Dark Cloud
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So Miyamoto the guy who walked on stage at E3 to reveal a beautiful Pikmin 3 for Wii U just decided to make Pikmin 4 a side scroller? Are you serious right now?
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New Island, DS and Topsy Turvy are some of the most mediocre Nintendo games ever made.
Would rather play Yoshi's Story. By the way DS has horrible difficulty curve issues.
balladofwindfishes
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Lord_Byron28
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Have any of you guys seen the sales of the three Pikmin games? We're lucky with the amount of Pikmin games we have gotten, when it's a F-Zero tier franchise. I was afraid Pikmin 3 may have been the end of the franchise, tbh.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
You're debating semantics. He said a new Pikmin game was in development "close to completion" and this is the result.
Nope, the platform was never confirmed.
ArchedThunder
Banned
balladofwindfishes
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Then why would Nintendo say this about Miyamoto's statement?
You seriously think Nintendo's next numbered release in one of their AAA franchises is a 2D side scroller spin off on the 3DS? Announced in the tail end of a Direct in a 15 second blurb?
I'll say its a vocal minority. People enjoy getting outraged. Its always the same users, too.
purseowner
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Good lord, please not Artoon / Arzest / whatever their name is.
Yoshi's Island DS remains, to me, the worst game in any of Nintendo's major series. I have never felt more robbed than when I bought that at launch day. I've avoided all of their games like the plague since then.
Absolutely abominable game, that was.
They just rebranded to Arzest, possibly because the name was toxic. The key employees are the same, I believe.
Yoshi's Island DS remains, to me, the worst game in any of Nintendo's major series. I have never felt more robbed than when I bought that at launch day. I've avoided all of their games like the plague since then.
Absolutely abominable game, that was.
They just rebranded to Arzest, possibly because the name was toxic. The key employees are the same, I believe.
See Mpl90's post; he referred to it as Pikmin 4.
I respect your opinion, and only really disagree in re: the DS game. Which as you said has a rough difficulty curve, but I still enjoyed it a lot. We can agree to disagree. Hopefully this game will be great regardless of the developer.
dampflokfreund
Banned
Yup, that's it. Pikmin fans have to accept this.
Since I'm not a Pikmin fan I couldn't care less what Nintendo does with the Pikmin franchise, but I do feel sorry for Pikmin fans. Its a pretty similar situation of what it was like when Federation Force and Amiibo Festival for fans of these franchises were announced.
I don't get why Nintendo keeps doing stuff like this to their fanbase.
GhostTrick
Banned
Or maybe, unlike apologists, some people are tired of Nintendo being lazy with all these sidescrollers. Except for Metroid as some people said :/
Yep, spamming threads with their copycat reactions. You can take one post and put it on another n thread and it'd be the same.
It isn't similar. See Mpl90's post on the last page or two. Miyamoto referred to Pikmin 4. We have no reason to believe this is that game.
Stairouais
Member
I totaly expect a Splatoon sidescroller now.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Nintendo called it "Pikmin 4" when they officially commented on it shortly after the EG interview with Miyamoto was published.
That being said, they absolutely could have been referring to this game and I wouldn't be surprised at all if that ends up being the case.
Joelstinton14
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Personally i think it is just Gamers.
Used to love discussing video games, but yeah... the constant negativity grinds you down.
People would freak and then the game could still be awesome. I love the sound of that honestly.
Nocturnowl
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People keep calling this a 2D platformer but isn't this filling a different niche? yeah it's 2D but puzzle focused, with a methodical pace and the series existing elements, doesn't seem comparable to say NSMB2 or DKCR3D.
The SNES would have broken some of you, like Super Mario World, Lost Vikings and Super Contra would all fall under the same umbrella.
Olimar can't even jump by the looks of things!
The SNES would have broken some of you, like Super Mario World, Lost Vikings and Super Contra would all fall under the same umbrella.
Olimar can't even jump by the looks of things!
Next F-Zero game is going to be the Top Ride mode from Air Ride.
But people LOVE 2d sidescrollers!
At least they love to brag about how they love 2d sidescrollers
"Omg donkey kong tropical freeze so perfect best game ever" but if retro's next game is another 2d platformer people will riot
"Omg yoshi wooly world so beautiful such exploration" and yet as soon as people saw that the map had 3d movement everybody went "it would be great if the whole game was like this..."
Roto Prime
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I love me some Mass Attack, own every Kirby game from DS up! Canvas Curse is my Fav Kirby game of all times, Rainbow could take it if I could just get 4 people to play Waddle dee...
Not at all, the game actually looks pretty good. But I am having a very hard time believing this is the next main installment.
He also has talked about wanting to put Pikmin on a handheld in the past as well. So there's no reason to not believe this is that game.
Look, I get some Pikmin fans want a real Pikmin game, but this at least seems faithful enough to the series, unlike Federation Force which was a clear FU to the fans and Amiibo Festival which was just a spin-off made just to sell amiibo.
poppos2097
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Hoping this one has a piklopedia and dungeons with rest areas only so that they can reuse the BGMs (well, the writing was another plus)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj9zFI5uSGc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_t9FN8TSDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj9zFI5uSGc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_t9FN8TSDk
Joelstinton14
Member
How is this being lazy? 2D games are not lazy games either.
ElectricBlanketFire
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Who's outraged?
Spieler Eins
Member
Look at Nintendo's sales. Gamers as a whole are giving up on them. They couldn't even keep half of their core fanbase from the GCN days. Some people actually want them to get their act together though, since they have many IPs with great potential. The only obnoxious part of the fanbase is the one that wants to constantly pat Nintendo on the back for a strikingly increasing amount of shit efforts and anti-gamer decisions of the past 3-4 years. Being more of backseat lawyers for an electronics company than actual videogame fans. NX isn't going to improve, if there's narratives going around, acting as if they did nothing wrong and WiiU only failed because of bad coincidences or something.
Allan Holdsworth
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Yoshi Story was waaaaay worse, and that was made internally by Nintendo.
The typical "Nintendo fan" on GAF hates every Nintendo game except 3D Mario, Zelda and Metroid for what I've observed. Thankfully it doesn't represent the majority of Nintendo fans, and we keep getting great sidescrollers along the 3D games.
Right, it seems halfway between Mass Attack and a puzzler. I didn't notice about Olimar not being able to jump but, it could make sense in the context of the game. Them not showing him jumping doesn't confirm he can't, but it does point to it as a strong possibility.
Yes. There is reason to believe this is not that game. Because he referred to that as Pikmin 4, whereas this was announced and was not titled Pikmin 4. You have to remember Pikmin is Miyamoto's main focus at Nintendo above pretty much all other franchises. Pikmin 3 was a success and I very very very much doubt he will stop that style of entry after re-releasing the games on Wii, giving it more exposure in Nintendo Land, launching the 3rd entry successfully for Wii U, and making the series of short films.
BTW, here is (part one of) a great translated interview with Miyamoto on Pikmin 3, if you're (or anyone) is interested:
http://kamedani.tumblr.com/post/55798867746/4-gamer-interview-with-shigeru-miyamoto-part-1
Just read it recently and it gives a ton of insight into how he views the game(s).
Sammy Samusu
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I'll be the first to drag 2D games but this one looks awesome.
Stop the hate!
Stop the hate!
Dark Cloud
Member
Whatever dude. This isn't Pikmin 4 or it would've been called it. It's clearly a side game for the 3DS. It's probably not being made by Nintendo. Miyamoto said Nintendo is making Pikmin 4. This game looks like it's from Arzest.
OrbitalBeard
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Brought to you by the creator of Fucking Donkey Kong
Yoshi's Story has memorable catchy songs unlike New Island and DS.
Godzilla's Left Toe
Member
The Donkey Kong Country series has always been 2d this is the same thing they did to chibi robo.
GhostTrick
Banned
2D games doesn't mean lazy. But let's be fair, it feels like they're farming out cheap 2D sidescrollers. You have many ambitious 2D games. What we seen these days from Nintendo doesn't. Except for Kirby Planet Robobot.
Dark Cloud
Member
If this game is Pikmin 4 then why did it take so long to develop when Miyamoto said it was almost completed back in July 2015? Just think. This isn't Pikmin 4.
You seriously think a new, properly-titled Metroid Prime game is a multiplayer 3DS game with chibi characters and no Samus?
bulletbill10
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I'm pretty excited for this game. I think you could do some different things with the "inventory management" of your pikmin in side scrolling. It could sure make multi-tasking different. It reminds me of some of the challenge stages in Pikmin 3 that were more or less 2d. That was a way different experience compared to the other stages.
What's unambitious about Yoshi's Woolly World or Kirby and the Rainbow Curse compared to Robobot? :/