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Just gonna copy and paste a recent comment from 2023 predictions:

New Paper Mario with another stupid battle gimmick. Metroid Prime 4 cancelled. New Pokemon Gacha game. NSO Price rise. Donkey Kong Banana Eating Simulator.

If I expect the worse, it can only get better right?

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RIGHT?!

I am amazed digital can even flourish on the Switch given the lack of memory. You can upgrade your microSD sure, but only up to a 1TB, not to mention a 1TB microSD will cost you around £120ish. I have been stuck on a 512gb microSD for at least a year, and I don't even consider myself a digital heavy user; I may own a lot of digital, but this is normally because it is only available via digital like the recent releases of Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable, or the physical is being handled by a company like LimitedRun so it is overpriced (to me, I am sure there will be some people who defend the price).

I am sure that I will get flack for this and I am not trying to put the author down here, but did you need a separate article for this? I quote the following paragraph from the milestones article which you have linked in this one:

"Mario Kart 8 Deluxe continues to be unstoppable, racing past 50 million units sold. Up to 31st December 2022, the racing game has sold an incredible 52 million units. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has also surpassed 30 million units."

I am not sure why you would extrapolate an article when it was said so succinctly in another?

"...we're confident Nintendo will fill out its release schedule for the remainder of the year in the coming weeks and months. Trust in Nintendo!"

Ha. I haven't had that confidence in Nintendo for a few years now. I'll believe it when I see it.

@mariomaster96 To be fair, they had some help with the New 3DS port (Monster Games), but otherwise yeah, fairly accurate. I feel like we are long overdue a new title from Retro Studios.

Regarding this idea for StarFox, it would of been interesting to see the puppet presentation, but the rest of the pitch I am not too fussed about, generally not a fan of online focus; though it could of been cool.

I ended up marrying Tharja in my first playthrough, though I didn't realise that was happening until I did it. That said however, don't really have any regrets. I normally now marry Lucina, Cordelia, Tiki or Panne whenever playing now because of Morgan, but Tharja still holds a place for me.

Wish they would fix their store. I miss the Hut Group.

Assuming the combined Switch sales continue at this present rate, should reach 30 million in about 36 weeks (October 2023). Maybe less depending on bumps with games and other factors.

I can appreciate Wario Land 4, the general style is wacky and everything, but i actually don't like the frog mechanic that is being praised in the article. I remember some levels required deviating from the exit to get items, and running out of time and losing my progress as a result. Kind of sapped my motivation for playing. Its also why I still haven't finished Shake It as the gameplay is similar in concept, although the artstyle and animation is top notch.

I feel like Wario Land 3 was the best, as it better gave the illusion of freedom to explore since not all treasures are required to beat the game, and it was always a joy to explore the levels and see what had changed after you nabbed treasure elsewhere. Either way though, would love for the series to be revived. I am fairly sure I have mentioned it many a time whenever a Direct comes rolling around.

I think there was a recent forum discussion about what to expect in a new Smash. I would love for a new SSE to be made, although perhaps it need not be as part of Smash bros, but perhaps it's own entity entirely. I think there is a limit as to what can be done within Smash gameplay for this sort of thing. Whilst I remember SSE more fondly, I think World of Light was probably the more polished and interesting idea.

New Paper Mario with another stupid battle gimmick. Metroid Prime 4 cancelled. New Pokemon Gacha game. NSO Price rise. Donkey Kong Banana Eating Simulator.

If I expect the worse, it can only get better right?

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RIGHT?!

I am surprised at no presence at all, but E3 itself has been on a downward trend for a few years. Time for reevaluation.

The Dragon Quest titles are probably the ones I am most sad about, Dragon Quest XI on 3DS always looked great to play on a long-trip. Of course, you can play it on Switch, but not the same experience as the 3DS and console versions are wildly different in presentation. I have hope DQ Theatrhythm will make it to the Switch eventually give they now have FF Theatrhythm coming to Switch.

I don't know why, but the chocolate in that artwork does not look particular appetizing.

Depending on how dark the chocolate, I would probably lean towards it, but it depends if we are talking something like a Bournville bar, or one of those speciality 80% bars. The latter can burn in a fire; it would probably make it taste better.

@rawzeku Same. Would be nice to just buy outright. I quite remember enjoying the single-player.

A lot of stuff happened in this direct. The Famicom 30th anniversary gave us those VC games for quite cheap (I really fricking miss VC, very underappreciated lost with the Switch). I do find it wacky that a good portion had to be dedicated to an update to promise a faster system. I remember being really excited for Xeno X (then X) when it was first revealed.

I would love for this type of direct to come back, but to be honest, I don't think we have any personalities as interesting as Iwata when it comes to these presentations.

I am sad it is closing, and still trying to get everything I want from it and the Wii U eShops prior to closure. There are still a lot of games which will be stuck in the void, and unique stereoscopic 3D versions of classic games, which will be forever lost.

I am still holding out hope for a final blowout sale for things I am missing, but I am not sure if that will happen or not. I am missing a lot of DLC; for various SMT games, FE Echoes, Mario Tennis, Gold, NSMB2 etc. Time is ticking.

Man, I haven't heard of this game since the Switch launched. I still need to try, but don't have NSO so... shrug

I am kind of surprised we have never heard anything about a sequel.

I've not noticed anything, but then again, it is also my first time playing through the game, beyond a brief 1-hour play around on my Vita, so difficult to say for me. I'll have to see if I notice a difference when it is patched.

Enjoying P3P quite a bit. Just got to the summer break in the game.

@gq_foine This is bait right? An arbitrary score for a singular title does not mean they are any more or less a fan of something, even if that one instance is viewed negatively. Are you seriously saying you don't have any series where you have at least one entry that doesn't do things wrong? If not, then why bother looking forward to what comes next, why not just stick with the one entry and play that endlessly? Are all the people who commented here who disliked Three Houses (assume score of 7 or lower) but love Engage not real fans? Is there even such a thing as a true fan? I don't know.

On an unrelated note, has been interesting reading through the comments. Engage certainly seems divisive, but at least people are talking about it. Nothing worse for anything than to be forgotten.

Won't vote, as do not own, nor have played, so wouldn't be fair to judge at all. The only thing I can go off is the first 40 minutes or so I have seen of the game. The dialogue is stupidly goofy. "I am known as Marth; Emblem Marth to be clear", the heck what? If you going to rely on old characters to prop up these new characters, at least make them the actual characters. It feels like a retread of Awakening's opening with Alear having memory loss and essentially starting with a seemingly final battle, with the difference of instead having Frederick's healthy scepticism to a nobody, you have this old knight grandad and his twin grandkids who overly worship you. And of course as soon as you wake up, you get attacked.

With all of the above said, gameplay looks fine, the technical side of it looks great from the animations etc. I don't like the character designs, but they are far from offensive. I just can't get past the seemingly nerfed story. I have seen comments say it picks up after 10 or so chapters, but is it really worth the slog to finally get invested?

Man, I would of loved to see Engarde return along with Squitter, and maybe one or two new ones. Hopefully we get a new DKC game soon?

Whilst durability isn't perfect, it is also far down my list of problems with BOTW so I would rather they fix other issues first. My main gripe is the same as Gavin's though; the Master Sword should be the Master Sword for a reason.

When it comes to experimentation, since the majority of weapons fall into 1 of 3 types, I found in my playthrough was to use the weakest weapons as much as possible to hold on to the strong weapons for bosses. It also meant my inventory is very similar throughoht my playthough as you never know when you are going to need the weapons, which makes me feel experimentation was actually discouraged, though again, there wasn't much room.

I would like less weapons, but more movesets with durability scrapped if I am being honest. Heck, they could offer the weapons in place of items in the dungeons since they seem obsessed with the same runes.

Currently dividing my time between Persona 3 Portable and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadow of Valentia. In FE, played up to where I stopped last time. I have a feeling I will go much further this time. On P3P, currenrly going through the second block of tartarus.

I know I have had a few experiences but nothing I could recall off the top of my head. I certainly sympathise with Mitch's struggle with Rayman Legends, as I had the exact same issue. I would get so darn close to diamond cups, but could never actually get them. It took forever getting those cups, but the work is done.

Unironically, probably the thing I am now looking forward to the most in gaming 2023, with the possible exception of Pikmin 4.

This game is fantastic. Probably one of the best deals in gaming for the price. Cannot recommend enough. I think what is nuts is despite ConcernedApe working on Haunted Chocolatier(?), they are also working on 1.6. Even if it doesn't add much, the game has evolved so much that any future update at this point is practically a win.

Maybe later. Will probably wait until all the DLC is released first, then I might take another look.

So the consensus is great gameplay, not so great story/characters/worldbuilding. Unfortunately for me, this makes this a pass for me at this time. I joined with Awakening, but overall, I wouldn't say tactical rpgs are my favourite genre, so I am more here for the other aspects to interest me.

I think I might finally give Echoes a try since I have a copy.

Playing through Hades proper. Had a chain of 10 escapes, then lost it all. Currently trying to deepen relationships and use keepsakes. Beyond that, have next week off, so may start a game from my backlog, though which I am unsure.

Regardless of my feelings on the final game, the trailer for BOTW was fantastic especially the music when it breaks into the iconic Zelda theme.

I probably will replay a Zelda at some point in the next few months, but not because TOTK is coming out; just because Zelda games are good, so fun to revisit. I haven't done Wind Waker in a hot-minute so maybe that, otherwise probably one of the ones playable on 3DS (OOT3D MM3D, A Link Between Worlds, Minish Cap if lucky to have ambasssador program).

I really hate the render for Donkey Kong. I get they wanted to go for the more traditional design, but his country look is the look for me.

Regarding the toys themselves, neat I guess?

Sakurai is a very practical man; he uses his limited space the best he can, hence the digital copies for convenience and the ring binders for his discs (crime against humanity that one). That said, when we say physical vs digital, what we are really asking is what gives us more protection as consumers. Digital weighs heavily in favour of businesses as there is no expectation on them to enable us to continue accessing the game you paid for. Until this is enshrined in law, I would take my chances with physical every time. Sure, the discs could break, but I have yet to have that issue in the past 25 years. Not to mention, from a collector's viewpoint, physical is nicer to look at, especially with all the beautiful boxarts.

@Ulysses I think that is equally as valid. I quite like Three Houses art style, but the edges are as jaggy as mountains. The school aspect in and of itself wasn't what drew me to Three Houses though. I feel like Three Houses did what Fates was trying to do better in every way in regards to the choosing your path and the consequences of the choices, and conflict of fighting old allies. I think that is why Engage's story is not interesting me as yet as it doesn't feel anywhere near as ambitious. Maybe if I play it, I might be pleasantly surprised, but I just can't see it at present.

...I don't know. Even after reading this, still not feeling this one. There's something about it that is putting me off. What little I've heard of the story and concept doesn't particularly interest me; here are magical rings that summons legendary hero, which might sound good if the concept hadn't already been done within Awakening with the Einherjar or even Heroes with the whole gacha mechanic. On a technical level, the game looks decent, but the general art direction and design just feel kind of generic and safe(?), I am not sure how to describe. The characters don't look interesting to me, and whenever they show past heroes, they look off to me. I might get it down the line eventually, but this doesn't interest me in the same way that Three Houses did.

So did the poll not include confidants, just party members? I feel like a lot of the confidants would of done quite well on the list, for example Sae, Iwai and Takemi.

Year of Captain Falcon. He deserves more appreciation.

@AstroTheGamosian I used play coins for the first few panels, but I never managed to get all of the pink panels unfortunately. I am kind of hoping that maybe Nintendo will do a last minute update where pink panels could be acquired with play coins when they are ready to shutdown the 3DS servers entirely as I don't realistically think I will encounter anyone who has them.

I feel like my Puzzle Panels are doomed to forever be incomplete. Still, anything to support the 3DS is a good thing. I agree with this sentiment.

Used to do it with Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros. 3. There were a couple of years where I did this with Mega Man 2 as well. But the one game I still do this with consistently is Ocarina of Time.

2022 for Switch was disappointing for me. My recap shows Stardew Valley as my most played game last year on Switch at around 80 hours, which speaks to how little time I have been playing games on the thing. There were one or two games of interest, sure, but the problem I am having with the Switch is that all the games I am mostly excited for were either announced years ago, don't have a release date 6 months away or less, or a combination of both of the above. Games which are primarily online based such as Splatoon 3 or Mario Strikers have no worth to me since I stopped subscribing to NSO. Even if it is "cheap", the experience is the same as when it was free. MK8 DLC also is worthless to me for the same reason. I am not sure whether my demands are becoming too niche or whatever.

I think I spent most of my time on my PS4 playing games I started and dropped halfway through, or games that have been sat on my shelf for years such as God of War 2018, Two Point Hospital, Nier Replicant to name a few.

I hope we get some firm dates for Pikmin 4 and Metroid Prime 4 very soon. Maybe a new Rhythm Heaven, that at least sounds doable.

@Giancarlothomaz I'm sure from a business sense it makes perfect ******* sense, not disputing that. Regardless, new Mario Kart would be great.

I want 3DS eShop sales so badly. Send it off with a bang Nintendo, you know you want to. Might log on later just to check if there are any new ones.

Cool. Now, hopefully we can have a new Mario Kart for consoles that it isn't AR or Mobile.

Regarding the Switch, just another 2.2/3 million-ish units to 30 mil. Regardless of my personal opinion on the console, that is fantastic.

@TeaCatherine I thought it was definitely a T, but looking at the box art on N64, it is indeed marked E. My bad.

@Chalkfire As TeaCatherine said, Twilight Princess was T, and so was Majora's Mask originally. the other mainline games have been E or a variant as such (E10+). The Warriors' games and Link's Crossbow Training are also T.

That said, I would like another "dark" Zelda. I still don't know enough about this new one whether I am looking forward to it or not.

The problem is, I am not even sure what is coming up next year. The only real things that come to mind are Pikmin 4 and Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection. Beyond that, I am either not interested for some reason, not heard of it, or do not think it is coming out next year.

@tameshiyaku Not entirely sure. I believe there was a lawsuit between the producers and a group who were meant to be investing two thirds of the film's budget, so money issues(?), but apparently the actual filming is done. They just need to finish post-production. It was meant to come out this year apparently, but I am doubtful that is happening now.

I am still waiting for Kung Fury 2 to release. The game itself is quite simple but enjoyable for a quick session as a timewaster. I must admit, when I first saw the headline, I thought that they were making a physical cabinet for the game.