General Nintendo thread

That is unreasonably pedantic.

And no, they'd just call it Smash. Smash is its own thing. While the different games have varying mechanics its still Smash. There are, however, two distinct styles of Metroid. Classic and Prime. Prime in this case referring to the style of play codified by Metroid Prime. The 2.0 is entirely unnecessary and actually sounds far more like a sequel to the first Prime than some nebulous successor that people hope for. Given that we don't have a working title for any kind of future Retro produced Metroid work, I think its reasonable to let people carry the Prime name a little further.

Or not. This is silly.

EDIT: The .0 implies no such thing. It implies an un-updated sequel.

edited 14th Jun '16 8:33:05 AM by Zeromaeus

The new stream starts in half an hour, right?

Thanks

edited 14th Jun '16 8:33:29 AM by LeRoyal

In more important news, Nintendo's E3 sale should have started right about now and their Treehouse Live event should be starting in about half an hour or so.

Yeah, it's way too pedantic.

The only thing I say about Smash is that I prefer people say Melee when they are suggesting to play that game. But that's not the same thing as trying to properly discuss it. Being the definite game among the series at the time, I get why they used a word that could mean Brawl or Smash 64 by default.

That's why I simply ask for clarification at best. Waxing Name, going to be blunt; Why don't you just ask them what they mean instead of whining that they don't use the term you like? It's fine to say "I got confused due to the wording". It's not fine to rant that they refuse to use a term you prefer. There's a level of difference here.

The site has been active for a while now. Just not the videos. It stopped being a log since... 9 am?

edited 14th Jun '16 8:34:46 AM by Irene

I will be sure to check that out once the grip of sleep releases me. I will now flee this conversation. This 'argument' to be buried under a heap of actual news.

Well, it's like Elbruno said: everyone uses Prime 4 to refer to "game in the style of Prime." So I already know what they mean.

It's just that I feel that using Prime 4 is just wrong because the Phazon story ended with only a Sequel Hook to start a new story.

edited 14th Jun '16 8:39:11 AM by WaxingName

For those who want it, I took this screenshot from Nintendo's E3 site and made it my desktop background.

Artifact Title is a thing.

Thanks!

edited 14th Jun '16 8:47:36 AM by TheAirman

Meh, who cares what they meant. As long as the gameplay is fun, cool.

Well, the Treehouse has started, and their focusing on Pokemon right now before they spend the rest of the day on Legend of Zelda.

Harder format to follow at work, though i caught the main trailers for both.

Now we must watch and wait for tidbits, slips, cracks in the NX facade.

So, I found out about the first trailer for the new Zelda game.

For starters, it's now called The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Ok, good name.

Also, when I read IGN saying it will have voice acting, I was like "wait, what?!"

And lo and behold, when the trailer started, the first thing was a female voice saying "Open your eyes" in. Perfect. English. Right there, my face was literally 0_0.

And it stayed like that because it looked so f*cking beautiful...it sounded so f*ucking beautiful. Like ''music from a Miyazaki movie-beautiful"...I was awestruck from start to finish.

Holy crap, you guys. This is gonna be on Wii U. This inevitable masterpiece will be on Wii U.

And I can't wait...and neither will my sister.

(Also, female voice speculation. I say it's either a female parental figure to Link, a lady friend of Link's, or Zelda herself. Actually, I'm not sure which sound more probable. I'd have to hear it again, I'm still reeling from how gorgeous that trailer was...)

It's Zelda. It can't be anyone else.

Oh, it can be someone else. But it's probably Zelda. Since she's done that before.

Much like Skyward Sword, Nintendo decided to develop the entire control scheme around their control scheme of the gen. So both motion control and needed to use both the game pad screen and the television screen to properly aim and navigate.

Some people don't mind it while others felt it was an unnecessary feature. I'm in the camp where I can play the game fine, but still feel they made the control scheme far more complicated than it needed to be. It's like making a Super Mario game but having to use the Guitar Hero guitar as your controller. It could work, but it'd still be obtuse.

edited 14th Jun '16 10:38:40 AM by Lionheart0

You need two sets of eyes to play and the vehicles just control a lot more clunkily than it did in 64 or Assault.

And aiming is all done with gyroscope controls on top of that. So not only do you need to rapidly look back and forth between the television and the gamepad screen, you have to keep your hands steady for long periods of time and constantly reset the gyroscope when it inevitably unaligns. And even if you've got it lined up and everything, the actual crosshairs don't always match where the shot will go so it's kind of a crapshoot, literally. Also, all the boss fights are all-range mode so they take forever and involve a lot of aimless circling.

The fact that it tries to emulate 64 in tone and script just doesn't work for me either because it's all the narm with none of the actual charm that makes 64 entertaining. So it feels like a tremendous step back from Assault, and a shallow imitator of 64 with shit-tier controls.

The only real good things I can say about it personally are that the music is good, Andross has a bit more characterization and motivation, and there's one boss fight that sends a jolt right into the nostalgia center (the Attack Carrier from 64's first stage, complete with the classic music), but then the fact that it's a Star Fox Zero boss battle and therefore incredibly long and difficult to shoot at comes back in full force.

Starting in ten!

A new IP announced: Ever Oasis, a 3DS action/adventure/RPG. Developed by Grezzo (Ocarina of Time 3D, Majora's Mask 3D, Triforce Heroes), spearheaded by Koichi Ishii (Final Fantasy, Mana series).

edited 15th Jun '16 11:11:38 AM by Blueeyedrat

Sure looks like Grezzo learned a thing or two from developing the N64 Zelda remakes.

I'm surprised they didn't just go ahead and use that engine to make an entirely new Zelda game themselves.

Well, there's also Breath of the Wild. So, maybe it was to avoid competing with another Zelda title?

edited 15th Jun '16 9:31:19 PM by powerpuffbats

CD Media to distribute Nintendo products in Greece and the Balkans after Nintendo's falling out with former distributor Nortec.

edited 22nd Jun '16 4:14:40 AM by tclittle

FY 2016 Q1 results will be announced on July 27th.

Also, don't forget about the 76th General Shareholders Meeting on June 29th.

Nintendo of America's VP of Marketing and Sales Scott Moffit is leaving the company at the end of the summer and the position is being dissolved.

So that's where Trev's source came from.

Feels like someone is leaving Nintendo every other week lately.