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When Should Raccoon’s New Nintendo Direct Speculation Thread Launch?

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I am once again asking for SNES Remix. It is a fucking no-brainer, Nintendo. Why am I never getting nice things?

Signed, a certain someone who got the nicest thing ever earlier this year when Metroid Dread released.
And they could instantly link you tot he NSO app to play the game if you’ve got the service or for trials of you don’t have the service. Should have happened a long time ago
 

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Every day, I hate America more and more :/
I have to work with a federal agency as a contractor sometimes and now we have guidance that is split out by state based on which states received injunctions from certain judges. Basically the red states don’t have to follow new vaccine rules while the blue ones do.
 
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Alright everyone, this is long overdue. I'm very excited to announce my event plans for the Nintendo Direct Speculation thread. I hope that these are well received.

As a reminder, the new Nintendo Direct Speculation thread will coexist with the Nintendo General Discussion threads. On January 1st, @Skittzo will post Nintendo General Discussion |ST4|, and I will post Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST Q1 2022| the same day. Once a Nintendo Direct is announced, the hype season will be over and shortly thereafter my thread will close. If no Direct is announced before March 31st, my thread will end anyways and we'll all go home sad.

Now, let's get into everything I've been planning to really make this thread an event.

#1: Direct Speculation League
Very loosely based on Fantasy Critic League, Direct Speculation League is a somewhat simplified forum game otherwise of my own invention that may or may not be fun. Here is how it will work. Everyone gets draft slots (tentatively seven) and, like Critic, one counterpick slot. What are we drafting? Announcements, of course! Or, more precisely, games that you think will be featured in the Q1 Nintendo Direct. Quality and hype have nothing to do with it, mind you. Your only objective is to have the most games present.

Due to the different nature of Direct Speculation, drafting will be a little different as well. That is, there will be none. Everything will be done by auction here, on Famiboards. Later this week I will announce the starter nominees, and when the thread starts the auctions will start.

Everyone has been given 1600 Wii Points
for Christmas by Uncle Raccoon. Jewish people will also receive 1600 Wii Points. Muslims as well. Christmas is sort of a secular holiday now, so everyone nonreligious gets the Christmas Wii Points. Other religions can have the secular Christmas Wii Points too. Regardless, everyone has 1600 Wii Points, and the first round of auctions start at 200.

Auctioning will take place in the thread, but I think that b3llydrum would be mad at me if my entire shiny new Direct thread was just people saying "Zelda for 300!" and "600 on Kirby!" These sorts of posts will be prohibited by me as Nintendo Direct Speculation OP. Such is my right. So how will we auction? It's simple really. Every bid must be included in a regular Direct thread post. They're really really easy, trust me. You could share an opinion, make a joke, a shitpost, or just say that you're hyped. But I will not recognize bids that stand alone.

The first bidding period will last an excruciating three days. Following that point, anyone can request that bidding start for another game. Unlike Fantasy Critic which is bound by reality, you can request literally anything and the following day I will start the bidding for it. These requested auctions will start at 0, yes zero, Wii Points. This will be very valuable as rumor season kicks off.

Oh, and the counterpick. Once any auction period, including the starter set, ends, you can counterpick the awarded game, which basically means that you'll get points if it isn't in the Direct. These will be awarded first come, first serve, so be sure to be around if you want to snatch up a counterpick.

Here's the last rule: Opinions. For every game you pick up, you should have an immutable Opinion shortly after winning the auction (these, by the by, will make a very good bid padding as well). An Opinion can be anything from a specific release date to unknown details about a game. I'll keep track of these, and they will be used to break any ties.

Oh, and lastly (this is important), please @ me in any of the following posts:

  • bidding for a game
  • requesting a counterpick
  • requesting a new auction
  • establishing your Opinion


Oh wait, one more thing. Did I mention you'll get 20 USD (or local equivalent) of eShop credit for winning?

I'll have a more formal explanation of the game up in my thread's original post, so please look forward to that.

#2: #TeamDirect
[EDITOR'S NOTE:] I feel like I'm going to get a bunch of posts right away, so here's a reminder that none of this starts until January 1st, and it'll all be confined to the new Nintendo Direct Speculation thread. Moving on.


These are gonna be simple, and probably more fun. In the first week of the thread, you have to pick a team: #TeamJanuary, #TeamFebruary, or #TeamMarch. This alignment cannot be changed later. The members of the winning team will all be entered into a raffle to win 5 USD (or local equivalent) of eShop credit. Please @ me in the post where you officially declare your team, following the below format.



Or you can just @ me and say what team you want to be on, that's fine too.

As a bonus, if you change your forum tag to your team (#TeamJanuary, #TeamFebruary, or #TeamMarch exactly) when you make your alignment, leave it that way for the duration of the thread, and happen to win the raffle, I'll bump your prize up to 10 USD (or local equivalent).

#3: Direct Dailies

Golly Raccoon, this sure is a whole lot of crap to keep up with. Well indeed it is little Jimmy, but that's nothing new for the Nintendo Direct Speculation thread. We've always received complaints about being too abstruse, too hard to follow, and too much like a personal Discord for the most active members of this community. To make this thread easier to participate in, I present the Direct Daily, a nano podcast companion to the thread.

Every day at a set time (TBD), I will upload a short, roughly five minute update on the thread. Think of it like a sports radio broadcast. Every morning (again, TBD) I'll recap the thread's discussion from the previous day, vaguely allude to any rumors that have cropped up (without making specific reference to the maligned people who share them), summarize any bidding in progress, and announce what bidding is starting that day.

My goal is to make this thread as easy to follow as I can to raise participation, even if that participation means way more work for me (oh no).

#4 Traditional Podcast (TBD)
Also in development is a more traditional, regular community podcast.
Unfortunately hosts, content, and release schedule are all TBD, but I'm very excited for it nonetheless. While I would still like to keep it relatively short, this could be a great avenue for elevated discussions, more detailed reasoning, and even guests from the community. I'm hoping to have more details about this initiative prepared in January, so please stay tuned.

So yep, that's everything. I hope that more of you are excited than are rolling your eyes. I think all of this could be really fun and could encourage even more speculation.

And finally, everything above is subject to change, especially at your request! If you have ideas for tweaks to improve the ideas listed above, please share them with me, and I'll be happy to take them into consideration.

Thank you for reading this very long post.

(@Suswave oh titan of the abyss, please bless me with a threadmark)
ope sorry for not threadmarking, it’s been a hell day and it’s gonna keep being hell for a bit

glad it got threadmarked!

so… that first part… does that mean only one person can have the game on their bungo card or whichever whatnot?

I’m a little confused and intimidated because I do not know what fantasy anything is and have never lapped from the fountains of sports, sport-adjacents, or bettening
 
wow lotta typos in my post but you know what, I’m keeping them all
 
ope sorry for not threadmarking, it’s been a hell day and it’s gonna keep being hell for a bit

glad it got threadmarked!

so… that first part… does that mean only one person can have the game on their bungo card or whichever whatnot?

I’m a little confused and intimidated because I do not know what fantasy anything is and have never lapped from the fountains of sports, sport-adjacents, or bettening
I'll have a more thorough explanation when we start

but in short yes, everyone is vying for sole ownership of a potential announcement for their "roster." roster with the most correct things wins
 
“bungo” sounds like the kind of game where you can only lose

having to enthusiastically yell “bungo” is the sort of spiraling out of control thing that fits perfectly into my life

like when I found a whole corner of the apartment growing secret fun mold today. bungo!!
 
I'll have a more thorough explanation when we start

but in short yes, everyone is vying for sole ownership of a potential announcement for their "roster." roster with the most correct things wins
will there be a photoshopped consolation prize for “most interestingly and thoroughly wrong” ?
 
will there be a photoshopped consolation prize for “most interestingly and thoroughly wrong” ?
hahaha yeah that sounds good

anybody who starts a really dumb auction will definitely draw my judgment and irritation
 
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Bought Deaths Door, World of Final Fantasy, and Doki Doki Literature Club on sale. Now finding the time to play these will be the real challenge. I still have the more of the main endings to Nier I need to get. Kasane's story in Scarlett Nexus. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond. Plus I got Mass Effect Legendary Edition for Christmas.

I got Paper Mario Origami King and Yakuza Like a Dragon last Christmas and still haven't touched them.
 
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I'll have a more thorough explanation when we start

but in short yes, everyone is vying for sole ownership of a potential announcement for their "roster." roster with the most correct things wins

How do I prove I’m the owner? I think we need NFTs for this.
 
I know we throw some suggestions on here, I’ve got a fun upbeat mecha one, Space Runaway Ideon, especially with the finale movie. I mean listen to this upbeat theme, nothing could possibly go wrong, I mean it’s a Tomino show

For those not in the know, I’m trolling hard, this is one of the shows that got Tomino the nickname kill ‘em all. It gets super depressing in the final third/movie and even the theme song messes with you, teasing the true horrifying nature of Ideon itself(a reality controlling space god). It gets brutal, and that’s coming from a writer that did a show with a robot piloted by a trio of kids where there’s a random human bomb plot(as in multiple people unknowingly turned into bombs) and the kids wind up having most the people they care about get killed(Zambot 3 by the way. His next show Daitarn 3 was more upbeat).
He’s also the guy who created Mobile Suit Gundam

Ideon’s still on my to watch list btw.
 
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Useless 'topical' fact... A person with the name Bungo works at Monolith Soft and has worked on the Animal Crossing, Splatoon, Zelda, and Xenoblade series.
 
Halo Infinite has been the only game I've played for about a month and a half now. Once I beat the campaign, I'm looking forward to diving back into Pikmin 3 and starting Bug Fables, since I'm already halfway through the battle pass for multiplayer and the season lasts until May. I can slow my roll a bit.
Ah man you are in for such a treat with Bug Fables. It took a chapter or so to grab us but once it did we absolutely loved our time with it. One of my Christmas presents to my wife was a plushie I commissioned of her favorite character. No spoilers here though. I hope you enjoy it a ton. As a Majora fan I think you'll really enjoy the breadth and depth of the sidequests.

BTW, I think it's free on Game Pass for those with that available. At least on console, not sure about PC.
 
Ah man you are in for such a treat with Bug Fables. It took a chapter or so to grab us but once it did we absolutely loved our time with it. One of my Christmas presents to my wife was a plushie I commissioned of her favorite character. No spoilers here though. I hope you enjoy it a ton. As a Majora fan I think you'll really enjoy the breadth and depth of the sidequests.

BTW, I think it's free on Game Pass for those with that available. At least on console, not sure about PC.
Oh man, Paper Mario systems with Majora sidequests? Be still, my beating heart!

It came to Game Pass shortly after I paid full price for the limited run physical copy on Switch, oops lol
 
Just got my booster shot; I am officially Moderna-ized.

Huge shoutout to the countless scientists and healthcare workers without whom this wouldn't be possible. I count myself incredibly fortunate.

This should also help a lot with my mental health as well, as Omicron has been causing me a huge amount of anxiety.
 
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Alright everyone, this is long overdue. I'm very excited to announce my event plans for the Nintendo Direct Speculation thread. I hope that these are well received.

As a reminder, the new Nintendo Direct Speculation thread will coexist with the Nintendo General Discussion threads. On January 1st, @Skittzo will post Nintendo General Discussion |ST4|, and I will post Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST Q1 2022| the same day. Once a Nintendo Direct is announced, the hype season will be over and shortly thereafter my thread will close. If no Direct is announced before March 31st, my thread will end anyways and we'll all go home sad.

Now, let's get into everything I've been planning to really make this thread an event.

#1: Direct Speculation League
Very loosely based on Fantasy Critic League, Direct Speculation League is a somewhat simplified forum game otherwise of my own invention that may or may not be fun. Here is how it will work. Everyone gets draft slots (tentatively seven) and, like Critic, one counterpick slot. What are we drafting? Announcements, of course! Or, more precisely, games that you think will be featured in the Q1 Nintendo Direct. Quality and hype have nothing to do with it, mind you. Your only objective is to have the most games present.

Due to the different nature of Direct Speculation, drafting will be a little different as well. That is, there will be none. Everything will be done by auction here, on Famiboards. Later this week I will announce the starter nominees, and when the thread starts the auctions will start.

Everyone has been given 1600 Wii Points
for Christmas by Uncle Raccoon. Jewish people will also receive 1600 Wii Points. Muslims as well. Christmas is sort of a secular holiday now, so everyone nonreligious gets the Christmas Wii Points. Other religions can have the secular Christmas Wii Points too. Regardless, everyone has 1600 Wii Points, and the first round of auctions start at 200.

Auctioning will take place in the thread, but I think that b3llydrum would be mad at me if my entire shiny new Direct thread was just people saying "Zelda for 300!" and "600 on Kirby!" These sorts of posts will be prohibited by me as Nintendo Direct Speculation OP. Such is my right. So how will we auction? It's simple really. Every bid must be included in a regular Direct thread post. They're really really easy, trust me. You could share an opinion, make a joke, a shitpost, or just say that you're hyped. But I will not recognize bids that stand alone.

The first bidding period will last an excruciating three days. Following that point, anyone can request that bidding start for another game. Unlike Fantasy Critic which is bound by reality, you can request literally anything and the following day I will start the bidding for it. These requested auctions will start at 0, yes zero, Wii Points. This will be very valuable as rumor season kicks off.

Oh, and the counterpick. Once any auction period, including the starter set, ends, you can counterpick the awarded game, which basically means that you'll get points if it isn't in the Direct. These will be awarded first come, first serve, so be sure to be around if you want to snatch up a counterpick.

Here's the last rule: Opinions. For every game you pick up, you should have an immutable Opinion shortly after winning the auction (these, by the by, will make a very good bid padding as well). An Opinion can be anything from a specific release date to unknown details about a game. I'll keep track of these, and they will be used to break any ties.

Oh, and lastly (this is important), please @ me in any of the following posts:

  • bidding for a game
  • requesting a counterpick
  • requesting a new auction
  • establishing your Opinion


Oh wait, one more thing. Did I mention you'll get 20 USD (or local equivalent) of eShop credit for winning?

I'll have a more formal explanation of the game up in my thread's original post, so please look forward to that.

#2: #TeamDirect
[EDITOR'S NOTE:] I feel like I'm going to get a bunch of posts right away, so here's a reminder that none of this starts until January 1st, and it'll all be confined to the new Nintendo Direct Speculation thread. Moving on.


These are gonna be simple, and probably more fun. In the first week of the thread, you have to pick a team: #TeamJanuary, #TeamFebruary, or #TeamMarch. This alignment cannot be changed later. The members of the winning team will all be entered into a raffle to win 5 USD (or local equivalent) of eShop credit. Please @ me in the post where you officially declare your team, following the below format.



Or you can just @ me and say what team you want to be on, that's fine too.

As a bonus, if you change your forum tag to your team (#TeamJanuary, #TeamFebruary, or #TeamMarch exactly) when you make your alignment, leave it that way for the duration of the thread, and happen to win the raffle, I'll bump your prize up to 10 USD (or local equivalent).

#3: Direct Dailies

Golly Raccoon, this sure is a whole lot of crap to keep up with. Well indeed it is little Jimmy, but that's nothing new for the Nintendo Direct Speculation thread. We've always received complaints about being too abstruse, too hard to follow, and too much like a personal Discord for the most active members of this community. To make this thread easier to participate in, I present the Direct Daily, a nano podcast companion to the thread.

Every day at a set time (TBD), I will upload a short, roughly five minute update on the thread. Think of it like a sports radio broadcast. Every morning (again, TBD) I'll recap the thread's discussion from the previous day, vaguely allude to any rumors that have cropped up (without making specific reference to the maligned people who share them), summarize any bidding in progress, and announce what bidding is starting that day.

My goal is to make this thread as easy to follow as I can to raise participation, even if that participation means way more work for me (oh no).

#4 Traditional Podcast (TBD)
Also in development is a more traditional, regular community podcast.
Unfortunately hosts, content, and release schedule are all TBD, but I'm very excited for it nonetheless. While I would still like to keep it relatively short, this could be a great avenue for elevated discussions, more detailed reasoning, and even guests from the community. I'm hoping to have more details about this initiative prepared in January, so please stay tuned.

So yep, that's everything. I hope that more of you are excited than are rolling your eyes. I think all of this could be really fun and could encourage even more speculation.

And finally, everything above is subject to change, especially at your request! If you have ideas for tweaks to improve the ideas listed above, please share them with me, and I'll be happy to take them into consideration.

Thank you for reading this very long post.

(@Suswave oh titan of the abyss, please bless me with a threadmark)
This does sound like rather a lot, but that's awesome! making the thread a lot of fun and having a lot to do will be great. Hopefully we start to get some rumors and things early into January to get the wheels greased.
 
Just got my booster shot; I am officially Moderna-nized.

Huge shoutout to the countless scientists and healthcare workers without whom this wouldn't be possible. I count myself incredibly fortunate.

This should also help a lot with my mental health as well, as Omicron has been causing me a huge amount of anxiety.
I say thank you as a public health worker. Most of the last two years has been filled with people shitting on us, politicians trying to shut down our departments, and untold death threats. Luckily I’ve never gotten anything specific to me in regard to direct death threats like some of the more public facing people in the states, but my offices have received about 5 bomb threats over the past couple years. Most of us just want to help keep people healthy and safe so it’s nice to get some favorable shout outs.
 
I apologize for always posting political stuff on here. I need to step back from always looking up Covid information, especially in America. Its becoming an issue for my mental health now....

I need to focus more on games and hobbies instead.
 
Now that one's just sad
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I apologize for always posting political stuff on here. I need to step back from always looking up Covid information, especially in America. Its becoming an issue for my mental health now....

I need to focus more on games and hobbies instead.
It can be tough to unplug from it. I never used to care about politics but the past five or six years have made me feel the need to be ever vigilant. Especially living in an area where I'm surrounded by redhats, it's like I need to be armed with information or else I'll be at a disadvantage. It sucks because I can tell it's becoming an issue with my mental health as well, but I'm literally afraid of not knowing what's going on. Rock and a hard place.

...I wonder when we'll hear about Chrono Cross. 😅
 
I wonder if monolith soft can make a mother game.

I'm just going to throw this in here:
I mention this often enough, but Honne at MonolithSoft once pitched a Mother game for GameCube to Iwata and Itoi. Interestingly, he went for a felt-based aesthetic rather than the clay-based used in the manual and in promotional material.
I, for one, would obviously be interested in seeing what Honne's Mother game would have been, but perhaps with the serial numbers filed off, a spin of his own.
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There's the question of whether certain elements, tone and themes and such, overall feel, would be captured, but Honne seemed to think it could be done, and I don't see why it necessarily couldn't. Of course, the element remains that Itoi considers the series done, and I wouldn't necessarily expect it to continue directly unless that changes.

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Regardless, Honne could even go for the clay look used in promotional materials and the manual -- and has done similar in the past -- which makes the felt aesthetic in his pitch interesting.

So, in answer to your question, I don't see why it couldn't be done.
 
You know that feeling you get when you’ve been sick for like a week but are slowly getting better, and then suddenly you wake up one day after your immune system has kicked the sickness’s ass and you just feel completely amazing? Like 110%? They need to distill that feeling and bottle it somehow, because it is the BEST.

This post brought to you by my post-booster illness-symptom any% speedrun that lasted around a week.
 
It can be tough to unplug from it. I never used to care about politics but the past five or six years have made me feel the need to be ever vigilant. Especially living in an area where I'm surrounded by redhats, it's like I need to be armed with information or else I'll be at a disadvantage. It sucks because I can tell it's becoming an issue with my mental health as well, but I'm literally afraid of not knowing what's going on. Rock and a hard place.

...I wonder when we'll hear about Chrono Cross. 😅
I didn't care about politics until 2018 and it wasn't until the lockdowns began that I really delved deep into the subject.

Luckily, being in Canada, our politics aren't as "entertaining", in the theater sense, as America's, for a lack of a better term. The problem comes when I start focusing in on American politics and Covid, that's when I go overboard :(

And yeah, would be nice to hear about CC 😞
 
I didn't care about politics until 2018 and it wasn't until the lockdowns began that I really delved deep into the subject.

Luckily, being in Canada, our politics aren't as "entertaining", in the theater sense, as America's, for a lack of a better term. The problem comes when I start focusing in on American politics and Covid, that's when I go overboard :(

And yeah, would be nice to hear about CC 😞
Ah, what I wouldn't give to be Canadian. 😅
 


Get ready, Famiboards.

I actually forgot about how people would spam Twitter for a Direct lol. I think it will happen once we have rumours for a January Direct (It won't happen because it will be in February instead) especially by fake leakers and YouTubers who don't fact check and just want views.
 
I've no idea anymore who and where it was who made this great and lenthy post on Demon's Crest and the Gargoyle's Quest-series, but just thinking about those series have me want to replay all the games like immediately. I still thinl Gargoyle's Quest specifically would make for a great series, bigger than the two games (three, if we count Demon's Crest) we have now.
 
I've no idea anymore who and where it was who made this great and lenthy post on Demon's Crest and the Gargoyle's Quest-series, but just thinking about those series have me want to replay all the games like immediately. I still thinl Gargoyle's Quest specifically would make for a great series, bigger than the two games (three, if we count Demon's Crest) we have now.
Haven't played the other games, but Demons Crest is a damn near masterpiece. An immensely underrated SNES gem.
 
Wrapped up my last game for this year, Ender Lillies. Great game, would highly recommend to Metroidvania fans. Feels like a blend between an Igavania and Hollow Knight in the best way

Now it's time to correct one of the more shameful gaps in my collection. Torna, here I come
 
Fuck, this year has flown by. Can't say it was amazing. It honestly feels like I haven't been living my life for the past two years and that fucking sucks. This virus has fucked so much but the worst part is that I honestly can't tell whether my life would be in a different place now if it had never happened :(

I suppose one thing I plan to do is actually play more games. I've got 'gaming' as my main hobby yet I barely engage with it, despite loving it when I do. The time earlier this year where I was marathoning Yakuzas 3 - 6 were amazing, and I want to have that same level of commitment to something again. Instead I, like so often before, have fallen into 'talking' about video games instead of actually playing them, as if discussing random nonsense is going to be a good substitute for getting new experiences.

I don't know - the end of this year has gotten me doing some mighty introspection lol. Here's to a better 2022!
 
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