bugsonglass said:

Colour-scheme on the logo!!  Very nice touch!

I would have preferred blood dripping off it.

edgecrusher said:

Other M was a good game, but it was not even close to the Prime games and it also kind of FELT like a title that didn't have as much effort put into it....kind of half assed for a franchise that legendary.

I didn't think it felt half assed at all, I found it a nice change of pace from the Prime games.

I don't really get your point of view on sales. Prime 2 didn't sell great either and if everyone has already left Nintendo, then how is another Metroid game that sells between 1 and 2 million going to broaden the audience? It would cement loyalty from long term fans yes, but it won't broaden anything. As a long time fan I do very much want and NEED a new Metroid and many other poor selling franchises too.

As for the way they act as a company, yes it's quite annoying and bizaare at times, but it seems like you want them to be more like Sony and Microsoft and just become a AAA megabudget mid-30s age crowd pleaser? 3rd parties is the problem IMO, imagine if Wii U had the same games as everyone else and the few top Nintendo titles each year? So it would have the Witcher 3 and Arkham Knight and COD and Ass Creed and all Ubis shit too. Obviously Wii U's architecture and sales have precluded it from getting support so the only answer is to build a normal console next time.

If you break down first party games that MS and Sony are doing they aren't always very productive, they aren't regularly breaking the mould or being of particularly high quality either - in terms of consistency and inventiveness. Instead of builing a normal console Nintendo would rather roll the dice and hope for groundbreaking, unexpected success like the Wii. And as you have said before capturing lightning in a bottle is hard to do.

aspro said:

As much as I love it, the Wii U is a trainwreck sales-wise, and doubling down and investing in it for the few that have it now would be a poor business decision.

Not if they just makes the games cross gen and if it's easy to port U code or even if NX is backwards compatible. It's a way to give a little more to U owners instead of cutting them off and generating bad feelings. But like Edge said the last couple of years of Wii weren't great either but by that time third parties had abandoned it. If they hadn't, the release schedule would have been better. So again, 3rd party support is all important but if Nintendo aren't going to make a machine that is competitive specs wise it wont do much. Especailly when the number 1, top reason from surveryed gamers for getting a PS4 instead of XB1 is 'resolution'.

edgecrusher said:

What would? Because catering to just a 9 million userbase is where they're at, and Metroid is just about the biggest franchise left that they haven't already released on the console. Zelda isn't going to move anymore units than Metroid. Especially after most Zelda fans probably dropped the money down for the Wind Waker HD.

It might mean A LOT to a couple of million of people. Like me.

Zelda has always sold more than Metroid though, right? I do not think the U owners who bought WW remake are going to skip a proper New Zelda game because of it, unless they are batshit crazy.

Bugsy be well.

I'm going to the Miami supercon, big nerd convention. I'm going to see lando. GG who ever voices the dude in your FMA sig is there, they are using the same pic in the flyer. Mario a voice actor is there. Sonic and Chris Redfields voice actor is there. There are some agents of shield people here. Should be sweet. I should have Robio like pics later.

My "Summer of Mega Man" has been going slowly so far. I've beaten the first boss of the first Mega Man Zero so far.  

Nostalgia is in full-effect though. I've ordered this puppy:

Dvader said:

Bugsy be well.

I'm going to the Miami supercon, big nerd convention. I'm going to see lando. GG who ever voices the dude in your FMA sig is there, they are using the same pic in the flyer. Mario a voice actor is there. Sonic and Chris Redfields voice actor is there. There are some agents of shield people here. Should be sweet. I should have Robio like pics later.

Have him record a message in his Edward Elric voice berating lazy VGPress members for not watching FMA:B.

Archangel3371 said:

gamingeek said:

Have him record a message in his Edward Elric voice berating lazy VGPress members for not watching FMA:B.

That would be so awesome.

Yes, please!

Okay.... so today I learned there was a Porky's video gamee on the Atari 2600.

Yup. I own it. It's shit.

If gaban spoils anything from arkham I will hunt him down. Not cool.

phantom_leo said:

You're breakin' my heart, Bugsie! I don't like hearing things like that from you! I can't be completely happy if one of us here is not. Wish there was something I can do for you! My gaming has lessened a lot in the past few months; maybe I will stick around here, though, just to make sure everyone is OK. I don't think I could ever stop gaming completely, but I don't mind giving the time to someone else if they mean a lot to me... Don't know where life will take me these days, but I am enjoying the ride at the moment!

Dvader said:

Bugsy be well.

I'm going to the Miami supercon, big nerd convention. I'm going to see lando. GG who ever voices the dude in your FMA sig is there, they are using the same pic in the flyer. Mario a voice actor is there. Sonic and Chris Redfields voice actor is there. There are some agents of shield people here. Should be sweet. I should have Robio like pics later.

Thanks guys.  Don't worry.  Going to be fine!

Yesterday I tried to start a new (for me) videogame after a very long time.  Thought i'd go for something a bit "invlolved".  So I opened the Metal Gear HD Collection and started MGS2.  It's fun ... sort of.  Will see if it keeps me interested.  I'm playing it on the highest difficulty and the enemy AI is still retarded but I don't care, I probably wouldn't want them to be much cleverer.