Topic: E3 2021 Discussion Thread

@Slowdive

I won't doubt them on that. The longer it takes, the more ridiculous they look. But if they keep it up long enough they eventually get it right.

I wouldn’t say I have a short attention span. I moreso just rather a switch pro not to be real, as I don’t want to spend 400+ on a new switch just to play a game how it’s meant to be played. Not to mention how if one is real, it’ll be rare for years to come due to scalpers. @Slowdive

To be blunt, nothing in that direct went against what I've been saying. Or the leaks as reported by Bloomberg etc. If anything a lot of what was leaked before the Direct was accurate. Lots of Zelda but nothing particularly earth shattering. 2D Metroid which I don't think I need to remind you is part of that threads title.

And yeah, that third party Devs were expecting a reveal of the Pro before E3. Which didn't happen, but that was always an expectation. And I wonder which titles shown had gameplay trailers that might not have been running on standard hardware.

You're gloating about being correct by pointing to the attention seekers. Not the leaks people are actually taking seriously

After rewatching the Direct again, I'm increasing my ranking of it to 8/10. So final E3 rankings:
1st. Nintendo - 8/10
2nd. Microsoft - 5/10
3rd. Square Enix - 4/10
Joint 4th. Capcom and Ubisoft - 2/10

@Slowdive
That pretty much sums it up, yea. Case in point is the Pro. It wasn't announced before or during E3 so now all the rumors and leaks must be wrong and the Pro does not exist.

It's just simple mindsets, and I get the attraction to that lens. It's easier to claim understanding of the world if everything is given a definite expiration date and is one way or another, no in-betweens.

If the Pro is announced between now and BotW2, those people will still claim the leaks were wrong because of whatever date or spec minutia didn't exactly match up. It's kind of missing the idea of leaks in the first place: general murmurings and moving goalposts, but an underlying true point.

I'll make my rankings soon

@Slowdive The guy in the video is wanting gyro controls for monkeyball? Hahahaha. Yeah...that's the exact opposite of what everyone is wanting lol.

1. Nintendo, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (9/10)

2. Xbox/Bethesda, had a good amount of quality titles (7.5/10)

3. Intellivision, didn't overstay their time, wasn't huge, but was a very interesting ten minutes. (7/10)

4. Verizon, literally just because one of their ads was hilarious (6/10)

5. Ubisoft, at least Mario and Rabbids made up an overall boring presentation (5/10)

6. Capcom, was short but not much new content and eSports took up too much of the presentation (4/10)

7. Square Enix, mostly was trash, at least I have some hope for GOTG, and I do have an urge to kill Chaos (3/10)

8. Gearbox, I came for games, not Kevin Hart (2/10)

9. Take-Two, I've read dictionaries more interesting (0/10)

10. Bandai Namco, literally was one game, and it wasn't even Taiko no Tatsujin! (-1/10)

Didn't rank Wholesome, PC Gaming, Indie, WB Games, or Future games, because I either didn't watch them or I don't have a final opinion on them.

@GrailUK I want them. The mobile game was pretty underrated for what it was.

@ninelevendo The levels weren't designed for them! They would be ludicrously hard.

I only watched 2 presentations as the other presentations i must scoop out the information of the games i want to play by asking from other users. Thanks to @HotGoomba for helping me

1. Wholesome Indie Direct (8/10)
A lot of indie games that caught my interest, almost every games shown from the direct.

2. Nintendo Direct (2/10)
Smash Bros was Blah, Metroid Dread was Yawn...., BOTW2 was Very Boring..., Mario games was okay but not really Day one games, Not interested by Advanced Wars, almost no games caught my interest except Mario games.

@GrailUK The tight roping sections I agree but it'd still be a nice feature.

@Anti-Matter Not a WarioWare fan then? I thought you would have enjoyed the buff shirtless man in Smash Bros if nothing else

@Anti-Matter You're welcome.

Also, I'm a little surprised that you don't like BOTW, since it's not a violent game. It's not Petz, but maybe try the first one before you make a final decision.

Also do you like WarioWare?

@ninelevendo Master stages would give me ptsd using gyro hahaha

@Slowdive 😎

I'm really looking forward to playing Advance Wars again. I think Wayforward have done a great job recreating the graphics. The portraits look fab and the style is very faithful.

Gotta say I am surprised by the people that thought the direct was bad. Granted I like a very large spread of genres so I usually tend to be happy (and broke) with most of Nintendo's Directs but it felt like this Direct (and this year really) had something for everyone almost. Racing, RPGs (both tactics and standard turn based), Rhythm, Shooting, Shumups, Party Games, Party Brawler (smash), DLC (to extend existing games),Visual Novels, Beatemups, Sports...the only thing missing I feel was FPS and we all know metroid prime 4 is in the works. And that is just looking at this direct in isolation. Looking at it plus what has already come out or been announced 2021-2022 look to be insanely packed and varied. I know you can't please some people, but dang, you REALLY can't please some people.

What gets me giddy is knowing this is just mid year. We have at least one to two more directs usually and there should be a few more games stuffed in there.

@Ryu_Niiyama And Microsoft have something to tell us in Fall. What on Earth could that be?

@Slowdive Earthbound is coming. It has to be.