Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@Ralizah I actually quite like Zelda’s Adventure’s vibe especially compared to the other two CDI games. It reminds me of cozy Canadian/Aussie import shows from the 2000s, like low budget and terrible costumes but fun. I mean, the game’s awful but the ambience is kinda cool.

I think it’s because of the birdsong that plays as you wander round the map, my favourite area of Ocarina of Time as a kid was the weird pre-rendered area in front of the Temple of Time and it gives me the same vibes.

Pretty solid Direct!

Definitely grabbing the new Zelda & Mario & Luigi games, and I've only ever played a bit of DKCR as a rental on Wii back in the day, so I'll definitely get it too since it might as well be a new release.

Good to see Prime 4 show up as well, though I'll get more excited as it gets closer.

I think I’m honestly one of the only people that just wasn’t too impressed with the show 😂😂 and that’s a slight on myself! Not you guys, everyone seems to be very happy with today’s show. That’s wonderful, truly… I think I’ll have to sit this one out as some random disgruntled fan who has to just carry on as usual. A Metroid prime 2 remastered would have been a nice touch to the Prime 4 trailer though… just sayin’ Nintendo.

The new Kodaka game (whose name I can't remember, so I shall just dub it "Danganronpa Tactics") was pretty cool. Might actually push me to get my butt moving on completing Rain Code!

@Enriesto Sometimes it's just like that.

I remember shrugging my way through Sony's much-praised 2018 E3 show.

It was objectively good, but just not for me.

@Ralizah you didn’t like Sony E3 2018?? That’s crazy!! But seriously, c’est la vie, and I’m appreciating more about the Direct now that some hours have passed. They really did show a lot, though it didn’t hit with me as I’d like. To give an example of what I considered a banger Direct… Feb ‘22. I could count on one hand how many games I wasn’t interested in. Easily my favourite Direct, I felt spoken to as a fan. But others at the time? A little mixed, despite me having gushed over it. Good to be understanding and hey, still some games from this presentation I’m excited for. September starting with Astro Bot and ending with Echoes Of Wisdom… chef’s kiss of 2024 for me.

@Enriesto I think part of the issue for me is that PS4-era Sony kinda just kept hyping up the same games over and over again. And the Sony games I was in for wasn't generally the AAA action fare anyway.

I will say, my one regret is that we didn't hear anything about Professor Layton or Fantasy Life. :/

@Enriesto Prime 4 confirming that Hunters is canon is worth the lack of Echoes remastered 😂

@nessisonett a persuasive point, but I’m still grieving the absence of Echoes 😭

Overall I was pretty impressed with the Direct. Was hoping to see a Switch version of Wind Waker, but other than that it was solid.

@Kidfried I think people (including me) are just happy to see another Metroid Prime game as the last mainline entry came out back in 2007, which will be 18 years ago when the game comes out next year. I personally don't mind if Metroid Prime 4 is just more of the same as the previous games. It's not like there's been an abundance of Metroid Prime games or clones since then.

@Kidfried In this case, the trailer felt more like a way of communicating: "Hey! This is real, and isn't vaporware. It's also a normal Metroid Prime game and doesn't have any weird or alienating gimmicks in it."

So I'd wait for more footage before coming to any conclusions.

Nintendo cared enough about the quality of the game to change developers and reboot development, so I'm sure it'll turn out fine if you like this sort of game.

@Kidfried this was my sentiment as I expressed previously on this thread following the Direct. It really comes down to acknowledging its existence, which is enough for many fans. Not enough for myself, but I’m not drawing conclusions and am confident it will be great (also something I said earlier) despite what I thought was a trailer that failed to give this game the reveal it deserved. I’m often at odds with fans of various series though, which is why I don’t regularly share opinions on major news sections as I’ll get eaten alive 😂 Metroid mega fans loved it, and I just don’t get why.

In short… bad trailer for what should be an amazing game. I stand by it.

The acknowledgment of its existence is of course wonderful for fans of the Prime series.... albeit the 'reveal' was still somewhat underwhelming, if indeed still comforting.

I'm a bigger fan of Dread personally (vs Prime) and would have loved to have seen confirmation of a sequel.

Hollow Knight needs a similar verification that the 'heart is still beating'..!

Personally I’m kinda surprised to kodaka’s new game met with utter indifference and deafening silence. Though I’m unaffected either way, I’m just waiting for the official renders to get posted and see all the fanart.

RIP ROMhacking.net

What a huge loss, been a staple of the scene for 20 odd years. All because of internal drama that it’s gone too.

RIP ROMhacking.net
What a huge loss, been a staple of the scene for 20 odd years. All because of internal drama that it’s gone too.

Oh for real? What a massive bummer.

I don't even really bother with romhacks or unofficial translations of older games, and I still milled around that site. Great historical resource, and huge for that particular segment of the community. Really sucks to see it go down like this.

I’ve finally gone back to Xenoblade Definitive Edition. Think I’m near the end, in Mechonis Field. Spent so many hours just doing loads and loads of sidequests now that I’ve got the last party member and loving it, it really does play like a single player MMO at times, scratches that Final Fantasy XII itch. I’m trying not to do too much of the story too quickly as a lot of the sidequests in the hidden village have the timed marker so clearly something’s going down soon.

@nessisonett Is your plan to play through the series?

@Ralizah Probably yeah, it’s in my backlog. Dunno if I’ll bother playing X though. The first one I played to about halfway through on Wii so this was more of a revisit already. The difference in graphics personally isn’t actually a straight upgrade, I really liked the original vibe and muted artstyle as it felt similar to Xenogears rather than an ‘anime’ style. A lot of this one is improved though obviously with regards to texture quality and general QOL. Environments are pretty great looking too.