For me there was too much dialogue. Just cut down on some of that stuff. The battle system and djinns are great. I like the map. One day I'd like to see it get out of SNES mode and grow into a Dragon Quest of today.
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Nintendo Direct confirmed for Sept 13th at 6PM EST (Over)
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Golden Sun 3DS is evej better! Metric fucktons of salt AND I can play it soon instead of waiting to save ip money for a Switch. Win win baby.
I accept the blame but it goes partly to me just waking up without an ounce of coffee in my body. :(
Warframe. I called it from 2 weeks ago when the original thread started.
I'm still disappointed Otter is taking votes from "Yes, it's time" for AC. It's like watching a political election.
Or you could just save up and likely end up with a better game in the end.
My point is that even good games in series that people often clamor for don't sell. There's really no reason to expect that any fan demanded games would be huge sellers. Even Mother 3, a Mother collection, or even the entire Mother trilogy completely remade from the ground up likely wouldn't be a huge hit.
Nintendo could release another Golden Sun, but it likely wouldn't sell very well and there's a good chance the people clamoring for another would just complain about it even if it was a solid game. Alternatively they can release another Mario game and those same people will complain all Nintendo releases is Mario, but at least it would sell millions of copies. I don't blame them for focusing on their main franchises and regulated a bunch of fan favorites to B-status.
I just have to think they have more to announce. The great hope with the Switch was they'd be combining all their software development pipelines into one platform so you'd get a pretty constant stream of Nintendo first and second party releases. That really hasn't been the case in 2018. In terms of new Nintendo retail releases we've got:
Kirby Star Allies
Mario Tennis Aces
Pokemon Let's Go
Smash
XBC2: Torna
Labo
So like...5.5 games and a half game/half STEM software thingy.
Compare that to say, 2013 where you're got something like 15 new retail releases across Wii U and 3DS. Now obviously your standard Switch game is going to need more resources to develop than your standard 3DS game so it's not directly comparable, but I don't see how Nintendo can't be at least putting out 10 new retail releases a year on the Switch from 2019. That's mean to be the whole advantage of the hybrid platform. Unless I'm just completely underestimating how many people they've been putting on individual games now.
Kirby Star Allies
Mario Tennis Aces
Pokemon Let's Go
Smash
XBC2: Torna
Labo
So like...5.5 games and a half game/half STEM software thingy.
Compare that to say, 2013 where you're got something like 15 new retail releases across Wii U and 3DS. Now obviously your standard Switch game is going to need more resources to develop than your standard 3DS game so it's not directly comparable, but I don't see how Nintendo can't be at least putting out 10 new retail releases a year on the Switch from 2019. That's mean to be the whole advantage of the hybrid platform. Unless I'm just completely underestimating how many people they've been putting on individual games now.
Even if it isn't real, I am curious where all this talk about the game is suddenly coming from.
True, I really hope to see anything about SMT 5 on this year´s TGS. Maybe too optimistic.
That's what happens when you have otter good options on the ballot for once
I wholeheartedly agree and I've been thinking the exact same for a long while. They have sort of twice the amount of developers but so far it has led to no results.
I just wanna say I appreciate your work. Thank you for your service.
This could become spicy.
You forgot Sushi Striker and Mario Party, and even if you only count Labo as 0.5 each that's 1.5 total. And ports still take development time, especially the ones that add a significant amount of content. Without ports they're at 8.5 (by your logic with the 0.5), and 12.5 including ports which isn't a bad number all things considered.
Plus you combined Wii U and 3DS while completely neglecting to mention all the 3DS games that released this year. Counting those we're at 17.5 which is over your comparison.
And when it inevitably, obviously bombs commercially on 3DS we can rest assured that the IP is officially dead forever!
Ohhhhh yeeeeaaaahhhh!
I know that, in my case, I never liked playing games on the 3DS to begin with. I've had one since launch, and owned numerous iterations of the system, and have poured hundreds upon hundreds of hours into playing games on the device. I've been introduced to series I've never played before. I've revisited catalogs I missed and relished in the opportunity to experience them. I've wondered how some franchises will ever recover when the dual-screen format is abandoned. There is no denying that the 3DS has delivered me good times and good feelings.
But I hate the 3DS as a machine, I have always hated it. I thought it was old, hideous technology the day it was released and that feeling has only worsened and deepened over time. To see a game I love like Luigi's Mansion reduced to that resolution and that control scheme is ruinous to me. There is no game I have ever played on the 3DS that I didn't wish I was playing on a better system. Every game I have ever played on the device is categorically worse of an experience, in my opinion, because it's a 3DS game instead of something else. I often wishes the 3DS had failed in the beginning when it looked like it might so Nintendo would have had to release a superior handheld that did the catalog justice. But Nintendo is good at sticking it out and turning things around.
A lot of people, I think especially fellow Nintendo fans, will say that it's all about the games and the hardware doesn't matter. I get that. But I don't really feel that way myself. I think a system itself should feel good to play, too. I don't think the 3DS ever felt good to play and all it's games suffered for it. I think the 3DS is a poor stage on which some great games were played. It's like fine dining on a paper plate.
I was ready to leave the 3DS behind in, like 2015. So every year I've had to continue using it has been undesirable to me. It's a system I don't really consider replaced by the Switch, and it's a system I would prefer to see succeeded with a similar form factor, but settling for another 3DS experience sucks the joy right out of me. I consider it a bad experience.
So a game coming out on the 3DS in 2018 is just a worse version of the feeling I've always had: I wish these games were anywhere but here. Or, at least, I will never stop wishing the 3DS had been something other than it was.
My personal and dramatic grievances with the hardware aside, I do think that the convenience and cost factor of juggling several systems at a time is discouraging to most players. I really want to play Demon's Souls, but it's locked away on the PS3, which means it might as well not exist for me. I don't have the money or the space to own a system for every older game I want to play. This is why backward's compatibility, or at least remasters, are so important to me. At least the 3DS got that part right.
I'm glad other people enjoy playing games on their 3DS. I just never did.
I just had a quick glance on Switch Rumor Archive thread, I wonder if we will see some heavily-rumored titles (ie. NSMBU port and Star Fox Grand Prix) in the direct. In addition, Emily did mention Metroid Prime Trilogy in Feb. There are also some titles like Ridge Racer 8 and Call of Duty which were rumored before but never got confirmation.
I doubt they would put much stock in a 3DS game selling meh at this stage.
I mean, I want all the spicy rumors to be true but I doubt EVERYTHING will come to pass in this direct. That would put it above January Direct 2013 and then some, which is statistically imlossible to happen. Then again, this Direct is basically a Pre TGS event for a lot of Japanese Devs, and its the strongest TGS in years. So who knows, maybe this is September Direct 2018: The Return of January
That is actually very interesting, especially when you look at all the other mentions from Emily which were almost all correct.
The part you're forgetting is they specifically said that their new dev pipeline would make *porting assets* easier, not just that it'd make developing new assets from scratch easier.
And when you count ports we're getting *way* more Nintendo-published games on Switch this year than we did last year--about twice as many.
The final fantasy 15 chibi game. It was announced for ps4 and switch right around the original direct but there was no release info given for the switch.
I recently played Dark Dawn and is actually better than I remember. Sure, it has severe flaws like the fact that you can't return to certain parts of the game after a certain point (which means there are completely missable Djinns) and bad pacing but it still introduced neat stuff like more varied weapons and crafting, different designs for the Djinns and being able to learn more about the story with certain key words.
A sequel that could build upon that and fix some of the other issues could be pretty great and is about time for the series to go full 3D, I don't even need a gigantic world like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 but GS should start implementing big scale dungeons.
I just hope we will get some more info on the nintendo first party stuff. MP4, starfox grand prix, bayo 3, fire emblem three houses