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Have to go with 3D. I loved the 2d games back in the day and I enjoyed the Link's Awakening remake. But whenever a brand new 3D Zelda comes out I just lose my mind with hype.

I may eventually get a PS5, but for now it's PS4 and Switch for me. It will take a couple years to get enough big PS5 exclusives to really make me get the upgrade.

Rayman please!! No more JRPG characters thank you. And if they bend to the mob and put out Waluigi I swear I'll... be slightly bemused.

Edit: Unless it's someone from FFVI. That I'll allow.

This looks extremely fun! If I was a kid I would be absolutely begging for this (although I wouldn't get it unless I paid for it myself, because my parents didn't usually spoil me with $100 gifts.) Imagine how much I could've annoyed my parents or brothers with this by following them around as they tried to work.

As an adult... I feel like I would play with this for an hour or so and then get bored and go check Twitter again or something. Sigh. How boring I am now. Maybe someday if I have my own kids...

I cannot wait for Silksong. But I actually hope the devs take their time with it to make something really special.

For a second I confused this with Aidyn Chronicles for the N64. Now THERE'S a game that would be a big surprise on Switch.

@TJWorks All this time. All these years with Mario, and I never noticed that Mario's moustache doesn't match his hair. Now I wonder if the carpet matches the drapes...

Ahh, I miss the classic 2D Mario character art. Always thought it looked better than the bland plastic-y 3D art.

@Harmonie My thoughts as well. I was just thinking the other day how fun a Pokemon Snap game would be if it offered free-form movement. Oh well, on-rails would probably be pretty fun too. Come to think of it, an on-rails version in real VR would be amazing (not that that will ever happen.)

Dear video games,

Please stop subtitling things "origins". Just, stop.

Thanks,
Wollywoo

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Oh man, I would play any of these. Even just a straight-up port of Mario 64 would probably get my money. I don't know that these need to be in a collection - all of the 3D games are overflowing with content and are worth buying individually.

Pretty good Direct! Lots of ports, not much new 1st party stuff, but that will have to wait until (non-) E3. I'm looking forward to XCom 2 - really loved the first one and never got around to the 2nd!

Pretty good direct! A ton of nice ports. Excited to get X-Com 2 - I played the first and loved it but never tried the sequel. Hopefully it is a decent port. I think there were a lot of performance issues on PC.

Xenoblade and Bravely Default 2 look beautiful and fun. Buuut I cannot tolerate the very cliched, corny stories and JRPG tropes. Honestly I feel like I could handle it better without the voice acting. I love classic JRPGs like FFVI but I'm sure if you added voice acting to that I would be rolling my eyes.

Nice to see Catherine. But where is Persona 5? I wonder if they have an exclusivity deal with Sony.

Not a fan of typical copyright/trademark law here, but it's not really fair to equate "recreations" of other IPs in Mario Maker to recreations in Dreams, where they can use actual assets from Nintendo in such a way that a not-crazy person could reasonably confuse it with an actual Nintendo product.

I've wanted Nintendo + Lego for soooo long. It seems like an obvious money maker! But I am not interested in Lego Mario. When Lego Zelda comes out I will get excited.

I can't imagine this working. I love Mario games, but Mario the character is very, very boring. They'll have to rewrite him a ton to make him interesting at all, which I would be fine with - but Nintendo keeps its IPs under strict control and may not give them enough freedom.

I didn't know about the Uyghur forced labor. I did know about utterly abusive and demeaning labor practices in China and elsewhere and I have continued to buy the products. I am partly to blame, yes. But we need to call on these companies, and governments, to put a stop to this. If ever a boycott is morally justified this must be it. But will it happen?

This is heartwarming... but, also, I feel bad for a 95-year-old that has to squint at that green non-backlit screen. Someone should have at least given her a GBA SP or DS or something. Unless she has amazing eyesight for her age.

Hmm, I was a bit disappointed with the LA soundtrack tbh. It seemed like they were too slavishly devoted to recreating the original without adding any new charm. Same goes for the gameplay and the story, really, although I did enjoy it quite a bit.

I remember being so excited for this game. From the looks of it it was pretty far along in development. A shame. But, I guess they wouldn't have cancelled it if they thought it was any good.

Give the poor guy a break. He deserves a nice tropical vacation.

I'd kill for a new 2D Metroid in HD. I just hope it does something a bit fresh and interesting. I don't want to collect the same ten or so powerups we've been picking up since the 90s. New arsenal and mechanics please! 😍

A new Paper Mario sounds great too!

Never understood the love for this one. Characters were lame stereotypes and the random encounter rate was... intense. Not for me.

@Franklin oh I see what you mean now. Yes, Odyssey mixed up the art styles in a really strange, clashing way. I personally didn't mind, though. The weirder the better!

@Franklin Hmm, I get that complaint about Odyssey, but to me it felt like the same complaint could be made about Galaxy 1 & 2, maybe more so. The levels there are literally different planets with nothing to do with each other. To me that's part of the appeal - in playing those games I had no clue what crazy thing was coming next. It felt like the designers made the game based on a series of anything-goes brainstorming, and I love it. The only 3D Mario game with a single coherent world was Sunshine, and everybody complained about the sameness of the theming (although I loved that one also.)

@Franklin That's interesting. I love both games myself, although I do prefer Galaxy 1/2 slightly. But why does Odyssey seem like less of a coherent whole?

In this game there is a certain planetoid where you could jump into orbit around it and stay in orbit forever. 10/10 just for that.

Seriously, this is one of my all time favorites. Please port to Switch. While you're add it - what you did here to Galaxy 1, please do to Odyssey.

Persona 5 seems so damn obvious. I wonder if they had an exclusivity deal on that for a while with Sony.

Banjo-Kazooie HD please!

Oh and, Suikoden I and II. They were on PS3 and I assumed that meant PS4 as well, but no luck for me!

I have PS4 and Switch. But I have to say I haven't played my PS4 in months, while the Switch gets regular use. Adored God of War, as well as Spider-Man and Persona 5, but other than that... Switch all the way.

Of course the results here are pretty biased for obvious reasons.

Those who feel a deep spiritual connection to any GameCube, as I do, find this to be an atrocity and an act of deep wickedness against our faith.

Please make a slightly cooler haircut for the hero. My only request.

Hmm, seems like a slow year to me. Not super interested in anything other than BOTW2 and Metroid, and I seriously doubt MP4 is coming this year. BOTW2 has a better chance I'd guess, since it is using an established engine (and had a real trailer out already.)

Nintendo always has a trick up its sleeve, though, and will probably has some big surprises at E3. Odyssey 2 maybe...?

Pitch-black, minimalist cover? Starring Watto, of all characters, front and center? Those are some seriously bold choices for a fast, colorful Star Wars game.

...Seriously. Watto??

Sounds great! Have been hearing good things about this one for a long time. Great to hear it’s a competent port. I loved Portal and The Witness so this seems right up my alley. I just got Luigi’s Mansion 3, so that should keep me busy for a while, but I’ll probably pick this one up next. Great for the holidays when I have some freetime at my Parents’ home where I don’t want to bother bringing another console.

Too bad. I played the original a little but never got into it myself. After playing Baldur's Gate it was a bit boring only controlling one dude (plus a sidekick) instead of seeing the mayhem of six murder machines going at it simultaneously. I'm sure there was fun to be had with the multiplayer but I never tried that.

Now please do KOTOR! This would be a much easier port since it was designed from the ground up with consoles in mind. While you're at it: KOTOR 3.

I think a Mario game could be great in VR, if Mario was a pretty small character that just jumped around miniature toy-like levels kinda like Moss. Would also be fun to have AR that would allow Mario to jump around and interact with real objects in your living room, but I'm not sure if the tech is there yet with the kind of fidelity that would be required..

Captain Toad seems like it would also be great in VR, with little stages you could look at from different angles to find secrets. (I sometimes wonder if it came out of VR experiments at Nintendo...)

This update looks amazing! I had a lot of fun with SMM2 but fell off it after a while as I couldn't think of any new stage ideas that hadn't been done to death. The Ninji speedrun idea looks really fun, although I wish they could apply it to fan-made stages! I'll definitely check this out on the 5th.

@TechaNinja That's the whole point! Updates like this give this game legs. And it means that people are continuously talking about and (especially) streaming this game which draws attention to the game to those who don't already have it - especially the ones who have just bought a Lite and are looking for something to play on it. Nintendo games are well-known for having a ton of longevity, with strong sales years after they release, so boosting that tail is a smart move.

Looks like Arnold teamed up with Macauley Culkin for the JP art. Bold choice.

Please don't remake Super Metroid. That game is perfect as-is. How about a brand new 2D Metroid instead? Preferably one just as open as SM, with a lot of fresh new powerups instead of or in addition to the usual ones.

The amount of content they managed to fit into a GameBoy cartridge was just astounding. Truly an ambitious game.

Hobbit forming? Blasphemy! Only the All High One, Eru Ilúvatar, can form hobbits.

Garfield not at No. 1??? UGH the anti garfield bias rears its ugly head again on this website.

Definite improvement. He no longer looks like a creepy furry.

Too bad this never saw the light of day. I’m not a Diablo fan but I think this might have suited me better than other forms of Diablo. If the control scheme was more simple and Zelda-like I might enjoy it. I prefer more deliberate and precise actions over the chaotic feeling of spamming spells against swarming enemies.

Japan for sure. It's the only one to give full-body poses of the characters. The EU cover just confused me, for a while I thought Kazooie's talon was Banjo's paw holding her up and was up with his thumb. But all lose points because of the boring backgrounds - it should have been one of the locations from the game, not just clouds. The box art for the original BK is much more dynamic and full of detail.

I think the Switch will have a lot of longevity, like the DS. Would not be surprised if it is still selling well three or four years from now. Could well hit 100M eventually.

I finally played A Hat In Time on Switch for twenty minutes or so. I like the upbeat vibe and it seems right up my alley, but MAN this game has performance issues. The framerate is all over the place. It honestly doesn't look great either, with a lot of weird, wooden animations and simple textures and geometry. Compared to something like Mario Odyssey, which has beautiful, complicated worlds AND a solid framerate, this is pretty disappointing. I realize this is an indie game, but I wish they had spent more time on optimization. Not sure if I will continue - maybe should wait for a patch?

Edit: I should mention that the music is fully orchestrated and sounds great!

I've been waiting for A Hat In Time for a long time and now that it's on Switch I will finally check it out! I love 3D platformers and they seem so rare - lovely to see one that doesn't have Mario in the name.

@InJeffable Rumble is a totally optional feature for virtually every game. To me personally it adds very little. It would bring up the cost and drain the battery unnecessarily, so it makes perfect sense to toss it.

TV connectivity is a must for me, though, so for that reason I won't bother with the Lite.