Same, tbh. Plus I wonder if Nintendo could be lending GameFreak development support for this one.

Random thought, but with no mention of gym battles gameplay anywhere(and thus meaning you don’t HAVE to be as involved in battle/a specialist battle theme) but an entire open world worth of exploration available, I wonder if we will see the return of the “utility” function of pokemon moves(and thus “utility” pokemon…

And the thing is though.... games will still need a *console* to play games in the first place, physical or digital. And physical support, even if the person mainly play digital games, is always kind of a reinsurance against store server issues/etc for many games I feel. Plus, those game downloads aren’t getting…

Iirc about 47% of the state voted against this sort of shit. And that’s the ones that COULD vote despite voter suppression or gerrymandering.

You can have no sympathies for the (republican) *governments* responsible for this mess and their “barely more than half of the state(and who knows if even truly that because of…

Honestly I had no expectations. I always saw the lack of Direct as more “COVID-19 made scheduling these effing hell” and less “we’re holding back for the REALLY BID ANNOUNCEMENTS”.

So seeing a Direct again for me was thus less “oh, they must have something big to announce” and always “Oh, I guess they finally worked…

To not mention sometimes “not until a few days before release”, like they did with Mario 3D All-Stars. Announced September 3rd(the -actual- anniversary of Mario, which explains why the rest of 2020 was bereft of these “mario anniversary” announcements... because it hadn’t happened yet), released September 18th.

BOTW2…

I’d say wait until next week. After all... the 35th Anniversary of Zelda doesn’t start until the *21th* of February ;3

Recall, people kept going “where are the Mario 35th anniversary announcements” all of 2020 before suddenly, on September 3rd... the actual *day* of the anniversary, we got the double-whammy reveals of…

Wait until August 6 imo, if there’s any chance of it happening.

People were going for a while about lack of Mario 35th Anniversary announcements in 2020 but forgot that anniversary wasn’t until September 3rd. And come that day.... whole anniversary announcement that revealed the Mario 35 thing, Mario 3D All-Stars(who…

I’m preparing myself for.... nothing, myself.

Honestly I’m mostly setting myself to be content they have worked through the difficulties of hosting a Direct in the middle of the pandemic’s difficulties in the first place.

Any other surprise is just gravy as it is. Like... even potential “anniversaries” release could…

Honestly 2020 just maimed my expectations so badly I’m just glad there’s a Direct and I’m building NO expectations of anything major being announced until it’s actually finished ^^;

Like... for now I try to see this more from the angle of “Cool, I’m glad they finally overcome the difficulties of filming a Direct in the…

Personally I’m hoping for good stuff but also not building any expectation. 2020 is still barely behind us. If anything the fact we’re only getting a Direct now might have more to do with how badly COVID and 2020's realities proved to be a challenge for scheduling and hosting these things more than major announcements…

Technically Zelda’s anniversary starts THIS month but.... honestly, 2020 was 2020 and as a result I’d rather come into that Direct with expectations low.

If anything the fact we’re NOW getting a Direct is probably more a proof of how badly COVID’s realities had upsets the realities of scheduling and hosting a Direct…

Honestly I’m kind of the opposite. I always saw the lack of Direct as consequences of COVID so I’m coming into tomorrow with very little expectation since the return of a Direct for me is basically “Oh, looks like they finally got through the COVID difficulties for hosting those”.

i.e. not neccessarily “a grand return”…

I still come back to Odyssey’s post-game myself because of the humoungous amount of moons to find but....

... honestly this. The story proper -definitely- was an exercise in brevity. Which in a odd way has actually made me enjoy RE-playing the story since it’s so short yet good that it’s actually definitely…

To a degree I think the main “flaw” of Starbound is that it tried to be too much at once but without connecting any of it in a meaningful way.

It has a story, it has exploration of many planets, it has NPC villages... it lets you BUILD NPC villages(which could even technically include one on your own ship), recruit a…

Well, just on this go they’re getting Shin Megami Tensei 2 for one.

Though that one making it west feels.... unlikely, considering that it never got translated.

Or that the final boss is basically, well, God. 

I might be reading wrong but it seemed to criticize performances on the original as well so this could be “You’d have hoped they’d have fixed performance this time around!” which... everyone has their own standards on that regard but I find this a bit odd because I’d never noticed performances issues with the…

Also amusingly enough it was more likely for you to have played those PS1 games on a CRT tv and it’s kind of amusing how early 3D probably did kind of look better on those platforms in the same fashion a lot of CRT-era pixel art can’t get the same feel in this era of HD flatscreens because they can’t reproduce the…

Ironically, I’m on the end where I’m really tiring of stuff like re: “retro” SNES-styled pixels graphis yet ironically games that just ups their pixel count to, say, the stuff like the “pixels” 2D art of say... the PS1, and I actually start really liking what’s possible there.

Or stuff like the PS1 era 2d-mixed-with-3D…

This said having seen Tales from Earthsea if I had a criticism of his work is that though he, more or less, can recreates the *visuals* of a Ghibli film with very decent fidelity.... he however seem to struggle a lot with the *characters* ‘s personafications. Like specifications the likes of motivation of both…