Went to bed happy, did not expect quite such a reaction in this thread. You're all (mostly) mental
Monster Hunter Rise and No More Heroes 3 are probably my two most anticipated games of the year, both are looking slick as hell and are absolute must buys. Age of Calamity was one of my favourite games of last year and I was hoping for DLC, new characters are very welcome. Skyward Sword is one of my favourite Zelda games and I'm excited for the remaster not least because I can now get my girlfriend to play it (I just hope they make some QOL tweaks to make it definitive! The button controls are going to be... controversial). Brand new Nintendo IP game announcements in Mario Golf and Splatoon 3 - I'm almost certainly going to play both and am very happy to see Mario Golf has a proper singleplayer mode, plus speed golf looks to be good fun. Animal Crossing updates are very welcome (warp pipes!) for a game I'm still playing daily. Project Triangle Strategy with a demo immediately available is great, I might not have enjoyed Octopath that much in the end but I love the 2D-HD style and this being a TRPG has me interested (my friend assures me it looks
very Tactics Ogre which I understand is a good thing). Famicom Detective Club remakes/localisations were completely out of left field and definitely have my interest, as do Legend of Mana remaster (what a casual bombshell!), and World's End Club. Indie representation in Hades (rebuying physical for the collection and that art book!) and The Outer Wilds (much like Disco Elysium I've been greatly wanting to play and a Switch port makes that more likely so is very welcome). Finally Neon White looks interesting with good reason to think it should be good and I won't ever say no to more musou games like Samurai Warriors 5.
I don't even particularly care for Smash or Xenoblade but that character reveal was pretty entertaining, I love how self aware Nintendo are with playing with the reveals and making an event of them. "No I won't tell you anything about BOTW 2" was also pretty funny.
Christopher wrote:I was hoping Splatoon was going to be a different kind of Splatoon from that opening. But nope it's just another Splatoon (don't get me wrong, I adore the other games).
These are my thoughts too! I was hoping from the way the trailer started it was some singleplayer action game so I was a little disappointed when the title appeared and it started showing multiplayer, but I can't really complain about a standard sequel as Splatoon is great! I'll definitely be playing it. It will have a singleplayer component anyway, hopefully that will be the most substantial yet for the series.
Jenuall wrote:The more I watch presentations like this and the similar content from the other manufacturers and publishers the more I think that "mainstream" gaming just isn't for me any more.
I don't think this was a particularly mainstream direct at all
Famicom Detective Club remakes out of left field, JRPGs all over the shop (and TRPGs which are a niche within a niche), No More Heroes 3 (while it might be his most popular franchise I don't think you could ever call a Suda51 game mainstream!), whatever Neon White actually is, big indie titles with Outer Wilds and Hades. All popular stuff, I don't think you could expect anything else to get a direct spot, but definitely not your COD, Fifa, Assassin's Creeds or GTAs. Much more of a Japanese focus and with some proper curveballs thrown in.
Balladeer wrote:[Twilight Princess] was the last truly story-driven Zelda
Balla, my friend, I like you, but Skyward Sword is the most story-driven Zelda ever made