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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: January 19, 2012, 09:49:02 PM »

I looked at the logos at the end of the Resident Evil 6 trailer, and the Wii U's was not one of them.  I have no doubt that the game will come to the Wii U eventually, but maybe Capcom's having trouble with the Wii U version so they're hesitant to announce it (or Nintendo's ordered them to keep the Wii U version under wraps until E3, which is very possible).

The release date for Reisdent Evil 6 is november 20th of this year and that might be around the time the Wii U launches in north Americas. If Resident Revelations is successful in the west then I could see this game on the Wii U. Nintendo would be incredibly stupid to pass GTA 5 as well.
 
Here is a list of third party titles in 2012 that I hope come the Wii U:
 
GTA 5
Spec Ops: The Line
Rsident Evil 6
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Mass Effect 3
Final Fantasy 14
Skyrim
Max Payne 3
 
Some of these will already be out by the time the Wii U hits the market, but any of them would make me buy a Wii U right at launch day.
 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: January 19, 2012, 08:53:49 PM »

Could Resident Evil 6 be a Wii U launch title? What if RE 6 and GTA 5 were both Wii U launch titles? Nintendo would be incredibly stupid to pass this chance. The opprotunity to have new installments in two major franchises on a brand new console just seems like too much of a gravy train moment to pass up for Nintendo. We will have to wait and see at this year's E3 to find out.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii Game Data Sizes

« on: January 19, 2012, 12:15:47 AM »

I can't speak for PlayStation 3 games, but Xbox 360 games that have been installed still require the disc be in the system to play them.

Yes. Now I remember that when you install a game on a HDD it is in fact putting the entire game itself on that HDD. Developers made a fale safe tha prevents the entire game from being installed so that you can not buy a game, install it for free and then retun to the retailer.
 
@ Stevey
 
Thank you very much.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii Game Data Sizes

« on: January 18, 2012, 11:54:07 PM »

When PS360 games are installed onto a HDD, is that just a portion of toatal amount of data on the disc or just a part of it?
 
http://www.overclock.net/t/280141/info-ps3-game-installation-sizes
 
http://www.stripesonfire.com/xbox-360-game-install-list/

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii Game Data Sizes

« on: January 18, 2012, 06:25:05 PM »

Well, its not information you were ever intended to have. The only people who would know aside from those who are involved in the industry would be pirates so you'd have to get the info from a warez site like what Brandogg suggested. But even then I don't know how well you could trust that, because pirates who tamper with the games to either remove copy protection things or compress stuff or remove videos to save space might result in altered file sizes versus what it would be on a retail disc. But I could be wrong.

Is this related to your other project to put every virtual console game on its own SD card? How did that idea turn out?

I have no intention of doing anything illegal by seeking this information. Yes, this is related to my project to put every Wiiware and Virtual console game on its own flash drive. Here is a link to my latest endevour for that project:
 
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=10206.0
 
I have the means to figure the sizes for Wiiware and Virtual Console:
 
http://pastebin.com/2RpUGKnB
 
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/2000407-wii-virtual-console-and-wiiware/52940144

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii Game Data Sizes

« on: January 18, 2012, 03:03:19 PM »

I started this thread becuase I could not find this information anywhere else on the internet. I thought if I got some fresh perspective that I might find what I wanted. I do remmeber someone like Chozo or BnM linking me to a site like the one I am looking forward to, but I have not had any luck.

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Nintendo Gaming / Wii Game Data Sizes

« on: January 18, 2012, 04:25:40 AM »

Hello, my fellow forum folks. I am currently working on a side project that is going to list all of the Wii games ever made and then post their file sizes, or how much space they take up on the disc. Any help would be appreciated.

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NWR Forums Discord / This is Why You Do Not BuY a Wii off of Ebay

« on: January 17, 2012, 12:37:22 AM »

Here is why you should not buy a used Wii:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLaZtUli-_M&feature=g-vrec&context=G2bb056eRVAAAAAAAAAA

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TalkBack / Re: Ubisoft Making a Card Game for Wii U?

« on: January 16, 2012, 11:19:21 PM »

Could we get Red Steel 3 instead?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: January 16, 2012, 09:07:04 PM »

I have a favor to ask from this forum. Does anyone have a link that shows a list of Wii games and thier size in terms of memory like mega and giga bytes? Secondly, Here is a list of installed Xbox 360 games, so could someone tell me whehter the size of these installed games are the totalt size of the game, or just a small portion on the 360 HDD?
 
http://www.stripesonfire.com/xbox-360-game-install-list/

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: January 16, 2012, 04:32:28 PM »

Here is why you should not buy a used Wii:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLaZtUli-_M&feature=g-vrec&context=G2bb056eRVAAAAAAAAAA

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: January 15, 2012, 07:26:38 PM »

Just one correction here: in the game, North Korea doesn't become a super power overnight.

I knew its something like that, but that's still way too short of a time for a 3rd world backwater to rise up to a position where it could conquer not only South Korea and Japan, but also the USA. That is kinda as stupid as the notion of the USA becoming a global power 16 years after its independence and then invading Great Britain. Sure the USA is powerful enough to do that now, but a mere 16 years after independence? So I didn't mean overnight literally, but 16 years is still a very small amount of time as far as history is concerned.

Not to mention that the Japanese aren't exactly a people who are known to surrender easily, so I think that game's notion that Japan folds and gets annexed without a fight is absurd.

It has taken China about thirty years to go from a country pretty much in the stone age to an economic juggernaut that is nipping at the heels of the US. Who knows where they will be in two more decades?

The stone age? Did you know China is the country which invented paper, the compass, and gunpowder? Heck, if anything they were one of the very first countries to emerge OUT OF the stone age.

I was refering to China getting out of the hole that colonialism and communism dug for them. I once collaborated on a project at my college for a economic and political science convention centered around China's rise in the last thirty years.
 
Well, let's get this back on topic.

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: January 15, 2012, 06:25:11 PM »

Just one correction here: in the game, North Korea doesn't become a super power overnight.

I knew its something like that, but that's still way too short of a time for a 3rd world backwater to rise up to a position where it could conquer not only South Korea and Japan, but also the USA. That is kinda as stupid as the notion of the USA becoming a global power 16 years after its independence and then invading Great Britain. Sure the USA is powerful enough to do that now, but a mere 16 years after independence? So I didn't mean overnight literally, but 16 years is still a very small amount of time as far as history is concerned.

Not to mention that the Japanese aren't exactly a people who are known to surrender easily, so I think that game's notion that Japan folds and gets annexed without a fight is absurd.

It has taken China about thirty years to go from a country pretty much in the stone age to an economic juggernaut that is nipping at the heels of the US. Who knows where they will be in two more decades?

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: January 15, 2012, 05:57:36 PM »

The premise of Homefront is incredibly stupid. North Korea becomes a super power overnight and invades the United States? WTF?! The country is poor and practically starving to death, and its military, although large in numbers, is largely equipped with vintage obsolete WW2 era weaponry. The whole concept of the game is just a joke.

Just one correction here: in the game, North Korea doesn't become a super power overnight.  The game lays out a timeline of events taking place over the course of the (then) 16 years until the year 2027 (which is when the game begins).  I've seen speculation that if the events in that timeline actually occurred in that order exactly as written, the events depicted in Homefront could occur.  The problem is that those events rely on an incredible amount of stupidity on the part of just about every other nation in the world (particularly in the U.S. not responding to any of North Korea's aggression against our allies), so the chances of that invasion being plausible are extremely unlikely if not impossible.  So yeah, the idea of a North Korean invasion is absurd, but it is a theoretical possibility contingent on extremely unlikely events occurring in a very specific order.

Frankly, I find the idea of a North Korean invasion in the future just about as absurd as the Russians invading America because a single American gunman was found dead in the aftermath of a Russian airport shooting. *cough*ModernWarfare2*cough*  And yet that game doesn't get as much scrutiny.

What if a future FPS game like Call of Duty dealt with China marching on the world?

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: January 15, 2012, 05:31:31 PM »

The premise of Homefront is incredibly stupid. North Korea becomes a super power overnight and invades the United States? WTF?!

The villian of the game was originally China. The recent remake of Red Dawn had China as the villian too and MGM had to go back and change the Chinese flags to those of North Korea in order to appease our new masters. Honestly, I wish that Call of Duty would do a new world war series centered around China trying to dominate the world.

Of all the countries in the world, I think China is the most plausible to be able to invade the USA, but even they aren't quite there just yet.

Here is an alarming video on Homefront:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH5pqGx80Ok

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: January 15, 2012, 05:19:53 PM »

The premise of Homefront is incredibly stupid. North Korea becomes a super power overnight and invades the United States? WTF?!

The villian of the game was originally China. The recent remake of Red Dawn had China as the villian too and MGM had to go back and change the Chinese flags to those of North Korea in order to appease our new masters. Honestly, I wish that Call of Duty would do a new world war series centered around China trying to dominate the world.

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: January 15, 2012, 04:02:11 PM »

Homefront sold very well.  If anything, I think it's the double failure of Saints Row 3 and Red Faction Armageddon that really hurt this year.  A fair amount of money got dumped into both, and IIRC neither sold well.  Armageddon even sold so poorly that THQ discontinued the entire franchise.

Correction: THQ's stock dropped by 26% during the Homefront launch. I belive that Crytek took over the Homefront series. That games was not bad, but it suffered because the industry is suffering from FPS fatigue. 

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: January 15, 2012, 03:06:11 PM »

I'm not sad to see them go; their recent WWE 12 game was absolute garbage.

I feel sorry for the people behind the Saints Row games. I hope that series and its developers go to a good home.

It appears as though the poor reception of Homefront is what drove them over the financial edge. I wonder if Nintendo and Retro Studios could hire some developers from THQ? Perhaps for a new western company?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: January 15, 2012, 03:01:22 PM »

Where did all the steam rumors come from anyways? I really find it the idea as hard to believe as it is awesome. As a longtime Nintendo fanboy, I've developed the defense mechanism of having my skepticism directly proportional to how much I want a rumor to be true.

And speaking of Mass Effect... man, it'd be great if Nintendo could get BioWare onboard. As a Wii-only console gamer, that's another area that I could really benefit from if we start getting port-parity.

Nintendo needs to get Epic and Bethesda on the Wii U bandwagon. I really wish that there was some kind of port of the Gears trilogy on the Wii U.

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General Gaming / Re: Games Industry Death Watch 2010-2012

« on: January 15, 2012, 02:18:16 PM »

Apparently THQ has cancelled their Warhammer 40k MMO and all projects slated for 2014 and later.
Supposedly trying to sell themselves off to the highest any bidder and even returned IP to Disney after paying the advance.
https://twitter.com/TheKevinDent

EA or Activision might buy them out. Whichever one wants access to THQ's wrestling and sports contracts.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: January 15, 2012, 02:13:37 PM »

The best way to close the gap for older HD games to be on the Wii U is to port them to Steam. This way the third party company does not have the risk of putting five year old games back on retail shelfs and can sell them directly to people who will but them (like all of us). Batman Akham City will most likely be offered as a digital download via some online system (like Steam, for example). This could work in my favor because I could buy digital games cheaply and wait for the newer gaes to drop in price. 

That actually sounds like a good idea. Is that how Steam works? I know nothing about it.

This might add credence to Steam being available for the Wii U right out of the box. As for Steam itself, Caterkiller, here is its website:
 
http://store.steampowered.com/
 
EA has recently announced that Mass Effect 3 will not be released onto Steam ( and possibly Dead Space 3) and will instead put the game on their own online system, Origins.
 
http://kotaku.com/5876171/surprise-surprise-mass-effect-3-requires-origin-wont-launch-on-steam

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: January 14, 2012, 08:20:39 PM »

The best way to close the gap for older HD games to be on the Wii U is to port them to Steam. This way the third party company does not have the risk of putting five year old games back on retail shelfs and can sell them directly to people who will but them (like all of us). Batman Akham City will most likely be offered as a digital download via some online system (like Steam, for example). This could work in my favor because I could buy digital games cheaply and wait for the newer gaes to drop in price. 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: January 14, 2012, 01:25:45 AM »

Ninja Gaiden 3 has been confirmed to be a launch title as well. What I am really hoping for is that GTA V is announced at E3 as having a october 2012 launch and it ends being a launch title for the Wii U a few months later. How colossul would that be?

Considering the Gamecube and Wii never got a GTA, for the Wii U to have GTA V right at launch would definitely be a big deal.

There was an article posted on the internet that stated that Take Two would release GTA V in its 2012 fiscal year due to low stock prices. The GTA games have traditionally released in october (with a few exceptions) and from what I saw of that video it could already be done, or pretty close to it by the fall of this year. I said it before, but if Nintendo really wants to attract third party developers and prove to the industry that they have what it takes then they need GTA on their home console and what better to do that then have it as a launch title?

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TalkBack / Re: Wii Blamed For GameStop's Lack of Growth Over the Holiday

« on: January 14, 2012, 01:19:59 AM »

The Gamestop near my home is selling a copy of Goldeneye 007 for the Wii for about $25 and I can get it from Amazon for about $15, and that includes shipping and handling. Long story short, I prefer to buy my used games off of Amazon because the price drops much quicker.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U

« on: January 14, 2012, 12:22:25 AM »

Ninja Gaiden 3 has been confirmed to be a launch title as well. What I am really hoping for is that GTA V is announced at E3 as having a october 2012 launch and it ends being a launch title for the Wii U a few months later. How colossul would that be?