I don't necessarily disagree, IMO the problem is more "Chris Pratt" than "Not Charles Martinet"
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Nintendo Direct announced for September 23rd at 6PM ET, focusing “Switch games launching this winter”
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I don't necessarily disagree, IMO the problem is more "Chris Pratt" than "Not Charles Martinet"
Uhh in the vaguest sense possible, you won't be able to figure that out from the demo. The game's pretty solid, the whole "card-based TTRPG" presentation aspect is done well and there's a lot of charm to it. But the story seems like it's separate from the actual game
Chris Pratt is... Fine. As a person? Idk. But Lego Movie was solid. Guardians is solid. But I can totally see why people hate the decision.
Charlie Day as Luigi though? I will defend that to the end.
In hindsight a game that's not currently announced for Japan not showing up in a direct is maybe less surprising
None of the games showcased seem to have anything special in terms of gameplay. Certainly nothing we've never seen before in any other games.
I feel like Nintendo's standards have really fallen off a cliff recently.
You could say the same thing about 99% of gaming events regardless of graphical prowess.
Wellllllllll….. He's a member of a pretty homophobic church.
right, but at least we get shiny new graphics. but with nintendo, you get the same gameplay with shitty graphics.
typically as a console ages, games look better because devs get better at optimizing the hardware. Just look a ps4 games during the launch year vs the latter games.
But it seems like with nintendo, the best looking games came out the first couple of years and graphics end up getting worse and worse as the system ages.
Wonder how Disco Elysium will perform on switch. I'm trying to decide which platform between steam, PS5 and switch to get this game on. Switch has a natural advantage if its performance and image quality is as good as the other two platforms. Anybody know anything regarding this?
Rise literally came out this year and it looks great, better than any year 1 game on Switch
Just quoting this because goodness... Wii games evolved over time. But I guess everything outside the Sony circle is crap. Obvious fanboyism is so bleh
how would I know how crappy the graphics are if I don't actually watch the nintendo direct?
why can't every game look like rdr2 and the last of us 2!!! The world would be a better place !!!!
/s
Were you expecting cutting edge graphics from a Nintendo Direct?
Well that was... not much. Pretty disappointing for me personally, not one single thing for me to get excited about. Despite "focusing on 2021 games" I think more than half the stuff was 2022, plus spending time on updates for games I forgot existed, plus several announcements of a future event where the actual announcement will happen, plus a unique bonus of a whole section on some Mario movie wherein we didn't even get to see a trailer. Literally not even video games. Well, it is what it is.
Yeah rise does look pretty good, but I dont think rise looks better than botw, smo, smash, or luigis mansion.
no, but most of these games look worse than the games that came out during the early years of the nintendo switch.
best looking game was metroid dread. but ori and the will of the wisps blows metroid dread away.
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Metroid Dread
SMTV
Advance Wars 1 + 2
Kirby
Triangle Strategy
Two Pokémon games
I mean the end of this year into next year is loaded with appealing software IMO.
SMTV
Advance Wars 1 + 2
Kirby
Triangle Strategy
Two Pokémon games
I mean the end of this year into next year is loaded with appealing software IMO.
he would be okay. He can play other roles than just wooohooos for mario but for a big budget title nintendo would want a big name.
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Oh yeah, you're right. I always think of this winter as this year for some reason. But Kirby's out in Spring, Bayo is undated 2022, I'm guessing later than Jan/Feb, Rise is Summer, most stuff with an actual release date was next month or November, so ??? Maybe some of the stuff shown is coming earlier than I think? Who knows, I don't care that much given I'm not that interested in the games anyway.
Oh I forgot about the ROM dumps they want me to pay for. lol. Though it would be really funny if the NSO version of SM64 is superior to the 3D All Stars version.
Oh yeah for sure.
Jack Black as bowser is something i got to see.
Almost as if the device they have is a portable device and not a massive powerhouse?
"Generations behind" is such a dumb thing to say. Not everything is about graphics
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Why don't you go back and play with your Gameboy then.
I own a switch, but I'm disappointed with the low effort games that have been coming out lately.
It's ok to criticize something, you know.
Shouldn't the games run at locked fps then at the very least? They are so good at using art styles, etc. to make their games look unique and timeless.
Setting aside any feeling about Chris Pratt as a person, the problem I have with the choice is that I struggle to envision his voice coming out of Mario. His is not a personality that evokes the spirit or nature of that character. It's not a perfect fit like Bob Hoskins at any rate. (The live action movie is trash, but Hoskins would have nailed the role in a movie that was closer to the source material. What a waste.)
Agreed about Charlie Day though. Hell, the rest of the cast were pretty solid picks. Jack Black as Bowser is going to be something pretty special.
They're still limited by hardware, but it's up to the game.
But let's not act like there aren't games with fluctuating frame rates and iffy graphics on the other platforms
Yes you can criticise something. You can also be ridiculous, especially when you claim games are low effort solely because of visuals
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The fidelity of Bayonetta 3 was definitely disappointing, but also hitting 60fps on the Switch is gonna mean this is what you get. Also -- we were due this Animal Crossing update months ago. I'm a little disappointed it's taken them so long to put out what is (hopefully) a meaty update to one of the best-selling games. I know, I know, COVID. But the radio silence has not been handled well by Nintendo.
Otherwise, I thought it was a very solid Direct. Definitely missing some things (Xenoblade), but overall it's a good lineup.
Otherwise, I thought it was a very solid Direct. Definitely missing some things (Xenoblade), but overall it's a good lineup.
lol.
Please point out to me the games that play anything like Splatoon, have anything like the breadth capture system of Mario Odyssey, how BOTW has caused the entire open world RPG genre to rethink it's approach, just anything on the cale of New horizons in the animal crossing like space, I could go on for ages.
Yeah that's what I mean. Actor? Okay. Person? Eep.
I'm hoping it literally won't be "Chris Pratt doing Chris Pratt's voice". Voice direction of big celebs can work though. Benedict Cumberbatch as the Grinch was pretty good, it didn't even sound like him. I always feel bad about Hoskins' PTSD over this movie. He could wrestle with an imaginary rabbit in a sink, but this was the movie that truly haunted him.
Yep those were great games. Botw is my favorite Nintendo game of all time. In smo i got every single moon. Except I never cared for animal crossing. I'm not into those collectalon games.
But where is the innovation lately from Nintendo? They seem mostly interested in releasing ports of older Wii u games. Even bowsers fury was only a quarter of a game.
I was looking forward to seeing botw2 and they didn't even show that.
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The whole industry has had a quiet year this year thanks to *checks notes* a highly contagious, potentially lethal plague.
It's pretty clear from the direct and Sony's recent state of play that we'll be seeing the bigger hitters start firing back up as of the new year.
Besides, we got a Breath of the Wild 2 update just a few months ago.
Direct was mediocre for me. 3D Kirby and the showing of Bayonetta 3 were good. But as so often, I missed a lot of other games.
New game from EPD Toyo
New Game from Mario Kart Team
New game from 2DMario/Pikmin-Team
New game from Monolith
Resi Relevations 3 from Capcom
A lot of heavenly rumored stuff was missing again and this annoys me to be honest. Because now its pretty sure, that we will not SEE some of this stuff before February 2022 and we will not GET some if this stuff before late 2022 :(
New game from EPD Toyo
New Game from Mario Kart Team
New game from 2DMario/Pikmin-Team
New game from Monolith
Resi Relevations 3 from Capcom
A lot of heavenly rumored stuff was missing again and this annoys me to be honest. Because now its pretty sure, that we will not SEE some of this stuff before February 2022 and we will not GET some if this stuff before late 2022 :(
I would disagree with that. There's been a lot high quality PS5 and pc games out this year. Not so much for the switch.
Well, PlayStation 5 has 44 titles with a Metacritic ranking of 80 and higher since it's launch last year.
Switch has 50 rated 80 and above in this year alone.
Not bad for a system lacking quality titles.
Was watching the Direct last night and wondering who the team is working on the Kirby game - and it hit me light a bolt of lightning that Mario Odyssey is so much a damn Kirby game in the way that throwing your hat copies enemy abilities. Obviously the platforming for Mario is very different (and sublime) compared to Kirby - but thought that was interesting after seeing a Kirby game that reminded me so much of Odyssey.
