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E3 Keynotes 2011 - Talking shop for shoppers at ship - Nintendo June 7 @ 9am PST
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Kirby using Kuribo's Shoe = Game of the Year!
This Kirby game is the new Duke Nukem Forever
It's been in inception since Gamecube.
It's never coming out.
Also - The New 3DS Kirby where you toss lots of little kirbys at things looks like a 2-D pikmin.
SO WHY ISN'T IT PIKMIN NINTENDO?
No this particular game used the Melee engine originally. It's been through tons of revisions since Sakurai quit and came back.
Like I said it's basically an arcade pikmin.
Alas.
I'll still buy it but a traditional Kirby is something I've wanted for a long time as well.
I think this new one looks pretty crappy and boring.
Eh, Duke was 14 years. Kirby is only about 6.
Honestly though I doubt much of the Gamecube version was even retained. As I recall, the Gamecube one was closer to Kirby 64 in style - way more "3D" than this. Also I think it had the shitty animals that ruin every Kirby game they are in.
I imagine the title was just so late in the GC's life that it was going to be ported over to Wii instead. But I almost wonder if that's what killed the timeline. I mean, think back to early Wii - they had to shoehorn motion shit into everything. How do you add motion controls to Kirby? Struggling with that probably caused HAL to shelve the thing in favor of other projects. Then New Super Mario Bros Wii came along. The huge success of that game probably brought this project back from the dead with some similar mechanics (again, fucking thank you NSMB Wii, and others, for proving to developers there is still a place for 2d games!).
This is just my guess of course. But it makes sense. Kirby's Epic Yarn probably inspired work a bit as well, especially considering it really didn't start as a Kirby game (it may have even been the idea at the time to slap the license on there just to get *some* Kirby game on Wii).
BTW, Kirby Mass Attack is for DS, not 3DS. Shame, but the game does look pretty damn fun. Oh, and Pikmin 3 moved to Wii U, so yeah.
Well, I meant the fact that Nintendo always has a Kirby game shown and then it either eventually gets cancelled or re-worked. Air Ride was in development for the N64 for ages and finally saw the light of day on GameCube for example.
That is totally an animal
Edit: It changes color when the player controls it, it seems, but you can see that enemy at about 0:50 in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy2l5BSBSL0
There's more than one Kirby series, basically. There's the first game, Dream Land, and then there's Kirby's Adventure, and then they split up into two. Dream Land 2 splits off into an alternate universe-timeline where Kirby games are about animals and cute things and... whatever, and that continues with Dream Land 3 and Kirby 64. The original Kirby series continues with Kirby Super Star, and that's where it ends.
(I'm going to make a graph and devise a plot-based explanation for what made a timeline split occur. brb.)
Sakurai designed the "original timeline" Kirby games, but not the others. That's why there's such a big difference in tone and design style between them. If Sakurai was designing the GC Kirby game before he left HAL, maybe that's why it was eventually canceled?
Looks like you're still stuck with the game :lol:
Thanks anyway man. <3
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I've never played Magicka, I keep hearing good things about it but I haven't been motivated enough to bite the bullet and try it out. Would it be ok if you just gave it to me, please?
Wait I mean
I think the final contest should be whoever expresses a sincere interest in the game and asks nicely first!
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I disagree. Dreamland 2 had like 6 copy powers because of the animals. It also followed Kirby's Adventure which was insanely more awesome in every way.
Dark Matter is the awesomest name/idea for an evil alien ever.
Even death may die, bitch.
Fine you win.. *grumbles* party poopers.. Enjoy.
Edit: Son of a bitch, I had another piece of digital swag for everyone, but I misread the card. I thought I had to wait till the 13th for this new game to be available, but the reusable code was only valid TILL the 13th. Sorry, because of my mistake you all missed out on it.
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I don't understand how you've reached that conclusion. All the vids I've seen make it look totally sweet.
Shrug!
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You know actually now that I think of it, I don't think it was my fault, I think the guy that gave me the card said wait till the 13th to activate it. It was all HIS fault!
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Just an update, I'm giving out more E3 games over in the GoG thread.
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