New Mario & Luigi has me hyped! Though, after the watered-down, Trans-lation for TTYD, I am concerned for the future of Mario RPGs again....
Glad Donkey Kong got anything, even if it is yet another port. They'd better have something new mixed in, like the New Funky Mode, or it might be a hard sell.
Metroid Prime brings joy that needs no further elaboration.
Metroid Prime brings joy that needs no further elaboration.
I'm somewhat biased on this topic, but I approach every new game in a series that I care about with apprehension.
Prime 2 was the best in the series, IMO. Prime 3 I think had the best set of abilities and upgrades, but there was way too much talky-talky and "ok, go here now." I recently tried to replay Fusion and the fucking story ... just constant interruptions to tell me where it wants me to go and give exposition that I've heard repeatedly already.
Then there's Dread. Ugh. Finished it and had absolutely no desire to ever play it again. I know there are some sequence breaks possible (including scripted ones) but I found the entire game uninteresting and even if there were parts I liked, I'm not redoing those stupid fucking robot hide and seek sections.
So hopefully there's less story and more explore-y in Prime 4 but I'm skeptical.
I greatly enjoyed Dread, and enjoyed the twist behind the conversations with AIdam. I understand the apprehension, but Prime 1, at any rate, did an excellent job of letting the player unearth the plot at their own pace through the scans, which the trailer prominently showed off.
The formula established in Prime 1 and 2 was perfect: scan the lore if you want to, watch a very small handful of short cut scenes when beating bosses.
There were just too many bits of story in 3 constantly breaking the flow of the game, and I found the other bounty hunters kind of forced and uninteresting.
Prime 2 has an oppressive atmosphere and feeling of utter aloneness that most games cannot even dream of. Which also makes it a chore to play a lot of the time. One of those situations where what makes the game great also makes it terrible. Still love it though.
Prime 3 is just proof that most people suck at games. Suddenly the control scheme for the first 2 games was "impossibly awful" and they had to fix it by making it so dependent on the Wii that now it'll never be playable outside it. And yeah, it spends so long talking that it can never build any atmosphere, because the moment it starts to someone else breaks it.
Yeah, that's what I find enjoyable about it -- the dark world, even after I've played through it a half dozen times or more, is just so uncomfortable and isolated. Even when you're at full power it's always unpleasant.
Probably the closest thing I've experienced to that in another game is Darkwood.
Darkwood is a great comparison. I've got a few more itching in my head but I can't bring their name to the front.
But both are games that I love the memories of and feel the urge the replay regularly, but then the actual playing is a stressful experience that is often unfun. Yet I'd not want it changed it anyway because that would take all of what's good about it away.
Legend of Zelda game actually starring Zelda, done in the style of Link's Awakening remake
People are going to go nuts over this for whatever reason. I already have my playable Zelda in a Legend of Zelda game, even if she isn't technically the star of the game.
It depends on how Link is treated in the game like if he's disrespected then it's a bad sign.
If he's not and is just indisposed for some reason or just not there yet so Zelda needed to act, then this could be one of those games where the side character steps up.
Trailer shows that the game literally starts with him rescuing Zelda from Ganon. Then the world starts breaking apart and being swallowed into a void. Firing an Arrow of Light at Zelda's crystal prison is his last act before being swallowed into the void.
Sounds a little bit like the opening to Super Mario RPG. Only instead of playing the usual hero trying to find out what happened to the chick, it's the opposite.
I'm betting this will make everyone "REEE" to the moon when the next Zelda game goes back to Link being the only playable character, proving this was a one off rather than the series new direction.
Echoes of Wisdom feels cheap. At least with the Link's Awakening remake you could argue the aesthetic is a result of Koholint Island being a dream world. Why is Hyrule and Zelda all toy-like aside from cost-saving asset reuse?
my gut tells me NoA put them up to having Zelda star in a mainline Zelda game, that or ESG. however, judging from the trailer, it seems to be handled with taste.
it should have been called The Legend of Link though.
Yeah probably. There are plenty ways that it could be upgraded on.
But Nintendo hasn't confirmed a single one, while people have been hyping Switch 2 (so little a fuck is given it doesn't even have a name) since the month Switch 1 dropped.
Nintendo does their retarded gimmick shit with almost every console and even game they make, it stands to reason that they are waiting to have one good enough to make a new console over rather than pure hardware upgrades.
Their hardware is so simply and easy that every single console is easily emulatable, often during its lifetime. Heck the Switch has games that are running better on emulators days before their actual physical release. Which means its actual competition instead of people playing games they don't even sell anymore.
While I don't personally like how hard they go after people, I also get why they do.
What's funny is I have an SNES Classic which is enabled via emulation and did in fact pay nintendo. So it worked for them the fact that I'm willing to pay rather than try to rig up a working SNES. In my particular case, they're just hurting themselves. I'm willing to pay small dollars for an old game.
Of all the companies, they have been the best about at least offering most of their older games for purchase through their Online Stores or those little Classic consoles, even if the prices can be atrocious (and the lack of transfer from Wii to WiiU to Switch is insulting).
But that means that all of those emulators then become direct competition against them. Which makes it just business to try and stamp it, even if people hate them for doing it.
Still emulating them all anyway because yolo, ain't worth the effort to hook up most of the consoles or hope my aging games still function entirely. Plus mod capabilities.
Yeah that's kind of what I thought. I know Nvidia even had some GPUs in phones. Which, I didn't check, but is probably better than anything Nintendo mass produced.
The rumored specs of the Switch 2 are that it's gonna be PS4/XB1 level if not better, but I'm gonna wait for the announcement. Those same rumors say that the announcement's gonna be in the fall, but we'll see.
Yeah, you're right on about it having been non-stop for the past few years.
This one came straight from the horse's mouth, though. That being said, I'm hoping we're not looking at years between the announcement and the actual release.
The Looney Tunes game - looks like a cheap cash grab - which is not surprising when you remember how fucked WB is.
Mio: Memories in Orbit - looks like a cool Hollow Knight game for people who need something to play while waiting for Silksong. I like the art style, looks like a coloured pencil drawing.
Farmagia - looks like too many things at once: farming + monster raising + Pikmin and the art looks meh.
Dragon Quest 3 remake - looks interesting, I never played the super old games.
Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - doesn't seem bad but I'm not that interested. Looks much more like a puzzle game and reminds me of Scribblenauts or something
Horizon Zero Dawn LEGO - weird to me because the selling point of the Horizon games are its beautiful environments. A LEGO version takes that away. Sony must still be under the impression that Aloy is this great iconic protagonist but she's rather boring. The best thing about the game's story is actually its backstory, while the story is average.
Ace Attorney Investigations collection - This is cool because it includes the game that never got released outside of Japan
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - Dangan Rompa spinoff that could be fun
Metroid Prime 4 - I was surprised they showed it. How long has the game been in development? And a few years ago production stopped entirely and was scrapped and they restarted because Nintendo was not satisfied with what they had so far. So I'm hoping they are holding themselves to high standards.
Probably will have Pokemon Z as one of the flagship games for when the Switch 2 comes out. I bet that Nintendo doesn't want to have the same issue as the launch of the Switch when there is only 1 broad appeal game that's also available on the old console.
Game Freak is still working on the Pokemon Legends sequel. I would hope they're dedicating their resources on that instead of repeating the half-assed effort they did shifting between Legends: Arceus and Scarlet/Violet.
I wonder how they will manage to hype a ''Switch 2''.
It needs some sort of new ''gimmic'' to be a hit ( in the least pejorative sense, the ''gimmics'' on the Switch are cool and well integrated into the console ), not just hardware upgrades.
When a console reaches graphic levels for Zelda Breath of the Wild, how much more hardware capacity do you need anyway.
''Generic'' hand-held consoles ( the higher end ones can also emulate up to the N. Switch, but often lack the well-integrated ''gimmics'' ) might eat their lunch. Especially given a ''lunch'' conditional to ''buy our (CAD)$35 - (CAD)$80 games''.
We have so much ''historical'' stuff to play at this point too :
Retro emulation hand-held consoles keep comming out at a quick pace.
It's basically a ''race'' for ''who can make a cheap one that somehow isn't garbage'' and chips tech progression loweing the price of the next tier of consoles that can be emulated in each price range.
Lots of garbage, a few gems.
The R36S is probably the best value at... ~(USD)$35 to $45 on AliExpress. Most console games up to PS1 will run fine. So cheap resellers import them to resell on Amazon or Ebay at double and triple the price. ( The stock SD card containing the OS to boot has the reputation of being garbage and you might end-up having to buy a new card and load it with the OS from some backed-up version online. ). The second SD slot already has a card loaded with games.
The Odin 2 at (USD) $300 sits at the other end of the spectrum of ''affordable emulation consoles'' and will emulate Gamecube, WII, PS2, some Switch games.
Above that you're basically nearing Steam Deck prices, so skip the ''garbage'' and get a Steam Deck.
Or if you have an Android tablet, load it with emulators and games and get a bluetooth controller ( you may already have one that is compatible, like the wireless XBox ones ).
tbf stuff like Unreal does have source, and a lot of video games can be decompiled to the point that all you're missing is the comments. Actually, I've seen comments in .NET disassembly. IDK how they got there.
The entire point of Nintendo's games as a whole for the most part is that they use their consoles' gimmicks to fully flesh out their first party games. Nintendo making multi-console releases would pretty much ruin the point of why they have consoles to begin with.
IPs that aren't jealously guarded lose their Trademark/Copyright. Its a legitimate legal problem that companies like Qtip and Bandaid have lost a shit ton of money by failing to do so. Nintendo owns basically every "mascot" character that anyone would want to use, so of course they are always defending them.
Nobody gives a shit about selling Aloy figures unlicensed, so Sony or Microsoft never even need to bother defending anything.
New Mario & Luigi has me hyped! Though, after the watered-down, Trans-lation for TTYD, I am concerned for the future of Mario RPGs again....
Glad Donkey Kong got anything, even if it is yet another port. They'd better have something new mixed in, like the New Funky Mode, or it might be a hard sell.
Metroid Prime brings joy that needs no further elaboration.
I'm somewhat biased on this topic, but I approach every new game in a series that I care about with apprehension.
Prime 2 was the best in the series, IMO. Prime 3 I think had the best set of abilities and upgrades, but there was way too much talky-talky and "ok, go here now." I recently tried to replay Fusion and the fucking story ... just constant interruptions to tell me where it wants me to go and give exposition that I've heard repeatedly already.
Then there's Dread. Ugh. Finished it and had absolutely no desire to ever play it again. I know there are some sequence breaks possible (including scripted ones) but I found the entire game uninteresting and even if there were parts I liked, I'm not redoing those stupid fucking robot hide and seek sections.
So hopefully there's less story and more explore-y in Prime 4 but I'm skeptical.
I greatly enjoyed Dread, and enjoyed the twist behind the conversations with AIdam. I understand the apprehension, but Prime 1, at any rate, did an excellent job of letting the player unearth the plot at their own pace through the scans, which the trailer prominently showed off.
The formula established in Prime 1 and 2 was perfect: scan the lore if you want to, watch a very small handful of short cut scenes when beating bosses.
There were just too many bits of story in 3 constantly breaking the flow of the game, and I found the other bounty hunters kind of forced and uninteresting.
Prime 2 has an oppressive atmosphere and feeling of utter aloneness that most games cannot even dream of. Which also makes it a chore to play a lot of the time. One of those situations where what makes the game great also makes it terrible. Still love it though.
Prime 3 is just proof that most people suck at games. Suddenly the control scheme for the first 2 games was "impossibly awful" and they had to fix it by making it so dependent on the Wii that now it'll never be playable outside it. And yeah, it spends so long talking that it can never build any atmosphere, because the moment it starts to someone else breaks it.
Yeah, that's what I find enjoyable about it -- the dark world, even after I've played through it a half dozen times or more, is just so uncomfortable and isolated. Even when you're at full power it's always unpleasant.
Probably the closest thing I've experienced to that in another game is Darkwood.
Darkwood is a great comparison. I've got a few more itching in my head but I can't bring their name to the front.
But both are games that I love the memories of and feel the urge the replay regularly, but then the actual playing is a stressful experience that is often unfun. Yet I'd not want it changed it anyway because that would take all of what's good about it away.
People are going to go nuts over this for whatever reason. I already have my playable Zelda in a Legend of Zelda game, even if she isn't technically the star of the game.
It depends on how Link is treated in the game like if he's disrespected then it's a bad sign.
If he's not and is just indisposed for some reason or just not there yet so Zelda needed to act, then this could be one of those games where the side character steps up.
Trailer shows that the game literally starts with him rescuing Zelda from Ganon. Then the world starts breaking apart and being swallowed into a void. Firing an Arrow of Light at Zelda's crystal prison is his last act before being swallowed into the void.
So he possibly dies a hero's death with his last act being to save Zelda.
Well that's actually a good start, they just better not pull an 'Actually he didn't need to sacrifice himself ' plot twist
I didn't get the impression he died so much as got stuck in some other dimension and needs Zelda to save him for once.
Sounds a little bit like the opening to Super Mario RPG. Only instead of playing the usual hero trying to find out what happened to the chick, it's the opposite.
"Muh female protagonist!"
I'm betting this will make everyone "REEE" to the moon when the next Zelda game goes back to Link being the only playable character, proving this was a one off rather than the series new direction.
If anything this should help shut people up who want it. Here is your Zelda game where she solves stuff with magic and isn't a combat girlboss.
You're thinking about this too logically. I fear you have way more faith in humanity than I.
Echoes of Wisdom feels cheap. At least with the Link's Awakening remake you could argue the aesthetic is a result of Koholint Island being a dream world. Why is Hyrule and Zelda all toy-like aside from cost-saving asset reuse?
my gut tells me NoA put them up to having Zelda star in a mainline Zelda game, that or ESG. however, judging from the trailer, it seems to be handled with taste.
it should have been called The Legend of Link though.
People have been saying Switch 2 Coming Soon! since fucking 2020.
Until its announced out loud, anyone still trying to talk about it or believing the "rumors" is an actual retard.
Aren't there phones with more powerful GPUs than a switch?
Yeah probably. There are plenty ways that it could be upgraded on.
But Nintendo hasn't confirmed a single one, while people have been hyping Switch 2 (so little a fuck is given it doesn't even have a name) since the month Switch 1 dropped.
Nintendo does their retarded gimmick shit with almost every console and even game they make, it stands to reason that they are waiting to have one good enough to make a new console over rather than pure hardware upgrades.
It's no wonder they fight EMU so hard. I would never pick up a switch. There might be Nintendo games I'd play if I could.
Their hardware is so simply and easy that every single console is easily emulatable, often during its lifetime. Heck the Switch has games that are running better on emulators days before their actual physical release. Which means its actual competition instead of people playing games they don't even sell anymore.
While I don't personally like how hard they go after people, I also get why they do.
What's funny is I have an SNES Classic which is enabled via emulation and did in fact pay nintendo. So it worked for them the fact that I'm willing to pay rather than try to rig up a working SNES. In my particular case, they're just hurting themselves. I'm willing to pay small dollars for an old game.
Of all the companies, they have been the best about at least offering most of their older games for purchase through their Online Stores or those little Classic consoles, even if the prices can be atrocious (and the lack of transfer from Wii to WiiU to Switch is insulting).
But that means that all of those emulators then become direct competition against them. Which makes it just business to try and stamp it, even if people hate them for doing it.
Still emulating them all anyway because yolo, ain't worth the effort to hook up most of the consoles or hope my aging games still function entirely. Plus mod capabilities.
Back in 2017 when the original Switch came out, there were phones with more powerful GPUs than the original Switch had.
Yeah that's kind of what I thought. I know Nvidia even had some GPUs in phones. Which, I didn't check, but is probably better than anything Nintendo mass produced.
The rumored specs of the Switch 2 are that it's gonna be PS4/XB1 level if not better, but I'm gonna wait for the announcement. Those same rumors say that the announcement's gonna be in the fall, but we'll see.
Am I the only one who still hears Xbox ONE and thinks of the thing with the component cables and 4 player barely-HD Halo?
Nintendo themselves have stated it'll be officially announced before March, so they're finally getting close.
Appreciate the heads up. Its impossible to actually hear real news like that admist the swirl of "assume" and "rumors" about it.
Yeah, you're right on about it having been non-stop for the past few years. This one came straight from the horse's mouth, though. That being said, I'm hoping we're not looking at years between the announcement and the actual release.
Makes sense. Prime 4 would be a killer launch title.
So it'll either be held back by an older console, or be a launch title on the new one they might release next year.
I guess we'll see.
The Looney Tunes game - looks like a cheap cash grab - which is not surprising when you remember how fucked WB is.
Mio: Memories in Orbit - looks like a cool Hollow Knight game for people who need something to play while waiting for Silksong. I like the art style, looks like a coloured pencil drawing.
Farmagia - looks like too many things at once: farming + monster raising + Pikmin and the art looks meh.
Dragon Quest 3 remake - looks interesting, I never played the super old games.
Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - doesn't seem bad but I'm not that interested. Looks much more like a puzzle game and reminds me of Scribblenauts or something
Horizon Zero Dawn LEGO - weird to me because the selling point of the Horizon games are its beautiful environments. A LEGO version takes that away. Sony must still be under the impression that Aloy is this great iconic protagonist but she's rather boring. The best thing about the game's story is actually its backstory, while the story is average.
Ace Attorney Investigations collection - This is cool because it includes the game that never got released outside of Japan
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - Dangan Rompa spinoff that could be fun
Metroid Prime 4 - I was surprised they showed it. How long has the game been in development? And a few years ago production stopped entirely and was scrapped and they restarted because Nintendo was not satisfied with what they had so far. So I'm hoping they are holding themselves to high standards.
Probably will have Pokemon Z as one of the flagship games for when the Switch 2 comes out. I bet that Nintendo doesn't want to have the same issue as the launch of the Switch when there is only 1 broad appeal game that's also available on the old console.
Game Freak is still working on the Pokemon Legends sequel. I would hope they're dedicating their resources on that instead of repeating the half-assed effort they did shifting between Legends: Arceus and Scarlet/Violet.
I wonder how they will manage to hype a ''Switch 2''.
It needs some sort of new ''gimmic'' to be a hit ( in the least pejorative sense, the ''gimmics'' on the Switch are cool and well integrated into the console ), not just hardware upgrades.
When a console reaches graphic levels for Zelda Breath of the Wild, how much more hardware capacity do you need anyway.
''Generic'' hand-held consoles ( the higher end ones can also emulate up to the N. Switch, but often lack the well-integrated ''gimmics'' ) might eat their lunch. Especially given a ''lunch'' conditional to ''buy our (CAD)$35 - (CAD)$80 games''.
They claim that Nintendo is for kids, but development of games and consoles moves at a glacial pace.
We have so much ''historical'' stuff to play at this point too :
Retro emulation hand-held consoles keep comming out at a quick pace.
It's basically a ''race'' for ''who can make a cheap one that somehow isn't garbage'' and chips tech progression loweing the price of the next tier of consoles that can be emulated in each price range.
Lots of garbage, a few gems.
The R36S is probably the best value at... ~(USD)$35 to $45 on AliExpress. Most console games up to PS1 will run fine. So cheap resellers import them to resell on Amazon or Ebay at double and triple the price. ( The stock SD card containing the OS to boot has the reputation of being garbage and you might end-up having to buy a new card and load it with the OS from some backed-up version online. ). The second SD slot already has a card loaded with games.
Several options in between. I might as well link this video.
The Odin 2 at (USD) $300 sits at the other end of the spectrum of ''affordable emulation consoles'' and will emulate Gamecube, WII, PS2, some Switch games.
Above that you're basically nearing Steam Deck prices, so skip the ''garbage'' and get a Steam Deck.
Or if you have an Android tablet, load it with emulators and games and get a bluetooth controller ( you may already have one that is compatible, like the wireless XBox ones ).
More excited for the dragon quest remakes
This may be the dumbest criticism of any video game company I've ever heard.
Do you only play games based on open sourced Id Software's engines?
tbf stuff like Unreal does have source, and a lot of video games can be decompiled to the point that all you're missing is the comments. Actually, I've seen comments in .NET disassembly. IDK how they got there.
The entire point of Nintendo's games as a whole for the most part is that they use their consoles' gimmicks to fully flesh out their first party games. Nintendo making multi-console releases would pretty much ruin the point of why they have consoles to begin with.
IPs that aren't jealously guarded lose their Trademark/Copyright. Its a legitimate legal problem that companies like Qtip and Bandaid have lost a shit ton of money by failing to do so. Nintendo owns basically every "mascot" character that anyone would want to use, so of course they are always defending them.
Nobody gives a shit about selling Aloy figures unlicensed, so Sony or Microsoft never even need to bother defending anything.