This week on Sessler's ...Something, Adam ponders Nintendo's recent announcements of the 2DS, and the surprising news that Wind Waker HD will release on the eShop two weeks ahead of its retail release. Will Microsoft and Sony adopt a similar practice?
Game Rant participates in the Megaton Musashi World Cup, checking out the game a little bit beforehand and winning the first round match.
After being benched for 20 years, and returning only to be forsaken again despite being a splendid game, it's time Kid Icarus gets salvation.
The Nintendo Switch is potentially nearing its lifespan, and several Wii U games haven't found their way over as ports yet.
I think it's better to leave games like AC: Amiibo Festival and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash forgotten on the Wii U. Best case, they are mediocre games; worse case, they are very bad. It was a dark time for the Wii U, and the first only exists to sell Amiibo cards, whereas the second was put together in a couple of months with a shoestring budget, and it shows.
The rest of the list does have some really cool games, though. I would love to see a remake of Star Fox Zero with decent controls, and Xenoblade X doesn't require that much modification to work.
This article leaves out Nintendo's most controversial game to date devils Third.
I personally found the cover system really fun in that one compared to at the time most fps games completely lacking one.
Kirby is always ignored or forgotten by people, so good to see it mentioned here.
Play Kirby Canvas Curse on DS, and then play Rainbow Curse on Wii U, they're really fun and unique 'platformers' without any actual jumping.
Nintendo needs a new 1st party ip.
its sad we still haven't had hd zelda but is that what we look forward to? a hd version of a 20 year old game? I hear they have a new ip in the works...and I know imma get alot of disagrees.
its not that I hate Nintendo, its just I feel they've had a pass for no new 1st party AAA ip since pikman..a N64 title..smh. really they are lacking and its an issue. we as gamers go hard in sony/MS about new ip's, but not on Nintendo....why is that?
I mean i see people saying let god of war go....(me included) or gears of war has run its corse. but these games are babies compared to mario,zelda,metriod,pokemon,ki rby. no matter how great they are they are stale and some are over 20years old.
im not saying to stop making them.....im saying stop piggybacking them and make some new sh*t.
For those who want to know what Sessler's Caligula reference was about, well it was a shot. Caligulas descent into madness was accompanied by one sided conversations with the moon. As things became worse the conversations became more frequent (and frightening), along with the execution of any who didn't share his delirium (or his personal views). Things finally culminated with him (Caligula) getting freaky with his horse.
So if you're a PS fan please, let Adam know exactly how you feel about being labeled as an insane, homicidal horse #@%#er.
Edit: I really can't believe he just said that. *smh*
I do find it a little odd how people always gripe about Nintendo not coming out with new IP's but will have no issues lining up for Halo 5, God of War 12, Uncharted 43 or Gran Turismo 607.
If the games sucked, then I could understand. But games like Mario and Zelda are constantly in the conversation for GOTY, so clearly they are doing something right.
Not to mention that games like F-Zero, Star Fox and Pikmin are hardly considered rehashed IPS. Considering we haven't seen a new game in the Star Fox or F-Zero universe in forever, and the last iterations of each of these games were on the Gamecube.
To be fair what nintendo is doing with Wind Waker HD is really smart. Wanna battle used games? Sell the digital version 2 weeks ahead of the disc version. I expect to see this adopted by Sony and MS soon.
Adam's right: the push for digital content sales should start by showing a clear advantage in getting it over a physical copy, whether it be early release or just being cheaper. Sony did the reduced price thing with Vita games, but the expensive memory cards kind of defeated the purpose of it.
Nintendo did say that they aren't implying this decision for early digital release with Wind Waker HD to be a trend for them in the future, but I do hope that this move gets the attention of other digital distribution services to give a little more of a boost to digital over physical releases. As Adam said, this could be a "game-changer."