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Re: Video: What We Expect To See From Nintendo At E3 2019

Whalehome

Switch Online: SNES for Switch Online would be really awesome! Super Metroid, Zelda and Super Mario World first.
I was very pleased with Hollow Knight and Fortnite following their E3 Direct last year, so I hope there’s at least one indie game that is super solid and “available now” or “later that day”
Port Choice: A Pikmin or Metroid trilogy port
New Game: Just more details about Zelda Link’s Awakening remake
Surprise DLC: Mario Odyssey 3 or 4 new worlds to explore

Re: Review: State of Mind (Switch)

Whalehome

@Jester151 I know you were probably looking up info on this game before making the purchase yourself, but I’d like to think that you remembered my quote on here back in August just so you could remind me that it has gone on discount. haha

Re: Feature: Games To Play After You've Finished Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Whalehome

Okami is a good game, but definitely suffers from some dated features. For the $20, it’s a wonderful price of entry for a top notch title.

I don’t really think Enter the Gungeon feels very Zelda-like (even top-down Zelda-like). It’s a twitchy shooter and a lot of fun, but I’d compare it to a shmup or run n gun over a Zelda adventure title.

If they ever lower the price on Dark Siders to $10, I’ll play it.

Re: Nintendo's Upcoming Switch Online NES Titles Include Donkey Kong Jr., VS. Excitebike And Clu Clu Land

Whalehome

@TheStar-Lord reasons we’d want VC on the Switch:

  • The Wii and Wii U offered legacy content like NES, SNES and N64 titles
  • not everyone had those systems when they were more accessible
  • people don’t wanna pay inflated prices for carts or discs of the games or the time to hunt down the game at garage sales, auctions, etc
  • we want to pay for legal licenses to the devs/publishers who made the game
  • the Switch is portable and provides the ability to play legacy content on the go
  • don’t wanna maintain the clutter that comes from owning a NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii and Wii U and games associated with them.
  • Competitors like Xbox are providing ways to play their legacy content like Xbox and 360 games on their platform, so it would make sense that Nintendo would have some competition

The point of the VC isn’t to slow down or replace new games — I’d be devastated if stuff like Cuphead or Wargroove weren’t being made today, but with the VC content already made, it seems like it’d be so easy to port these games to the Switch.

Re: Rumour: Nintendo Is Releasing Two New Versions Of Switch This Year

Whalehome

A Pro model would be welcome if it provided enough content. The New 3DS only has a handful of 3DS games that take advantage of the hardware. Modders have shown that SNES games can run perfectly fine on the 2DS and 3DS, so I would be very angry if Nintendo locked out some content arbitrarily behind a new console. “Only GameCube games can be played on the pro model”

Re: Random: Is State Of Play PlayStation's Take On Nintendo Direct?

Whalehome

@Rodan2000 PS exclusives in the pipeline: Next month is Days Gone, but listed for Spring release is also Concrete Genie. Dreams by Media Molecule is still anticipated sometime this year. Kojima is still developing Death Stranding for PlayStation, I can’t imagine Guerilla Games notmaking Horizon Zero Dawn 2 or Sony Santa Monica not working on God of War 2 (5). And there’s also Ghost of Tsushima in the works too. Hopefully those are some games to follow now. Plus whichever games that they announce in their PS State of Play announcements.

Re: Feature: Nintendo Indie Collaborations And Crossovers We’d Like To See

Whalehome

From Software + Legend of Zelda. The dark souls games and Brath of the Wild are lonely adventures.

Metroid Prime + No Man’s Sky. I’ve never played NMS, but I think it would be fun to explore a Metroid universe and collect bounties across different planets. You could still make it have some Metroid power-ups across each world.

Captain Toad + Jonathan Blow. JB games like the Witness and Braid are difficult puzzlers and maybe finding some way to combine Capt. Toad with it would be cool as well