Liveblog thread for 3DS new Nintendo IP announcement (Code Name STEAM)

For the love of god Nintendo, please PLEASE PLEASE show a new Metroid.

PLEASE!

Also wasn't Reggie supposed to have a Metroid pin on him?
 
So she was in the Smash Bros. tourney, right? That's weird, but OK. Someone said she made some kind of Majora reference, is that true?

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[*]The 3DS holiday season is a big gaping hole of nothingness.

Aaaaah once again can we not with this falsity.

3DS Holiday 2011: Mario Kart & Mario 3D Land
3DS Holiday 2012: Paper Mario: Sticker Star & Professor Layton
3DS Holiday 2013: Pokemon X/Y & Zelda: Link Between Worlds
3DS Holiday 2014: Pokemon Hoenn Remakes & Smash Bros for 3DS

By your terms every single 3DS holiday has been a big gaping hole of nothingness.
 
Imo, Majora's Mask remake wouldn't qualify as a big game. What would they even want to talk about for an hour? If it, however, was a remake with a Master Quest-like second quest, complete with new dungeons, then I'd be fine with calling it a big reveal. If it was just a straight 3DS-remake of Majora's Mask though, I'd be pissed. I'd hope for either a Collectathon, a new OoT / MM-style Zelda using the OoT engine or a Metroid Prime successor (not Hunters).

A LBW-style MM game would really be something. I'd be all for that. With regard to Metroid, if they could make it a Prime-style game I'd be cool with that as long as it controlled smoothly, but I think my preference would be a 2D Metroid vs. a 3D one.
 
In the end of the Nintendo Direct you briefly see Miyamoto's 3DS with Pikmin stickers on it.

Pikmin 3DS will be the announcement.

Oh God Yes!

Pikmin3D all over me!!!

I've been wanting a Pikmin on 3DS for years! Ever since I'd completed the Streetpass puzzle, before they ever started adding new ones to Streetpass....

I'll be hyped for this.

Also:Miyamoto was wearing a Pikmin shirt yesterday during his Treehouse appearance .
 
Aaaaah once again can we not with this falsity.

3DS Holiday 2011: Mario Kart & Mario 3D Land
3DS Holiday 2012: Paper Mario: Sticker Star & Professor Layton
3DS Holiday 2013: Pokemon X/Y & Zelda: Link Between Worlds
3DS Holiday 2014: Pokemon Hoenn Remakes & Smash Bros for 3DS

By your terms every single 3DS holiday has been a big gaping hole of nothingness.

Smash is early October, hardly holidays.

That leaves only the Pokémon remake.
 
This E3 has been great for Wii U, but pretty underwhelming for 3DS thus far. Literally not one new first-party announcement yet; the Fantasy Life localization is nice, but the biggest news otherwise is the Smash delay.

So hope this delivers, and hopefully with a game coming this year.
 
It's a good idea to remember that MM is not as "untouchable" as OOT was when OOT 3D was being developed. If they fucked with OOT in any way other than what they did, then there would have been an outcry.

They can REALLY shake things up in a Majora's Mask 3D. They can change the art style drastically, make it far darker, add new dungeons, new quests. If they've gone that route (which hopefully they have), then damn right it's enough for the entire roundtable
 
You're really going to make a weak semantic argument like that? Smash is going to be a ridiculous seller at Christmas. October doesn't change that.

That wasn't what I meant, Mario Kart 8 is probably gonna sell A LOT this holiday as well, doesn't make it a holiday title. I'm strictly speaking of release schedule pacing.
 
That wasn't what I meant, Mario Kart 8 is probably gonna sell A LOT this holiday as well, doesn't make it a holiday title. I'm strictly speaking of release schedule pacing.

October IS holiday/Winter, whatever you'd like to argue. Point is, there have been FAR bleaker release schedules than the one in store for the 3DS this Winter.
 
Majora's Mask 3DS is a pretty decent bet. All the Nintendo nods they have been making to the game (Hyrule Warriors and Zelda having a mask) would also believe to point to it.

To everybody that is pointing to things like Majora's Mask in LBW, showing up at the Smash Invitational, and the Moon in Hyrule Warriors as signs that MM is being remade, you are comitting the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy

Wikipedia said:
The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is committed when differences in data are ignored, but similarities are stressed. From this reasoning a false conclusion is inferred. This fallacy is the philosophical/rhetorical application of the multiple comparisons problem (in statistics) and apophenia (in cognitive psychology). It is related to the clustering illusion, which refers to the tendency in human cognition to interpret patterns where none actually exist.
 
OOT 3D looked just like the concept art for the N64 original. It was perfect. If they take the inspiration from Majora's Mask's concept art, we'll end up with this glorious art style:

I disagree, in a way, they butchered Link a little bit. Why couldn't they use the Link models from SSBM? Those were the N64 Links in higher res just like the art.
 
Mother or Metroid

The Robot Chicken Mother reference during Nintendo's digital event. The Star fox reference turned out to be true.

Metroid because everyone wants it.

The only Mother game I can conceive being forthcoming is, of course, Mother 3, but since it's a GBA game and Nintendo's basically shut down the idea of GBA games on 3DS, I can't see that being the big announcement. I guess it could be Mother 2 for the 3DS VC?...
 
OOT 3D was revealed in the exact same roundtable back in 2010.

No, it wasn't IIRC.

The 3DS page was filled with games like Star Fox. MGS3 post conference so we knew about it right after the conference ended.

I remember searching for 3DS news right after that conference since I was a bit hyped for it lol
 
The evil voice in my head told me to expect Xenoblade Chronicles(Wii game) ported to the 3DS.

not a chance in hell.

Xenoblade Chronicles pushes the polycount limit on the Wii to the max with those environments. The 3DS absolutely cannot support it without severe downgrades to the geometry...which would ruin the game.
 
Unless I'm misremembering, Kid Icarus Uprising was the only 3DS game Nintendo showed off during the actual 2010 conference and details and screenshots of various other games like Mario Kart, OoT3D and Animal Crossing all came later.

Also, I kind of think that a Majora's Mask remake is one of the most disappointing things they could do. Over the last few years, we've seen two Zelda remakes and a sequel set in the same world as A Link to the Past. Plus we've had a new Zelda reveal yesterday and Hyrule Warriors will be coming out this year. But maybe I just feel this way because I'm not the biggest Zelda fan and I really want a new Metroid.
 
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