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Ahh, people have such high hopes, that’s so cute.

No Charles, no interest.

I’m not paying for any of this

Wow these look awful

Obviously not the target audience here, but I find these Mario LEGO sets to be kind of ugly.

People should not be surprised by low effort/low quality Sonic games at this point.

I really liked Olafur in Lady Dynamite.

Haha some of these responses.

Really enjoyed this game! Got a bit old by the end of the main story. I would be up for a sequel, though.

Oh, what a surprise. More bare minimum from Nintendo, more dust on my Switch.

This game is so great! Put an embarrassing amount of time into both Slay the Spire and Monster Train, and in my opinion, Monster Train is the better game.

I still think this game looks ridiculously cheap/outdated. Let’s hope it’s fun, I guess?

I recently watched Doom Patrol and realized how much I friggin’ love this guy. This just put it over the top.

Great product, glad to hear it's getting more availability. I know in Canada you can get a significant (>70%) portion of devices like this covered by the gov't as well.

@MrChippyPancakes huh, very interesting. Looks can be deceiving. Valheim is like that, too. On the surface you think it’s just another low poly thing until the real-time weather eats your CPU like it’s a Skittle.

I feel like this game really shouldn't look as bad as it does on Switch? I know the Switch is old tech and all, but it doesn't seem like the devs gave much effort to porting this over. But I dunno, I'm not a game dev.

Never played the first one but got pretty darn into the second. Equal parts mystery and misery. This game wants nothing more than to kick you when you’re down, but there’s just enough in there to keep drawing you back in.

This was one of my favourite games this year, and one that will probably translate really well to the Switch.

I am WAY more excited for Playdate than Steam Deck. Steam Deck isn’t even close to being on my radar.

I played this on Steam, it’s… fine, I guess? Enjoyed the chill vibes on my first session, but then it just kind of got super boring. It was still in EA at the time, so maybe they’ve made it less boring.

I still like Nintendo games, but the Switch as a device has not been my favorite as of late. It's too big, fragile and poorly designed to be a great handheld, and pretty much every game struggles on it because of its hybrid internals. I would LOVE to see Nintendo go back to having a dedicated handheld. A world where handheld games cost handheld prices.

@jump knows what's up.

Yawn. I was so sure after Ubisoft had some success with Mario + Rabbids that we were gonna see some proper support from companies instead of an endless stream of old games. How wrong/naive I was.

Until some company invests the R&D into some sort of like… sealed enclosure analog stick, this will continue to be a bit of a spectre to some degree for most controllers AFAIK. The Switch has the added hurdle of that graphite dust, but most sticks can drift given the right amount of environmental abuse.

If there’s a fix this simple for this thing, then Nintendo didn’t even bother trying to fix it is my guess. More than happy to ignore and rake it in on selling Joy Cons. Would LOVE to see the numbers on that. Super sketchy.

@The_New_Butler yeah, I couldn't agree more with this. I think it actually could have the opposite effect. I think the marketing budget and price point are alluding to a much deeper experience than I PERSONALLY think this game is going to end up being. My money is firmly banked that this game is going to be a massive let down for anyone who isn't a die hard Metroid fan who is already invested in the storyline. I think if we still had the 3DS or an equivalent, this would be a 40$ game.

I mean, you gotta work within your budget I guess, but I am just not a fan of the rigged 2D aesthetic.

This is just a director and/or cinematographer shooting for depth.

Probably letting everyone know there’s going to be a ton of bug patches and updates coming that ain’t making it onto the cartridge. AKA modern game development.

I feel for the collector types because it’s only getting worse for this kind of stuff.

Definitely the last preorder I make. There’s been such a dip in quality for 1st party titles. It really bums me out.

Looks pretty generic

@PaulBizkit the gap between Metroid Dread’s production value and something like Hollow Knight’s hand-drawn 2D isn’t that big. The locked off camera makes things way easier to produce.

If Nintendo still had a separate handheld console, none of the games announced at E3 would be full home console prices, except Mario Party maybe (edit). They would be priced as the smaller projects/experiences that they are. I’m out on these three games (Dread, Wario and Advanced Wars). They just smell of cash grab to me. To each their own, though. Enjoy! Hope they end up being good.

I used to be a pretty ardent supporter of Nintendo but man, lately there’s just been some moves (or lack thereof) that have just made me start to completely reevaluate my impression of them this gen.

Great price for Mario + Rabbids if anyone has been hesitant. 'mon in!! Great title with more on the way.

Grabbing some Paper Mario and Xenoblade Chronicles myself.

@GameCollector84 I agree! I’m not saying everyone needs to do Game Pass, I’m saying everyone needs to offer some sort of response to it. Sony needed to announce major PS Now changes, Nintendo needed to seriously bolster their NSO offerings. SOMETHING. Because business as usual isn’t going to cut it IMHO.

Every Nintendo announcement except BOTW2 is a wait on review for me. I’m too sick of this low-effort Nintendo cash grab right now. Every company who isn’t working towards altering their value proposition in response to Game Pass is doing it wrong.

Wasn't impressed with this, seemed like stopgap filler to me.

I dunno, I want to like it? This and Dread looked cheap af to me. UNPOPULAR OPINION, I know.. spare me the @'s.

oh no, people need to react and form their own opinions! the horror.

IM SO FRIGGIN EXCITED.

I think this game is where my distrust of technology started. “Moooooom, the computer won’t let me win!”

It’s important to recognize the roles people play in productions. Yuji Naka’s responsibilities as producer of Rodea would be wildly different than his responsibilities as director on Balan. I see too many articles where roles are glossed over in favour of like “THIS PERSON MADE THIS GAME!”

As someone pointed out already, the dude’s directing credits are super light. I don’t know what everyone expected. Sonic was a LOT more than just this guy’s programming chops. And having a storied career as a producer doesn’t necessarily translate to being a game director.

Edit: this isn’t anything new in this industry, though. It’s an industry that really suffers from trying to prop up old veterans as heroes and legends of the art form and throwing money at them based on one or two seminal projects, and not necessarily their entire track record, often ignoring some really bad output. If anyone else pitched this game, they would have been laughed at.

easily the e3 broadcast I'm looking forward to the most other than the big N.

Definitely happening, I just don’t think the specs are going to end up being as big a jump as some would have liked. I’m expecting more functional/mechanical upgrades a la the Wii MotionPlus gyros or the New 3DS XL’s shoulder buttons than some huge jump to 4K@60 or something of that nature.

Huge X-COM fan, really wanted to like this one. But for me, X-COM combat just isn't enough on its own. I enjoy X-COM combat SO much because I enjoy how the experience morphs and adapts based on how you spent your time/resources/research/etc. in between rounds. Too many developers make the mistake of going with X-COM style combat without also implementing a satisfying meta game around it.

People’s expectations are already way, WAY too high. It’s kind of alarming.

Devolver be killing it though. Loop Hero on PC recently rocked my world. Give me more genre-bending one-of-a-kind weirdness. I hope they don’t get too hung up on delivering franchises and sequels. That’s how good companies die.

The memes gonna make this company rich.