Thoughts on Nintendo's Direct video message for E3 2018

As anyone that reads this blog regularly can tell you, I LOVE video games. It's one of my few passions/obsessions in life. Of the 3 current hardware manufacturers, Nintendo is easily my favorite. Their presentation for this year's E3 though... Well, it wasn't the utter shitshow that their 2008 E3 presentation was, that's for sure! :P

All joking aside though, it could have been a little better. The video of the direct is here just below, courtesy of YouTube.

And now, my thoughts on what I saw...

1.) I'm liking what Nintendo has in store for the next Smash Bros., but I am VERY disappointed that there's still no details on Metroid Prime 4. And don't even get me started on the utter lack of F-ZERO titles in the last 14 years... :/

At least this new Smash game is going to be EPIC. Every character that ever appeared in the Smash Series are available in the game, along with several interesting new ones like an Inkling from Splatoon and Princess Daisy. This is going to be the best Smash since Melee on the GameCube!

2.) I'm a little curious about what exactly Fortnite is, let alone whether or not I want to play it... However, it is a free download on the Switch right now. So, I might give it a go.

3.) 'Killer Queen Black' is just a remake/update of the gameplay formula from the Arcade classic Joust. No, that is not necessarily a BAD thing to do in a new game from a small independent publisher. However, it's not all that creative, either. This new game does seem to have quite a few features that the Joust designers could have never pulled off back in 1982. That's something in their favor. I like the retro graphics style too. It reminds me of 2D titles on the SNES. I love the overabundance of great indie titles on the Switch. Nintendo was very smart to develop such good relationships with all of them back in the days of the Wii U console.

4.) Don't care at all about the new Xenoblade Chronicles, Fire Emblem and all the other RPG titles. Never liked RPG games. Not about to start now. To Hell with RPG's. They are the dumb blondes of video games to me. They get lots of attention, but they are just too demanding and overly dramatic for my taste.

And that's the only E3 blog post I'm doing this year. I don't care about the presentations from Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft or that disastrous shitshow from EA. They are all about games for the XBOX One, PlayStation 4 or PC games via Steam. The Steam games might be interesting, but not XB1 & PS4. I don't own those consoles and have no plans to purchase either of them.

I have spoken.

- Publius

ADDENDUM 26 Jun 2018

There's been word from Nintendo on why there was no mention of the next installments for the Animal Crossing and Metroid Prime series on the Switch. Nintendo decided to not say anything about them until they are closer to being done. Still no word on a new F-Zero title.