At last night's Game Awards 2019, former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime resurrected one of his most famous 'characters' for a brief moment before talking about the importance of indie gaming and handing over an award to the makers of Disco Elysium.
Reggie marched on-stage wearing a pair of sunglasses, before introducing himself as Fils-A-Mech, a character created in a Mega64 sketch from 2014 which announced the Super Smash Bros. E3 Invitational. He then launched into a speech talking about the growth of the games business and the importance of indie development, comparing Shigeru Miyamoto and the late Satoru Iwata to the pioneering indie coders of today.
The other nominees in the 'Fresh Indie Game' category were GRIS, My Friend Pedro, Outer Wilds, Slay the Spire and Untitled Goose Game ā most of which are available on Switch.
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Nice to see Reggie...glad he gives the fans a visit once in awhile.
More Reggie is always a good thing
Was he wearing a mech suit. Sounds like a good intro š
I was honestly hoping someone would yell give us Mother 3.
Reggie and his speeches are awesome. A great guy
But how do you pronounce his surname? Yikes!
@mist Feez-ah-may
@liljmoore play fan translation
What a great communicator. The man knows how to make a speech.
I much prefer name drops than trailer drops and game drops said no one ever.
@sixrings Someone didn't listen to Reggie's speech...
@DFaceG_Rebooted someone did. I didn't hear anything about a new Zelda, Mario, metroid.
All I heard about was their child hood dreams. Great. Been there. Done that. What have you done for me lately.
Reggie is a marketing genius whose presence alone brights up an event.
Quite honestly Nintendo should continue to have him as their brand ambassador and do anything they can to get him.
@Razer I agree. The man managed to fluff fluff fluff and make no announcements and somehow people are talking about how great Reggie was not how disappointing Nintendo was.
@sixrings "what have you done for me lately." Nothing, he's retired.
@DAHstroy good one... deflecting from the fact nintendo told us to watch this show with no real announcements... epic. I guess the word fan comes from the word fanatics... And i guess i cant expect reason from fanatics.. I thought i was a Nintendo fan. But if these are the weird twisted holes you have to jump through for that badge i am not apart of it. I love Nintendo first party games, but i question them sometimes. fans apparently shouldn't question their company. We should just be happy to exist in their world.
slay the spire shouldve won
@DAHstroy yep I doubt he has info on anything theyāre doing currently. General policy in big companies like that is people who are retiring/leaving get excluded from being in the loop for upcoming and new projects for confidentiality reasons. Plus he probably signed NDAs before he retired as well.
I have a statue of Reggie in my attic that i put on my lawn for Cinco De Mayo. He wears a fun sombrero.
@sixrings its a GAME AWARDS show nintendo just wanted you to watch because IDK THEY HAVE STUFF THERE. YOURE ENTITLED ACTING like nintendo owes you something leave.
Iām such a nerd; I was fighting back tears when he walked out on stage. I love that guy and what he brought to Nintendo. His speech was phenomenal too.
Seeing Reggie was great. Seeing the new Xbox was kind of cool. The rest of the show was godawful. And the lack of Nintendo info just made it that much worse.
I wish they would've shown footage or something, I thought Disco Elysium was the studio name? Ah well, it'll be on the radar if more news comes up (looks like a 2020 PS4 release?)
@farmer_humpf how he gonna mention surgery without Trauma Center lol. And that was over 10 years ago. Do feel a bit Jade's with games but it is fun to be able to search sales every week or holiday. But yeah imma buy less unless it's cheap lol race to the bottom had Jade's give Pyre free on steam, undermining early buyers.
@Razer lol that lame in da House bit got cheers. You got a point. He could sell damn near anything. Save the Wii u of course lol. And disco Elysium in the end. Cringeworthy. Game looks boring too.
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