E Shop and Downloadables Discussion

Download as they are sill on sale but come off soon Steamworld Dig and Master Reboot.

I could of got Dig about a month ago on PS4 cheaper but the time I was told to get it , it finished and everyone I know who's played has mainly played it on a Nintendo system which it seems to fit also helps towards getting another £5 off NNP.

I got MR as watching the trailer I was getting Bioshock x Journey vibes from it.

There are some really great looking indie games headed to wii U some we seen in the recent Nintendo direct but when searching on youtube these two looked especially good to me.

Runbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9swcTlJYB1k

Sportsball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9chGHAc-90&list=UUGIY_O-8vW4rfX98KlMkvRg

Sportsball looks awesome. Essentially someone pulled Joust and FIFA out of a hat - looks better than that Rayman minigame everyone goes on about.

Runbow does look cool also, and the multiplayer ambition has to be applauded, but... what's going on?

Definitely agree about sportsball looking better than the football game in Rayman, I think Runbow is showing a few different modes in that trailer like running through an obstacle course which is a lot like that speedrunners games on steam & the one with buildings going up and down looks like a king of the hill type battle to me. (winner has to stay on the highest building?)

Not done a update for ages but this week looks really decent though

Wii U eShop

Tengami £6.99
Paper Monsters Recut £5.49

Wii U Virtual Console

Castlevania: Dracula X £5.49
Golden Sun: The Lost Age £6.29

Wii U Retail Download

LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham £44.99

Wii U DLC

Mario Kart 8 DLC Pack 1 £7.00 / €7.99 or £11.00 the DLC bundle

Wii U Demo

Flowerworks HD: Follie's Adventure

The_Jaster wrote:

There are some really great looking indie games headed to wii U some we seen in the recent Nintendo direct but when searching on youtube these two looked especially good to me.

Runbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9swcTlJYB1k

Sportsball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9chGHAc-90&list=UUGIY_O-8vW4rfX98KlMkvRg

Are those online multiplayer as well? They both look like great fun but I don't think I could convince my friends to buy them.

Wow, both of those games look pretty great, I do like how Wii U is getting these games which are tailor made for the system (like Spin the Bottle).

I like the look of both games coming this week but not things I would normally buy right away but am considering buying both as them on top of shovel knight & mario kart 8 dlc. I will have £5 voucher an about 220 points.

Treesmurf wrote:

The_Jaster wrote:

There are some really great looking indie games headed to wii U some we seen in the recent Nintendo direct but when searching on youtube these two looked especially good to me.

Runbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9swcTlJYB1k

Sportsball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9chGHAc-90&list=UUGIY_O-8vW4rfX98KlMkvRg

Are those online multiplayer as well? They both look like great fun but I don't think I could convince my friends to buy them.

I'm not sure but it looks like they are local only, this is where Sportsball looks like it might win out for me as it has a single player mode whereas Runbow looks completely multiplayer focused.

True but to me the single player doesn't look like something I would spend much time with really, seems more of a score attack type thing, release it at a good price though and I still might take the dive.

masofdas wrote:

I like the look of both games coming this week but not things I would normally buy right away but am considering buying both as them on top of shovel knight & mario kart 8 dlc. I will have £5 voucher an about 220 points.

Me too: I'd also like to have the Golden Sun game, and Picross e5. Too many games!

Is anyone taking the plunge with this weeks two games.

You say to many games I've just looked I've got over 80 games in my Wii U eShop watch list, it is mainly VC games which I'm unlikely to download unless I really fancy playing them or on offer but shows the U does have a lot of content.

Too many games is damn right.  In my case, though, I just don't think I've got around to playing a lot of them (it's all SSB3DS' fault ).  But I've had my eye on Tengami for a while, so might pick that up.  I still need to pick up Bayo 2...

The MK8 DLC will come first though, natch.

Bumper week this week

Wii U eShop
Thomas Was Alone £6.99, I've this on my VITA and still not played but I do hear it's very good
Pier Solar and the Great Architects £11.99, Yay but why is this £2 more on Wii U also I doubt it will be day one fro me as to many games
Ittle Dew £8.99, A Zelda type clone which does look decent
Shiny The Firefly £6.29 until 31st December, regular price will be £8.99

Wii U Virtual Console
Breath of Fire £5.49, Talk about oldschool RPG's

Wii U Retail Downloads
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U £49.99
Penguins of Madagascar £34.99

Wii U DLC
Hyrule Warriors Twilight Princess Pack £6.29/Free if you have season pass:
A new Adventure Mode map Twilight-covered Hyrule, with six new 8-bit weapons and sixteen new alternatively-coloured costumes as rewards
A new playable character, Midna in her true Twili form
A new weapon type for Zelda, Dominion Rod
Two new costumes, Ilia's Clothes for Zelda and Postman Uniform for Link

Wii U eShop Temporary Discounts
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams £7.79 until 4th December, I hear this is excellent right Zero
BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner 2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alien £3.33 until 11th December, Is this worth looking at this price

Why Nintendo the Hyrule DLC a day before SMASH & Pokemon also why couldn't we get some of these Indie games spread out a bit.

I remember being quite interested in Ittle Dew when it first hit my radar ages ago. Now, though, it's just not going to get any playtime. For indie games, which being downloadable are unlikely to be bought as Christmas presents, it seems to me to be a better strategy to release in the summer months, when the drought of other things will make people more likely to pick them up.

As it is, I still need to pick up Tengami and Stealth Inc. 2. Everything else is most likely on ice until I do so.

December is rather barren though as you've seen with my release thread else where, but I do think most will be playing something from mad November but I guess if you get a eShop card for Christmas or in January where there's only like 2 games coming out, I could see myself picking some up but not sure which ones Pier Solar, Tengami, Paper Cut some of the one ones I'm looking at at the moment.

I might put my recent £5 voucher towards Ittle dew.

I'm playing through Thomas Was Alone just now. Arguably not a quality game (though I like it a lot), but it has an atmosphere and overall ambiance that I think should be experienced by every gamer.

Got a quick question, anyone who uses prepaid e shop cards having any trouble adding funds to your account at the minute? The reason I ask as a friend of mine found an unscratched £25 card on the bus and since he doesn't own any Nintendo devices he was going to sell it to me for a fiver but when I tried the code it'd just throw up an error code which I googled but there seemed to be no other solution than phone Nintendo support.

Likely stolen card then as they need to be activated before hand or they won't work.

Those cards aren't redeemable until their past the point of purchase. Might there be a chance that it wasn't purchased in the first place? It could have been stolen. It needs to be activated through a transaction.

I thought that might be the case......ach well!

Too many desired eShop releases this month! I'm interested in Tengami, Paper Monsters Recut, Golden Sun 2, Ittle Dew, Pier Solar and Thomas Was Alone (especially after Cap's comments). There's no way to justify buying all of them just yet, so the developers and their hungry children will have to wait.

So just seen Nintendo Life review of Alphadia Genesis which they gave a 6/10, from the reviews there finding similar issues with this as Pier Solar that it has old ideas etc. Which makes me think there just not keen on oldschool jrpgs at NL. Just checked the same guy reviewed both games.

Also were getting a Warhammer 40k game based on Space Hulk it's a port of the PC version that came out quite a while ago but who can moan at a turnbased strategy game seeing the U hasn't got many of them

And this, I would just play the mega drive section with it's blast processing.

Read about Life Of Pixel on (where else?) NL. It sounds like a wonderful idea, similar to the Evoland RPG Jay spoke of in the Last game you completed thread, but a platformer. Sold, sold and sold.