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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - What next gen Nintendo games are you looking forward to / changes you want to see?

Title says it all. I'll start:

- Zelda Maker. Switch it up from the Mario Maker games and this time give us a topdown zelda dungeon maker game rather than just a third similar Mario Maker in a row. Would love to see what kind of crazy dungeons people make.

- A new freakin Fzero game.

- A new freakin Star Fox game, stick to classic on-rails Arwing shooting, perfecting the formula that the series last stuck to with SF64

- A 3D Mario with open world design that we saw in Bowser's Fury

- Super Mario 3D World 2! That game was so dang good, best "stages" game (aka 2D Mario formula) in the series since Super Mario World. It's hard to pick my favorite Mario game of that style between SMB3, SMW, and SM3DW

- Either do something totally different with Smash Bros, or just make the next game Smash Online and add it to NSO Expansion Pack as a way to entice more people to get NSO and just keep adding content to the game for years. Otherwise, I don't see how they make another 'normal' Smash game after Ultimate, cuz there just is no way to top or add to Ultimate.

- Mario Kart 9 as more of a Nintendo Kart game, going much more into bringing other Nintendo IP (characters, levels, items) than MK8 did. Would also love to see a Diddy Kong Racing style one-player game for it too. It's not like Nintendo hasn't had a decade to work on a huge upgrade for Mario Kart.

- An actual badass Pokemon game for the next pokemon generation. Have Gamefreak move off the 3 year cycle and take an extra year to build out a non-buggy, more challenging, more graphically polished, and more interesting Pokemon game that blows away all the Switch games and makes Pokemon a critical success once again instead of just a commercial success.

- Splatoon 4 with a whole new art direction. The first 3 games look exactly the same, and play incredibly similar. And while the cartoony aesthetic works great for the game, I see the series' sales stagnating (as 3 did outside of Japan) without either evolving the gameplay or the look of the game so that it in some way feels like it's not the exact same game a fourth time in a row. Would love to see the aesthetic move to an actual 'paint' style where it looks like you're in a 3D painting.

- Turn Mario Golf into a golf platformer. Super Rush was fine, other than the fact that they released the game like half a year before they had a full game's worth of content, but I expected more. Because part of the game, including the title, was about racing your competitors to finish each hole, I thought it'd have been wayyy better if the golf course was actually a platforming level where you had to jump to different areas and hop on or avoid enemies as you run to wherever in the platforming course you hit the ball.

- Paper Mario that returns to its roots. I'm new to the paper mario series, I played 64 for like 30 minutes back in the day, thought it was wayyyy too simple and boring, but giving it a chance again the past few days and its enjoyable and not so incredibly basic once you get past the intro part. From what I understand, after The Thousand Year Door, the series has moved somewhat away from RPG territory and most people feel it hasn't been that good after those first two games. Since PM64 is good I plan to pick up TTYD on Switch, and I'd love to have a full-on RPG Paper Mario next gen to play as a third game in the series.

- Bring back Kid Icarus.

- A Donkey Kong game not in the Country series. DKC is great, and was revolutionary back on the SNES. But these days the formula just feels tired and old, the way Zelda felt when TP came out, and eventually led to the revolution that is BotW. The games are still decent, but I have zero interest in yet another similar game from DK. Either 2D or 3D (as long as its significantly better than the mediocre DK64!), but just move away from the 'Country' formula and do something new with the franchise for the first time in three decades.

That's what I've got off the top of my head. How about you?



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I want to see what Monolith Soft can do with new hardware.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and 3 were excellent games, but visually it felt like they struggled against the limitations of the Switch. I wanna see their signature epic open world rendered in gorgeous detail with clean image quality.



Astral Chain 2 for sure, I know its made by Platinum but do it.

Nintendo wise, Kid Icarus Uprising HD / Deluxe / Definitive Edition



Next 3D Zelda and Mario most of all, the obvious answers. Other than that I guess Smash Bros., though I'm also a little nervous about that one. The potential is absolutely there to top Ultimate, but my gut is telling me it will more likely than not dissapoint a bit for one reason or another.

I agree with you on MK9 as well.



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Mario Maker 3 and the next 3D Mario. Come on, release the damn thing already.



 

 

 

 

 

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Xenoblade next
Astral Chain 2



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

Games
-The typical 3D and 2D Marios, Zelda, DK, Kirby and Pokemon games
-A new golden sun
-A new Fire emblem game with some remasters/remakes of older games

Features
-I really want them to implement an achievement system , would give me reason to buy multiplat third party titles more
-The ability to turn off the system/console through the menu without me needing to press and hold the power button
-Not specifically Nintendo but I'm hoping for SD cards that are bigger than 1 TB to become more common



A new Donkey Kong Country. I really would like the next game would more like Rare's from the SNES and not like Retro's



Splatoon 4 with less lag, provided by dedicated servers. But that won't happen anyway, because Nintendo prefers to let you pay for a P2P connection LOL. On Wii U it was OK because the P2P connection was for free AND Splatoon 1 however was with waaaaay less lag. The same goes with Mario Kart. Switch online is horrible.



When it comes to Nintendo, I'm very simple - give me Zelda and Mario Kart, and I'm good to go - everything else is potential bonus.

This gen was sort of a letdown for me on both fronts, MK8 was Wii U title and I don't really like where Zelda is at the moment (neither 3D, nor 2D).

So...looking forward to MK9 and that speculated OoT remake, and hoping for co-op features in next Zelda (which I thought TotK would have an option for).

Of course, ever since this fan art popped up so, so long ago, I've been hoping for something like it as well: