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StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion |ST5 Feb. 2022| Xenodelayed Chronicles 3

Which was your favourite announcement from the Direct?

  • Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

    Votes: 14 3.0%

  • Mario Strikers: Battle League

    Votes: 68 14.7%

  • Nintendo Switch Sports

    Votes: 33 7.1%

  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3

    Votes: 191 41.3%

  • Splatoon 3 - Salmon Run Next Wave

    Votes: 5 1.1%

  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass

    Votes: 54 11.7%

  • EarthBound + EarthBound Beginnings on NSO

    Votes: 6 1.3%

  • Disney Speedstorm

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • SD Gundam Battle Alliance

    Votes: 2 0.4%

  • Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival

    Votes: 2 0.4%

  • Front Mission 1st + 2 remakes

    Votes: 4 0.9%

  • Live A Live

    Votes: 50 10.8%

  • No Man's Sky

    Votes: 5 1.1%

  • Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition

    Votes: 7 1.5%

  • Klonoa: Phantasy Reverie Series

    Votes: 7 1.5%

  • Portal: Companion Collection

    Votes: 12 2.6%

  • Star Wars: Force Unleashed

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • Total voters
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Nintendo does not want to release their music on Spotify because they're afraid of being outstreamed by Peppa Pig and getting a 5/10 review on Pitchfork.
 
Ideally more people and organizations will pull out of spotify. I'm liking how Neil Young and some other musicians are pulling off the platform. Spotify's support of Joe Rogan and his bullshit is enough that the service should simply die.
 
Man, after blogging for 8 years and 216 articles, it is a struggle to come up with fresh material haha.

Like gaming, writing is one of my biggest passions, but by this point I feel like I've covered almost every facet of the subject matter, at least that I feel qualified to talk about. I even tried my hand at a game review at one point (Hellblade, as it was relevant to the issue of mental illness) but that didn't generate much interest.

BOTW also got a look in at one point, as a few years back I had the privilege of presenting at a conference on the subject of autism and gaming, and I took the opportunity to use this in it:

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I'll keep going just cos I love it, and I dearly hope it is helping others, but sometimes it's like pushing a boulder uphill.

Anyone else here a writer?
 
I said I wouldn’t buy games until I cleared out some of the backlog, but then I see that Amazon has dropped Arceus to $50 and realize it will likely not go below that for 2 years. Might as well jump on the hype train.
 
Barely Able said:
I said I wouldn’t buy games until I cleared out some of the backlog, but then I see that Amazon has dropped Arceus to $50 and realize it will likely not go below that for 2 years. Might as well jump on the hype train.
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Pretty sure Switch games always cost that much at Walmart (in the U.S., at least)
 
curl-6 said:
Man, after blogging for 8 years and 216 articles, it is a struggle to come up with fresh material haha.

Like gaming, writing is one of my biggest passions, but by this point I feel like I've covered almost every facet of the subject matter, at least that I feel qualified to talk about. I even tried my hand at a game review at one point (Hellblade, as it was relevant to the issue of mental illness) but that didn't generate much interest.

BOTW also got a look in at one point, as a few years back I had the privilege of presenting at a conference on the subject of autism and gaming, and I took the opportunity to use this in it:

ish6nntkdak3pdvq7i3v__large.jpg


I'll keep going just cos I love it, and I dearly hope it is helping others, but sometimes it's like pushing a boulder uphill.

Anyone else here a writer?
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I used to write for a few minor websites. Now I just type things into Google Docs and stash them away because I have no audience.

I know your pain, friend.
 
Mr_No_U said:
PLA looked way different here
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Still wondering on which Hardware Nintendo rendered this back in 2014 and when we'll see this graphical fidelity on a Nintendo hardware.
Botw looked very good and I Love the art direction.
Still hoping that one day in the next 5-10years we'll get a Zelda game that matches the exact graphics and artstyle of the 2014 teaser.
In Motion this still looks like the most ambitious and beautiful art style, direction and graphics a Nintendo video game could achieve in 2022 on the most powerful possible Nintendo hardware (around 300€, tv-console). PS5SeriesX, sure but on e.g. X-Box Series Level S? Probably?!
 
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Skittzo said:
People here don't make threads fast enough. I still have no idea what was announced besides it being like Zelda.
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Text from the Kickstarter page and all that:

Mina the Hollower is a bone-chilling action adventure featuring classic gameplay and an 8-bit aesthetic in the style of Game Boy Color, refined for the modern era. Smooth 60fps action combat, a world full of mystery and horror, and top-down adventuring combine in a mix that may remind you of classic titles like Castlevania, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, or even Bloodborne. Whip foes, burrow through the ground, and explore a pixel-perfect world in Mina the Hollower, a brand new game from the developers who brought you Shovel Knight! You won’t want to miss this harrowing, yet heartwarming tale!
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Mina the Hollower is inspired by Gothic Horror, a literary genre popularized in the late 1700’s. Known for its macabre and morbid tone, the genre’s stories often focused on a horrific descent from normality into an unknown world. Many of our popular horror fiction stories come from this era- Dracula, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - and countless others. We’ve returned to this classic source to take our own inspiration from the original fiction and craft a bizarre world full of monsters and mystery.
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The "Expanded NES" music and sound effects in Shovel Knight were all made using the free program, FamiTracker, and they can be played back on a real hardware console. For Mina the Hollower, Jake is imagining that our souped-up fantasy Game Boy supported extra sound chips of its own, and has turned to the MSX home computer and its beloved Konami SCC expansion to capture the lush, haunting sound of this chip mashup.
 
2021 may be Nintendo's only year without a 20M+ selling game.

2017: We had 3, MK8, BotW and SMO.
2018: SSBU
2019: Pokemon SwSh
2020: ACNH
2021: The only game that could MAYBEEEE reach that is Pokemon BDSP, but I doubt it.
2022: Out of the games we currently have confirmed to release this year, I can't see any of them pushing 20M either.
 
For all the fervor for Zelda meets Castlevania, it strikes me how easily such a concept could be implemented into a followup to The Adventure of Link. Clearly not the same sort of thing as Mina here, but an interesting thought nontheless.
 
Scrawnton said:
Has anyone played Tokyo Xanadu? I finally pulled the trigger on it for a $5 steam key.... I've had my eye on it ever since playing Ys VIII.
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I liked it well enough and was happy I played it. Not as good any of the recent Trails and Ys games, but it is a fun mix of the two and I enjoyed the modern setting and some of the mysteries. I hope Falcom will take another stab at it at some point.
 
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Supreme Overlord said:
For all the fervor for Zelda meets Castlevania, it strikes me how easily such a concept could be implemented into a followup to The Adventure of Link. Clearly not the same sort of thing as Mina here, but an interesting thought nontheless.
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Infernax is exactly that.

And people should play Blossom Tales on Switch for a classic Zelda experience.
 
LonkFromPA said:
2021 may be Nintendo's only year without a 20M+ selling game.

2017: We had 3, MK8, BotW and SMO.
2018: SSBU
2019: Pokemon SwSh
2020: ACNH
2021: The only game that could MAYBEEEE reach that is Pokemon BDSP, but I doubt it.
2022: Out of the games we currently have confirmed to release this year, I can't see any of them pushing 20M either.
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Legends Arceus will pass 20M this year. Easy.
 
curl-6 said:
Man, after blogging for 8 years and 216 articles, it is a struggle to come up with fresh material haha.

Like gaming, writing is one of my biggest passions, but by this point I feel like I've covered almost every facet of the subject matter, at least that I feel qualified to talk about. I even tried my hand at a game review at one point (Hellblade, as it was relevant to the issue of mental illness) but that didn't generate much interest.

BOTW also got a look in at one point, as a few years back I had the privilege of presenting at a conference on the subject of autism and gaming, and I took the opportunity to use this in it:

ish6nntkdak3pdvq7i3v__large.jpg


I'll keep going just cos I love it, and I dearly hope it is helping others, but sometimes it's like pushing a boulder uphill.

Anyone else here a writer?
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I only write as a hobby, but it can get very frustrating sometimes. So often I have a clear idea of something in my head, then when I go to actually write the thing it will just turn into a jumbled mess, like I just completely blank on how to actually describe it.
 
YoboD said:
I only write as a hobby, but it can get very frustrating sometimes. So often I have a clear idea of something in my head, then when I go to actually write the thing it will just turn into a jumbled mess, like I just completely blank on how to actually describe it.
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Oh my god, yes about this. YES. Just a week ago I finished a project of 90,000 words after working on it since November of 2020! It was supposed to be like, 25,000 words and 12 chapters, and I expected it to be finished by April of last year. It ended up being almost four times longer and I JUST finished the 16th chapter this past week! And nothing planned turned out the way I imagined in my head. It feels a little sloppy despite including everything that I wanted to, but in the end I think it turned out okay. Definitely going to give my next longform project a more delicate attention to detail and prose.

Rule one of writing: NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING will come out onto the page the way you imagine it. Scenes will feel different or just be entirely different from the way you imagined them to be. Sometimes that is frustrating...and other times that is a good thing!

And speaking of detail and prose, if you want a good book to read then check out "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr. It's a good read so far, and I'm a little over halfway (been working on reading this book for like 2 months already lol). I think it's helping out with my sentence structure, and giving me better ideas in utilizing description to my advantage!

Two examples:
"This becomes the question that drags its teeth through Marie-Laure's mind."
"...and in the watery light, it seems suddenly as if the scarf trailing from the dancing girl's neck is a noose."

There was another small excerpt where a guy was handed a diamond, and he inspected it and every facet that the light lanced off of, and the description just blew me away. There are many more examples of Doerr's mastery, but these are what I had on-hand. This book hits hard, but it's really freaking good y'all!

...sorry to go off on a tangent LOL, but I thought that note was of worth!
 
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It's Feburary 10th 2022. You're hunting for Shinies in Pokemon Legends Arceus. Xenoblade 3 and Donkey Kong were announced in the Feburary Direct yesterday. Kirby comes out next month. Life is good.
 
LonkFromPA said:
2021 may be Nintendo's only year without a 20M+ selling game.

2017: We had 3, MK8, BotW and SMO.
2018: SSBU
2019: Pokemon SwSh
2020: ACNH
2021: The only game that could MAYBEEEE reach that is Pokemon BDSP, but I doubt it.
2022: Out of the games we currently have confirmed to release this year, I can't see any of them pushing 20M either.
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Metroid Dread for the clutch.
 
Chie said:
Ideally more people and organizations will pull out of spotify. I'm liking how Neil Young and some other musicians are pulling off the platform. Spotify's support of Joe Rogan and his bullshit is enough that the service should simply die.
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I used to like Joe Rogan only for the fun alien conspiracies he used to discuss. I always found those entertaining, but since Covid, he's been doing nothing but jumping on that lunacy. Seeing his descent has been incredibly sad, even before that somewhat too.

NateDrake said:
No
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Hope you're doing well. Your latest podcast episodes have been fantastic!
 
Brawlz said:
Love going onto Youtube, seeing Nintendo recommendations and a video saying that Nintendo bought Capcom......

Garbage clickbait.
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Nintendo YouTubers, at least the "popular" ones, tend to be garbage in general.
 
LonkFromPA said:
2021 may be Nintendo's only year without a 20M+ selling game.

2017: We had 3, MK8, BotW and SMO.
2018: SSBU
2019: Pokemon SwSh
2020: ACNH
2021: The only game that could MAYBEEEE reach that is Pokemon BDSP, but I doubt it.
2022: Out of the games we currently have confirmed to release this year, I can't see any of them pushing 20M either.
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Not so fast like ANCH did, but Pokémon Legends sure will achieve 20M this year
 
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the next game from Yacht Club looks good but I’m having trouble with the phrase “triumphantly returns to Kickstarter”
 
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