Gaming's Best Gimmicks: Looking Back at the Wii U Gamepad

Gaming's Best Gimmicks: Looking Back at the Wii U Gamepad - Throggy

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@Throggy 5 ай бұрын

Hey everyone welcome back to another episode of Throggy’s gaming adventures! Hope you all enjoy!

@javierdelgado3915 5 ай бұрын

In glad someone finally talks about my favorite gamepad function. Using it as a split player screen on Call of duty. Felt like a mini lan party lol

@Throggy 5 ай бұрын

It was probably the thing I used it for most in college lol

@Gamerpreneur_id 5 ай бұрын

Love the symmetrical thumbstick like playstation gamepad.

@flimbamafoo 5 ай бұрын

My cousins had a Wii U when I was younger, and some of my fondest gaming memories were playing Super Mario 3D World or Nintendoland with them. Nothing has the same flare anymore.

@Throggy 5 ай бұрын

Nintendoland is an underrated game on the Wii U. I've been playing it recently and I'm impressed by it.

@MrYoshiPlush_ 4 ай бұрын

Underrated channel

@Throggy 4 ай бұрын

I appreciate it. Just out here uploading videos when I have the time lol.

@wynnsmith403 5 ай бұрын

Epic

@Throggy 5 ай бұрын

Thanks swag master

@duhmez 5 ай бұрын

2 Games I can thnk of, people really NEED to play on a real WiiU gamepad. WOnderful101, increidblke, great game;pad suport best version of the game, and Zombi U.

@suntannedduck2388 5 ай бұрын

Welcome back. :) We use our phones to setup TVs or QR codes to pther things, thank the Gamepad, SmartGlass or Second Screen on Vita. Exactly. Most people don't even notice I dare you i like the notification logic they started with then just a blue light. As if sounds or visuals of notifications then just a light on our phones for example. Regina and Mac is Gamepad only, regular on other platforms. Madden 12 moves on Gamepad. Fair examples. Besides GBA/GameCube or Dreamcast VMU examples. They over prepped the hardware for good and bad for any use I guess and many were in ghe we push sales and realism or safe design whoch shows in EVERY 3ed party or Sony/Xbox first party as well. Shrug. It's why I jumped to Nintendo. Sure brief DS/Wii but Wii U, 3DS rhen Switch all during 2017-2021+. Nintendo gimmciks make gaming exciting again and game design like Splatoon puzzle platforming over combat. It's fun design I enjoy. Weird Geist mention it's a good game like many N Space games but it's not major shooter so people don't care when like many 7th gen mechanics only but eh story/setting shooters its great. No Four Swords or Pacman Vs or Crystal Chronicles at all lacking on Wii U ok then. Maybe for DS? Or voice chat then Wii Speak? No idea. Fhen agayfhe internal there and same with PS4/Xbox One besides fhr headset ones of 360? Speaker on Wiimotes? Just an output option to use? No idea. I never used the TV button but glad it exists. Heck the Xbox One does a feature to wake up the TV so that's nice. Or TV HDMI last used is in TVs these days. Even Sim Tower/Yoot Rower was a 2 window PC game in the 90s yet CEMU does this then the dual DS/3DS of Citra or DS emu. Nintendo fans do because their stupid for popularity oe nostalgia and any priase foe the console even on Qii U redsit or comparison makes you a target they are so dumb. Its a great tech piece. Games were safe but fair like the Wii ghe gems are always better. Gryo is good as a third analogue stick in a sense. Or with yes our arms. Body tracking works for dancing or medical or simulation. While small motions work for gun or vehicle aiming. Sticks more for stealth or character movement. It is still motion just more range of motion then tilts in certain percentage I guess or I guess a compass or whatever I don't know just making examples of trigger point its could determine. I got to Splatoon/BOTW for sure. It's not an IPad controller I hate people use that term. Its a tablet. Pocket PCs came before hr iPhone. Airpods fk you people when earphones work. Google used as a term too. The camera people talk on their phones and swlfie garbage but a console with a camera when GB or PSP or Gizmondo or Tapwave Zodiac had rhem same as a GPS or a Dock or Wii U chat when Eye Toy Chat or Picto Chat existed. Popular and dumb logic by people with consoles with generic games and idiot audiences have no taste. There is a reason dumb smartphone games over console succeed. Sure good flash games too of older iPhone era but still most people are socially average and technically stupid but oh looks/sttength sigh. Ammibo I think were like the cards of GBA or game expansions or just instead of just figures they wanted to do more then sell just that. They still apply toy logic to things sometimes and I appreciate that. For collectors it works. Then again HyperScan exists of cards and too overusing that logic to lock out game content let alone MTX doing it or pay to reload level logic we can joke about. I think the level up idea was cool as can hold data like memory cards, GBA minigames like Billy Hatcher or animations for Shwnmue Dreamcast/Sega GT minigame or PSP to PS2/3 of cross save in Outrun 2006 Coast to Coast or car transfers in Gran Turismo or Resistance 2/PSP infection mode or DS ro Wii connection ideas for sending trailers or drawing for Big Beach Sports. Sega or others did but I mean you can say the same about memory cards and holders in game cases qho sued them to do those things or move their save. Who transferred their Miis in their Wiimotes I never knew ti eas a thing I didn't go into Mii maker much but was the same thing as a memory card features I just said. Screens on consoles. But by 360 memory unirs people didn't care. In person gaming vs. online and less fuel/trips but at home and laziness kicks in. Crickets yep sure. I agree they didn't know what to do and audiences didn't follow what Nintendo had built up of hardware over the years to understand or care. Audiences just want games to relax to. It's why when tech like No Man's Sky happens people care about things of numbers and snakes, don't understand how game development changes or is tough hence the multiplayer change to be more generic too. Yet Star Wars Outlaws will use that design while Starfield was more dated. Yet the tech was attempted in 2002 by Travelers Tales with Haven Call of the King. Mad lads of TT games or Jon Burton or Game Hut YT. Zombi U is a fair game vut its keypads are what set me back besides awkward zombie moments but yes the scanning or real time is good in that game. They barely made a good PS4/Xbox One port with the Gamepad acfeens and a good multiplayer even Fable Legends would have done but was cancelled. Ah some games with fair ideas differently done of a dungeon master mode. Still fair video but I knew nothing about fhe Wii U before I bought one in Feb 2018 and still know more about it then most people that owned it the whole gen. Rven yhen I don't own many Indies on it or emulated to research but I still know enough or done enough hardware thinking feom other console researching. I'm no engineer. That and what a Xavix Port is aka a prep Wii Sport console by ex Nintendo staff. I never like to say I'm intelligent because I'm not. It's just sad what can be done with ambition yet doesn't happen but understanding people is just so sad. Also I just peove my point later of eshop Indies when majoe games comparison of Zombi U meaning most people barely explored it's library and complain about third parties. Sigh. For when your not in a fire fight then. XD you did it in games on the DS. It's not like The world enda with you or pther gamss with dual screen combat on Wii U. Just saying. You do the same with a menu that doesn't pause. I hate it in Horizon Zero Dawn qhen Ratchet 2 solved this years ago over Ratchet 1, but on Wii U you question it when it's the same thing just saying. This is why i don't get people sure to use a grenade may be annoying but switching guns just get to cover or better.prep not all games need that immediate button weapon switching or not all are real time. In a live service game it is real time. Again os swapping the action different yes but there is other equivalents you haven't said rhat I can make comparison to ans are just as annoying as people saying QTEs yet the Wiimote shake over buttons or sticks makes rhe same point. XD Yep because 7th+ didn't know ehat to do. Graphics push too much, execs in force as well. Many of them ahd no time, hads to develop for and too much to think of situations to work around ideas for. The d-pad is ok same with DS OG either. The 480p screen is ok. Ghr bezels ans acreen differences are ok of Switch. Off TV is off and Wiimote support as well. Bo reprogramming like Duck Hunr but still nice. I do it with my Vita PS4 or not people put on a handheld with a tv show sometimes. Dual screen co-op or competitive splir screen is great but og yhr Poetal can't do that. Neither can UNO or Cluedo. Phones do that nowadays pr we saw it a vit in Playlink to put your own answers. Aka Everybody 1-2 Switch on PS4 10 years earlier. third parties tries bur also didn't care but ambition is why Nintendo had to change and audiences are too stupid.to understand yet Gamebot Color IR had been a rhing. Their audience doesn't pay attention to their experiments at all just characters they love and emotional states of themselves. Forget game design or hardware gimmicks. Let alone the Workboy, Satelliview, Bluetooth keyboard, cellphone uses ans more. Sure qe didn't know about these till Unseen64 or Did you know gaming or othera but some must have been somewhat clear with their handheld games rumble/gyro or some obvious console features of the 80s to 2000s at all? But nope. Nostalgia and repeating history of intelligence or wanrs from gamers. They do try with their own drum/pacing. Sure samey IPs but new ones that count and ideas with fair ambition to use them in safe or sometimes overboard but fair most times. Trying with casuals was a fair attempt but not worth it in the end. Ghen again 1% of experiment happy gamers then 99% generic audiences isn't saying much either. IR should have been used in the Gamepad like the sensor bae the xamera was for Wii software yet the magnetomwter did an ok job too. Then again IR on the right joycon so that says it all Nintendo sigh. Fair new use cades but bad position to put it too. Who cares about the touchpad or gyro on PS4 what mostly Japanese devs or some early PS4 western games or late ones like Killzone, Thief, Last of Us 2. Besides the eastern Azure Gunvolt rumble or Gal Gun series did great touchpad or gyro support. Same with Wonderful 101 or Nier Automata. Infamous Second Son as well. Well NFC was under used I think. It was too crammed with features I won't deny that yes. XD ghen again CF card reader and Memory Stick Duo on a PS3 how uaes not really much. Only PDA or Pocket PC users would care. It sucks to people too stupid to understand it because they want gwneric games, TP/WW on Switch because irs more popular and accepted and because they don't know what good engineering is (in other areas then thr plastic , oe the software at times or the specs available to choose from yes) regardless of the hardware comparisons. People play any games on Switch now that it's POPULAR AND PORTABLE. But 10+ years or acceptable platform they will buy it again for full price. Idiots there but oh 8 months too soon.

@suntannedduck2388 5 ай бұрын

Also it is different content. But Reggie can't explain ot that way for people. 10% is still new. So is 60 minutes of exclusive content in Assassin's Creed too. But oh DLC is fine. People I swear some definitions or excuses of content handling is fine but others aren't. I bought Twrraria for Stylus support same way I would Wiimote support for a game I don't care about the graphics. Having some games woth Wiimote and Classic controller support made it more interesting. Most people get too stuck on something and complacent and visionaries people only appreicate when they actually do it in a business otherwise apparently are insane because they do better than the average idiot, thats why they aren't ambitious they want mundane experiences in their dumb lives with easy to do dumb things. They did a lot of thinking yet people didn't get it because its 10+ years too early or still don't care and flops. Also then again Crush PSP (later 3DS) did puzzles before Super Paper Mario like people care where it starts. I mean the Switch existed on PSP 2000/3000 cabled, phones cast to a TV third party app, Neo Geo X, Wideboy or Super Gameboy. Do you think people noticed NO. Same with Pocket PCs very business or enthusiast price ranges. Literally the 2000s Steam Deck with a dock cut off by 2006 the year before the iPhone came out. Do people notice no. Anything thats Google or Apple in the people say it enough peoygo wow that think ans the name catches on. Its not earphones its Air Pods because people are so stupid to know ehat the other things are. What is a search engine oh Google. What is pther things of Denim or other stuff woth a brand name to it exactly. Less impressive than DS when wireless offers a lot of difference too and TV focus. I blame devs and audiences. It was more than inventories ans maps. Nintendo Fans barely even bought Indies on ghe eshop that used the Gamepad so I can't take anyone seriously I'm sorry. XD I'd love a video like this but no one actually bought the Indie eshop games that actually used it or cares. Same with N64 nostalgia, barely discover gem years later when plenty of years to do so to collect, research or otherwise. Their narrow views when excellent third parties on N64. Audiences were to blame but yes Nintendo struggled but thr library is great only mostly due to the eshop if the audience fking browsed it deeper. Marketing it is hard. DS had pre iPhone apps so thats tough to do nowadays. I mean who cared about Wii U Chat. Eye Toy Chat (literally discovered in an Eye Toy Play 2 manual) or even Gizmondo Bluetooth or contacts. No one exactly. The comments speak for themselves IPs they care about in HD, and the plastic od thr console. Sure not great but the differences in the Wii U were great of triggers, screen use vut most people don't care or are too stupid or irs too ambitious. Most people I feel any phone experimentation wasn't needed either but the slabs we have nowadays proves thinfs of audiences, ambition and no one really cares just socialising and emotions to thinfs. I mean I care about techniques yet most would rven hace a clue because the singing oe words matter then the sounds in the song. To me I need gimmicky themes in songs for lyrics otherwise Indie EDM sounds for samples from a ping pong ball or good mix of instruments and elwctoenic sounds in interesting ways is enough for me. Most people couldn't care less. Whatever is popular, simple, acceptable or easy to communicate of appeal of themes, characters and moments. People don't all have to be problem solvers and I get it games to relax and play but then again most casuals treat it like a movie then go back to other mundane things and have no passion it's why we get dramas and other trash tv after all. They can be good at other things such many other excellent hobbies that aren't just books/tv/games of course. But what applies to them in responses that ends up sad too. I don't relate I don't care to yet people are too focused on that or particular writing or themes or social thoughrs. Irs qhy I hate some movies push the drama qhen their location and ideas for that workd are 100x better than the garbage human drama part for a family or relationship or whatever. Then again like Scott the Woz video he demoed some.great ideas for the Qii U and yeah I wished those happened too let alone other platforms. Then again VR devs go back to 2006 Wii because they are immersion stupid and push the hardware too much because the gyro isn't there yet and realism matwtes qhen no it doesn't good enough for nausea to not be too harsh but fair experiences and not boring ones. Idiots. Experimental platform but bad design yet if it qas Sega Genesis VR or Atari Jaguar VR. Sure it'd be early polygons but tht experimentation would be better then the trash fo thrse days minds to make anything anymore. Besides Labo VR being fair or additions to games. Around Wii people got lazy. They get to be teens or devs get lazier second half of 7th gen for the refined PS3/360 game format we see of 8th+ gen continue qoth for years and sick od it. Audiences and devs to blame for it. Tons of ideas to remarket or attempt but too lazy to do it. Not creative enough east or west of some studios brains and wr get story and eh themed games that lack game design even without great gimmicky hardware. Square published titles of 2022 sucked let alone Foamstars yet FF7 Rebirth while not as tefined of quality the minigames show they put more effort in than those published fames they allowed support for because those studios had less good ideas and are too safe. If that doesn't prove compared to Asrro lack of creativity from some atudios qhen Astro platformer or not has better ideas, pacing and creative. I swear. Like sure I enjoyed Valkyrie Elysium but it was the only game I did enjoy from that Square Enxi published lineup because besides being a good hack n slash ans well a studio woth a better busget and handling then Wanted Dead was of cool but janky and I let it pass Devils Third was playable yet janky and irs comparable or similar staff pretty sure. The elements idea was well done in that game as well. Had a fair idea in it I can look at so many Indie platformers or racing that suck yet ghr inspiration is so repetitive of a handful not deeper yet I have nore idead for Foamstars, Biomutant or other games ywt Indies are so useless and basic in their game design of inspirations yet I make up siwas woth no connecttion to those games but inspired for new ideas based on them. Says a lot how to use one's beain differently. If No Man's Sky or Nightingale devs can do the same and I can (yes not programming but still idea solutions to game design). Why are most in gaming so nostalgic or pathetically underskilled to think outside of the box. 3rd parties Indies did so much fk Nintendo fans and only wanting major third parties as well as them mobile jumping devs 3DS dos well but Wii U/Vita wetserners suck. To me the problem was it wasn't pushed enough. Inxies like 3Souls or Affordable Space Adventures tried aka anyone smart enough to beowse the eshop foe more rhan Nintendo VC games. For the actual Wii U games or the PSP Minis poeted to Wii U. Rush was a fair game and I loved rhat and the PSP Mini/mobile port to Wii U of Edge. Captain U was Mario Bros but Gamepad focused and end of its life. The Wii Balance Board news game Umbra was cool, US only but still a cool peripherals use of the hardware dor a horror game. Reversi was one od the last games for the Wii U also like that reel of rhe Wii U announcement. But it also wasn't DS enough (videos from different angles, the swapping of screens well enough ir was usually pretty limited because TV focus over Gamepad when thr Gamepad is fastwr of connection but oh no TV foucs or HD I hate humanity also people and Miiverse same problems as Xbox One awesome OS for garbage social features I hate humanity talking garbage over tech advancements this is why qe canihave nice things is because people want comfort or yelling at each other people suck) or GBA GameCube (even 2 Gamepads woth a low intensity game)/VMU Dreamcast enough. The GBA pausing the manual, the software limits of home and commited to 1 app/game. 1GB of RAM to games/apps aside as 1GB for the OS. Yeah it had challenges. PC don't any time they did qith weaker hardware but console priorities. Phones, Vita, Xbox One were close yet PCs have veen doing multiple desktops for years. Xbox One got close, picture in picture on PS5 besides Wonderful 101 Remastered. The Wii U can go further of Switch joycons to be dual screen or wireless casting like I can my phone with a third party app. Dual screen phones have tried but with remote play taking 10+ years and no one knows what Impulse triggers or SmartGlass os but does a Wii U I blame AUDIENCES and how far things are understood by people. Same reason VR is great of dual screen yet staff are useless in their safe game design mindsets whoch is why even in an experimental space they suck at making VR games because their heads are backwards. That and audiences say it's too expensive/nothing to offer enough of support so why bother. We repeat history because of nostalgia, laziness and socialising. Fk humanity.