Yeah, seriously. Even as a general casual smash fan, I dislike that they dedicated most of the direct to it. In fact, they might as well have labeled the direct as being only focused on Smash and Fire Emblem information to further lower our expectations.
@ThanosReXXX Yeah, now we can go back to another year of wondering what Retro Studios is working on, when they will announce a new Pikmin game, or Animal Crossing, and what Metroid Prime will look like
I'm a casual fan of Smash at most. I like the game, but it's not something I need to have day one. I didn't care at all about those small details, so I wonder how big the group is that actually enjoyed it outside of the core Smash fans. And there was that mech game, not my thing, but it looks neat.
That made Nintendo's 2015 E3 look like Sony's 2015 by comparison. After the initial buzz of the Switch, it really doesn't feel like we've moved on from the Wii U era. And it's been like this for 8 years now. For a publisher with so many studios, the output is bafflingly small.
I was really disappointed with Sony for the lack of announcements, but I suppose you could say they have the excuse of throwing insane amounts of announcements at us too early in the last few years. Why don't Nintendo have more to show than this? I almost wrote the Wii U had so little come out for it those last couple of years that you'd expect every studio to be years deep into their Switch development by now, but let's be honest, the Wii U had so little come out for it through it's entire life, and it was actually the last few years of the Wii that things dried up.
Almost the entire presentation about Smash Switch, wich is of course just a souped up version of Smash 4. Yeah, all the characters are there. But this means only a few new ones (Ridley is great though, and long overdue), and almost all the stages shown where old ones. Yeah Sakurai, you can tweak it here and there but I am definitely not impressed! And where the blazes is a solid single-player?!
No Metroid Prime 4 shown, no Starfox grandprix/Retro game shown, no Warioland, nothing Zelda, not even Yoshi (not that it needed, but it surprised me). Fire emblem was nice though, but is still months and months away.
Of course there may still be some surprises the coming hours (maybe the most surprises in the 3DS section, since a new Zelda or Warioland is most likely to show up there). I definitely won't watch all the Smash coverage, maybe just a bit (I don't care about all the online-nonsense). The blouse of Audrey, now that's some content (trololo)!!
Fire Emblem was the mic drop for me. There were a lot of smaller games shown. I am not a dragonball fan but im glad we are getting fighterz. Anybody else feel like this is the last Smash? I will say as a lapsed smash fan I am a bit intrigued
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@Tsurii Yeah, and seems will be awesome too from the notes I see in their site:
The entire, enormous base game, running at 60 fps, with all its secrets, enemies and enormous bosses.
All the currently released Content Packs, built in, at launch. That’s Hidden Dreams, The Grimm Troupe and Lifeblood, with all their bosses, upgrades and additions!
Shortly after launch Switch players (Along with all other Hollow Knight owners), will receive Hollow Knight’s final Content Pack Gods & Glory for Free! This is our biggest pack yet, with all new challenges, quests and a new unlockable mode.
And it's going to be same prices as Steam's, $15 (or equivalent)
@6ch6ris6 For the people who are "into the meta" Smash is the only game in the universe. @grumblevolcano not to name names For everyone else it's a cute party game you play now and again.....that was just sad. It didn't even have the impact of Iwata vs Reggie for Smash 4 that made it feel big. It felt like a dev interview covering new features for a persistent online freemium franchise.
Content was lacking, presentation was worse. I feel like this was Nintendo saying "we don't actually do E3 anymore, kthxbai." They sent Miyamoto to Ubisoft's show for crying out loud
This was...truly Nintendo not really doing E3....I don't know, I may have to even give EA the NOD this year over Nintendo, depending on what Treehouse does the next 3 days. (Pun intended)
I didn't have very high hopes....but this was even below that. The weird thing is it makes it look like Switch has no games. It has a RAFTLOAD of games coming out, most not being first party. They presented it all wrong. They presented like a publisher rather than a platform holder. 80% of what MS showed weren't MS games, they were just games coming to the system with the unique feature of being the most powerful. Switch has some of those SAME games (Vesperia, Ys, Shining Resonance, Wolfenstein: SoC, Starlink, Trials) coming....but they mention none of them and instead have 30+ minutes of Smash. It's not a lack of content really....it's a demonstration that E3 wasn't even worth spending a day of planning on for them.
They announced so much new stuff that I lost count at some point!! They should have focused a bit more on the new facial animations in Smash Bros, I think that part went unnoticed.
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...seriously, all it's missing are the lavish costume/armor designs that seem wholely impractical for both sexes.
So yeah, a lot of good stuff, but not a whole lot of surprises. I am excited for Hollow Knight and Fire Emblem. I might even save DB FighterZ for the Nintendo Switch, seeing as I never got the PS4 version. I'm definitely getting SNK Heroine for Switch. Mostly because it's modern Gal Fighters, and would feel more at home on a portable system.
Oh, and of course I'm excited for Daemon x Machina. I'm a huge mecha nerd, and it practically stole the show for me. Forget Smash, this is how Ninty won E3 for me!
...Not that Smash Ultimate won't be a big hit, but man are they milking it. I just want to see literally anything else by now...
Fairly underwhelming I suppose. Was expecting lots of big new third-party announcements now that the Switch is established, but it was mainly just Smash Bros. I like Smash Bros as much as the next person, but I haven't really loved it since Melee. I found myself being fairly bored by the last one and I can't really bring myself to get as ridiculously excited for another one as some people are (even if their hype feels incredibly forced...) "It's the most bloated character roster ever!" seems to be all they've got going here (as if that's even a good thing).
PC won (look at all the games on xbox and playstation that also come to pc)
and then Xbox
which means Microsoft did an amazing job this year. the only thing that disappoints me is that MS didn't say anything about the backwards compatibility. i was hoping for new original xbox games to make the list
@6ch6ris6 Microsoft did a very good job, and everyone else did a mediocre to disastrous job
I really don't get how Nintendo thought year 2 of Switch deserved to be set up like this, other than that they've decided E3 just isn't relevant to them, so it's not where they'll focus their products. And they have to stop thinking like a publisher and start thinking like a platform holder. One of those "amazing" Microsoft games was no less applicable to Nintendo than to XBox, but where XBox hyped it up with a "for the first time ever" setup, Nintendo didn't even mention it.
Nintendo appear to be having their usual AAA drought even though they only have 1 console now
What a terrible presentation. The only thing that was interesting to see was Fire Emblem.
Hope they announce more in treehouse but I don't see why they'd do that. The main video is best for big announcements.
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