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| HylianSwordsman said:
I was comparing 3D World to 3D Land when I made that vote. Come to think of it, 3D Land is 8th gen too. Oops. It's hard to compare it to the Galaxy games, but I generally like the 64/Sunshine/Galaxy style of Mario better than the 3D Land/World style. Pikmin 3 was a downgrade in every respect save graphically, in my opinion. I concur that MK8 and Tropical Freeze are improvements on the Wii versions, but by no means the best in their series. The battle mode and character selection in MK8 prevents it from being top notch for me, and as nice as Tropical Freeze is, it's got nothing on the Rare trilogy. I'm hoping Smash 4 will be a leap forward, and I suspect I'll like it, but I doubt it will be universally regarded as such. Xenoblade Chronicles X will likely be the first game to be universally regarded as a giant leap forward from last gen, and hopefully Zelda as well. If a Metroid ever gets released, they'll be hard pressed to not make it a leap forward from Other M. Yoshi looks like it'll be a step forward, though it's not clear what it's to be compared to, since the last console Yoshi was Yoshi's Story. Kirby looks like it'll be a step backwards. Don't even get me started on Star Fox. There's really no way it can please me that Nintendo would ever be daring enough to try. Mario Party 10 looks like it'll win the whole series by default just because of Bowser mode, but there's not really much of a contest with that... |
I'd actually put MK8 ahead of any other MK game, (mostly for being the most fair) and Tropical Freeze tied with DKC2 as the best of its series, but hey, to each their own.
The thing with Xenoblade Chronicles X is it has huge, one-of-the-best-games-of-last-gen boots to fill. Besides graphics, it will be hard pressed to match the sheer brilliance of its Wii predecessor. (Though I don't doubt it'll be a great game in its own right)
And yeah, I'm not optimistic about Starfox, what little we've heard sounds terrible.
