E Three Two Thousand Fourteen

[Kosheh]

The Smash tourney was just as stupid as I thought. Literally nerds harping on BS tourney rules that probably wouldn't apply in actual competitive play.


(also kirby is a scrub pick idc what anyone says, it's too bad zero was a trigantic douche with those gunnar glasses and the scarf though who figured he could just stall his way to sudden death)


Splatoon though
Splatoon.


I don't even like third-party shooters to begin with but everything about Splatoon just screams YES to me. Between this, MarioKart and Smash, I've been pretty much sold on buying a WiiU later this year. It's the perfect blend of core and casual.


Something that bothers me deep down, though is that despite how absolutely great Splatoon and Captain Toad's Treasure Finder or whatever look, in today's market I feel like they just wouldn't cut it as full-price, $60 titles as they certainly don't hold up to today's AAA releases. I honestly can't believe I'm making this comparison to begin with, or even typing this sentence - but look at Uncharted or GTA, then back to Captain Toad. Captain Toad feels like an indie title - and IMO I think if Nintendo took a different approach to it (like the approach that modern "app-store" games have) it'd succeed really well if it, for instance started as a $15 base title and then had $5 DLC puzzle packs that came out each quarter, to reel in the casual dollars.


I...don't want Captain Toad to be a weekend's worth of gameplay. It honestly looks like a tech demo in comparison to the rest of the Wii U's offerings (which is funny - because Miyamoto's projects all looked like tech demos to me LOL)