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Nintendo-First Party Thread |OT2| New Year. New Mii.
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The previous Pokemon and Animal Crossing games feature my favorite video game music of all time so I have no reason to believe this year's games will be any different.
I wouldn't be surprised if 2D Zelda was quite experimental this time.
I'd love to see something unique from a gameplay perspective for the series, like the way in ALBW. Or them implementing the calls for female Link/playable Zelda and letting that happen.
Oh I agree with the first point absolutely. That's what I'm liking about Monolith Soft and how its treating its franchise. It's familiar, yet brand new. The fact that Takahashi wants to make the next installment even more different than what's already present within the 3 entries is fantastic.
What Xenoblade 2 needed was a little more time to tighten up the technical aspects. Low resolution, occasion framerate dip, much more occasional in the Gormott field it gets pretty chuggy there. Some low LOD, textures get blurry pretty close up.
And of course some of the overall experience needed some fine tuning. They need to hire a better/more sound mixers/designers for their cutscenes because many feel like they're missing environmental elements (ambience, reverb for the voice acting, etc) or critical actions that happen on screen which don't have an accompanying sound effect. QOL fixes through player testing feedback like the updates they eventually made, and more Localization time to record lines because some seriously could use another better take.
Having a functional engine is always good too. Though I expect some technological updates in the next round of MS games by both teams
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I wouldn't mind a bonus dungeon only because I don't like rogue stuff at all. I don't play rogue games. They have zero appeal to me. If it's kept to one mission or an extra then that's fine or some multiplayer thing would be fine too.
For me, a randomizer mode like the popular A Link To The Past one would be amazing in a new 2d Zelda
Potential, yes. The limiting factor is more of how to improvise the gameplay they were known for, so that veteran players and new players can find enjoyment out of them.
Wow, having a roguelike element in the next 2D Zelda is a brilliant idea! I think it would be interesting if it was a separate location like a revamped version of the Temple of the Ocean King from Phantom Hourglass
Yes. People are thinking about Diddy Kong racing, but for me its gonna be on the sky and space , maybe like the game is, but faces on the sky
If you can't be sussed to do something as simple as watching a thread, you're part of the problem.
...It's not about one person. Obviously, I do, since I've posted in it when conversation was redirected there.
It's about the fact that the general populace visits the main pages for Video Games / EtcEra, but not their respective Hangouts, because all that's in Hangouts are long-term OTs — never fresh threads. Therefore, discussion in OTs relegated to Hangouts will necessarily receive much less engagement, because only people who've pre-watched a thread will participate.
Emily's post seemed to suggest those 5 (or more) titles are all planned to be released in 2019.
They will definitely announce 2020 games at E3 or Fall direct. I hope Monolith's new IP will appear this year.
I'll give you a pretty good educated guess based on info from King Zell and Emily:
1. 2D Zelda which we already know exists from King Zell
2. MPT which we already know exists from...well everybody
3. Retro Studios has been rumored to release their game for 2019 pretty much since the big leak + the Metroid announcement doubles this fact (SFGP?)
4. A Wii U game which Emily made mention of being one of the 5
5. Tiny Eshop game which Emily has reiterated multiple times existing and coming
Of course to reiterate, Emily said 5 at the minimum so more is always a possibility
Emily also mentioned to look out for Platinum Games. One of those could be Kamiya's new game.
Some small tidbits from the new Spawncast:
-They all seem to agree that there was a January Direct and that it was scrapped, Nate even said some of the announcements he had heard were going to be made in it were announced on Twitter instead.
Metroid had nothing to do with it, apparently.
-Dreamcastguy corroborated and said the same, he heard FFXII's date was going to be announced in the Direct itself.
-Jordan Fringe says there will be new Crash Team Racing footage on Monday.
-Playeressance says he's heard things about Joker in Smash, says he sounds "dope".
Apologies if I missed or got something wrong.
-They all seem to agree that there was a January Direct and that it was scrapped, Nate even said some of the announcements he had heard were going to be made in it were announced on Twitter instead.
Metroid had nothing to do with it, apparently.
-Dreamcastguy corroborated and said the same, he heard FFXII's date was going to be announced in the Direct itself.
-Jordan Fringe says there will be new Crash Team Racing footage on Monday.
-Playeressance says he's heard things about Joker in Smash, says he sounds "dope".
Apologies if I missed or got something wrong.
That's very interesting; especially the first point, since that seems to go against some of Nate's posts in this very thread (if I remember correctly, he has argued against the idea of a January Direct being cancelled before). Might be mixing that up with someone or something else though.
Interesting. I wonder why the January Direct was scrapped if Metroid had nothing to do with it. I'm guessing that the Yoshi date was another intended Direct annoucement. Are the people on Spawncast known to be reliable?
Edit: Also, Crash Team Racing "footage" is actually a pretty safe bet. Beenox's (CTR dev) Twitter has been constantly uploading screenshots of the game. They could always just drop another screenshot on Twitter, and that would technically be footage.
Yeah, John, Dreamcastguy, Jordan, and PE all have their connections throughout the industry. They don't BS and I can vouch for them on that. Been watching all of them for years.
And no, Jordan is an Activision brand ambassador, he was pretty clear about it being new footage. He was given gameplay of Reignited Trilogy by Activsion to upload on his channel, same deal here.
Ahhh, so they're doing a CTR press preview or something? That would make sense. I hope Activision snagged some CTR speedrunners to vouch for whether Beenox has recaptured the feel of CTR or not if the CTR footage is from a preview.
Edit: If Dreamcastguy is legit, that means that Square Enix is considering KH3 and older KH games for Switch. Neat!
He didn't say, but it's likely. Only footage we have is from the trailer from two months ago, so it's about time to show some raw gameplay.
I believe Jordan Has said in the past that the Spyro Trilogy will coming to switch sometime this year.
Indeed. Five is the floor (minimum) -- not the ceiling. The ceiling could be as high as 11 or 12.
It's difficult to give an exact number because any game can be pushed back to 2020 for marketing/scheduling reasons.
Let me try to explain this better.
The "Most likely" Nintendo-published game announcements for 2019. (70% chance or higher)
1. Mystery game #1
2. Mystery game #2
3. Mystery game #3
4. Mystery game #4
5. eShop game #1
6. Mystery Wii U port #1 (2013 title)
7. eShop game #2
8. eShop game #3
9. New Labo Kit
The "Maybe" games for 2019. (The wild card titles - 50% chance or less)
10. Retro Studios secret game (this is assuming it wasn't canned)
11. Metroid Prime Trilogy (assuming Zell's info and Imran's info are correct)
12. Mystery Wii U port #2
Final Update: February 8th, 2019
I am adding eShop game #3 to the list. This is shaping up to be a big year for eShop digital releases.
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That's really exciting stuff! Even if some games get delayed into 2020, that's more than okay because 2019 is looking pretty good ignoring middle Q1. Plus the fact that your list is completely leaving out non Nintendo published 3rd party exclusives and third party multiplats, the Switch library is about to kick into high gear.
With some possible 2020 games already like maybe Monolith Soft's new IP, a maybe new 3D Zelda game (if that's what King Zell was referring to with the BotW thing), and other stuff as well... hoo boy
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Possibly eight major unannounced games for 2019? Nintendo is going to have to start doing two major releases in some months if that's true. Nintendo already has Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, Yoshi, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Daemon X Machina, DQXI S, Pokemon 2019, and Luigi's Mansion 3 as major releases for 2019.
Thanks Emily, as always. So there are at least two Wii U ports are being produced. Hopefully one of them is Wonderful 101.
They can always push back unannounced titles (or even announced ones except Animal Crossing and Pokemon) though. I would be conservative and guess half of that most likely list will be announced and released in 2019.
Looking at the 2013 Wii U releases, Wonderful 101 is a top contender for being the Wii U port. What else could they release? Super Mario 3D World? Perhaps, but I'd say its chances are worse than W101's since the Switch already has a 3D Mario game. Sonic Lost World? Lol, fat chance.
I don't really want to get my hopes up too much but, damn, this looks like it's gonna be a really good year. Thanks for the info!
Was Wind Waker HD 2013? I really don't remember, but personally I'm leaning towards W101.
Yeah, 3D World does not seem to have a good chance. I say (want) Tokyo Mirage Sessions. SMTV will miss 2019 so they will port it instead. Other than that... I think chance for Pikmin 3 is also low as I am sure 4 is coming.
Emily said the Wii U port is a 2013 game, so it's definitely not TMS, unfortunately.
Please don't toy with me.
Earthbound on Wii U was clearly the standout 2013 release.
I actually feel like 3D World is the best fit for Switch. It (obviously) has huge selling potential and sports co-op play that can easily transition to being played with split joy-cons.
But having Odyssey, NSMBU deluxe, and 3D World on one console with a future Mario Maker hanging in the balance seems like over saturation, even for the Mario series.
thanks emily!
2013 title?! D: oh god please be the wonderful 101 and not pikmin 3 or sm3dworld
When considering what Emily is saying, it's also worth noting her and others (Imran, I believe) have previously cited Nintendo's habitual software-sitting, in that they sometimes have finished projects then schedule into release windows months later despite the games in theory being ready for now. It might seem like a waste of resources to sit on playable software, but it's just how Nintendo work.
Metroid Prime Trilogy is the best rumoured example of this. It's been cited by decent-to-highly reliable leakers for a long time now as at bare minimum in development. A couple have stated it's technically finished, and was supposed to be announced by now. We can assume Nintendo's logic was to release Prime Trilogy as precursor (eg: 12 months beforehand) to Prime 4. We can also assume a delayed announcement is consequence of Prime 4 being cancelled and rebooted.
And thus, if we take the rumours at face value, Nintendo is sitting on a finished port of Metroid Prime Trilogy, but nobody is quite sure as to when it will release. And even though it's finished, Nintendo might delay the release to coincide with the delay for Metroid Prime 4.
I think that ties into Emily stating while she's heard about projects pencilled or assumed for 2019, it's entirely possible some will be delayed for numerous reasons, some of those reasons sometimes just being choosing a new launch window even if it's technically finished.
Metroid Prime Trilogy is the best rumoured example of this. It's been cited by decent-to-highly reliable leakers for a long time now as at bare minimum in development. A couple have stated it's technically finished, and was supposed to be announced by now. We can assume Nintendo's logic was to release Prime Trilogy as precursor (eg: 12 months beforehand) to Prime 4. We can also assume a delayed announcement is consequence of Prime 4 being cancelled and rebooted.
And thus, if we take the rumours at face value, Nintendo is sitting on a finished port of Metroid Prime Trilogy, but nobody is quite sure as to when it will release. And even though it's finished, Nintendo might delay the release to coincide with the delay for Metroid Prime 4.
I think that ties into Emily stating while she's heard about projects pencilled or assumed for 2019, it's entirely possible some will be delayed for numerous reasons, some of those reasons sometimes just being choosing a new launch window even if it's technically finished.
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