Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014)

Subject: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 10:37

A month until the Nintendo Digital Event? Time for this year's E3 thread, then! I'll edit this OP with key links as they become available. All aboard the hype train!

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Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Nintendo-hype-train-624x351

Links to streams:
Nintendo's E3 site
Nintendo's Twitch channel
CVG should have links to the other streams.

Conference timings:

Timetable of Nintendo events (Axis1500):

As we all know, despite Nintendo not holding an E3 presser proper they're still going to be the most interesting thing there. We have the Nintendo Digital Event replacing the presser, Nintendo Treehouse offering deeper looks into the games, a SSBU invitational tournament, and playable SSBU at Best Buys. Are there even any Best Buys in the UK? I don't know.

Nintendo E3 Introduction Video

Full Nintendo E3 Statement:

What might we be expecting to see, then?

Wii U:

3DS:

And of course the Nintendo Figurine Platform.

Multiformat with Masofdas:

Microsoft Game On:

Sony:

Third Parties:

As for my personal thoughts, as I may have mentioned I'd rather see a presser than the Nintendo Digital Event. At the end of the day, though, it's all about what's shown; and there I'm torn. A couple of lacklustre showings in previous years, low on surprises, have reduced my hype levels somewhat, and I'm fully expecting a big emphasis on the nice-but-not-really-my-thing NFP; but at the same time, if Nintendo are going to come out swinging any year, it has to be this one, really. So maybe I'm being too cynical, and should be expecting brilliance. Meh

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 10:54

Am I right in thinking that's about 5pm for us?

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 10:56

I've just checked, and yep, 5 p.m. for the NDE. I can't really justify leaving early enough to get home for that, and so may take that day off work. Smile

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 11:00

The last few E3 events have taught me never to expect anything. There are four franchises on the graphic in the OP that I would have said I'd be very surprised if we heard about, right up until the announcement of the NFC games. They could go anywhere and that, for me, is where the excitement might come from.

Equally, some bizarre steps: announcing Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire with about a month to go until E3? The buzz from it would have been fantastic. Ditto (ha!) the stuff about the NFC games. I suppose we'll get more details, but both of those announcements (well, more the former) would have taken the roof off.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 11:11

Nintendo have become very weird in when they announce things, haven't they? I know I shouldn't let myself get on the hype train but it's hard not to. I'm getting excited!

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 11:22

I wouldn't be surprised at a Indie Sizzle real and a 3rd Party sizzle as well with likes of Skylanders, COD, Watch Dog's.

I'm excited as Nintendo can still surprise us but it's not quite the same as stage show, and buzz that happens like with Sony's last year.

Only game I think your missing from the list which might be shown is Sonic Boom.

Microsoft Game On:

Sony:

Third Parties:

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 11:28

Balladeer wrote:: Mas, stop clogging up the E3 thread with other formats stuff. Nobody cares! Back in my day, this were all Nintendo. Green pipes as far as the eye can see.

I do wish it were a live show. I was watching the Twilight Princess reveal from 2004 (TEN YEARS AGO) and that excitement with all the cheering really added to it. Such a magical moment. When you stop and think about it, it is a really embarrassing way for adult, professional journalists to act but it is fun.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 11:36

Being ultra negative as I am right now I'm honestly expecting nothing interesting to come from this. We already have the release month of the pokemon remakes, smash has so many frequent updates that simply showing it won't get the hype juices flowing, and I'm fully expecting x to either just disappear completely this year or receive no actual release date and take forever to come out. The rest that will be shown will likely be fun and pleasant games, but not the type that get my hype juices flowing.

Despite all that I'm confident their showing will still be vastly better than sony and microsoft's, but that's more because neither company frankly has anything exciting to show off to begin with than anything else.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 12:25

Drunkalilly wrote:

Balladeer wrote:: Mas, stop clogging up the E3 thread with other formats stuff. Nobody cares! Back in my day, this were all Nintendo. Green pipes as far as the eye can see.

"Green pipes as far as the eye can see" is Flappy Bird, isn't it? Razz

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 15:06

I would be interested to see what Nintendo's plans are for their 'Emerging markets' platforms, but I'm really not expecting it for a whole host of reasons.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 18:19

ZeroJones wrote:: Equally, some bizarre steps: announcing Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire with about a month to go until E3? The buzz from it would have been fantastic. Ditto (ha!) the stuff about the NFC games. I suppose we'll get more details, but both of those announcements (well, more the former) would have taken the roof off.

The RS remake announcements really don't make sense, unless Nintendo's E3 is going to be so chock full of stuff that they'd be blown out of the water, or (more likely) the Nintendo PR machine is on the blink again.

Drunkalilly wrote:

Balladeer wrote:: Mas, stop clogging up the E3 thread with other formats stuff. Nobody cares! Back in my day, this were all Nintendo. Green pipes as far as the eye can see.

That's NINTENDO unfair, Drunka. As NINTENDO an admin., I adopt anINTENDO ARE THE BEST unbiased approach to SONY SUX all points of view, and that M$ SUX includes giving all of the Big Three NINTENDO FOREVER ALLELUIA their proper place in the sun.

MS stuff added to the OP. As is Sonic Boom, but not without misgivings - can't see that turning out as anything but rubbish at the moment.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 22:40

I've just added Sony & 3rd Party's to my first post and edited the Microsoft one as well.

My thought's on Sonic Boom it's either going to be terrible (like all sonic titles hehe, before drunka says something) or excellent & puts the actual sonic team to shame especially with the team behind Booms pedigree.

On Microsoft I think I'm the only one on the forum that really cares and I'm not that bothered, I'll watch and think Halo 5 looks good and that be it.

On Sony there line up looks really impressive but no real WOW factor, and seeing how well they did at E3 last year & these past month's it be hard to top. I know a lot of the forum do have sony systems, so these guys will get talked about quite a bit I would think during E3.

On Third Party's, this all depends on who turns up where if Hideo is on sony stage showing MGSV:PP I'll be pleased but I think we know a lot what to aspect from them all.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 23:11

I'll be watching the MS conference to see if there's any good reasons to pick up a One yet.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 23:33

I saw a rumour on NeoGAF that Platinum are going to announce an XBOne exclusive series.

Platinum are clearly becoming the gamer's David Cage- uncommercial titles that first parties will bankroll for credibility.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sat 10 May 2014 - 23:56

That also goes along with my Microsoft list with exclusive from jap studio.

But haven't platinum said before there pretty exclusive to Nintendo now.

Also X is suppose to be this year according to the financial report.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sun 11 May 2014 - 11:27

Balladeer wrote:

ZeroJones wrote:: Equally, some bizarre steps: announcing Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire with about a month to go until E3? The buzz from it would have been fantastic. Ditto (ha!) the stuff about the NFC games. I suppose we'll get more details, but both of those announcements (well, more the former) would have taken the roof off.

The RS remake announcements really don't make sense, unless Nintendo's E3 is going to be so chock full of stuff that they'd be blown out of the water, or (more likely) the Nintendo PR machine is on the blink again.

I could be wrong but doesn't nintendo just never announce new main pokemon games at e3?

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sun 11 May 2014 - 13:25

That's irrelevant if true. They need to make changes, as they're aware, and this would have been a simple easy one.

I'll put the other platforms stuff into the OP.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sun 11 May 2014 - 21:08

Perhaps, perhaps not. Pokemon has always at least to me felt like it was outside of the e3 impact, if that makes any sense. By that I mean it appearing at e3 doesn't have much of an effect for it, nor the reverse. The main games are usually well promoted, with a drip feed of information from their announcement to their release, e3 usually just being part of it.

Besides, now they've got the boring "these games exist" announcement out of the way that ups the odds of whatever we get from e3 being something juicy! Smile

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sun 11 May 2014 - 21:09

They could have done both in the NDE, I feel. Anyway, enough about that. Let's get down to what E3 is really about:

.GIFS! (And a video thing.)

Spoiler:

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http://a.pomf.se/nmydoo.webm

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Sun 11 May 2014 - 22:24

Haha love that Kung fu hustle gif.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Mon 12 May 2014 - 10:38

Sony's event will be 2AM BST. I might watch live if I'm off on the 10th, so don't have to get up for work.

Also there's MS rumors going around some I've all ready put down as we all know there's going to be a Forza this year.

Extra Soft:

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Mon 12 May 2014 - 11:22

masofdas wrote:: Is Ryse 2

I was under the impression the first one really didn't set the world on fire. Odd that it's getting a sequel.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Mon 12 May 2014 - 22:33

I've got good news I've got the 9th & the 10th off yay. So will watching all the presser's and can post all the lovely news for you.

On Ryse 2 Jay, it does seem a odd one but maybe crytek has some sort of deal like capcom had on the cube and have to make a certain amount games, so they just chuck out a sequel to Ryse or maybe Microsoft really do want to make it a franchise like how God of War is to Sony.

Are we doing E3 Bingo / Predictions or anything like that.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Tue 13 May 2014 - 11:26

I booked the 10th off work, so I can watch EA's, Ubisoft's, Sony's and Nintendo's. I'll miss Microsoft's, but I find them to be pretty irrelevant to gaming at the moment.

Subject: Re: Nintendo Digital Event (and E3 2014) Tue 13 May 2014 - 11:51

Thanks for reminding me - I've just done the same. I'll only be watching Nintendo, but I'd like to be home in time to catch it.

Here's something I did in [url=messedupcables.forumotion.net/t333-big-fat-e3-and-nintendo-direct-thread]the previous E3 thread[/url]: a list of things I'd love to see. Somewhat fantastical (and by "somewhat" I mean "very"), but I thought it'd be interesting to go back through and see how many actually happened, and how many might happen this time:

Spoiler:

Mario Universe to be more 64[ than Galaxy in style. Big open levels, stars/Shines/whatever can be got in almost any order. Haha, no.
New Paper Mario for Wii U. Pad would be ideal for manipulating paper. Is good, like TTYD; not average, like SS. No, and I can't see it happening this time either.
A new Zelda revealed. Uses both Motion+ and the Wii U controller. Features a proper overworld (looking at you, Skyward Sword). Can't see Motion+ being part of it, but surely this is a shoe-in for this year. Surely.
Nintendo announce the first multi-Wii U Pad game. It's a Four Swords game. They also announce a drastic price cut in pads. Nope.
The new Retro game is Metroid Prime, and they're going back to basics. That means no NPCs. May be unimaginative, but I don't know who could do it better. A could-be for this year.
There's another Retro game that's something completely different. Happened last year. Was disappointing.
Treasure-developed Starfox. Could we see Star Fox this year? Not completely out of the question.
Sega-developed F-Zero. HAHAHAHAHA.
Camelot-developed Mario Strikers. What's happened to this franchise? I wonder if we'll see Mario Strikers on the 3DS, with the other Mario sports games.
SSB4 for both consoles. 3DS version is some sort of RPG thing with Wii U connectivity. Miis are in, Sonic is out. SSB4 was announced for both consoles, and that was about it. There's still time to announce Miis! But don't dwell on these games please. We know that they exist.
New 3D Pokémon, is not a MMORPG. If it wanted to channel Pokémon XD, I'd be fine with that. We'll see OR/AS fo' sho', and possibly Pokken, but neither is a proper Wii U 3D Pokémon game.
Mother 4 announced for all locations. Either console will do. Nope. Will be for Japan at best, and hence not announced in the Digital Event.
Ice Climbers 2 has you climbing a variety of terrains, all around a single huge mountain. Like that one good SSX in reverse. I'm not ruling this one out. Nintendo could completely blindside us with an old franchise, like they did with KIU; and with the Climbers in Smash and yet to be announced, it's not impossible that it'll be them.
More JRPGs than you can shake a stick (+10 Atk) at for both consoles, including a Muramasa sequel. Muramasa sequel seems more likely on Vita to be honest. X and Bravely Second, along with the Pokémon RS remakes, should give this genre a good representation.
New Meteos for 3DS!!! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE but no.
Finally, Shenmue 3 as a Wii U exclusive (and the previous two re-released on Wii U in enhanced form). Mostly to piss off CVG as a whole. Come on, Sega/Nintendo, you know you want to...

Still a pretty good lists of fantasies for this year, given that only two of them happened last year (DKCTF, SSB4 sort of) and only one was ruled out (Mario Not-Universe). Yup, I'll go with this again! And possibly a Mario & Luigi game for Wii U.

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