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Django.Mango

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Jan 31, 2018
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I think one more thing is Animal Crossing, it's one of their biggest franchises and was a big reason they sold so many 3DS units. I would also add 3DS/Wii U games being ported to Switch and that's a pretty realistic list.

A port im also expecting to be announced/teased.


Smash Update -> Animal Crossing -> Isabelle in Smash as one more thing.

Skull Kidd while Sakurai is in a room that looks out of rainbow road snes, full of colored blocks

Animal Crossing is the final announcement of the Direct before they sign off. THEN the "one more thing" is Skull Kid.

If they end with Skull Kid I'll be a happy camper.

Wow the smash thirst is real. I hope you guys will be satisfied but im more for a teaser/trailer of something huge or even new. Time will tell.
 

Elven_Star

Member
Oct 27, 2017
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I think Animal Crossing will be the only major announcement (oh and NSMBU) and then one major western announcement. Other than that I'm just expecting a lot we've seen already and maybe a couple of nice announcements.

BUT that would still be an amazing direct.
One major western announcement beside Civilization Vi?
 

Mory Dunz

Member
Oct 25, 2017
36,276
Yeah no need dive because it was low tier games and ports...

There's a difference between a real Direct and a Mini Direct. No Mini next year because we'll get actual brand new games and not ports/low tier games.
yea, that's what I was saying. The games didn't need a deep dive.

so 2018 January being a Mini has absolutely no bearing on 2019 being a mini or full. All that matters is if there's upcoming games that need extra attention, or something big for later in 2019 that needs announcing.

Presumably you'd figure January will be a full direct since there's Fire Emblem or maybe Yoshi (assuming FE doesn't just get its own direct).
but that's assuming that those games are actually Q1. Which I'm not positive about. Feel like FE could be april or may.
 

Tregard

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Oct 27, 2017
5,221
My wishlist:

- Super Mario Maker 2 (with a Labo art studio which allows you to draw out your own levels like Miyamoto did in the 80s)

- Super Monkey Ball 3 (It's good again!)

- New TimeSplitters (THQ Nordic bringing the goods)

- N64 Classic w. Goldeneye Online & Rare games (tied into a Banjo Smash announcement)

- Megaman Universe reboot (Bringin' it back! Designed with the Mario Maker team)

- Nintendoworld (Nintendoland but correct this time: it's a theme park builder with mini-games on the rides)

- Super Mario 3D Remix (3D World engine but remixes of levels from 64, Sunshine, Galaxy and Galaxy 2)

- Breath of the Wild: Shrine Builder (Design your own shrines!)

- Pikmin 4 Bingo Battle Royale (I *love* bingo battle)
 

Chackan

Member
Oct 31, 2017
5,097
Since this will be the last thread before the real thing (can you believe it?), here's my wishlist:
  • 2D Zelda on Switch
  • Business Division 11's new game
  • Legend of Heroes ports on Switch
  • A new Ogre Battle game
  • Persona 5
  • Shin Megami Tensei V
  • Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X
None of them is going to happen, of course.

Xenoblade Chronicles Online :D
 

pronk

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Oct 26, 2017
1,641
My predictions:

Endless Ocean 3
Animal Crossing: 2 New 2 Leaf
Metroid Dread 2D Meteorooid
Metroid Prime V
Wave Race 2160
1080 Snowboarding Star Fox Racers
Metroid Federation Force 2 (3DS)
Tom Nook Mafia series spinoff.
 

tolkir

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Oct 25, 2017
4,252
- Banjo Kazooie in Smash.
- Ultimate Rare Replay with Nintendo IPs released on Switch and Xbox.
 

Łazy

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Nov 1, 2017
5,249
And they will all happen!
Couldn't listen yet but a friend did and told me the Xplain team got a lot more safe compared to last week.
BUT mentionned that you specifically went for FF titles coming, which is something I want for the Switch as I think it would be very good for video games in general if PS1/2 RPG came to the console. Since games like Octopath are doing well, I have the feel the golden era might even slightly come back if publishers worked right.

So in a nutshell I hope your prediction is right in a way or another.

What do you think about Last Remnant ?
Full PS4 exlcusivity ? Timed, not at all ? No idea : P ?
I want it.

Off topic, but are going to try Torna? There's some XB1 things coming back like Talent Arts and affinity charts.
Definitely.
I didn't like Xenoblade 2 overall (loved specific details here and there though of course) but I still want to see how it looks and what it tries to do.
And (shame) I bought the extension with the game initially with blind trust (got bitten hard on that one especially as I NEVER buy DLC, I don't like that), so I get the new story whether I want it or not.

Without gacha and other annoying elements, maybe it can go from "dislike" to tolerable/ok/not so bad. And if the characters/story is less... let's say chapter 2 or basic shonen, it might also help.

I really would have liked it much more if the battle system was basically Xenblade 1's, even if there was 0 upgrades. But oh well... as long as it doesn't become THE new systems for all their games I'm fine.
 
Nov 13, 2017
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All I want from the direct:

Mario Kart 8 DLC
Splatoon 2 Update
Animal Crossing!!!!!!!
Smash Bros character reveal

I'm pretty sure I'm going to walk away from this direct very happy :)
 

Dark Cloud

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
61,087
I really want the N64 Mini announcement here just to see if Nintendo and MS worked together to get BK and BT on it.
 

GasProblem

Prophet of Truth
Member
Nov 18, 2017
3,148
I played a lot of MK8 on the Wii U so I havent bought it yet for Switch. But if they're going to announce a new DLC pack for it I'm so in.
 

Gradon

Saw the truth behind the copied door
Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,460
UK
Here's my wishlist:

Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing

and oh I forgot one

Animal Crossing.

Thanks Nintendo xo

tbh I'm not sure what to expect, Bayonetta 3 gameplay but I don't wanna get my hopes up.
 
Jan 10, 2018
7,207
Tokyo
With what we already know (Civ6 releasing soon!) and my sure bet on Warframe shadow dropping after the direct, this event is already a success! Finally a good direct in 2018!
I hope that for next year, Nintendo won't forget that there are 12 months...
 

Jonneh

Good Vibes Gaming
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Oct 24, 2017
4,538
UK
Couldn't listen yet but a friend did and told me the Xplain team got a lot more safe compared to last week.
BUT mentionned that you specifically went for FF titles coming, which is something I want for the Switch as I think it would be very good for video games in general if PS1/2 RPG came to the console. Since games like Octopath are doing well, I have the feel the golden era might even slightly come back if publishers worked right.

So in a nutshell I hope your prediction is right in a way or another.

What do you think about Last Remnant ?
Full PS4 exlcusivity ? Timed, not at all ? No idea : P ?
I would guess The Last Remnant is releasing everywhere
 

Dark Cloud

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Oct 27, 2017
61,087
It's time. USE Animal Crossing to push online features. Go all out and make Animal Crossing a more online social game.
 

stan423321

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Oct 25, 2017
8,676
Rayman Space Adventures. Oh boy, now I'm conflicted. Not on likeliness, just on whether this would be a good thing or not. I already considered Legends to be noticeably worse than Origins, yet it was praised, so it would probably keep going against my tastes.
 

Kaxi

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Oct 30, 2017
326
Poland
Going by your enjoyment of the released games, and how much you've previously enjoyed the series for which games are coming in 2019, which year do you prefer in terms of 1st and 3rd party exclusives - 2017 or (hypothetical) 2019?

2017:
Super Mario Odyssey
Splatoon 2
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Mario and Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
ARMS
1-2 Switch
Golf Story

2019:
Animal Crossing
Metroid Prime 4
Bayonetta 3
Fire Emblem Three Houses
Yoshi's Crafted World
Shin Megami Tensei V
Pokemon 2018
Daemon X Machina
Star Fox Grand Prix

Think I still prefer 2017 because of Splatoon 2 being the GOAT game, but it's certainly close! Also, I know that there's no set lineup for 2019 yet, this is entirely hypothetical.


Still 2017 purely because of Zelda, the best installment in my favorite series, and probably the best game of all time.

But MP4 + FE:3H + Bayo3 combined make a strong case.
 

Waffle

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Oct 28, 2017
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Always hoping for Overwatch and maybe Capcom surprising us with a Nintendo collaboration fighter. I also want them to release the 2 Guilty Gear games they announced already so I can hope for GG Xrd to get ported. :)
 
Oct 26, 2017
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I find it odd that they never mentioned online info would be in the direct last week.
Perhaps they were planning on doing a mini-direct just for it this week but ended up merging the two while cutting some content from the one intended for last week.