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  4. Posted

    2 hours ago, Tim B said:

    I predict some kind of multiplayer sports game announcement. Mario Golf, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games, Switch Sports, something like that. Could be released in June perhaps.

    I'm more hoping to see Wave Race, 1080 Snowboarding or Excitebike. Getting a modern online sequel to any of those would be brilliant.

    In fact, I've been speculating that Ubi might've reworked their canned Steep port into specifically a new 1080.

  5. Posted

    2 hours ago, MindFreak said:

    Stop being pedantic. The point is that there is no drought and games are coming out. They may not be to your taste all of them but neglecting them on that behalf is just plain ignorant. By that argument, all consoles experience long droughts. Getting an exclusive game for the Switch on average every second month is just fin, and yes, we had some ports this past year, and those of us that had a Wii U and played those games may perceive that as a drought but still not a software drought. 

    There are lots of games coming out on the eShop, though many of those are of course ports of other games. Still, they are coming and you can't blame anyone that you don't pick them up on Switch (unless they are more expensive there). 

    Yeah, my intention wasn't to start a debate on drought or nought (lol), but express my curiosity of just how much of a train wreck the canceled MP4 version must've been.

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    Just now, Ronnie said:

     

    The only game to look forward to? Switch's "ongoing software drought"? Are you being serious? We've got Yoshi, Fire Emblem, Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing, Town, Pokemon Gen 8, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Daemon X Machina and Pokemon Gen 8 coming this year. Plus more unnanounced stuff coming this year that Nintendo just teased overnight.

    Well, first off, my point wasn't "ermargerd Nintendo aren't making games", but more out of curiosity over how Nintendo could decide to scrap everything instead of releasing it as a stop-gap measure.

    And second, I do think there's a drought. Ultimate and Let's Go came out in December, Yoshi comes out in March. That's four months of bloody nothing. And December was the only month last year when Nintendo brought the goods. Very few of the titles you mentioned hold a candle to what's coming for other systems. We can of course hope that Nintendo make a new Direct next week where they announce two or three new AAA-quality titles for this year, but I doubt it.

  7. Posted

    I'm quite curious. I wonder how terrible the game must be if Nintendo decide to pull the plug on what would've been the big game of 2019. Heck, as far as we know, it was the only game to look forward to this year. IMO, if the game was just to be mediocre, they could've rebranded it from Metroid Prime 4 to some separate Metroid spinoff. Considering the Switch's ongoing software drought, a mediocre AAA exclusive is better than no AAA exclusive.

  8. Posted

    Just now, nekunando said:

    I think what you meant to say is that it is one of the greatest games ever created..

    No, not at all.

    From a playability perspective, Wave Race 64 is by far superior. And I maintain my previous point: Blue Storm has only ever so slightly more content. 

  9. Posted

    13 minutes ago, Sméagol said:

    Really? Haha, I need to get me one of those..

    You should check it. It seems like they have different stuff in different countries. That T-shirt isn't available in the US, but in the US you can buy N64 hoodies.

  10. Posted

    20 hours ago, nekunando said:

    I think we could well be in line for HD remasters of a few Gamecube games such as F-Zero GX, Wave Race: Blue Storm and Super Mario Sunshine. In fact, I feel confident that we'll get at least one of those games within the next 18-24 months :hehe:

    As much as I love all of the games mentioned, I don't think Wave Race: Blue Storm would come out very well. Even for the time when it was released, it was short on content, lacking a proper career mode and featuring only a smidge more characters and tracks than the N64 game. Plus it had inferior controls when compared to its predecessor.

  13. Posted

    Wow.

    I really hope Nintendo get over this NES-only stage and that we won't have to wait for years get N64 stuff.

    Personally, I find it bollocks that Nintendo seem completely unwilling to provide ANYTHING for us who grew up in that era. No N64 Classic, no N64 NOS games and over the past decade we've only seen THREE remakes, all of which were for portable systems.

    Unfortunately I feel many higher ups at Nintendo share the same mentality that doomed the Wii U. The mentality that announcing Cranky Kong was somehow on par with a new Uncharted.

  14. Posted

    I just got this game and I have to say that this is a brilliant port.

    The game's pace isn't at all what I expected. I thought this was supposed to be a super-quick old-school shooter, but I actually found it most playable with a more reserved pace.

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  15. Posted

    The trailer really got me hyped. Can't wait for this one. 

     

    Only thing that has me worried is that IMO, Infinity War had a somewhat inconsistent depiction of the characters and their powers.

    I mean, the Hulk, whose whole schtick is that he's insanely strong, got his ass kicked by Thanos. To the point where he doesn't want to appear for the rest of the movie. Yet later in the movie, we see Captain America stop Thanos' punch no problem at all.

    Vision is supposedly this beyond-belief powerful being which was designed to single-handedly take out all of the Avengers. Yet he loses ONE of his gajilion abilities and then gets his ass whooped by some goon. Said goon then gets pwned by Black Widow, a character who, well trained and quite intelligent, has no actual powers.

    And while the Guardians of the Galaxy good up and have funny lines in their movies, in IW their banter with the rest of the Avengers make them look like litteral idiots. 

    Also, I personally found the new Iron Man suit to be stupid. Seriously, that thing can transform into absolutely anything with no rhyme or reason.

     

    I really hope they get Endgame right, because it at least seems it'll be the last movie featuring the characters which have been the pillars of the MCU thus far.

  18. Posted

    1 minute ago, Kaxxx said:

    Pokémon, Smash Bros, Hollow Knight, Xenoblade expansion, Fire Emblem, overcooked 2, Mario Party....you guys are hard to please.

    Ports, DLC, a remake of an ancient GBC game and two actual new games, both of which we've known about for over a year?

    No, not really.

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  21. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Julius Caesar said:

    Smash + Pokémon launching within three weeks of one another means that I beg to differ. They’re both systems, meaning that they’ll be well on course for the 20+ million units sold as they currently have projected for this FY, and next year will probably be a similar tale, with Gen VIII of Pokémon on the way, and the potential for big hitters like Animal Crossing, Super Mario Bros., a new Mario Kart, etc., to be announced/released in the next FY.

    I definitely agree with those of the opinion that this was a relatively poor Direct, even in the event that more games are revealed during Treehouse: people have already left the stream, and thus Nintendo has lost some of its audience. To then go and announce that Yoshi (which we didn’t see, oddly), for example, is coming in a few months without showing it in the Direct seems very optimistic to me.

    What about literally the entire rest of the year? Seriously, two games won't shift 20 million consoles a year. You can get away with crap like that when you have solid third party support. Which the Switch lacks. And both Sony and Microsoft, who DO have third party support have made sure to have plenty of exclusive content.

    It doesn't matter what twist you put on this: this presentation was an absolute bomb and it's going to have a negative impact on Switch sales. I wouldn't be surprised if I'd wake up tomorrow to read that Nintendo's share prices have dropped.

     

    My thought was more of a second direct tomorrow, rather than throwing in additional news during the Treehouse.

  22. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Helmsly said:

    Gameinformer asked Bill Trinen about Metroid Prime 4

     

    D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R!

    This could easily have been solved if Nintendo had opened their vast wallets. Nintendo could easily have hoovered up all the fantastic AAA studios that EA keep on shutting down!

  23. Posted

    I'm seriously expecting more announcements within the next few days.

    If the abysmal start of the year and these announcements are anything to go by, even Nintendo themselves must realize that their lofty hope of selling 100 million consoles is pretty much dead in the water.

  25. Posted

    Here's a bit of a prediction:

    Steep for Switch has been quietly canceled, BUT the progress made on that port has been reworked into a new game which will be branded as a 1080 Snowboarding sequel.

    A guess taken slightly out of thin air, but I think it's not too unlikely considering Mario + Rabbids happened last year.

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