26th May 2017, 7:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 28th May 2017, 6:32 PM by A Black Falcon.)
First, one more complaint about the Wii U Gamepad (tablet) -- the screen. I've always heard that it's not the greatest screen, and after seeing it I see what people were talking about. When you look at that screen and then my TV, the difference is clear: the colors are bright and vibrant (and accurate) on the TV, but dull, lacking any pop, and sometimes maybe a bit off (is that Splatoon color blue or purple? On the TV it's bright purple, but on the Gamepad it looks blueish...). It's a huge difference. TN panels like the Wii U's tablet just do not have good colors, either in accuracy or in vibrancy!
On another note, I got MK8, so a bit about Nintendo and racing games these days. It's a beautiful and very polished game, but (to mention something I have complained about before) it's really frustrating that this was the ONLY first-party racing game on the Wii U! Nintendo's decision to abandon all racing games other than Mario Kart is really disappointing; the GC had a good selection of Nintendo racing games, though their N64 library was better, but at least the GC and Wii had some great stuff from Nintendo -- on the Wii, that being MK, two full 3d Excite games plus the classic-styled downlodable one, and such. Nintendo's refusal to make a new F-Zero game is perhaps one of the worst and most frustrating things about the company (seriously! F-Zero is incredible!), but there wasn't even a new Wave Race, Excite, 1080, Kirby's Air Ride, a new IP, anything. Just the extremely polished title that is Mario Kart 8... which, again, is a really great looking game with great gameplay and a lot of content, but as good as it is, Mario Kart has never been my favorite kind of racing game. It's very good, but too random to be one of the best. We need more than just MK. Maybe on the Switch Nintendo will finally deliver that? I'm not hopeful, since there hasn't been a racing game made by a first (or second) party Nintendo studio that isn't a Mario Kart game since the Gamecube, I'm pretty sure, unless you count minigames in titles such as the Wii Sports games, but it needs to happen.
I know the racing game genre in general is not as popular as it once was, which is obviously a big part of why they have cut back development in the genre, but if you don't make games you can't know if they would sell! And it's been quite some time since Nintendo has tried at all.
On another note, I got MK8, so a bit about Nintendo and racing games these days. It's a beautiful and very polished game, but (to mention something I have complained about before) it's really frustrating that this was the ONLY first-party racing game on the Wii U! Nintendo's decision to abandon all racing games other than Mario Kart is really disappointing; the GC had a good selection of Nintendo racing games, though their N64 library was better, but at least the GC and Wii had some great stuff from Nintendo -- on the Wii, that being MK, two full 3d Excite games plus the classic-styled downlodable one, and such. Nintendo's refusal to make a new F-Zero game is perhaps one of the worst and most frustrating things about the company (seriously! F-Zero is incredible!), but there wasn't even a new Wave Race, Excite, 1080, Kirby's Air Ride, a new IP, anything. Just the extremely polished title that is Mario Kart 8... which, again, is a really great looking game with great gameplay and a lot of content, but as good as it is, Mario Kart has never been my favorite kind of racing game. It's very good, but too random to be one of the best. We need more than just MK. Maybe on the Switch Nintendo will finally deliver that? I'm not hopeful, since there hasn't been a racing game made by a first (or second) party Nintendo studio that isn't a Mario Kart game since the Gamecube, I'm pretty sure, unless you count minigames in titles such as the Wii Sports games, but it needs to happen.
I know the racing game genre in general is not as popular as it once was, which is obviously a big part of why they have cut back development in the genre, but if you don't make games you can't know if they would sell! And it's been quite some time since Nintendo has tried at all.