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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST6| It’s Prime Time For Some More Wonderful Speculation! (Spoiler Crowd, Remain In This Thread Until The Direct Ends!)

What Metroid Prime Games Are Showing Up At The Next Nintendo Direct?

  • Metroid Prime 4! I #trusttheprocess.

  • Metroid Prime 2! I #trusttheprocess.

  • Metroid Prime 2 and 3! I #trusttheprocess.

  • Metroid Prime 2 and 4! I #trusttheprocess.

  • Metroid Prime 2, 3, and 4! I #trusttheprocess.

  • No Numbered Games, But Something New And / Or Cool! I #trusttheprocess.

  • I #trusttheprocess, but it will test us with nothing for now.

  • The process has forsaken us and I have forsaken it.

  • Only Metroid Prime Federation Force HD For Some Reason.

  • Just A Random JPEG Of Sylux In HD.

  • Nothing, Not Even Metroid Prime Pinball. Crocomire Is Still Dead. Just Endless Despair.

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Raccoon said:
oh yeah I'd love to see it be an original game, maybe with a stylized low poly art style
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Which is why I keep wondering if the F-Zero GX remake we've been hearing rumblings of for a bit isn't basically a smaller budget title that uses the GX Tracks but has a new art style and engine, and stuff like a battle royale mode.

Basically, going off the rumor mill we've been having for the last year or so, we went from "Something F-Zero is happening" to "Maybe a GX Remake" to "F-Zero 99". It's a very weird progression that makes me wonder if the entire thing isn't actually the same project.

Well, that and the fact that:
This is quick and unelaborate opinions based on loose information:
  • A hagi port of GX would run into enough issues that I'm not sure they wouldn't negate the low-costness of it. A bunch of content was tied to AX arcade machines that aren't readily available anymore, so there would be a bunch of reworking of menus and unlocks. Also not sure how feasible is it to add online to a hagi port.
  • An actual port of the GC code might make it easier to add online... assuming adding online to a game based off the Monkey Ball engine is that easy, lol.
  • I feel they'd go with a lower budget, game done from the ground up but reusing tracks and assets that existed in GX strictly so they could add online and whatever other options they want.
  • Of course, watch no F-Zero be real, or it literally be a Unity made F-Zero 99 alongside a hagi port without changes.


Apopheniac said:
I don't see F-Zero 99 as something that would end up being more successful than Pac-Man 99. Even if you argue that it rolls into another F-Zero release, I'm not convinced it could have more appeal than Pac-Man

Tbh I think most of the audience for this kind of thing bought into Tetris 99 and getting them into anything else 99 long-term is both a difficult proposition and a sum-zero game
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AlwaysOnDeck said:
Tetris is the most accessible, and arguably the most popular, video game ever created. F-Zero is a cult classic that even Nintendo doesn't believe will ever commercially successful.
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I actually wonder how much Bamco had to do with Pac-Man 99 shutting down when it does, because it feels a bit weird. Nintendo never takes multiplayer servers offline even when the games are literally dead. Has Bamco announced any other multiplayer Pac-Man games recently?

With that said, I'm assuming the idea is actually expand the F-Zero audience by giving them something to play for "free". If it works or not, we'll see. For all we know they've struck a mechanically solid F-zero formula that feels good to play in a battle royale mode.
 
daybreak said:
Reminder that there were numerous Nintendo titles that Pyoro didn't know about last time. They don't know the entire Direct contents. I'm skeptical that they know much about this one at all.
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There really isn’t much good reason to believe that F-Zero 99 (assuming that’s really what we’re getting) will be short-lived like Super Mario Bros. 35 and PAC-MAN 99 because the former was specifically for an anniversary and the latter was published by Bandai Namco (so it likely wouldn’t have been Nintendo’s call to shut it down). F-Zero 99 very well could and likely would be more like Tetris 99 than the other two.
 
BlackthornOrion said:
The picture got me thinking about how Nintendo presents itself as this cutesy, cozy, friendly company, and they're the only console-holder I've never seen post those cringey "welcome to the family" graphics.

Like, they have the most corporate, impersonal "today Nintendo Co. Ltd. is announcing the acquisition of (insert company here)" press releases and I unironically find that way preferable to pretending "oh gosh, our tight-knit family here at Business Incorporated just got a little bit bigger".
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is this pic real
 
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xghost777 said:
Caught up on the thread today. The story of Mr.Bones the second I think is my favorite part of the entire thread so far lol.
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Just unprecedented levels of lore formation, all around. This thread is really building up the Famibible.
 
Serif said:
I'm late. Is there any reason to believe in F Zero 99 over a GX remaster, when the latter has been rumored by Nate?
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Pyoro teased a 99 game and has been liking tweets that guessed F-Zero 99.

In the past, they've liked tweets that correctly guessed what they were referring to (i.e. people suggesting Mario RPG as the "classic snes game" that was getting a remake)
 
Aurc said:
I'm gonna confess... I'm no fan of the main Nintendo Direct theme they use. I think it just sounds like unintelligible electronic noise.

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The theme they used for general directs in 2017 and the extend version of it in 2018 to 2019 was way better.
 
AlwaysOnDeck said:
"Extinction" would be a solid title, for Prime 4
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Still think it should move on from Prime, in which case I could actually see Extinction used as a title for a subseries.

AlwaysOnDeck said:
Now a game like Metroid Prime Pinball being offered as an NSO exclusive? That would be fantastic!

(Same for Dr. Luigi, which is the only Arika game I ever want to play, again).
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... As someone who has never been into relying on streaming services as such, I really prefer my aforementioned missed opportunity.
 
AlwaysOnDeck said:
They were barely able to get 20 people playing in 99-player matches.

The game was good, too.
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From what I remember from trying it, it felt like there was something missing. Like, I remember playing Pac-Man Championship Edition at some point, and the flow of the game felt incredible. I got Tetris-effect'd by the game several times. It just felt good to play.

Pac-Man 99 meanwhile, it had this continuous undercurrent of "Hmmm there's something missing here". It also was very... Out of the 3 battle royales we've seen so far, definitely the one where it felt like you were actually playing multiplayer the least, so to speak. It didn't feel like nothing you were doing quite affected other people, and what other people did didn't quite feel like it was happening. And the thing is, it definitely was, it just didn't feel like it. It wasn't as impactful.

I'd honestly rather they had iterated on it a bit more instead of killing it. There's something interesting there yet to be fully realized.
 
anybody wanna play bloodborne

i'm messing around in forgotten woods atm
 
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I just hope that if we do see F-Zero 99, we get special skins like Tetris.

I want to play as Pikachu racing 99 Weedles, or Isabelle racing against 99 timmys.
 
Tangerine_Cookie said:
Which is why I keep wondering if the F-Zero GX remake we've been hearing rumblings of for a bit isn't basically a smaller budget title that uses the GX Tracks but has a new art style and engine, and stuff like a battle royale mode.

Basically, going off the rumor mill we've been having for the last year or so, we went from "Something F-Zero is happening" to "Maybe a GX Remake" to "F-Zero 99". It's a very weird progression that makes me wonder if the entire thing isn't actually the same project.

Well, that and the fact that:
This is quick and unelaborate opinions based on loose information:
  • A hagi port of GX would run into enough issues that I'm not sure they wouldn't negate the low-costness of it. A bunch of content was tied to AX arcade machines that aren't readily available anymore, so there would be a bunch of reworking of menus and unlocks. Also not sure how feasible is it to add online to a hagi port.
  • An actual port of the GC code might make it easier to add online... assuming adding online to a game based off the Monkey Ball engine is that easy, lol.
  • I feel they'd go with a lower budget, game done from the ground up but reusing tracks and assets that existed in GX strictly so they could add online and whatever other options they want.
  • Of course, watch no F-Zero be real, or it literally be a Unity made F-Zero 99 alongside a hagi port without changes.
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If by "AX exclusive content" you mean the AX tracks, those are unlockable in GX without ever touching an AX arcade.
 
MisterSpo said:
I'm definitely not on team shareholder

I want Nintendo to buy the moon and carve Wario's face into it

Fuck profits

Fuck them right to the Wario-engraved moon
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Imagine if the moon were carved to look like it came straight out of Majora's Mask. Just imagine. Absolutely glorious.
 
Supreme Overlord said:
Still think it should move on from Prime, in which case I could actually see Extinction used as a title for a subseries.


... As someone who has never been into relying on streaming services as such, I really prefer my aforementioned missed opportunity.
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Metroid Prime 4 Extinction? could this imply the game events will be directly linked to Metroid 2?
 
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Tangerine_Cookie said:
With that said, I'm assuming the idea is actually expand the F-Zero audience by giving them something to play for "free". If it works or not, we'll see. For all we know they've struck a mechanically solid F-zero formula that feels good to play in a battle royale mode.
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Would a 99 game be able to accomplish that? The three we've had are some of the biggest classic games around; the format seems very IP driven, as opposed to enabling IPs, and even that doesn't seem to mean much for a game's success

What is the point of expanding F-Zero as a franchise? Is the supposed GX port an additional means to that end, with a new game down the line?
 
HockeyBird said:
They didn't Yeah my posts. Do they have me on ignore? No, that can't be it. They're just busy. That's it! And the thread is moving fast. Maybe they didn't see it? Yeah, I just need to give them time to go through the thread and see my post. They'll Yeah it for sure. Anytime now


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How do you know you are on ignore?
 
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Mr.Bones said:
Who here would be down for a new Wario Land/World game? I'm honestly sick of WarioWare lol
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Still waiting for that collection and the return of Captain Syrup.

But they might need Captain Rainbow to meet Captain Syrup first in order to make that happen, I guess. They can team up with Captain Falcon.
 
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The C-Team mention reminded me I did this and never posted it.



It's just the worst MIDI of the A-Team theme I could find played on the most annoying soundfont I could find.



TomNookYankees said:
If by "AX exclusive content" you mean the AX tracks, those are unlockable in GX without ever touching an AX arcade.
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I specifically meant the custom machine parts that were event-only unlocks, actually. I had to Gameshark my way to getting those back in the day, lol.

But also like, going off how the Pikmin 1+2 Switch ports when, they'd probably touch up menus and stuff to remove any reference to AX even existing, since nowadays it basically doesn't.

Apopheniac said:
Would a 99 game be able to accomplish that? The three we've had are some of the biggest classic games around; the format seems very IP driven, as opposed to enabling IPs, and even that doesn't seem to mean much for a game's success

What is the point of expanding F-Zero as a franchise? Is the supposed GX port an additional means to that end, with a new game down the line?
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Letting people play F-Zero for free, on a fun online multiplayer setting, basically. But a lot of my entire idea basically rides on the GX port/new game being sort of bundled in with F-Zero 99, in a "Hey you like F-Zero 99, you can buy an entire F-Zero game!"
 
Tangerine_Cookie said:
From what I remember from trying it, it felt like there was something missing. Like, I remember playing Pac-Man Championship Edition at some point, and the flow of the game felt incredible. I got Tetris-effect'd by the game several times. It just felt good to play.

Pac-Man 99 meanwhile, it had this continuous undercurrent of "Hmmm there's something missing here". It also was very... Out of the 3 battle royales we've seen so far, definitely the one where it felt like you were actually playing multiplayer the least, so to speak. It didn't feel like nothing you were doing quite affected other people, and what other people did didn't quite feel like it was happening. And the thing is, it definitely was, it just didn't feel like it. It wasn't as impactful.

I'd honestly rather they had iterated on it a bit more instead of killing it. There's something interesting there yet to be fully realized.
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I suspect that part of it is that it's a lot easier to read game state/progress from a Tetris board than a Pac-Man board. With Tetris, you can tell at a glance whether your competitors are getting owned or preparing to own someone, whereas Pac-Man can just end at any point and attacks are annoying but not necessarily game-ending; it's more Pac-Man than it is 99, so to speak, at least by comparison

Which of course leads back to how the hell do you make F-Zero 99 work, since the game state there would seem to be even more opaque
 
Aurc said:
No worries, I feel ya, I'm not attributing any genuine malice to it. It's just something I've seen around Twitter and previously called out in one of my friend groups (we're American) because a couple of them kept doing it, and the "joke" always boiled down to "British, Australians, etc. suck", which is... yeah.
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It never fails to be funny when British people mock Americans for calling the sport soccer, because it was the British who originated the term.

We need these attempts at humor to be more like that, and unintentionally so.


Ryuusagi no hoshi said:
Being mexican the fact alone that, you phantom the idea of Taco Bell having any good in anything...
Makes me gag.
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I know a Mexican guy who is exceptionally picky about his Mexican food, except that he actually loves Taco Bell.

I suppose the food being especially non-Mexican in actuality might help.
 
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Barely Able said:
Probably should have had the themes as incentives to play like Tetris 99 and then sold the single play stuff. Pac-Man 99 is so good
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Yeah, I think you're right. It really hurt them, trying to profit off of selling skins, without having the promotional events.

I also think Pac-Man Vs. should have been the NSO game.
 
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