GAMER LOUNGE 20XX (NO CASUALS!!)

[Kosheh]

o-oh my god what a great post e-man I'm not even joking

Honestly, I'm miffed that everyone who saw Nintendo's E3 presentation are saying it was not all that good. I was expecting the worst when I was looking at what Nintendo offered, but I wasn't disappointed at all. Besides this Metroid game, everyone else became livid towards this Mario Party-ish Animal Crossing game. Their reasoning is that it isn't like the mainstream Animal Crossing games, but let's think about it for a bit. New Leaf was released more than two years ago and changed a lot factors in the core Animal Crossing gameplay. Besides losing portability, what would announcing a Wii U sequel this soon bring to the table? Provide fancier graphics? So what? :/

I'm keeping my reservations to myself for the most part because Nintendo nailed it most of the time, but Nintendo was way too vague with the details about AC amiibo festival (and I might be giving Nintendo more credit than it's worth, but it might just be a game mode in a fuller game [they did say "The amiibo cards play another factor in the game, but we can't tell you what that is yet"]

People are also saying that the game's a free download (which Nintendo REALLY should have mentioned) and you have to "buy in" by purchasing compatible amiibo you want to use, kinda like collectible Monopoly pieces. That changes the entire schematic of the game as now it gives players a reason to bust open their NIB amiibo and use them in amiibo festival. 

Personally, I think Nintendo's repurposing AC at the moment to attract the "non-gamer" demographic again but making it even more obvious this time around, because it's being shown off as "look, it's a game. a VIDEO game"

Anyway, to bring a bit more positivity back into this E3 discussion, how come there isn't that much talk about this Cuphead game? 

yeah what
happened to Cuphead it was a thing last year and like, now where is it

Then Nintendo completely dropped the ball with a multiplayer Zelda with no voice chat

But Goemar, why would you need voice chat when your friends are sitting right next to you? Can't you just talk to them in meatspace?
It's the same reason Splatoon has no voicechat: It's a decision made mostly by producers to limit toxicity when younger players are playing online with strangers (which is also why your actions are limited to a thumbs-up and pom-poms: there's probably a "crawl dungeons with strangers" feature)
Of course, we have the brains to not talk smack and make judgements about other players in a Zelda game, but you never know given how bum-ass stupid the Internet is ("Oh man we're playing with a girl? Pfft what would a GIRL know about speedrunning dungeons, fucking casual go back to Animal Crossing" <---there are people in the gaming community who actually address others like this. i have seen it. it is real. i was there)