Looks like that whole complaint against Nintendo regarding unionization, bribing, and other things were thanks to a disgruntled contractor who was terminated for disclosing confidential information.
@JaxonH firstly - yes to Pokémon Puzzle League on NSO. Even though we have the snes game I think the Pokémon trappings and the 3d cylinder mode are worth having (& easy wins).
Secondly - I actually think DKC could work in 3d. It’s just DK64 that was awful and the collectathon nature of 3d platformers of the time - all chasing after Mario 64 style open exploration - were always a bad fit for DKC. Looking at Kirby though you’d have to say that it’s possible to imagine DKC having a similarly successful transition.
I’m hopeful that we’ll see another DKC game (2d or 3d) one day but I’d guess the poor sales of TF (twice) and Returns on 3DS might have given Nintendo second thoughts. Maybe it’s too much of a hardcore old school difficult game for a modern audience? Returns was a mega hit on Wii though so I’m not sure.
It’s too big of a series to die though. If there is a Donkey Kong film coming then that might be an incentive to make more games.
@StuTwo
I mean, DKC Tropical Freeze has to be over 3 million units on Switch, which, when combined with Wii U make for a 5m total. That's not too shabby, especially since it'll likely squeeze another million over the remainder of the generation.
But it is hard-core 2D platforming. And today's audience doesn't have the skillset for that. But we need that core 2D platforming represented- there is an audience for it.
I definitely think a 3D DK could be successful, and a great game. I just have my doubts I'd personally like it anywhere near as much as DKC TF. But, I keep an open mind and would love to be proven wrong.
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@Grumblevolcano
That’s still really successful for a b tier franchise.( meaning how it is viewed sales wise, not how good the games are. Personally an A tier for me. Same for Kirby and Metroid.)
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@Grumblevolcano
Right, and that was from a while ago. I'm pretty sure it's sold an additional 300k copies in the 2-3 years since.
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@Grumblevolcano
Sonic Spinball is being added to Genesis Online games this month. Just saw it in the news feed. And Space Harrier 2 and Shining Force 2
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I love what Atari has been doing lately.
Just bought Kombinera and Breakout Recharged. Which, Breakout Recharged is basically a modernized version of Breakout, which preceded AlleyWay on GameBoy, one of my all time faves. I LOVED AlleyWay. There was also a game called Siesta Fiesta on 3DS that was just excellent, also inspired by the brick breaking games of the past.
Kombinera is a basic game (new game though) where you control 2 or more balls at the same time. Red ones can roll through red spikes, green ones immune to green bullets, yellow ball breaks yellow walls, forget what blue does. And white does nothing special. You control them simultaneously and must navigate the balls to merge together. Any merged balls retain the power of all combined balls thus far. It's a basic concept but tons of fun. Takes me back to the good ol' days where gameplay was king.
Kombinera and Breakout Recharged. Two excellent arcade style games with a focus on super fun gameplay.
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He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@StuTwo
I mean, DKC Tropical Freeze has to be over 3 million units on Switch, which, when combined with Wii U make for a 5m total. That's not too shabby, especially since it'll likely squeeze another million over the remainder of the generation.
But it is hard-core 2D platforming. And today's audience doesn't have the skillset for that. But we need that core 2D platforming represented- there is an audience for it.
I'm surprised that DKC TF sold so many - I'd always had the impression that it had been less successful than that (but I'd never actually checked sales figures).
I'll always be astonished that within a year on Wii U Nintendo released New Super Luigi U and DKC TF - they are two unashamedly hard-core 2d platforming games pitched at players who are already excellent at the genre and know all its tropes and tricks. They are deliberately not aimed at beginners and - smaller indie games aside - no other major company has made 2d platforming games targeting that audience for a long long time.
@StuTwo
It's why I love Nintendo. One of the many reasons, anyways. They make the kinds of games I love.
I'm not a huge platformer fan anymore. They just don't hold my interest much. EXCEPT for Mario and DKC. I could play those games forever. I rarely replay games and yet I've beaten DKC Returns 3 times, and DKC Tropical Freeze 3 times. Those games are on another level. Nobody else makes platformers like that.
It's like the rest of the industry went off into 3D realism, and Nintendo said nope, let's take our classic SNES titles and modernize that. And given that's what I grew up on, that's what I'm into. That's what excites me, far more than 3D humanoid based realism.
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They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@JaxonH@Grumblevolcano In the June 2020 financial report, that number was updated to 2.93 million sales. So yeah, it only needs to have had 70,000 copies sold in the last two years to break 3 mil.
Edit: Speaking of sales, Metroid Dreads new numbers should be available soon. If it breaks 3.31 mil (it was at 2.74 after the first two months), it'll have outsold every game on the system that isn't main series Pokemon/Mario/Splatoon/Animal Crossing/Mario Party/Luigi's Mansion/Ring Fit. That's an insane accomplishment for one of their generally worse selling series, especially since stuff like Fire Emblem and Kirby are selling better than ever.
@link3710
I thought I remembered it hitting 2.93m but couldn't find where I saw it. So ya, it's definitely over 3m now.
I'm also confident Metroid Dread will crack 3m. Not sure about 3.31 (not yet anyways), but we'll see.
I'd like to see games such as DKC Tropical Freeze, Metroid Dread, Pikmin 3, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Fire Emblem Three Houses, etc, break 5 million. They're such great games, and deserve far more attention than they receive.
Then again, I think it's easy to lose sight of just how much 3 million sales for a single release on a single platform is. We're so used to mega-hits crushing 10, even 20 million, that 3 million sounds like child's play by comparison. But it's really not. Especially for titles that don't receive the same budget as realistic humanoid 3D AAA games.
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Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
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