Watch the February 17 Nintendo Direct livestream here
Here's where to watch the February 17 Nintendo Direct livestream.
After over a year, we’re finally getting a full and proper Nintendo Direct livestream. Set to go down later today, Nintendo has quite a bit of secrets up its sleeves, as they confirmed the broadcast will be 50 minutes long. They also confirmed that there will be new information on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, as well as details on games arriving in the first half of 2021.
Watch the February 17 Nintendo Direct livestream here
The February 17 Nintendo Direct will be streamed live at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET on Nintendo’s official YouTube channel. The waiting room for the stream is already up with a live countdown to showtime. If you’d like, you can stay right here on Shacknews and watch the Nintendo Direct using the embed below. If you miss it live, a VOD of the stream will be available after its conclusion.
It’s been roughly a year and a half since we’ve gotten a full-fledged Nintendo Direct. Though the company has provided Indie World streams here and there, a lot of Nintendo’s plans for the previous year had been shifted as a result of the ongoing pandemic. However, it looks like the developer/publisher is ready to finally lay its cards out on the table.
Many are expecting to see a new Smash character, and potentially hear more about the previously announced sequel to The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild. The Zelda franchise celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, so there could potentially be announcements surrounding that as well. We go into full speculation about the upcoming Nintendo Direct in a recently published feature.
We’re just hours away from the February 17 Nintendo Direct, and it seems like one you’re not going to want to miss. For more news and updates on the company, visit the Nintendo topic page on Shacknews.
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Nintendo Direct
Starts at 5pm EST today, 50 minutes in length.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ-dE_5el5Q
Beyond the Smash character announcement what are people hoping for/expecting? Especially with the 35th Anniversaries of Zelda and Metroid this year.
F-Zero?
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Super Generic Predictions Time!
Something that seems like "duh" but was not expected until recently.
Something totally out of left field.
Less than what we wanted.
Some indy stuff.
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I’m guessing it’s going to be at least one new fire emblem character in smash, and 2-3 anime games. I hope I’m wrong.
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I have the lowest expectations. If there's some new Pokemon Snap info or a new game for the 25th anniversary, I'll be happy.
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My wild guess: Zelda 35 Anniv. stuff, including Skyward Sword remake. Tease at BOTW2 for late 2021 or early 2022
Mario Super Strikers for June release-
Damn I was close. Golf instead of strikers.
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Rumor is half life 3
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SNK issued this early?
https://twitter.com/snkpofficial/status/1362073766780567552?s=21
A possible Capcom Vs SNK 2 release on modern hardware is extremely exciting-
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Oh man I'd love that
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OH hell yeah Mario Golf.
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Camelot alternates between Mario Golf and Tennis. Mario Tennis ACES came out in 2018, was a huge hit, and is a terrific (if not incredibly sweaty) game!
I figure its time for their next Mario Golf game, hopefully one that brings back the RPG mechanics of the OG on Gameboy! It inspired Golf Story which was very popular when ACES was in development so hopefully that idea rubbed off on them, we’ll see!-
Never played the GB ones, but N64 and GC versions are classics. I've been getting my fill with Everybody's Golf, but it's not the same.
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Another wind waker HD port? I guess knowing Nintendo, thats an easy 'win' for them with these WiiU ports.
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I mean, its an excellent game. I just hope they port more than just Wind Waker.
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Snowboard Kids
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lol. icecreambus, I can always count on you to UNF my SBK posts.
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There aren't many of us out there. We need to stick together.
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Snowboard Kids is dope AF!
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Several people have pointed out the squids in Splatoon look like the squids in SMB
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/985/734/a5f.png
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I'm curious if there's any Nintendo IP due for an actual rework or that hasn't seen much/any action in the west.
Like, Fire Emblem is a series that goes all the way back to the Famicom but they didn't bring it to the US until the GBA, and no one cared about it until the 3DS. Now the mobile version does gangbusters business.
Wave Race could use a new entry.
Dragalia Lost is a relatively new, Fire Emblem-like IP that's only been on Android/iOS, I wonder if they'll ever make a console version.
And I'm wondering if there's anything on the order of Fire Emblem that's been Japan only so far.
Really I'm wondering why they don't just throw the Nintendo faithful a bone and put Earthbound on the Switch in some capacity. It was on the SNES Classic and the never-release NES English translation was on the Wii U so it's not like they've totally forgotten about it.-
Their strategy on retro titles right now is rather odd. But, ya, I'd be okay with what you're proposing - reworking an old title for a modern release.
I don't think they have the full rights to DL. I could be wrong, but I know Nintendo wasn't directly involved in the development. They came in later and put polish on it; and oh what a return they've gotten off that.
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Nintendo has always been reprint the same ~10 games each console cycle and its worked quite well. They really don't need a new IP but with this new found money, maybe they will.
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I don't think this is true. The characters are the same, but the gameplay is always vastly different.
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That’s what I mean more or less.
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they're due to reboot eternal darkness my dude
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silicon knights filed for bankruptcy so im not sure who actually owns the right. Borzoi prolly knows.
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I've tried replying to this comment like 15 times. silicon knights went out of business and google tells me its a nintendo ip
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and now i see the other replies, fuck you latestchatty!
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Years away!
On the plus side, last year there were a bunch of stories about veteran hires from Treyarch, Bungie, DICE, etc: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/metroid-prime-4-studio-retro-has-hired-a-call-of-duty-black-ops-veteran/
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/09/retro_studios_hires_industry_veteran_to_help_steer_metroid_prime_4_development
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/05/metroid_prime_4_dev_retro_studios_hires_battlefield_tomb_raider_and_borderlands_artists
At this point I have to assume that robust online multiplayer is going to be part of the package, but we'll see
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Yeah that isn't too far off.
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It's happening!
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 DLC?
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Lol, Smashbros, of course.
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What is it?
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Yeah, that was a good one.
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Fall Guys, meh.
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Outer Wilds, nice :D
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Oh damn, Outer Wilds would be perfect on Switch. I think I might buy it there and start over, instead of trying to pick my XB1 game back up.
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Famicom Detective Club? Old adventure games coming over from forever ago. Interesting.
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Samurai Warriors 5, not exactly unexpected.
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Fa'Diel, nice! Legend of Mana was great.
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Legend of Mana HD, sweeeeeet
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Monster Hunter Rise info it looks like.
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Mario Golf!!
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Even if I don't get any Zelda info this is worth the direct.
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Nice, bringin motion controls, might get my older family members into it more.
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Never been huge on the story mode in these but I'll take a look at it again.
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Ha, Mario Golf as rumored
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Ok, Speed Golf and Story Modes look great
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Mario Golf with a story mode! They listened!
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Tales from the Borderlands, ok.
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Capcom Arcade, ok, looks like they're DLCing the hell out of it though :( out today!
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Travis Touchdown Vs. Aliens? No More Heroes 3 stuff :D
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August 27th!
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Neon White looks interesting.
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Haha, DC Super Hero Girls, game looks predictably cash grabby.
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Yeah, the show is pretty good for what it is, I don't think it's going to do more than the older Cartoon Network IP games used to do though.
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I'm sure it will do very well in a very specific demographic and a couple of weird niche ones.
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Plants vs. Zombies Complete Edition, I was hoping this might make it over at some point.
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Lol, Miitopia is making it over? How are they going to do this without streetpass?
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Super Mario things and costumes coming to AC:New Horizons.
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Definitely fun for a little bit.
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Old school Tactical RPG Project Triangle Strategy. Huh. Looks good if the name is ridiculous.
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Terrain alteration looks great. Morality system alters the story. Coming in 2022 though.
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Star Wars Bounty Hunter?
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Oh, just Hunters. And F2P, yuk.
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Well this is an odd looking dodgeball game.
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Wackout City.
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Yeah, at least it appears entertaining to look at. Seems to be aiming for that twitch audience hard though.
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World's End Club. Looks like Pokemon but in pre calamity BioShock and it's a sidescroller. IDWTF.
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Hade's Physical Edition. Lots of nice collectors item stuff including the sound track and artbook.
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Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, nice!
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Titled: Ninja Gaiden Master Collection
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Ninja gaiden black and and ninja gaiden 2 are backwards compatible enhanced 4k@60fps. 3 is also bc but runs at regular resolution.
Black runs in emulation if you have a super highend pc, sigma does run on a moderate pc.
Sigma 1 on switch is great news. Its not as great as black but still a great game, a lot of the things that make it worse than black will be lost on most players. Basically this makes the switch a hell of a chracter action machine with bayonetta 1-3, ninja gaiden sigma and devil may cry 3 style switcher
Sigma 2 is kinda lol (s omuch worse than the original 2) and 3:re you can skip even though the actually fixed the combat system with re.
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Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity gets some DLC.
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Bravely Default II coming in 9 days. Don't think I can get excited about this though.
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Ghost & Goblins Resurrection coming with co-op.
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SaGa Frontier Remastered! Nice!
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Yeah surprisingly the retro looking games have me the most interested in this direct.
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Apex Legends is trying to maintain life support on the Switch ;p
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Zelda stuff!
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GOD DAMMIT
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LOL, I work on Zelda, and there ain't no Zelda happening any time soon.
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Skyward Sword is coming to the switch!
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Hopefully y'all can get through the intro.
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It starts, IMO, worst in series and ends, IMO, one of the best.
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It's also a gradual climb. Once you get to the time traveling desert though if you don't like that you should probably drop it, especially once you get to the ship.
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Also if there isn't a way to tell Fi to shut the fuck up you can forget about actually having to figure out the puzzles.
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Joycon based motion controls, apparently it's better, we'll see.
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Fuck yeah, button based controls!
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I wish the graphics were upgraded more. Was a decent Zelda game I’ll probably get it again.
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Final announcement... Splatoon!
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Is this a more open world game?
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Yup, Splatoon 3 :D
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2022, looks like more of the same but we'll see.
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I WANT to spent money on games for my switch, but I have not seen anything since Animal Crossing that is even vaguely interesting.
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First party, because most of the 3rd party games are on PC which is my main platform.
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Looks super early still, we'll get that kind of info maybe 3 months before release.
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Pyra and Mythra from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in Smash, March 2021
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout - Summer 2021
Outer Wilds - Summer 2021
Famicom Detective Clue 2-pack - First time in NA - May 14, 2021
Samurai Warriors 5 - Summer 2021
Legend of Mana - June 24, 2021
Monster Hunter Rise - March 26, 2021
Mario Golf: Super Rush - June 25, 2021
Tales from the Borderlands - March 24, 2021
Capcom Arcade Stadium - TODAY
Stubbs the Zombie - March 16, 2021
No More Heroes 3 - August 27, 2021
Neon White - Winter 2021
DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power - June 4, 2021
Plants v Zombies: Battle for Neighborville - March 19, 2021
Miitopia - May 21, 2021
Super Mario-themed items in Animal Crossing New Horizons - Feb. 25, 2021
Project Triangle Strategy (working title) from Squeenex - 2022, demo on eShop today
Star Wars Hunters from Zynga - 2021
Knockout City - May 21, 2021
World's End Club - May 28, 2021
Hades physical release - March 19, 2021
Ninja Gaiden Sigma - Master Collection (1,2,3 + dlc) - June 10, 2021
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity DLC - May through November 2021
Bravely Default 2 - February 26, 2021
Ghosts 'n' Goblin Resurrection - February 25, 2021
SaGa Frontier Remastered - April 15, 2021
Apex Legends - March 9, 2021
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD - July 16, 2021 (as well as special Joy-Con for this)
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That and Monster Hunter have me the most interested.
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A new tactical RPG from Square is pretty awesome. Glad to see SaGa Frontier and Legend of Mana, too.
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Not a thing that interested me from that entire announcement that’s definitely disappointing. Sure Skyward Sword is sorta nice but I’ve already played it and it’s not a game I personally want to play again. Unless Nintendo busts out sone other good stuff my Switch might get no more play after 3DWorld is done.
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Splatoon 3 is cool but I was hoping for
Mario kart before another Splatoon. Maybe in the next fall direct.-
There’s no new Mario Kart this gen, 8 is still selling like hot cakes.
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So the next big direct in the summer or fall should announce the 2021 holiday games. I’m hoping for Mario Kart or something else big. Also Zelda botw2 is looking like holiday 2022.
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I was hoping for at least a Zero Mission & Fusion launch on a GBA app for Nintendo Online :(
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I expect that MPT re-release will hit ~6 months before MP4. If Mercury Stream redid Other M (particularly the story but the rest of it needs some work too) that would be cool too. 2.5D or high fidelity Fusion &/ Zero Mission would be great too.
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Ah nut bunnies, was hoping for some BOTW2 something something.
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It wasn't great. 3rd parties stole the show and most of those were niche.
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Yeah. Haven't used my switch much at all after animal crossing and the pandemic.
Seems like most third party have abandoned it. Outside of Splatoon 3, nothing for me. Not interested in another jrpg right now or the f2p cellphone games. -
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My guess is Switch Pro reveal with Botw2 gameplay sometime later this year
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No 35 anniversary stuff is a bummer
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I would think the issue with Hearthstone is the need to do button controls for docked mode. Probably the same reason it hasn't come to the other consoles (also I don't know what the friction is for in-game spending)
Hearthstone uses Unity which already runs everywhere so compatibility isn't an issue. Fallout Shelter also runs in Unity and runs on Switch, albeit a completely different style of game.
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Probably a holiday-ish release. They're giving room for people to reassess Skyward Sword before giving people the one they really want.
I only played the first eight hours of SS game before tapping out. Years later I hear that it has some of the best dungeons in the series, so yeah, I have to assume that not killing demand for Skyward Sword with Wind Waker is the reason
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The Skyward Sword thing is interesting to me since it's basically a lost Zelda game to me.
It's weird since I'm a big Zelda fan and all but Skyward Sword for some reason just didn't register to me that it existed. Something I've come to realize is how many Zelda games I've played versus how many I've ever finished. I think in my mind since I hadn't finished Twilight Princess on Wii (still haven't) I figured "ok I'll wait until I'm done with that one before I pay any attention to this new one" and it just never happened. And the game was a critical and commercial success so it's not like it was the shitty Zelda game or anything far as I know.
So I'm kinda looking forward to it in a similar way to people who never played SM3DW were looking forward to last week's release. But on the other hand... the footage they showed of it kinda looked janky. I get that it's an upscaled Wii game originally designed for a different control scheme but it's going to be really hard to go from 100+ hours completing BOTW and then go to this game. Maybe.
I mean in some ways Link's Awakening dodged the whole issue by deliberately being a low-fi remake of an old game but I hope Skyward Sword HD doesn't wind up being the game equivalent of listening to a rough demo of a good album.-
I was hoping for a huge graphic overhaul to make up for the mediocre gameplay but doesn’t look that much different at first glance. I’m sure 60fps will help but still. Windwaker HD was a huge upgrade.
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It doesn’t look like a $60 upgrade to me. Oh well, that’s Nintendo for you.
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For me the improvements it needs aren't visuals, but gameplay.
Get rid of the confirmations on every pop-up, or the pop-ups that hit every time you pick something up.
Add better quest tracking. There's a handful of relatively small changes that would go a loooong way to improve the gameplay experience.
When the game was good, it's one of the best Zeldas. but the low points are also really low. But they're lows that would be pretty easy to mitigate on revision.-
Yea that’s fine. I just don’t think it’s worth $60 for a 10 year old game. At least Wii’s Mario Galaxy port included 2 other games and Mario 3D world had a whole new game added.
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The problem with these things is that we get word that there’s some game we are interested in being announced or mentioned and so we see the majority of the presentation being a bunch of shit we don’t care about (with a few “huh.” gems in there), then the game we care about is usually missing or a letdown, then they announce something cool but it’s too early to show much and it’s so far in the future who cares.
I thought the presentation was good but people were expecting more.
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Yea I remember playing it on release and it was pretty meh. I’ll probably pass til it drops to maybe $30
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I’m most excited about Legend of Mana HD, frankly. I really liked the game back then and can do €30 for better graphics and orchestrated music but €60 for Skyward Sword can fuck right off.
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Wow you guys are bitter...
I'm not saying this was mind-blowing but this was a pretty solid line-up, with some surprises that came out of nowhere/weren't predicted.
I liked that what they showed was pretty much going to release along the year too, Nintendo doesn't like to talk about multi-years project, as they should given how Zelda BotW kept being pushed or how Metroid Prime 4 has been rebooted.
All-in-all, I'm happy. And I can replay Skyward Sword, which I really enjoyed back then despite its limitations (at least moreso than Twilight Princess, a game so utterly boring even the HD version didn't manage to grab me)-
There was 10 minutes of filler they could have cut. That said, Splatoon 3 (best modern shooter series this side of nuDoom), Project Strategy Triangle , Mario Golf Super Rush (especially after how good Mario Tennis ACES was), Pyra/Mythra in Smash, and Neon White are all terrific announcements.
It ran longer than it needed to, and while the Splatoon 3 teaser was terrific its maybe too soon to be talking about a 2022 release, especially since the Direct was otherwise focused on games and demos coming out within the next five months. It was decent overall, looking forward to whatever the Direct is after they release Skyward Sword HD in July.-
Yeah it ran too long, and Takahashi doesn't have Iwata's or Koizumi's charisma, going back to him felt annoying.
As far as individual trailers...that game from EA which I already forgot way overran its screentime. But perhaps I'm not the target, I've got a hard time being excited about any of EA's production.
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