bobbychalkers
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Kinda missed the VC and Indie sections due to freaking out about SMTxFE. Plenty of indie love this year.
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Nintendo Direct: new presentation on April 1st
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Probably best to ask Joe. He follows this stuff much more closely, but I bet there could be an E3 reveal.
pinkurocket
Member
Time to vote for Chorus Kids in Smash.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Oh, care to share some information with us Mr. Insider?
Agent Unknown
Member
Awesome Direct, loved it, actually surprised me with how good it was. Only disappointment is still no reg N3DS for NA and WHY did they feel the need to push Woolly World to "Fall"? Seriously, no major summer Wii U title between Splatoon and Mario Maker? Thought for sure Yoshi would be out in June or July. It looks all but finished, are they possibly worried Yoshi would cut into Splatoon's summer sales? That doesn't seem warranted.
Watching the Treehouse Splatoon stream now, I'm really warming up to it more. I mean, it always looked fun but I never felt hooked into it until now. Also, is it just me or does single player mode kinda give off a nice, slight Jet Force Gemini vibe?
Watching the Treehouse Splatoon stream now, I'm really warming up to it more. I mean, it always looked fun but I never felt hooked into it until now. Also, is it just me or does single player mode kinda give off a nice, slight Jet Force Gemini vibe?
jamesinclair
Banned
Isn't Treehouse still on?
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
TheSlySoul
Member
I would not worry about 3DS. We knew what is coming before E3. This was suppose to show Wii U games in the summer. Guess not for NoA!
Hope you guys play Splatoon for 3 months.
Hope you guys play Splatoon for 3 months.
Primethius
Banned
Disappointing direct personally, even more so given the news of the FE game being two different versions.
Excited for SMTxFE though. Always been a fan of the Persona games, even more so then regular old SMT ones.
Excited for SMTxFE though. Always been a fan of the Persona games, even more so then regular old SMT ones.
Vire
Member
Weren't you expecting it to be at least a little darker though given the nature and tone of SMT and FE? I was actually really disappointed to see it was basically all candy and rainbows with blaring awful J-POP.
Everyone here is shocked by your impressions
schlongdog
Banned
Not too sure why people expected something in the region of a Metroid to be announced just before E3..
Well, I'm definitely looking forward to Xenoblade Chronicles X, Starfox (although I'm gonna reserve judgement until actually seeing it) Mario Maker, Yoshi and Splatoon(Thanks for laughing at me in advance for being excited for those, that felt fantastic), Fatal Frame as well. Looking forward to Rodea and a lot of the indies too(but I'm guessing indies don't count for some reason).All the Smash and MK8 DLC that's gonna lead me to pour many more hours into them. And I'll wait and see if they announce anything else for 2015 at E3.
And I have other systems to play as well so I mean it's not like I'm gonna be spending all of my time on just Wii U anyway. And before you say "But what about all those people who only own Wii U's?" Well if they're excited the games I'll just let them be excited and if they aren't they aren't. And I'm not in a mood to go on an endless back and forth about Nintendo's business practices so if you're through insulting my tastes in video games I don't think we need to discuss anything further.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
It'll be one of the best games of the year on any system.
ARGGGG! Why do we have to wait all the way until fall if Europe gets it in June?
Doesn't make any sense.
TheSlySoul
Member
I just was wanting Yoshi NA release in June.
Guess it will be like Ace Attorney VS Layton and release 4 months later being no different.
Overall, I liked the Direct. It was less bombastic than I thought (I expected one brand new game announced), and it had things I don't appreciate that much (Mii Plaza Premium...wut), but it had other nice news, localisations and SMTxFE. So, good overall.
Still, so many amiibos.
And it's two months before E3 too, so they couldn't drop too many brand new games.
Still, so many amiibos.
And it's two months before E3 too, so they couldn't drop too many brand new games.
nobodyshero
Banned
Sales of pretty much every Star Fox game post-SF64? I dunno, I don't think any of them have really been considered Triple-A Nintendo games. As a gamer you can disagree, but despite his Smash Bros popularity, Fox isn't a super popular top level Nintendo franchise.
Was hoping to get a little more use out of my New 3DS than Zelda, Xenoblade and STEAM. The hardware improvements are nice but pretty much moot if those are the only big games. Obviously Fire Emblem will be awesome, but otherwise I don't see anything interesting coming at all besides indies.
MetalGuardian
Banned
This direct was hype as hell. Mewtwo! Badass new amiibos! Awesome Mario Kart 8 updates! Splatoon! New Fire Emblem! More Streetpass shit, which I'm oddly addicted to!
And this treehouse stream is excellent, as expected. Splatoon and Arkham Knight gonna throw down for GOTY 2015.
And this treehouse stream is excellent, as expected. Splatoon and Arkham Knight gonna throw down for GOTY 2015.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
They were preparing media for it though and finishing up tracks.
As long as people hound them on Twitter and mention the game anywhere they talk about their other games, it will be shown soon.
SmackAttack
Member
Are some people really complaining about the contents of a Direct 2 months before E3. We know Fatal Frame is finally coming and that almost made the Direct for me.
To be fair, I think the main reaction would have been "Wow, EA have remembered the 3DS exists"
Azure Dream
Member
GASP. I THOUGHT THERE WAS A BUTTON.
Project M had to reverse engineer their tools, yet they've done a good job of porting Roy and Mewtwo to Brawl with what they've had to work with. And I guarantee you they (Sakura's team) had some method of porting at least some of the content from Brawl to Smash 4, no matter what Sakurai has said on the subject. Because that would be stupid otherwise. Really, really stupid.
Oh, is Smash a fighting game now? I thought Sakurai said it was a wacky party game.
But seriously, yes, fighting game characters are a lot of work. But this long for characters they aren't designing from scratch? I assumed they were bringing more to the table than this, unless they're setting up a lot of groundwork for later DLC.
Hyrule Warriors has kind of spoiled me. It's a vastly different game, yes, and I'm sure you'll point out all the ways that's the case (and somehow that it's easier to do DLC because they're fighting grunts and deal damage in similar ways, etc), but seeing all the imaginative characters and new additions, the game constantly feeling like it's evolving... I want that out of Smash. I know they can't move at quite that speed, but all this talk for characters that already existed in the franchise, and weren't redesigned with all new primary moves, that just seems like something's wrong.
schlongdog
Banned
I hope someone analyses the Mario Maker trailer and determines if the physics changed when the tilesets did
Vire
Member
I didn't know Starfox was coming out this year (it would have been nice if they at least mentioned that it's still progressing nicely), that certainly changes the equation for me personally as that's one of my favorite Nintendo franchises.
I've never liked ANY of the Yoshi style games. I still feel bummed I spent full price on Yoshi's Story. Splatoon is a cool idea and I'm glad they are finally making a new IP, I just don't like the art style at all. But I do commend them for at least trying something new, and I'd probably be more likely to pick that up just to support Nintendo doing more of this kind of thing in the future.
I won't get into Nintendo's business practices further than what I said already.
Bamboo Boy
Neo Member
The most epic part of the Direct on Twitch:
When the Fire Emblem trailer was on and the little girl said "Onii-chan" and the entire chat started to spam Onii-Chan and OniiBoys. I haven't laughed in a Direct that much.
When the Fire Emblem trailer was on and the little girl said "Onii-chan" and the entire chat started to spam Onii-Chan and OniiBoys. I haven't laughed in a Direct that much.
TheSlySoul
Member
So for those in the EU, was the press release leak dates accurate? I am excited for P&D 3DS on May 2nd.
Starwolf_UK
Member
The twitter timelines of the Nintendo subsidiaries are pretty good if missing a few details.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Itagaki redeemed.
E3 is right around the corner, I would reassess then.
nobodyshero
Banned
At least that gives us plenty of time to find out just how challenging this "normal mode" is. I loved Epic Yarn, but game bordered on boring sometimes.
TheSlySoul
Member
Nintendo of America being awful.
We are getting Xenoblade/Puzzles and Dragons/Splatoon/Yoshi last.
I noticed that they cut back to the SMB tileset before jumping, so I'm pretty sure it's always the SMB physics.
Which clears the decks for new new games at E3, no?
Sammy Samusu
Member
Watching now.
I haven't bought Smash yet (lol), but I loved all the announcements, new characters, amiibos, updates and awesome DLC price! Y'all better ask for Kyle Hyde from the Hotel Dusk series.
*continues to watch*
I haven't bought Smash yet (lol), but I loved all the announcements, new characters, amiibos, updates and awesome DLC price! Y'all better ask for Kyle Hyde from the Hotel Dusk series.
*continues to watch*
I saw a whole lot of paywall stuff and not much else.
nobodyshero
Banned
There's no way, they would have mentioned it considering the whole trailer was them switching tile sets on the fly and that could potentially break levels depending on how exact you are about tile placement.
To be fair, the subset of people who want and would legitimately use the different physics is MINUSCULE. The vast majority of people don't care, and would be actively pissed when their levels start breaking.
bobbychalkers
Member
I was expecting something different but the idea of SMT and FE characters saving the world together never made much sense to me anyways and Project X Zone soured me on cameo-based RPG crossovers. Really my only issue with the game is that I'm not seeing any SMT motifs but it looks fun to me.
Yeah, I feel like were way overdue for seeing something new from the game. Itagaki has hyped it up a handful of times on facebook so I'd figured it show up in a Direct by now.