I’m going to be real- I enjoyed BotW and TotK enough, but I don’t see them as traditional Zelda games and it actually pisses me off that Aonuma has come out and said we will NEVER get a traditional 3D Zelda ever again. So the success of the open-world Zeldas is the nail in the coffin for the games we actually grew up loving. The death of the open-world fad can’t come soon enough, most of these games are nothing special.
On the one hand, I’m as tired of ports and remakes as anyone else. On the other, TTYD is a perfect RPG and the exact opposite of what they’ve done to Paper Mario for two generations, so it not only gets a pass but a big fat golden power star.
Honestly a handheld PS4 equivalent of the Steam Deck sounds nice too.
I feel like I’m in the minority when I’m looking forward to Nintendo making a high-powered console for once. The last time their hardware was on par with or better than the rest of the industry was the Gamecube, which was an amazing little system.
The ‘Switch 2’ having a camera for literally no reason is extremely on-brand for Nintendo, so I kind of believe it.
GET IT OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT
I think I’ve grown past enjoying Bethesda’s wide, shallow ocean design philosophy and bare-bones dialogue trees. There are simply better RPGs on the market now.
Love how hard they’re leaning into the inherent bizarro world aspects of the Mario universe.
Gamefreak? Having ‘conversations’ about not releasing unfinished, unpolished garbage? Why would they? Pokemon fans have nonexistent standards and will buy it anyway no matter what. I wish I worked for these people, they really lucked into an infinite money printing machine.
I love the shit out of Dread. Considering how big an upgrade Dread is over the already excellent Samus Returns, whatever Metroid 6 is will be crazy good.
I absolutely adore the first two Dead Space games and I could not believe my eyes when this turned out to be a shitty corridor shooter/button masher with like four enemy types.
You know a game is going to be good when half the industry cries and shits its pants and begs not to be held to its standard.
Nintendo has this weird habit of thinking extremely little of their players and assuming they are simply too stupid to play video games, and therefore need to have their hands held or be distracted with flashy gimmicks. Their actual base gameplay mechanics are some of the best in the business but they rarely actually ask the player to apply themselves. I don’t think anyone likes to be condescended to. If it weren’t for Metroid and Zelda, I don’t think I’d put up with their underpowered shield tablet.
With the success of BotW and TotK, that style of game is probably here to stay. But I would really like to see another more ‘grounded’ classic 3D Zelda. Not like Skyward Sword. More like Twilight Princess.
Looks great, a much needed departure from the NSMB formula, not that those games weren’t fun. Not a fan of Nabbit and Yoshi being locked behind easy mode, but at least it’s lore friendly I guess.