Wii-U thoughts so far

[ElkinFencer10]

I probably shouldn't have but I just picked up Game & Wario for $30. Not a great price but not terrible either.

I did the same thing with a few of mine recently - $50 for Wii Sport Club, $30 for Wii Party U, and $20 for Hello Kitty Kruisers. I'm expecting all three of those - as well as Game & Wario - to end up being pricey games.

[laurenhiya21]

I'm always relieved when the pricey games are ones I don't really want. I would of been interested in Game & Wario but after playing it, I'm not interested any more. Having a digital copy is good enough for me.

The PS2 and PS1 already have enough expensive games that I want, so the fewer games I have to worry about, the better.

[jmbarnes101]

I probably shouldn't have but I just picked up Game & Wario for $30. Not a great price but not terrible either.

I did the same thing with a few of mine recently - $50 for Wii Sport Club, $30 for Wii Party U, and $20 for Hello Kitty Kruisers. I'm expecting all three of those - as well as Game & Wario - to end up being pricey games.

Where did you find Hello Kitty for $20?!?

[ElkinFencer10]

I probably shouldn't have but I just picked up Game & Wario for $30. Not a great price but not terrible either.

I did the same thing with a few of mine recently - $50 for Wii Sport Club, $30 for Wii Party U, and $20 for Hello Kitty Kruisers. I'm expecting all three of those - as well as Game & Wario - to end up being pricey games.

Where did you find Hello Kitty for $20?!?

I found my copy while was browsing Amazon on my during what was DEFINITELY not a professional development workshop they were paying me to attend...

[Sload Soap]

So, I think I'm close to getting a Wii U. It has a small handful of games I want and it's getting quite affordable in the second hand market. I just have one question: Is Wind Waker HD worth trading in my Gamecube version of the game for? Is it enough of an improvement?

[Xeogred]

So, I think I'm close to getting a Wii U. It has a small handful of games I want and it's getting quite affordable in the second hand market. I just have one question: Is Wind Waker HD worth trading in my Gamecube version of the game for? Is it enough of an improvement?

Yes. It look gorgeous, the sailing can be faster, and they retooled the Triforce quest.

This coming from a non-fan. But I've beaten both versions once. I like Twilight Princess way more and love the HD version of that too, but WW benefited from it more perhaps.

You can only use the Gamepad for WW though, which is fine to me. But I liked that you could just use the Pro controller with TP.

[strangenova]

You can only use the Gamepad for WW though, which is fine to me. But I liked that you could just use the Pro controller with TP.

That's not true. When I boot up WW HD it asks if I'm using gamepad or pro controller. They must've patched it in since you played it.

[ElkinFencer10]

So, I think I'm close to getting a Wii U. It has a small handful of games I want and it's getting quite affordable in the second hand market. I just have one question: Is Wind Waker HD worth trading in my Gamecube version of the game for? Is it enough of an improvement?

Absolutely. It's like night and day. It was gorgeous on the Gamecube, but everything is just feels brighter and more alive on Wii U. They really did a bang up job with remastering that, as Xeogred said.

Like he also mentioned, Twilight Princess also DEFINITELY benefitted from the HD treatment, and IMO, I think it benefitted more than Wind Waker. Wind Waker definitely had MUCH more effort put into it - textures and lighting effects were all completely redone. Twilight Princess, on the other hand, is - for the most part - little more than a straight upscale, but because it used a more realistic artstyle rather than the cel shading that Wind Waker used, it looks almost like a completely different game even though nothing except the resolution was changed (to the best of my knowledge). I've compared them side by side on the same TV by switching between inputs running the Gamecube version through composite and the Wii U version through HDMI, and you wouldn't believe the difference (especially since the Wii U version of Twilight Princess supports 16:9).

[Xeogred]

Yeah, don't get me wrong, TP looks incredible now and there's absolutely no reason to touch the other versions again! It would just be nice if a Skyward Sword remaster hits the U too, so I can have all those on one system.

You can only use the Gamepad for WW though, which is fine to me. But I liked that you could just use the Pro controller with TP.

That's not true. When I boot up WW HD it asks if I'm using gamepad or pro controller. They must've patched it in since you played it.

I guess so. I don't remember there being any option when it came out, because while I don't mind the Gamepad, I always opt for the Pro over it.

[ElkinFencer10]

You can only use the Gamepad for WW though, which is fine to me. But I liked that you could just use the Pro controller with TP.

That's not true. When I boot up WW HD it asks if I'm using gamepad or pro controller. They must've patched it in since you played it.

I guess so. I don't remember there being any option when it came out, because while I don't mind the Gamepad, I always opt for the Pro over it.

That must have been a patch because you definitely weren't given the option on launch. Glad to hear they added that, though.