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Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
Sadly we'll never get that back. The thrill and wonder of exploring 3d games for the first time. And for some reason the basic renderings of stuff, snowy environments for example, was more stimulating to the mind than their photorealistic descendants. N64 had some great snow levels. Goldeneye and Beetle Adventure Racing come to mind.
Or the TV could display the present, and the DRC will be a "window to the past".
Think of an intricate political, diplomacy & investigation game mixed with history and archeology elements, where you'll have to seek for clues & infos from a 500-years-old-view on the padlet, to counter a mysterious ancient worldwide organization, planning a dark plot in our period. Point your controller in the direction of this Paris library basement wall, and suddenly, some writings unseen in 2012 because of the alterations of the time, appears in the DRC, revealing you some secrets. Explore an old Quartier Latin street with tourists and macdonald showed on the TV, but a convenient archaeological vision managed by the subscreen allow you to see the old cobblestones under the asphalt, buildings as they where half a millenia ago, and a detail could trigger a meeting scene of key members of this organization, only occurring in this past window that the protagonist, a searcher, imagine thanks to these historical proofs he found.
GameplayWhore
Member
It's okay. There will always be new things to shift how we play and enjoy games. As long as devs focus on how to make things different instead of how to take what we already have and make that incrementally better, we'll get those "WOW!" experiences.
Text adventures in braille for the blind.
I would love this.. it's an unconventional game idea. No bosses, few enemies creatures (if any at all, really).. just pure exploration. It could almost be like Endless Ocean, but in a really old, historically and architecturally rich cityscape!
(I live one block away from an area of road where the asphalt gives way to reveal cobblestone that's much older, so your idea jives with me well.)
Zoramon089
Banned
Metroid Prime. Phendrana Drifts. I got that thrill, and wonder...and horror
Cerebral Assassin
Member
Rösti;37776738 said:
Thanks guys, pinball games could work really well on the Wii U, a close up on the pad & a zoomed out view on the TV would be most useful. Hopefully Zen bring a Pinball game to the Wii U too(I prefer video pinball to "real" pinball), preferably with the Marvel tables/ a new Avengers table.
I think you are going a bit too far, Minecraft only came out a couple of years ago, & that reminds me of the early 3D titles.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Metroid Prime Pinball 2 by Retro.
Unlocked after you beat Prime 4.
Unlocked after you beat Prime 4.
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Rösti
Unconfirmed Member
Well, once developers figure out how to utilize four-dimensional space, five-dimensional space and beyond (should be possible up to eleven-dimensional space) in games we ought to see something truly groundbreaking. But even before that we could see a great leap if someone figures out how to properly utilize point cloud data in games, or if polytopes replace polygons (though that is more related to beyond three-dimensional space).
But yeah, the feeling you got when playing Super Mario 64 hasn't really been surpassed by anything I can think of. Sure, games are continuing to look more realistic as the industry matures but mostly it's just that, graphics, we are seeing improvement with. AI, audio etc. haven't really seen any greater revolutions in many years. Maybe it's time for those fields to see some attention.
AceBandage
Banned
You play MP4 on the TV while a pinball game happens on the controller.
Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
Maybe, but I think we me have to wait for the shift into hologram games to get that sense of wonder back.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Talk about connectivity!!!
Cerebral Assassin
Member
Rösti;37777134 said:
I disagree, some of the open world games this gen have truly impressed me with their scope & scale, & that has little to do with the graphics.
I don't think that has much to do with Ubi(they only published it in the west), talk to Grasshopper/Marvelous.
It could be related to their Mobiclip acquisition, those guys are really specialized on that.
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"Past CSI !"
"The Paris Files !"
"RLPI" (Real Time Past Investigation)
"Middle Age crawler"
"Paris Jones"
"Da Paris Code"
etc
There would be some action (in the present TV screen, to prevent physically this plot) but the main part will be investigations yes. Drive by curiosity, you'll be both entertained and learn some history lessons from the setting at the same time. A real historical/archeological layer added to a current day cityscape, an improved touring guide, or i would say the visualization of a searcher mind, after he find and collect historical proofs, how he picture a secret hideout after having found tissues & weapons buried deep under an old Paris shop.
Agree. For me, wonderment comes from the world that's been created. Good artistic vision in combination with good level design and unique gameplay concepts can go a long way towards creating that feeling.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
This could be nothing, but while I was in Bansville, a site that you go to for Nintendo news reported that Nyko were unveiling a product at E3 which corrects a significant Nintendo oversight.
Forgive me if this has been mentioned before.
Forgive me if this has been mentioned before.
Yup. Even if we took away all of the limitations of hardware, games wouldn't become Pixar-esque masterpieces all the sudden. People still have to make the games and everything in them. In the graphics world we say "It can be good, fast, or cheap. Pick two." Apparently some gamers have got it in their heads that all three will be available to publishers 'because of hardware.' It doesn't work that way. Hardware can render things better, keep models from having to be too low-poly, and keep textures nice and high res - that's all basically free by virtue of the way assets are created and then simplified for consoles. But when you're talking about having lots more unique and detailed elements in a scene than ever before, publishers are going to be paying for all of that somehow. Either that, or Team Bondi was truly a harbinger of things to come.
GameplayWhore
Member
Best possible scenario would be wireless Classic Controller with GCN layout.
Likely scenario is add-on grips for the Circle Pad Pro or something equivalently useless.
This is so frustrating, but so good. In the era of the vacation-at-home, I think this genre (with adequate advertising) could really take-off. Each title could be a different city or small region. Low-pressure gaming.."Past CSI !"
"The Paris Files !"
"RLPI" (Real Time Past Investigation)
"Middle Age crawler"
"Paris Jones"
"Da Paris Code"
etc
There would be some action (in the present TV screen, to prevent physically this plot) but the main part will be investigations yes. Drive by curiosity, you'll be both entertained and learn some history lessons from the setting at the same time. A real historical/archeological layer added to a current day cityscape, an improved touring guide, or i would say the visualization of a searcher mind, after he find and collect historical proofs, how he picture a secret hideout after having found tissues & weapons buried deep under an old Paris shop.
evilromero
Member
Once Mario 64 becomes a Holodeck experience then we'll get the "ahhh" factor back. In my opinion Mario 64 is still the best game ever made and still impresses with its clean graphics. I imagine we're getting close to a new breakthrough that will once again take us deeper into the gameworld.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Yeah, just seems like a waste of resources to me. You know at least Netflix and Hulu will already be offered.
Now that rumor for a Wii-U Ereader with books, magazines, comics, Nintendo Powers, etc. Is badass IMO.
Shadow Hog
Member
Nyko announcing a new 3DS battery confirmed?
walking fiend
Member
is it related to the 3DS video service shutting down in Japan?
There was no reason give, and apparently they said it has been used 1m times; so I guess it wasn't really doing bad to be shut down so early and suddenly?
Konami screwing Nintendo? I for one am shocked.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Those are the worst kind of leaks, rather pointless.
Fixed for awesome.
Pretty much any title of theirs that actually makes it is considered a surprise bonus as far as I'm concerned. Sad, when you consider the history that's there. So much greatness in the past. :-(
JaseMath
Member
Pretty obvious use. They'll probably also make the touch screen the instrument...like a piano or something.
Agreed. I'm at the point where I don't want to know anything major anymore. We've come so far that I want the big payoff.. to spoil it at the last moment would be comically cruel, in a way.
evilromero
Member
WAY in the past.
Totally. And it could be huge, see the success of Da Vinci Code and all the mystery/past literature, but picture that in a very interactive way.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
I wouldn't want to know anything big software related now but hardware related, I'd be cool with.
But releasing secret info 2 days before the show???
A 2 day wait is nothing.
This 3 week wait might seem really agonizing though.
Don't worry, that part proves that it's most likely fake.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
GameplayWhore
Member
"Display Remote Controller". It's a term used for the controllers in the devkits. The other two names which have been used by Nintendo execs have been "The New Controller", featured prominently in their E32011 presentation, and "Subscreen", which was used in an interview at some point (with Iwata, I think?) and may only refer to the screen and not the whole controller.
Don't worry, I'm sure they will achieve their earlier greatness once technology has caught up with them and they start rendering one billion troops to the television screen.
Oh, very true. Still kinda depressing. Time flies, and it seems like yesterday.
I'm throwing myself into work for the last few weeks. It makes time move more quickly, and my co-workers will owe me some time off coverage for later in the year. Very calulated on my part.
Portugeezer
Member
I don't think so, but it could be like the DS where it is barely used. Then again, Wii doesn't require motion controls so I guess Wii U won't require the uPad for everything (despite being one of the main selling points).
Maybe later in the generation to allow for more horsepower? Maybe the uPad running at a low framerate for things like maps and inventory is all that is needed and will allow for more horsepower?
Yep
fake
real
Can't turn the touchscreen off? Of all the dumb shit to make up. All you gotta do is not turn it on.
Hm.
By the equivalent time before the Wii had launched, I had heard loads. And yet, I still wasn't hyped enough to buy one at launch. Right now, by comparison, I know fuck all about the Wii-U.
However, I want a Wii-U, NOW. Goddamn. Got the 5th June booked off work and everything - they had better bring some megatons.
By the equivalent time before the Wii had launched, I had heard loads. And yet, I still wasn't hyped enough to buy one at launch. Right now, by comparison, I know fuck all about the Wii-U.
However, I want a Wii-U, NOW. Goddamn. Got the 5th June booked off work and everything - they had better bring some megatons.
GameplayWhore
Member
Interesting. At this point six years ago, I recall that people were generally ravenous for the Wii. Hype was ridiculous.
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