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The [Nintendo] thread, starring Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong

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  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    mouthful mode was a good thing to reveal later like they did

    i love it

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    It's not even Car Kirby. It's Kirby failing to ingest a junker and stretching his soft, pink flesh taut over the frame as it slips closer to oblivion

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    what, you thought Cappy was existential horror? Hah.

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  • SeolSeol Registered User regular
    this new kirby game looks insane. mouthful mode? rpg elements? it feels like it's got the same anything-could-happen energy of super mario odyssey

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    turtleant wrote: »
    Do they really need to make Mario Kart 9? What would actually change?

    Bring back some of the features from Double Dash!

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Honestly this doesn't look like Kirby Zero Dawn anymore so my interest has departed to other locales.

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    double dash is the poster boy for A Mario Kart Can Be Different but they've definitely seemed like they've slowly moved away from individual karts having A Thing

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    double dash is the poster boy for A Mario Kart Can Be Different but they've definitely seemed like they've slowly moved away from individual karts having A Thing

    Have they? Mario Kart 7 had the glider and Mario Kart 8 had the hover car sections.

    I haven't played the mobile Mario Kart, does it have those things?

  • Werewolf2000adWerewolf2000ad Suckers, I know exactly what went wrong. Registered User regular
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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    do people even like the modern mario sports games, i feel like i only ever hear about them being content light compared to the era of the gamecube or even the wii

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    So the earthbound announcement got me all excited and nostalgic so I got Nintendo online but I guess it hasn’t release yet.

    So going to try this triangle tactics demo out instead.

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    do people even like the modern mario sports games, i feel like i only ever hear about them being content light compared to the era of the gamecube or even the wii

    My expectations for Strikers is tempered, I loved the shit out of GameCube tennis but Switch had a short honeymoon.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    I like the look of the character designs and environments for Xenoblade 3 a lot more than 2, looks like they went back to a more 1-ish design without the gacha anime wife angle

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    So the first tracks in the Mario Kart pass are:

    - Paris Promenade (Tour)
    - Toad Circuit (3DS)
    - Choco Mountain (64)
    - Coconut Mall (Wii)

    - Tokyo Blur (Tour)
    - Shroom Ridge (DS)
    - Sky Garden (GBA)
    - Ninja Hideaway (Tour)

    Well shit, it does have Sky Garden as one of the first tracks so I'm obligated to get it.

  • DaebunzDaebunz Registered User regular
    do people even like the modern mario sports games, i feel like i only ever hear about them being content light compared to the era of the gamecube or even the wii

    new golf and tennis really require someone on the couch with you to get anything out of i think, there is a big lack of single player modes like the n64 and gc games had

    and while its great that all the content they added was free i would have rather those games came out much later and have more courses or characters be unlockables so you had something to work toward

    so, i found both to be really good games with nothing to do

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    Crippl3 wrote: »
    As soon as someone started talking in an English accent I knew it was Xenoblade

    Xenoblade's Western identity forever altered because Nintendo US decided Wii owners would HATE a huge in depth RPG to play and refused to localize it. Then when they eventually decided to let it come out, only the bare minimum effort allowed. I wonder whose decision all that stupidity was...

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    So the first tracks in the Mario Kart pass are:

    - Paris Promenade (Tour)
    - Toad Circuit (3DS)
    - Choco Mountain (64)
    - Coconut Mall (Wii)

    - Tokyo Blur (Tour)
    - Shroom Ridge (DS)
    - Sky Garden (GBA)
    - Ninja Hideaway (Tour)

    Well shit, it does have Sky Garden as one of the first tracks so I'm obligated to get it.

    I wonder if they're gonna do any updating like they did for MK8, or if they're gonna leave them "Vanilla."

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    So the first tracks in the Mario Kart pass are:

    - Paris Promenade (Tour)
    - Toad Circuit (3DS)
    - Choco Mountain (64)
    - Coconut Mall (Wii)

    - Tokyo Blur (Tour)
    - Shroom Ridge (DS)
    - Sky Garden (GBA)
    - Ninja Hideaway (Tour)

    Well shit, it does have Sky Garden as one of the first tracks so I'm obligated to get it.

    I wonder if they're gonna do any updating like they did for MK8, or if they're gonna leave them "Vanilla."

    I would consider it guaranteed they will add the MK8 elements to the tracks (flying, going underwater, turning into hovercrafts). 1) Because they wouldn't feel like proper MK8 tracks if they ditched those elements and 2) Because it is going to take TWO YEARS to release all of them. It would not take that amount of time if they were just doing the graphics and changing nothing.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    do people even like the modern mario sports games, i feel like i only ever hear about them being content light compared to the era of the gamecube or even the wii

    I think broadly the answer is "No but maybe this next one will be good"

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    ph blake wrote: »
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    new Three Houses stuff is cool! I didn't really enjoy the first Fire Emblem Warriors game though!

    I'm glad they announced some cool stuff after that, cause opening with the very obvious Fire Emblem theme and then seeing it was a warriors game was a huge shot in the heart

    I could tell almost immediately it was the Three Houses theme which meant it was just gonna be a heroes spin-off.

  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    do people even like the modern mario sports games, i feel like i only ever hear about them being content light compared to the era of the gamecube or even the wii

    new golf and tennis really require someone on the couch with you to get anything out of i think, there is a big lack of single player modes like the n64 and gc games had

    and while its great that all the content they added was free i would have rather those games came out much later and have more courses or characters be unlockables so you had something to work toward

    so, i found both to be really good games with nothing to do

    They made a 80$ version of the Neo Turf Masters

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  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    I wonder how long three chapters really is for Triangle Strategy’s extended demo I feel like the original demo took me about an hour to beat.

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    So the first tracks in the Mario Kart pass are:

    - Paris Promenade (Tour)
    - Toad Circuit (3DS)
    - Choco Mountain (64)
    - Coconut Mall (Wii)

    - Tokyo Blur (Tour)
    - Shroom Ridge (DS)
    - Sky Garden (GBA)
    - Ninja Hideaway (Tour)

    Well shit, it does have Sky Garden as one of the first tracks so I'm obligated to get it.

    I wonder if they're gonna do any updating like they did for MK8, or if they're gonna leave them "Vanilla."

    I would consider it guaranteed they will add the MK8 elements to the tracks (flying, going underwater, turning into hovercrafts). 1) Because they wouldn't feel like proper MK8 tracks if they ditched those elements and 2) Because it is going to take TWO YEARS to release all of them. It would not take that amount of time if they were just doing the graphics and changing nothing.

    Also from what they've shown there's a layer of verticality that wasn't present in any of the GBA tracks. I think they'll thread the needle, I haven't taken umbrage with anything they've remade yet.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    edited February 2022
    do people even like the modern mario sports games, i feel like i only ever hear about them being content light compared to the era of the gamecube or even the wii

    I had a lot of fun with the last mario tennis

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    On the subject of Fire Emblem Warriors: 3 Hopeses

    This seems to be an interesting new trend for Warriors games, between this and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Both Zelda and Fire Emblem got standard kitchen-sink Warriors games first. But recently, they're also getting more story-focused games that seem to be sorta-but-not-quite canon to a specific story in the series.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Is there a reason for some of the weird phrasing in these directs? Like when they say stuff like "a new update is coming to the Metroid Dread game" instead of just calling it Metroid Dread

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Is there a reason for some of the weird phrasing in these directs? Like when they say stuff like "a new update is coming to the Metroid Dread game" instead of just calling it Metroid Dread

    Probably some minor legal thing.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    Yeah, I get the feeling that someone somewhere in the legal departments mandated that they make it 100% clear when they're talking about a game and not something else.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    also they're 60 year old grandpas

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Having worked in Japan, I’d guess the overall cultural reluctance to run things by native English speakers in a lot of cases.

    You’d think a company as big as Nintendo wouldn’t have an issue with that but… I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the root cause either, based on my lived experiences.

    Edit: it’s also inconsistent in the direct. At one point they call it “the Mario kart 8 deluxe game” but they also say “these will be coming as paid courses to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe” later on.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    also they're 60 year old grandpas

    hey we have value too

    admittedly even we don't know what that could be but the Hallmark display insists I do

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    On the Nintendo of Europe channels the Directs are subbed and not dubbed and they don't say "the <title> game" at all.

    Maybe the American translator likes that phrasing?

  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    It’s to distinguish the games from the upcoming NFTs

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Nintendo Fungi Toys.

    It's just a thousand colors of physical Toad figurines, with no digital component.

    Enlong on
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Enlong wrote: »
    Nintendo Fungi Toys.

    It's just a thousand colors of physical Toad figurines, with no digital component.

    Also they do the Toad scream. There's no battery either, so they just keep screaming.

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  • Fig-DFig-D Tustin, CA, USRegistered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Enlong wrote: »
    Nintendo Fungi Toys.

    It's just a thousand colors of physical Toad figurines, with no digital component.

    Also they do the Toad scream. There's no battery either, so they just keep screaming.

    Stop making me want an NFT.

    Not like, an actual one, god no. But perpetually screaming Toad? I'll trade some terror for novelty.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Is there a reason for some of the weird phrasing in these directs? Like when they say stuff like "a new update is coming to the Metroid Dread game" instead of just calling it Metroid Dread

    I checked the new update. An easier mode, fine for accessibility. And then I saw: Harder mode. Oh boy, harder mode! That sounds like fu-

    "Dread difficulty is the game where taking any damage results in an immediate game over"

    -ck me.

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    dread mode speedruns are gonna be rad as hell

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  • KupiKupi Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Is there a reason for some of the weird phrasing in these directs? Like when they say stuff like "a new update is coming to the Metroid Dread game" instead of just calling it Metroid Dread

    I checked the new update. An easier mode, fine for accessibility. And then I saw: Harder mode. Oh boy, harder mode! That sounds like fu-

    "Dread difficulty is the game where taking any damage results in an immediate game over"

    -ck me.

    The one-hit kill mode is interesting to me because there's been a recent trend among the speedrunner / streamer set to try various "instant death / no-hit" challenges. This almost feels like a direct response to that.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Oh, it's absolutely a response to people pulling that kind of crazy run.

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