And as for last year's Game Awards, yeah, no. Once again, speak for yourself. Joker being revealed as the first DLC fighter for Smash Ultimate was HANDS DOWN the best thing about that entire show not because of what it was, but for what it meant. It pretty much opened the floodgates for all kinds of possible characters in Smash Bros that a lot of people didn't think would be possible or unlikely. Now we've got Hero, Banjo & Kazooie, and Terry Bogard and with more DLC coming, that's just the beginning. You're letting your own indifference and apathy for Smash Bros. cloud your judgement. You may not care for the series and that's fine, but it certainly was not trash by any means. 

So did I. With disappointment. 

Their "one last thing" was the final chance for that horrible, atrocious Direct to show at least one interesting thing, I was holding out hope we'd maybe get a look at Monolith's new game or something similarly exciting.  mere remaster of a Wii game I've owned since 2011 was a real letdown. :(

Now I'll have to wait until the VGAs for the next chance at an awesome new announcement from Nintendo, and even then I'm afraid to get hyped in case it's trash like last year.

Speak for yourself. I've owned the game since 2014, along with the New 3DS version since it came out, I've played and beaten both versions multiple times and I was overjoyed with this announcement. And as I'm going back to play the game again on the Wii, I can honestly say that it is necessary, because it has most definitely started to show its age and issues, and not just in the graphics department.

A mere remaster? Either our definitions of "remaster" are very different or you don't actually know what that term means. On top of giving it a modern, HD makeover, they're adding cut content from the original that fans will finally get the chance to play (i.e. the Bionis' shoulder.) And with that new content comes new areas, new story elements, new towns, new NPCs, new enemies, new sidequests, new items to collect, etc. It's documented that Monolith was behind schedule when developing the original game and they had to cut corners and content in order to meet a deadline, even though Nintendo would have been generous enough to give them more time if they asked. Suddenly, that cut content is coming back. They could have very easily just slapped the HD makeover and called it a day. But the fact that they're adding cut content like that to the game now tells me that they're treating this more than just a plain, old remaster. They really want to make this game better than it was before, they want it to truly live up to the title "Definitive Edition" and as someone who loves the original game to death, that only makes me happy. Because now I wonder what else they're going to do add to make the game grander and what they're going to try to make it better than before.

As for the Direct as a whole, they said straight up that they would primarily focus on 2019 titles for the Switch, most of which were already announced, which they did. The fact that we got 2020 titles beyond just Animal Crossing is bonus to be honest. Any feelings of disappointment you felt is mostly you setting your expectations too high. Last trailers for Luigi's Mansion 3 & Link's Awakening, SNES Online, more Smash DLC, Animal Crossing, more 3rd party and indie support, and Xenoblade. That's a solid '8' for me. 

And as for last year's Game Awards, yeah, no. Once again, speak for yourself. Joker being revealed as the first DLC fighter for Smash Ultimate was HANDS DOWN the best thing about that entire show not because of what it was, but for what it meant. It pretty much opened the floodgates for all kinds of possible characters in Smash Bros that a lot of people didn't think would be possible or unlikely. Now we've got Hero, Banjo & Kazooie, and Terry Bogard and with more DLC coming, that's just the beginning. You're letting your own indifference and apathy for Smash Bros. cloud your judgement. You may not care for the series and that's fine, but it certainly was not trash by any means. 

No matter how much they dress it up, its still a Wii game I played 8 years ago and three times since, and hence completely uninteresting.

And I don't care about Smash. Not a single thing they showed at the VGAs last year was of the slightest interest to me.

Of course I'm "speaking for myself", who else would I be speaking for? Obviously my posts are my own opinions.

So FFVIIR is just a dress up ps1 game too? We don't know about that yet, they added the part which was cut from the original release, there's is also a chance that this time the ending for Melia could be very different

Again, I don't care how much they dress it up or embellish it. I am not and never will be excited by a remaster of a game I already played.

Except this is a remake, completely new model characters and textures, not just higher resolution

Still not exciting, still at its core an 8 year old game I already played multiple times.