Ah, yeah. My bad.I fully agree with your post, just wanted to point out that Next Level Games is based in Canada.
Ah, yeah. My bad.I fully agree with your post, just wanted to point out that Next Level Games is based in Canada.
Thankfully no. I live for the tears of rayman fans over yet another rabbids games (that will be better received and sell more than any rayman game may i add)Will Mario+Rabbids 2 have Rayman?
Hopefully notWill Mario+Rabbids 2 have Rayman?
Thankfully no. I live for the tears of rayman fans over yet another rabbids games.
HeartlessHopefully not
There's still a possibility of FE getting announced. It's a third party heavy Direct, not 100% third party one.I just wanted New FE, Style Savy and TP + WW HD Oh well, maybe next direct. Not touching Mario+ Rabbids 2 for obv reasons.
I kinda missed this kind of chaos lol.
Bringing up Jim Ryan’s fuck up isn’t cowardly whataboutism nor is it deflecting shit when it’s an example of companies being two faced about these issues. These companies speak up all they like but then after go back to doing the same shit all over again. Disney & “The don’t say gay bill” ring a bell for you. It’s good that Sony affiliates are speaking up but until Sony proper does something with that I ain’t holding my breath.Nah
I ain't even gonna reply to the rest of your post because this, this is nonsense.
Bringing up Jim Ryan's fuck-up is cowardly whataboutism to deflect from the legitimate fact that nobody with a significant affiliation with Nintendo has said a single goddamn thing about the loss of abortion rights in America. Nintendo, Retro, Next Level Games, Doug Bowser, Bill Trinen, Charles Martinet. No-One.
That, to me, says a lot more about Nintendo as an entity than an out-of-touch boomer fuck failing to enact a gag order says about Playstation as an entity. But, since Jim Ryan got caught trying to enact said gag order, Sony as a whole get the flack whilst Nintendo gets... nothing. It doesn't matter that practically all of Sony's major American affiliates have stepped up, they get to be the subjects of whataboutism because their leader simply wasn't as efficient with enacting gag orders.
The Direct will actually be a Turn-Based Tactical Game Direct. Fire Emblem, Mario + Rabbids, Midnight Suns, Tactics Ogre, FF TacticsThere's still a possibility of FE getting announced. It's a third party heavy Direct, not 100% third party one.
With the amount of people in the team they could make 15 advance wars games, the mario and rabbids team ( ubisoft milan) as 400 people lmao.It's time for Soliani and his team to be poached by Nintendo. They do turn based really well, maybe Nintendo gives them Advance Wars.
Also, Toronto and Quebec. Very Nintendo-esque studios.
Oh, Okay thanks, it's getting hard to keep up with the thread atm lol.There's still a possibility of FE getting announced. It's a third party heavy Direct, not 100% third party one.
400 people? You'd think with such crowded team any project would be done within months... But we already have passed the one year anniversary of the announcement.With the amount of people in the team they could make 15 advance wars games, the mario and rabbids team has 400 people lmao.
Nate has said this though. Of course we can see a third party game Nintendo publishes. AoC was his example.I’m gonna say it, I’m gonna say it, branding IS important, here’s why:
General: a 40-50 minute presentation featuring first and third party games that is livestreamed and presented through headlines as well as longer showcases presented by either Koizumi or Takahashi
Mini: a 10-30 minute presentation featuring first and third party games that is a video dropped with no prior announcement focusing mostly on games releasing in the near future, with no showcases presented by Koizumi or Takahashi
Partner Showcase: an 8-20 minute presentation that is basically a mini, with the exception of the omission of first party content
As far as I am aware, nobody in the know has said, “I have heard that we are getting a Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase” just that there’ll be a “focus” on third parties with some insisting there will be some Nintendo content. This is not a Partner Showcase, this is a Direct Mini, at least if there is ANY Nintendo presence. The only way it is a Partner Showcase under these pretences, is if Nintendo comes up with some bullshit show that’s got the label, with a side note saying that some first party content will be included (which to be fair, isn’t the most impossible thing considering Nintendo).
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That 400 doesnt even include all the people who work from other studios in form of contract work, Ubisoft games are known for having thousands of people involved400 people? You'd think with such crowded team any project would be done within months... But we already have passed the one year anniversary of the announcement.
Nintendo doesn't have to be two-faced, cause they only have one face. And that's "we don't fucking care."Bringing up Jim Ryan’s fuck up isn’t cowardly whataboutism nor is it deflecting shit when it’s an example of companies being two faced about these issues. These companies speak up all they like but then after go back to doing the same shit all over again. Disney & “The don’t say gay bill” ring a bell for you. It’s good that Sony affiliates are speaking up but until Sony proper does something with that I ain’t holding my breath.
And, Nintendo has gotten plenty of flack for shit like this. BLM protests. Pride. Latest worker abuse allegations. Using slave labor or conflict minerals. Disaster relief. Miss me with this bullshit that they have gotten nothing. Give it time as we saw with the BLM protests. And, if there is a gag order someone is going to break it sooner or later as we saw immediately with Jim Ryan failing at it initially and we see with this.
Oh yeah true, who knows whats happening. As for the number: ubisoft has over 19k employees worldwide, so 400 is really nothing for them.400 people? You'd think with such crowded team any project would be done within months... But we already have passed the one year anniversary of the announcement.
It’s weird how Nintendo just throws their hands up in the air and give up their marketing plans if there’s no E3. That’s assuming we end up getting the same style of Partner Directs from 2020.What is the logic behind splitting up shows into a third-party focused one and one that may show first-party stuff releasing later this year to air at some later date? Surely anything this year is ready to have some sort of reveal. Especially if it's basically done.
I expect a partner showcase direct, but every single character of every game shown is in Rabbid form
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The first one didn’t really capture me but this one being Galaxy inspired and free roam is so excitingI think even if you weren't into the first Mario and Rabbids game, you might be interested in this one because they are really trying to differentiate the experience. Here's some interesting tidbits about Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope from interviews:
IGN: (With Soliani and Manzanares)
- "Rather than a mostly linear set of areas with battles sprinkled across them, you now travel around entirely separate planets, each of which is fully explorable with people to talk to and secrets to find."
- We [planned] a lot of planets," says Manzanares, "where each of them is very different, it has its own story and characters." The idea is to make each one feel different, offer their own diverse set of experiences. "The way it works is you arrive on a planet, you go explore, you can go anywhere you want on that planet," continues the producer.
- "Battles on planets now see you transported to different arenas, and the first game's XCOM-like grid is gone, now turning your battles into more freeform affairs, somewhat akin to Divinity: Original Sin."
From a Screenrant interview with Manzanares and Christina Nava:
- "I would say that the work really started mid-2018 on Mario + Rabbids: Sparks Of Hope. But it started before, because when we did the previous game, we had so many ideas that we couldn't put in the game...".
- "...we didn't want to go for the typical sequel. Even though people loved the first one, we wanted to make sure that we came back with surprises and not go for the granted way."
- "Before you had to click with the cursor and give information of where you want the hero to go. Now it's direct control, so it's really focused on the action. Which means that you can do a lot of synergies between the techniques and the weapons and the heroes as well. For instance, you could take a Bob-omb, but a few seconds after it's gonna explode - so you really need to throw it before it explodes in your hand. When we say real time, this is what we're talking about."
I look at this and ask “why can’t we even get a Mini Direct with some first party announcements?” Even if they’re small like WWHD, Style Savvy, MPHD you could do a Mini. I’m not complaining about H2, but this isn’t the complete half 2 lineup.
That’s why it leads to wondering what else is going on here. Something else Nintendo has going on? A Mini with all the third party announcements plus a handful of Nintendo announcements could’ve been done I’d like to imagine.
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Nintendo has forsaken us.… what in the name of Yamauchi happened here
So what if the next weeks/months are
Metroid Direct
Thankfully no. I live for the tears of rayman fans over yet another rabbids games (that will be better received and sell more than any rayman game may i add)
We need someone to turn this into the Mr Incredible turns uncanny meme. The last picture is for the Bakugan sequel.It’ll be a full general Nintendo Direct featuring a mix of first party and third party games
It’ll be a Nintendo Direct Mini featuring mostly first party games
It’ll be a Partners Showcase for third party games only
It’ll be a M+R 2 Direct
It’s a tweet
I've said it a bunch and I'll say it again, the September Partner Direct was legitimately one of the best Directs of the Switch era. Like, the only Directs that I'd conclusively put above it would be February and E3 2019. I could maybe see an argument for March 2018, but only because that Smash announcement was hype (don't really remember what else that Direct had)I won’t believe it’s a partner Showcase until it’s up on YouTube, I just don’t see Nintendo going back to that branding after how it was received in 2020. Even if it’s only the next set of tracks for MK8D, I can’t see them announcing nothing and leaving august and the second half of September empty.
With that said, the Partner Showcases did give us some great stuff, like SMT, Monster Hunter, KH Melody of Memory, the Taiko No Tataujin rpg games, Cadence of Hyrule DLC, and quite a bit more. If there is something similar to those, it would still be a win for me at least.
Tbf, they also force you to have Mario, and I don't see anyone disparaging his popularityPeople love the rabbids so much that Ubisoft literally has to force you to carry at least one of them in your team at all times in mario+rabbids
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… what in the name of Yamauchi happened here
Would buy it if it's called Mario + RaymanWill Mario+Rabbids 2 have Rayman?
I doubt many would've bought Mario + Rabbids if it was just the Rabbids. Mario was the big pull here. I also doubt the initial reception to the first game would've been negative if it had been a crossover with Rayman instead.Thankfully no. I live for the tears of rayman fans over yet another rabbids games (that will be better received and sell more than any rayman game may i add)
So hyped for this.I think even if you weren't into the first Mario and Rabbids game, you might be interested in this one because they are really trying to differentiate the experience. Here's some interesting tidbits about Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope from interviews:
IGN: (With Soliani and Manzanares)
- "Rather than a mostly linear set of areas with battles sprinkled across them, you now travel around entirely separate planets, each of which is fully explorable with people to talk to and secrets to find."
- We [planned] a lot of planets," says Manzanares, "where each of them is very different, it has its own story and characters." The idea is to make each one feel different, offer their own diverse set of experiences. "The way it works is you arrive on a planet, you go explore, you can go anywhere you want on that planet," continues the producer.
- "Battles on planets now see you transported to different arenas, and the first game's XCOM-like grid is gone, now turning your battles into more freeform affairs, somewhat akin to Divinity: Original Sin."
From a Screenrant interview with Manzanares and Christina Nava:
- "I would say that the work really started mid-2018 on Mario + Rabbids: Sparks Of Hope. But it started before, because when we did the previous game, we had so many ideas that we couldn't put in the game...".
- "...we didn't want to go for the typical sequel. Even though people loved the first one, we wanted to make sure that we came back with surprises and not go for the granted way."
- "Before you had to click with the cursor and give information of where you want the hero to go. Now it's direct control, so it's really focused on the action. Which means that you can do a lot of synergies between the techniques and the weapons and the heroes as well. For instance, you could take a Bob-omb, but a few seconds after it's gonna explode - so you really need to throw it before it explodes in your hand. When we say real time, this is what we're talking about."
hm. this one is hard. IMO I can't see it happening. I think they are holding them back if BotW 2 should slip even further into 2023.Do we think they will announce Zelda ports while still waiting for more BOTW2 info for over a year now?