TheFrenchiestFry

"Cut one head off, two more shall take its place"

The Alien vibes are ALL over this game. This is like if Alien Isolation was a Metroidvania

CANON NAME: ATLUS SEGA

WE'VE MOVED PAST THE NEED FOR ROGER FROM PERSONA 3

I like how both Joker and Inkling at the front are in their school outfits lol

@HollowSpectre At least you got Tekken Advance and Tag Tournament 2 with Mario and Luigi costumes

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x Moonlit Wilderness and Infinite Azure

and tekken too I guess

@Bizzyb Look Microsoft's presence in Smash is nothing to scoff at but there's no way in hell they'd just magically lend over any of their BIG exclusive franchises like Halo or Gears

If Chief gets in it'll probably be a Mii costume, but especially as far as FPS game reps go DOOM is particularly more significant and has close ties to Nintendo much like the other Microsoft-owned characters in Smash

At this point I'm going all in on my DOOM Slayer prediction

I'm honestly shocked how much representation Bethesda has been getting as of late. Either he's going to be a Mii Costume releasing with the next Challenger Pack, or he IS the next Challenger Pack

Also "arrow to the knee" lol

I want a Star Fox like Assault again honestly. To me the moments outside the cockpit, though really jank felt like a natural extension of what Fox would do given his job in story terms and had a lot of room for further growth and development

@RupeeClock So does Kirby have tribal tattoos like Jin or the giant scar on his tummy area like Kazuya lol

They even kept the Devil Gene red eye on his right eye like Kazuya

The details

@BulbasaurusRex Well when I talk about action specifically in regards to Dante I'm referring to hack n' slash. I did specify character action games in my point, of which DMC is probably the biggest name of that genre

Action RPGs are basically lumped in with any other RPGs in my mind, especially when it comes to picks like a Tales or Ys rep. Hell both Lloyd and Dragonborn are technically kind of like that

@Vortexeo Well Dynasty Warriors at this point has made basically its own genre with other "Musous"

It's like how Dark Souls is also technically an action RPG but created the "Souls-like" template used by other games like Nioh, Code Vein or Sekiro

@russell-marlow Actually Master Chief is exactly a reason why I think the prospects are shifted more towards Slayer's favor

Microsoft has two reps in Smash already, but neither of them are from their big top tier franchises like Halo or Gears, but rather games that specifically have some sort of history with other platforms or are made with studios that they're letting operate with some form of autonomy. Bethesda is supposedly still going to remain a seperate business altogether even though it's owned by Microsoft, and that also includes self-publishing their games like they always have. It'd be far easier for them to get ahold of a character like DOOM Slayer by comparison considering Bethesda is technically still its own entity, like Banjo and Steve DOOM is a franchise with a storied history on Nintendo consoles, and he also is a culturally significant figure in the gaming space with his contributions to a whole genre of games. The licensing or the willingness from Microsoft I feel would be way looser around those characters compared to their golden geese like Master Chief or Marcus Fenix

A freaking Kazuya and Sephiroth amiibo

A STEVE amiibo

Let's go

@Vortexeo The thing is Ninja Gaiden was a thing long before the modern games, often also being associated with the NES titles and Ys is still kind of a niche series even if VIII made it a bit more popular than before, and is an action RPG. Not a hack n' slash game, which is why it doesn't occupy the same audience as DMC or those other examples.

In terms of mainstream examples, you literally can't think of action game franchises without the big three: Devil May Cry, God of War and Bayonetta.

@Vortexeo No disrespect to your gaming tastes but Dante is literally the poster child of character action games. He and Bayonetta were both created by the same person and his games were a big deal during the PS2 era much like franchises such as Tekken or Persona

Games like Bayonetta or God of War, or even the Werehog in Sonic Unleashed owe part of their existence and template to DMC

They have been dancing around DOOM for so long between the Bethesda interviews and Fallout and Elder Scrolls getting Mii representation

Come on. Make it happen. Vault Boy and Dragonborn as Miis. Slayer as an actual Bethesda character

Does it sound like a pie in the sky dream? Yes. Do I still believe? YES. DOOM out of the three is like the only one of those franchises with actual Nintendo history on top of that

@tntswitchfan68 No he said the last fighter was also planned for this year. He just said it would be a while before they would be revealed

MOONLIT WILDERNESS IS A SONG I CAN SELECT AND PLAY IN SMASH

THIS IS ALL THAT NEEDED TO BE REVEALED

@Mr-Fuggles777 It probably isn't even up to Nintendo in regards to Japan and North America about producing more of these premium editions. It's all Atlus/SEGA since they handle publishing duties in those regions

Scalpers can suck my Mara

@ArchRex Switch has a lot of good lookers when it comes to the exclusives. Astral Chain, Smash Ultimate, Odyssey, Splatoon 2 etc.

RE Engine being able to be put on Switch like this is something I never expected to see given how RE7 was brought over to the console. I'm honestly still stunned how it actually looks kind of decent for the platform it's on

I'm not holding my breath for stuff like the REmakes or DMC5 to be brought over any time soon but I hope this and Ghosts n' Goblins aren't the end of them using RE Engine for Switch projects

@bimboliquido Mortal Kombat is practically impossible thanks to the series being banned in Japan since MK9 lol

I'd love for it to happen, but there's historical circumstances preventing it

@RiasGremory Yeah and remember how piss poor Doom's performance at launch was

Eternal only runs as well as it does because there are so many sacrifices to visuals and asset quality whereas Doom 2016 basically tried to prioritize resolution at the expense of the performance ranging from semi-consistent to PowerPoint 2007, especially at higher difficulties where the amount of enemies populating an area of each map significantly increases

If Eternal and Wolfenstein 2 didn't downgrade the visuals and resolution to the extent they did in comparison to Doom they'd be looked at way less favorably in the performance department, never mind the fact that Eternal literally runs on a new engine and both it and Wolf 2 are significantly more reliant on geometric detail and effects like depth of field compared to Doom 2016

@Azuris It runs a lot better than any other id Tech port but that also came at the expense of sacrificing a lot of the visual quirks that were present in both DOOM and Wolf 2 on Switch like getting rid of the depth-of-field effects or per object motion blur as well as selectively choosing which assets should be presented at higher quality than others to make sure the hardware didn't buckle under the weight of having to render so much detail compared to the other platforms. They had to sacrifice way more here compared to either of their previous ports and any further compression just to get it on a physical cartridge would probably run the risk of losing the game's visual identity, which is what put me off picking up Wolfenstein 2 on Switch previously

@RiasGremory If they had to cancel the physical version in the first place it's probably because the game just became way too taxing for the hardware to be put on a cartridge, especially considering they already delayed the game indefinitely beforehand on Switch while the other platforms only got like a 4 month delay from their original release date

Eternal's like one of the best looking games of the entire last generation. It probably isn't as easy as putting it on a cartridge and calling it a day considering Wolfenstein II and the first DOOM already had a limit on how much they could fit and it probably wasn't going to be worth it long term for how much money the port would realistically make coming out so late after the other platforms

I still have to play the DLC on PC but I do commend Bethesda for not giving up on this version of the game even after all the delays and the Microsoft buyout

Funny how they released a remake of a game starring the guy who Sonic left jobless as the mascot of SEGA on his birthday

@NintendoArchive Sonic 3 and S&K are essentially two halves of the same game, but Sonic CD is nowhere near contention amongst the fandom for best classic Sonic game due to its super schizophrenic level design during the latter portion of the game, despite its production value holding up

I personally think it's good but doesn't hold a candle to Sonic 2 and 3&K imo

Honestly surprised Generations 3DS ranks so high here. I thought it was the laziest of the handheld equivalents to console Sonic games. It pales in comparison to the DS version of Colors imo

Now that Trials and Legend have gotten their due, they should really try to do a good remake of Secret of Mana again. The one that came out on PS4 and Vita a while ago I found extremely half-assed in terms of how they translated everything to 3D

I dig this artstyle a lot. Hope the show at least somewhat resembles the concept images

@Slain I'd say if it's not the rumored Zelda Collection then either Pokemon or SMT V are taking up that spot as the big holiday game

@munstahunta Well they did stress in the press releases that it was PLANNED for 2022, not necessarily guaranteeing it would actually make 2022

These other titles seem set in stone like they're actually going to make their release windows

I've been waiting since the freaking Switch Presentation from before the console even released for SMT V. Persona 5 wasn't even out in the West yet when this was teased

November can't come soon enough

My absolute top games from the show were both from the Nintendo Direct, being Metroid Dread and Shin Megami Tensei V, but in terms of everything shown I'm also really psyched for Starfield, Elden Ring, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, WarioWare and Advance Wars

I honestly completely forgot that was a function but that's also probably because I never even kept the Switch Online app on my phone past maybe a month or two. Had no use for it even after stuff like Smash integration was added

@SorridoSnake Honestly I don't even count S&K as seperate anymore. They're clearly two halves of one game

@Ron22 The Genesis was the system that followed the Master System and it was released as Mega Drive in Japan and Europe, and Genesis in North America

3 & Knuckles is practicallly a timeless 2D platformer imo. It gets everything right

I do think the Rush games are especially slept on though. The soundtrack for the first game is "top Sonic OSTs of all time" material imo

The Fall of Man edition is way cheaper than I expected given how much more it comes with outside the steelbook

The demon handbook is so cool

@Travisemo007 How dare they put in a character from one of the most celebrated fighting game franchises in their fighting game franchise who is also from the developer co-developing said fighting game franchise with Nintendo

Really, there were so many better, wholly original picks like Waluigi or Geno

@Slowdive I'm pretty sure what they said about the 3DS XL was "there were parts of the rumors that were incorrect"

They never flat out denied they were working on it and it was announced like two weeks later

The announcements of various big AAA games getting cloud versions on Switch makes me believe that the Switch Pro is way more of just an incremental upgrade than a lot of people are probably expecting. I'm not expecting them to fully address the power disparity between them and PS5/Series X|S until Nintendo flat out makes a new console

@Don It's probably because Konami struck it from the canon a long time ago, although I hear the same is true for Circle of the Moon as well

Legends is more significant because it directly contradicts Harmony of Despair given it was meant to depict the first ever encounter a Belmont had with Dracula

@EriXz Don't forget Axiom Verge 2 and Bloodstained getting a sequel

PLEASE BE REAL

I SO WANNA PLAY HARMONY OF DISSONANCE AGAIN

ALSO THE DS GAMES. GIVE ME BOTH SORROW GAMES

A Metroid game selling better than "fine I guess?"

Finally.