I am a complex human with my own unique emotions and memories and opinions and thoughts and various shirts and belts that I have bought. Don't you dare try to categorise me. Like the proud and mighty platypuses I will defy classification. Sure, I write for a Nintendo magazine, but my capacity to love games extends beyond just Nintendo, beyond the very concept of platforms and publishers and far out into the solar system. I love all games equally and it pains me that we've constructed these artificial walls between ourselves. Let's smash up our consoles and all have a great big cross-platform kiss.
Once you're done with all the kissing, here are five PC games I'd like to see come to Wii U.
When Notch first created Minecraft, back when he was a mere mortal, he didn't expect the blocky stuff-building game to become the multi-million pound success it is today. The idea is powerfully simple: punch trees to collect wood, use wood to makes sticks, use rocks with sticks to make tools, use tools to mine ore - the higher you climb up Minecraft's tech tree the more objects and materials you can create, and the cooler stuff you can build. The entire world is procedurally generated too, with oceans and mountains and caverns and forests to explore. There's more to it than can be expressed in a single paragraph, but that's the general idea: build, create, survive and explore.
The Wii U controller could be used for a map, or an inventory screen.
Recently I've fallen deeply in love with ridiculous simulators, which thrive on PC thanks to the lack of any sort of quality control or publisher oversight. London Underground Simulator's appearance in this list represents all of these niche simulations: including Garden Simulator, Oil Platform Simulator, Delivery Van Simulator and Street Cleaning Simulator - all real games that I own and claim to ironically enjoy playing. London Underground Simulator simulates 54 kilometres of the Circle Line with astonishing accuracy, even allowing you to play with the light switches and trigger the "mind the gap" announcements. "Dynamic passengers" says the back of the box, and it ain't lyin'.
The Wii U controller could be used to show the next stop, or maybe even a map.
A military simulation so authentic that a version of its predecessor was once used in an awful TV show about ancient battles, Total War: Shogun 2 is an historically accurate real time strategy game set in 16th century feudal Japan. The player leads one of Japan's factions in their attempts to become supreme ruler of the country by defeating the other factions through both bloody, violent battles and sneaking diplomacy. Both methods are detailed with incredible precision, the former presenting astonishing numbers of on-screen units and the latter allowing for the sort of inter-familial subterfuge more often reserved for The Jeremy Kyle Show, as you offer up your children for marriage in order to curry favour with allied warlords.
The Wii U controller could be used as a map.
The Wii U is already getting something vaguely reminiscent of Valve's zombie shooter in Killer Freaks From Outer Space - a co-op survival horror that pits players against hordes of pint-sized monsters - but Left 4 Dead would work beautifully on the new hardware too.
You forgot to mention that the Wii U controller could be used as a map.
Edit: damn, beaten. Erm... yeah, Minecraft would be cool.
Hahaha
Oh please tell more people about this! It's the one thing that annoys me about certain sites!
Anyway, as much as I despise it, Minecraft on the Wii U would be a great benefit, although (correct me if I'm wrong) it's being brought to the Xbox 360 as a console exclusive right?
My suggestions:
Portal 1/2/3 (if Valve can count to 3)
Street Cleaning Simulator 2!
I almost didn't get that the maps were jokes!
I would change the Simulator with the Half-Life Franchise!
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Monotremata
Family: Ornithorhynchidae
Genus: Ornithorhynchus
Species: O. anatinus
Yeah, that's right, I just classified the platypus.
Anyway, I think these games would be interesting to see on Wii U, but I am more looking forward to original software. I also hope that developers can think of more uses for the controller than a map. Although I think maps will be commonplace on the Wii U controller.
Minecraft will always live and be at home on PC!
how about team fortress 2, or even better the orange box
Personally, I never got into Minecraft. However I think it's definitely most suite to PC.
But anyway, here are my top 5;
5. Boxhead (I know it's a flash game, but play it and you'll understand
4. Octodad.
3. Impossible Creatures 2 (the original was very underrated).
2. Elder Scrolls 6.
1.Team Fortress 3.
Super Meat boy missed the Wii, so a version of the game with ALL characters (cheat code characters and XBLA exclusives included) would be cool. Sam and Max season three missed the Wii so that's another idea. And finally, Fancy Pants Adventures World 1 + 2 (Before you say it's too short, the xbox version sells, and it's 800 points.) would top it off.
I don't know why Sam & Max Season 3 didn't come out on the Wii. I now have season 1 and 2 on Wii and season 3 on PC, not very neat in terms of how it looks on my shelf!
Red Alert 2
yes I know it's ancient but it's brilliant. It could all be played on the Umote with the touch screen being used in place of a mouse. Perhaps the main screen could be used for the map.
Notch and Jeb allready said he isnt going to bring minecraft to nintendo consoles, he said hes busy enough with the xbox, ios , andriod, and pc versions of it.
wouldn't call left 4 dead a pc game in the purest sense, but screw it, lets just have a multi platform party. why cant we just have a huge smash bros with sony characters and master cheif in it? its not as unrealistic as imagining mario and sonic in 1996...
Nintendo would be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a belly-full of Skyrim...
Perhaps you could tell us why you'd like these games released on WiiU. Explain how you think they'd be improved. Rather than the unnecassary explanations 'I'd like London underground Simulator, this game simulates life in the London underground.' Well thanks for clearing that up.
I mean, I like maps as much as the next guy, but you could say a why you'd get it on a different platform, how the games would be enhanced.
It's a good subject matter, shame about the content.
Stunning lack of Portal on that list.
anything more than just a map for these games. not much use of the new controller if so.
Rather Morrowind, if there was one of the existing Elder Scrolls games. I wasn't crazy for the latest edition.
Wii U will get Batman: Arkham City. LOVED what I played of Arkham Asylum before it, too. I was torn between waiting or getting it for the PS3.
Possibly Dragon Age: Origins, and a Command & Conquer or Dune title.
After that, Sonic Generations.
You do realise that the whole consistant suggestion of "maps" thing was a gag, right? Its hard to tell from your comment if you are serious or just playing along.
'London Underground Simulator: World of Subways V3'
Hogarty, you are my new favourite person! XD
deus ex is considered one of the best pc games of all time, yet it is not on this list......
At last, an ONM writer that isn't blind to the capabilities of the Wii U's new controller. Though the new mote is cool, and will offer some neat little party tricks, I have yet to be sold on it's necessity as a game controller in the same way the WiiMote or Kinect controller works.
Oh and while we are talking about PC games that will never come to Wii U, how about Police Quest (or Kings Quest or Leisure Suit Larry 1-5, or even Space Quest), the controller could be used as a ...
I don't think you do
ATTENTION STEVE!!!
I think Hackers got onto this list and deleted Portal.
What? Portal wasn't on there is the first place? BLASPHEMY!!!
First, Valve will announce that they're gonna put TF2 onto Wii U, which is cross compatiable with the PC version. to promote this, they'll give you Mario's cap as a hat.
And so they would've gained the most famous video game hat in existance.
Paint it "The bitter taste of lime and defeat" for Luigi's cap.
I think Portal 2 would be brilliant on the wii U
Though I think Minecraft is better suited to PC, I wouldn't say no to a Minecraft/Pokemon crossover!
What about Google Maps the Wii U controller could be used as a map.
They've sort of done that sort of thing here. But I would like to see some proper Google integration with the Wii U.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrOEmIPKqzo&
Minecraft would be brilliant. So would Impossible Creatures.
But how about on the 3DS, it'd be better than the other portable Minecraft.