Whine, whine, whine, some people gonna whine. ?
Looking forward to this game, regardless of what Bowser’s Fury is. And more games ARE coming. We’re only twelve days into 2021, after a crap year that probably sank a lot of plans and announcements (and the pandemic has not magically disappeared just because it’s a new year). Patience is needed.
And we know BotW2, Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3 are in the works. Any of them a 2021 game? Who knows? Plus there are also some anniversaries this year (Zelda, Pokémon, Donkey Kong, Metroid), something might happen there.
I will take what I can get, but I so much would prefer if they went back to general Directs. It’s been so long that I don’t really expect or hope for them anymore. But it’s still a bit sad because I think there was something special about them. It’s funny how Sony has been having more proper Directs this time, so to speak.
As for the game, I usually find these ports to not have enough new content for the price they’re sold as, so I’ll likely pass or wait for a big sale. I’m prepared to be surprised with Bowser’s Fury, though. Really liked the base game on Wii U.
@Friendly Nintendo has a variety of studios, you can compare their global output with Xbox Game Studios and PlayStation Studios, say. Most of the games they mentioned were from PlayStation Studios. Of the 4 games you mentioned, HW:AoC is made mostly by Koei Tecmo it seems, and is Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit really a big new game? I would’ve mentioned 51 Clubhouse Games instead.
I’m not unhappy about the games we’ve gotten on Switch last year (it’s like 2018, an in-between year) or the prospects for this year but I think in terms of first-party in-house developed games you have to admit it was one of their weakest so far this gen, even taking the pandemic into account.
There weren’t many new games for the ehm… mature audience so to speak. Ones to really sink your teeth into. Age of Calamity or Xenoblade come closest I think. Maybe Paper Mario too. Or maybe deadly premonition, but they butchered that one.
Mileage varies for each user as far as expectations as well as the genres and titles a given person is interested in playing. As for touting sales figures as a means of rebuttal as some folks seem to insist on doing, that’s completely beside the point, which is the percentage of original first-party titles developed and published by Nintendo versus remakes of older ones across the Switch’s lifespan thus far. Sure, Animal Crossing is great (I’ve personally played hundreds of hours myself), but setting its success aside, look at the past 1 1/2 years against the Switch’s first year in terms of release frequency and the percentage of new, original games. Surely you can see the difference.
3D World is among the best games of the past decade for me.
When it got announced on the WiiU it almost felt as if Nintendo would be embarrassed to show it. they kept the ball shockingly flat compared to f.e. Mario Kart 8 or Mario Maker which where blown very big especially for WiiU standards.
Still bought it a bit cautiously and… I realized I would never play this game alone. This game did what Mario Kart 64 did on the N64 for me. Its just one hell of a great and fresh multiplayer coop experience. I played it with experienced players as well as less experienced ones and even when playing together everyone had fun. I don’t know how they did it, but I imagine its not so simple to hold everything together like this.
I played through it with my wife who barely touches any gamepad. Then again. And again. And just the sheer amount of levels and worlds to unlock was just so good.
Absolute masterpiece. Maybe not in single player which I really never tried to find out in 6 years. But for me this did for 3D jump’n runs what MK did for fun racers or goldeneye for first person shooters. It elevated the whole genre into the mutiplayer arena.
