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Happy Monk

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#265545 Currently playing thread

Posted by Happy Monk on 08 January 2014 - 03:51 PM

http://backloggery.com/Happymonk

 

Too many to write down. Darn you Christmas!




#265542 Sega confirms Alien Isolation not coming to Wii U

Posted by Happy Monk on 08 January 2014 - 03:47 PM

It's a shame, the game sounds interesting. Ah well.




#260577 Fallout 4 is REAL set in Boston

Posted by Happy Monk on 11 December 2013 - 04:03 PM

If it's on the Wii U, I'll get it.




#260575 Emily Rogers: Nintendo’s Obsession With Finding One Game That Can Sell Consoles

Posted by Happy Monk on 11 December 2013 - 03:58 PM

1) Like I said, there's quite literally a whole other side to smash. And I mean a whole. Other. Side.

I owned brawl for four years and played melee and originally at friends' houses for years before that, and never had even the slightest clue about ANY and I mean ANY of the things I learned in the past year.

2) As I've said before Nintendo home consoles wil never sell at the same rate as their handhelds. A big part of that is probably the fact it's considerably more expensive. Also the Wii U doesn't need to reach 3DS level sales to be a very successful home console. And yeah the 3DS has 3D, but the Wii U has the gamepad, which I personally think is WAY more innovative, useful and worth the money than 3D. And I've had a 3DS sonce pretty close to launch.

That's what's so great about Smash Bros. It's got the party game thing down perfectly and it caters very well to fighting game fanatics through how complex and strategic it can be. Smash 4 looks like it will be amazing and will most likely end up as the most played game on my Wii U and 3DS.

 

All the Wii U needs to do in order to be called successful is outsell the Gamecube. Which I do think it can do. Let's hope it can outsell the N64 as well!




#260492 Emily Rogers: Nintendo’s Obsession With Finding One Game That Can Sell Consoles

Posted by Happy Monk on 11 December 2013 - 08:07 AM

Guess what though, Wii U sales have picked up since Mario 3D World launched, by a considerable enough amount.

 

Also, asking Nintendo to make games that don't bring people together is like asking Pixar to make a film only for adults. It doesn't make sense. Why completely disregard people under the age of 18 when you can release games that everyone can enjoy?




#259632 Official VGA- Only on Spike TV Edition Thread- Come watch with us.

Posted by Happy Monk on 07 December 2013 - 04:13 PM

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#257295 Boyenetta 1 on Wii U

Posted by Happy Monk on 21 November 2013 - 09:42 AM

I'd get Bayonetta for the Wii U.




#256212 Post Your Wii U Library and Collection

Posted by Happy Monk on 14 November 2013 - 03:41 PM

Here's a link to my Backloggery, 9 Wii U games on there. But there are more in the house as I share the console with my brother.

 

My Personal Collection:

 

Assassin's Creed III

Arkham City

Nintendo Land

LEGO City Undercover

Call of Duty Black Ops II

Ninja Gaiden 3

Deus Ex Director's Cut

Rayman Legends

Tekken Tag Tournament 2

 

The Rest:

 

The Amazing spiderman

Pikmin 3

New Super Mario Bros U

Zombi U

The Wonderful 101

Game & Wario

Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed

Tank Tank Tank.

 

I plan on getting (very soon) for my personal collection, Arkham Origins, Assassin's Creed IV, Sonic Lost World and Need For Speed Most Wanted.

I also really need to find the time to play New Super Mario Bros, The Wonderful 101 and Mario 3D World (which my brother should get soon).




#255569 Very long rant about Nintendo.

Posted by Happy Monk on 11 November 2013 - 09:50 AM

I was just going to make a topic on this. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

 

Ugh..I couldn't even bother to get through the first half hour of it. I mean seriously, all they're complaining about is that the games aren't 'dark and gritty'. I thought we had gotten past this BS years ago. I hate this 'mature' mentality. The idea that every damn game needs to specifically cater to the angsty teen/dudebros demographic and needs an M rating. I was there when I was a teen, but I grew out of it so it's really pathetic to hear guys older than myself still saying this crap. There are SO MANY games these days that go for that. Essentially every single 'AAA' title does the 'dark and gritty' look and it's tiring. I'm tired of that and photorealism. It's boring! Developers spend so much time on the dirt and the photorealism that they completely neglect basic artistic aesthetic. They've forgotten that it's not about the pixel density and the texture mapping. It's how you use those to create interesting world. Something Nintendo still does quite well and I never want to see them stop doing. God forbid we have some colors and variety in our games.

 

The huge irony of it is that Nintendo gave people what they're asking for with the Gamecube. It was more powerful than the PS2, it had 'dark and gritty' games (RE4/REmake, Eternal Darkness, Metroid), and it had 'decent' third party support. Guess what, it didn't sell. People spoke with their money and Nintendo listened. In a race with three nearly identical consoles, Nintendo lost out. People chastise the Wii and yet it sold more than either competitors' systems. Nintendo is trying with the Wii U to offer more of what these guys are whining for and yet once again it's not selling. These so called 'core gamers' need to realize that they can whine on youtube until Rich's moobs hang down to the floor, but the only way for them to get through is with their buying decisions. 

 

What kills me in this whole article is the guy claiming to be a 'Nintendo fanboy' says he doesn't even consider the Wii a gaming system. Really? I mean....REALLY? In terms of Nintendo's offerings, the Wii smokes both the Gamecube AND the N64. Sure, there are some IPs we didn't get to see and that sucked, but it was still a solid first party line up. Hell, recently I picked up the Operation Rainfall games and I started out with the one I thought would be the least interesting. I'm having a freaking ball with that game. I love it, and I wouldn't have been able to play it if I didn't have a Wii (well a Wii U now). The system missed out on a lot of games the competition had, but it also had HUGE third party exclusives of its own. It just didn't have yearly rehash releases to fluff it up. Look if your primary means of gaming is FPS then yeah, the Wii wasn't for you. But just because something isn't catering to you doesn't mean it has no value as a gaming system. These two 'real' next-gen consoles hold zero appeal to me so far and yet I still acknowledge they're gaming machines.

 

Nintendo has issues and they've F'd up MAJORLY with the Wii U's first year in almost every possible way. No real account system, tons of games getting delayed, not putting a stop to lazy devs putting out gimped versions of games, etc. But what I can't fault Nintendo for is the quality of their games. That has always been and still is their biggest strength. Their offerings could have been better in the first year and they SHOULD have gotten them out faster (no seriously, they had seven years to learn how to manage HD development. That's complete negligence on their part) but the finished product is still awesome.

 

The biggest problem I've had so far is Nintendo's attempts with third parties, more specifically WHICH third parties they've been going after. Trying to win over EA, Activision, and Ubisoft was just ignorant. The demographics that their games appeal to are not in any way interested in Nintendo. CoD/BF/AC gamers are perfectly content where they're at. Having their games on this system isn't enticing any new buyers and we all knew they were going to gimp their games anyways. All it is doing is giving already Nintendo fans more options on THEIR system, which is not a bad thing, but there were better devs to go after.

 

I think Nintendo should have been seriously going after the major Japanese publishers such as Capcom, SE, and Konami. Now to be fair I have way more love for Japanese games than Western games, so this could be bias on my part, but I think their games appeal to demographics that are already fans of Nintendo. Instead of Nintendo focusing on the 'dude/bro' demographics who already have the complete attention of their competitors and like I said before are happy where they're at, I think Nintendo should have been going more for the RPG/Japanese demographic. All three publishers I mentioned before have had huge success on Nintendo platforms in the past and there is zero reason to think they couldn't now. In fact, all three publishers have had some of their biggest franchises begin on Nintendo systems (Megaman, Final Fantasy, Castlevania). Iwata should have been working his ass off to get these guys on board and to have their franchises on the Wii U. Think about what are the two biggest games people are BEGGING for on the Wii U. FFXV and KH3. 

 

Anyways, end rant. That's my two cents.

Exactly. Although I think Nintendo should keep up what they're doing with Ubisoft and Activision (screw EA) as well as pushing heavily for games from Capcom, Square Enix, Konami and Sega.

It would greatly change Capcom's fortunes and Square Enix's as well. Capcom release games Nintendo fans want to play on consoles they don't own, and when they release games like Monster Hunter on Nintendo platforms it's a huge success everywhere. This industry.




#251907 3DS Still Selling Well, Wii U Sales Increase by 200%

Posted by Happy Monk on 18 October 2013 - 03:41 AM

The Wii U is gonna be fine, every time a more major release comes around, numbers spike. If Nintendo can maintain this with a bigger spike for Christmas through the release of Mario 3D World (among others), they can make more of a name for the Wii U, leading into incremental sales increase through Donkey Kong, Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros.

 

Maybe other people will realize this, but the Wii U has had a bad first year to say the least.




#251616 Awesome new SM3DW screenshots

Posted by Happy Monk on 16 October 2013 - 06:05 AM

It's such a beautiful game.




#247784 What I dislike about the WiiU

Posted by Happy Monk on 24 September 2013 - 08:52 AM

What I like about the Wii U:

 

The fact that Nintendo is making similar games to those on the 3DS; the games available on the 3DS are some of my favourite games, does it matter if Nintendo are trying to replicate the quality and success of their 3DS games in bigger and better sequels for the Wii U?

 

The fact that there are other games; Pikmin 3, Game and Wario, Nintendo Land and Wonderful 101 are truly unique (I know Pikmin is the third game in the series).

 

Miiverse is fantastic, and Nintendo still choose to update and improve it over time.

 

It has games that I could never play on the Wii such as Batman and Assassin's Creed.

 

The gamepad is genius, playing games like Nintendo Land, Lego City, Batman, Zombi U, Rayman Legends or actually just anything else is fantastic.

 

I like simplified internet, all I wanna do online is just that. Go online, all the extras are extras. I have never had a problem going online.

 

The account system actually works (I'm not even bothered about unified accounts as the 3DS and Wii U are different machines with different things going for them).

 

Finally, I have not played a bad game on the system.

 

All in all I am very, very pleased with my decision to purchase the Wii U and have never even come close to regretting it.




#243903 Petition to have Reggie Fils-Aime in the next Smash Bros. Game!

Posted by Happy Monk on 03 September 2013 - 11:27 AM

Now this is why Change.org exists.




#241503 Splinter Cell Blacklist graphics comparison VS PS360

Posted by Happy Monk on 25 August 2013 - 02:07 PM

Many face offs have already reported many minor differences in graphics. Yes the main graphic assets are teh same but that doesn't mean all sorts of other images factors don't come into play as well. Not only can lighting and other issues but often some graphic effects can be simplified or simply removed in some versions.

 

Assasin's Creed 3 looks like this on wii u;

 

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Compared to 360;

 

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If you read the face offs you often get a mixed bag of good and bad and how each system produces a final image.

 

Whether people care about the differences is another matter but there are a huge number of factors on how games which should look identical due to shared assets can actually look different in use.

 

Sometimes the resolution is lower. Sonic transformed on wii u is at a lower resolution than 360 and PS3.

 

In Darksiders the graphics were simplified for wii u with some missing features;

 

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http://images.euroga...7/0/PS3_027.png

 

There is one wii u game which has more pixelated shadows and others with weaker lighting. Some games have shorter life graphic effects that are cpu intensive.

 

This is why I think the wii u has been very disappointing hardware because in such situations you expect the wii u version to show enhancement over the older models but if anything the 360 is multiformat king and the ps3 still overall shows it is superior to wii u graphically.

 

My expectations of the wii u was that such ports would be enhanced on wii u with additional graphic detail and improvements not as often is the case small downgrades graphically and lower frame rates to go with it.

I've got Assassin's Creed 3 on the Wii U, it doesn't look like that screenshot... maybe not quite as nice as the 360 one, but not like that screenshot suggests.

Do you know why the 360 is multiformat king? Game developers make a game for the 360 and port it over to the other consoles; if they made the same game for all 3 consoles, but not as generic ports, I think the Wii U will outshine the other two in plenty of areas.

 

Heck, if the game was originally made for the Wii U and ported over to the other two consoles, the game would look best on the Wii U (having said that, I have not seen footage of Rayman Legends - the one game developed initially for the Wii U that I know of).

 

Even if a game has been made for the PC first and ported over, the 360 version will usually come up trumps compared to the other consoles due to similar architecture.




#236352 Nintendo Reports A Profit Despite Wii U Shifting 160K In Three Months

Posted by Happy Monk on 01 August 2013 - 07:20 AM

Alph, on 01 Aug 2013 - 12:59 PM, said:*le sigh* I'm not even gonna bother...
The Wii (as in the original one before the Wii U) has sold over 100 million, that is all I was saying. I know the Wii U has only sold 3.61 million... Was it me or you who deserves the sigh?






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