E3 2014 - Nintendo Conference

[cool breeze]

man devil's third doesn't look too hot.  somehow has worse visuals than ninja gaiden on xbox.

[Steve Contra]

Splatoon looks pretty cool.  Everything else, eh.

[Rahxephon91]

IGN is showing Itagaki's new game (Devil's Third). It's Wii U exclusive.

[Takao]

man devil's third doesn't look too hot.  somehow has worse visuals than ninja gaiden on xbox.

Yeah, it looks like it's all over the place.

I can see why Nintendo gave it to IGN.

[Rahxephon91]

Yeah it looks like crap. They can have it.

[TVC15]

So did they thank gaf for praying for iwata?

[TakingBackSunday]

There's probably going to be a separate 3DS direct/stream/roundtable thingy.

[Himu]

devil's third link?

[Huff]

Sounds like another snooze fest. Not sure what all fegs are getting excited about.

[Takao]

devil's third link?

ign.com mainpage has an embedded video play

They're doing a gameplay demo. It's not looking so hot.

[cool breeze]

devil's third link?

it's streaming here:

what happened.  this looks real bad.

[TVC15]

Ugh, Itagaki let me down

[magus]

clearly nintendo won e3

[Madrun Badrun]

Sounds like another snooze fest. Not sure what all fegs are getting excited about.

Expectations were so low, the excitement is for slightly going beyond what was hoped; which was utter hopelessness. 

[Phoenix Dark]

Devil's Third looks like trash 

[Tasty]

Announcements:

• Super Smash Bros. (October for 3DS, Holiday for Wii U) has Mii characters and Palutena as playable characters
  
• Amiibo is Nintendo's NFP figurine platform, launching with Smash; place figures on the gamepad to bring them into the game, your stats are tied to your specific figure
  
• Zelda Wii U (2015) is open world-esque, do dungeons in any order and go anywhere you see
  
• Yoshi's Wooly World (2015) is basically Epic Yarn for Yoshi
  
• Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (2015) is a sequel to Canvas Curse and has a clay aesthetic
  
• Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire (November 21) were shown, basically confirms that the boxart versions of Groudon and Kyogre are new forms/Mega Evolutions
  
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Holiday 2014) is basically the Toad levels from Super Mario 3D Land blown out into a full game
  
• Mario Maker (2015) lets you make levels in either SMB1 (NES) or NSMBU (Wii U) style
  
• Hyrule Warrios (September 2014) has Link, Zelda, Impa, and Midna as playable characters
  
• Xenoblade Chronicles X (2015) is a full sequel to the first game (previously just "X")
  
• Bayonetta 2 (October 2014) includes the first game with Samus and Zelda outfits
  
• Splatoon (2015) is a new Nintendo four-player shooter where you spray ink and turn into squid
  
• Devil's Third (2015?) by Itagaki is Wii U exclusive
  
• Mario Party 10 (2015) has Amiibo support, play as Bowser and be a jerk

[archie4208]

The Bore showing their nintensexuality under duress

Pretty sure most of us are closet Ninthings.   

[Vertigo]

Devils Third looks fucking horrendous.    It's going to be fun watching Nintendo diehards stanning for it.

But I guess it fills a much maligned gap in Nintendo's game selection.

[Rahxephon91]

Well Xenoblade looked ok except for those ugly character designs. At least it seems like it has an actual single player. Still, that game must be a long way off.

Bayonetta is cool, but the game is going to bomb and be able to get for cheap quickly so no need to pick up a Wii U for it.

So maybe in 2016 when Xenoblade comes out the wiii will be cheap enough used to buy. Nothing else on the system is worth money.

[Madrun Badrun]

Itagaki worked on that game for like, what now, 6 years?

Maybe his sexual harassment classes took up all his time. 

[bork]

Bayo 1 AND 2
Splatoon
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Skyrim Zelda
Captain Toad
Mario Maker
Kirby Canvas Curse 2
Devil's Third

Updated

There are more games on Wii U that I'm interested in now than on the PS4 and Xbone. 

[Vertigo]

Zelda looks interesting. But that's 2015 so hopefully by then the Wii U is cheap as chips

[cool breeze]

Titanfall delivered more of that old Devil's Third teaser than Devil's Third

[Steve Contra]

Zelda looks interesting. But that's 2015 so hopefully by then the Wii U is cheap as chips

In 2015 we'll be buying WiiUs at yard sale for 15$ (down from 20$)

[bork]

Devils Third looks fucking horrendous.    It's going to be fun watching Nintendo diehards stanning for it.

But I guess it fills a much maligned gap in Nintendo's game selection.

Yeah, wow- just watched the footage.  It looks like it will be fun, but also looks like an O.G. Xbox game.  Which fits Itagaki's style I guess.   

[Tasty]

I feel pretty confident saying that Zelda is going to be delayed to 2016.

[demi]

Splatoon is AWFUL you're an idiot for being interested in that shovelware

Yoshi Yarn: Cute, but baby
Kirby Rainbow Curse: Claymation Kirby, and Canvas Curse was awesome
Zelda Scrolls: Cool
Xenoblade 2: No contest, best of E3 again (2 years running!)
Bayo 2 plus Bayo 1 surprise: Cool
Captain Toad: Cool
Splatoon: Fail, waste of resources
NFC Toys: Cool desk trinkets, probably have resale value in the long run
Smash Bros: Nobody cares
No announcement of Smash Bros Gamecube Pad: Fail

[hampster]

I can reach those mountains in the distance, play a multiplayer shooter with my friends, AND play a Warriors game? Nintendo did it again

It was a good conference but its hard to shake the feeling nintendo just reach last gen. Captain Toad though
Fantasy Life coming in October also

[demi]

Nevermind, CUBE CONTROLLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/10/e3-2014-gamecube-adapter-controller-and-smash-bundle-pricing-revealed

[bork]

Here's a Devil's Third trailer from 2012 that looks a lot better than what they showed on Wii U.

[TakingBackSunday]

[Rahxephon91]

Too bad it's Zelda.

[magus]

i honestly tought zelda looked cool...

... but then the thing turned into a cutscene and i was back to my old jaded self again

[Tasty]

Nevermind, CUBE CONTROLLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/10/e3-2014-gamecube-adapter-controller-and-smash-bundle-pricing-revealed

Pro Controller's still better, breh.

[Tasty]

i honestly tought zelda looked cool...

... but then the thing turned into a cutscene and i was back to my old jaded self again

At least we know it was in-engine. Looked pretty decent.

[Madrun Badrun]

Honestly I'm really suspicious of an open world zelda.  I don't think Nintendo will break enough with staples of the formula to take any real advantage of it.  The last ds zelda did have less of an order to the dungeons though so it might be OK.

[Tasty]

[cool breeze]

i honestly tought zelda looked cool...

... but then the thing turned into a cutscene and i was back to my old jaded self again

At least we know it was in-engine. Looked pretty decent.

in-engine don't mean much.  that uncharted video was in-engine too.

that said, the style is nice and nintendo generally doesn't put out unpolished games.  worse case it's 720p stable 30fps.  and I hope nintendo learn about anti aliasing before it comes out.

[magus]

Honestly I'm really suspicious of an open world zelda.  I don't think Nintendo will break enough with staples of the formula to take any real advantage of it.  The last ds zelda did have less of an order to the dungeons though so it might be OK.

skyward sword had still that old "bomb goes into the mouth of boss" gimmick

can't wait to throw a blue neon bomb into the cyber mouth of some lizard robot

bet it still doesn't have online multiplayer

[tiesto]

No mention of DQ7 I take it? Damn

[Tasty]

That Villager amiibo might make me break my "no physical gaming shit" rule.

[Himu]

Mike you mean the last 3ds zelda, right? I think zelda 3ds is a good example of how they want the series to progress and if it's more like that, I'm all for it.

[Tasty]

November 21 is so far away.

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya the more like the 3ds one the more I'm willing to buy a wiiu *when it hits 120$

[Madrun Badrun]

Also did Myamoto get sent to the R&D demo department until he dies?

[Joe Molotov]

The Bore showing their nintensexuality under duress

Pretty sure most of us are closet Ninthings.   

I ain't even in the closet, nicca. 

[MoxManiac]

Nintendo wins E3 for having a musou game in their conference.

[Tasty]

The entire Bayonetta universe in one package.

[Huff]

And what about games for the system people actually own?

[Madrun Badrun]

The entire Bayonetta universe in one package.

But will it have a unified interface?

[nachobro]

Nintendo wins cause I'll probably buy a higher percentage of the games they showed than any of the other conferences.

[Madrun Badrun]

I also like how they left out the games no one gives a shit about like mario party. 

[Tasty]

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Last year's E3 trailer was better. More gameplay.

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[cool breeze]

Nintendo wins cause I'll probably buy a higher percentage of the games they showed than any of the other conferences.

yeah, 2-3 nintendo games vs 1-2 sony games vs 0-2 microsoft game.  nothing in 2014 

tbh if nintendo went before the others it would've been pretty bad.  nintendo benefited from everyone else slumming it before them.

[demi]

X is apparently a sequel to Xenoblade? Awesome.

[Tasty]

They skipped Xenoblade I through IX just to get to X.

Nintendo wins cause I'll probably buy a higher percentage of the games they showed than any of the other conferences.

yeah, 2-3 nintendo games vs 1-2 sony games vs 0-2 microsoft game.  nothing in 2014 

tbh if nintendo went before the others it would've been pretty bad.  nintendo benefited from everyone else slumming it before them.

They usually go last, probably for that reason.

[Joe Molotov]

The Bore showing their nintensexuality under duress

Pretty sure most of us are closet Ninthings.   

I ain't even in the closet, nicca. 

[Tasty]

[magus]

you know there was a rumor a while ago that palutena was going to be in smash, that means that someone does indeed have leaked info on smash bros

http://nintendo3dsdaily.com/nintendo3dsnews/is-palutena-a-new-character-in-super-smash-bros-4/

[hampster]

The entire Bayonetta universe in one package.

How about the entire Xenoblade universe in one package? I'm not buying an expensive wii game even though I want to