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1-10 71 19.78%
 
10-20 18 5.01%
 
20-30 23 6.41%
 
40-50 30 8.36%
 
your lame...50-100 140 39.00%
 
sea results 77 21.45%
 
Total:359
IIIIITHE1IIIII on 13 February 2014

Jesus Fucking Christ.

As it turns out people expected this to be an E3 show for some reason. We got:

- More Smash news
- News regarding 3DS games being ported to the west
- Steeldiver sequel announcement
- New Mario Golf 3DS details
- More Yoshi's New Island details
- Professor Layton news
- New X footage
- New Bayonetta 2 details
- New Mario Kart 8 trailer + release date
- More stuff that I can't remember

That's more than Nintendo ever promised.

7/10 from me. Most games shown weren't in my taste but that was never their intentions anyway.



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cusman on 13 February 2014
melbye said:
laggy out of 10

It started getting laggy once over 50k people were watching at the Nintendo Direct website, so I used the link at the bottom to switch over to YouTube livestream of the same thing. This got me 720p quality and smooth stable stream.



Aerys on 13 February 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTeazpzTaIQ&list=HL1392331597



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the_dengle on 13 February 2014
osed125 said:
the_dengle said:
wft? They opened with Little Mac in Smash, they closed with new X and Bayonetta footage, what more do you want? This Direct was freaking awesome. Donkey Kong and Mario Kart looked great too but that's rendered completely irrelevant by the majesty of Little Mac's duck & weave.

Every since the ND January last year people have always freak out over this things. They expect to see new stuff every single time.

They did show new stuff, we even got a couple of localization announcements like Inazuma Eleven and the last Guild game. They just weren't the "new stuff" people wanted to see. In some peoples' minds, every Nintendo Direct at which Nintendo does NOT reveal a brand new "realistic-styled" Zelda, a brand new 3D Metroid game by Retro, a brand new Star Fox, AND a brand new F-Zero is the worst Nintendo Direct ever and proof that Nintendo doesn't know what they're doing.

People focus on dumb stuff like the few minutes they spent on that baseball game or Steel Diver and ignore all the awesome new footage for upcoming games they showed. Little Mac looks bananas, DK and Mario Kart look great, Kirby's gonna be fun, Yoshi looks bad but whatever, X makes my dick rock hard and Bayonetta's gonna be dope. Oh yeah, and they showed Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for a second, which is rad. People are expecting entirely the wrong things. That was 40 minutes of solid entertainment for me and my friends.



Twilord on 13 February 2014

80/100 in 'game review scores'. 65/100 in 'sensible review terms'.

Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Bayonetta 2, and Monolithsoft's X didn't exactly disappoint.

But no Metroid news, no Zelda news, and no new IPs.


05/100 for actual stream quality.



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Damkos on 13 February 2014
the_dengle said:
osed125 said:
the_dengle said:
wft? They opened with Little Mac in Smash, they closed with new X and Bayonetta footage, what more do you want? This Direct was freaking awesome. Donkey Kong and Mario Kart looked great too but that's rendered completely irrelevant by the majesty of Little Mac's duck & weave.

Every since the ND January last year people have always freak out over this things. They expect to see new stuff every single time.

They did show new stuff, we even got a couple of localization announcements like Inazuma Eleven and the last Guild game. They just weren't the "new stuff" people wanted to see. In some peoples' minds, every Nintendo Direct at which Nintendo does NOT reveal a brand new "realistic-styled" Zelda, a brand new 3D Metroid game by Retro, a brand new Star Fox, AND a brand new F-Zero is the worst Nintendo Direct ever and proof that Nintendo doesn't know what they're doing.

People focus on dumb stuff like the few minutes they spent on that baseball game or Steel Diver and ignore all the awesome new footage for upcoming games they showed. Little Mac looks bananas, DK and Mario Kart look great, Kirby's gonna be fun, Yoshi looks bad but whatever, X makes my dick rock hard and Bayonetta's gonna be dope. Oh yeah, and they showed Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for a second, which is rad. People are expecting entirely the wrong things. That was 40 minutes of solid entertainment for me and my friends.

I'm at a point where virtually ANY new , unannounced Wii U game would make my dick rock hard (somehow nes remix 2 is not enough).
All I wanted was to make sure that there will not be a drought for wii U like the on in 2013. first half of 2014 looks worse so far, as there is no lego city or monster hunter to help before mario kart comes.

And nintendo said they want to keep the momentum created by mario kart by other games. Can't see any. I bet the first thing after mario kart is sonic boom in october :D



F0X on 13 February 2014
Damkos said:
the_dengle said:
osed125 said:
the_dengle said:
wft? They opened with Little Mac in Smash, they closed with new X and Bayonetta footage, what more do you want? This Direct was freaking awesome. Donkey Kong and Mario Kart looked great too but that's rendered completely irrelevant by the majesty of Little Mac's duck & weave.

Every since the ND January last year people have always freak out over this things. They expect to see new stuff every single time.

They did show new stuff, we even got a couple of localization announcements like Inazuma Eleven and the last Guild game. They just weren't the "new stuff" people wanted to see. In some peoples' minds, every Nintendo Direct at which Nintendo does NOT reveal a brand new "realistic-styled" Zelda, a brand new 3D Metroid game by Retro, a brand new Star Fox, AND a brand new F-Zero is the worst Nintendo Direct ever and proof that Nintendo doesn't know what they're doing.

People focus on dumb stuff like the few minutes they spent on that baseball game or Steel Diver and ignore all the awesome new footage for upcoming games they showed. Little Mac looks bananas, DK and Mario Kart look great, Kirby's gonna be fun, Yoshi looks bad but whatever, X makes my dick rock hard and Bayonetta's gonna be dope. Oh yeah, and they showed Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for a second, which is rad. People are expecting entirely the wrong things. That was 40 minutes of solid entertainment for me and my friends.

I'm at a point where virtually ANY new , unannounced Wii U game would make my dick rock hard (somehow nes remix 2 is not enough).
All I wanted was to make sure that there will not be a drought for wii U like the on in 2013. first half of 2014 looks worse so far, as there is no lego city or monster hunter to help before mario kart comes.

And nintendo said they want to keep the momentum created by mario kart by other games. Can't see any. I bet the first thing after mario kart is sonic boom in october :D


Come now. DKC and Mario Kart will be far better than any game that came out for Wii U in the first half of 2013. Quality > quanity, right?

Oh and I wouldn't discount Shovel Knight or Child of Light just because they're eShop titiles...



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TheLastStarFighter on 13 February 2014

Solid 8/10. They said it would be spring game focused. I wasn't expecting a new game or anything. But DK, MK8 and X look like AAA titles. I would like a name and month for X though. I think it will be a late release.



Damkos on 13 February 2014
F0X said:
Damkos said:
the_dengle said:
osed125 said:
the_dengle said:
wft? They opened with Little Mac in Smash, they closed with new X and Bayonetta footage, what more do you want? This Direct was freaking awesome. Donkey Kong and Mario Kart looked great too but that's rendered completely irrelevant by the majesty of Little Mac's duck & weave.

Every since the ND January last year people have always freak out over this things. They expect to see new stuff every single time.

They did show new stuff, we even got a couple of localization announcements like Inazuma Eleven and the last Guild game. They just weren't the "new stuff" people wanted to see. In some peoples' minds, every Nintendo Direct at which Nintendo does NOT reveal a brand new "realistic-styled" Zelda, a brand new 3D Metroid game by Retro, a brand new Star Fox, AND a brand new F-Zero is the worst Nintendo Direct ever and proof that Nintendo doesn't know what they're doing.

People focus on dumb stuff like the few minutes they spent on that baseball game or Steel Diver and ignore all the awesome new footage for upcoming games they showed. Little Mac looks bananas, DK and Mario Kart look great, Kirby's gonna be fun, Yoshi looks bad but whatever, X makes my dick rock hard and Bayonetta's gonna be dope. Oh yeah, and they showed Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for a second, which is rad. People are expecting entirely the wrong things. That was 40 minutes of solid entertainment for me and my friends.

I'm at a point where virtually ANY new , unannounced Wii U game would make my dick rock hard (somehow nes remix 2 is not enough).
All I wanted was to make sure that there will not be a drought for wii U like the on in 2013. first half of 2014 looks worse so far, as there is no lego city or monster hunter to help before mario kart comes.

And nintendo said they want to keep the momentum created by mario kart by other games. Can't see any. I bet the first thing after mario kart is sonic boom in october :D


Come now. DKC and Mario Kart will be far better than any game that came out for Wii U in the first half of 2013. Quality > quanity, right?

Oh and I wouldn't discount Shovel Knight or Child of Light just because they're eShop titiles...

I gotta say, I felt a mix of being proud and joy when I saw that mario kart trailer. really epic.

And judging by the number of koopalings my mind invented some sort of "good vs. evil" mode , partially story mode. I know that is not core of mario kart but that would be quite nice.

Shovel knight doesn't interest me much, but if that fairy in Child of Light can be controlled by the use of touchscreen then I'm in.



the_dengle on 13 February 2014
Damkos said:

I'm at a point where virtually ANY new , unannounced Wii U game would make my dick rock hard (somehow nes remix 2 is not enough).
All I wanted was to make sure that there will not be a drought for wii U like the on in 2013. first half of 2014 looks worse so far, as there is no lego city or monster hunter to help before mario kart comes.

And nintendo said they want to keep the momentum created by mario kart by other games. Can't see any. I bet the first thing after mario kart is sonic boom in october :D

I guess I have a different perspective on this since I don't own a Wii U yet. But watching this Direct sure makes me want one. I don't care much about DK or Mario Kart, and I don't need to hear about stuff coming next year right this second, because Smash and X already have all of my hype. So no Metroid announcement? Fine, whatever, I can wait.

 

F0X said:


Come now. DKC and Mario Kart will be far better than any game that came out for Wii U in the first half of 2013. Quality > quanity, right?

Oh and I wouldn't discount Shovel Knight or Child of Light just because they're eShop titiles...

Shovel Knight looks freaking awesome. Gonna play it on 3DS though.