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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT10| Bakugan with the Wind
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Youre right. Its time for gritty realism in the style of Super Mario Bros the movie
No matter what (potential) changes they would make, graphically or mechanically, some people would find a way to complain and say shit like: "they took the soul out of the game". It's bloody inevitable.
In a world where people (wrongly) think the 64 version looks better than the DS version, anything's possible.
In a world where people (wrongly) think the 64 version looks better than the DS version, anything's possible.
Lol it so wasn't. Straight up clown car stuff comparing that game to RE2 and FF7.
Good to hear! If the port is that technically sound, then I'll definitely give the game a shot. I love the setting and looks, the whole game's vibe/atmosphere.
I've got no idea how the controls actually work. Thought it played somewhat like a twin-stick shooter, no? (A la Enter the Gungeon?)
See this is interesting now, because the implication here is that LA doesn't deserve the same level of reinvention as the other two...but the question is why?
I agree. They need to do something different with regards to exploration in BotW2 because after a certain point in the first game it was pointless.
Link's Awakening is my favorite 2D Zelda by far but $60 for modern graphics and some QOL improvements was a hard sell. $40 sure. I might have gotten it for $60 though if it had substantial new content, like some new dungeons or something.
Still, it clearly had enough value for consumers. And so would a collection of 3D Mario games.
Still, it clearly had enough value for consumers. And so would a collection of 3D Mario games.
You're saying "deserve" like being a 1 to 1 remake with better graphics and QOL adjustements is a bad thing and somehow inferior to a reimagining. I can point you to so many people that would have preffered FF VII be a 1 to 1 remake.
Regarding Mario 64 Remake: Have we ever thought about that Greezo could develop it? EPD Toyko will for sure do the main development, but maybe Greezo is doing some huge support for it. Zelda LA was finished nearly a year ago, so they could have helped EPD Tokyo for the last year.
Same. I fear it'll miss the spark of wonder the first game offered. Which really wouldn't be on the game itself, more on the iterative nature of the medium on the whole. Still, I'll probably enjoy it much more than any other open world game out there, even more than Xenoblade's open world (Xeno has other elements in which it is stronger than BotW was, though, like combat and characters, and its world is still superb).
Personally I wouldn't want them to take a beloved 2D game like Link's Awakening and pulling an FF7/RE2 with it. That would basically mean throwing it in the BotW engine and that's gross. With the Link's Awakening we got people had more of a problem with the price than the quality itself.
It took Capcom and Square Enix years of R&D and active development with their main teams to make these kind of games. The only way I can see a Link's Awakening remake of that size from Nintendo is if you ask them to give up on BotW 2.
As usual it's good to keep in mind that Nintendo can only do so much with the human resources that they have.
Link's Awakening was amazing, a far better remake than the bloated mess FFVII is. RE 2 is great though.
Sunshine and Galaxy can be released with some new texture work and small changes sure, but 64 is really ugly by today's standards. At least Mario needs to look less blocky.
Yes, but remaking the visuals (not the gameplay) would be the same process.
I know a good collection of remakes would be more work than Crash/Spyro, but those games were released at a reduced price. Mario can be released at 60€ and sell a lot of copies if the package is appealing. It would be profitable enough, and they can even use these versions in the digital stores of future systems. I know that Nintendo can easily make this money releasing barebone remasters, but it will look bad and would be a really bad way to "celebrate" Mario.
there is no reason to invest the amount of effort that a reimagining like FF VIIR needed in Link's Awakening, at that point you are making a new game with similar story beats, that works wonder for a historic game like FF VII but it would honestly be wasted on LA, and I say this as a great fan of that game lol.
might as well make a new game at this point.
might as well make a new game at this point.
not sure why everyone keep saying this when it comes to Nintendo' sequels.
Indeed. BotW is the critically acclaimed fan darling, MK8DX is the joyful popcorn game on the system.
Not even taking into account really that BotW is also commercially doing absolutely fantastic for the Zelda series.
It does play like a twin-stick shooter, but it has a lot of close-up combat, and since I was playing ETG until a couple weeks ago, it's taking me a while to adjust, measure the distances, know when to get up close, etc (it doesn't help that ETG is perhaps one of the best and most intuitive games in the genre and everything else feels like a bit of a letdown).
On the technical aspect: I haven't really noticed frame drops or anything, but I've read a couple of reviews that mention frame drops, so there's that. Maybe read a few reviews or watch some gameplays beforehand (?)
Well, I think Super Mario Galaxy 2 was better than the first one in almost every aspect.
Yeah, it's gross how technology from the 1980s is being sold at full price in the 21st century, yikes!
On a totally unrelated note, TIL the ignore function is absolutely useless.
Who is it going to look bad to? Guarantee the average consumer will just be excited to have Mario 64 and Galaxy on Switch.
I know these are from a while back, but I'm agreed with this versus the "NINTENDO NEED A HUGE DIRECT" takes. There's no universe where, with the uncertainty of the pandemic, Nintendo decide to announce 18 months of first-party titles. I think reasonable expectations are we get a clear idea of the remainder of 2020 and the first clues as to what 2021 brings - so I think one or two games are either announced for or given a 2021 date. Even though Nintendo have been speculative and announced some further out titles on Switch, they've predominantly kept a tighter marketing focus than that. Even their major January 2017 reveal had a laser-like focus when it came to first-party games - everything shown there was a 2017 release.
Given what they told their investors - that some software is running behind schedule but that titles for the current financial year are on track - then some releases scheduled for April 2021 and later have an element of uncertainty right now. Now surely with some of those Nintendo are confident they'll hit a broad, 2021 release, and I'm sure in some cases Nintendo will shuffle resources to prioritise certain games (*cough* Zelda) - but they won't be as confident on others. It makes no sense to expect Nintendo to show much of their hand for 2021 when they've already given a coded indication that things aren't quite running as planned for 2021 ('slight delays in software development' was the phrase, I think) and when they've repeatedly erred on the side of caution with their marketing. The new reality isn't going to vanish when they do a Direct, and the habits and focus they've had since they first started promoted Switch aren't going to disappear either.
Easy, it's a better game and has stood far better the test of time. RE2 with the fixed camera and the tank controls is a hard sell today, and FF VII had some wonky dialogue and SE thinks that any big game today can't be turn-based (except DQ of course). The thing is that playig the original today in the GB still feels good, more item slots and better graphics was the only improvements the game really needed.
Hm? Fix what exactly? I think the system is sound all around.
honestly I expected much more from nintendo for one of their most important game of all time.
If they were Virtual Console 10/15€ games, sure. But paying 60€ for games that normally would be far cheaper in digital format and won't be improved that much seems off.
Fixed that for you.
Agreed on the Mario stuff, though. If we get anything better than 64, Sunshine and Galaxy running in HD on a single cart I'll be pleasantly surprised.
Same, which is why I will prefer BotW2 to the original if it's a similar leap. But some people might not.
SM64 will probably have it's resolution bumped, textures fixed up, and probably some other tweaks.
Galaxy will probably look like the Nvidia Shield version:
6 hours?! you are confusing it with Shadow of the colossus Lol.
The stakes are different for Nintendo, though. The Switch has to have success, there is no second platform to rely on, and they know third parties won't carry the hardware like with the DS back then. They had to turn around the 3DS themself as well (+Capcom and Atlus), and saw how the WiiU ended up without the proper support.
If they haven't learned from that, then they would be indeed very dumb/ignorant.
I would say to keep your expectations in check.
Mario Galaxy is 20 dollars on the Wii U eShop right now. We'll be generous and say Sunshine, a GameCube game, also would be. Then Mario 64 is $10. That's $50, and throw in $10 for HD upres and minor fixes like camera and whatnot.
People will buy it en masse regardless.
For 60 bucks, the collection is a steal.
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