Was a great direct. Really good. Only thing negative for me personally was that there was too many games and I would not have the time to play them. My backlog of games will get even bigger and bigger.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Also, here is the very first "The Witcher 3" comparison video. Keep in mind, that the comparison is a bit skewed, seeing as it has taken the video from the Direct, a video segment of which we don't even know if it is actually Switch footage, or some footage edited in for display purposes, like they have done with several other titles before:
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@ReaderRagfish - I wondered what you meant when I saw you commented something along the lines of “so many games I’ll never buy.” I’m kind of in the same boat. Been Nintendo only since Wii, and too many games has never been a problem prior to Switch. I saw enough today to possibly keep me from buying Mario Maker, and I still don’t have Crafted World. Those were two of my favorite games on WiiU, but there’s so much else I want, including DQXI. Haven’t played a game in that series since I got a free copy of Dragon Warrior for re upping my Nintendo Power subscription, but it’s calling to me. I wanted to try newer experiences with my Switch, and so far, the options are ample.
@HobbitGamer - Maybe a career change is in order? That’s good money for fun work. Well done. The vegetation doesn’t stop growing down Souff either. There really not an off season other than January, and you’d need that just to maintain your tools.
I hope Nintendo Life can give us a complete list of games announced or talked about at E3 for the Switch! Complete with links to their individual Nintendo life stories they already have.
I tried to tune into the Treehouse presentations this afternoon, but my work schedule post-Direct/after lunch was insane. Thankfully Nintendo uploads the individual segments, so I can catch up that way. I watched the Sword and Shield segment before going out to mow; the Wild Area looks quite fun, and Max Raids look pretty fun too. I don't know if I'll be doing that much unless they allow NPCs to battle with you though. XD Some series purists probably hate that many wild encounters aren't random, but TBH I prefer things that way. It saves time in the long run IMO. It took me a bit to track down a Bagon in my current Ultra Sun playthrough for example.
I also hope to fit in the Link's Awakening and Luigi's Mansion 3 segments this evening. I was able to tune in to both for a few minutes but wasn't able to fully watch them. I'll probably shove in the Astral Chain and Daemon X Machina segments tomorrow at some point. Here's to hoping that I can tune into the Treehouse segments more over the next couple of days.
@NEStalgia (Responding to the mention this morning) I'll probably try ESO when/if I get a PlayStation. I've heard a lot of great things about it, especially when compared to the cough new ES game that the Switch is getting. As for Fallout, I'm told that I'd like the earlier entries but probably not the more recent games so much. I've read more than the lion's share of Fallout 76 to know better than to ever bother with it. I already have enough games to play already.
I almost picked up the Wii U version of Watch Dogs until I started reading multiple reports of how buggy it was. Plus, some other feedback, while not bad, seems to indicate that some sections of the first game are particularly lackluster.
It also seems that you share some of my opinions about Stadia.
Currently playing: Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy (Switch)
@NintendoByNature - Five minutes in. LOVE it. Some of these sounds I haven’t heard since the NES. It seems super faithful. I can already tell it’ll be a steep challenge, but my inner ninja is ready. Good call.
@bimmy-lee the music is beyond catchy. The sounds the gameplay its all a nod to yesteryear.. But way better. It gives shovel knight a run for its money in my opinion. Wait til you get to the 16bit portion. It's even more gorgeous and fun. All the precision and tight platforming makes it so much fun. The difficulty picks up in one portion of the game and it's toward the beginning. But then it evens out from what I recall until the end of the game. You'll enjoy every bit trust me
@Octane But you are a mod! You can tell the people who do things that us common folk want things! And I am sure it would be a good idea to have a nice page with a list of links to all the things they have already talked about! It'll generate ad revenue and stuff. Plus a title like "A complete list of Nintendo's E3 announcements" or something like that is sure to be a killer in the click department!
I am sure @Alexolney gets like 37,249 notifications a day. So he cannot read them all!
@Tyranexx Where did you find the Sword & Shield segment? I went to watch the videos and found the 4 hour "Day 1" segment, but it started with ACNH and missed that whole Bowser/Trinen intro to the floor and the Pokemon segment somehow!
RE: Fallout, I think that was me telling you about the older ones There's Interplay/Black Isle Fallout (the real ones) and then there's the survival-game Failout that Bethesda makes (a mockery of the original.) The originals are beautiful classics (if very rusty in gameplay.) 1 & 2 are "Real" Fallout. Some people like 3&4....I really don't. THey're ok, but they aren't Fallout. The humor, mood, and dark parody are all gone and replaced with pure survival horror.
What you might like, though, showed in the XBox show, was The Outer Worlds, and Wasteland 3. The Outer Worlds was billed as "from the original makers of Fallout" (beautifully timed after the FO76 disaster.) it's Obsidian, 1/2 of the old Interplay/Black Isle team (Feargus Urquhart runs the studio) and is an alien-world new IP that makes up "Fallout if we were still making it" kind of vibes.
Wasteland 3 is from inExile (Brian Fargo, the original founder of Interplay and original actual creator of Fallout's studio) - Fallout 1 was actually Wasteland 2 but he changed the universe a bit and made it into a new IP. So technically Fallout 2 was Wasteland 3....and thus in a sense Wasteland 3 is technically the real Fallout 4.....
Both studios are owned by Microsoft now, so I don't know what platforms it will be on. I'm guessing XBox, Switch, and PC if this E3 is anything to go by. Maybe no Switch for Outer Worlds, but Wasteland 2 is already on Switch, so there's that.... (albeit, the port isn't very good apparently.)
The first Watch_Dogs is definitely OK but I did hear the WiiU port wasn't so hot. But the game was just "ok". Worth playing for cheap but nothing amazingly memorable. 2 really redesigned it.
@HobbitGamer Yeah, New Vegas is real since it's Obsidian. Bethesda oversight, but, yeah it had the old crew back and they made it to be "their" type of Fallout.
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