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@BluStreak thank you, I appreciate the thought. I'm sorry to hear about your aunt's dog.

I wonder why NOA are making you guys wait. Paper jam over here has already dropped to £18 with one retailer. Like I say, if I didn't already have dream team to play through...

I haven't been to my Animal Crossing village for a long time. I named it after my dog who, sadly, departed us earlier this year so I may or may not check in for Christmas.
Otherwise I intend to be generally star bound between XCX and Steamworld Heist.
I have an itch to scratch by getting a new Nintendo game over Christmas but I'm not certain what to go for between Triforce Heroes, Paper Jam or Smash Tennis (likely Tennis as I have Dream Team to play through and I don't know anybody else with a 3DS for Zelda-ing).
Oh, and Splatoon, Smash and MK8 on steady rotation.

@vonseux yeah, despite being a big Nintendo fan in the N64 days I missed Majora's Mask first time around. For me the remake was like an entirely new 3D Zelda.

@Xenocity thanks for the links. Interesting reading, by applying the casual gamer definition nice and broadly (the PC platform part and RTS part) then a tournament level Starcraft player becomes a casual.
I'm not really certain why we need to bother labelling ourselves like this anyway

@MitchVogel hang in there dude, we're all in this together.

@Xenocity if XCX, MH4U and an N64 era Zelda game fit the definition of 'casual', then the "definition" has lost all meaning.

@andrea987
Yeah, it's only really an analysis when they share how they came to their conclusion, otherwise it's just another opinion no more informative than any other.

@crimsontadpoles I'd be happy with long distances between towns as long as the hub world is populated with side quests like the random people you can meet in GTA.

@ThomasBW84
I just got this on PC as it was included in the Capcom Humble Bundle, but I'm still thinking my next play through will be on Wii for those controls!

I haven't got this one (yet), but I do hope it's a sign of what's to come in the next main series AC entry (in terms of levels of customisation).

@DiscoGentleman
this sparked me to do google search and one opinion I found on the future tense in Japanese is...
'It’s more accurate to say there is no present tense and the plain form is the future tense in addition to other usages. What we commonly think of the present tense as expressing what’s happening now is really the present progressive which Japanese clearly has in the 「～ている」 form.'

however, I think you're right, a lot can get lost in translation and hopefully this is a translation issue (like Iwata-san's "apology" over E3)

@Mk_II
See? THIS guy gets it!

I hate to be THAT guy, but high street game shopping was so much better before Game swallowed their competition and went to heck.
Heck I tells ya!

@rjejr
'til you said that I couldn't quite put my finger on what was making me feel uneasy about those quotes. You're right it is all a bit too 'future tense', as if it's still in planning stages or as if they're looking to tack on a twist to something that, by now, should be already long established.

@k8smum
Nintendo have continued to act like its the nineties for two decades now. I mean, they still seem to believe they have the market cornered and consumers will lap up whatever they produce, whenever they produce it and all on Nintendo's terms. This latest quote seems like another example of 'we hear what you tell us you want, now here's what we want you to accept'.

@OorWullie
I could see that becoming some kind of reality! Like all of the dungeons are miles apart and Link is on foot... unless you get the Epona amiibo to unlock her in game.
Which will still be slower than if you get the Ocarina amiibo to unlock fast travel.

'Oh, why not interpret this in a different way that you wouldn't expect?'
Like that monkey paw that grants wishes in twisted and horrible ways?
Wish for thousands in your bank account? Granted, but it's your life insurance payout.
Wish for a fast car? Granted, but it has no brakes.
Wish for an open world Zelda? Granted... but you're playing as Tingle.