other regions like Japan and Europe. I saw quite a few Kirby and Donkey Kong today in Japanese packaging but still waiting to find Fox McCloud… though maybe in the coming weeks. I have to keep checking.

How is everyone's collection? Are you just having favourite character or specific sets or collecting them all? I was only going to stick to a couple of sets but now I semi caved and now have 10 in my collection thus far with a few ordered from upcoming waves (Toad, Lucina, Robin):

Spoiler: list

Own:

• Link
• Zelda
• Samus
• Yoshi
• Mario
• Luigi
• Peach
• Donkey Kong
• Bowser
• Sonic

 

Regarding the eShop, digital downloads are locked to your console and not linked to your account? So if I make digital purchases, I'd better hope that my kids don't smash my Wii U because I'll lose those games permanently?

 

The2ndQuest: Thanks. I suppose this also means that downloaded Wii eShop content cannot be accessed on your Wii U console without having to re-purchase the content?

Transitioning from the Xbox 360 to the Xbox One was pretty seamless, since all I had to do was log in to my Xbox Live account and my media content (sans 360 digitally downloaded games) were automatically accessible on my Xbox One.

I suppose I'll wait for Nintendo to further develop their online infrastructure before I become a consumer of their online marketplace.*









*Or at least until they release Ocarina of Time HD for Wii U

 

Yeah, as Quest has said, the transfer process is quite straight-forward. What it'll also do is compress any Virtual Console titles down further and run them faster.

Yes, grab it! That goes for you too Ezio!

 

I'm going to try the demo. Honestly, with the wife overworking this past month, my Wii U has started to collect dust (since I only play it with her). But I'll check out the eshop for some demos, because I don't want my Wii U to fall victim to the same fate as our Wii (which is buried under a huge pile of dust somewhere).


Edit: So I'm searching through the eshop and navigation is a bit frustrating but at the same time it's great that i can do this on the Gamepad while the kids watch TV.

Anyway, quick question, do I need to buy an external drive before I make digital purchases? If so, recommendations?

 

Gathered some old 360 games and traded them in for Smash Bros U and Your Fitness Evolved 2013. The wife really enjoyed the previous Fitness Evolved titles for the 360, and Smash Bros because I haven't played that game since the Game Cube.

Edit:

Is the Wind Waker HD a worthy purchase? I enjoyed the Game Cube version but have no need to replay the same game scene for scene.

 

Which Wii U do you have - 8GB or 32GB? If the latter you might be fine to download, would suggest you buy Bayonetta 1 & 2 on disc though, they're quite data heavy games.

As to Wind Waker, apparently they tweaked it to make the final section with the triforce shards less irritating.

 

LOL the Triforce hunt was very annoying.


Idk what size HD it is. I'll check it out.

 

Yeah, found this info online:

You're looking at a whopping 22.7GB!

As to the map size - Xenoblade Chronicles packed a lot into its map, it was not one of these big but empty game worlds! Due to that I racked up 100 hours on it, part main quest, part sub-quests and exploration. A world 5 times bigger could see the sequel out-do Skyrim!

 

Can't Wii U disks be multilayered like Brawl's was? How is the size an issue with that option available?

 

The Wii U optical disk is proprietary (Like the Wii's was), and while it's probably entirely possible they could make a multilayered one, no such multilayered Wii U disk exists as of yet. There's also a question as to whether it would actually make sense for them to dual layer a disk instead of releasing a multidisk game if it ever came to that... and it might not.

Edit: So I guess that, really, my point is "no one actually knows because the disk is its own thing."

 

I have a black Deluxe edition Wii U.


Just got Smash Bros. Figured my daughter would enjoy it since she's a button masher

Regarding hard drives, what do you guys use? I bought an internal hard drive for my 360S on Amazon from some place in China. It boasted 250GB for only $70. It still works great and definitely warranted my decision to not spend the extra cash on an official Microsoft hard drive.

 

But only in Japan right?

 

Oh, awesome!

 

When getting an external for the Wii U, Nintendo does have a list of recommend drives. Most drives should work though they recommend a powered one. The one I've got is a 1TB Seagate expansion drive which does the job well, however, since the device doesn't draw enough power I had to get a powered USB hub for it since the USB Y-Splitter adaptor is impossible to get in store in my region. If you haven't got a powered one and can get the Y-Splitter to draw power from both USB ports then can go that route.



That's good about the Marth Amiibo… think they will make Amiibo off the Codename S.T.E.A.M. characters?

 

What you could do in Xenoblade Chronicles in battle was smart, with better AI it could easily be epic e.g.

Side slash - if done from the side, it inflicts higher damage and lowers defence.

Back slash - done as from behind, you can end up doing 5-figure damage but your comrades have to be distracting the enemy to allow you to pull it off.

Both of those were in the first game and it rendered battles far more strategic. The other aspect was other enemies could become involved, you could attack what you thought were just 2 enemies but end up battling 10!

 

OK, it's up:



Translation also available:
http://gematsu.com/2015/03/xenoblade-chronicles-x-combat-detailed-30-minute-presentation