Topic: Best/Worst Delay of the Holiday Season 2013

[ShyGuy]

In 2012, The Wii U truly ushered in the next generation. THE GENERATION OF DELAYED GAMES

You though Rayman, Pikmin 3, or Deus Ex DC were bad? Hold on to yer butts!

I bet we'll have at least one more major delay for this Holiday season, Ubisoft's The Crew for Xbox One was expected to be Q1 2014, even though Ubisoft's website still listed it as 2013. It will now be Q2 2014 or later.

[azeke]

Rayman is worse than all of them, because i bought a new console to play it. These games here don't interest me as much.


Also i don't think The Crew is coming for Wii U...

[Kytim89]

Would the less than stellar sales of the Wii U count as a delay? If so, then I am disapointed with it to the fullest.

[ShyGuy]

Rayman is worse than all of them, because i bought a new console to play it. These games here don't interest me as much.


Also i don't think The Crew is coming for Wii U...

Everybody gets represented!

DK: Pina Colada for Wii U
Watch Dawg for PS3, PS4, 360, Xbone, Wii U and PC.
Drive Clubbin' for PS4
Da Crew for Xbox One.

[azeke]

As far as i know, The Crew is XB/PS4/PC.

[ShyGuy]

Ah, you are right. Come on Microsoft, don't let us down. Delay a platform exclusive!

[nickmitch]

Well, they delayed something.

[broodwars]

For me, probably the worst delay was Donkey Kong Country: Tropicana Farmstand, because with it gone Nintendo has nothing else on the Wii U I want to play this Fall.  The best delay would probably either be The Crew, because I've never cared about it and it would have gotten buried by Forza anyway.  Besides, it never had a release date to begin with.

[MegaByte]

I wonder...

[Stratos]

I am most happy for Watchdogs. It will most likely be one of my first Wii U purchases when I get the console next year. I plan to pick up the console around the time Bayonetta 2 and Watchdogs will release.


Though I may splurge this holiday season and get a U early. If I do that then I want to get Mario 3D World and Pikmin 3 plus some bargain-bin titles.


I don't think Tropical Freeze's delay will be all that bad. Mario 3D World's only negative I see is it is 'Yet another Mario Game' on a system with plenty of those. But it may give some other titles like Pikmin and 3rd party titles like Rayman a chance to breathe. Holiday's tend to bolster sales of all titles across the board.

[azeke]

I plan to pick up the console around the time Bayonetta 2 and Watchdogs will release.

I boggles my mind when i see people excited for Bayo 2 but refusing to even give a look at Wonderful 101.

Wonderful 101 is better than Bayonetta. That is a fact. Deal with it and now try justify not buying it.

[magicpixie]

Its the boobies

[azeke]

Its the boobies

Then that makes even less sense considering Bayo is not all that impressive in that sense to begin with.

While W101 has Vijohne:


and more...

[Khushrenada]

I plan to pick up the console around the time Bayonetta 2 and Watchdogs will release.

I boggles my mind when i see people excited for Bayo 2 but refusing to even give a look at Wonderful 101.

Wonderful 101 is better than Bayonetta. That is a fact. Deal with it and now try justify not buying it.

Look. I get you like Wonderful 101. That's great. I know you like it because it is all you seem to post about for the last 2 months. I'm glad you found a game that just enraptures you. Whenever that happens as a player, its an amazing experience. But you know how people will complain that Ian Sane posts the same things over and over? Well, you are starting to have that effect.

At least to me. Maybe no one else feels this way but it's gotten to the point where I'm actively trying to avoid your posts because I want to experience the game for myself at some point and not be spoiled about every little thing because you've posted it all in trying to promote the game. It's having the opposite effect where I feel like you are trying to cram the game down everyone's throats and now I don't want to buy it just to resist your promotion of it and not support the cause.

Someone expresses interest in a game and you have to immediately badger them that they are wrong to do so since it isn't the 101 they express interest in. C'mon.  First off, to play the game, people have to buy a Wii U, so let's start by celebrating the fact that someone wants to buy the console in the first place. Just because the 101 isn't the title causing them to buy the console isn't a loss to 101 because at least there is now potential for another sale of the game compared to no sale because they bought a PS4 or XB1 instead. Morever, not once did the person say they were buying a Wii U but weren't doing so because 101 was on it or that they had no interest in it whatsoever. Just because 101 wasn't mentioned in the post doesn't mean a person has no interest in it whatsoever. I don't mention it in 90% of my posts like you do but that doesn't mean I'm not interested in it. In fact, 101 wasn't even being talked about or mentioned in this thread until you brought it up and made it an issue.

Message of rant: I understand you love the game. It's fine. I have nothing against that. The only thing I ask is that maybe you could tone it done a bit with the constant barrage of 101 everywhere you post. I think everyone knows where you stand on the subject at this point. Otherwise, you're a fine poster and carry on.

[MagicCow64]

I plan to pick up the console around the time Bayonetta 2 and Watchdogs will release.

I boggles my mind when i see people excited for Bayo 2 but refusing to even give a look at Wonderful 101.

Wonderful 101 is better than Bayonetta. That is a fact. Deal with it and now try justify not buying it.

Look. I get you like Wonderful 101. That's great. I know you like it because it is all you seem to post about for the last 2 months. I'm glad you found a game that just enraptures you. Whenever that happens as a player, its an amazing experience. But you know how people will complain that Ian Sane posts the same things over and over? Well, you are starting to have that effect.

At least to me. Maybe no one else feels this way but it's gotten to the point where I'm actively trying to avoid your posts because I want to experience the game for myself at some point and not be spoiled about every little thing because you've posted it all in trying to promote the game. It's having the opposite effect where I feel like you are trying to cram the game down everyone's throats and now I don't want to buy it just to resist your promotion of it and not support the cause.

Someone expresses interest in a game and you have to immediately badger them that they are wrong to do so since it isn't the 101 they express interest in. C'mon.  First off, to play the game, people have to buy a Wii U, so let's start by celebrating the fact that someone wants to buy the console in the first place. Just because the 101 isn't the title causing them to buy the console isn't a loss to 101 because at least there is now potential for another sale of the game compared to no sale because they bought a PS4 or XB1 instead. Morever, not once did the person say they were buying a Wii U but weren't doing so because 101 was on it or that they had no interest in it whatsoever. Just because 101 wasn't mentioned in the post doesn't mean a person has no interest in it whatsoever. I don't mention it in 90% of my posts like you do but that doesn't mean I'm not interested in it. In fact, 101 wasn't even being talked about or mentioned in this thread until you brought it up and made it an issue.

Message of rant: I understand you love the game. It's fine. I have nothing against that. The only thing I ask is that maybe you could tone it done a bit with the constant barrage of 101 everywhere you post. I think everyone knows where you stand on the subject at this point. Otherwise, you're a fine poster and carry on.

As a Devil's advocate, I feel like I'd be doing the same thing if I'd just played through Little King's Story after release and was desperately trying to make everyone understand why it was one of the best games ever made.


I haven't played W101 yet, as I started a two-month travel right as it was released, but plan to when I get back to the states. I am one of those people who full-rainbowed Viewtiful Joe, so I'm hoping it fulfills that legacy. But to echo the new pope, proselytizing is mostly futile.

[azeke]

I get you like Wonderful 101. That's great. I know you like it because it is all you seem to post about for the last 2 months.

That's just plain untrue:
My post history, out of first 25 posts on the first page (not including this one obviously), whopping 5 (five, пять, бес, cinco, go) mention W101 in any way.

Maybe no one else feels this way but it's gotten to the point where I'm actively trying to avoid your posts because I want to experience the game for myself at some point and not be spoiled about every little thing because you've posted it all...

This is where you lost me. I am very averse to spoilers. I am always going above and beyond general posting guidelines to keep all my posts spoiler-free, be it story-spoilers or gameplay spoilers.

In fact, i am more spoiler free than official reviews on this very site. Both reviews for W101 are dropping the same HUGE gameplay spoiler right in the open text. While i basically made sure to spoiler my entire post when i discussed this mechanic in my guide for the game. Because i believe that was one of the highpoints of already stellar game and really didn't want anyone, including myself, ruin this beautiful game.

I skimmed the rest of your message, and the gist seems like seeing other people enjoy games makes you fell bitter. Welp, khem-khem -- i am sorry. I am very, very, very sorry and very sad about that.

I will give you yet another quote from NeoGAF about other game to express how i feel and why i am not going to stop:
Amir0x:

god it's the type of game when you play, you want to wake people up just to tell them you did because it's revelatory.  It's like you can FEEL the paradigm shifting under your feet when you play this, as if all Iwata's claims were proved true in an instant and the sound of a million doubters fell silent.
I am guys, you know, a HUGE Nintendo critic lately.  I don't like the direction they've taken for various reasons, and I let myself be known on this issue.  Everywhere.  And I can say, in genuine, from the hour or so I kept coming back to the demo, that this was worth the price of Wii.  I would pay $399.99 to play this.
It is almost like... jesus... it's like all those non-games were just tons and tons of crumbling rock plugging up some mighty volcano, and it all came undone with Mario Galaxy.  The giant moved and swayed, melting faces in its wake.  I am prone to hyperbole.  I can assure you, nothing I can say will prepare.
My words may sounds hollow to some.  Some more technical features: I thought wiimote would be at best a side step, as opposed to a step forward.  It is comfortable, it works wonders, you do not need camera control at any moment (guys, they've designed a 3D platformer which requires NO CAMERA CONTROL EVER.  Do you know what that alone indicates with the talent?).  In short, it is better than traditional controls.  For real.  That's coming from me.  Mario's momentum is just so perfectly honed that every little movement feels rewarding.  You don't even have to do anything, you can just spin Mario around and around and you'll feel as giddy as a fucking schoolchild. 
This game?  It LOOKS like a 360 game, save resolution.  Yes, they actually did do it.  Anybody tries to post LAUGHING SMILIES at this proposition, poke them in the eye with your dick.  They're laughing out of fear.  They've actually done it here.  ANYONE on GAF that denies the visual pleasure unfolding here is a bullshit artist and a troll.  Yes, 360 can obviously do better but here is a Wii game that looks as good, and you won't even once remotely think 'oh hey if only that goomba had bump maping.' 
God the design.  The fucking LEVEL design.  I played much of what we've seen in early videos of this game, and even KNOWING what to expect did not truly explain what the experience is like.  Here is a product that essentially shits on all other developers from the top of some unreachable mountain top.  I love Ratchet, I love Sunshine.  I love platformers.  So why is it that this game seems to open a door that makes me almost embarrassed to have ever lauded them?  FROM AN HOUR OF PLAY.
Oh God I think I'm turning back into a Nintendo fanboy... but it's such pure joy, really encapsulate the very reason I began to play games.  I feel like a new gamer.