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Wait, first party? So nintendo will have published a marvel game AND a DC game during the switch era? Wow. This doesn't look like my thing but I absolutely loved ultimate alliance 3 soooo... I'll check out reviews before I pass additional judgment.

I enjoyed most of the announcements but it still felt light for being the first direct after a year and a half. The last two partner showcases actually had me more excited than this direct. The most baffling thing was the lack of news on games we already know about. Where were the two SMT games? Rune factory? Monsterhunter stories? The world ends with you? Most of these games are scheduled to release in summertime and despite nintendo claiming this direct would focus on the first half of this year they still included a lot of summer games and two 2022 titles.

I'll echo others' sentiments. I did not understand that trailer at all. Wha-huh? who? Why? what was with all those different characters and different styles that seemed to be drawn from different gaming genres and why were they talking about a generic looking game where all the avatars looks like wannabe Fortnite rip-offs? Was there a point to that ad? Am I supposed to believe a 2d cartoon is playing a video game? Why is a 2D cartoon playing a video game? Why does her character not visually look like her? MY HEAD IS GOING TO EXPLODE!

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

Comes out around the one year anniversary of Animal crossing. Appropriate that the 2021 GotY for Switch releases around the same time frame as the 2020 GotY.

I can wait.

Random aside, is anyone else a little bewildered by the development of this game? Didn't the original game, a game built from the ground up, take five years to complete? From what I understand they began work on the sequel after finishing the DLC for BotW which came out at the end of 2017. So assuming it does come out in the second half of this year, that means it took them four years to make a game that uses the same building blocks and assets as the original? Something isn't adding up.

@HotGoomba Couldn't have said it better myself

@quigtendo Base game had plenty of content. Also, wave one doesn't release until June which is 7 months after launch. Wave two appears to hit around the 1 year anniversary. Doesn't really feel like cut content or things being held back given the release schedule.

@RedKijo95 Same. This and World's End Club were the two biggest surprises for me. Getting both at launch.

I am loving the art style.

@nessisonett Hey, records from that era are spotty, at best!

@Friendly I have no frame of reference for the Famicom games either, just excited by these types of games. lol.

As for World's End Club, Its made by the Danganronpa people. Having something from that team has piqued my curiosity immensely.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yes, unfortunately they have to in order to maintain an E rating. This style of self censorship doesn't bother me though, especially if its a character being added to another franchise. At the end of the day, Nintendo wants to keep an E rating for Smash; so be it.

@GKO900 Oh my god. I completely forgot about all Smash characters getting Amiibo... Move over Zero Suit Samus!

Everyone: More female characters in Smash!

Nintendo: Here is Pyra/Mythra

Half of Everyone: I have mixed feelings...

HYPE! One of my most anticipated games this year! Yes, I even loved Travis Strikes Again, that is how much I love this series.

@Friendly Ok, there's a decent amount there.

I'm rather pleased with what I saw today. Heck, I might be the only person on planet earth who was most excited about that Famicom Mystery game and World's End Club!

@Friendly My biggest concern is that all the titles listed as "summer" or later such as Fall Guys, Outer Wilds, Neon White, etc could all get pushed back due to covid or just game development in general these days.
Again, I'm not upset just confused. Actually, now that I think about it, the DLC for age of calamity is perhaps the biggest indicator of things being delayed. If you look back at other Koei Tecmo games for nintedo - OG hyrule warriors, Ultimate Alliance 3, Fire Emblem Warrios - DLC is usually out within a few months of release. The fact that wave 1 doesn't drop until almost 8 months after launch makes me realize things are not going according to plan.
It is what it is, just baffled by the messaging on Nintendo's part.

@Friendly Summer isn't first half, July is officially the start of the second half of a year and A LOT of announcements are listed as summer or later. I would have to rewatch the complete direct but the only new games listed before July that were of note (That I can remember) are: Miitopia, Famicom detective thing, Mario Golf, That Danganronpa thing and Ninja Gaiden.
Don't get me wrong, between those games and Bravely default, ghosts n' goblins, monster hunter and Pokemon Snap I'm pretty content with the switch for the moment. But again, Nintendo specifically said this direct would focus on first half of 2021. Maybe they're talking business calendar which I suppose counts since that goes into September but I'm still a bit confused by the messaging.

Looks dope. can't wait! But in all seriousness, was anyone else put off with all the titles announced for second half of this year or 2022? Wasn't this direct supposed to be about the first half of 2021?

2020 died so that 2021 could live

@BionicDodo Yes, hellblade did this and blended it into the gameplay with no load times, not sure why panic button didn't opt for this method.

@nessisonett Don't lie. You know most of those people you hit were middle-aged men. I mean, we are talking about Pokemon here.

"I hope Gal Gun tells us to burn our pants, these things are driving me nuts."
stands up
"Don't you hate pants?"

@nessisonett LOL. My thoughts exactly. Remove the "humor" and you've got a near perfect series.

Thank goodness. Make more mana games in the style of this remake, please.

Aren't there difficulty settings? If the game is too hard or requires too much grinding can't you just switch over to easy?

Let's not forget that this was made by obsidian. I love obsidian but they release some busted-ass games. Even pillars 2 has some serious issues on ps4 so I'm guessing there's only so much versus evil can do when working with something so fundamentally broken.

As for the good news, I bought this game on PC years ago and bought the switch version at launch for portability... switch at launch was BAD. To their credit, they did fix a lot and six months post launch I would argue that the switch version is perfectly playable if a bit unpolished.

@JuiceMan_V My thoughts exactly. I didn't think anything could be worse than E3. Boy, did the dorito pope prove me wrong!

Don't apologize. This industry needs a long hard look in the mirror.

A man after my own heart. A person who begins their rant against gaming's biggest liars by dragging Molyneux into broad daylight and dressing him down is a dev I can respect. They also have a good point that gamers are partially to blame for this crap. You already see CDPR apologists happily looking forward to the day cyberpunk is fixed. How about we just don't give them money or the benefit of the doubt so that they actually learn a lesson for once?

Finally! Its about time a games award ceremony recognizes a game for being a good game rather than praising a great story or pretty graphics. They have separate categories for that stuff.

@Strumpan To clarify, while I liked world and iceborne I fall into your camp, liking 3, 4 and gen more. Strangely my second biggest complaint after the designs is the large open worlds. It's cool at first to hunt down monsters but since this is a series meant to be played for hundreds of hours the novelty quickly wore off and just took away from the actual fun of a monster hunter game, which would be fighting monsters of course.

@Strumpan My first thought playing the demo was that the sample armor and weapons shown here was better than the entirety of sets from world/iceborne. I really enjoyed world/iceborne but I gotta admit, the design variety of weapons, armor and monsters was probably the lowest in series history.

@Silly_G Thanks for pointing out just dance, I didn't know about that example, but it falls in line with the behavior of many publishers.

A similar story of greed and insanity was seen with doom eternal. Doom 2016 released in the launch year of the switch and shipped on a 16gb cart (admittedly with a mandatory patch) and yet years later eternal ends up as a digital only release.

Whats most baffling about these decisions is that we know 16gb carts aren't THAT expensive and have definitely dropped in price since 2017. How do I know this? In 2019 several ports hit the switch like: dragons dogma and the darksiders series. Each of these games shipped on 16gb carts but the games were also only 30 bucks. If 16gb carts are so expensive how are they able to be used on budget games and how was Bethesda able to utilize one three years ago when they were more expensive but suddenly the cost now is too risky?

Covid may have factored into this decision but I also just think its another example of a publisher cutting corners for maximum profit.

Favorite game of 2019. Would love a sequel.

@Rhaoulos 128gb cart wouldn't solve anything. The 32gb card exists and barely any 3rd party uses it. Hell, lots of publishers refuse to even use the 16gb cart. Look at what happened with dark souls on switch. Bamco was too cheap to use a friggin' 8gb cart so they compressed the audio to crunch the damn thing on a 4gb cart and sent it out the door.

Interesting challenge. I'll stick with monotype for regular playthroughs and monotype nuzlocke for those rare moments i want to go back and challenge myself in a fresh pokemon run (I've only replayed a pokemon game twice, not counting remakes, so its rare)

I think most sensible people would expect a switch pro to mostly just give a simple resolution or performance increase. The problem is you have a lot of games media and independent content creators out their putting this stupid idea into gamers heads that the switch pro should be as powerful as a base ps4 and should therefore get exclusive games the regular model doesn't.

As much as I love Easy Allies I'm going to throw them (mostly Huber) under the bus for a second to illustrate this point. These kinds of gamers like to have radical pie-in-the-sky fantasy trips where they imagine best case scenarios without stopping to think about the business end of these decisions. Would I like a super ps4 powered switch? Sure, but what does that mean for developers? What does that mean for the consumer base? The switch is on fire right now, Nintendo is not going to throw a spanner into the machine by splitting their audience and putting a new burden on the shoulders of their development partners.

@ZeroRVL I honestly don't see it. The big gimmick mechanic was completely wasted. The "big suck" or whatever it was called is entirely scripted, only playing in designated areas of the game, and there is no actual gameplay hook to it. It doesn't challenge the player or open new ways to play, its literally a cutscene. The rest of the game, while having good level design, is nothing we haven't seen a million times since kirby's adventure.

When I think of the best kirby games I think of the games that introduce a fun new gameplay hook (planet robobot), mix up the traditional platforming with variety (superstar and its remake) or take the principles of a kirby game and apply it to a different genre (dream course)

Very pleased with #1 and #2. But why on earth do people like triple deluxe so much? That game is not good and is super generic. Hell, star allies is better.

@meeto_1 There is nothing stopping people from taking photos of things they find aesthetically pleasing and posting it on social media. At the end of the day, the scoring system has to be based on some metric that the game can objectively evaluate; something as abstract and subjective as "I find this angle and composition visually appealing" isn't something that could be programmed into a game.

Dear fake leakers, spellcheck is a thing. I know spellcheck is not fool-proof but I'd bet dollars to donuts that it would catch the misspelling of "available".

Oof. No thank you.

@Diogmites Good news for you, they will trade you the statue for one Mergo.

Truly these people are doing god's work.

Too early to make such declarative statements. Let's wait for the dust to settle on the Switch before determining its greatness. Also, while I appreciate the cultural and technological impact the DS had on the gaming community at large, I actually think the 3DS is the better system. The software for the 3DS is top tier and it's backwards compatible with the DS so there's that.

Oof. Just noticed the date. Getting sandwiched between the already crazy 1.5 months that is: mario 3d world, persona 5 strikers, bravely default 2 and monster hunter rise is no good.

THQ Nordic has been very good with their switch support, so it was strange when they initially announced this re-release with no mention of the switch as a potential platform. Well, here we are.

I played WAY too much in 2020 due to Covid. Despite a somewhat ho-hum year for the Switch, 2020 ended up being a personal record for number of hours played on a console.