Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: NWR_insanolord on February 19, 2014, 06:44:04 AM
Title: What will this year be the year of for Nintendo?
Post by: NWR_insanolord on February 19, 2014, 06:44:04 AM
Now that we know The Year of Luigi will officially be ending March 18 (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/36620/year-of-the-luigi-ending-march-18), that raises the question: what will the following year be?
The Year of Luigi sometimes felt like a forced premise, but Nintendo certainly backed it up with a significant number of games featuring the green-clad plumber. What will the rest of 2014 be defined by in the world of Nintendo? There are a lot of different ways you could take the question, but I'd love to hear your suggestions and the reasoning behind them.
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Post by: Adrock on February 19, 2014, 07:12:43 AM
Nothing really stands out unless Nintendo announces a bunch of surprise titles. Looking at the current release list, there isn't much common ground except that I want the games in my Wii U to play them.
I suppose they could start one later this year with Super Smash Bros. as a starting point. Luigi worked really well because he's already in a bunch of spin-offs so it's quite a bit more difficult to do the same celebration with other characters. I'd welcome a Year of Samus.
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Post by: Shaymin on February 19, 2014, 08:26:36 AM
The Year of Mrgrgr. It's already started!
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Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on February 19, 2014, 12:01:06 PM
The year of Samus? A metroid themed 3dsXl with Metroid HD Collection (Zero Mission, Super Metroid, Fusion) All in 3D. With a 32GB SDXC preloaded with the sound track to all the handheld games.
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Post by: Ian Sane on February 19, 2014, 12:22:41 PM
Nintendo needs some better financial results so maybe Wario would be the ideal mascot. Though the way things are going maybe him with the crappy birdhouse you get in the bad ending for Warioland might be more appropriate.
I think their best bet would be the year of Pokémon. They can release some annoying Pokémon Z third version for X/Y on the 3DS and release that proper Pokémon console RPG that seems like the only thing that could save the Wii U. That RPG has been in secret development for years right? ::)
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Post by: Nile Boogie Returns on February 19, 2014, 12:34:14 PM
I have never played Poke'mon and even I want a console rpg version. (nevergoingtohappen)
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Post by: Pixelated Pixies on February 19, 2014, 12:43:45 PM
I'm sure Nintendo wishes this past year never happened.
Therefore I propose Nintendo announce that 2014 is the year of Luigi.
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Post by: Louieturkey on February 19, 2014, 05:09:43 PM
Maybe a year of new beginnings. So it's remake year, or redo year where they take old forgotten characters and create new games based on those characters.
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Post by: Oblivion on February 19, 2014, 05:21:34 PM
The year of Samus? A metroid themed 3dsXl with Metroid HD Collection (Zero Mission, Super Metroid, Fusion) All in 3D. With a 32GB SDXC preloaded with the sound track to all the handheld games.
lol
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Post by: ShyGuy on February 19, 2014, 05:39:03 PM
Year of ShyGuy.
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Post by: Mop it up on February 19, 2014, 06:48:07 PM
The Year of Sheriff.
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Post by: Khushrenada on February 19, 2014, 08:01:43 PM
On a more serious note for once, I think the character best positioned for a year might be Yoshi. There's Yoshi's New Island coming out, Yarn Yoshi may exist somewhere and he'll be in things like Smash Bros, Mario Kart 8 and Mario Golf: World Tour. Throw in a couple games where he could serve as a skin or make a minor tweak a la Dr. Luigi and I think it would pretty much be like they Year of Luigi was. You could even do a New Yoshi Bros Wii U DLC with Yoshi challenges.
Who would I actually like to see a year of? Kirby. Always Kirby.
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Post by: MagicCow64 on February 20, 2014, 02:17:31 PM
On a more serious note for once, I think the character best positioned for a year might be Yoshi. There's Yoshi's New Island coming out, Yarn Yoshi may exist somewhere and he'll be in things like Smash Bros, Mario Kart 8 and Mario Golf: World Tour. Throw in a couple games where he could serve as a skin or make a minor tweak a la Dr. Luigi and I think it would pretty much be like they Year of Luigi was. You could even do a New Yoshi Bros Wii U DLC with Yoshi challenges.
And with Yoshi, they even have an existing dropping block puzzle game they could quickly slap together an update to! Everyone loved that game, right?
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Post by: Mop it up on February 20, 2014, 07:08:22 PM
Heck yeah we did! Though the Pokémon version had stronger gameplay. Still, they could release a new version of Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon/Puzzle League and have it star Yoshi and it'd be neat. I'd probably go for it, even though it'd likely be an eShop-only release.
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Post by: rlse9 on February 20, 2014, 07:21:56 PM
It's a little strange that the year of Luigi is ending, then a month later they're release NES Remix 2, which features the backwards version of SMB with Luigi as the main character...maybe they really do want a second year of Luigi.
I agree with it being Yoshi, everyone loves Yoshi and there's already a couple games being worked on with Yoshi as the star. And I'd be all for a New Yoshi Bros Wii U DLC, even though I haven't gotten to play the Luigi one yet.
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Post by: Khushrenada on February 20, 2014, 07:40:11 PM
Actually, there is both the Yoshi GB/NES puzzle game and Yoshi's Cookie for NES/SNES so double the puzzle game possibilities plus like Mop it up mentioned of using Yoshi as a skin for Puyo Puyo or something. Year of the Yoshi puzzlers. Who knew he was so cerebral?
Plus if Nintendo is serious about still doing the 64 games in the Wii-u-magined line then they could make Yoshi's Story as one of the first releases in that line although I don't think that will create much of a stir.
And in the end, that might be a problem with this sort of character focused year. In order to semi-promote the character or live up to this declaration, it can result in less interesting titles being released and sort of leads to it overshadowing other games being released. By not having a theme, you just announce games as they come and promote them all sort of equally.
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Post by: Mop it up on February 20, 2014, 07:50:28 PM
I don't like Puyo Puyo so I hope they don't do that with Yoshi! I didn't like Yoshi's Cookie or Yoshi very much either, though maybe they could release a triple pack of Yoshi, Yoshi's Cookie, and Tetris Attack with some new features for each, and it'd be cool.
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Post by: nickmitch on February 20, 2014, 09:05:36 PM
It should be the year of Waluigi. That man needs his own game like a GameGear needed batteries.
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Post by: the asylum on February 20, 2014, 09:53:48 PM
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Post by: smallsharkbigbite on February 23, 2014, 07:42:37 AM
I would love to see the year of VC. Where they release a new VC console and 10-12 games each month for that console. I don't get the character specific promotions. Some people don't like Luigi and that wasn't going to change anything. Plus there wasn't enough emphasis (like a game a month) to get people excited about Luigi.
Alternatively, they could have the year of the gamepad and try to focus on bringing out specific eshop content each month to really showcase the gamepad. I think they still have a lack of games out there that show why the gamepad is so important.
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Post by: pokepal148 on February 23, 2014, 03:44:45 PM
Maybe they could do the 'year of indies' as a way to encourage indie developers to make stuff for the system.
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Post by: nickmitch on February 23, 2014, 08:46:57 PM
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Post by: Kytim89 on February 23, 2014, 11:24:42 PM
While my heart tells me that Metroid needs its own year, with the reveal of Little Mac in Smash Brothers tells me that Punch-Out! needs its own year. What I would like to see is a game for the 3DS with the SNES style graphics blended with modern fighting mechanics of the recent Wii game. Add in some stereoscopic 3D and comic book cut scenes and it is a recipe for a quality 3DS game.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 23, 2014, 11:51:20 PM
The Year of Bankruptcy
:(
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Post by: the asylum on February 24, 2014, 07:56:12 PM
Nintendo's got a long ways to go yet before that
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Post by: nickmitch on February 24, 2014, 09:26:55 PM
Needs to be the year of the rebound.
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Post by: Phil on February 25, 2014, 02:41:07 AM
