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Nintendo is just now entering beast mode.
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Lupin25
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It wonāt. Everything shown from Xb & Nintendo isnāt pushing the envelope for 2024. Xbox 1st party was centered around 2025/2026. Nintendo the same with MP4 on NSW still.
DonkeyPunchJr
Worldās Biggest Weeb
Itās better than I expected from a Nintendo console in its twilight days. Iād hardly call this ābeast modeā though.
nial
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RoboFu
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Shut0wen
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3ds version and wii version are both fine and playable, they added nothing new its literally the 3ds game upscaled which is ashame because the wii version is 10x better because the 3ds version camera is far to close to donkey kong
Sojiro
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Don't get me wrong, I liked what was there today, and it gave me a good bit to do on the switch this year, but it was pretty much what I expected, lots of remakes/ports and smaller scaled Nintendo projects (although Zelda was a big surprise). I feel that is fine, the switch is in its twilight years and anyone expecting "big" titles with the successor coming next year was setting themselves up for disappointment. This wasn't like an amazing direct, but a good one with a lot of software for the switch to go out on, you missed out on Nintendo's beast mode a few years back when the Switch was still in its mid life.
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Itchy Tickles
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Nintendo in beast mode? Remakes / remasters / ports and probably at higher prices. Releasing another fucking themed Switch Lite so fans and collectors can be exploited to pay about 180 for hardware not worth scraps at this point, instead of buying some stickers or something (obviously an exaggeration, but feels like every few months they release a Switch with a new outer shell.) Oh damn, more GBA and N64 roms for their overpriced weak ass service? I'm sorry for my criticism.
Honestly, I do enjoy seeing people being excited about gaming, especially these days. Just wish Nintendo stopped getting free passes and over praise for little effort. Maybe by the Switch 2, Nintendo will allow all Bluetooth controllers to work without a dongle or have voice chat built in or an Internet service that feels a bit more advanced than those toasters burning the weather onto bread.
Honestly, I do enjoy seeing people being excited about gaming, especially these days. Just wish Nintendo stopped getting free passes and over praise for little effort. Maybe by the Switch 2, Nintendo will allow all Bluetooth controllers to work without a dongle or have voice chat built in or an Internet service that feels a bit more advanced than those toasters burning the weather onto bread.
Werewolf Jones
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Å vejk
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They're remastering and remaking the ones that less people care about. It's baffling they're omitting these. Like they hate money.
NeverYouMind
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Yeah I can see the personification of Nintendo now:
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Punished Miku
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If this is beast mode, it's probably the first time since the beginning of the Wii era that I've felt myself out of step entirely with the Nintendo fanbase. This was a lame duck year showcase before Switch 2 gets announced. The highlights are basically slightly souped up 3DS games: Zelda and Mario & Luigi. Metroid Prime is a revered series, but this trailer showed almost nothing. Tons of shovelware in the showcase, tons of remakes and old ports. Backwards compatible games are announced exclusive to a subscription with no ability to buy them, like Zero Mission which I was able to buy on Wii U to actually own. Donkey Kong Returns is the 2nd remake of that game, so it's on par with The Last of Us now.
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EruditeHobo
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Pretty pleased about the Metal Slug game. Couple other things look okay. Other than that...
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Bonfires Down
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Show me new 3D Mario and new Mario Kart and then we can talk.
MiguelItUp
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I want Nintendo to enter beast mode, but they're not there yet. I suppose if you consider just accepting any of their exclusives, I could see that as being exciting. But I don't think Mario & Luigi or Mario Party is blowing a ton of people's minds, nor is a Donkey Kong 3DS remaster. The new Zelda game and Metroid Prime 4 were the heaviest of hitters, I felt. But there are a lot of people that don't really care for the new 2D Zelda games, or the first person/Metroid Prime series. I'd imagine they have much more coming in the future, but I personally feel like we've seen more hype directs over this one.
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EruditeHobo
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I mean... not to fucking use a wand to stack a bunch of beds on top of each other or whatever? What a stupid looking game.
The Prime series has also never clicked with me personally, I tried with the original and couldn't get into it. It struck me as being sub-optimal twice over, as an FPS game and also as a Metroid game. Would be 10x more interested in a Dread sequel, but I know the series is beloved and I'm in the minority there.
That said even if I loved the series, there's no reason to be excited by that trailer... doesn't look great visually, very short, showed nothing interesting or new, and a vague "2025" date? Double yawn IMO.
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semiconscious
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this. years past: 'pretty good'. 2024: 'beast mode'...
Comandr
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But even that is just an offline port of a 5 year old mobile game. :/Pretty pleased about the Metal Slug game. Couple other things look okay. Other than that...
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Listen, enjoy the sales of the system but to define this is beast mode, you and I have a different interpretation of that. I am glad for all the multiplayer releases but everything else just caters to the Nintendo fan base which isn't all of us. I'm looking at a lot of the same types of games and some reasonable stuff but don't drink the Kool-Aid too much. Imagine when they actually announced better stuff and it's successor to the switch versus an okay show. That's why you don't inflate the okay shows and overwrite the good ones.
Anything I cared about is multiplatform just like the Sony or the Xbox show
Anything I cared about is multiplatform just like the Sony or the Xbox show
EruditeHobo
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But even that is just an offline port of a 5 year old mobile game. :/
Oh I know. I just love Metal Slug and missed whatever window NA had for these mobile games.
Comandr
Member
In all fairness, I did play it for a long time and it was pretty fun - up until the point it got predatory with the microtransactions. I think you'll enjoy it.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Remember when Sony's shows overshadowed the competition, funny how times change.
But profits
Zannegan
Gold Member
Hardly beast mode, but it was a better showcase than I expected given that they're launching a new system next year. The last years of Wii (and Wii U?) were dry, dry, dry.
There were quite a few games I want to play in there though, inclyding the new 2D Zelda. I like that they turned it into a more puzzly game because her trait is wisdom. Weirdly, it kind of made me think of Pushmo while also making me think.of a 2D BotW.
I just hope they find a way to make scrolling through the clonable objects less of a chore.
There were quite a few games I want to play in there though, inclyding the new 2D Zelda. I like that they turned it into a more puzzly game because her trait is wisdom. Weirdly, it kind of made me think of Pushmo while also making me think.of a 2D BotW.
I just hope they find a way to make scrolling through the clonable objects less of a chore.
Zannegan
Gold Member
I thought that was it until September? Maybe I'm not up on the latest rumors though.
nowhat
Gold Member
It may very well be. But as E3 is dead, I think we might also consider that a certain window for upcoming releases is less relevant.
(for the record, the SoP pretty much sucked ass apart from Astro, no argument there)
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iHaunter
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That's 3 games. With years of nothing.
Zannegan
Gold Member
Man, Astro looked good.
I wish E3 wasn't dead though. I loved it when all the big corpos were forced to come out swinging in the same week to compete. The great shows were great, and the fails were absolutely spectacular.
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DeepEnigma
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kazuyamishima
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Yeah and for the 7th straight year, weāll see the $299 Mario kart 8 bundle for holidays
Putonahappyface
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IlGialloMondadori
Gold Member
Nintendo has been beast mode the entire switch run.
simpatico
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Nintendo fans feasted this gen for sure. They seem to have the formula figured out. The release cadence is great too. We're out there waiting 8 years for our favorite studio to release an absolutely soul crushing game and Nintendo & Co are shitting out actual good ones every 2-3 years.
nial
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We've been waiting 10 years for a new Retro Studios game.
cireza
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