Project Triangle Strategy looks amazing IMO... A tactics game done in SE's 2D-HD tech is exactly what I wanted.
And hooray for Skyward Sword with an alternate control scheme! Waggle is a barrier to accessibility, and I'm happy that - even if it's unintentional - they made the game far more accessible than the original iteration was.
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Tales from the Borderlands is really, really, REALLY good. Manages to capture the Borderlands feel, only with actually good jokes, great characters and a compelling story. Easily Telltale's best game.
I'm more hyped, at this moment, for the AoC expansion pass, than Skyward Sword. :rotate:
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Looks like Robbie and Purah will be playable, at the very least. I was honestly surprised you couldn't get them in the base game.
I'm going to assume the "bonus" pre-order weapon/costume aren't a different type, but just another in-game weapon. I'll be curious if it is obtainable in gameplay, because I don't think the Ladle ever dropped anywhere else, and the base weapons become pretty crappy.
I wonder what the "wave 2" "new character vignettes" means? Character specific extra story stuff? I actually don't see in the Wave 1 stuff anything adding to the story itself. New stages, at least, so leveling the new characters and getting drops won't just be the same old levels. New weapon types has me curious.
I haven't been keeping up on Samurai Warriors 5 stuff. Is it going to be pseudo open world like Dynasty Warriors 9? Please, fuck no.
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Not putting out WW on Switch because they put it out "recently" on the Wii U would be the most Nintendo move imaginable.
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Good direct with a ton of games shown off. I'm happy, even though very little of it interests me. The first half of the year is stacked for the Switch and with my limited time, I'm happy that a ton of it isn't my thing. I'm interested in what happens the second half of the year.
With that said: Splatoon 3, Mario Golf, and Famicom Detective Club are insta buys for me. Pyra/Mythra are my jam and I cannot wait to play them.
So yea, great direct. There was so much shown I can't even remember a lot of it. Octopath Tactics looked sweet too!
Skyward Sword will have button controls, but I'm not convinced the right stick solution is going to make anyone very happy.
They could have just done a button; but I know they'd have to change a lot of gameplay elements.
The problem is, you know, the camera. :rotate:
Anyway, rewatched the LoM trailer, and it looks exactly how I remember it looking.
I.E. way better than it actually looked.
Seriously, watch some videos of the original, then the trailer, it's dramatic how much clearer and crisper everything is. Looks so good.
MVP of the direct for me, by a mile.
Situation Bermuda Triangle was second. Still super excited by it, didn't even know I needed it! But you might underestimate how thrilled I am to get LoM HD.
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I'm shocked they actually put in the development time to add button controls to Skyward Sword.
Also shocked they still haven't put Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD on Switch.
Also also cannot FUCKING BELIEVE STILL NO FUCKING METROID NEWS
You fixed Skyward Sword but won't do Metroid Prime Trilogy????
We need to just forget Metroid until they announce something. I'll never expect an announement ahead of time. It just hurts. The games are not big sellers and they are not a priority. I'm sure that at some point we'll get another 2D Metroid. We know Prime 4 is being worked on but was started over just a couple of years ago as Nintendo wasn't happy with it. The Prime Trilogy will come at some point but it won't be until it's closer to Prime 4's release I imagine.
It's one of my top three gaming franchises but it's just easier to wait until an announcement actually happens. It doesn't sell nearly as much as Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, or many others that outsells it always.
I'm just happy to know that somewhere, a Metroid game is being worked on and it'll appear when it appears.
The thing that most has me interested in Triangle Strategy is the story. I was kinda put out by the very limited interaction between characters in Octopath, so I’m here for a game when a more directly connected story.
Project Triangle Strategy looks amazing IMO... A tactics game done in SE's 2D-HD tech is exactly what I wanted.
And hooray for Skyward Sword with an alternate control scheme! Waggle is a barrier to accessibility, and I'm happy that - even if it's unintentional - they made the game far more accessible than the original iteration was.
these are the only two games that caught my interest
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Oh wow I forgot time. It has almost been 4 years, not 5. I think I mixed up Odyssey release with the switch release.
Still a long time. Even counting stuff like NSMB we usually have a new Mario platformer more often than that. They have filled in the gaps with these Wii U rereleases but that doesn't count
SaGa Frontier, Legend of Mana, Triangle Strategy are the ones I'm hyped for. Oh, and Bravely Default, but that's next Friday and I already preordered, so...
Good direct. Multiple things I want. Splatoon is always rad. Love to see Skyward getting another round in the limelight, I always felt that one got unfairly maligned.
Mario Golf looked awesome and a return to story mode/RPG mode is great.
But I saw wayyyy too few Mario-ish elements out in the world! Or basically none!
Where are the giant pipes to hit the ball into? Where are the huge koopa shells sitting on the beach? The Chain Chomp sand traps? Playing up in the canopy of giant trees? Bowser's castle?
The last one on 3DS was similarly "realistic" and it was disappointing. I might be misremembering this...I do know a good portion of the courses were just normal greens, that may have been the N64 course DLC.
Mario Golf looked awesome and a return to story mode/RPG mode is great.
But I saw wayyyy too few Mario-ish elements out in the world! Or basically none!
Where are the giant pipes to hit the ball into? Where are the huge koopa shells sitting on the beach? The Chain Chomp sand traps? Playing up in the canopy of giant trees? Bowser's castle?
The last one on 3DS was similarly "realistic" and it was disappointing. It's like making Mario Kart into Forza.
I do agree it looks great but hopefully they're saving the Mario-esque levels to not spoil anything.
Also also cannot FUCKING BELIEVE STILL NO FUCKING METROID NEWS
I can. Because I'm a Metroid fan and I've been paying attention.
It's something I can't really bring myself to be angry with Nintendo about.
Not to say they've always made amazing decisions with the franchise, but given that it's never been an amazing seller, and even when the games are good, they still don't do great (I guess MP2 remake didn't do so hot, but I loved it)...what are they supposed to do?
They seem to be fully aware of how much its fanbase loves it and wants more, but at the same time, they don't have any reason to believe that just remaking old stuff that never caught on super well in the first place, would do so a second time around, so unless they can bring down development costs or grow the franchise, their options are pretty limited.
Whenever MP4 comes out, I'll be stunned if it isn't accompanied close by with a Trilogy re-release.
The only obvious thing I think they could do at this point would be a full on HD upgrade of Super Metroid, but it'd have to be a cheap development cost, or even then, it might not even do amazingly well, no matter how badly some of us want it.
EDIT: And, honestly, I'm happier that they're taking so long, particularly knowing they functionally scrapped what they had for MP4 and started over, than release something that was subpar. That's not to assume what we will eventually get will be amazing, but it seems clear to me that they care enough to do it right, to that degree at least.
Skyward Sword is great and I'm glad we're getting it .... but yeah .... extremely underwhelming. The Mario 35 year anniv wasn't amazing and this falls very VERY short of that
Triangle game I'm... like, it's the kind of thing I should like, but I also can't help but feel like these are the things that were used to advertise Tactics Ogre.
Tactics Ogre on the SNES.
And even then "bows get +1 range when on high ground!" is... uh... this is your leadoff pitch?
And I always roll my eyes whenever a game starts talking up "Your spells can affect the environment for a bonus effect!" or "Real super serious moral choices that unlike the other 99,999,999 games that claimed this, really matter this time!" These things haven't lived up to the hype even before Molyneux made them a joke.
The pinball like mechanics may be the most interesting thing to me, but that feels like a gimmick better suited for something like Disgaea.
The Triangle Strategy video seemed like something that was designed to get people who haven't played tactics games into tactics games. Sure, if it's a genre you're familiar with then those things are very obvious. But if you're a general Nintendo fan who doesn't have much experience with Tactics games then it was a pretty good intro to/onboarding video.
And I always roll my eyes whenever a game starts talking up "Your spells can affect the environment for a bonus effect!" or "Real super serious moral choices that unlike the other 99,999,999 games that claimed this, really matter this time!" These things haven't lived up to the hype even before Molyneux made them a joke.
There have been games that did them well. One that comes to mind was Radiant Historia, which had one really significant choice early on that split the game in half, and then a lot of smaller splits along the way. There was a whole timeline catalog thing where you could see which paths you took and which were unexplored.
But the thing is, everyone these days is so completionist that we'll all see every path play out. No one will play the game once and say "ah that was an interesting story, and totally different from the one my friend experienced." We will all see all stories. And frankly they want us to, because otherwise that's a lot of wasted development time and paid voice acting if 90% of players don't see most of it.
I know it wouldn't exactly make much sense, but I could see them shrugging their shoulders and just making the name "Octopath" into a brand name and calling the thing "Octopath Tactics/Strategy/Triangle. Because really that's exactly what it is and what everybody was thinking when they showed it.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
I know it wouldn't exactly make much sense, but I could see them shrugging their shoulders and just making the name "Octopath" into a brand name and calling the thing "Octopath Tactics/Strategy/Triangle. Because really that's exactly what it is and what everybody was thinking when they showed it.
Octopath implies eight... somethings. They shouldn't force it onto games where the number eight isn't focused on in any way.
I know it wouldn't exactly make much sense, but I could see them shrugging their shoulders and just making the name "Octopath" into a brand name and calling the thing "Octopath Tactics/Strategy/Triangle. Because really that's exactly what it is and what everybody was thinking when they showed it.
Octopath implies eight... somethings. They shouldn't force it onto games where the number eight isn't focused on in any way.
Sure, but in the end a name is just a name. Final Fantasy stopped making sense the moment 2 came along. The Switch Lite can't actually switch. There's really nothing stopping anybody from doing the same to Octopath.
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Going to wait and see on the story mode for the new Mario Golf, since the story/adventure mode in Mario Tennis Aces was underwhelming. It helps that your golf character is a customizable Mii that you can bring to other modes.
And I always roll my eyes whenever a game starts talking up "Your spells can affect the environment for a bonus effect!" or "Real super serious moral choices that unlike the other 99,999,999 games that claimed this, really matter this time!" These things haven't lived up to the hype even before Molyneux made them a joke.
There have been games that did them well. One that comes to mind was Radiant Historia, which had one really significant choice early on that split the game in half, and then a lot of smaller splits along the way. There was a whole timeline catalog thing where you could see which paths you took and which were unexplored.
But the thing is, everyone these days is so completionist that we'll all see every path play out. No one will play the game once and say "ah that was an interesting story, and totally different from the one my friend experienced." We will all see all stories. And frankly they want us to, because otherwise that's a lot of wasted development time and paid voice acting if 90% of players don't see most of it.
It's a good game but ultimately it's more two linear plots you bounce back and forth between than anything really choice based. Since the overall plot requires you to complete both paths and the divergences mostly lead to bad ends.
Going to wait and see on the story mode for the new Mario Golf, since the story/adventure mode in Mario Tennis Aces was underwhelming. It helps that your golf character is a customizable Mii that you can bring to other modes.
I never played it, but isn't it what the Gameboy Color Mario Golf had? That's what it sounded like.
Yay Mario Golf {a sad fact I really only played golf on my 3ds when I was angry so when I streetpassed my brother in the morning he would make the comments of how bad was last night}
The Capcom Arcade looked like a in memoriam video
I think we'll get more Zelda news in the next few months, and more Zelda releases in 2021. Skyward Sword isn't going to be the only thing we get for the 35th anniversary.
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I think we'll get more Zelda news in the next few months, and more Zelda releases in 2021. Skyward Sword isn't going to be the only thing we get for the 35th anniversary.
Yeah, I was telling a friend this as well. I don't think it makes sense to expect something like zelda, pokemon, or mario from a direct like this. Those are their biggest IPs and will get their own directs this year.
This direct wasn't amazing, but I am excited about skyward sword since I've never played it as well as the octopath looking tactics game. Never really played the Saga games either so that will be good and even Splatoon 3 looks fun even if it's not until 2022.
Bowser's Fury feels like one of those games where being good at the game actually cuts down on the amount of content that you get to experience. I wish that there was some sort of new game+ perma-fury mode.
I tried the triangle project demo. It is sooooo slow. It's also hard to tell enemies from friends without selecting a unit. There's also the octopath traveller problem of everything has some brown/gray in it so everything just kinda blends together.
I only played the first mission but it does not really seem like a must buy for me. Disgaea 6 is higher on the buy list.
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And hooray for Skyward Sword with an alternate control scheme! Waggle is a barrier to accessibility, and I'm happy that - even if it's unintentional - they made the game far more accessible than the original iteration was.
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Looks like Robbie and Purah will be playable, at the very least. I was honestly surprised you couldn't get them in the base game.
I'm going to assume the "bonus" pre-order weapon/costume aren't a different type, but just another in-game weapon. I'll be curious if it is obtainable in gameplay, because I don't think the Ladle ever dropped anywhere else, and the base weapons become pretty crappy.
I wonder what the "wave 2" "new character vignettes" means? Character specific extra story stuff? I actually don't see in the Wave 1 stuff anything adding to the story itself. New stages, at least, so leveling the new characters and getting drops won't just be the same old levels. New weapon types has me curious.
Not out till June though.
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I haven't been keeping up on Samurai Warriors 5 stuff. Is it going to be pseudo open world like Dynasty Warriors 9? Please, fuck no.
With that said: Splatoon 3, Mario Golf, and Famicom Detective Club are insta buys for me. Pyra/Mythra are my jam and I cannot wait to play them.
So yea, great direct. There was so much shown I can't even remember a lot of it. Octopath Tactics looked sweet too!
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Also shocked they still haven't put Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD on Switch.
Also also cannot FUCKING BELIEVE STILL NO FUCKING METROID NEWS
You fixed Skyward Sword but won't do Metroid Prime Trilogy????
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Demo just went live on the eShop. If it's anything like last time they want player feedback at the end.
They could have just done a button; but I know they'd have to change a lot of gameplay elements.
The problem is, you know, the camera. :rotate:
Anyway, rewatched the LoM trailer, and it looks exactly how I remember it looking.
I.E. way better than it actually looked.
Seriously, watch some videos of the original, then the trailer, it's dramatic how much clearer and crisper everything is. Looks so good.
MVP of the direct for me, by a mile.
Situation Bermuda Triangle was second. Still super excited by it, didn't even know I needed it! But you might underestimate how thrilled I am to get LoM HD.
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We need to just forget Metroid until they announce something. I'll never expect an announement ahead of time. It just hurts. The games are not big sellers and they are not a priority. I'm sure that at some point we'll get another 2D Metroid. We know Prime 4 is being worked on but was started over just a couple of years ago as Nintendo wasn't happy with it. The Prime Trilogy will come at some point but it won't be until it's closer to Prime 4's release I imagine.
It's one of my top three gaming franchises but it's just easier to wait until an announcement actually happens. It doesn't sell nearly as much as Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, or many others that outsells it always.
I'm just happy to know that somewhere, a Metroid game is being worked on and it'll appear when it appears.
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these are the only two games that caught my interest
Still a long time. Even counting stuff like NSMB we usually have a new Mario platformer more often than that. They have filled in the gaps with these Wii U rereleases but that doesn't count
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SaGa Frontier, Legend of Mana, Triangle Strategy are the ones I'm hyped for. Oh, and Bravely Default, but that's next Friday and I already preordered, so...
There's going to be more info for this Feb 25th in Japan. Let's hope it doesn't have the open world stuff!
But I saw wayyyy too few Mario-ish elements out in the world! Or basically none!
Where are the giant pipes to hit the ball into? Where are the huge koopa shells sitting on the beach? The Chain Chomp sand traps? Playing up in the canopy of giant trees? Bowser's castle?
The last one on 3DS was similarly "realistic" and it was disappointing. I might be misremembering this...I do know a good portion of the courses were just normal greens, that may have been the N64 course DLC.
I can. Because I'm a Metroid fan and I've been paying attention.
I do agree it looks great but hopefully they're saving the Mario-esque levels to not spoil anything.
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It's something I can't really bring myself to be angry with Nintendo about.
Not to say they've always made amazing decisions with the franchise, but given that it's never been an amazing seller, and even when the games are good, they still don't do great (I guess MP2 remake didn't do so hot, but I loved it)...what are they supposed to do?
They seem to be fully aware of how much its fanbase loves it and wants more, but at the same time, they don't have any reason to believe that just remaking old stuff that never caught on super well in the first place, would do so a second time around, so unless they can bring down development costs or grow the franchise, their options are pretty limited.
Whenever MP4 comes out, I'll be stunned if it isn't accompanied close by with a Trilogy re-release.
The only obvious thing I think they could do at this point would be a full on HD upgrade of Super Metroid, but it'd have to be a cheap development cost, or even then, it might not even do amazingly well, no matter how badly some of us want it.
EDIT: And, honestly, I'm happier that they're taking so long, particularly knowing they functionally scrapped what they had for MP4 and started over, than release something that was subpar. That's not to assume what we will eventually get will be amazing, but it seems clear to me that they care enough to do it right, to that degree at least.
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Tactics Ogre on the SNES.
And even then "bows get +1 range when on high ground!" is... uh... this is your leadoff pitch?
And I always roll my eyes whenever a game starts talking up "Your spells can affect the environment for a bonus effect!" or "Real super serious moral choices that unlike the other 99,999,999 games that claimed this, really matter this time!" These things haven't lived up to the hype even before Molyneux made them a joke.
The pinball like mechanics may be the most interesting thing to me, but that feels like a gimmick better suited for something like Disgaea.
There have been games that did them well. One that comes to mind was Radiant Historia, which had one really significant choice early on that split the game in half, and then a lot of smaller splits along the way. There was a whole timeline catalog thing where you could see which paths you took and which were unexplored.
But the thing is, everyone these days is so completionist that we'll all see every path play out. No one will play the game once and say "ah that was an interesting story, and totally different from the one my friend experienced." We will all see all stories. And frankly they want us to, because otherwise that's a lot of wasted development time and paid voice acting if 90% of players don't see most of it.
Octopath implies eight... somethings. They shouldn't force it onto games where the number eight isn't focused on in any way.
Sure, but in the end a name is just a name. Final Fantasy stopped making sense the moment 2 came along. The Switch Lite can't actually switch. There's really nothing stopping anybody from doing the same to Octopath.
It's a good game but ultimately it's more two linear plots you bounce back and forth between than anything really choice based. Since the overall plot requires you to complete both paths and the divergences mostly lead to bad ends.
I never played it, but isn't it what the Gameboy Color Mario Golf had? That's what it sounded like.
The Capcom Arcade looked like a in memoriam video
Yeah, I was telling a friend this as well. I don't think it makes sense to expect something like zelda, pokemon, or mario from a direct like this. Those are their biggest IPs and will get their own directs this year.
This direct wasn't amazing, but I am excited about skyward sword since I've never played it as well as the octopath looking tactics game. Never really played the Saga games either so that will be good and even Splatoon 3 looks fun even if it's not until 2022.
I only played the first mission but it does not really seem like a must buy for me. Disgaea 6 is higher on the buy list.
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