Drumstick wrote:When you start playing with the time allocated to each thing you are living in the land of fantasy. Look at it from the perspective of how many new games were announced. The Smash stuff is of no interest to me but they still unveiled remastered releases of Mario Party, Monkey Ball and Advance Wars in addition to brand new iterations of Metroid and Wario Ware. That's releases in 5 Nintendo franchises.
Then there's Mario + Rabbids which Ubisoft covered, that's a 6th big release. There was DLC for AoC and more footage of a few previously announced games like Mario Golf, MHS2 and BotW2.
I don't see how that isn't at least good no matter how you slice it.
Exactly. There is loads there, people are just dismissing everything they aren't personally interested in - which is fair enough, but you should probably set realistic expectations when you know Nintendo has all these properties across a wide range of genres.
Maybe it's true that Sony have an easier time making their core fans happier because their first party offerings are more homogeneous. They can show off three different third person action adventure games, and fans of third person action adventure games will come away happy with three new announcements, but Nintendo show two minigame collections, a strategy game and a 2D Metroid and there is less crossover in people getting excited for each of them.
Jenuall wrote:The Direct was definitely in "okay" territory for me, like I said before I think only Metroid Dread really excited me, but at the same time I can appreciate that there were lots of things in here that other people were really happy to see, even if they don't interest me personally: Advance Wars, WarioWare etc.
I think this is what people need to realise instead of bemoaning half the direct for being too "niche", that we actually all have our own niche tastes and it is very unlikely you'll ever get a direct tailored exactly to yours. Maybe only Mario, Mario Kart and Zelda are universally considered big announcements. We got an update on a new game for one of those!
Victor Mildew wrote:Not that id buy one, but i thought the zelda game and watch was pretty cool. If it wasn't available on my 3DS already, I'd probably buy it just for links awakening, as I think that's the only release of the original game there's been since it first came out (Its the DX version on the 3ds).
Yeah it's actually kind of cool that it's the original and not DX. I'm assuming it will be a later revision that fixed some of the bugs too, so technically that will be a new version for me to own. If I do get it it will be the fifth version of LA I have bought (GB original, DX, 3DS eshop, Switch remake, and now G&W)
Victor Mildew wrote:I'm annoyed with Mario party, because we bought the switch one (our first MP game) and it was pretty barebones, with only a few boards (and only one was interesting). As such, we didn't play it much, and to see this with loads more stuff in it, but not be offered ass DLC to the previous game, but be a full priced release, means I won't buy it,
To be fair having multiple games per console is pretty standard for Mario Party right? Granted the WiiU only had the one, and DLC wasn't a thing before that with Nintendo, but I don't think it's very surprising (although I can see why it would be annoying).