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I really have this feeling Myamoto is working on a 1st Person Shooter that makes heavy use of the pad ... can't wait for that

 

"I actually do kind of want to make a first-person shooter," he told me in Los Angeles last week, "but I don't have time."

Someone, please give him some time.

Shigeru Miyamoto has never made violent video games, at least not in the blood-and-guts sense we see with most modern first-person shooters. Violence in terms of a plumber stomping on top of cartoonish turtles? Sure. But not the kind of violence one associates with Modern Warfare or Battlefield.

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Not surprisingly, it doesn't even seem like Miyamoto's dream FPS would be particularly violent—or that violence would be the focal point of it. He seems more enamored by the experience of seeing a new world through gaming's favorite camera angle.

"Rather than necessarily the question of 'What kind of weapon do I have?' in a first person shooter or 'What kind of effect does that have on an enemy?', I think that the structure of a first-person shooter is something that's very interesting," he said through a translator. "Having that 3D space that in theory you are in and being able to look around and explore that—particularly being able to do that in conjunction with another person—is very interesting."

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The topic of Miyamoto making an FPS emerged accidentally during our interview at E3, sprouting from a question I posed to him about why Nintendo felt it was important to announce at the big show in L.A. that this fall's Wii U would support two of its screen-based GamePad controllers.

Miyamoto initially thought I was really wondering why Nintendo would state that the machine could "only" run two. "I don't think we're ever going to be at a point where we'll say it will support four GamePads, but two gamepads is something people wanted," he said.

I find it appalling that critics are bashing the Wii U! When you have critics stating that Nintendo does not even know how to deal with or what to do with their own Game Pad and cite Pikmin 3 as prime example of this, you know these people have no idea what they are talking about.

To begin with Pikmin 3 uses for the Game Pad are excellent. You can play using the Wiimote & Chuck to control your character while at the same time use the Game Pad as not only a map, but also to review your inventory of Fruit & Data Chips collected. In addition to that, you can have the characters move to point on the map by initiating it on the Game Pad, then watching them move there on the TV Screen. The Game Pad is also used to receive "In Game Transmissions" from other characters within the game itself. You also use the Game Pad to take in game photos by pointing at the TV, using the pad screen as a view finder, then snapping a pic and the posting that pic with a comment on Miiverse. You can also play the game entirely on the Game Pad without using a TV.

Critics point out how confusing it is ... one minute you use the Wiimote, then you have to put it down and pick up the Game Pad to continue .... Obviously, these critics are not real gamers and have no business reviewing anything even remotely related to video games at all.

I am the proud owner of a Wii U and I have never second guessed my decision to buy one. As with all Nintendo Systems, I wait until I hear of a game announcement for a game I really want, then I buy the system. For me, it was the footage of Super Mario World 3D that made me want a Wii U. I went to GameStop and tried out SMBU and that was the clincher ...I loved how it looked and played so I ordered my Wii U and have never looked back!

Having owned many video game home consoles dating back to the Colecovision TelStar Pong System, I can honestly say that the Nintendo Wii U is not only the best video game home console Nintendo has made, but is the best video game home console I have ever owned.

People don't like the Wii U because they have never played the Wii U and they are reading negative statements about it by uninformed critics or non gamer critics and they are basing their dislikes about the system on what those idiots have said and not on their own experiences with the system.

Why do I like the Wii U so much? For one thing, I love the controller. It feels great and it works great too. There is no lag, the touch screen on it is the perfect size, the Z buttons are perfectly placed, switching from analog stick to the D pad is smooth, the D pad offers tight control unlike many other D pads on other controllers, it has a headphone jack, its own volume button, you can use it to play console games without the use of the TV, and you can even video chat on it. My God, does it get any better than that?

Some people mock the Control Pad saying its only used for maps and item screens ... I personally do not care if its use goes beyond those two things ... Those two things alone are huge in my book ... and after using the pad in those ways, I would cringe if I had to pause a game go into an onscreen menu, and bring up a map. Its like having Air Conditioning, you don't know how much you need it until you have it and once you have it, you can't live without it!

The Control Pad & The System were made at the same time with each other in mind 100% They were a team from the get go and that has its advantages. Every Wii U owner owns a Game Pad, that means any game for the Wii U can provide its use without risk. Not every PS4 or XBox One owner will also own a PS Vita / Tablet, that means it is risky to develop for a second screen as a developer for those platforms ... that means, the best dual screen integration will occur on the Wii U.

I love the internet browser on the Wii U. If you have not really tried it, boot it up, you may find you love it as much as I do. Make sure the move around the analog sticks ..... you can scroll or zoom in and out with them. Hands down, the internet browser on the Wii U is the best internet browser on any game system to date and will more than likely be better than what is offered on the PS4 / XBox One ... simply because of the Wii U Game Pad.

I love the control options ... some say Nintendo has too many different types of controllers out there but in my opinion, that is one of the best features of the system. You can use the Wii U Game Pad, the Wiimote, the Chuck, the Classic, Classic Pro, and Wii U Pro Controllers with the system. The fact is, different games play better with different types of control input devices. Therefore, in many cases, you have a choice of what type of input device you want to use to play a game. The only type of controller the Wii U is missing is a paddle controller ... and I sure wish they would come out with one and a slew of great brick breaking / racing games to use with it.

Graphics are the icing on the cake ... Many people are saying that the PS4 / XBox One will blow away the graphics on the Wii U. For me, the graphics are icing on a cake ... if the inside of the cake is not that great, the icing may help but the cake is really not that great after all. Let me get a little deeper on this statement. I just got Puppeteer for the PS3 ... it looks great and even has an interesting game mechanic, the use of scissors, but the gameplay itself does not hold up, making it a not so great game. The icing (Graphics) helps the game be appealing but can not compensate for its lack of great gameplay. Now if you asked me, which game is better, Super Mario Bros 3 on the NES or Puppeteer, my answer would be SMB3, which has far inferior graphics but far superior gameplay. In my eyes, Nintendo is serving up the most tasty dish of all .... Tried & True, solid gameplay and gameplay mechanics along with the icing on the cake too .... New HD Graphics. I love Super Mario Wii U, it looks and plays great! And the beauty is, that was a release title, so future games are going to look even better!

I honestly think that people just say ... Nintendo is for kids ... have either never played a Mario Game or have not played one recently ... They are not only very fun, addictive, & graphically beautiful, but they are also very challenging if you want to find all the 3 special coins and secret exits too.

I feel sorry for people who will never play the Wii U, they will never know what they are missing ... and that is a damn shame in the world of gaming, it really is.

I was really on the fence with this game, having only played Pikmin 1 on Game Cube and not really liking it, and not being into RTS, I took a risk picking it up. I am so happy I picked it up ... its beautiful, very engaging, fun, funny, and most of all, its hard to put down !

For someone who hates turn based RPGs, Strategy Games, and RTS ... The fact that I love this game, is saying a lot about it.

Is it doing somethin my PS3 is not doing? YES, its making me really enjoy an RTS GAME ... AND THAT IS UNHEARD OF.

Nintendo, live long and prosper!

Am I the only person who is happy with the Nintendo Wii U Pad?  It seems everywhere I turn people are saying things like ... its a gimmick, the Pro Pad should replace it as a pack in controller for the system, Nintendo doesn't even know what to do with it, it not being used in innovative ways .... and the list goes on and on.

 

Here are the reasons that I like the Pad and am very happy with it.

 

For one thing,  It is the first second screen device which does what it is supposed to do and does it seamlessly ... and yes I have tried Remote Play with the PS3 & Vita and its horrible.  There is really no lag between what you see on your TV and what is on the Pad.  Game play does not suffer on the Pad, with the PS3 / Vita remote play, lag in gameplay was very pronounced.  

 

The screen on the pad has great dimensions ... it is larger and more "square" than the Vita screen ... it is taller than the Vita screen ... this makes viewing games on it better ... in game text is more readable.

 

It has both conventional buttons and a touch screen ... tablets do not.

 

It really feels good ... to me it is the best feeling controller I have used and its Z buttons are perfectly placed and feel great ... its d pad is tight and right ... I like the positioning of the analog sticks as well.

 

It has a headphone jack and I love that.

 

it comes with every system ... that means all developers have the option to develop for it no matter what game they are creating .... not the case with Xbox or PS ... in both cases you need to buy a separate device.

 

I like its uses so far ... the fact that you can flawlessly use it to play off TV games is a major use of the Pad, one that you get so used to so quickly, you almost forget just how really awesome that feature really is.

 

I like how it is used for maps and inventory screens ... again something so convenient and useful that you may forget how great it is to use the pad for this purpose.

 

I personally like how it is being used and am not looking forward to the more wacky uses of the pad that may come in the future ... like placing it on the floor and hitting a golf ball that appears on its screen .... 

 

I think the big problem with the pad is that people have become so used to it and its uses so quickly, that its use is so natural, they have forgotten just how great those uses really are.

One thing is for sure, I will not even be here in 50 years !!!

Have you finished mario NES? It was freaking hard man. I think I've only finished it once or twice, using as many of the secret exits as I could.

 

Oh yes, back in the day I did beat it once ... without using any of the secret exits ... and without saves, there were no saves back then ... we had to leave the NES on and just hope no one shut it off!

While slating the Vita and PS3 (your opinion) wasn't probably the best way to go about it, you are still right.  Uncharted on the Vita is a good game thou.  But I really think that the true point of this should concentrate more on how thou the Wii U in hardware is no comparison to the other 'next gen' consoles doesn't matter.  Now I could beat around the bush and say 'oh yes the Wii u is so powerful it can blow your socks off' and that seems like what most people want to hear cos every time I have logged in there is a 'power' thread either slating the Wii U and having people mope about going oh the Wii U is made to fail but that simply isn't the case.  I have never been one to rant but these threads are getting to the point where someone needs to clarify the truth and you have done just that.  People also miss out that Nintendo could of upped all their specs if they had liked but they never because to stay price competitive and for the simple reason none of their games will be pushing that is does not flipping matter.  Hardware can be such an illusion because if you don't have the best hardware then you feel the system is not pushing but that also isn't the case.  I say if anyone really cares for a powerful system then put down your games consoles because you are never going to get a console anywhere close the actual hardware in a PC.  If you want decent games then stick with the system you have.  Sorry about the off topic rant but I feel that all I am seeing is these threads.

 

One thing is for sure, beyond all the tech talk, I love my Wii U !!!  and it will be as powerful as the games released for it.

To begin with, the host / presenter was horrible ... he was nervous and un-engaging and it seemed like this was the first time he saw the material himself ... completely unprepared!  

If I was a developer, this would have turned me off completely.

This was a presentation for developers to sell them on the idea of developing for the Wii U and to show them just how easy it is, how Nintendo has become a more user friendly company towards developers, how they have removed barriers, and to excite the developers about the system, its features, and its great potential for profit ... The host failed in every area in my opinion.

In 1986 I headed off to college and lived in a dormitory. In the main lounge stood PINBOT and right next to it the video game VANGUARD. It was the only time in my life I had access to a pinball machine at any frequency.

Pinball was always intimidating ... to begin with, I never knew the rules so my plan was always to just keep the ball alive. Most times the rules were written in such small text on the lower right and left corners of the tables, right where people, including me, would put their cigarettes while they were playing and that resulted in burn marks all over the rule sheet. Even playing PINBOT, I wasn't exactly sure of all the rules. Anyone who has never played PINBOT, it has a large wide open space down the middle so you have to be careful while playing. It doesn't have as many targets as the machines that came after it, so you really had to aim.

Pinball was intimidating because a bad run and your quarter was gone in minutes. Quarters were not easy to come by those days, besides, I needed them to buy cigarettes and beer! Even though I could last a lot longer on Vanguard, I played PINBOT just as much. Unlike a video game, pinball has no real beginning, middle, or end. If you play a video game, in many cases, once you have played a particular part of it, you have seen that part and done it ... the next time around its the same and yet, even though the pinball table remains a constant, each time you play it, it is different and there is always the fear of loosing your ball the entire time you are playing it.

In short, pinball is a panic, and it is more difficult than most video games these days. Its that twitch game-play that used to be in video games that keeps me coming back, its the fear of death, its the electronic sounds and pings and pangs, clings and clangs, clinks and clanks, and the robotic chitter chatter jibber jabber.

20 years after college and my love of the game is resurrected with Video Game Pinball! There are no burn holes in the rule sheets but quarters are still hard to come by so thank God there isn't a quarter slot in my Wii U, 3DS, PS3, PS Vita or Nexus 10 Tab ... it gives me the opportunity to keep on playing and learning the ins and outs of the tables. 

 

Of all the devices I have Zen Pinball 2 for, simply put, it plays the best on the Wii U ... Its the Wii U Game Pad that makes all the difference.  On the other systems, the nudge control is never comfortable or convenient for that matter and when you set the flippers to the Z buttons, it is the most comfortable set up of any system ... it just feels right!

This game has inspired me to pick up The Pinball Arcade and Pinballisitik Pinball on the PS3 but the beauty of Zen is that you can do things you never could do on a real table yet all the tables feel like real tables.

In the words of Gary Stern of Stern Pinball, “The thing that’s killing pinball,” is not that people don’t like it. It’s that there’s nowhere to play it.” “This is a ball game. It’s a bat and ball game, O.K.?” ... now we all have a place to play pinball, and place to talk about it too ....to me, Pinball is a Panic, what is it to you?

 

Of the 3DS owners out there, lets hear if you like the 3D aspect of the system, I for one do.

I want everything now too, but I decided I need to hold off on something so holding off on the PS4 seemed more logical.  I don't really like online multiplayer games, especially shooters.  I like single player campaigns for shooters.  The one game I loved playing online co op for was Lara Croft Guardian of Light - that was awesome.  Believe it or not, out of all the upcoming games, the one I am most excited about is Zelda, A Link Between Worlds and next is Mario World 3d.  Then comes Knack then Killzone.

its just abbriviated, like PS4 .... it is called thr XBox One, Not 1

I have over 120 games for the PS3, if I had bought them all new, I would be broke, completely broke.  I was a very late adopter to the PS3 and was able to pick up games that used to cost $60 for $10, you just can't do that with Nintendo.  Nintendo games keep their value too long.   Super Mario Brothers Wii is still selling for $40.00.  By always staying a year or two or more behind with the other systems, you save a lot more than if you are a year or two behind with a Nintendo System.  Look at Uncharted 3, its free now for PS3.  Do you really think Nintendo will give you a top notch Mario Game released  2011 for Free?  Never!  Yes I want Killzone that is never coming to the Wii U but when I get it, as a late adopter, I may either get it free or at a 1/4 of its original price.  But while I am waiting for that price drop to happen, I will be enjoying some great Nintendo games that will never really be that much cheaper a year from now.  Just look up how much Super Mario Galaxy 2 still costs ... about $40 then look at Battlefield Bad Company 2 ... $10 and both were released in 2010.

If you are anything like me, you really enjoy video games and chances are you have more than one video game system, console or handheld.

 

As the Next Generation Of Gaming came upon us, my question was not which system will I buy, it was which one will I buy first.

 

The Wii had already been out for about 6 months and I was highly anticipating watching videos on the net about the PS4.  After watching everything I could on the PS4 I looked at Nintendo Direct and said damn!  There's a new Zelda game for the 3DS based on my favorite Zelda game of all time, A Link To The Past, then wham, I saw Mario World 3D.  Suddenly my focus shifted and I went into a GameStop and got to play MarIo Brothers Wii U ... and I loved it ... it had been far too long since I enjoyed a good old Mario Game, I missed the top quality gameplay Nintendo offers.

 

I decided to get both the 3DS XL and Nintedo Wii U ... I have to say that I am very happy I did!  Do I still want the PS4?  Yes, but the Nintendo Wii U and the 3DS will help me to become a LATE ADOPTER to the PS4.

 

My reasoning was simple.  Nintendo games hold their value for so long, being a late adopter to a Nintendo System might save you a few bucks when it comes to Hardware but it really doesn't save you too much money when it comes to software.  This is because Nintendo Software holds its value for so long used or new.

 

So by getting Nintendo Systems now and enjoying their games, It will hold me over until the PS4 comes out with their slim model.  By the time the PS4 comes out with a slim model, all the top notch games that came out for the system in its first year will be drastically reduced in price and so will the hardware.

 

Typically it only a few months until a game gets a lower price when it come to the Playstation.  It moves from 59.99 down to 49.99 in a short amount of time, then down to 39.99, then down to 20.00 then to 50% off via Playstation Plus.  This does not happen to Nintendo Software.

 

One other factor that came to mind is that Nintendo does not release a rash of games ... they are slow to come.  This gives me the opportunity to completely finish a Nintendo game ... to find all the secret items, exits, and such.  For some reason, Nintendo games are the only games I do that for and generally its either a Zelda or Mario game.  I have played Uncharted 1, 2, and 3 on the PS3 and I never had any intention of finding all the hidden items, nor do I wish to go back and replay them to find them.  Yet in Mario and Zelda games, I feel compelled to find all the goodies and they are games which are so well made, you do not mind going back in and replaying a particular area.

 

So as the Microsoft Xbox One and PS4 system release frenzy kicks in, I will just sit back and try to find that third golden coin in a Mario Game!  I will wait until the dust settles and Sony comes out with a PS4 Slim Bundle, by that time, I will know what the good games are and will be able to pick up 2 to 4 top notch games for price of one ($60).  And at that time, I bet you that the Mario Wii U game I got when I picked up my Wii U will still cost $60.00 new and not much less for a used copy.

 

It just makes more sense to be a LATE ADOPTER to either the PS4 or XBox One then it does to be one for the Nintendo Wii U.  So if you don't have a Wii U, Pick one up and join the next generation, enjoy it and savor the great games it has and will have soon, be a completionist and enjoy each and every nook and cranny in the games ... hold off on the PS4 / XBox One ... in the long run that will save you a lot of money. 

 

 

I have to say I have played most of the games you are talking about and although some are good, I dont think you can beat the game play in Mario.

some of the games you mentioned, to me are more action adventure games than platformers or side scrolling fighters, for example I think of Gravity Rush as an action adventure.

I personally feel no one beats Mario when it comes to hop and pop platformers.