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Been weirdly zen about the drought; usually I'd be climbing the walls
Or write Nintendo a friendly letter asking why the wait. Nah, just kidding!
If we go longer than the 12th of this month, it's time to panic (for the third time). If we go longer than the 23rd (or more likely, the 19th), guess I'll die.
Die because of no Direct? You're kidding, right? Why die over something like a Direct? It's not gonna be the end of the world.
It's the "guess I'll die" meme. I'm not gonna actually die/kill myself.
I thought so. Didn't know it was a meme, though.
I'm honestly annoyed because of this because it means Nintendo is just being Nintendo. Also the reason we *know* it's not coronavirus is that the Pokemon and AC directs seemed to be completely unaffected, as well as Sakurai's video on Byleth. I'd almost prefer if they said it was affecting them, even if it wasn't, because at least the blame would be displaced. Instead, this means they're withholding information for no reason. When we do finally get the direct, instead of "Oh okay. Cool. The direct's here!", it'll be "Ah, ****ing finally, the direct!".
Should of noted that part.
It's just 100% backfiring hardcore. Quite a hefty stock loss and people now actively pissed off at them to the point where they may even be losing consumers. Definitely *not* something you want to do in a year where your competitors will be releasing new consoles and jumping another generation while you're *still* playing catch-up with consoles from the previous generation, so now you'll be at least 2-if-not-3 generations behind.
Just reading those words made me cringe. Please no, we don't need yet another focused direct.
Edit it out, problem solved. Also why would you ever focus on a game that isn't first party?
Don't know what OSF is, but sure, go right ahead.
You're watching SU Future? Me too! I'm so excited for this show to finally be over and stop making the ho-hum writing even worse.
I won't start worrying until we hit the middle of the month. If we hit the end of the month with no Direct, then I'll start panicking.
I get that feeling, CTR:NF and LoR have been my distractions. Also, is SU future worth watching? Seen all of SU/ the movie but didn't think to jump on.
The only reason you should watch SU: Future is if you've watched through the previous 5 seasons and movie and are interested in seeing how this story ends. Overall it's pretty bad in terms of writing. I won't go in-depth here about what specifically it does wrong so as not to spoil it, but rest assured, even by Steven Universe standards of writing it's nothing spectacular.
If you've followed the series thus far? Absolutely. It's an epilogue that wraps up the few remaining plot threads left after the end of Change Your Mind/The Movie
Doing 1000000+ school projectsSoFatmanonice and the rest of the crew, what have you guys been doing to stave off the boredom for the supposed general direct?
♪!?", assuming it's possible to do more than just non-alphanumeric text for names. We already know they can do non-alphanumeric: Dr. Mario, Mr. Game & Watch, R.O.B., Rosalina & Luma, Pac-Man, Bowser Jr., King K. Rool, and Banjo & Kazooie all have non-alphanumeric code (also Pokémon Trainer, at least in English where we don't have accents over letters), so it just depends on if they can do the and ♪ icons.
Sweet! Then I'll watch the eps and see what's up.
Geno wasn't a side character though. He was a main character.
Heh, I misread your post at first and thought you said he was “THE” main character, was about to make a lengthy post about how he was just “A” main character, right behind mario in importance to the game, but not above him.
Honestly yea, I don't really understand WHY they're waiting until (atleast) March for a general direct, but I think people are jumping to conclusions when in reality when you actually look at what Nintendo is doing it's obvious that the game-specific directs were just meant to tide everyone over to a normal direct like the mini direct in 2018.
I've been flirting with the idea of slipping on a bar of soap and getting knocked out cold just long enough where I don't have to endure boredom and the Direct is about to start. I'll care about the throbbing headache afterwards.So
I look at this thread and rarely ever see any posts that are actually escalated. But I see a dozen posts a day telling everyone they need to calm down.
My main idea is called Fight Against the Armed Bosses: Marth at Peach's Castle, Young Link in Kongo Jungle, Byleth at Termina Bay, 5 Multicolored Game and Watches and a Samus that appears after defeating them at Norfair, Giant Ike at Dracula's Castle, and finally a gray colored DeDeDe on Midgar.
The best reason I’ve heard about the March Direct (Credits for the theory to Resetera’s NateDrake) is that they want people to spend their money on Animal Crossing. If other games we’re revealed, people would probably skip on the game to buy other things (Fighter Pass Vol. 2, Xenoblade, etc) because they only had X amount of money to spend right now.
I mean he did pass out at the gym (no matter if it was worked related or diet-related, he still passed out). Maybe Nintendo forced him to take a few days/ a ' week off? They know the fighters pass will sell like hotcake anyway, and they don¨t have a deadline for each character specifically.
I think it's more a case of giving Byleth room to breath than it is trying to build hype but I really truly think they also somehow believe they're building hype too. Unfortunately, both issues could have been solved by revealing Byleth along with the first character from FP2. This would have allowed Byleth to have some time in the spot light while we at least know who's coming next and can be hyped (or not depending on who it is) while we wait. It's impossible not to overshadow Byleth so that wouldn't have even been an issue. Even if the next character is nowhere close to ready they could have and should have done a Joker style reveal.
9 and I wrote a 15 page essay on the topic:
Geno should become an entire subject in schools.
I agree that Nintendo's strategy of building hype, if it exists, is "backfiring"... Maybe I wouldn't use that term. It isn't working out as they planned, maybe. I've mentioned before that I think for the past few years, Nintendo has been looking for the "perfect" hype timeframe, where thirst for information is at its max and interest is also at its max so that no matter what, the overwhelming majority of viewers are stoked to see the direct happen, and the viewing numbers go up. If you'll look at my posts here from a while back, I have asserted that announcements are television, or a wrestling match to them - it's all about the ratings, and I just think there's a sweet spot that they feel like they're not hitting, but that they could reach.
Amen, Reverend. At this point I should think it common knowledge that Nintendo is prone to sudden violent bouts of negligence and stupidity.
I think the Switch will have a fairly healthy lifespan.....as long as they can keep feeding us with freaking GAMES!
I think so, but I'm curious about whether or not they're going to release the fabled "pro" version of the console. I'm not crazy about mid-gen upgrades/updates personally, but I do think a powerboost would help.
If I'm remembering this right, Nintendo did file a patent for a device that can connect to a console and provide a secondary processor/graphics processor shortly before the Switch was announced. That, paired with their shareholder meeting in which it seemed their new console would exist alongside the Wii U and the 3DS (but in hindsight I think it was literally meant to be taken as a combination of the two), made me think they were going to try to breathe life into the Wii U with such a peripheral.
