I actually managed to find the main developer of Hex Heroes on Discord and I asked about the game. The reply I got was "Things have been rough for the team and we're planning an update soon." This was almost a year ago now. Safe to say the team was not planning an update soon.
The Minecraft Wii U port didn't utilize the Wii U Gamepad... at all. When it released, people immediately asked the obvious question, why not allow managing the inventory on the Gamepad while playing the game on the TV? The devs responded, to my memory, that they hadn't considered that play style and would look into it. Then I don't think it was ever patched in.
I still love the Wii U. It wasn't perfect, but the second screen in the controller was such a cool thing. I remember thinking how nice it was that I could order my squad around on the fly in the Mass Effect 3 port. Third party devs just abandoned it too early.
Really annoys me that they blatantly removed wii u gamepad functionality from breath of the wild, it would have added a lot to the game to switch weapons ect real time and seeing as the shieka slate is modeled around the pad it's pretty obvious this would have been possible. It would have made the wii u version clearly better than the switch version though so I see the reason it was removed.
I enjoyed it but was very disappointed about the lie of being able to take into another room to play. I had one while living in pretty small apartment with thin walls and it couldn't even be played more than a few feet from the console, and walls would kill connection. So ya you could play in another room...as long as you take the entire console with you
@@gogogo8448the wiiu version plays at a lower resolution and average framerate docked, and like for like you get portability so idk if a simple menu or slightly faster weapon switching really makes anything "clearly better"
Smash Ultimate is not a port; it's a full-on sequel...but NSMBU Deluxe is technically a port of *two* games, the other of which being New Super Luigi U.
Yep. Even though it doesn't immediately look it at first casual glance, even a number of the base systems were rewritten for Smash Ultimate. And yes, even a lot of character animations were redone. In fact, Ultimate was the first Smash bros to include facial expressions and supporting animations, for them, for various moves and reactions to hit, etc.
I can't believe I remember these projects as well as I did - probably because I was the top moderator over on the Wii U subreddit during the active years of the system, and I would cover a lot of eShop-related content, including these Kickstarter projects as they were being funded and created for Wii U. I feel so sad about Hex Heroes not making it to the finish line, but the others... yeah, they probably weren't going to amount to much. The UCraft guy and I certainly didn't get along as he tried to shill his stuff on Reddit all the time, asking for people to "give us your hearts".
Following the U Craft story was such a blast back in the day. The dude behind that game was an absolute mad man, promissing games left and right, fighting everyone on sight and never delivering anything. The most notorious was his drama with the devs of Cube Life, that constantly called out on his bullshit, ironically Cube Lufe was the Minecraft clone to find success on the console before Minecraft, and later even saw a release on the Switch
I remember when Slightly Mad Studios promised to bring ProjectCARS to WiiU, and got a lot of backers on KickStarters, only to never release it on the WiiU.
I was hoping you'd cover The 90's Arcade Racer. That game looked great, a glorious tribute to Sega arcade racers like Virtua Racing and Daytona. It got funded on kickstarter, then Nicalis came on the scene as a publisher..and then after that crickets. Though Nicalis did change the Wii U as a platform on their website, to say Switch at some point. I guess that counts as "progress"
Project Cars had most of its funding come from WiiU backers only for them to later say it wasn’t possible once they had the money. They knew they had WiiU players desperate for a good looking racing game.
Imagine if you could of played 3ds on the wii U. I always heard rumors of a wii u prototype with 3ds port to play them. Nintendo was always into that stuff.
oh god seeing hex heroes unlocked a core memory inside my brain... i was searching for multiplayer games on wii u i hadn't heard of and found THAT trailer then i waited... and waited... and waited and waited... untill i forgot all about its existence!
I did it so that the people who do not know what I'm talking about would mention that part in the comments... turns out EVERYONE knows how proud his mother is
I think Nintendo marketed wrong.. Nearly every customer I had thought it was just a game pad for Wii. We had returns because they were buying wii u games for wii. I had a person ask for the Wii U tablet so they can play Batman Arkham City for thier Wii. Calling it a "Wii 2" would have made a difference. I'm not saying people are stupid, but sometimes you need to dumb things down to make things easier to understand. I also had customers looking for "Mario" while buying an Xbox so...theres that
Switch has tons of WiiU ports, but it is not genuine to call ultimate a port of smash 4. The physics, the engine, the balance, the mechanics, the animations, the menu renders, the modes, the roster, the ost, etc are completely different beasts and truthfully the biggest resemblance is the artstyle. It was made from scratch with new assets. It’s not the same as Mario kart 8 receiving new content on switch or a revamped battle mode from the base game or SF4 getting updates to Ultra SF4, because despite the surface level similarities, ultimate’s functionally a different game with the same aesthetic. It would be like calling MK8 a port of MK7
No, Smash for Switch was not built from scratch. There were some tweaks to models and mechanics, but it was absolutely built on the existing work already done for the Wii U version.
I never got to play the WiiU because I think everyone in my friend group misunderstood it as like a limited edition version of the Wii, or something like that. I don't think I've ever seen one in real life! So I enjoyed watching this little piece of gaming history I missed out on, haha. ☺️ (At least I didn't miss the PSP!)
14:07 I have firsthand experience with a game project that was briefly on Kickstarter that wasn't a scam. I was part of a game project called Brony Battle Royale which was run by a guy who had absolutely no idea what he was doing. First he starts this poll where people can vote for the bronies they want on the project with the ability to add additional options. There were two problems with this: You could vote for the same bronies once a day and there was no requirement to ask them for permission first. This naturally lead to nobodies like myself and Angelmongone (who at the time was making videos of him talking while the "video" part of the video consisted rotating his pony avatar, he he improved a bit later on though but most of the videos are gone and he's apparently now going by "AJ-THE-TAILEDFOX" ) and a complete newcomer, Doc Xot. Most of the big names who won the poll either said no or didn't respond, which is how I got in. Then he started a Kickstarter without actually starting to make the game even so far as a proof of concept (which as I understand it, is against Kickstarter's rules) pretty much everyone involved had to dissuade him. It then turned out he had no programming knowledge or the money to hire programmers but Fast Track decided to learn programming and do it himself, which was obviously going to take years. Also he replaced the Kickstarter with a Patreon that _absolutely no one_ donated to because by that point no one had any reason to have much faith in the project. Then it turned out that ToonKriticY2K, who Fast Track was a fan of was a p*dofile, which was basically the last straw for Fast Track as the project was meant to be a passion project that was basically based on Fast Track's love for the fandom. So he handed it over to someone called "Dubcake" who went silent for a few years only to reveal he had actually already abandoned the project.
The Wii U was a fine console with tremendous potential that was completely quashed by Nintendo's terrible marketing. I think the name was the biggest problem, since it confused most any consumer who wasn't a die-hard gamer already. When your biggest competitor isn't a competing console, but *your own previous hardware iteration*, you know you messed up somewhere. They didn't even learn their lesson right away as they still released the "New 3DS" a few years later, which was almost as messy a marketing situation. I'm glad a lot of the fantastic software it had has been given a second chance at life on the Switch.
That Ucraft story reminded me of the fan game Sonic Omens for a bit there: A game that wasn’t very good, and who’s developers were picking fights with critics (kind like the Amico, but going a little further than that) and was pretty dodgy (with the devs Ouroboros Studio hiding builds behind Patreon, getting messaged by SEGA about it, enabling ads on GameJolt, calling critics ‘haters’, etc, stolen models, music, ghosted voice actors, the whole 9 yards!)
It was nice to see the stories (and scams) about this failures, I enjoyed and was entertained to watch it, so thanks!. I feel kind bad the fate that the WiiU got, sure maybe it wasn't popular and felt more like a very but very late answer of Nintendo of a HD era console rather than next-gen device but still it was an unique hardware and the gamepad gimmick it wasn't that bad in my opinion just it wasn't properly handled. The gamepad could have worked very well for any game that featured local co-op as a main aspect. Anyway still I like the console (yes, I actually own one) those hours that I spent online on Mario Kart 8, Splatoon and Super Mario Maker (along with creating levels) was the best hours that I had in the past decade!.
You should do a video on Dreamcast Kickscammers! There’s Elysian Shadows, Paprium, Saber Riders, and I think SLaVE qualifies too, there’s definitely enough for a video!
I thought I didn't know what Hex Heroes was, but 5:01 rung a bell! I believe I was following the studio on Twitter? Or at least checking for updates. Wasn't it also gonna have Hat Kid from a Hat in Time and Alicia from Heart Forth Alicia? Oh man, this really brought me back, thanks for reminding me of its name. 6:53 Wow, I never thought it possible... you did NOT just mention Mario Castañeda, the voice of GOKU himself (here in Mexico) in a Slope's Game Room episode! =O Seriously, this vid has made my day already.=D 9:15 Ee-naoh?
I would take a Wii U (with my virtual console games included) and a Dreamcast with the full library over a Switch to be honest. My Wii U and Dreamcast are both still hooked up and ready to play
Holy frick. I thought i was the only dude to remember that insane brickblast dev. Brickblast was one of the first games i ever reviewed on my website, and the dev was a bit of a prick mad that I didnt love it. Gave some feedback on what I’d like to see in the game, and that was that. Funny enough he also promised that ucraft would cross interact with an application called SDK Paint that came around near the end of the wii u’s life, and while that application was rather decent, I struggle to see how those games would remotely interact… Looking back I dodged quite a few bullets by not backing any KSes, as some i bookmarked to see what they became later never came to be.
I fully understand the need for sponsorship, and i hold no grudges against SGR for taking a sponsorship opportunity that allows him to keep creating the videos we love. That said, I had hoped with 30 million dollars of Funko Pops being thrown in landfill, that hydrocephalic-centered mass media figures had burned themselves out. If the sponsor had been selling Sega themed dioramas with normal sized heads (streets of rage, toejam and earl, Sonic, etc...) then I'd be happy to plunk down some money on those. Not that I wouldn't enjoy the Castlevania set, but those big heads turn me off so bad.
Not gonna lie, I was confused when I heard, back ghen, that the latam dub voice of Goku was going to make a game. But, just someone else with the same name lol
Why do I have the feeling we might end up seeing a similar video for Chicken Wiggle Switch (renamed Hatch Tales)? A similar slowing down and death of updates happened there, too. At this rate, it will probably try to slip into obscurity and disappear, along with all the kickstarter money he got from the successful Kickstarter campaign. As for my experience with Kickstarter, it leaves me lukewarm. I've only joined a Kickstart for 3 projects, and I would say it was at a 33% success rate. Only one of them was an unsuccessful Kickstart so it didn't cost me any money. So for ones I paid money for, 2 were successful. I would have to say, the Monster Hunter Board game was a rather nice success, though and definitely made the sting of the Hatch Tales one, less. Thankfully, I paid the minimal for the Hatch Tales one so it wasn't that bad a loss. It would be for those who did pay the higher tiers, though. Monster Hunter, I upgraded, but when they stuff arrived I really got a Lot for the money. Thing is, the Monster Hunter one was definitely a less risky bet given it was done by an established small company with a sizable amount of successful and fun boardgames already under their belt before. And they seem to still be pumping out successful board game adaptations to this day.
I never thought I'd click this video to discover gaming's own To Boldly Flee, but Lynn and the Spirits of Inao might do. Come to think of it, how come the creators of To Boldly Flee, the Walker brothers, haven't been showcased on this show yet with their Pop Quiz Hotshot disaster?
The moral lesson that we can learn from watching this...When you donate your cash for a project, buyer beware because it could backfire in the worst way.
I won't get rid of my Wii U until Nintendoland is somehow playable on another system. You can do it Nintendo! There are enough switches out there, make it so you use a 2nd switch as the gamepad it will work!
I should mod my Wii U since Nintendo officially killed it off, online and everything. I heard that it has everything built in to run gamecube games except for the disc reader and memory card slot (and controller support if you didn’t pick up the Smash Bros converter). Between that, its built in Wii hardware and its Virtual console emulators, it is the ultimate retro Nintendo gaming machine as long as you buy some more memory storage for it.
Kickstarter was absolutely wild. Perhaps now that the hype is over, those investing in such projects, both as buyers and sellers, will think twice before launch. I'm still waiting for Sword of Fargoal 2 😅 You ever want to see another dev trainwreck that occurs over a number of slow-petering years, simply follow that story...as best you can anyway.
Well damn, I didn't know the Switch sold so well! I recently was wondering if anything would top the PS2's huge sales numbers and the Switch is getting close!
Yeah, that last direct showed loads of new games, so still plenty of chance for people to buy the system. I hope it does surpass it... I love the switch
The Wii U was unfortunately executed so poorly. The lackluster resistive touch screen, terrible battery life, the need for constant teathering and the console being pretty underpowered overall for a non portable system. And why did it only have an inward facing camera? An outward sensor for the TV wouldve made so much sense! Also, the lack of the ability to play DVDs was just weird.
I liked the Wii U but it's not really fair to call Breath of the Wild or especially Smash Ultimate Wii U ports . Smash Ultimate is the next in the series and Breath of the Wild came out at the same time on both systems.
90s super GP is one that still has yet to release. Pelikan13 said it was going to be a wiiu exclusive and then it was said to come to switch and now its ????
I cant wait for in the next 3-5 years people start saying the Wii U was misunderstood and how it's better than we give it credit for etc, etc. That, and for how expensive collecting for it will become😒
I really shouldn't be surprised that you butchered the names of Miyazaki movies since you did mispronounce the very common (well common in Mexico) Spanish name Juan. Spanish tends to pronounce "J" like an "H".
I liked the Wii U but then again, I’m a Nintendo fan girl. I don’t find many exclusives interesting on PlayStation and Microsoft. I also don’t have a high end PC so I only play small indie games on steam and nothing crazy. The only game I liked on the ps3 that my sister and I owned that was exclusive (at the time) was last of us and I liked playing on my sister’s completed GTA 5 file and just mess around and kill people and get killed. Okay I also liked little big planet. Katamari is on switch now so yeah.
40 seconds in, and you're calling Smash Ultimate a port of Smash for Wii U? OK. EDIT: The Hex Heroes info is pretty spot-on. That bit about Smash just puzzled and annoyed me. DKC Tropical Freeze or Pikmin 3 would be better games to pick out, but I suppose those didn't top the Switch charts.
The fact that Game and Wario also threw a jab to the kickstarters only for the game to also flop and trashed by everyone who wanted Wario Land instead. Hopefully the kickstarter was only about liking posts and sharing advertisment.
That may be the most burchered form of "Mononoke" I've ever heard. XD Incidentally, it's like Mo-No-No-Ke, with the ke pronounced like Kay. Although a quick review video would have probably told you that.
Yo dawg, I heard you like failure, so I packed this full of failures so you can watch this doc about failures for a failure while thinking about failure!
I was one of those backers! I missed the email to give me a choice of a new key, which defaulted me to getting a Steam key. At the time, my PC could not run the game, and they could not exchange it for a Switch or Playstation code. Then reviews were so universally lukewarm, it took any wind out of my sails to ever play the game. I finally got a cheap copy for PS4 and barely started it. I wish Playtonic luck in the future, but that game just fell flat on its face for me.
@@donnylurch4207 BS if you backed the game and never had an alternative console. They should have either refunded, or pushed forward with dev. No one was telling them they couldn't release on Wii U, they probably just didn't think it would be profitable.
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Hey thanks for the kind words about High Strangeness. We worked like heck on that game and we're proud of what we've put out.
I actually managed to find the main developer of Hex Heroes on Discord and I asked about the game. The reply I got was "Things have been rough for the team and we're planning an update soon."
This was almost a year ago now. Safe to say the team was not planning an update soon.
The Minecraft Wii U port didn't utilize the Wii U Gamepad... at all. When it released, people immediately asked the obvious question, why not allow managing the inventory on the Gamepad while playing the game on the TV? The devs responded, to my memory, that they hadn't considered that play style and would look into it. Then I don't think it was ever patched in.
Yeah, that's a bit silly
I still love the Wii U. It wasn't perfect, but the second screen in the controller was such a cool thing. I remember thinking how nice it was that I could order my squad around on the fly in the Mass Effect 3 port. Third party devs just abandoned it too early.
I loved the way they handled Zombi U
Really annoys me that they blatantly removed wii u gamepad functionality from breath of the wild, it would have added a lot to the game to switch weapons ect real time and seeing as the shieka slate is modeled around the pad it's pretty obvious this would have been possible. It would have made the wii u version clearly better than the switch version though so I see the reason it was removed.
I don't understand why it's so universally hated.
I enjoyed it but was very disappointed about the lie of being able to take into another room to play. I had one while living in pretty small apartment with thin walls and it couldn't even be played more than a few feet from the console, and walls would kill connection. So ya you could play in another room...as long as you take the entire console with you
@@gogogo8448the wiiu version plays at a lower resolution and average framerate docked, and like for like you get portability so idk if a simple menu or slightly faster weapon switching really makes anything "clearly better"
Smash Ultimate is not a port; it's a full-on sequel...but NSMBU Deluxe is technically a port of *two* games, the other of which being New Super Luigi U.
Best me to the punch. Yep Ultimate is completely new.
Yep. Even though it doesn't immediately look it at first casual glance, even a number of the base systems were rewritten for Smash Ultimate. And yes, even a lot of character animations were redone. In fact, Ultimate was the first Smash bros to include facial expressions and supporting animations, for them, for various moves and reactions to hit, etc.
I can't believe I remember these projects as well as I did - probably because I was the top moderator over on the Wii U subreddit during the active years of the system, and I would cover a lot of eShop-related content, including these Kickstarter projects as they were being funded and created for Wii U.
I feel so sad about Hex Heroes not making it to the finish line, but the others... yeah, they probably weren't going to amount to much. The UCraft guy and I certainly didn't get along as he tried to shill his stuff on Reddit all the time, asking for people to "give us your hearts".
Following the U Craft story was such a blast back in the day. The dude behind that game was an absolute mad man, promissing games left and right, fighting everyone on sight and never delivering anything. The most notorious was his drama with the devs of Cube Life, that constantly called out on his bullshit, ironically Cube Lufe was the Minecraft clone to find success on the console before Minecraft, and later even saw a release on the Switch
An animation posing as a real game? Damn makes me think of Earthworm Jim on the Amico lol.
Hahaha yep that whole segment reminded me of TT
Aww, the Wii U. What a fun, misunderstood little underdog! Gamepad and Miiverse were loads of fun.
Genuinely happy someone out there actually realizes that the Wii U was good
I put a stupid amount of time into it. Still play it from time to time
I remember when Slightly Mad Studios promised to bring ProjectCARS to WiiU, and got a lot of backers on KickStarters, only to never release it on the WiiU.
I was hoping you'd cover The 90's Arcade Racer. That game looked great, a glorious tribute to Sega arcade racers like Virtua Racing and Daytona. It got funded on kickstarter, then Nicalis came on the scene as a publisher..and then after that crickets. Though Nicalis did change the Wii U as a platform on their website, to say Switch at some point. I guess that counts as "progress"
I may do a dedicated video on ot
@@slopesgameroom That would be amazing. Cheers!
@@slopesgameroomI was sure that miserable failure would be a given on this video, so I would also love to see a dedicated video on it someday.
Project Cars had most of its funding come from WiiU backers only for them to later say it wasn’t possible once they had the money.
They knew they had WiiU players desperate for a good looking racing game.
Ahhhhh yes. That's a great addition
I never knew that the Nintendo Switch was second to the PS2 in sales...and it still sells well even after so many years
I love the WiiU I wish we had more dual screen games.
Agreed the RTS game in this vid sounded great. Didn't look all that tho
Imagine if you could of played 3ds on the wii U.
I always heard rumors of a wii u prototype with 3ds port to play them. Nintendo was always into that stuff.
oh god seeing hex heroes unlocked a core memory inside my brain... i was searching for multiplayer games on wii u i hadn't heard of and found THAT trailer then i waited... and waited... and waited and waited... untill i forgot all about its existence!
Such a sad little history piece,
@@slopesgameroomoh its even worse for Eu owners cause the european shop didnt always get the same releases... sometimes for the best
I am forever going to call ‘Princess Mononoke’ ‘The Mana-nokee Princess’ now lolol love it
Hahaha it was to ridiculous even for me not to add
Only referring to Tommy now as the "man with the very proud mother"
I did it so that the people who do not know what I'm talking about would mention that part in the comments... turns out EVERYONE knows how proud his mother is
I think Nintendo marketed wrong.. Nearly every customer I had thought it was just a game pad for Wii. We had returns because they were buying wii u games for wii. I had a person ask for the Wii U tablet so they can play Batman Arkham City for thier Wii. Calling it a "Wii 2" would have made a difference. I'm not saying people are stupid, but sometimes you need to dumb things down to make things easier to understand. I also had customers looking for "Mario" while buying an Xbox so...theres that
Switch has tons of WiiU ports, but it is not genuine to call ultimate a port of smash 4. The physics, the engine, the balance, the mechanics, the animations, the menu renders, the modes, the roster, the ost, etc are completely different beasts and truthfully the biggest resemblance is the artstyle. It was made from scratch with new assets. It’s not the same as Mario kart 8 receiving new content on switch or a revamped battle mode from the base game or SF4 getting updates to Ultra SF4, because despite the surface level similarities, ultimate’s functionally a different game with the same aesthetic. It would be like calling MK8 a port of MK7
Nobody asked you
No, Smash for Switch was not built from scratch. There were some tweaks to models and mechanics, but it was absolutely built on the existing work already done for the Wii U version.
@@ZeusTheIrritable Alright, still doesnt make it a port
@@numbuh1507 This is such a well adjusted comment to someone just explaining a thing you must be so proud of yourself
@@OkamiSpirit427 Yes. Yes, it does.
I never got to play the WiiU because I think everyone in my friend group misunderstood it as like a limited edition version of the Wii, or something like that. I don't think I've ever seen one in real life! So I enjoyed watching this little piece of gaming history I missed out on, haha. ☺️
(At least I didn't miss the PSP!)
I heavily adore the Wii U/3DS era
It just felt so alive to be a Nintendo fan back in the day
14:07 I have firsthand experience with a game project that was briefly on Kickstarter that wasn't a scam. I was part of a game project called Brony Battle Royale which was run by a guy who had absolutely no idea what he was doing.
First he starts this poll where people can vote for the bronies they want on the project with the ability to add additional options. There were two problems with this: You could vote for the same bronies once a day and there was no requirement to ask them for permission first. This naturally lead to nobodies like myself and Angelmongone (who at the time was making videos of him talking while the "video" part of the video consisted rotating his pony avatar, he he improved a bit later on though but most of the videos are gone and he's apparently now going by "AJ-THE-TAILEDFOX" ) and a complete newcomer, Doc Xot. Most of the big names who won the poll either said no or didn't respond, which is how I got in.
Then he started a Kickstarter without actually starting to make the game even so far as a proof of concept (which as I understand it, is against Kickstarter's rules) pretty much everyone involved had to dissuade him. It then turned out he had no programming knowledge or the money to hire programmers but Fast Track decided to learn programming and do it himself, which was obviously going to take years. Also he replaced the Kickstarter with a Patreon that _absolutely no one_ donated to because by that point no one had any reason to have much faith in the project.
Then it turned out that ToonKriticY2K, who Fast Track was a fan of was a p*dofile, which was basically the last straw for Fast Track as the project was meant to be a passion project that was basically based on Fast Track's love for the fandom. So he handed it over to someone called "Dubcake" who went silent for a few years only to reveal he had actually already abandoned the project.
The Wii U was a fine console with tremendous potential that was completely quashed by Nintendo's terrible marketing. I think the name was the biggest problem, since it confused most any consumer who wasn't a die-hard gamer already. When your biggest competitor isn't a competing console, but *your own previous hardware iteration*, you know you messed up somewhere. They didn't even learn their lesson right away as they still released the "New 3DS" a few years later, which was almost as messy a marketing situation. I'm glad a lot of the fantastic software it had has been given a second chance at life on the Switch.
That Ucraft story reminded me of the fan game Sonic Omens for a bit there:
A game that wasn’t very good, and who’s developers were picking fights with critics (kind like the Amico, but going a little further than that) and was pretty dodgy (with the devs Ouroboros Studio hiding builds behind Patreon, getting messaged by SEGA about it, enabling ads on GameJolt, calling critics ‘haters’, etc, stolen models, music, ghosted voice actors, the whole 9 yards!)
I almost backed Ucraft back in the day. I didn't because the developer was promising way more than any one person could deliver.
I love Hey-yo Miyazaki! My favorites are Kicker's Delivery Service, Hall's Moving Castle, and Sprited Away
💀
Big fan of Nauseous of the Rally of the Wild and Porky Rossa myself
Do we have a definitive number for how many wii u digital only titles were preserved?
_Breath of the Wild_ and not having enough money for the Switch is what made me buy a WiiU.
I don’t know if you’ve ever covered anything like this concept but one interesting kick scam is where a legitimate organizer gets scammed by a backer
I guess you could say that for every shovel knight there was a bunch of... shovelware.
Remember backing a few Wii U titles that eventually just didn't release and instead went onto other consoles. Drive Club IIRC was one.
How many times the fact that smash ultimate is NOT a port of smash 4 needs to be repeated?
Regardless of similarities, it's not a port.
That French bushes guy was following the Blizzard model. Blizzard did a very similar thing for several years starting in 2005-2006.
I love these wii u related videos. Such a fascinating console
It was nice to see the stories (and scams) about this failures, I enjoyed and was entertained to watch it, so thanks!.
I feel kind bad the fate that the WiiU got, sure maybe it wasn't popular and felt more like a very but very late answer of Nintendo of a HD era console rather than next-gen device but still it was an unique hardware and the gamepad gimmick it wasn't that bad in my opinion just it wasn't properly handled.
The gamepad could have worked very well for any game that featured local co-op as a main aspect.
Anyway still I like the console (yes, I actually own one) those hours that I spent online on Mario Kart 8, Splatoon and Super Mario Maker (along with creating levels) was the best hours that I had in the past decade!.
0:53 Never hold a stack of game cases sideways.
I also learned that the hard way!
You should do a video on Dreamcast Kickscammers! There’s Elysian Shadows, Paprium, Saber Riders, and I think SLaVE qualifies too, there’s definitely enough for a video!
Paprium got released at least, albeit late, and was good from what I've heard/seen, got covered super heavily.
@@hi_tech_reptilez not on dreamcast yet, but yeah it looked good from what I saw, pier Solar was a bad wait but not quite like paprium haha
I LOOOOVE WHEN GAMES CHANGE UP THE GRAPHICS, GAMEPLAY AND VIEWS/CAMERA ANGLES AND STUFF DURING THE GAME!! OMG THAT INTENSE!!
I had no idea they made a mysterious Cities of Gold game it was a TV show in the 80s and 90s
I heard an OOF in there! Also what is Mario holding at 1:43 of the video! That doesn't look like a plumbers tool to me!
It's for princess peach
I thought I didn't know what Hex Heroes was, but 5:01 rung a bell! I believe I was following the studio on Twitter? Or at least checking for updates. Wasn't it also gonna have Hat Kid from a Hat in Time and Alicia from Heart Forth Alicia? Oh man, this really brought me back, thanks for reminding me of its name.
6:53 Wow, I never thought it possible... you did NOT just mention Mario Castañeda, the voice of GOKU himself (here in Mexico) in a Slope's Game Room episode! =O Seriously, this vid has made my day already.=D
9:15 Ee-naoh?
I would take a Wii U (with my virtual console games included) and a Dreamcast with the full library over a Switch to be honest. My Wii U and Dreamcast are both still hooked up and ready to play
Holy frick. I thought i was the only dude to remember that insane brickblast dev. Brickblast was one of the first games i ever reviewed on my website, and the dev was a bit of a prick mad that I didnt love it. Gave some feedback on what I’d like to see in the game, and that was that.
Funny enough he also promised that ucraft would cross interact with an application called SDK Paint that came around near the end of the wii u’s life, and while that application was rather decent, I struggle to see how those games would remotely interact… Looking back I dodged quite a few bullets by not backing any KSes, as some i bookmarked to see what they became later never came to be.
I fully understand the need for sponsorship, and i hold no grudges against SGR for taking a sponsorship opportunity that allows him to keep creating the videos we love.
That said, I had hoped with 30 million dollars of Funko Pops being thrown in landfill, that hydrocephalic-centered mass media figures had burned themselves out.
If the sponsor had been selling Sega themed dioramas with normal sized heads (streets of rage, toejam and earl, Sonic, etc...) then I'd be happy to plunk down some money on those. Not that I wouldn't enjoy the Castlevania set, but those big heads turn me off so bad.
I remember Road Redemption having a WiiU goal. Absolutely great game, honestly, even if it came to Switch instead (among other systems)
Not gonna lie, I was confused when I heard, back ghen, that the latam dub voice of Goku was going to make a game.
But, just someone else with the same name lol
It was a weird obscure discover in my research I had to add
I thought I was losing my mind hearing "Jingle Bells" in the background hahaha.
Hahaha yep, from the official father Christmas game on the C64
Why do I have the feeling we might end up seeing a similar video for Chicken Wiggle Switch (renamed Hatch Tales)? A similar slowing down and death of updates happened there, too. At this rate, it will probably try to slip into obscurity and disappear, along with all the kickstarter money he got from the successful Kickstarter campaign.
As for my experience with Kickstarter, it leaves me lukewarm. I've only joined a Kickstart for 3 projects, and I would say it was at a 33% success rate. Only one of them was an unsuccessful Kickstart so it didn't cost me any money. So for ones I paid money for, 2 were successful. I would have to say, the Monster Hunter Board game was a rather nice success, though and definitely made the sting of the Hatch Tales one, less. Thankfully, I paid the minimal for the Hatch Tales one so it wasn't that bad a loss. It would be for those who did pay the higher tiers, though. Monster Hunter, I upgraded, but when they stuff arrived I really got a Lot for the money.
Thing is, the Monster Hunter one was definitely a less risky bet given it was done by an established small company with a sizable amount of successful and fun boardgames already under their belt before. And they seem to still be pumping out successful board game adaptations to this day.
I never thought I'd click this video to discover gaming's own To Boldly Flee, but Lynn and the Spirits of Inao might do.
Come to think of it, how come the creators of To Boldly Flee, the Walker brothers, haven't been showcased on this show yet with their Pop Quiz Hotshot disaster?
15:52 So Evoland crossed with Zelda LttP?
I have a couple modded Wii U’s and they still bring lots of fun.
Yeah I need to finish modding mine actually
That paddle must be so proud.
High strangeness not being on switch yet is a crime...
I'm glad you gave some love to Dreamcast. It's a really good console! It's just a shame it didn't take off.
The moral lesson that we can learn from watching this...When you donate your cash for a project, buyer beware because it could backfire in the worst way.
I won't get rid of my Wii U until Nintendoland is somehow playable on another system. You can do it Nintendo! There are enough switches out there, make it so you use a 2nd switch as the gamepad it will work!
Wii U always has a special place in my heart!
It was a great little system IMO played so many great games on it
Mario Castañeda is THE voice of Goku (from Dragon Ball Z) and in LatinAmerica is QUITE loved (myself included)
I love the wii u! It has so much personality!!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 😭
I should mod my Wii U since Nintendo officially killed it off, online and everything. I heard that it has everything built in to run gamecube games except for the disc reader and memory card slot (and controller support if you didn’t pick up the Smash Bros converter). Between that, its built in Wii hardware and its Virtual console emulators, it is the ultimate retro Nintendo gaming machine as long as you buy some more memory storage for it.
9:38 Only Princess Mononoke. But yeah, go watch them. They are really fantastic.
@14:35 is in Chattanooga TN but no idea what the context is. Assuming this is just some sort of stock footage
Kickstarter was absolutely wild. Perhaps now that the hype is over, those investing in such projects, both as buyers and sellers, will think twice before launch.
I'm still waiting for Sword of Fargoal 2 😅 You ever want to see another dev trainwreck that occurs over a number of slow-petering years, simply follow that story...as best you can anyway.
There was a Mysterious Cities of Gold game‽
Oh just looked, coulda had it for 3ds, wild.
Wii U needed sequel of Calling !!
Well damn, I didn't know the Switch sold so well! I recently was wondering if anything would top the PS2's huge sales numbers and the Switch is getting close!
Yeah, that last direct showed loads of new games, so still plenty of chance for people to buy the system. I hope it does surpass it... I love the switch
The Wii U was unfortunately executed so poorly. The lackluster resistive touch screen, terrible battery life, the need for constant teathering and the console being pretty underpowered overall for a non portable system. And why did it only have an inward facing camera? An outward sensor for the TV wouldve made so much sense!
Also, the lack of the ability to play DVDs was just weird.
5:11 Gotta second that, SWD 1 and 2 are awesome games.
I liked the Wii U but it's not really fair to call Breath of the Wild or especially Smash Ultimate Wii U ports .
Smash Ultimate is the next in the series and Breath of the Wild came out at the same time on both systems.
Why is Mario holding an Hitachi Magic Wand?!?!?!?
90s super GP is one that still has yet to release. Pelikan13 said it was going to be a wiiu exclusive and then it was said to come to switch and now its ????
Don't know how I ended up here, was looking for a doc to watch and this was in the results. Cool vid, I'm hearing a sarf accent 😅
Sarf? Lol dunno what that is. I'm UK, down near Dover if that helps, cheers for stopping by,
@@slopesgameroom yeah me too. I was trying to say South with a southern accent came out sarf haha.
I cant wait for in the next 3-5 years people start saying the Wii U was misunderstood and how it's better than we give it credit for etc, etc. That, and for how expensive collecting for it will become😒
Muaaaaah, the French...
Inspired by Ghibli?
It looks like a generic anime-inspired flash game.
Ahhhhhh, I actually quite liked the look of it... But again, it was just an animation anyway
Need Nintendo to go ahead and port Wind Waker HD to the Switch so I CAN forget about the Wii U.
But what about nintendoland
I really shouldn't be surprised that you butchered the names of Miyazaki movies since you did mispronounce the very common (well common in Mexico) Spanish name Juan. Spanish tends to pronounce "J" like an "H".
It's marketing that failed the Wii U.
I liked the Wii U but then again, I’m a Nintendo fan girl. I don’t find many exclusives interesting on PlayStation and Microsoft. I also don’t have a high end PC so I only play small indie games on steam and nothing crazy. The only game I liked on the ps3 that my sister and I owned that was exclusive (at the time) was last of us and I liked playing on my sister’s completed GTA 5 file and just mess around and kill people and get killed. Okay I also liked little big planet. Katamari is on switch now so yeah.
A currupted GoVernment Wants Here Ded
Ah yes the thing that released not long after we got the Wii😅
40 seconds in, and you're calling Smash Ultimate a port of Smash for Wii U? OK.
EDIT: The Hex Heroes info is pretty spot-on. That bit about Smash just puzzled and annoyed me. DKC Tropical Freeze or Pikmin 3 would be better games to pick out, but I suppose those didn't top the Switch charts.
The biggest scam in this video is how Slope hasn't seen a Miyazaki film.
ya mean it's NOT just a peripheral? lolz.
BUT TIMMY!!! YOU ALREADY HAVE A WII AT HOME!!!
@@slopesgameroom 👍👏😅🤣
The fact that Game and Wario also threw a jab to the kickstarters only for the game to also flop and trashed by everyone who wanted Wario Land instead. Hopefully the kickstarter was only about liking posts and sharing advertisment.
I think people would have also been fine with an actual Warioware game too. Game and Wario wasn't even that.
That may be the most burchered form of "Mononoke" I've ever heard. XD
Incidentally, it's like Mo-No-No-Ke, with the ke pronounced like Kay. Although a quick review video would have probably told you that.
But Smash Ultimate isn't a port, it's a sequel
Also, Juan is pronounced Huan, not Jooan
ya i said nope to the wii u when i went to the store and saw the price tag being twice the wii's. would have been cheaper to get a playstation 4!
lmfao... I don't know if his pronunciation of Juan was a joke or not.
Sneaky Ninja by Starfall Studios, 2015 Kickstarter for Wii U. Developer claims it will release on Switch instead. He better hurry up 🤷♂️
Super Smash Bros Ultimate is NOT a Wii U port though...
uuh snap, what's that remix at 15:44? :D
That's one of mine :D check out my recent video about the switch, I made it for that and you can hear more of it
Yo dawg, I heard you like failure, so I packed this full of failures so you can watch this doc about failures for a failure while thinking about failure!
Midweek slopes is a good thing.
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Ahhhhh thanks, working on a couple of massive projects which resulted in this one getting pushed back a couple of days
Could Yooka-Laylee count as a WiiiU scam? Many owners backed that version only for the studio to drop it and I believe offer Steam Keys
I was one of those backers! I missed the email to give me a choice of a new key, which defaulted me to getting a Steam key. At the time, my PC could not run the game, and they could not exchange it for a Switch or Playstation code. Then reviews were so universally lukewarm, it took any wind out of my sails to ever play the game. I finally got a cheap copy for PS4 and barely started it. I wish Playtonic luck in the future, but that game just fell flat on its face for me.
@@donnylurch4207 BS if you backed the game and never had an alternative console. They should have either refunded, or pushed forward with dev. No one was telling them they couldn't release on Wii U, they probably just didn't think it would be profitable.
All this fighting and beef over a Minecraft clone
If you like to hack systems the Wii U is a gold mine. It can play most nintendo games that exist pre switch, and most other games pre ps2.
Oh the Wii u If it had more games it would been better to