KirbyTheVampire

Not a very fun game IMO. It's just tedious and kinda boring.

God of War.

This is just a morally wrong business practice. Please don't bring these to your console games, Nintendo.

This game is definitely not for the faint of heart. I've seen my share of mature games and movies and such, but this game absolutely managed to make me uncomfortable when I watched a Let's Play of it, so keep that in mind.

Waste of my time.

I don't think it'll be a straight port, but I don't think it'll be a big, crazy sequel either. It'll probably be basically Smash 4.5.

Non-gamers should generally avoid sticking their nose where it doesn't belong when it comes to this issue. They almost never know what they're talking about, and completely ignore the side of games that's beautiful.

I honestly thought it was a port of Splatoon 1 at first, and was so confused. Then I saw the Smash logo and started grinning like an idiot.

I want physical to stay. At least then you actually own the game.

I wouldn't expect much here, especially with E3 coming fairly soon.

I definitely love the Switch as a console. Shame that I've had little reason to touch it since Mario Odyssey, and the first half of this year is also giving me little reason to touch it. Let's hope the second half is better.

I need to see more. The idea is cool, though.

Didn't like this game very much. I'll pass.

Well, no wonder. It has Mario in the name and on the box art.

Not saying that's the only reason it sold so well, but there's no way that that wasn't a massive helping hand.

This is something I would expect to see on mobile.

While this is annoying, especially since I wasn't exactly impressed with the Zelda DLC and honestly regret buying it, I can deal with it. I just don't want micro-transactions.

However, if they're gonna start watering down their main games to make way for DLC, then I'm gonna start having a big problem.

It's cool, but it's more speed glitching than speed running.

Monster Hunter World for PS4.

Oh come on, even Push Square isn't afraid to admit it when the Switch is dominating the PS4. Nintendo Life should do the same when the roles are reversed. Don't be hiding details and pretending that the Switch is dominating when it clearly is not.

Looks okay, although I got bored of ARK quite a while ago. I put like 500-600 hours into it though, so it must have done something right.

@LUIGITORNADO You can say that about pretty much any game series.

"Uncharted games are all the same. All you do is climb around and shoot people."

"Call of Duty and Battlefield games are all the same. All you do is shoot people."

"Mario is all the same. All you do is jump on enemies, platform, and collect stuff."

"Zelda is all the same. All you do is complete dungeons and run around in the overworld a bit."

"Harvest Moon is all the same. All you do is farm."

The list goes on and on.

Anyone know what the performance of the Switch version is compared to the PS4 version?

Nope. Super Mario Sunshine is the best one IMO, even if it is objectively the more flawed game. Most things about that game are fantastic, and I had way more fun with it than I did Odyssey. Odyssey comes in second place for me, though.

I always get Wii flashbacks whenever Nintendo talks about trying to lure in people who barely touch game consoles. I REALLY don't want to go down that road again.

Gonna pass.

@Spike6958 I might consider it, although I've currently got too many games that I plan to buy as it is.

I hope we get more third party crossovers like this. Personally, I'm not a strategy game fan, but crossovers in other genres would be great.

It was okay, although I was somewhat disappointed, especially with the lack of Animal Crossing, which needs to come to the system soon. The only things that intrigued me were Tropical Freeze, The World Ends With You, and Dark Souls, although I'll be getting Dark Souls on PS4 if I decide to buy it, since I don't really like playing the system in portable mode, and especially not with hard games like Dark Souls. I'll take no portability and 60 FPS over portability and 30 FPS any day, especially with games like that.

Tropical Freeze is a game that I probably won't buy, since the only 2D platformers that I really enjoyed were Super Mario World (as a little kid) and Little Big Planet 1 and 2, but I'll keep an eye on it since it was so critically acclaimed and I didn't own a Wii U to play it on.

The World Ends With You looks pretty interesting, and I definitely like RPGs, but I know nothing about it, so I'll have to look into it a little.

The first part of the year definitely looks sparse from a Nintendo standpoint, though. Kirby, Mario Tennis, and a bunch of Wii U ports isn't a very inspiring lineup, and I'm baffled that people here are so happy about it, especially since most of them have already played those games on the Wii U. To what extent do Nintendo fans just gobble up games that Nintendo resells them over and over?

Overall, it was okay for a mini Direct. I was just expecting a lot more with how much everyone was hyping it up. Nintendo posting those things on Twitter to rile everyone up didn't exactly help temper expectations, either.

@gatorboi352 I think Nintendo fans would really enjoy owning a PS4 or PC as well as a Switch, judging by the responses to third party games, haha.

Can't say there's much I care about here. Fe and Celeste look interesting, but they don't really look like games I care to buy all that much. Dark Souls is something I would buy on PS4 rather than Switch, and I really don't know if I even want to buy it at all. Tropical Freeze might be worth a look, although I'm not super into those games.

All in all, pretty disappointing IMO. 2018 on the Switch isn't looking super great for me so far. Guess it's gonna be a PS4 year, at least for now. Maybe that'll change as they reveal more.

@Yorumi I agree with you, for what it's worth.

@Nintendoforlife I actually didn't see it at all, haha. My bad.

@Nintendoforlife Being attracted to and falling in love with a piece of plastic to the point of marrying it isn't mentally healthy. Sorry.

Honestly man, I don't mean to be a jerk, but people like you really hurt people with mental health problems. Going up to someone and telling them that falling in love with and marrying a cartridge is okay and mentally healthy, and that attraction to and forming relationships with other actual human beings is just a social construct, is just wrong. She's being deprived of an actual loving relationship here.

What's next? Will people who think that they're actually a brick and not a human being be considered mentally healthy? Get real, man. This whole "love and accept yourself, you're perfect the way you are" movement is going way, way too far.

I hate how mental illness is considered normal or funny nowadays. This girl needs help. She should be connecting with and forming a romantic relationship with an actual human being, not a piece of plastic.

I had definitely written them off during the Wii U generation. I didn't care about what they were doing and didn't follow them at all, and wasn't all that impressed by PS4 until 2016, either. Then the first Switch trailer came out, and my mind was pretty much blown, especially since most of the games that were on/were coming to the Wii U that I was kinda disappointed that I didn't have like Mario Kart 8, Splatoon, and Zelda were coming to the Switch.

Now that the Switch is already having a pretty darn great number of games coming out steadily and the PS4 is actually worth buying now, I'm actually enjoying gaming again. There was a good 2 or 3 years there where I just didn't really enjoy the hobby that much.

I keep missing the Splatfests. I'll try to jump into this one.

As for which team I'm picking, action all the way. 90% of comedy movies are either trash or just not all that funny IMO.

This movie was so much better than The Force Awakens IMO, which was basically just a nostalgia trip. This one was actually its own movie.

Well, obviously. You can be addicted to anything.

Just give me Animal Crossing.

@WhistleFish I would buy very few of these indie games based solely on the price. Much too expensive for what you're getting.

I don't care what they do, as long as the story, dungeons, characters, map, side sidequests, music, and enemy variety are better next time. They were all very disappointing in this game for me.

Mario Odyssey got robbed.

For me, it's one of the more forgettable games of 2017. I'm glad I didn't buy it, because I know I would regret it. Not that it's a bad game, it's just not really for me. I tend to get bored of it after 20 minutes or so.

It kind of irritates me that they're only half-concerned about the timeline. Just have a legitimate timeline or don't have one at all IMO. All this theorizing is pointless if there's no true answer to where everything fits.

Probably when I got a GameCube with Mario Sunshine and Mario Kart Double Dash as a kid. That system was absolutely incredible, and I have so many fond memories of it.

@SlimeKnight Okay, I'll clarify. Some Nintendo fans thought it was a cool and exciting change of pace, largely because they haven't played many games like it, if any. A lot of other people liked it simply because they thought it was a fun game, even though they've played many open world games before.

If that doesn't satisfy you, I don't know what will, and I quite frankly don't care. I have better things to do than micro-manage everything I say to avoid being screamed at and given a moral lecture over a video game that I don't even like that much by some stranger on the internet who doesn't know the first thing about what kind of person I am. Peace out.

@SlimeKnight You've just done a very large number of false accusations.

And if you're talking about my comment about a lot of Nintendo fans loving the game because they're unfamiliar with the open world genre, I still stand by that comment. A lot of Nintendo fans act like things that were done in BotW that have been done many, many times in other open world games were the most insane new experience they've ever had, and I think a lot of that stems from the lack of open world games on Nintendo consoles. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, it's just an observation. I'm not pretending I'm all high and mighty because I've played more open world games than most Nintendo-only players. Don't be ridiculous. I don't care AT ALL what other people play.

@SlimeKnight It's pretty sad when you can't have a dissenting opinion without being called an edgy contrarian.

@Fingeldor Yeah, I agree. I feel like saying it's Skyrim with a Zelda skin is almost being too kind to it, though. Even though Skyrim is kind of dated and clunky in the gameplay department, at least it had a genuinely interesting world with unique secrets at every corner, and exploring it felt like pure adventure, not to mention the sidequests that aren't just standard MMO filler and the extremely deep lore and whatnot.

I was kind of disappointed by this game. It just didn't feel like a Zelda game to me. By doing away with like 50% of what makes a Zelda game a Zelda game, they ruined 75% of the magic for me. It just felt like a standard open world game with some enjoyable but mostly pretty simple puzzles, a lackluster story, characters that are so forgettable that I only remember a few of their names, sidequests that are no better than the filler sidequests in any bad MMO, a world with very few unique things to find and was extremely repetitive to explore, music that was mostly just a couple seconds of a piano playing here and there, poor enemy variety, etc.

On top of all that, the interactivity with the world and the survival aspects got way overhyped. I only suffered from temperature maybe 4 times in the game, only had to cut down a tree once or twice, and generally never had to do much to the world outside of throwing metal objects on bad guys once in a while. The only thing that really played a part was having to cook and eat food, which was fine, but got really tedious after a while.

It was enjoyable, and I think it was more or less worth buying at full price, but the most memorable game of 2017, it was not. The first 20 hours were very memorable, but beyond that it was mostly all the same. I get why Nintendo fans thought it was incredible because Nintendo consoles don't get many open world games, but as someone who has played a fair amount of them on other platforms, I wasn't very blown away. I've seen a lot of what this game has to offer before, and it suffers from almost all of the problems that are common in the open world genre.

In my opinion, it suffers a good amount from Open World Syndrome.