I haven't posted here in years, but I have been moved to.
2009 and 2008 were pretty slow nintendo wise, but next year is shaping up to be amazing.
First of all, there's:
http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?p=17392
This could potentially be dsiappointing. The trailer doesn't really have a Metroid feel to it at all- something I think the last prime game also lacked- that sense of isolation. But, I'm open to being pleasantly surprised.
Secondly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBVUEYaYx54&feature=fvst
This is one of those trailers with all the boring bits kept in, so it's very "mario jumps on switch", "mario collects things", "mario goes swimming"- but, really, who cares? It's mario galaxy+Yoshi, so it's going to be a lot of fun.
But, most of all, i'm looking forward to:
http://au.ds.ign.com/dor/objects/949592/golden-sun-ds/videos/goldensun_ds_trl_e3.html;jsessionid=1ktm1q5lt2vv0
I had given up hope of this happening- which is silly, because it's only been, what? 6 or 7 years?
But god, it looks worth it. Golden sun is one of those series that one gets attached to pretty easily, maybe it's just because I was 11 when the I got the first one- a very impressionable age, in videogame terms.
1- Could be good. Too early to say.
2- Oh hells yes. Galaxy is probably my fave game this gen.
3- My skin tingled during the GS DS trailer. The first 2 games were 2 of the best RPGs I have ever played. Got very high hopes for this one.
Looking forward to Mario Galaxy 2 the most, just hope they haven't rushed it, although it looks pretty promising. GS DS looks lovely too, loved the original game's charm and graphics.
Metroid:
Lets completely throw out the window the concept of it being a "metroid" game. From ninja gaiden's team, hell, at best its going to be a "Metroid Flavored Hack n Slash" sort of thing. If they attempt to actually make a metroidvania game with that kind of perspective/gameplay/theme, it will be a dismal failure along the lines of the CD-I zelda games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0BgpVJl8Q
Frankly, I'd give it a 40% chance of utter suck, a 30% chance of being mediocre, and a 30% chance of being "good". And a 0% chance of being a classic
Mario:
How could they possibly mess it up? Its one of the damn best engines there is out there, and its obviously not going to try to break new ground, so it will just be like an overpriced expansion pack with lots of new content. Too much of a good thing ruins it, sure, but a second title won't do that on its own. I'd much rather hear the team going on to produce a new excellent franchise, but obviously they like to just rehash the past over and over and over and over again, which is all nintendo does these days.
Now if only they got ride of the imagery of mario humping the head off yoshi as they fly through space
Golden Sun DS:
There are only 2 bad things that could possibly ever be said about that announcement:
A) It still won't be enough to make me buy a DS. Sorry
B) It took them long enough
Golden sun was one of those games that was impressive because of what it accomplished with limited hardware, and a combination of excellent quality and depth on top of absurd epic scale size. But it completely lacked any mention of pushing the envelop; it was just sort of like a very well done final fantasy game, and despite being one of the better made games of all time, it didnt really do anything we hadnt seen in 50 other games before it. Which makes me fear that Golden Sun DS is going to feel very... familiar :X
Golden Sun 2 was great but it lost a bit of its charm when you realized you were just playing Golden Sun 1 revamped, heh.
i love how its "2010 in games" and then suddenly its all nintendo based. hey nintendo released a new ds so something did actually happen in the world of the big n.
can we talk about interesting things now aka 360/ps3?
I'm still too disappointed by Spore and Fallout 3 to look forward to games in the next year. Not a good time for the PC, I suppose. I'm going back to playing Jagged Alliance 1 and X-Com: UFO Defense next year, might buy a copy of Rome: Total War while I'm at it.
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I haven't seen anything that looks interesting yet, not really keeping up with new releases. Been disappointed with most of what I was looking forward to, recently, especially Spore... shallow, casual tripe. I have no idea how they made a game with such limitless customization so linear and repetitive Enough Spore ranting.
Only game I'm really looking forward to is Mortal Online. Taking a great leap forward for MMORPGs. I hope it catches on and Dev's stop producing the same utter mulch they have been for far too long.
And they need to stop making shooter games, and start making stuff more like Trine. If you have Steam, get the demo. It's a step in the right direction at the very least.
Oh, and I don't want to see any more abstract crap, or any setting just because it's 'cool'. I don't know, I don't care, just give me something interesting, even poetic, clever, inspiring, something that is entirely self-contained, far away from popular media and current trends.
Give me settings like Cortex Command, where it inter-locks with the game mechanics perfectly. Give me another Link to the Past! Give me an open-world Pokemon game that sticks as close to the series as possible, with no numbers (huge distraction, hate them). Give me an emotional connection. Challenge me to find my own way around obstacles. Give me a world with rules to find out, and even let me break a few of them. Give me an epic climax. Make me truly feel like a Hero.
Ok, maybe I do know and I do care. There's so much that can be accomplished if we stop going for the easiest, tried and tested, most effective methods. Show a little backbone, we're smart, we can do better! Someday I'll step in and show everyone, I just need to be in a leading position with devout followers.
I don't even want to make money, I want games to start shining as an art form. Not because of the graphical work, or the narrative, or audio - nothing about media, that's a pretty shallow way to claim games as art. The artistic value in games is in the way they flow, how your decisions affect what happens, the intricacy of the underlying mechanics, just about everything that you don't see or even think about whilst playing.
Yep, I'm a nerd. I just deleted a big paragraph explaining what can be said in a few words, though you likely won't get what I mean or agree with it without those side tidbits. Regardless, my thoughts:
Forget the "art form" crap!
And I still sit here trying to keep myself from adding on. It is the most succinct version.
I know, I'm bored of the art form crap, too. But it's the best way I could think of to describe what I'm looking for, if that makes any sense. I could care less about art, or things becoming art. What did I even write? Am I contradicting myself too much? Forget the last big paragraph and anything previously said about art. Games are games. Art is... I don't know. Centuries of debate has gotten us nowhere, and now I'm just running in circles.
Maybe I can sum up what I want in a few words too...
I want something worth playing.
I had to try really hard not to add on to that.
Edit: Congrats on becoming an admin, glad they chose you
Thanks! And I completely understand what you mean. I was with you up until that rather out-of-place last paragraph! Games are a sort of art form, but I prefer to think of it as an art separate from the kind that draws "poofy" people.
A perfect way to say it, "I want something worth playing." One of my philosophies on game dev is that if you "get" it, you'll take a good idea and intuitively make it awesome, whether or not you purposefully think of all the intricate puzzle pieces that make it fit together.
Really what you said was right, it was just a little scarily profound. Or... "poofy."
Yes I too am enjoying it more. Seems so much more limitless yet they haven't hyped it. Although like the other Sims games, I spend so long making them and their houses that I get tired of it and turn it off after an hour or two
Neuro, your rant as I just read it is dead-on accurate. OMC, you've probably read very few of my posts, because it's hard for me to summarise everything into a few short sentences. Sometimes one just gets carried away and lazy at the same time and starts ranting about nonsensical nothings instead of figuring out what to do next with developing games and projects (talking about me here).
As for games in 2010, I really don't care much for commercial games anymore, as I have not the money to buy them or the time to play them. I tend to make time only for klik games and the commercial games that I already have, writing on these forums, and working at creating my projects.
Perhaps I will have a few games created by 2010 though.
Blood of the Ancient One, Seen only as Shadow, Faster than Lightning, Fierce as the Greatest Dragon, Nearly Invisible, Floating in a Dream, Entered through the Demon Door, Destroyer of Evil in a Realm with a Red Sky Scarred, Who could I be ?
Lol, I'm going to buy Sims 3 once it comes attached with the first expansion. Every Sims game has been unplayable without the expansions
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Originally Posted by -Adam- "Every Sims game has been unplayable without the expansions "
What?
None of the Sims games are really games without expansions. Usually have some crippling bug that makes the game so annoying. Remember the first one? Without expansions, the first Sims would completely forget their friends after 7 days or so (didn't have the long term friendship thing). Sims 2 had this annoying bug with the buildings, which was why I bought the expansion. I heard Sims 3 doesn't have much furniture and has some problem with Sims randomly reproducing, so I'm going to wait for the expansion for them to sort it out.
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I'm hoping Champions Online is good. City of Heroes/Villains with even more character customisation? The ability to create your own arch-nemesis and have epic battles? Yes please
I kind of agree with you Neuro, art-form games that just have gameplay tacked on as a rather unpleasant necessity really are a pain in the proverbial. Some of them don't even manage the gameplay part. Also if you're sick of art-form games, you should probably stay away from The Last Guardian...
And my only experience with the Sims 3 is my friend making me as a character, and the resulting text I received a few days later: "You're dead in the Sims." Apparently I drowned in a holding-your-breath competition against some random women in a swimming pool.
There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
"I heard Sims 3 doesn't have much furniture and has some problem with Sims randomly reproducing, so I'm going to wait for the expansion for them to sort it out."
Doesn't really matter, you can paint just about any surface,clothing item or furniture piece withyour own textures. As for sims randomly reproducing I haven't come across that yet, nor do I see why it really matters.
And Radon don't try to act smart, it doesn't match your British club-lout exterior.
Originally Posted by -Adam- "I heard Sims 3 doesn't have much furniture and has some problem with Sims randomly reproducing, so I'm going to wait for the expansion for them to sort it out."
Doesn't really matter, you can paint just about any surface,clothing item or furniture piece withyour own textures. As for sims randomly reproducing I haven't come across that yet, nor do I see why it really matters.
And Radon don't try to act smart, it doesn't match your British club-lout exterior.
Even if Metroid has a different feel to it, it should still turn out to be a good game.
Team Ninja used to make excellent games. Hopefully they still do, considering the loss of Tomonobu Itagaki, who came up with most(maybe all?_?) of their shit. They are amazing coders, none the less. Maybe this will net them more appreciation, since NG was so underrated. "its too hard". I hope they make metroid ridiculously hard =p.
Golden sun 3 looks awesome gaphics wise. I love low poly 3d stuff, makes things interesting. Never played part 2, mainly because im scared of the talking. They talked for fucking centuries in GS1.
They only talked for centuries if you read the un-important text, if you just read the important details then its pretty smooth. And GS2 is just badass I love the Sol Blade and Meggido.
It does indeed look very cool, but I can't help but think it's very overhyped. Eventually the mechanic will get old, no doubt, and I have a very strong suspicion that you'll either end up solving every puzzle in a similar and non-unique way after the first three, or you'll get tired of trying to figure out new ways and just drop the game altogether.
To me, I think that the gameplay means limitless replay value pretty much, sure you will sure the puzzles and complete it eventually, but then you would go back and even if you don't want to play the puzzles, just muck around and conjur up some crazy stuff. Not sure if there's some sort of free mode to do as you please or a level editor kind of thing, because that would be even better.
I've been following it on joystiq as they post news about it, and it just sounds awesome. They employed 5 people for 6 months to just collect words. If it's not a piece of IP/copyrighted, you can pretty much summon it. I read about when they played it at E3 and they said they came across this puzzle where between you and the end of the level is water with a shark on it. One guy drops a sword on the shark which just bounced off him, so he dropped a hairdryer in the water. And then another dude just calls up a kraken to battle the shark
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Enough Spore ranting.
Tell me about it. They already released two expansions, the latest just an add on adding new missions ¬_¬; Damn they really overhyped that game 
