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Nintendo Announces new Zelda, Mario & Metroid
MonkeyBot writes "Nintendo has posted news from the E3 convention concerning big name titles and their release dates. The new Metroids for the Cube and GBA, Legend of Zelda for the Cube, and a new Mario Game for the Cube are just a few of the titles for which new information is available. It'll be just like I'm a kid again, but with better graphics (and beer)!"
This is the reason I like Nintendo better than all the other game systems out there... They had a great formula for fun video games 15 years ago, and they have stuck to what was proven fun and invented all sorts of new ways to keep it interesting! I *like* samus and mario and link... even if the game isn't all that good (think mario RPG) I still have fun playing it. It's just a way of going back :)
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.
Mario Cart? Which IMHO is the best racing game ever! I don't know how many times I've piloted Yoshi around all those tracks but I still find it fun every time I do.
About time Metroid was reincarneted. Now i have a good reason to go buy a GameCube sometime.
I KNEW NIntendo wouldnt' let me down! Now if only their business tactics record wasn't for shame...
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
Waiting to get the girl again?
Mario sets off on his greatest adventure yet
No, that would happen if he arrived on a pollution-free island and got to do some much deserved resting and relaxing there with Princess Peach.
Liora
...so just from reading the headline, and my first thought was "that's insane!"
...my next thought was - "wait, no, if they could pull off a combination Zelda/Mario/Metroid game, resolving the differences between the different gaming styles and envionments/back stories it'd be one of the most amazing narrative (gaming or otherwise) tricks ever accomplished!"
...my third thought was - "holy crap, if a movie is ever made out of this combo game/story it would be even less coherent than the Super Mario Bros. movie, and thus be terribly harmful to the developing thought processes of our nation's youth - Nintendo must be stopped!!"
...my fourth thought was - "maybe I should read the f***ing article, or at least the summary beneath the headline before posting my ever-so-important concerns".
...my fifth thought was "this is Slashdot, no one will notice."
...and my sixth and final thought was "I can't believe you read this far."
Game Summary
The latest Legend of Zelda adventure begins with young Link living a peaceful life on a tiny island. One day, Link witnesses a huge, menacing bird that snatches Link's younger sister and flies away with her. Link follows in hot pursuit. His search for her sets in motion an epic adventure that will have Link sailing the high seas and searching for answers to the mystery behind her disappearance.
Checking out the game summary I can't help but think that Link is really Fox Mulder.
I'm wondering how long it's going to take before we see an article on /. about someone who has taken all of these games and gotten them to run on a GB Advance/Gamecube chop-job that has been crammed inside of an old C64 case, and which uses a vector-analysis routine combined with a laser projection system to display them on the bare midriff of a Natalie Portman poster.
-PARANOIA is fun. D20 is not fun. The Computer says so.
-The Computer
This is what I was thinking. I couldn't tell if Metroid is 100% 3D, but the other two are. Are we doomed to never having 2D games again? 3D games can be good, and definitely have a place, but it's sad to see all 2D games "replaced" by them. Can't we all just get along?
Mario 64 was cool, but if they made a 2D Mario as well, would kids really think it was lame?
mark
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
What I'm waiting for is Monkey Ball 2..
Sega has the #1 sleeper hit for the gamecube right now.. Monkey Ball is by FAR the best game out for the system. It's got that cute-Nintendo-like-appeal. Extremely addicting. My buddies stop over and chuckle when I suggest we play Monkey Ball over Halo, GTA3, etc -- and then 5 hours later when we finish our last game of Monkey Target and can't hold our eyes open any more, it's time to put it away..
actually they already did just that in super smash bros.
basically every nintendo character ever made is in there.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
And I can't stop.
I just can't stop. It's not fair. Don't buy it, you will never stop playing.
I never owned an N64 (no RPG's, bought a PSX) and regretted it - I love RPG's but I prefer the PC ones myself. Unfortunately, the console RPG's tend to be of the Fight/Level/Talk/Repeat, although it is nice when somebody introduces some new elements - my favourite console rpgs I played recently were Lufia 2 and Golden Sun (a bit generic and short, but the puzzles were ok, if a bit easy). But now I just play Morrowind.
Damn Morrowind has stolen my life. And I gave up DAoC to get into less addictive games. Oh well.
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
...GameCube would be Marvel: continuously re-introducing old popular titles in the hope that old fans with new incomes will buy them and restore the company's fortunes.
...Sega would be Image: beautiful graphics time after time, but slow to realize that's not enough to keep them from crashing and burning.
...Sony would be Vertigo: late to the party, but chock-full of great stories with some truly radical, if not entirely beautiful, graphics.
...Microsoft would Dark Horse: rather than creating anything great on their own, buy up everyone else's popular ideas and market the hell out of them.
The new Contra is 2D! Just look!
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Metroid Prime is decidedly NOT 2D. It's an FPS w/3rd person for the ball sections.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
What you really want is the Gamespot impressions from guys who have actually played these games:
Impressions
Perhaps its best the Zelda comes out next year. More time for Metroid and Mario.
Here are a few quick Gamespot coverage links. They contain much more information than the Nintendo links and provide screenshots.
Metroid Prime hands-on
Super Mario Sunshine hands-on
The Zelda title gamespace