ClockworkMario

They're officially out of games to remaster, so here's hoping!

Come on Capcom, give us that Ace Attorney fix. A new one, not another repackaging.

A big reach. Though with how Genshin Impact started as a carbon copy of BotW's mechanics, I like forcing them to innovate on their own.

How spooky is it? Love me a good visual novel, but I'm too much of a scaredy cat for jumpscares.

Mastodon is right there, Nintendo.

Aaaand that right there is the reason GF has no reason to improve in a significant capacity.

Can't wait for Call of Duty: Legacy Edition.

4000 dollarinos for the lead role in an established series? I agree that does sound low.

Geoffshow and Nintendo's showing were both massive duds this year, so I really hope they succeed. Even just in forcing Nintendo to appear and have a proper showing.

I really REALLY hope this isn't all we're going to get for the E3 season. If so, what a massive bummer.

Geoff has failed to impress my thus far and anyway, I prefer to five or so days of constant annoucements over a drip-feed of low-to-mid-tier reveals

Goddammit. I wish they didn't delay the digital versions as well

Disagree with the review, though I see where it's coming. I found looping and trying out different options really engaging, since there was so much to try out and the game allows for a surprising amount of experimentation. The VA's did a decent job, as did the story until the final twist. This was on the PC, mind you, so perhaps it's more tedious on the Switch.

@ReWane
I agree, it made me turn off the trailer after a few minutes. Terrible.

Apart from that cringefest, everything else looks very interesting.

World's End Club was promised a demo today by one of the developers, but it seems that's not dropping. Damn

Oh, MDickie is still at it? I remember those Jesus and prison games from way back. Clunky, but oddly satisfying and hilarious

Warriors games don't really interest me gameplay-wise, but damn do the setting, story and visuals look good. Will buy day-one

A whole big load of nothing. Well, at least some folks will be happy about SMTV

Ehh... A wasted Direct.

"A big event"

For you.

Very topical. I can't imagine revealing this now was a coincidence.

They should give out more info though. 45 € is a steep price for a indie pixel romp.

Too bad. I really dig the idea and the setting.

I really like the look of this game and the voice acting (or the few bits heard in the trailer) sound superb.

Now all I need is a Switch...

I'm seeing a lot of the same folks that did the MK8 soundtrack. I guess Nintendo has a few go-to musicians.

VA in Breath of the Wild was uneven, but I think Daruk was among the better voiced characters

Nothing to see here. It seems Nintendo's Finnish branch has the same text as the Swedish one, and the Norwegian version is identical as well except for the sentence that discusses Switch's future. That one is completely missing on the Norwegian version atm. I'd wager things have gone down something like this:

>Bergsala distributes a press release celebrating year 2017 to all of its Nordic branches
>These translate the text for their domestic markets.
>For some reason the Norwegian one goes rogue on its
translation of this one paragraph.
>All hell breaks loose on the internet.
>Someone pushes a panic button in Oslo and removes the whole paragraph.

I see the "it's a good game but not a good Zelda game" -meme has gotten popular. I don't quite grasp it. You want a retread of the old games, only with newer hardware? I think the characters, musical and visual cues, locations and plot points go far and beyond to tie it into the Zelda universe.

Different folks, different strokes. I was kinda left cold by A Link Between Worlds, so this reinvigorated my love for Zelda. Easily GOTY, might be game of the decade now that I think about it.

I'm betting on 900 or even 1080p by release achieved by using dynamic resolution like BOTW.

@Haru17
Did we not play the same game, which included ~50 minutes of cutscenes almost exclusively about the character in question, doing, well, all sorts of things. Mostly not being useless. During the cutscenes we find that she e.g.

SPOILERS

Saves Link by not only using the sealing power, or whatever it's called, but also her wits and dedication by utilising the years of research she and the Sheikah put into the ancient technology.

@-Green-
Yep, from folks like ih8nintend0 (seriously) and from a guy who's played it for 15 hours and gotten bored – even though the game hasn't even been out for 15 hours.

Here's a good selection of the 0's and 1's.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild/user-reviews?dist=negative

@NEStalgia
I disagree with your assessment. The zero point is arbitrary, but hardly useless: while the majority of water is salinated, it's also immensely less important for humans than the little fresh water we have. And you know what's also unsalinated water? Rain, which means celsius degrees offers a handy way to know when it'll snow and the ground will freeze. 100 °C is the boiling point of water, which is once again more useful than whatever Fahrenheit has. Celsius – Kelvin conversions are also extremely easy to make, a nice bonus.

I'll give you that the integer scale Fahrenheit has does make it easier to present minute information, but for everyday use Celsius is more than enough – and for other uses there are the decimal numbers.

@-DG
@luke88
It has already been confirmed that there will be true dungeons on top of the shrines. Game Informer played through one of these in its recent article.

"though USB sticks are out, apparently"

They claimed you couldn't use one at all with Wii U, but I still used a cheap stick for a long time with my Basic Edition Wii U. For those with the 8 GB version and no USB storage, I'd just recommend snatching an 8 GB memory stick for a few bucks: I'd be astounded if that wouldn't work.

Weak launch, Summer–Autumn looks worryingly sparse and the Holiday season isn't all that great either. Nintendo has to pull some games (Indie, Virtual Console, anything really) out of their sleeve to avoid extreme droughts.

What concerns me the most is the lack of proper 3rd party support: looks a lot worse than Wii U's support at launch.

Seems like the other guy is working really hard to force a smile. Miyamoto on the other hand just glimmers joy as always.

@nhSnork
You're right, I had completely forgot about that one. Was a great game, as I recall.

@JLPick
They did have a few efforts on the Wii, notably Bully and Manhunt 2. Before that they released some GTA-games on the Game Boy Color. Nothing recent though.

http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Rockstar_Games

@DarthNocturnal
Here's hoping for Grand Theft Auto or other Rockstar IPs.

@bolt05
Yeah, downloading them online was obviously illegal, but I've thought up until this that you can produce a copy for personal uses. For most purposes (music, literature) this is correct at least around these parts, but you're right mate, computer programs seem to be outside this protection.

@bolt05
Hmm... this seems to be a case of differing legislation. I could swear the owner of a game has a right to make a copy of the game for their own purposes. This is true at least in Finland and I assume rest of EU as well. It's not limited to just games either. You can make copy of music CD's and all sorts of programs – again, provided you don't distribute it.

Something similar, if a bit more limited, seems to apply to the US if the other commentators are to be believed.

It's not illegal to have the ROM files either, provided you've ripped them from a game you own. I mean, we all know that doesn't happen, but technically you could play NES games on that thing legally.

Awesome to see them flesh out the investigation parts. That's what was severely lacking in Dual Destinies, with the investigation being a glorified tube. If this means a return to the style of the earlier games, I'm all in.

@Tsurii
Do you hear that distant rumble? That's the sound of an angry horde racing to defend TTYD.

This is just a giant middle finger they're waving at the few fans that bothered to even buy a Wii U. I'm sad to see the company I once thought as respectful to its supporters spitting in the face of its most loyal fanbase. Disgusting.

Sure, Wii U failed. Nintendo could've still give it life support to not make the situation this pathetic. Now the release window is a wasteland and the company reminds me of end times Sega, which threw out console after console hoping the next one would succeed; slowly corroding their core fanbase.

With that I raise my middle finger back at Nintendo. I will fondly remember the days of my youth with Melee and Sunshine. Sadly, there won't be more memories like that. /end of drama.

With that capitalization, I thought there was already a rumour claiming that we're going to have a New NX.

@TLink9
I'd say Finland is a more likely candidate, since, for one, the same keyboard layout is used in Finland as well. The username 'Perkele37' is another a telltale sign of a Finn. As for that tree – well heck, it's just a tree, hardly a decisive piece of evidence.

I'm so happy to hear Europeans get the whole game this time around and English voice acting is included. Omitting it from the European release of VLR put me off the game for a good while and I only got it on sale – else I would've snatched it at release.

@Sligeach
Good heavens, go easy on the man. It's rather unfair to torment someone on how they write, especially when they (like myself) are writing in a foreign language.

He's not wrong either. Just a quick Wikipedia search reveals that Retro churns out games at about the same pace as other first party studios.

Why am I viewing a mobile site on my 15.6' laptop? Because truly, that's all it is; a mobile site weirdly stretched on the sides. Sure, I'll get used to it, the same way I'd get used to driving a Soviet era Lada after owning a Lamborghini – doesn't mean the change is positive.

For one thing, the front page is using absurd amounts of space without really showing much. It's cluttered and all over the place. Some of my distaste goes back to my absolute hatred of the random news blocks every single site seems to use nowadays. What's this fetish website designers have with squares and edges?

C'est la vie. It seems one more bastion of good website design has fallen victim to the attack of the blocks.

Edit. One more thing to rant about: I really liked accessing the forums straight from the front page. That's gone too, it seems.

Looking very good so far. They're really shaking up the formula and bringing in new gameplay hooks (which this franchise sorely needs to keep fresh).

The only thing I'm disliking so far is the Watson-girl. Sure, we've seen just a glimpse of her so far but I can almost see all the cliches: she has a tragic history, her parents murdered or otherwise missing, and she's wise beyond her age but has some "adorable" fault, like overeating or clumsiness. Ace Attorney sidekicks have already tread these paths way too often. Hope the game proves me wrong in the end.

I sure hope I don't have to use dollars to get STEAM like it stands on the list.