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curl-6 1 day ago
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firebush03 said:
curl-6 said:

That's the thing, I would argue that how they make you feel at the time is the point. 

In the early to mid Switch 1 era, as far as I remember, Directs were a positive experience by and large, whereas in the Switch 2 era I've felt they have ranged from "okay" to "underwhelming" with too few big epic reveals and long stretches of filler.

It's also just the way they're handled; like take Ocarina for example. Even with the leaks, it could have been a great moment, but instead all we got was ten seconds of Link lying in bed.

But yes, I think we may have to agree to disagree.

And how was Smash Bros Ultimate revealed? Was it not in an identical manner? And I have revisited all the Directs (via listening to ScottTheWoz, AntDude, Nathaniel Bandy, and so forth as I do my morning workout lol). The Directs have continued to get better with time. Can you pull up some example presentations from the early Switch 1 days that disproves this?

Smash isn't my thing personally, so I didn't care about it's reveal being a tease.

Early to mid (remember I didn't just say early) Switch Directs showed a lot of games like Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade 2, Yoshi, Kirby, etc, there was the memorable TOTK reveal trailer, cool surprises like Daemon x Machina, Witcher 3, Doom, Wolfenstein, Astral Chain, etc. 

It's not that Switch 2 era Directs haven't had some good content, they have, but actual wow moments have been few, for me anyway, and they felt poorly paced and had too much boring stuff like minor DLC, reminders of games we already knew about, etc.

There were some misfires in the early/mid S1 era, but so far I don't think there has been a truly great S2 Direct, while S1 had many.