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@IceClimbers You said yesterday that you were surprised people were hoping for more at Nintendo's E3 and that Zelda U would be the only thing at E3. Anything to say now?
Pokemon and Zelda are nice, but I want more. I'd like to see some progress on Color Splash (don't kill me plz).

@Ralizah It was basically Reggie who said the "VR is stupid!" statement... and since he said those statements in damage control mode (Nintendo's E3 2015), I think it's safe to say we can disregard his statements. I'll be very surprised if Nintendo isn't even experimenting with VR in one way or another.

Riiiiiiiiiiight.........

@Grumblevolcano "Have to disagree, the Sony conference info is what everyone else will see wherever they look not Zelda U/NX."
Took you a lot of big brained geniuses to figure this out, didn't you? Sheesh. (-__-)

Will be watching Nintendo's E3 presentation, as well as Sony's. But I'm not really that hyped. For the first time ever since I started paying a lot of attention to E3.
Hoping for some surprises under Nintendo's sleeves...

@JaxonH Uh, there was also the Strar Fox Zero puppet advertisements as well as the recent Nintendo UK Kirby: Planet Robobot advertisements. Those ones were really good; even better than the two ads above. And let's not forget those Smash Bros. ads (even though they were shown nearly two years ago lol). At this rate ice is seeping onto the Earth.
Now if Nintendo aired these ads on TV, hell would freeze so fast it would basically nuke the Earth.

@DiscoGentleman North Korea might be on it already.

The first one was nice, but the second one... not so much.
Now can we see these on TV?

I'm gonna be in the minority and say that I liked the trailer. I do see the cheesiness in it, though... like, seriously.
That said, though... sorry to all the backers out there.

Awesome. I just might get this sooner than I thought.
And I'm going to play the devil's advocate here... where the heck are the Metacritic citations?!

Why is this news?

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Oops, I did mean underrated lol Thanks for that correction.
And there's really no denying it, no other reveal in the world of gaming can lose to Wii Music's. I mean, the latter was one of the cheesiest things I've ever seen in my life...

@SLIGEACH_EIRE For what it's worth I actually enjoyed Wii Music AND I think it's an underrated game. The game's reveal was awful, though...

@Vandy "But am I claiming it's a terrible game and no one should like it and here's where they went wrong and they should have done this and blah blah blah and Miyamoto doesn't know what he's doing and it's a betrayal of RPGs and whatever?"
Exactly! It's okay to criticize a game or a person. Constructive criticism does exist, after all. I don't like a particular game because of this or that. OKAY. WE GET IT. But coming into every god-forsaken comment section and complaining about the same thing over and over and over again and sparking left-and-right arguments isn't constructive criticism. Heck, it isn't even destructive criticism. It's just plain annoying.
What I do is that I underscore my own beefs about a certain game or person I do not like or agree with and let it be. I don't have time to hang around the internet, waiting in camouflage to ambush the next person who says something I don't agree with (You're a great user to me Vandy, but I think you might be guilty of this too ).

@Yorumi "I have said time and time again ... play starfox just fine ... "
Now I'm not trying to add fuel to any fire here, and I will admit right now that I haven't gone into every comment section you've commented in, so can you provide the particular comment (or comments, since you've said "time and time" again) that confirms the statement in bold fonts? Or are you talking about a Star Fox game aside from SFZ?

@Vandy I agree completely (well not completely... I adore XCX a lot 😆). The thing is that even if you've played Xenoblade Chronicles, you still have to sit down and figure out what you're doing in Xenoblade Chronicles X. The abundance of massive HUDs and menus (as well as the surprisingly tiny text) doesn't help things. Sometimes I watch my brother play the game - running around in the huge worlds and utlizing the menus - and I'm always thinking, "OK, what is he doing right now?" Don't get me wrong, I love the game but if someone says SFZ is more complicated than a game like XCX or even a game like Uncharted in any way... I'm sorry, but I think that's just out of dislike for SFZ. SFZ might as well be the simplest major game for the Wii U (quite literally, in fact).

Aw, c'mon guys! Aren't we the ones who take every rumor seriously and debate it to no end like it was fact and the world would not exist tomorrow if it was considered a rumor in the slightest?
_{In all seriousness, though... this article is completely unnecessary and quite ridiculous... the MH thingy was already proved false.}

LOL not one comment about the article itself. 😆
Just wow.

@SaKo "I want to enjoy this hobby of mine, and in order to do that, the game developers who make a livelihood and sustain for their families must be fired. So that I can enjoy my hobby for a long time to come."

@Oscarsome "What happened to simple and straightforward design?"
In all seriousness, recent games (such as XCX) are complicated as hell when it comes to its HUD design side stories and all that jazz... Double hell, it might take months to get used to everything; and yet, it's still seen as one of the best games on Wii U. In all fairness, Star Fox Zero isn't even complicated at all. It's obvious: simple story, simple on-rails gaming, simple everything. Yeah, the controls can be a bit of a hassle admittedly, but once they click it's really nothing. SFZ isn't Miyamoto's best game in a long shot, but it's far from a failure as some seem to project.

@Maxz Well, in all honesty I don't we get to tell what people want to be venting their anger at. If someone wants to get angry at the amount of polygons on a aircraft that is basically a blank pointy pyramid, then.... so be it.

@RainbowGazelle "I'm talking about Nintendo seemingly giving the message to all girls that they should be ashamed of their bodies, by always adding extra covering and the like."
What the actual h...
I stopped reading after this.

Oooh I want one now!

Rest in peace, Alan Young.

@peeks SM64DS is pretty fantastic but I never played it as much as NSMB. For me, NSMB was hard for me to drop down. In fact, NSMB was the only thing I would play for a very long time. It's that good.
Can I also mention that SM64DS's multiplayer pales in comparison to NSMB?

I really don't care what anyone says about these series. I still say NSMB and NSMBU are two of the finest platformers I have ever played. NSMB is actually my favorite DS game of all time.

Yeah, I'll be excited when I see the trailer for the movie(s), not now. Still, please do a Smash Bros. animated movie. I don't care what's happening; I'll drop everything and watch it the day it comes out lol.
I think a Metroid live action could work, but seeing as anything live action is panned these days, I wouldn't want "rubbish" reviews for a Metroid film.
@Sparx This.

@Sir_JBizzle Just what I was thinking, too. Sheesh.
I think the slogan's pretty cool. And I like the little animation that comes with it.

@zool There exist differences in the way people from different cultures spell certain words.

Here's the thing. Zelda U is 99.999999999% likely going to be awesome. One awesome thing doesn't really cut it, though. Especially for an event like E3. A Direct detailing Nintendo's plans aside from Zelda U (aired prior to or during E3) will help a lot.

Oh boy.

Is it me, or are the rewards even worse than they were last month?

Meh. Bring on the next set of rewards! Hopefully it contains stuff I really want. I'm thinking I should but SFZ/SFG digitally so I can get a bunch of gold coins...
EDIT: went ahead and got the physical copy.

@ThomasBW84 I understand your pointa, but are you insinuating that Nintendo's going to be like "Welp, for E3 you'll only be playing Zelda. Enjoy?" at E3? That's just wrong. Yeah, I don't agree with the number of playable games (and yes, it's close to insane), but who's to say Nintendo isn't going to show more stuff at E3? Nonplayable stuff, but still?
To be honest, I'm not going to complain much because I was never going to E3 in the first place...

@Kirk Yeah because somehow I was referring to comments like yours only.
I'm done.

Nearly 400 comments on a freakin' review. Nearly 400 comments of pointless left-and-right bickering. For what? A freakin' score.
I really am done with these articles. Ridiculous nonsense.

@Shigmin I said that to myself while I was watching the short! I mean, look at the controller!

@Yorumi OK, so yeah the frame rate drops. But not as much as you say it does. Simple.

@VanillaLake I get that, but he misrepresented the information from DF. The analysis video shows that SFZ frame rates drop to a minimum of 40 or so, not as low as 20 to 25. So I don't know where that came from...

@Yorumi "I said it drops as much as much as 20 to 25 fps"
When? Where did you get this? And because you said it doesn't make it true, hence there's LITERALLY no point in saying "That would mean it drops from 60 to 35 to 40 fps." In fact, doesn't that statement help what Vandy and I said earlier? What is the point?!

@Yorumi No, the frame rate dropped to a minimum of 40 FPS in the analysis video you're talking about. Regardless, the game does a good job of replicating two screens at 60FPS.

And clearly headed for the dumps.

@Clownshoes You gotta be kidding me. And if Damien gave this game a 4 you'll be saying the opposite of comment #38, right?
Anyway, I think it's clear the comment section is in a frenzy...

@VanillaLake And when did I say that Metacritic was it's own score and not the average of the scores of other games? And yeah, you are free to read other reviews. Did I restrict anyone?
With the people posting about Metacritic here it's like they're saying "Well Nlife, you gave it an 8 but the average score is about 6-7... so _{maybe the game is a tad worse than you're saying it is} Oh, I don't know.

@VanillaLake Haha... At least I'm not trying to prove a review wrong.

LOL, I do like how some users are going over to Metacritic...

@VanillaLake @SLIGEACH_EIRE yeah, because the embargo was just lifted a while and it's definitely going to stay at 65.
For what it's worth, it's already up 68.

Called it.

I wouldn't say Splatoon has the best GamePad usage, but I will say that without the screen (and to a degree motion controls), Splatoon is pretty much useless. That's one of the reasons why I think the NX home console will have a screen on its controller. We want this franchise to continue, right?
Oh, and Lego City Undercover also has some pretty great GamePad usage! One of the best on the Wii U.

If the GamePad had analogue triggers it could have been my best controller of all time. I'm not even kidding.
I love the GamePad; I'm not just a fan, I'm probably its biggest fan. It's really comfortable (it was way larger than I thought when I first held it in my hands, though) and it's a small but great help in many games such as Splatoon and Wind Waker HD. The GamePad is the ultimate tool for do-it-yourself games such as Mario Maker. Off-TV play is also a great feature; in fact, I only play Smash Bros on the GamePad. Sure the game looks great on TV but I'm not a graphics guy at all and I don't mind looking at a low-res screen at all. And no, the GamePad is not heavy. I can see why people might think it's bulky, but it's NOT heavy.
The GamePad IS underutilized, though. I wish it was used more in games because it has so much potential. I'm sure the NX home console will have a screen on its controller (a smaller one). I'll be so happy if that was the case!