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@Gaviin Aonuma directed OoT, MM, WW, and TP. Even if you prefer the new formula (and something tells me you don't) you cannot pretend like that is not a legendary run.

I teach a video games class and we've talked about directors vs. producers so I'm glad to see I was pretty right about the difference(s) 😅. I will say tho that despite Zelda being my favorite game franchise I don't think I ever realized that Aonuma had moved to a producer role and was no longer director of the games. Now I feel extra bad that he gets the blame for design decisions that were likely made by Fujibayashi.

For once Nintendo's slowness to adopt new technologies works out in all of our favor lol. Good job, Nintendo!

Oh good. I'm playing through Zero Mission now so that's something to take a look at next time I boot it up.

As all physical releases should be, but this is great! Looking forward to it.

Expecting a radical, genre shifting, BotW-esque moment from a direct sequel with "4" in the title is ridiculous, full stop. It will be a better version of Metroid Prime, which is more than okay. Esp considering this will likely be the last big OG Switch game (and possibly a cross-gen title).

This is exciting bc it means that they're looking to improve the online for next gen. I really want is native voice chat and some trophy/achievement style thing so hopefully that's on the docket of whoever gets hired.

For me, there's ports, remasters, and remakes. Ports are when games are just moved from one console to another, sometimes with a few changes (aka an enhanced port), remasters are when the changes are largely (or only) visual, and remakes are when substantial changes are made to the core game. To demonstrate, Super Mario 64 on VC and NSO are ports, Super Mario 64 in Mario All-Stars is a remaster, and Super Mario 64 DS is a remake.

The fast travel thing would've been good when I was trying to 100% it, but I might go back and play a few bosses.

I'm curious as to what's gonna be in the Direct. More remasters to pad out the Switch's last year? I hope we at least get the other two Metroid Primes and at least WW HD.

The original Hades is one of my favorite games ever. I will be buying Hades II the SECOND it leaves early access, be it on OG Switch or Switch 2. Can't wait!

My general stance on framerates is stability over everything. I'll take a stable 30 over shooting for 60 that fluctuates between 33 and 57. I'm even less pressed about framerates in a game like this where unless you're living and dying by the superguard you'll be fine. I do wonder why it was lowered, but I'm not upset by it being lowered.

This looked pretty meh in the reveal so I'm not too surprised by this. Looks like this is gonna be a backlog gaming year for me; there's not much new stuff I'm clamoring for.

I'm sure dude does good work, but is the only reason why this is news bc he used to work with Playstation? Unless I missed it the only notable thing about his tenure seems to be advocating for the Vita sooooo why should we care?

Is this game worth a pick up? I remember wanting to play it back in the day but I wanna know if it's any good before I spend the money

People are gonna glaze Sands of Time, but The Lost Crown is right up there with it. It's such a fun game.

Even if somehow the Switch doesn't dethrone the PS2, it has gotten this close 1) in half the time 2) without doubling as a media player and 3) on the heels of, let's face it, a colossal failure rather than a massive success like the PS1 to PS2. That is an impressive achievement in and of itself.

That said, I do think the Switch will surpass the PS2 regardless of these "updated numbers". All it will take is the OG Switch family finally getting price drops with the Switch 2's announcement/release.

I've fallen out of love with the FF series (12 was the last one I really enjoyed) but the memories of FFX will carry me for a lifetime. It's one of my favorite games ever made.

Tears of the Kingdom is the better game, hands down. People only say they like BotW more because they played it first and thus have that nostalgic attachment.

THIS IS AWESOME

Please Nintendo. Just once do the obvious thing and just make a more powerful Switch. Make it backwards compatible and make our accounts and digital purchases carry over. It will print money so long as the games come out.

Meh. Pokémon should def improve in some ways but they surely don't need to take pointers from the AI generated clusterf that this game is. Plus it's hard to say that Pokémon should learn things it has already done from a game that is straight up derivative of it.

I do believe (or at least hope) that the new console will just be a better Switch, but the fact that one of his justifications is "Pokémon is associated with handheld so it'll stay a handheld" makes me not believe a word said here.

Guess I'm done buying Square Enix games. With the year gaming has had laying off or flat out firing thousands of people, bringing AI into the mix to steal from and most likely "replace" even more creatives is downright ghoulish.

Aonuma is exposing the absurdity of the "Zelda cycle" and I appreciate that. Everyone here says they want a more restricted, structured experience but I'm willing to bet that when Skyward Sword gave them just that they hated it. Zelda MUST continue to grow as a series and the "open-air" era has given the series unprecedented growth.

And that's not to say the games are perfect now. There's still space for growth and TotK shows that the team does try to listen to feedback (that's not just "make the old games again) so I have full faith they'll keep working until the games reach that sweet spot of both styles.

@SpinEnDash Yes. Incessantly. People online have begged for a more restrictive experience.

I really hope so. Even if it's just for a part of the game, I really want Zelda playable in a mainline game.

@Vexx234 @GalaxicGlobe It's so weird to me when people say "oh the voices are SO much better in Japanese!" but they're holding onto those subtitles for dear life. I believe they only think it's better in Japanese bc they are imagining the lines being delivered how they personally would want them delivered, rather than if they listened in English and they have to take what the actor actually presents to them.

I fully expect Smash to be rebooted with the next iteration. While a port of Ultimate with a few tweaks and all characters already in-game sounds nice, I feel like that would mean renegotiating rights and part of the reason people are concerned about the future of the series is because of the mess of rights issues it has to be. I say reboot with a massively trimmed down roster and all characters reworked from the ground up. And though I know it won't happen, give us another substantial single player mode.

I'll take the easy route and say the controls in Ocarina of Time. They were fine at the time but now they're kinda garbage. Esp if you're playing OG Water Temple.

Umm...why is the OG SMRPG (so much!) higher than the remake? I didn't finish the OG but the remake seems to have improved pretty much everything from what I've seen of both.

Anyway, I knew TTYD would be the top but the OG Paper Mario will always be my favorite.

Booooo. I could've taken advantage of this but now I renew in Feb bc I updated to Expansion Pack when they added GB/GBA games 🙃

It is a pretty solid introduction to what to expect from (traditional) 3D Zelda. Even the Great Deku Tree achieved that pretty well IMO.

Screw yall for including the Scarecrow Song on #3 lol. I'm claiming my 13/15 dammit.

Don't insult me like that, Phil. I have no interest in being part of your "community".

@blindsquarel oh that's a good idea! Lemme cancel my pre-order and do this instead.

Spider-Man is gonna have my attention for a while, but Wonder looks fun enough that I'll prob pick it up soon after that.

Hmm. I'll have to look into this. Bug Fables was one of my favorite games of 2020 and in some ways I liked it more than PM 64 and TTYD so I have high expectations for what another indie company can do with the classic Paper Mario formula.

@AstroTheGamosian This is just false. Even just looking at the most recent Zelda, Metroid, Pokémon, and Kirby games there are absolutely story AND gameplay things that could be spoiled. There's technically gameplay things in Mario to be spoiled too. As far as gameplay, yes the general idea is in trailers but each one of those games throw in something to switch the core gameplay up at some point.

You absolutely can spoil a Mario game. I will admit I'm very spoiler-averse (I regularly mute key words for movies and games I'm looking forward to on all platforms) but I think even people not like me would want some surprises in what they play. A particular boss fight in Odyssey and what happens after the final boss (both immediately and post game) come to mind as far as stuff that shouldn't be spoiled.

A good Direct in my book is one where I walk away wanting at least 3 of the new games shown. I want 4.

I also wanna say everyone mad that the DK game isn't what the leaks led you to think should be mad at themselves for putting that much faith in leaks and rumors.

There needs to be a middle ground between the two. The Japanese art is too busy and the western art is too empty. The western art is an easier fix (you could just add Garl to some of the empty space) so I pick that one.

As long as the games keep coming and stay good do whatever yall want lol

This game is gonna be my bridge between TotK (which I finished maybe a month ago now) and Spider-Man 2. I've been needing some good old fashioned JRPG goodness.

I'm so glad other studios have taken up the original Paper Mario style mantle. Bug Fables is still one of my favorite indie RPGs.

@BTB20 I would argue against S/V bc its two different games. GTA V definitely beats TotK though.

This probably means it's gonna be like Sw/Sh DLC where the second part is the actually good one.

Even though I do think we'll be getting a new Switch next year, its not because of any of these rumors; we've been hearing them since at least 2020. It just feels like time, you know? TotK and a 2D Mario feel like the last cards this Switch can play, so I'll be waiting on the official announcement to see what it looks like

@Nintendencies I feel like that's the one thing they have pretty much said they're going to do. I think sometime last year they were talking about keeping people in the "Nintendo ecosystem" with the NSO for the foreseeable future. I can't see them splitting the games connected to that NSO from the rest of the service.