The Wii U sucked. We don't have to be nice about it. It's the truth. It had some great exclusive games and the MiiVerse was pretty awesome, but that pretty much sums up the good stuff about it. And now the MiiVerse is dead and all but about a half dozen of those exclusive games are now available on the Switch. It could almost be phased out of existence without any real loss. Almost...
The Wii U still has one wonderful feature that makes it worth owning. It's just about the most perfect emulation device ever created. At least for Nintendo purposes. Along with the classic systems, it can act as a Wii and a DS, which is something you can't really do on PC or anything else for that matter.
The Wii titles in particular are what I'm looking forward to revisiting this summer. Another one of Wii U's massive shortcomings was the virtual console. So many great titles could have been given one last chance to be played. Then again maybe not considering only like 12 people had a Wii u. Still, I was definitely bitter that a lot of great games never got that one final showcase.
So this past weekend, I tinkered with my Wii U for several hours and unlocked it's potential!!! It was actually quite a pain in the butt, and would have been a lot easier had I just tried to do it on the Wii, but unfortunately the Wi-Fi on it is no longer working and that makes certain things significantly more difficult to do.
And while it is rationalization to some extent, it's also a reality that many Wii games cannot be imported to other systems because of the controller. Barring an actual successor to the Wii, these games are potentially locked and lost.
So at any rate that's going to be my summer project. I've pulled a list of games that I'd like to revisit or even play for the first time. And I'm going to see if my love for the Wii is still legit or if it's completely tinted by rose colored glass. That said, I've already gone a long way into this and I have to tell you, the Wii U menu looks fantastic when it's filled with a bunch of these Wii titles.
The Wii U still has one wonderful feature that makes it worth owning. It's just about the most perfect emulation device ever created. At least for Nintendo purposes. Along with the classic systems, it can act as a Wii and a DS, which is something you can't really do on PC or anything else for that matter.
The Wii titles in particular are what I'm looking forward to revisiting this summer. Another one of Wii U's massive shortcomings was the virtual console. So many great titles could have been given one last chance to be played. Then again maybe not considering only like 12 people had a Wii u. Still, I was definitely bitter that a lot of great games never got that one final showcase.
So this past weekend, I tinkered with my Wii U for several hours and unlocked it's potential!!! It was actually quite a pain in the butt, and would have been a lot easier had I just tried to do it on the Wii, but unfortunately the Wi-Fi on it is no longer working and that makes certain things significantly more difficult to do.
And while it is rationalization to some extent, it's also a reality that many Wii games cannot be imported to other systems because of the controller. Barring an actual successor to the Wii, these games are potentially locked and lost.
So at any rate that's going to be my summer project. I've pulled a list of games that I'd like to revisit or even play for the first time. And I'm going to see if my love for the Wii is still legit or if it's completely tinted by rose colored glass. That said, I've already gone a long way into this and I have to tell you, the Wii U menu looks fantastic when it's filled with a bunch of these Wii titles.
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I was originally playing it on a really old HD TV that was 720 dpi. That broke down towards the end of my play, so I switched to something much nicer that wii games should never be played on.Anyway after my old TV died I ended up going into my office to help file some paperwork and finally decided it's just gathering dust there, so why not bring it back here.
Nice. Our school got rid of a nice 40 inch Samsung tv from my room to replace with a view sonic smart board. Nobody knows where the tv went. I'd would have loved to take it home.
Probably way too early to give an opinion, but I'll give it credit that the graphics are pretty good for a Wii game, and the basic fishing mechanic is solid. All motion controlled, but nothing too ridiculous. Really wish I could have gotten a hold of that fishing rod controller holder let the game originally came with.
Anyway, a lot of the places to fish are locked initially so I'm going to have to put in some hours and see what I can open up.
I think I see the problem.
that would have been a much better problem to have.Indeed. Don’t know what it’s like down there but it’s all legal here baby.