Wind Waker HD was really good. They streamlined parts of the game to make it flow better, changed a few things (like sailing speed, hard mode) and added an entirely new lighting engine.
If Nintendo wants to extend the life of the Switch and keep sales plowing forwards against new hardware, to give them more time to develop a Switch successor, this Direct needs to be BIG, as in, they really need to show up like never before. We haven't seen a new mainline Mario game since Odyssey, so that's a possibility. BotW2 news, title drop and gameplay with story teaser. Metroid Prime 4 trailer and Prime HD with immediate digital release. A new Donkey Kong title. Ports for Wind W...
I like the hardware itself, the problem is that outside of Elden Ring, this has so far been one of the worst years for big game releases I can even remember. The best new games I've played are Elden Ring, Sunbreak and Cult of the Lamb. I don't feel like Western AAA games are in a very good place at all right now.
Give me a new 2D Castlevania please lol. It's only been 14 years...
The thing is, streaming is getting increasingly terrible. Netflix is a joke now, HBO Max is getting rid of everything, Paramount+ isn't worth it for free considering how awful the app is. Hulu has been solid for a long time. If Gamepass ever reaches Netflix levels of popularity, the same thing is going to happen. Everyone's going to want a piece of the pie, and licenses for games will get scattered and fragmented across too many services until people get sick of it and unsubscribe. My...
They're all self contained games, but the lore does tie in. You could watch a YouTube video and understand (maybe, the stories are a bit complex lol) everything. If you like JRPGs, I honestly suggest starting with Xenoblade Chronicles: DE, because it's probably one of the best the genre has ever had to offer. Really incredible game.
Bring back Miiverse and make all game achievements as usable stamps.
One, lack of solid ideas. Two, it was poor hardware planning from the get-go, as you had to basically run two instances of a game to use the tablet in any meaningful way, yet they still chose to have an incredibly low power draw console. I liked my Wii U while it was around, but their ideas for the console never really bore fruit.
The tablet would have been great for utilizing 3D space in games, like an Etrian Odyssey, dungeon crawler where you had to look around with the tablet to f...
Western studios are falling behind Japanese ones again in a big way, and it's kinda sad. Every great game I've played lately have all been Japanese developed.
Nintendo also literally hasn't released any big in-house developed games since those two, unless you count Animal Crossing. It's been about 5 years already since the last major Zelda and Mario titles. Well, there was Metroid Dread as well, that was co-developed, but I'm not sure what Nintendo's role in that was. Also a beautiful game.
Well so far they've managed to retcon every death in the story up to the point of the end of Rebirth lol. Jessie, Biggs, Wedge and Zack are all still alive. The plus, is now we don't know for sure whether Aerith dies or not. Either way now will still be a surprise.
The story in the original FF7 was so convoluted and poorly translated that most people still don't understand it 25 years later lol. Leaving Midgar was like the first chapter in that game.
I think anyone expecting part 2 and 3 to play out like the original are in denial that Remake is a sequel with Sephiroth from the future (after AC) presumably attempting to change the past somehow. The narrative from here on out could end up completely different the farther it goes. For all we know Cloud dies instead of Aerith and now-alive Zack takes over LOL.
I don't think FS wants to be doing exclusives at this point, unless someone is paying them a large sum of cash. Their last three games have all been blockbusters, and not being multi-platform isn't going to help their sales any when they're pretty much one of the most highly-regarded devs in the industry now.
More likely that Sony has Bluepoint create a Bloodborne remake at some point.
It will probably never happen, but I might jump for joy if we ever see a Sekiro 2. FS either has to do something completely new, or revisit old IP at this point, like Armored Core. It would be very difficult to go back to Dark Souls after Elden Ring, and a sequel to Elden Ring is going to need a looooong time to top it. I feel like Sekiro has so much potential for a sequel, as the world was fascinating, and the gameplay was different enough from typical Souls to not hold it to the same standa...
I'm pretty sure they're rebuilding it from the ground up as a remake. To anyone that owns a PS5 and has never played the game before, I'd say $70 is absolutely worth it to experience one of the greatest games ever made. To someone that has played both the original and remastered versions already, absolutely not.
It depends on a couple things I believe. One, for me, is that a great story deserves to be revisited as you grow older. Your favorite movies, books, games, whenever you grow as a person there's an opportunity to see it all with a newer perspective. Every few years when I replay FFIX, for example, something in the story hits me in a different way. Two is replayability. I cannot even tell you how many times I've beaten Resident Evil 4 since it first released. Over ten easily.
I just realized that Order of Ecclesia came out in 2008...It's been 14 years since a new 2D title.
It wasn't a trailer, which is a bit disappointing. That was another teaser. Granted, they did put little clues in it that people will be combing over for months. A proper trailer, probably in February, will show some story, more gameplay, and music.