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I don't think so... Are you sure famicomboy is your ninID and not your mii name?

Can't seem to find you :/

So far I really like it! The menus are new and strange and intimidating, but I'll get the hang of it. The web browser is awesome, too. In fact, i'm typing this message on the gamepad!! It's as fast as my ipad. Sweet. edit: now I'm editing this post while a youtube video is playing on the tv! This is awesome!!

Oh actually my ninID is just GameBird without the "!" symbol. Sorry! On another note, does the surround sound actually work for anyone? It doesn't for me...

My NinID is GameBird! Add me! But i may not be able to add you back right away due to internet issues

So people are ranting and raving about how awesome the various menu themes of the Wii U are, and I have to fight to keep myself from listening to them. I loved discovering the Wii's Weather Channel Night music and I can't wait to discover the music on the Wii U menu. It's a special treat that only Nintendo delivers. Just another level of polish that other companies never have.

Prime 3 was amazing. The motion controls worked well and I felt it to have the greatest variety in environments with by far the best graphics. What's with you guys and your metroid hate? Anyways the best buy in town finally got a wii U set up, and I fiddled around with the controller. It honestly feels even better than I was expecting, and the screen is lovely to the touch. I didn't play anything (i doubt the unit even had a game to play) but it's made me even more excited for launch.

Sadly, a good trailer does not a good game make. That said, it WAS a pretty cool trailer, but no Crash Bandicoot?? D:

11 days!

I STILL think Other M was a great game. It had some plot problems, sure, plot holes and the like, but I wrote (and was in the process of recording) an essay discussing Other M and it's issues as well as it's strong points (If anyone's interested I could post a link). Metroid Prime is my favorite game of all time, so yes I would love another prime game, but I also want to see Nintendo push forward and try new things. I think the Other M gameplay style could be refined and if paired with a well-written story could be really awesome. On another point, I'm still hopeful they release screen protectors for the Gamepad on day one, but seeing as I live in a smaller town in Canada, it's unlikely I'll get one, which really frustrates me.

I don't know what I just watched. This hardly seems to relate to Nintendo and Sega besides a few similar designs and names, and even then those were hard to figure out sometimes. Why was Sonic called Gear? Why not Sinoc or something dumb like that? I am also unfamiliar with Sega games, so besides Sonic, Alex Kid and Tetris I didn't recognize anyone on the side. I liked Mario's design though, but who was that creepy ponytailed idiot? What that supposed to be Link? I just don't see how this really mirrors Nintendo and Sega, at least not yet. I was hoping for something like Hetalia that really makes use of the real history, but it doesn't look like that's what we'll be getting.

HAHAHAHAHAHA NOPE The game is pretty lame. I had fun playing as Parrappa (who is not only the only character I've actually played the game he belongs to, but is also a flat character like Mr. Game and Watch, who is my fav from Smash Bros) but OMG RADEC everytime someone played as him I was tempted to ragequit. they SERIOUSLY need to fix his sniper rifle. That thing is OP as heck. The characters are uninteresting, the menus are boring, and there are too many kinds of attacks for this kind of game. Smash bros got it right with two sets: Close combat attacks and special attacks. You never know what circle, X or triangle will do for any character. It feels completely random. Plus, the few items that are there made no sense. A round, yellow hexagon? Duh, of course that's a bomb. At least in Smash Bros when you see an item you usually know what it does(swing a bat, eat a mushroom, grab a pokeball, etc) It also has poor feedback on your actions: none of the attacks feel like they pack any punch, and i constantly forgot I was supposed to collect the glowing blue balls. They didn't chime or anything when you get them. Plus the insane overabundance of guns and bombs is just annoying. Overall the game just lacks charm and feels lifeless Maybe it's the lack of a cheering and interactive crowd, but I was SO uninvested it wasn't even funny. Granted this is only the beta, but if the final game is like this then I am very unlikely to buy it. I mean, really: has anyone EVER lost sleep over who would win in a fight between Fat Princess and Kratos, much less wondered what their fighting styles would be?

I'll bite. I'll go download the Beta/Demo/however these things work these days and give it a try. But first: Who wants to bet I'll need to do another update since I used my PS3 a month ago? UPDATE: WHAT A SURPRISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE

There's a beta? Can you download it from the PSN?

No spoilers on it yet! I've only just found it! ...Yes it's taking me a long time to get through this game. It's been out over two weeks and I've only logged about 16 hours. You can blame school and work.

Mysterious Building/Manson.

Probably gonna go with GameBird again. That's the name I'm trying to use for most of my creative work. I go by Overflow and TotalOverflow as well, but I think I want to make GameBird the name of my studio or something.

@OCRE Yes, that certainly does seem to be the state of the internet and gook culture in general. It's making me want to resign from being a member of geek culture. That is a good point, which I think was raised earlier: making it a little more complicated to use voice chat will weed out much of the flotsam and screaming 12-year olds. With that said however, I don't really understand how it will be that much more difficult anyway: Game-by-game basis sounds fine to me, and the interconnectivity of Miiverse makes up for the lack of cross game chat. Everyone who owns a Wii U will by default have a gamepad, so just set it next to you and plug it your headset, or use a bluetooth set (if it is possible). Personally I still enjoyed using Wii Speak and found it to be very easy and hassle-free. It would be nice if Nintendo supported it outside of one game, since the tech is actually pretty good.

Haha Pikmin would be number 1 on my list if it was at launch. I don't have a PC, let alone a gaming PC. Consoles all the way for me. I do enjoy the Humble Indie Bundles, though, and I'm grateful they run on Mac. But yeah, CoD needs some serious time off. I like how people acted all shocked and horrified that there were two new NSMB games this year and accused the series of 'milking' and such. It's been 3 years since the last NSMB game, and it was 3 years before that that the first one came out. New Super Mario Bros is not the series to accuse of 'milking'.

It is indeed. I actually did enjoy CoD4, but it's the only one I've played. I'm probably gonna stick with Nintendo Land, NSMBU, and maybe Darksiders 2.

I swear I read somewhere that Bluetooth headsets were supported... Anyways, I very rarely play games online anyway, and wouldn't use voice chat unless I was playing with friends, at which point it would probably just be better to set up skype on my iPad or something while I play. I'm not an online gamer anyways so my opinion doesn't account for much, although I was actually interested in maybe getting CoD BO2 with my Wii U to play online with you guys.

My opinion, and Nintendo's as well, is that Nintendo hired a company to produce parts for them. How they produce those parts is not Nintendo's fault, and that Foxconn needs to be held responsible for their actions. Now that the truth is out there, Foxconn needs to change their production methods or Nintendo needs to stop doing business with them. As for NintendoLand, at first I was not interested, but everytime I've watched a video of it I've grown more and more excited: it looks like FUN. Pure, good FUN.

:U holy CRAP YOU CAN CATCH N'S OLD POKEMON IN THE WILD!!!!!!

Can B+W2 trade with Pearl?