The general buzz around the Direct is extremely positive. We got new announcements in big franchises, new footage for big previously announced exclusives, remakes of cult classics, highly requested ports, etc. It was an all around fantastic presentation.
Yeah, I was happy to see more of SMT V & it get a release date this year... Ditto BotW 2 for next year. I missed those advance Wars before, so I'll get the 3D remakes & I'm interested in Metroid Dread. Not sure about the Fatal Frame game but have heard good things about them before
@gcunit
I'm positive when I have something to be positive about, and right now I see alot to be excited for. This entire e3 has sucked up until this. And I've said as much. I'm just a gamer who saw a show and liked it. And I'm not the only one.
If you didn't like it, hey, you do you. I'm not harassing you for it or challenging you on the reasons why. Love it, hate it, it's cool with me. But I liked it.
These are all games to be excited for. We hadn't seen SMTV gameplay. Now we have and it blew away my expectations. So ya, I'm gonna be positive about that. Its also releasing this year. I'm gonna be positive about that too. MH Stories 2 gameplay looks insane. We hadn't seen a good look at it yet. Now we have. That's very exciting. I'm gonna be positive about that. Mario Rabbids is an exciting game. I don't care if it was announced yesterday or not. It's a new exclusive Switch game that looks great. I'm excited for it. Metroid Dread looks crazy good. I'm gonna be positive about it. Cruise n Blast, a game I've wanted all generation. Gonna be positive about it. Life Is Strange Collection which has been rumored, so glad to see it pan out. But not just the Collection, the new one as well. I can't suppress being positive about that. I've been talking about wanting those games on Switch for a grip. New WarioWare, gonna be positive. New Mario Party with full online (finally). What's not to be positive about? And there's so much more I'm excited for.
Clearly you have different standards. You seem to not be excited for anything that you have owned in some form in the past or simply knew existed. Like Metroid Prime 4 could be shown and say, "already knew about that". Well, sure. Doesn't make it any less exciting for me though. People been asking for the original Monkey Ball games as long as I can remember, myself included. I don't care if I own them on GameCube. I don't keep a GameCube hooked up. I want them on Switch. So having those games all on a hybrid handheld in HD is hella hype. I'm not even an Advance Wars fan, but if I was, I'd be crazy excited for that Remake. Simply having some old GBA games on Wii U vc wouldn't stop me from being hyped over a Remake on Switch anymore than Demons Souls existing on PS3 stopped me from buying the Remake on PS5. I'm excited for the people who are excited. It feels good seeing people get what they've been wanting so badly. It's definitely hard for me to relate on Zelda BotW 2. Simply knowing it exists isn't enough to stop that new footage from being exciting. I already knew it was 2022, been saying it for some time (check my pre-e3 posts) so that's not even newsworthy to me.
Idk man. Sorry if you feel differently. Genuinely. But ya can't please everyone, as they say.
@Grumblevolcano Speaking of DLC, you could add
June - Age of Calamity - Pulse of the Ancients
June 29 - Disgaea 6 (Exclusive... in the west at least)
November - Age of Calamity - Guardian of Rememberance
And this doesn't even include the non exclusives like NEO:TWEWY or Great Ace Attorney, or smaller 3rd party exclusives like TMNT: Shredder's Revenge. Definitely a packed year.
EDIT:
Okay, so I rewatched the direct, and he is very specific:
There will be NO LoZ Switch titles released during the 35th anniversary after Skyward Sword. That means no WW/TP, no OOT/MM AND no BotW2 until after Q1 2022. Also there will be NO other celebrations of any kind. Just want to see if I can put an end to that speculation now, but we'll see if anyone listens lol.
Watching SMTV gameplay on Treehouse, and I’m astonished at how good the game looks. Like, they took it to Persona 5 levels of quality. Compared to SMTIII it’s like… woah. You have a dash mechanic and everything. Main character looks crazy with that long blue hair.
Also watched some Advance Wars footage. The remake definitely makes the game feel more palatable to me personally. Graphics look nice during battles. Then watched some Mario Party footage and it looks good! Same for WarioWare. Which, I played WarioWare Gold on 3DS not too long ago and was impressed by how fun it was, given I didn’t really like the Wii U entry much.
But then they showed more Metroid. Ohhh. Check out this screenshot I took from the stream.
@link3710
It’s a fresh look, that’s for sure. I love it.
On top of all the exclusives mentioned previously, there’s a ton of good, solid 3rd party games coming. Doom Eternal Ancient Gods pt 1 just dropped today. We have Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1/2, Dragon Ball Kakarot, Great Ace Attorney and Neo: TWEWY like you said, Life Is Strange Collection, Life Is Strange True Colors, Danganronpa Collection, Monkey Ball Banana Mania, Ni No Kuni 2… there’s a lot of good games. Probably others I’m forgetting. Not all of them appeal to me (DragonBall is eh) but most of them do.
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Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
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SMT and Metroid look so darn good. And the AW remake is cute af.
It occurs to me that MH Stories 2 is kind of getting ignored in the excitement, but that treehouse footage looked really good. They really took the presentation to the next level with that game.
Oh, and is SMT V open world? In previous games, world navigation was kind of abstract, with the player being represented by a little icon, and you only saw your character when you went into specific areas. But this just looks like a flat out open world game, with demons lumbering around everywhere. There was a demon flying overhead in the Direct trailer.
In the space of seven months, we're getting at least three exclusive open-world monster collecting JRPGs.
BTW, for anyone who hasn't played the games yet, don't sleep on Danganronpa. Absolutely top-tier series of games. Super excited they're finally coming to a Nintendo console.
@Slowdive lol I really thought the developers were going full Sony loyalist and were just ignoring the Switch when those mobile ports were announced. The fact that they're fleshing out the board game/JRPG from V3's post-game is even better. Legitimately one of the best fanservice modes I've ever encountered in a game.
I own all of them for Vita... digitally. I'll buy this one physically.
Currently Playing: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (NS2); Corpse Factory (PC)
It was a very good Direct. Especially considering the low bar of this year's E3. Especially considering the pandemic. This was pretty darn good, moreso when taken in context. They did truly have a bit of something for everyone.
@DarthNocturnal Yep. That creature's design feels very Portal-y.
I was watching a reaction and someone said that, actually. It does kind of have that vibe. The white AI robot and lonely atmosphere I think.
And ya, MH Stories 2 is definitely going under the radar. I get the game has been shown several times before but this is the first real look under the hood, and the gameplay is legitimately astonishing. It looks really good. Equally impressive as Rise, and that's saying something. Pokémon, SMT and MH Stories 2, the 3 best games of the genre all getting new entries on Switch back to back to back. All we're missing is DQM. I'm sure it'll come in due time.
I'm buying Danganronpa on your recommendation, btw. Any game that can make someone rave about it consistently over the years is at least worth a buy to check out. You can't make people fans like that and not have something special about it.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@JaxonH Yeah, looking at reactions online, people keep groaning when they get to the MH Stories 2 section of the Direct, but that seems a bit unfair. The Nintendo section on the game is an actual gameplay trailer, which is what I've been wanting for a while now. Capcom has unwisely been overexposing people to the story trailers.
I think excitement will pick back up later in the month when people get to play it for themselves. That treehouse footage looked great. It's a massive evolution from the first game, both stylistically and in terms of environmental scope. And, honestly, the story looks way more engaging as well.
RE: Danganronpa, the first game is a little rough around the edges (kinda like the first Ace Attorney, honestly), but the two sequels are two of the best visual novels ever made. Even the very first case in Danganronpa 2 rivals the length of DR1's final case. DR2 was also when the series fully nailed down its unique tonal mix of absurdist humor and horror.
The series managed to amass a pretty massive cult following in the West on the strength of a couple of PSP/Vita games, which, yeah, is actually quite impressive. One of the characters actually snuck into the Guinness Book of World Records as "the most cosplayed video game character in the world" at one point, lol.
Hopefully they also bring over Ultra Despair Girls at some point, since it also adds to the series' overall worldbuilding.
The rest of this year is gonna be really expensive. Multiple games I want every month except in August, which seems to be a dry month in general outside of NHM3.
Mario Golf, THPS1+2, Destroy all Humans, and Disgaea 6 this month. MH Stories 2, Zelda Skyward Sword HD, and Great Ace Attorney Chronicles in July. NMH3 in August. Sonic Colors Ultimate and WarioWare in September. Monkey Ball, Metroid, and Mario Party in October. SMTV and Pokemon in November. Advance Wars in December.
My wallet weeps, and that's not counting any indie titles and stuff that doesn't have a date yet.
@Ralizah
Yo, you’re gonna be glad to see this. Ys IX runs like butter. I thought it felt pretty smooth but it’s nice to see it confirmed stable, just so I don’t have to worry about any problems. It’s really impressive how good they’re able to make games look and run on hardware as meager as the Nintendo Switch. Especially given how under clocked it is? Man... They’re eeking out every last drop of juice they can from this baby.
I'm lucky as hell SMT V is coming out like a week after my birthday but the rest of 2021 is gonna be one pricey investment for me on Switch let alone other platforms like PC and PS5
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(Pretty much the ones I was waiting on so I am floating on air although I do hope they finish the line up)
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