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[ChikoLad]

So by buying a Luigi amiibo, we can essentially pay to make Mario jump higher

I mean they're probably planning to make that a feature of Super Mario Run, so...

Speaking of which, since DeNA is developing Super Mario Run, but are also supporting the Switch somehow...maybe that game could have some inter-compatibility with Super Mario Switch or something?

EDIT: damn it I said NX

 

[Tree Gelbman]

Well said.

To change things up a bit, here's a question. What kinds of amiibo features does everyone think Super Mario Switch might get?

It's far fetched, but I'd like them to keep the title Super Mario Switch and have you able to switch out characters on the fly with the amiibos, so that you can use their different abilities to progress through levels.

Need a flutter jump? Tap Luigi.

Need to hover or lift turnips from the ground? Peach.

Need to be a lot lighter and faster? Toad.

Etc, etc. Though it'll probably be limited to those 4 or 5 (based on if Rosalina appears as playable again).

I'd love to just see amiibos matter more to gameplay in general than just being side bonuses on the Switch.

 

[Bananija]

Obvious answer is giving us other playable characters.

More probable answer, is that Mario gets abilities/physics to reflect the character scanned. Luigi makes him jump higher but he gets low friction, Peach gives him a float ability, Rosalina makes him run slower (like Mario did in Galaxy) but he gets the Spin Attack. Those ones are obvious since we have 3D World to reference, but the other characters have interesting potential too. Yoshi for example, could serve as a once a day "summon a ride-able Yoshi" thing. Wario could give Mario the Shoulder Bash. And so on and so forth.

I like all of these idea except Luigi. Galaxy spoiled me with playable Luigi, so I would prefer him to be in the game with scanning the amiibo allowing to play as him sooner than intended.

 

[Deleted member]

I am admittedly worried about the direction of some series that were previously handheld only.

Like, how will sprite games fare?

HD "sprites" exist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twUz99ek5do&index=1&list=PLK4SvZr04wV6ThBo3V5FxAEf42puisVpQ

2D art in games isn't going anywhere. Most recent example of this sort of style being used is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBNgTzhS6LY

Spoilering because it took me longer to type this than I intended (thanks sleepyness), and so it's really not relevant to where the discussion is at now, most likely.

Spoiler

Just wanna say that this "if you say anything remotely critical or skeptical of Nintendo, ur a hater bro" mentality that tends to float around here, is partly why I don't often show up here anymore (or on lots of internet communities to be honest, most these days are too toxic for me to derive enjoyment out of them), and I know I'm not the first person to feel like they are in that position.

I grew up on PlayStation and Game Boy, later got a PS2 and Xbox, then got a Wii and later PS3 (and played a lot of my bro's Xbox 360), and have been strictly Wii U and PC the entirety of last gen (despite having the ability to play both PS4 and Xbox One). Nintendo handhelds have been a constant thing for me though, and I also loved the PSP.

I have no loyalties to any one of the console manufacturers. I didn't care about Cloud being in Smash because "EFGHEWBUYEGF BUT HE'S A SOOOOONY CHARACTER". I would play a Mario game on an Xbox One as long as it looked like a game that appealed to me (and even if it didn't, I could still say it's a good game objectively, like 99% of Mario games are). I grew up playing Kingdom Hearts on a PS2, but just today, I was playing KH2FM emulated on my laptop with a Wii U Pro Controller because why the hell not?

I consider myself a realist. I basically only be optimistic if I am given a tangible reason to be, same with pessimism. I generally won't be one or the other by default. If a company consistently messes up, then of course, my expectations will never be high for them until they start NOT messing up. This was the case with Nintendo until today.

I have come off as negative here for the last while (when I was more actively posting anyway) because mostly all people were talking about was Nintendo stuff (which is fine, it is in the thread title after all). And frankly...what was there to be positive about for Nintendo (until now)?

Like yes, there has been Pokémon, and some of the stuff has been cool there. Though for me personally, I don't have much interest in Pokémon these days, and even when I tried to offer some constructive feedback on things that Pokémon could do to pull people like me back in, I got **** on for that because "NO HOW DARE YOU ADVOCATE CHANGING MY BELOVED SERIES THAT I GREW UP WITH IN THAT KIND OF WAY", and people would generally just focus on one specific thing I said that rubbed them the wrong way rather than looking at everything together (so ignoring any positive things I said), and brand me as a "negative nancy". So I mostly avoid talking about Pokémon at all.

But outside of Pokémon, there has been nothing for Nintendo fans to be positive about, unless Nintendo is literally your lifeblood to the point where you have to force yourself to be positive about them. There's been barely anything to look forward to. It's either been disappointment after disappointment in terms of games, Nintendo being a **** to content creators in their fanbase, or seeing Wii U games I already own getting ports for 3DS (sometimes with extra content, at a cheaper price point than the Wii U game I bought), and very little else.

Asking me to still have a positive mindset going into the NX reveal after all of that (the ridiculous rumour mill did not help), is like saying I should still be smiling after someone kicks me in the crotch and twists my nipples. Sorry, but no. Keep in mind, I also still supported Nintendo by buying amiibo, the occasional older game, and the like. I also DID acknowledge the good things. Most of you here probably hate Mario Party 10 and Mario Party: Star Rush. I was an ardent defender of both. I even was one of the few people calling out the BS meme about the "spaghetti box art" people were using to detract from Star Rush. And while Metroid Prime: Federation Force was released at COMPLETELY the wrong time, it's still a very solid title. In a year or so, the "offense" the game made on the series will be totally irrelevant.

But yes, I didn't have any hype going into this reveal, and there were a lot of reasons for that. But I came out smiling, which is more important. While I have my concerns and it's not day one purchase for me yet, I still have an overall positive impression of it. Like I said before, I am cautiously optimistic.

I just ask that people drop this desperately positive attitude. It's gotten to a point where I genuinely believe some people have to REALLY force themselves to be positive because it is unfathomable to them that Nintendo could do something wrong. It comes off as desperate, like you're trying to make up things to be positive about, sometimes. It's not much relevance to me now since I only pop up sometimes now and am ultimately pretty detached from the site, but I'd hate for other people to be put into my position.

This. I really would suggest most people dial down the hype. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment. I still remember THIS little gem from 4 years ago:

Funny thing is, most of those actually came true, and it was still nothing to write home about overall.

Also, this:

That's from E3 2012 iirc. Funny how most of those jumped ship once the WiiU began to underperform. We've been through this notion before. As good old George Bush put it "fool me once, sh-shame you...? Fool- you see, you can't get fooled again."

 

[SegaNintendoUbisoft]

To change things up a bit, here's a question. What kinds of amiibo features does everyone think Super Mario Switch might get?

ChikoLad pretty much hit the nail on the head, though I think it would great if it could include non-Mario amiibo.

Say, Mega Man/Samus gives Mario some sort of Mega Buster, Sonic increases your speed, Pac-Man/Kirby makes you eat enemies.

 

[ChikoLad]

I like all of these idea except Luigi. Galaxy spoiled me with playable Luigi, so I would prefer him to be in the game with scanning the amiibo allowing to play as him sooner than intended.

I was just speaking hypothetically and being fair for that scenario.

I'm more hoping the game will have co-op with Luigi being the second player character, as was originally conceptualised for Super Mario 64. And if not that, I would be surprised if he wasn't unlockable like in the Galaxy games and 3D Land.

The true dream is to have at least the entire 3D World crew, Rosalina included, but I'm not gonna hold my breath or hinge on it as a selling point.

 

[Moydow]

As for languages, it's more depending on the question... I think? I'm not completely sure what you mean by that, but I'm sure length doesn't matter.

Each part is worth a percent of the final note (for exemple, the content might be worth 40% and the grammar, orthograph, etc. worth 60%) Both are evalueted with their own criterias and than you mixed the too. No matter how long the work is, the point accorded to grammar don't really changes : if 10 grammar mistakes are worth 5% on a 1000 word essay, than 3 grammar mistakes one a 300 word essay would be worth 5% too. Basically, the longer your text, the less grammar and orthographe mistakes will effect your overall grade. The content, however, is always evaluated depending on what you wrote and the coherence of your text, not length.

I was thinking along the lines that, say you have some short questions like, for example, "translate these sentences into French". You could have maybe 5 marks per sentence, of which 2 marks go to expressing the meaning of the sentence correctly, and 3 marks go to spelling, grammar, and the like. Is that how it would work? For shorter things like that, I can see percentage grading working just fine. For longer works like essays, though, would it not become more difficult to grade them so precisely? There isn't really any one single correct answer, so the marking scheme would need to be more broad, more generalised, and it would be harder to assign precise scores to the works, no? Maybe it just depends on what the total marks are broken up into, like you said, which probably ties into what exactly the question is looking for (so, how well you stick to answering the question, and not getting too far off topic, might be worth a certain amount, spelling and grammar is worth another certain amount, and so on. I understand that length isn't usually a factor, that was just to give a sort of example of what I meant. Guess it didn't come across so well.).

 

[Robert of Normandy]

2D art in games isn't going anywhere. Most recent example of this sort of style being used is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBNgTzhS6LY

Oh shoot, another Vanillaware game. Somehow I totally missed that. >_>

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Super Mario Bros 4 trademarked?

They are saying this is in the very classic series?

Even after it got a reboot

 

[Deleted member]

Super Mario Bros 4 trademarked?

They are saying this is in the very classic series?

Even after it got a reboot

It was a post from 2012. Probably referred to 3D World.

 

[Burruni]

Mario Switch Amiibo usage?
Simple.
"Amiibo" specific stars, like specific challenge missions related to a character, ala Mini Mario & Friends.
Especially if they're largely "throwback" things.
Mario: 3D SMB 1-1
Luigi: A small Luigi's mansion-esque stage.
Peach: SMG Grand Finale Galaxy
Toad: 3D SMB2 1-1
Bowser: Bowser in the Dark Sky
Bowser Jr.: Firey Floatilla
DK: The 4 map layouts of Donkey Kong Arcade.
Diddy: A DKC-Esque level with Yoshi substituting Rambi.
Rosalina: Gateway Galaxy?
Daisy: ... An SML level reimagined?
Wario: A mini-game gauntlet, because Warioware is all he's known for now.
Waluigi: Waluigi's Purple Coin Challenge
Yoshi: Wooly World stage.
Boo: A trick-ridden ghost house.

 

[Z25]

Oh. Apparently Alolan Persian was revealed. Totally missed that.

What do you mean?

It has touch controls, but games don't revolve around them is essentially what leaks have said.

And this is very high Quality:

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Oh shoot, another Vanillaware game. Somehow I totally missed that. >_>

God, I love Vanillaware games
Muramasa was my jam

 

[Deleted member]

Spoilering because it took me longer to type this than I intended (thanks sleepyness), and so it's really not relevant to where the discussion is at now, most likely.

Spoiler

Just wanna say that this "if you say anything remotely critical or skeptical of Nintendo, ur a hater bro" mentality that tends to float around here, is partly why I don't often show up here anymore (or on lots of internet communities to be honest, most these days are too toxic for me to derive enjoyment out of them), and I know I'm not the first person to feel like they are in that position.

I grew up on PlayStation and Game Boy, later got a PS2 and Xbox, then got a Wii and later PS3 (and played a lot of my bro's Xbox 360), and have been strictly Wii U and PC the entirety of last gen (despite having the ability to play both PS4 and Xbox One). Nintendo handhelds have been a constant thing for me though, and I also loved the PSP.

I have no loyalties to any one of the console manufacturers. I didn't care about Cloud being in Smash because "EFGHEWBUYEGF BUT HE'S A SOOOOONY CHARACTER". I would play a Mario game on an Xbox One as long as it looked like a game that appealed to me (and even if it didn't, I could still say it's a good game objectively, like 99% of Mario games are). I grew up playing Kingdom Hearts on a PS2, but just today, I was playing KH2FM emulated on my laptop with a Wii U Pro Controller because why the hell not?

I consider myself a realist. I basically only be optimistic if I am given a tangible reason to be, same with pessimism. I generally won't be one or the other by default. If a company consistently messes up, then of course, my expectations will never be high for them until they start NOT messing up. This was the case with Nintendo until today.

I have come off as negative here for the last while (when I was more actively posting anyway) because mostly all people were talking about was Nintendo stuff (which is fine, it is in the thread title after all). And frankly...what was there to be positive about for Nintendo (until now)?

Like yes, there has been Pokémon, and some of the stuff has been cool there. Though for me personally, I don't have much interest in Pokémon these days, and even when I tried to offer some constructive feedback on things that Pokémon could do to pull people like me back in, I got **** on for that because "NO HOW DARE YOU ADVOCATE CHANGING MY BELOVED SERIES THAT I GREW UP WITH IN THAT KIND OF WAY", and people would generally just focus on one specific thing I said that rubbed them the wrong way rather than looking at everything together (so ignoring any positive things I said), and brand me as a "negative nancy". So I mostly avoid talking about Pokémon at all.

But outside of Pokémon, there has been nothing for Nintendo fans to be positive about, unless Nintendo is literally your lifeblood to the point where you have to force yourself to be positive about them. There's been barely anything to look forward to. It's either been disappointment after disappointment in terms of games, Nintendo being a **** to content creators in their fanbase, or seeing Wii U games I already own getting ports for 3DS (sometimes with extra content, at a cheaper price point than the Wii U game I bought), and very little else.

Asking me to still have a positive mindset going into the NX reveal after all of that (the ridiculous rumour mill did not help), is like saying I should still be smiling after someone kicks me in the crotch and twists my nipples. Sorry, but no. Keep in mind, I also still supported Nintendo by buying amiibo, the occasional older game, and the like. I also DID acknowledge the good things. Most of you here probably hate Mario Party 10 and Mario Party: Star Rush. I was an ardent defender of both. I even was one of the few people calling out the BS meme about the "spaghetti box art" people were using to detract from Star Rush. And while Metroid Prime: Federation Force was released at COMPLETELY the wrong time, it's still a very solid title. In a year or so, the "offense" the game made on the series will be totally irrelevant.

But yes, I didn't have any hype going into this reveal, and there were a lot of reasons for that. But I came out smiling, which is more important. While I have my concerns and it's not day one purchase for me yet, I still have an overall positive impression of it. Like I said before, I am cautiously optimistic.

I just ask that people drop this desperately positive attitude. It's gotten to a point where I genuinely believe some people have to REALLY force themselves to be positive because it is unfathomable to them that Nintendo could do something wrong. It comes off as desperate, like you're trying to make up things to be positive about, sometimes. It's not much relevance to me now since I only pop up sometimes now and am ultimately pretty detached from the site, but I'd hate for other people to be put into my position.

At first I was wondering why you were posting this, because at the time of reading your posts the most positive regard to the Switch were "It looks cool, I what games it'll have" type posts. But looking back in your posting history, I see what you're talking about now.

I myself am not really that big of a nintendo fan to the majority of people here, I spend most of my time on other consoles. Still, my regards were mostly about people coming to dumb conspiracy theories anyway. I.E. They lied about skyrim being on the console. There's a difference between those conspiracy theories, along with baseless conclusions like what exactly the specs are even though we have no clue, and actual criticism.

Funny thing is, most of those actually came true, and it was still nothing to write home about overall.

Also, this:
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That's from E3 2012 iirc. Funny how most of those jumped ship once the WiiU began to underperform. We've been through this notion before. As good old George Bush put it "fool me once, sh-shame you...? Fool- you see, you can't get fooled again."

That's no reason for people to be hopeless and cynical though. Most people I saw here had reasonable expectations, if you have a gut feeling that doesn't contradict what's already been set so far, then go by that. But there's no reason why others shouldn't go by there's too. Right now there's no clear direction that the switcher will go in terms of success. Though reception for it has been better than it has been for the Wii U's announcement when it comes to non nintendo fan's thoughts on it. When the most common critisism is not even the system itself, but the wii u, I don't know, that just says to me perhaps it's not the Wii U and will have a different run than it did. Just like how the Wii U had a different run than the Wii, and the Wii had a different run than the GC, and the GC had a different run than the N64. etc.

 

[Bananija]

I was thinking along the lines that, say you have some short questions like, for example, "translate these sentences into French". You could have maybe 5 marks per sentence, of which 2 marks go to expressing the meaning of the sentence correctly, and 3 marks go to spelling, grammar, and the like. Is that how it would work? For shorter things like that, I can see percentage grading working just fine. For longer works like essays, though, would it not become more difficult to grade them so precisely? There isn't really any one single correct answer, so the marking scheme would need to be more broad, more generalised, and it would be harder to assign precise scores to the works, no? Maybe it just depends on what the total marks are broken up into, like you said, which probably ties into what exactly the question is looking for (so, how well you stick to answering the question, and not getting too far off topic, might be worth a certain amount, spelling and grammar is worth another certain amount, and so on. I understand that length isn't usually a factor, that was just to give a sort of example of what I meant. Guess it didn't come across so well.).

I'm going to go by questions:

1. For short questions, it usually work like that : example, you have 10 short questions, each worth 5 points, for a total of 50 points. Those fifty points are worth 100% of the short questions, from which you can lose 30% for the overall grammar, spelling, etc. It could also be 70% for the 50 points and 30% for the grammar and the likes.

2. The marking schemes can be generalized and more up to the teacher judgement or surprisingly strict, with extremly precises answers. The latter one is mostly the case for official exam thought. And like you said, the total mark is broken up into multiple grades that are then put together. Grammar and the likes are always under the same, pretty strict, score calculation.

 

[Aurane]

Well said.


To change things up a bit, here's a question. What kinds of amiibo features does everyone think Super Mario Switch might get?

I'm hoping that Amiibos can unlock new characters with unique abilities, even ones not from the series. Like for example, Link has a special spin attack and sword slash attack, Lucario can fire Aura Spheres that target enemies, etc.. Whoever here disagrees with a playable Lucario in a Mario game needs to go home and go bed.

Other then that, doesn't really matter to me.

It has touch controls, but games don't revolve around them is essentially what leaks have said.

Well I freaking hope so. I love Splatoon but the controller and the looking up and down-thing was a pain. I couldn't stand it.

 

[Coricus]

HD "sprites" exist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twUz99ek5do&index=1&list=PLK4SvZr04wV6ThBo3V5FxAEf42puisVpQ

2D art in games isn't going anywhere. Most recent example of this sort of style being used is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBNgTzhS6LY



This. I really would suggest most people dial down the hype. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment. I still remember THIS little gem from 4 years ago:

View attachment 119413

Funny thing is, most of those actually came true, and it was still nothing to write home about overall.

Also, this:
View attachment 119414

That's from E3 2012 iirc. Funny how most of those jumped ship once the WiiU began to underperform. We've been through this notion before. As good old George Bush put it "fool me once, sh-shame you...? Fool- you see, you can't get fooled again."

Fortunately I'm the exception to this as I'm only letting myself be hyped up for what I actually know exists.

I don't care about most third parties. The main one that I do care about the current output of has confirmed one of their two in-progress titles to be on the NX anyway, which I have very little expectations on other than potentially the gameplay style and will wait to see how it turns out. The only one on that list that implies a game I'm interested in that might pull out is a third party game I already own on another system. I have BotW with highly interesting freedom of movement and physics and a Splatoon game with extra customization. I have an Animal Crossing Direct that I'm curious about in case it leads to something, but I'm not going to insist that it definitely means I'm getting another game I want especially since I have two now that I like already.

Overall I'm pretty satisfied with what I know of the system so far and it can very likely only go uphill from here. Whether it's mind-blowing uphill or just a slight upwards slope remains to be seen, but just what little I've seen so far is far better than launch year 3DS and Wii U combined.

Should we assume this thing is going to make all our dreams come true? No, that just leads to bitterness later. But what we have already, not names on a board but actual Nintendo footage and confirmed third party titles, is enough to at the very least look forward to.

Sometimes I wish folks were a little better at squeeing at the little things. It makes it harder to get hyped when the only way for people to be happy is to move goalposts until their needs can no longer be met to a satisfactory degree.

 

[praline]

Rewatching the Switch video I noticed the Splatoon footage they had different shorts on. Nice.

I hope the shorts shop owner is a shark running on a treadmile.

 

[A Distant Demon]

I know this has been common knowledge for months now, but just reminding everyone

Games like Fire Emblem and pokemon are now going to be on console

Games like Pikmin and Xenoblade are going to be played on the go.


Gonna be one hell of a gen I can tell you that.

 

[Chrono.]

Advising people to watch this.

It's really good.

 

[praline]

I know this has been common knowledge for months now, but just reminding everyone

Games like Fire Emblem and pokemon are now going to be on console

Games like Pikmin and Xenoblade are going to be played on the go.


Gonna be one hell of a gen I can tell you that.

You mean Fire Emblem is back on console since out of like 20 games only 4 aren't on console.

 

[AwesomeAussie27]

Eh, you'll live. Not like you will die for being away from me so long. Join the Nintendo Switch hype, watch some Halloween movies, study for your assignments, buy some ice cream or something.

At least you can still attend your classes healthily as ever. It's mostly my fault that this happened, carelessness and all. And by the way, such withdrawal doesn't exist. And if it does, then a little abstinence doesn't hurt.

See ya all and may this virus die a slow painless death.

Crickey, I was too late to reply thanks to my sister being a brat as always. *******s!

FYI, there is such thing as withdrawal for that sort of thing. My nurse of a mother said so. Can't argue against facts after all.

Oh what's the use, this is one big pile offff.... Oh who am I kidding, it's back to research for this cursed test.

And by the way, don't insult yourself like that. It's not healthy behavior to think think like that. It's the sort of thing that usually leads to depression.

 

[Wario Bros.]

> Goes to YouTube and enters "Super Smash Bros." sorted by upload date
> Not a single video related to the Nintendo Switch (no news, so called "news" or even click-bait)

Huh, not what I was expecting at all.

 

[Burruni]

You mean Fire Emblem is back on console since out of like 20 games only 4 aren't on console.

It's been split, in half.
FE1-5: Console
FE6-8: GBA
FE9-10: Console
FE11-14: Handheld.

Hell..
We have Cipher and the upcoming mobile game.
It isn't so bound to home console.

Edit: It is only further reinforced that the first 6 games were never internationally released, so for most people outside of japan, it's more 2 console games to 6 handheld ones.

 

[ChikoLad]

They lied about skyrim being on the console. There's a difference between those conspiracy theories, along with baseless conclusions like what exactly the specs are even though we have no clue, and actual criticism.

I don't think they lied. I think the message of the Skyrim part, assuming it really was just for mock-up purposes, was just "you can play big AAA adventure games like this one on the go!". On the other hand, it could be on the system and Bethesda are just being pedantic so they can steal some thunder by "OFFICIALLY CONFIRMING" it themselves.

On the matter of the specs, it goes both ways. There are legit worries there (like the visibly slower frame-rate when you switch to the smaller screen, something that Nintendo would normally never show in the trailer for something and I hope they can fix). Some people are overblowing it though. At the same time, people are taking the "POWERED BY NVIDIA" and "SUPPORTS UNREAL ENGINE 4" taglines for granted. NVIDIA is a brand, they have many different graphics cards. My laptop is powered by NVIDIA and can run UE4, but I wouldn't call it the shining beacon of gaming technology as it doesn't always run things flawlessly. Maybe they did get more specific in the PR and I just have not seen it yet, though.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I come baring a S/M ad

 

[Coricus]

> Goes to YouTube and enters "Super Smash Bros." sorted by upload date
> Not a single video related to the Nintendo Switch (no news, so called "news" or even click-bait)

Huh, not what I was expecting at all.

Well, those leaks were a thing a while back, but people are probably so interested in the system itself and the footage we've already seen that they forgot.

It's just as well, though, the Mario fare for Mario fans and Splatoon with customization upgrades are more interesting than leaks we've already speculated on and have no actual new info to fuel, and this is speaking as someone who actually likes Smash speculation and wishes it could happen without exploding into arguments and people trying to shut it down for fear of said arguments.

Just sitting back and basking in the *click* and the various dripping ink-flesh hipster hairs is pretty nice.

I think one of the leakers said we might get more Switch information next week. . .eh, it might happen, it might not. I'll just keep it in mind and hope for the best.

 

[Opossum]

I come baring a S/M ad

Who left this bowl of onions here?

 

[Chandeelure]

I come baring a S/M ad

Who left this bowl of onions here?

NOOOOO Opossum
XD

 

[ChikoLad]

Just remembered, the one thing I think the Switch should have.

4G connection capabilities.

That would be a HUGE selling point if it has that.

 

[Coricus]

Who left this bowl of onions here?

Who left this bowl of onions here?

NOOOOO Opossum
XD

It was the Onion Wizard, master of all things onion.

I'm. . .I'm not even sure what to say. Mostly just impressed.

 

[praline]

I come baring a S/M ad

I like this.

 

[DaybreakHorizon]

I have no clue if any of you remember me, but I was here during the Smash 4 hype up until the DLC. Then I got busy with life but I'm back now. With improved ports of Splatoon and Mario Kart on the Switch, it's likely we'll be getting a port of Smash 4. Which only means one thing.

SAKURAI'S WILD RIDE ISNT OVER YET!

 

[Chrono.]

I have no clue if any of you remember me, but I was here during the Smash 4 hype up until the DLC. Then I got busy with life but I'm back now. With improved ports of Splatoon and Mario Kart on the Switch, it's likely we'll be getting a port of Smash 4. Which only means one thing.

SAKURAI'S WILD RIDE ISNT OVER YET!

I remember you.

Glad to see you back.

 

[Deleted member]

I know this has been common knowledge for months now, but just reminding everyone

Games like Fire Emblem and pokemon are now going to be on console

Games like Pikmin and Xenoblade are going to be played on the go.


Gonna be one hell of a gen I can tell you that.

Implying that Xenoblade has never had a mainline release on a handheld in recent years.

 

[Wario Bros.]

I have no clue if any of you remember me, but I was here during the Smash 4 hype up until the DLC. Then I got busy with life but I'm back now. With improved ports of Splatoon and Mario Kart on the Switch, it's likely we'll be getting a port of Smash 4. Which only means one thing.

SAKURAI'S WILD RIDE ISNT OVER YET!

Nice to see you again.

However, I'm not hopping on any ride until I get some confirmation.

 

[Soul.]

that sun and moon ad was fan made; it's not official. still pretty cool tho

 

[NonSpecificGuy]

Spoilering because it took me longer to type this than I intended (thanks sleepyness), and so it's really not relevant to where the discussion is at now, most likely.

Spoiler

Just wanna say that this "if you say anything remotely critical or skeptical of Nintendo, ur a hater bro" mentality that tends to float around here, is partly why I don't often show up here anymore (or on lots of internet communities to be honest, most these days are too toxic for me to derive enjoyment out of them), and I know I'm not the first person to feel like they are in that position.

I grew up on PlayStation and Game Boy, later got a PS2 and Xbox, then got a Wii and later PS3 (and played a lot of my bro's Xbox 360), and have been strictly Wii U and PC the entirety of last gen (despite having the ability to play both PS4 and Xbox One). Nintendo handhelds have been a constant thing for me though, and I also loved the PSP.

I have no loyalties to any one of the console manufacturers. I didn't care about Cloud being in Smash because "EFGHEWBUYEGF BUT HE'S A SOOOOONY CHARACTER". I would play a Mario game on an Xbox One as long as it looked like a game that appealed to me (and even if it didn't, I could still say it's a good game objectively, like 99% of Mario games are). I grew up playing Kingdom Hearts on a PS2, but just today, I was playing KH2FM emulated on my laptop with a Wii U Pro Controller because why the hell not?

I consider myself a realist. I basically only be optimistic if I am given a tangible reason to be, same with pessimism. I generally won't be one or the other by default. If a company consistently messes up, then of course, my expectations will never be high for them until they start NOT messing up. This was the case with Nintendo until today.

I have come off as negative here for the last while (when I was more actively posting anyway) because mostly all people were talking about was Nintendo stuff (which is fine, it is in the thread title after all). And frankly...what was there to be positive about for Nintendo (until now)?

Like yes, there has been Pokémon, and some of the stuff has been cool there. Though for me personally, I don't have much interest in Pokémon these days, and even when I tried to offer some constructive feedback on things that Pokémon could do to pull people like me back in, I got **** on for that because "NO HOW DARE YOU ADVOCATE CHANGING MY BELOVED SERIES THAT I GREW UP WITH IN THAT KIND OF WAY", and people would generally just focus on one specific thing I said that rubbed them the wrong way rather than looking at everything together (so ignoring any positive things I said), and brand me as a "negative nancy". So I mostly avoid talking about Pokémon at all.

But outside of Pokémon, there has been nothing for Nintendo fans to be positive about, unless Nintendo is literally your lifeblood to the point where you have to force yourself to be positive about them. There's been barely anything to look forward to. It's either been disappointment after disappointment in terms of games, Nintendo being a **** to content creators in their fanbase, or seeing Wii U games I already own getting ports for 3DS (sometimes with extra content, at a cheaper price point than the Wii U game I bought), and very little else.

Asking me to still have a positive mindset going into the NX reveal after all of that (the ridiculous rumour mill did not help), is like saying I should still be smiling after someone kicks me in the crotch and twists my nipples. Sorry, but no. Keep in mind, I also still supported Nintendo by buying amiibo, the occasional older game, and the like. I also DID acknowledge the good things. Most of you here probably hate Mario Party 10 and Mario Party: Star Rush. I was an ardent defender of both. I even was one of the few people calling out the BS meme about the "spaghetti box art" people were using to detract from Star Rush. And while Metroid Prime: Federation Force was released at COMPLETELY the wrong time, it's still a very solid title. In a year or so, the "offense" the game made on the series will be totally irrelevant.

But yes, I didn't have any hype going into this reveal, and there were a lot of reasons for that. But I came out smiling, which is more important. While I have my concerns and it's not day one purchase for me yet, I still have an overall positive impression of it. Like I said before, I am cautiously optimistic.

I just ask that people drop this desperately positive attitude. It's gotten to a point where I genuinely believe some people have to REALLY force themselves to be positive because it is unfathomable to them that Nintendo could do something wrong. It comes off as desperate, like you're trying to make up things to be positive about, sometimes. It's not much relevance to me now since I only pop up sometimes now and am ultimately pretty detached from the site, but I'd hate for other people to be put into my position.

I agree and understand why you feel this way but a new Nintendo Console just got announced. There's a lot of things that I have a problem with the Switch but I'm not going to say it right now because it was just revealed. There's plenty of time to ***** about everything I want to ***** about. Right now though I feel it's time to be hype. It's a good oasis in a sea of disappointments.

Remember how you felt with Sonic Mania and Sonic 2017? That's how most people feel about the Switch right now. It'll definitely get more pessimistic as we go forward. Now I feel it's the best time for optimism.

 

[Bananija]

I have no clue if any of you remember me, but I was here during the Smash 4 hype up until the DLC. Then I got busy with life but I'm back now. With improved ports of Splatoon and Mario Kart on the Switch, it's likely we'll be getting a port of Smash 4. Which only means one thing.

SAKURAI'S WILD RIDE ISNT OVER YET!

I remember you! You had a different avatar back then right? Glad to see you back.

 

[Solfiner]

People being positive about a new Nintendo console on "Smash"boards, in a thread called Nintenzone? The humanity!