E3 2014: We're Talking Over the Nintendo Press Conference

Last year was the "holy crap" year for me. This year was like, Sony back to their overlong, meandering style, Microsoft not having a ton of interesting stuff and needlessly celebrating games, Nintendo doing Nintendo as usual, EA and Ubisoft bringing out, like you said, new evolutions of old games. Not super exciting in the grand scheme.

But you start to drill down past the lack of "holy crap" moments and there's still plenty to be excited about. Ubisoft managed to get me back into Assassin's Creed after being incensed at how insultingly bad III was. Batman looks super awesome. No Man's Sky is crazy ambitious. Tons of cool indie games coming. Mario Maker is really exciting (and makes LBP3 a moot point, honestly) and new Zelda sounds tentatively awesome. Plus a ton of other exciting games.

I think that's why you're getting a lot of people excited again.

Fuck Yoshi... also... Nothing coming from them I care about... and no sign of that ever changing.

omg this event gave me good fellings from konamis event back in 2011!!!!

Nintendo had some great stuff and it was a decently put together presentation.

But sheesh...some of the comments about it have been just as bad as the folks who badmouth anything other than the few standard AAA One/PS4/PC franchises they praise incessantly. Only it's the other way around.

This time some of the same people who were cynically writing off or snarkily ripping apart all the new and amazing stuff we saw from Microsoft and Sony's so-called "boring" or "lackluster" shows are quick to chime in with how Nintendo--primarily finally rolling out a few good looking, unsurprising iterations and spinoffs of their own standard material just like everyone else--"won" the show.

I'm all for having a favorite. But is it necessary to shit on everything else in the process?

This was a super exciting show that's got me optimistic about Nintendo again. That Zelda game sounds like all the right things after the horrible, disappointing Skyward Sword. I'm interested in most of the games they showed. Awesome.

Can this not be downloaded? im having some trouble. I like to watch this on my TV.

Hearing their response to Palutena disheartened me, because it meant none of them played one of the best games of 2012.

That ending was fucking incredible! All in all good show and entertaining commentary on top of that of course.

We need more Alex, he's the choosen one... the Nic Cage of Giantbomb

Wow really? Different strokes for different folks I guess.

Patrick and Brad make these streams way more enjoyable with their enthusiasm. Jeff and Alex's opinions are appreciated but I question why they still game sometimes.

"He's a piece of shit, he can't throw eggs for shit, he's a piece of shit!"

I can't say I hate Yoshi with that much passion, but I know I pulled more laughter out of this rant than any Yoshi game in the past 10 years.

That was great!

@brainling: So do the Skylanders figures. So Jeff's point stands.

Geoffrey needs some anchor management

I love how Jeff just shits all over Yoshi's Yarn during that part of the stream. Never be afraid to express yourself Jeff, we love you for it.

@firebirdinf: is that a pre-requisite for a boating licence?

I demand a Patrick and Jeff endurance run of this game

The Yoshi segment, with all its open hostility, was a thing of beauty.

and well, you know, jeff IS right about skylanders figurines having actual writable storage

Hilarious commentary and also an awesome showing from Nintendo! thanks for the quick archive by the way. :)
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"FUCK YOSHI; MARIO MAKER 2015!~" -Jeff

I hope the best for Nintendo, I loved their games when I was younger and I respect them so much because my childhood was great because of them. However, I am just so uninterested in everything that they do now and that makes me sad. Good luck I say, I hope their is a younger generation coming up that will support them.

Man I really wanna go for the PS4. But I love Platinum games. Especially Bayonetta 2. It almost makes me want to buy a WiiU. And then Scalebound coming to Xbox? Grmbl....

That opening came out of nowhere.

Honestly duders, can you tone down the fucking snark?

Like.. fuck. Take a note out of Vinny and Brad's book and just enjoy what you're doing as a job without being cringeworthy in anger. Looking at Patrick, Alex and even Jeff at times.

Good show overall. Mario Maker definitely behaves unlike the original SMB, in the original SMB the "victory walk" ends once Mario runs against a solid object (there's a brick block placed to the right of the entrance door on the castle at the end) so walling the castle off like that would actually make Mario "enter" the wall and end that way.

not sure what stream you were watching; patrick genuinely dug most or all of what ninty was showing.

Jeff's cynicism over yoshi is hilarious.

These guys are being too cynical about everything, it's a drag. Be cynical about bullshit (of which there is a lot at E3), not about things where there is underlying coolness and/or humor (of which there is also a lot at E3).

Edit: there was a bunch of positivity later on.

I like that nobody got the Elijah Wood pun, it seems like they just thought it was bad translation or something.

I read this as soon as Patrick says "good Nintendo Direct!" at about 36 minutes. So really, seems like our community's been complaining far more than the staff at this point.

And Jeff hilariously hating on Yoshi is just... it's gonna happen, man.

"Mario Maker, 2015. Fuck everything else!"

This whole day from Nintendo was a huge ray of light in a sea of brown shooters, of both the 3rd and 1st person. People were having so much fun during the smash tourney, even Geoff, who railed on Reggie last year for the Cranky Kong announcement.

I'm noticing a big shift on certain sides of the internet after seeing this direct. I guess people are growing tired of the same multiplatform garbage. PC/3DS/Wii U seems the way to go right now.

Yoshi, you piece of shit!

Since I have not mentioned this yet, the talking over the press conferences was a fantastic idea with the xbox and sony reveals last year, and I am very glad the crew did it for E3 this year. Jeff's hilarious Yoshi hate even adds to what was a better-than-the-rest Nintendo presser.

Christ almighty. Patrick and Alex were making jokes in-between constantly praising what was being shown.

I don't understand people who deliberately watch feeds like this and then confusingly seem to get upset that the staff aren't just sitting there quietly clapping for the whole thing.

Brad looks like he put on some weight.

@puaru: There is absolutely no need for a comment like this

That intro was the best thing I've seen Nintendo do in years and from what the guy said about what they're doing with Zelda has actually made me interested in a Zelda title again.

Yeah, people get way too uptight about these things. They only seem to operate on a pass/fail mentality. If they don't like it 100%, they must hate it 100%. There's no in between. Very strange.

It is hilarious that Pat thinks Zelda having a questlog is weird. His 'favorite' Zelda had an extensive qlog. I am talking about Major's Mask btw.

Jeff's opinions on Yoshi had me crippled with laughter.

Also, If they're giving Zelda the open world treatment, any chances with Pokemon? Or perhaps a Zelda with voice acting? I just think it's time they scrapped some traditions.

"Is Tingle in Hyrule Warriors?"

HE IS NOW MOTHER FUCKERS

Crazy how complete Splatoon looked at its first showing!

Wow, the introduction of Amiibos and Super Mario Maker (best game of 2015). and RIP Iwata.