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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 6, 2024 20:51:50 GMT -5
Hoping that come time for the 30th anniversary of Donkey Kong Country there's a planned drop for the Donkey Kong Land games and DK94 (and maybe the DKC Game Boy Color port that's kind of ass but still)
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 7, 2024 1:46:40 GMT -5
Bunch of new sales up on the eShop which I mention mostly because one of them is specifically a standalone Ace Attorney sale (which also includes Ghost Trick) which I don't think I've ever seen them do before, and there's also a Monster Hunter sale happening at the same time. We already know there's going to be Monster Hunter news this week so really damn hoping that this means they're announcing Ace Attorney 7 and looking to hype the series up. Another potential sign of that is that they put up a bundle of games 1 through 6 yesterday and it's included in the sale so seems like a real, "Here's where to start," thing.
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Post by chrom on Jun 7, 2024 10:14:08 GMT -5
Quint might be Wily's dumbest idea ever.
He goes to the future and captures a future version of Mega Man and reprograms him to obey him. So does he give him all the weapons of his previous Robot Masters to use?
Nope, he gives him a Pogo Stick of all things.
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Post by chrom on Jun 8, 2024 11:04:01 GMT -5
This week or next week is when we probably get The Direct
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 8, 2024 18:05:18 GMT -5
The new Nikoderiko title shown off today appears to be Crash Bandicoot by way of Donkey Kong Country and given the lack of interest by Nintendo to do anything with the latter, I think I'll pick this one up. David Wise apparently doing the music (though oddly enough not appearing in the trailer) definitely helps.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 9, 2024 6:27:55 GMT -5
All that's missing is Megaman Soccer for The NES Unless I'm mistaken Soccer was an SNES only title.
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Post by chrom on Jun 9, 2024 6:34:18 GMT -5
All that's missing is Megaman Soccer for The NES Unless I'm mistaken Soccer was an SNES only title. Huh, looking it up you're right, could've sworn it was for The NES
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Jun 9, 2024 7:18:52 GMT -5
I am actually surprised they dropped all the Game Boy Mega Man games on the NSO service.
I guess unlike the Mega Man Main Series games or the Mega Man X games, Capcom did not see them as worthwhile enough to do a separate collection for them to sell them on.
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Post by darbus alan on Jun 9, 2024 10:59:02 GMT -5
I am actually surprised they dropped all the Game Boy Mega Man games on the NSO service. I guess unlike the Mega Man Main Series games or the Mega Man X games, Capcom did not see them as worthwhile enough to do a separate collection for them to sell them on. They were apparently working on a GB Anniversary collection during the PS2/Xbox/GCN generation, but there were all sorts of rumors as to why it never saw the light of day. They ranged from poor port quality to losing the Mega Man V source code.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 9, 2024 12:10:36 GMT -5
It's that time of year where I think back to the awful-ass 2015 presentation where half of it was puppet skits, they devoted a significant chunk of the show to showing off Super Mario Bros. concept art and art supplies used for reference on Woolly World (when it was out a week later and thus really had no reason to be hyped up in the show), and they announced Federation Force, Happy Home Designer, and Amiibo Festival.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 9, 2024 13:09:20 GMT -5
It's that time of year where I think back to the awful-ass 2015 presentation where half of it was puppet skits, they devoted a significant chunk of the show to showing off Super Mario Bros. concept art and art supplies used for reference on Woolly World (when it was out a week later and thus really had no reason to be hyped up in the show), and they announced Federation Force, Happy Home Designer, and Amiibo Festival. I honestly think 2015 might be worse than 2008 for me. Wii Music was a wrongheaded direction for the console, but at least there was a logic to its development. 2015 was all about games that appealed to basically no one to the point where a mid release like Fates was one of the few highlights because at least it wasn't a low point for its series like other games in the presentation.
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Post by Mike Strike on Jun 9, 2024 13:56:53 GMT -5
Quint might be Wily's dumbest idea ever. He goes to the future and captures a future version of Mega Man and reprograms him to obey him. So does he give him all the weapons of his previous Robot Masters to use? Nope, he gives him a Pogo Stick of all things. Maybe Quint had just beaten Pogo Man before this and wanted to try the new weapon out.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 9, 2024 14:24:39 GMT -5
I don't think 2015 was that bad.
I liked the Henson muppets it's a shame that they tied it to the terrible gimmick of Starfox Zero.
Especially since they basically guaranteed that game could never be remastered ever.
It's not like Skyward sword where they could remap the motion controls... without the two views you can not play that game.
2015 also had triforce heroes which was a fun side game. (I liked Federation force for what it was too... and it's one of those things if you want more Metroid representation in stuff you kinda need to flesh the universe out more than just Samus and Ridley)
Xenoblade Chronicles announced,
and the showing off t he original design materials for Super Mario Bros for Mario Maker hype.
the Wooly world was more just showing off where they got the idea from and the Yoshi Amiibos.
edit: and people were hyped about Starfox Zero when it was announced... it just wasn't when they started going mroe in depth on the wacky control scheme that they didn't... and even then people still ahd a "well Nintendo has had control schemes that sounded weird at first but worked really well before."
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 9, 2024 14:34:21 GMT -5
I think Federation Force would've been a huge beneficiary of if they'd just announced it and Samus Returns at the same time. It was still kind of a fundamental misunderstanding of the Metroid fanbase that was likely never going to do anything but flop regardless, but at least people probably would've just dismissed it instead of being completely pissed if they had shown they were doing something more conventional alongside it instead of FF being the first game in the series in years and coming off like they were potentially completely abandoning Metroid's identity. Especially given between Star Fox Zero being an unnecessary reboot and the complete dismantling of Paper Mario and Chibi-Robo and Hey Pikmin and the Animal Crossing spinoffs Nintendo was doing a lot of that shit at that time.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 9, 2024 14:45:39 GMT -5
Tone deafness in general pretty much defined Nintendo's vibe at that point. There were always strong games, the 3DS recovered after its initial weak launch, and Smash Bros/Mario Kart 8 pulled off being hype titles... but so much outside that reeked of Nintendo being so incredibly out of touch with both casuals and the hardcores.
Nintendo 2017 and on has basically zigged everywhere the 2012-2016 era zagged and is all the better for it.
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Post by Chiral on Jun 9, 2024 14:56:02 GMT -5
I think that was around the time Nintendo started hyping up "non-wearable" technology and I think about the presentation with the so called Leapfrog Strategy a lot because it's such a strange concept to me. The idea of going "OK, we know what's big right now in gaming and what's gonna be big but we're not doing that, we're gonna figure out what the big thing after all that is and do that," feels so impossible and misguided. As well as the idea of gaming evolving in a line from console to mobile to VR to whatever Nintendo thought would come after that. (I've probably posted this dumb graphic in this thread before LOL)
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 9, 2024 14:59:25 GMT -5
I think that was around the time Nintendo started hyping up "non-wearable" technology and I think about the presentation with the so called Leapfrog Strategy a lot because it's such a strange concept to me. The idea of going "OK, we know what's big right now in gaming and what's gonna be big but we're not doing that, we're gonna figure out what the big thing after all that is and do that," feels so impossible and misguided. As well as the idea of gaming evolving in a line from console to mobile to VR to whatever Nintendo thought would come after that. (I've probably posted this dumb graphic in this thread before LOL) I'd really love to know what kind of concept they even thought they were talking about here. To say nothing of how wildly they overestimated the success of VR.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 9, 2024 15:03:05 GMT -5
I honestly wonder if Nintendo brass basically put out stuff like non-wearable technology announcements and big promises about the mobile just to get placate stockholders and had little intention with going through with most of it. Once the Switch got big basically every mobile experiment that wasn't MK Tour got put on a life support and there's been little mention of Blue Ocean related strategies since.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 9, 2024 15:22:06 GMT -5
I honestly wonder if Nintendo brass basically put out stuff like non-wearable technology announcements and big promises about the mobile just to get placate stockholders and had little intention with going through with most of it. Once the Switch got big basically every mobile experiment that wasn't MK Tour got put on a life support and there's been little mention of Blue Ocean related strategies since. Honestly I suspect that's also the reason why the past few months they've suddenly started doing events in Mario Run again. It's at least something they can point to as them doing stuff in mobile games for investors even if in practical terms basically the only game they have anyone still cares about is Fire Emblem.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 9, 2024 16:43:03 GMT -5
I honestly wonder if Nintendo brass basically put out stuff like non-wearable technology announcements and big promises about the mobile just to get placate stockholders and had little intention with going through with most of it. Once the Switch got big basically every mobile experiment that wasn't MK Tour got put on a life support and there's been little mention of Blue Ocean related strategies since. Honestly I suspect that's also the reason why the past few months they've suddenly started doing events in Mario Run again. It's at least something they can point to as them doing stuff in mobile games for investors even if in practical terms basically the only game they have anyone still cares about is Fire Emblem. It's not entirely them but Pokemon Go is still reasonably popular. and hey POKEMON SLEEP! >_>
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