Wii Thread 4.0, WEEUWEEUWEEUWEE!

General Discussion
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Really you actually play with that control scheme? I don’t know you do it. It felt entirely too awkward for me lol.

IGN AU was pretty harsh on Wii Sports Resort

IGN AU Wii Sports Resort review:

6.5

The game beasted in japan in 4 days though good god almighty

IGN Dawn of Discovery review:

8.0 somethings they had a problem with was no online, the 2 player co-op felt tacked on, and issues with pacing in single player. He still said was overall a good solid title.

Skip Levels in DS Games:

that whole demo play thing is gonna show up in some ds games as well.

Iwata Asks, Wii Sports Resort Speaks

Iwata asks the wii sports resort team about development and they respond. Also explain about the delay of the game for ths long as well Miyamoto finally coming up with a way to calibrate the thing as it’s moving.

IGN Resident Evil Archives review:

8.0 same game a slightly lower score because nothing changed and a lot of things in the game are pretty archaic. I find it funny that Matt had already made mention of people defending the way how things are in the game to make it more scary and he immediately has to respond to one of these people in the comments section lol.

The Grinder Diaries: Changes since E3

The Grinder - Sheriff Rescue Attempt
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14352829/the-grinder/videos/grinder_gmp_sheriffrescue_70709.html

The Grinder - Scoring Arena
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14352829/the-grinder/videos/grinder_gmp_scoringarena_70709.html

Dust Bowl sounds like fun. My assumption for now is that it’s like one player horde mode cept with less places to hide.

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I honestly see no way to save that guy, without having backup given how often the game respawns the vampire enemies and how many shots it takes to take down the werewolf.

Still it looks like an even better experience then Conduit in single player mode. I hope they are able to get it all to come together when it finally drops. Conduit plays pretty good but the extra touches you see in Grinder looks like they are seriously going to blow it away.

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It’s kind of a hate/love thing. I recently start using it playing EX3 and you get a slight advantage using it especially with hand signs and more damaging supers. I still run with the GC controls as well. Gotta be ambidextrous with these things.

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With all the complaints about tripping, I’m hoping that it will be removed from the next Smash. The rest… eh, to each their own. Other than tripping I enjoy Brawl, and when I play it with my friends we are very aggressive not turtle-y.

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7 new screens of NFS: Nitro
http://media.wii.ign.com/media/143/14319197/imgs_1.html

Hudson revives The Calling

I think I posted something about this game earlier on in the other thread…looks like it’s back and it’s 70% done another horror game coming to the wii.

16 new Monster Hunter 3 screens
http://media.wii.ign.com/media/142/14209897/imgs_1.html

showing off RokRak…the base of operations for online play

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Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo - Japanese TV spots

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Resident Evil 5 Wii ‘Possible’ But 'Not Likely’

On one hand it could pretty pretty cool with RE 4 controls…and then on the other hand I think about what happened to Dead Rising.

Nintendo Plans low Priced Wii Fit Plus

good news for those who already have the board.

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What do you guys use to recharge your remote? These nyko ones I have don’t hold their charge like they used to.

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I have the nyko ones…and I figured that after while that the battery would lose some of it’s charge so I made sure I had 2 wiimotes. That way if one does run out the other one is juiced and ready to go. I don’t know if the Energizer ones are any better or not, havent heard anything from the customers.

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My nyko chargers suck now. One doesn’t hold as much charge as it used to, and one simply doesn’t work anymore.

I did some research into other rechargeable batteries and I just have a regular AA/AAA quick charger and some Sanyo Eneloops. You can use other batteries, but look for ones like the Eneloops that will hold their charge for about a year before they start to discharge (without use. Other batteries will start losing their charge if you’re not using them, these are designed to keep it while not being used).

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I picked up Punch Out today, we played it for about 5 hours straight.

Game is sick! Everything old & new, so much fun.

Just get some quality rechargable AA batteries, they last a long time now.

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Not too much news to really report on save for a few things

The Calling screens
http://media.wii.ign.com/media/143/14307992/imgs_1.html

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games dated

October 13

Sega: The Conduit Off to Strong Sales Start

woot! go Conduit!

Wii Sports Resort - Bowling
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14266992/wii-sports-resort/videos/wiiresort_bowling_gmp.html

Wii Sports Resort - Power Crusing
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14266992/wii-sports-resort/videos/wiiresort_powercruise_gmp.html

Wii Sports Resort - Flying
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14266992/wii-sports-resort/videos/wiiresort_flying_gmp.html

Flying looks interesting but I don’t think that’s going to translate well to something like Starfox where you’re gonna have shit firing at from 5 different directions some times and you may need to barrel roll a lot. I want to see how Sky Crawler’s flight controls are.

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GT Little King’s Story Preview

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Club Nintendo awards were announced (Club Nintendo is the rewards program for registering your Nintendo games):
As a Platinum member, I can choose from:

  • Doc Louis’ Punch-out!! - A downloadable WiiWare game where you play as Little Mac and can fight Doc Louis
  • A Mario Hat

Gold Members can get a Club Nintendo Calendar

I’m leaning towards the hat…

Here’s yesterday’s VC/WW update. Sorrty its late, but it was a little lame anyway… Though Bit Boy looks promising (play from 4-bit all the way to 128-bit worlds), and Pulseman seems to be a decent buy (developer is Game Freaks who went on to make Pokemon. I believe its extra cause it never came out in the US)

VC/WW Monday (7/13)
Virtual Console
SMS - Secret Command
GEN - Pulseman

WiiWare
Bit Boy!!
Incoming!
Ant Nation

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don’t blame ya chairhome

Inside Project Sora’s office

ever wondered what the inside of Project Sora’s place looked like? They even got a 360 and a PS3 in the rec room.

IGN UK Wii Sports Resort review

8.9 from 6.9 to an 8.9. They had some of the same complaints as AU…One thing I remember is that there’s been complaints from both on basketball. Anyone playing the japanese version can confirm that it’s iffy?

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Of course I’m jumping in pretty late but, the nyko batteries do lose their charge holding ability but you can buy replacements. I bought a new set about two months ago and i’m back in the game… so long as your charger is in good shape you should be fine.

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Some interesting info has come up on TVC with an interview that was posted in the TVC online thread.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=7089114&postcount=21

New characters have been 100% confirmed and the game being rebalanced. They’re still working on the online but I think it’s definitely safe to get a bit more hype about the game regardless.

IGN Spyborgs Hands-On:

This game is looking better and better. I think this article could be summed up with a quote from it: “There’s something in the air. What is that? Is that? effort? It smells yummy.” So far nothing that’s really going to blow anyone way but if you miss beat-em ups then more than likely you’re going to pick this up.

Spyborgs - Level 1-1 Montage
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14251204/bionic-games-project/videos/Spyborgs-1.html

Spyborgs - That’s One Big Robot
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14251204/bionic-games-project/videos/Spyborgs-3.html

that double team at the end was a bit anticlimatic lol

Spyborgs - Spyborgs Go Missing?
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14251204/bionic-games-project/videos/Spyborgs-2.html

Spyborgs - When it Rains, it Pours
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14251204/bionic-games-project/videos/Spyborgs-4.html

really sucks that this game won’t have some type of online…if it does well and a sequal does come hopefully they’ll consider it.

If anyone cares about the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games then there’s some coming out to wiiware

Spectrobes: Origins blog - Localizing Spectrobes
http://blogs.ign.com/Spectrobes_Origins/

surprised that they actually took the time to go back and re lip sync the characters for the english VA’s

6 new Monster Hunter 3 screens
http://media.wii.ign.com/media/142/14209897/imgs_1.html

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Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo - Japanese Overview Trailer

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Cursed Mountain - Dev Diary: The World of the Himalayas
http://media.wii.ign.com/media/142/14270799/vids_1.html

This guy and his voice lol

And it looks liek we may get an update to the Nintendo Channel…it’s already happened in Japan

Nintendo Wii - Japanese Nintendo Channel update overview

can’t really understand much but it looks interesting. Hoping at some point maybe even Wii game demos will be available but not gonna get my hopes up. Looks like you may be able to bookmark games to help with when stuff comes out @ 8:26.

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Nintendo says No Black Wiis in America

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That sucks. I supposed the sales are still strong enough currently that they feel they don’t need to bring it over here. It’s so sexy lookin though…

LucasArts Tease Comic Con Announcement:

could it finally be that damn lightsaber game we been telling you guys to do since day 1? Probably not…

IGN Wii Sports Review:

7.7 looks like reviews for this game are gonna be all over the place but probably mostly favorable. Also another mention on Basketball being clunky…awwww

video review:
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14266992/wii-sports-resort/videos/wiisportsresort_vdr_071609.html

NPD numbers

Prototype beasted and EA Active beat out Wii Fit.

Apparently hardware sales are at an all time low last month :sad: Looks like the Economy is finally starting to really gnaw in on the game industry. That being said DS numbers are ridiculous in comparison to everything else, It did double Wii’s numbers and Wii is 2nd. This is followed by 360, PS3, PSP and PS2.

TMNT: Smash Up - Character Reveal #2 trailer
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14305526/tmnt-fighters/videos/tmntsmash_trl_charvignette2_71609.html

Trauma Team - Behind the Scenes Trailer

Naruto Shippuden CON Rev 3 - Kisame vs. Guy gameplay

This also has some gameplay between Lee and Temari. Didn’t know Temari could summon her pet now.

Naruto Shippuden CON Rev 3 - Naruto vs Deidara Gameplay

also contains some gameplay of Itachi and Kakashi. Looks like they may have given Kakashi access to several different supers now.

Cursed Mountain - Exclusive Story & Mythical Behind the Scenes

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IGN Naruto Shippuden: CON Rev 3 Hands-On

They made a goof amount of changes. They’re still basing it on gravity from GNT4 which definitely gets a thumbs up but now with tag battles you can call in assists. Granny Chiyo is also going to be a playable character in this game as a first in any region. Those who don’t like the fact that a lot of supers are unblockable can now turn on the option to make them blockable.

Naruto Shippuden CON Rev 3 - Ten Ten Shippuden (Tag Battle)
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14277489/naruto-clash-of-ninja-revolution-3/videos/naruto-4.html

Naruto Shippuden CON Rev 3 - Singles Battles in Rev 3
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14277489/naruto-clash-of-ninja-revolution-3/videos/naruto-2.html

Naruto Shippuden CON Rev 3 - Draining Chakra (Tag Battle)
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14277489/naruto-clash-of-ninja-revolution-3/videos/naruto-3.html

Did I just see Neji counter rotate on Itachi’s Fireball super?

Naruto Shippuden CON Rev 3 - Secret Techniques in Action
http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14277489/naruto-clash-of-ninja-revolution-3/videos/naruto-1.html

Japan Numbers:

Dragon Quest IX got released…take a wild guess at what the numbers look like.

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Wanna see something awesome that will probably have it’s nuts stomped in by Nintendo?

Star Fox: Shadow of Lylat

oh ho yeah…Nintendo is gonna stomp all over this game’s nuts.

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WW Monday (7/20/2009)

NO VIRTUAL CONSOLE THIS WEEK :frowning:

WiiWare
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord
Battle Poker
5 Spots Party

I enjoyed the first FF CC WiiWare game, and this new one looks pretty good. Might pick it up down the line.