Topic: Wii U in Review (News & Rumor Consolidation)

[azeke]

Armillo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0soGcVT05s&feature=youtu.be
Looks very cool.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Emily Rogers receiving major shout-outs in that video.

She's come a long way from "sleeping with someone that works at Nintendo" for scoopz on games, and is now bringing them games instead.

kudos Emily. :applaud:

(assuming it's the same Emily Rogers of course)

[shingi_70]

Wait where did the sleep with dude from Nintendo come from.


I assume it is the same Emily rogers from NES. She helped Two Brothers get on the eshop as well.

[BlackNMild2k1]

21 Rumors & A Bet To Back Them Up

reading back, I'm surprised @ how many of them came true and/or were partially correct.
(timing was off)

she is now (was?) at notenoughshaders.com (NES), and actually has some credibility in the industry as a journalist... who woulda thunk.

[tendoboy1984]

I feel like I'm on GoNintendo. People there are obsessed with bashing Emily for her "subpar" journalism.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Why? Do you feel like I am bashing her? unjustly at that?

I actually gave her kudos on either being lucky or informed to a degree.
Back in the day, she came out of nowhere with crazy claims, and "screenshots", making it hard to believe her. I don't know how much of it was true, but she is still around, and what I have linked to shows that she atleast got some of it right, even if the time frames were waaay off.

[Caterkiller]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/28/3924106/wii-u-misses-out-on-tomb-raider-due-to-unconventional-controller

No Tomb Raider for Wii U. Why you ask? Because of the Wii U game pad is too unique for a straight port... 

Come on!

[Adrock]

I recall them saying that months ago. I wish someone would remind them (and others devs with the same weak-ass reasoning) that the Pro Controller exists or that they don't have to use the GamePad screen at all or that Wii Owners aren't asking them to reinvent the wheel, they just want a good game.

Still shenanigans.

[Caliban]

I would blame Square Enix on this since they are the publisher for this game. We haven't seen a single game announcement from them for the Wii U. Dragon Quest X? That was more of Japanese market announcement than anything else.

[shingi_70]

Damb you Nintendo and your very misleading E3 developer videos.

[Soren]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/28/3924106/wii-u-misses-out-on-tomb-raider-due-to-unconventional-controller

No Tomb Raider for Wii U. Why you ask? Because of the Wii U game pad is too unique for a straight port... 

Come on!

They have a point. It's not like Nintendo made an alternate controller for those developers that didn't want to fully support the GamePad on their games.

Oh wait...

[Ian Sane]

The Gamepad contains all the basic components of a normal controller.  This is like not porting a Genesis game to the SNES because of the L&R buttons.  It's just a bullshit excuse, unless Nintendo specifically calls for some amount of screen usage in every game.

On the Wii this would have been a decent excuse but you don't even need to use the classic controller here.  The Gamepad is just a normal controller with a touchscreen.

[Soren]

Just give me Off-TV play and I'll be happy.

[NWR_insanolord]

Just give me Off-TV play and I'll be happy.

This right here. I don't care if that's the only way you use the GamePad, that's enough to make the Wii U version my preferred way of playing the game.

[Adrock]

Well, whatever. Another company willingly leaving money on the table.

[alegoicoe]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/28/3924106/wii-u-misses-out-on-tomb-raider-due-to-unconventional-controller

No Tomb Raider for Wii U. Why you ask? Because of the Wii U game pad is too unique for a straight port... 

Come on!

Another pitiful excuse i have rather not heard cause frankly it makes no fu**ing sense.

[Fatty The Hutt]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/28/3924106/wii-u-misses-out-on-tomb-raider-due-to-unconventional-controller

No Tomb Raider for Wii U. Why you ask? Because of the Wii U game pad is too unique for a straight port... 

Come on!

Another pitiful excuse i have rather not heard cause frankly it makes no fu**ing sense.

There's another game I won't be buying or, if it is truly wonderful, I will make a point of buying used.

[ShyGuy]

I dont expect the new Tomb Raider to be a big hit. It is getting a lot of criticism already. Uncharted clone, Disconnect from the violence, Victim heroine, sexual assault in the game...

[Stogi]

What do you mean, Shyguy? Sounds like GOTY material to me.

[Sarail]

Just give me Off-TV play and I'll be happy.

This right here. I don't care if that's the only way you use the GamePad, that's enough to make the Wii U version my preferred way of playing the game.

Ditto. This is the absolute, stand-out feature for me with the Wii U. Unless it's a game like Zombi U that requires both screens, then Off-TV play is all that's needed on the rest of the game lineup.

Shenanigans on Crystal Dynamics and Square/Eidos. Phooey. :/

[Mop it up]

I actually find it kind of funny how companies are making this excuse, because it's them basically saying "we're not creative."

[EasyCure]

I actually find it kind of funny how companies are making this excuse, because it's them basically saying "we're not creative."

I take it more as "we really just don't give a ****" because the Gamepad is practically a dualshock 3 with a screen in it. Off-screen play is the easiest thing a dev can do to make use of it, the rest of the controls would translate exactly the same..

[alegoicoe]

http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=195054


Always is good to hear about Retro!!

[ThePerm]

how can anyone call Tomb Raider an uncharted clone? I always thought of Uncharted as just a modernized Tomb Raider. And Tomb raider as a modernized pitfall with boobs.

[Shaymin]

Because this is a reboot that has basically ripped off Tomb Raider wholesale.