MrGuinea

I've played thru starfox 64 and that was pretty good but it just wasn't my game style. And the gamecube starfox games were just not really good at all. If it brings something extremely new to the franchise then I'll take a look at it but other than that I'm probably going to overlook this one.

@DarthNocturnal @GraveLordXD Ok maybe gimicky wasn't the right word...I just meant that I was much more immersed in it than in any other metroid game. Maybe it wasn't that but there was something about it that did that...

@NowhereMan11 I guess I'm the odd one out then. I'm not sure what parts of the story were bad or what made it bad, but I didn't have any problems with the game that other people claim to have struggled with.

I'd prefer Other M style. I'm not really into the whole 2D metroid (although I have played through them). But Other M is probably my favorite in the whole franchise. It was told as if from a cinema perspective and definitely had me wanting to play more and more to let the story unfold. It had a strong story focus and less on gimicky gameplay elements. It was unique. HD Prime would be nice too, but I like when they put a new spin on an old franchise. Just as long as it's a new series not a continuation of Prime itself, because that was a trilogy.

This is to everyone: The smash ballot goes on until October of this year so they aren't going to announce any smash ballot characters at E3. Maybe a reminder to it, but no character info.

Love their games! Will definitely be picking this up when it comes out!

I was surprised I actually found some wave 4 amiibo. But after too many frustrating tries on getting common amiibos, I've resorted to just getting what I can easily obtain. It stinks that you can't get any features out of them because they are so rare. If they are making a devoted amiibo game they need to restock all of them otherwise it won't sell at all.

Last year was quite the spectacle as there were a lot of surprises in the direct I was not expecting at all. So far it seems like there won't be as many this year as a lot of things are already speculated so they won't be a surprise. I just hope my body is ready if they do throw a lot at us this year! All aboard!!!!!!!

Glad to see some change going on with this. It may not be the best solution, but it's a step in the right direction. This will start to stop scalpers from preordering one, then putting the preorder for their preorder on amazon or ebay.

Also I missed the preorder window of wave 4. I talked to an associate the week prior to the release and she said they had already filled in all preorders for wave 4 during the hour they had it open at the store. I hadn't heard anything about this preorder window because they didn't announce it. Glad to hear I can just wait on the release date if I really wanted to get one rather than going in every few days to ask when the window will be.

While I do think it would be cool to allow voice chat among friends with an on/off switch along with other things to make it family safe, I respect the developers decision on it. Obviously they have their reasons as to why they didn't, but I'm not going to say I know more than them and tell them they made their game wrong. It was their game and their decision.

@EngieBengie
It sounds like you're probably the exact reason they don't allow voice chat lol.

Ol' crazy redd got into the amiibo business I see...

@Kevlar44
Sorry I meant if the limited edition animal crossing new 3ds LL was coming over.

People got more than one try? That seems weird for a championship. Teams that lose the world series or super bowl don't get a retry...

Dang, no word yet on if the animal crossing 3ds coming westward or not.

@OneBagTravel
Make that two lol. Played for free with a friend's account but never got my own.

Looks like the build mechanics are pretty good here and not brick by brick. That was the only thing I was worried about. Looks like LEGO will be getting all my money this year.

I wonder if Chibirobo will be one of the smash DLC characters...

I'm done with amiibo. This was the final straw. Until they make them readily available I can't do it.

While refreshing for lucina I never saw her appear but I did see one of the scalpers price increase by $10 and somehow go from 3 in stock to in stock with an estimated ship date later in the week (because they have to get it shipped to them first). Considering this happened at exactly the time lucina was reported to be released the scalpers got most of them. If this keeps up nintendo will lose a lot of fans. Stores around me are already not getting in the new waves of amiibo and if online is dominated by scalpers there's no way to get one. I've also tried to order international but nobody ships here. I don't know how people say they are.
So I'm just done.

@Quorthon
You keep saying less money, less money, less money. But what I'm talking about is less PROFIT. Did you take economics? Because profits mean that you MADE money not lost it. So no I wouldn't take the job at McDonalds because I would be losing money. But what I would do is stay at my same job and hire someone to cook my food at McDonalds. Sure, hiring the new guy to cook my food will cost some money but that will come out of the profits I'm making elsewhere. I just want to get my food out to the public so they can try it even if I break even with the McDonald's guy.

The point here is that if they weren't making profits on a game they would cut the game completely. But if they are still making the same game on other platforms but not one then they are simply pointing out the fact that their profit wouldn't be as high if they put it out to all systems.

You were incorrect about the argument I was making, and tried making it into an argument you could prove wrong.

@Quorthon

Still much of the blame should be on 3rd parties. Nintendo doesn't have to be the same cookie cutter console as the others. If every piece of technology ran on the same thing what would be the point? These large 3rd party companies only want to maximize profits. That's it. Every "evidence" that you blamed Nintendo for can all be led back to the 3rd party wanting more profit. I've seen indie devs that port games over just fine, with sometimes better features due to Nintendo's unique hardware. Sure it costs money and time, but if you're a game developer don't you want people to play your game? All they have to do is put in the work. Sometimes everything doesn't come handed to you on a silver platter and you have to actually work at it. I think that's what these companies have gotten comfy to and now they don't want to leave.

Devs complain their games don't sell on Wii U.
Devs take away incentives to buy their own games on said platform.
Devs offer better incentives to buy their game on other platforms.
Devs complain after release their game didn't sell as well on said platform.
Devs stop making games for said platform blaming the platform itself.

3rd party companies need to realize their digging their own grave and not the other way around. Their digging their own game's grave then handing the shovel to Nintendo and running away blaming them for it.

It's like asking someone if they want pizza from pizzeria 1 or if they want the same pizza from pizzeria B only pizzeria B is going to give you free breadsticks with it.

Or it's like a company not producing pencils for a new notepad that came out because they're waiting for more people to buy the notepad before they do, even though the notepad needs the pencil for it to be useful.

It's nice they announce this because Gamestop in the US did this but never really told anyone about the times unless asked about them.

I just don't get why they don't open up preorders like a month in advance for a few hours and anyone in that time will get one, even if some have to wait. I'd be fine with waiting a month or two as long as I knew I would be getting one. This would give them exactly their demand amount and they wouldn't be feeding scalpers because anyone who would want one would get one eventually.

I think it's simply they don't want to put in the extra effort. Porting from xbox to ps and vice versa probably isn't too bad considering they're running similar hardware and control schemes. But when you throw in a tad slower hardware and the gamepad, you almost have to redesign the layout of the game. So if you can hit 2/3 consoles with minimum changes/expenditures they're going to do that especially for a remake.

Really disappointed as well. I think nintendo failed to capitalize on this opportunity. I thought it would be a small new special game just like in 1990 that they would have exclusively at these events or even a special download available only at those nintendo zones. It'll be unfair for those who don't have the game/system. It'll be more like the "I-lived-close-enough-to-one-of-the-best-buy-locations-and-already-had-nes-remix-2" championships.

Oh well. Hopefully their presentation won't be as disappointing as this news.
Maybe I'll be there for the 2040 "world" championships.

Ridley confirmed.

Sounds like it may be some acheivement systems and hopefully it will store account info in case of a system crash and I lose all my purchases on that system.

I stopped buying amiibo since February. I was able to get a few exclusives, but if what are supposed to be normal release amiibos become rarer than the exclusives something is wrong. I have yet to believe anything above wave 3 has actually been released since they are seen everywhere as unavailable.

I'll either buy them when they become available or 20 years from now when they don't matter. But right now, my sights have become set on LEGO dimensions, something that will be more worthwhile to collect and use.

I wish Nintendo would stop this nonsense with the retailers. You don't see Disney Infinity or Skylanders having this problem.

@Sikboy1029 I got impatient and contacted support and was able to get my codes within a day

I still haven't gotten my download code yet... Here everybody is playing mewtwo and I'm over here like, "where's my code??????".

Aaaaaan there goes the rest of my money.

As long as Nintendo makes a unified system where your purchased games and progress can be easily moved from system to system I will be happy. Until then, they are still missing something big that all other platforms have.

I'd buy this in a heartbeat if it came westward.

Honestly, this game was the best use of the gamepad that I have played yet. I think it would sell a lot more considering there's more wii u's out there now.

I'm glad they're offering them in-store only here in the US. I remember I went and checked in the afternoon to preorder Rosalina because I missed it the morning of and they were already out. And they weren't coming into the store so I knew I was out of luck. At least with this Gold amiibo I'll be waiting and ready at the store to nab one.

I got it preordered right when it came out. Though, I wasn't aware that sheik came out today and saw it was already gone of shelves. Not that I have money for them anyway...

I got my CE from gamestop a few years back for $70. Surprisingly they actually had 2 of them in stock. And there's still something about having the physical copy in that shiny metalbook that a download could never replace.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuu I haven't even collected the others yet Nintendo!!! And of course they have to release at the one point I don't have any money!!!!

Found my lucario to be cancelled too. Preordered it back in november. Also, I preordered luigi and I STILL have not received it nor heard any updates on it. My zelda and diddy kong were said to be delayed but the next email saying they shipped came about 4 days later when I had already received them. This looks like an email issue and I hope it is because all the emails I get are inconsistent with the actual order status. I'm never preordering from there again aside from the exclusive.

Well they did say a long time ago that these would only be for ssb while other specialized amiibos would be for other games.

I already preordered 3, so as long as this service is cheaper and doesn't include those 3 I might be interested.

@polivar4 ohhh ok. Yea that won't happen.

@polivar4 link will be for use in hw

A second samus amiibo? Dark samus maybe? New metroid?

Maybe this will help fix the sd card issue with smash bros I get every so often.

"We're not going to make this for this console because we actually really don't care about them" is what I seemed to read from this article. There are many companies releasing exclusives on the Wii U, yet they don't seem to be worried about the user base at all. They just want to get the game out to players and that's what companies should do.

NOOOOOOO not Capcom too!!!! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

3rd party developers are complaining that Wii U software isn't selling. WELL...maybe the developers should put more work into the game than just do an old port and offer "off tv play" with the gamepad. ZombiU is by far one of the best uses of the gamepad. 3rd parties just don't really know what to do or how to make an old franchise "new" with this new hardware.

@ShadyKnights
Wow I was just about to start typing my comment, but then decided to read your long one. You pretty much summed up everything I was wanting to say.
I just finished up SplinterCell DA and am currently back on Assassins Creed (all on Nintendo systems). I loved Ubisoft. They started off great with the Wii U with ZombiU but now I'm seeing they're just like the rest of them. Don't put all your effort into PS and Xbox games and say that the Wii U ones aren't selling. It's like giving everyone else a whole pizza and then giving any leftovers to Nintendo fans and then wondering why everyone isn't satisfied. All I would want for them to do is Zombi2 as one final game if they're going to call it quits.

I didn't even realize this was a stage.

I want to try them all!!!!!!