The Last Of Us: Movie and Port

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - I promise I won't talk about the business value of porting games again.

Back last year, KoopaTV watched The Last of Us as a movie. So there really will be an actual movie of it that is a game adaptation. There is also going to be a port of it coming to the PS4. In other words, Sony and Naughty Dog are milking this for all it is worth.

We said by the end of our live viewing of the game's cutscenes that it'll be better off as a movie. Not that we'd watch it or anything when it's released. (We WOULD watch the "Madden Curse" movie, though.)

Porting the game to the PS4 is kind of like porting the latest Tomb Raider game. Everyone who has a PS4 right now had a PS3, in all likelihood. This won't actually open any new markets. The direct comparison I want to make is that everyone talks badly about the Nintendo Wii U because its best game is a game that came out two generations and ten years ago, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD. Well, now the PlayStation 4, with its currently limited selection of games, will have its best game be a game that came out one generation ago. Last year. The Last Of Us.

Is it really the last of you if you get to be immediately ported, get a movie, got DLC, getting more DLC, AND talks of a sequel? It's as short-sighted an IP title as Square Enix's Final Fantasy. Names aside, I don't really know what Naughty Dog fans actually want, and I suspect that KoopaTV's regular readers don't fall into that category. Or maybe y'all do and I'm in my own bubble.

...I might want to burst that bubble... soon... Very... very soon...

Ludwig still has never played The Last of Us, but it's not like he needs to.


Eight years later, and The Last of Us gets another remake and a TV series.

The Value of GBA VC Games

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - A bargain.
To be honest, I'm kind of tired about writing how Nintendo ports things and that has value to people. I just wrote about that. However, I want to preempt complaining. Actually, it has already happened, but let's preempt the main wave. Here's a list of GBA games coming out on the Wii U VC in America, with more to come and being found out by the dudes who sit at ratings board sites or registration offices all day looking for breaking news.

So why would anyone complain? Ports help break up the supposed "droughts" that the Wii U suffers. I haven't even played all of the games on that list (Kirby & The Amazing Mirror is something I've always wanted to play for myself), so I doubt you have. Incidentally, all of you can stop bitching about Super Mario Bros. 3, and that's not even a GBA game. Well, there is Super Mario Advance 4, but no, the inferior NES version is what y'all deserve. Meanwhile, the GBA version of Yoshi's Island is coming out at the end of April: If you've never played it before, then you've been ignoring all of my praise of it on KoopaTV. You also get to compare it to Arzest's Yoshi's New Island.

Fact-Checking: Rick Santorum's "Obamaville"

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Rick Santorum should know better than try to see the future.

I bet you don't remember this, but back in the 2012 Republican Presidential Primaries, failed candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum released this ad titled "Obamaville". In it, he portrays a dystopian America in two years suffering under Barack Obama's policies. The ad was released March 25, 2012. It is now really two years later, and KoopaTV would like to take this exclusive opportunity to fact-check Mr. Santorum's claims.

You can deride KoopaTV as a right-wing rag all you want, but the truth transcends partisanship. And we hold everyone accountable. Let's start by watching the video.

SEGA Does What Tecmo Kan't?

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Not my best pun ever, but just compare the trailers.

I know to never trust a trailer, but let's just look at production values and hype-building value. The trailer for Tecmo Koei's Hyrule Warriors (still a tentative title) was discussed in a fair amount of detail here. It resulted in me dismissing the whole game as crappy-looking. Compare to this Sonic Lost World trailer featuring The Legend of Zelda Zone DLC. Free DLC at that. You know, the one we knew was coming for months.

Nintendo Redirect: Occupy Nintendo Street!

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Occupy Wall Street for Nintendo.

There is this Nintendo fan on YouTube out there named Shokio. He decided to organize a movement to represent the Nintendo fanbase to improve the Wii U. We all know what I think about these YouTube idol figures. Regardless, he and his minions want to give feedback to Nintendo about a list of things they want to see. What ended up happening?

A giant mob of morons on Twitter, Facebook, and Miiverse spammed the #NintendoRedirect hashtag and spouted a gigantic mountain of requests. Many people didn't even know what the hell they were asking for. In short, it was the videogame equivalent of Occupy Wall Street.

Punks defecating on AUTHORITY!

One Year As a Wii U Owner

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Also one year as a Miiverse user.

March 24, 2013. I paid a friend of someone I knew $300 to get a Wii U Deluxe with Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U, along with all the nice stuff that came with it. They didn't actually use their Wii U for some reason, and factory-reset it for me. So it was pretty much good as new when I got it.

The GamePad was an absolutely new and amazing experience for me. "Wow, it's really light to hold! And it actually feels good to hold too!" Back at E3 when they showed it I thought it would pretty much be a rectangular prism. In other words, an uncomfortable brick. Nope, it feels great. So I got my NNID, PrinceOfKoopas, and started playing Nintendo Land. And... it was pretty amazing to witness that Miiverse integration. So much so... I made a Miiverse post about it!

Since then, I had fun with Ubisoft's Rayman Legends: Challenge App, which was absolutely free. I also spent a lot of time just playing that, Nintendo Land, and Miiverse. Eventually I decided to actually play New Super Mario Bros. U, and I immediately bought EarthBound when it was made available. Target had a "buy 2 get 1 free" deal and I picked up Rayman Legends to thank Ubisoft, and Pikmin 3 and The Wonderful 101. And now I have Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, too. Nintendo has a fantastic system, and I really enjoy it. I have a lot of statistics to share below, so keep reading.

Choice: Texas, A Very Serious Game With Serious Complications

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - If they went to their favourite doctors to fix the complications, the project would be aborted.

Do you remember when I posted that article about Choice: Texas? Well, who cares when I posted it, but I actually wrote it many months before that publishing date. The point is, (as usual) I wrote some very perceptive things in that article. Let's take a look at how Choice: Texas is doing now.

According to this February 27 post from Choice: Texas,

"On a less positive note, our initial web designer fell through, so we are facing some delays in production. We are currently working to find  new team member, and we’ll have the game up and running as soon as we can."

Recall what they claimed on their Indiegogo page:

"We will have a working prototype of the game prepared by the conference dates in late September, and look forward to completing the game by February 2014."

Well, that passed already! Woops! It gets a bit worse than just a minor delay, though. Delays happen to the best of us, anyway. No, it's more their hubris that I'm here to bash.

Nationalistic Nintendo Video & John Cena

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - In plain English, that means the only Nintendo Video in plain English will be in America.

A long time ago, the "Nintendo Video" service on the Nintendo 3DS launched. Four videos at a time would be automatically downloaded to your 3DS and new ones would replace the previous ones. These ranged from crap to amusing. Now, only America will get to experience it. It was international before, but, starting on March 31, it will be shutting down in Oceania, Europe, and Japan.

Mustering the Remasters

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - High Definition or Definitely High?

It's a trend in the industry: HD Remastering is everywhere, and it's about time KoopaTV talks about it. What separates a remaster from a remake? A rehash from a port? Sure, I'll break it down for you because you'll need to be armed for when the arguments you have with other people break down to semantics. You should discontinue the argument at that point anyway, but you're probably immature to keep arguing if you're the type of person who reads KoopaTV to begin with.

The Year of Luigi Has Ended

By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Finally. Let's have a Year of Bowser instead.

Nintendo is finally done clowning around celebrating that green-hatted plumber. My personal belief that nothing would really happen in the final 1/3 of the year was... wrong, depending on how you look at it. I guess if you count a ROM hack of Mario Bros. and a spin-off of Dr. Mario called Dr. Luigi to be eventful, then the past year has been nothing but action-packed Luigi adventures!