Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Star Fox! Nintendo Press Conference Reactions! - Kinda Funny Gamescast (E3 2015)

Episode Date: June 16, 2015

All the biggest Nintendo news of E3 2015! Super Mario Maker! Star Fox! Zelda! Animal Crossing! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up guys, welcome to the first ever E3-2015 Nintendo Direct, Kind of Funny Games cast. As always, I'm Tim Geddes. I'm joined by the coolest dudes in video games, Colin Moriarty, and Greg Miller. And, oh, I'm the champion. Thank you. For the first time on the Kind of Funny Games cast, I just steam. Hi, I voiced to them. I was like, I'm not a dude.

Well, you're not, no, that's our moniker. I just assumed that you were talking about everybody here. I was like, I'm not a dude, but I can be a dude. You're best-selling author. From now on, you were one of the coolest dudes. You were one of the coolest dudes in video games. Thanks, really. This is going to be great.

This is going to be great. So the Nintendo Direct just happened. We're going to run through all of the announcements, and then we'll discuss them. It started off with Star Fox Zero on the Wii U coming holiday 2015. I'm excited for that one. Then Super Mario Maker. They talked about it a bit. They showed that there's a bunch of costumes for you.

You can be Wii fit trainer, Zelda, or Link. They didn't show Zelda. A whole bunch of different stuff. That's great. You know that Zelda is actually the princess in that game. Spoilers, great. Spoilers. September 11th, 2015 is when we're getting that guy.

No respect. Then, Skylanders, big announcement that came out of nowhere. They're making Bowser and Donkey Kong Skylanders that are also amoevos. So, they can do everything. So there's that. Then Zelda TriForce Heroes announced, which is essentially three-sort adventures, the 3DS. Then Hyrule Warriors Legends, which leaked a while back. But it's coming to 3DS, first quarter of 2016.

Metroid Prime Federation Force. People thought this was going to be called Ball Blasters or some shit. That would be a better name. And it's first quarter of 2016, 3DS game. ballbuster. Yeah. Then, Fire Emblem Fates.

It is the localization of Fire Emblem if in Japan. They didn't really go into too many details if they're going to do the two game thing. But yeah, it's Fire Emblem. I'm excited. 2016.

It's going to bring 30 new characters to smash. Yes, which is exciting. Fire Emblem crossed in Magamintense. We saw a trailer. It didn't make any sense because it wasn't in English. And I didn't understand what they were doing.

There was a lot dancing around. So that was cool. Then, Animal Crossing, Happy Home. I knew she'd like that. 3d s then animal crossing amoe festival on Wii u it's like Mario Party but it's a festival And there's amebo's involved then yoshi's woolly world hell yeah did they get a release date for that I didn't write that down I don't know I was kind of just staring at those gorgeous ameboes I'll Google for you but I don't think they did yeah the god I hope they did that yoshi is so good

I hope that game looks awesome we're gonna talk about that then yokeye watch which might be the one thing that Colin in the conference was like wait what's happening yeah I forgot that yokey watch is actually coming out that game was massive in Japan. So it's, you know, level five. I love level five. Great developers, so I'm excited about that. But not the game I'm most excited about it on this list. Then a new title, Mario and Luigi Paper Jam. Oh, I missed this.

I was on my way here, yes. What, tell me. This is a genius game because it combines the Paper Mario World with the Mario and Luigi World into one RPG world and it's called Paper Jam, because they're jamming them together. I'm all about that. All about that. Mario Tennis, Ultra Smash on Wii U.

I'm sorry, you see it, tennis? Yes. Okay, I would just Oh yeah, Mario Tennis. I was making sure I heard this. On the Wii U. It's back and it's going to be better than ever. And then they closed out with Mario 30th anniversary. There's a new amoebo where it's a 30th anniversary amoebo and you can do a bunch of stuff with a Mario Maker and all that stuff. So that was the direct and then it ended.

Can we go back to that 30th anniversary amoebo? Yeah, yeah, we can. What was it? So it looks like the little eighth Mario. It's huge. Shut up. It's a big old one. Really?

Oh my God, I'm so obsessed with a big old amoe. Big old mebo. A big old mebo. for my amoebo. And now with all these new announcements, like it's, it's, yeah,

there's gonna be a lot of amoebas. There was animal crossing amoebos, obviously for the festival. There was, uh, yeah, I think that was, oh,

well, then there's the Skylanders ones. Well, then they announced a couple new ones the other day, too. Oh, yeah. So, all the new smash ones coming out. So that's,

that's exciting. What do you guys care the most about here? Colin. Mario Maker. Yes. For sure. Yes. Uh,

did you guys watch the Nintendo championship? We saw bits and pieces of it. Oh, man. And it looked good. Pretty awesome. That really sold the game to me. Like, to me, that is one of my contenders for the game in the show, for sure. Mario Maker?

Mario Maker. Yeah, of course. The potential there is endless. I cannot wait to play what other people make. I'm going to fool around with making them myself, but not really my thing. I want to play games. I don't want to make games. Colin says he's going to make him so hard.

I can't play. Good. I want to play Collins games. You say this now, and then you probably are going to get it, and you're like, this is so much fun. I think that's what's going to be so cool is, like, the whole social aspect of it. You know, I mean, you can share the stuff on Twitter. I mean, I'm sure you guys are going to make some kind of funny crazy games. Something's to be kind of funny.

Yeah, the game looks extraordinary. I mean, just, you know, the one thing that made me cringe is a guy who studied history and worked in Massachusetts Historical Society when I was in college is watching them. And I was saying it over and over here, watching them handle those design documents with the hex art on them and stuff like that from the 80s. I'm like, why are you touching these things? And our friend Scott Stankowski, Sin, who works over at Apple, we used to work with them at IGN tweeted out. He's like, it's horrible. Like, they're making new creases. Like, they're folding them back up and stuff.

I'm like, what the fuck are you doing? Put them in a museum. It belongs in a museum. Miamoto actually had the original designs for the first Mario levels that they like hand drew and stuff. And they're just like throwing them on the table and like folding it. I'm like, what the fuck? Like how is someone, how do they, like cognizant enough to know that those belong in a museum somewhere? That was actually what I walked away from.

Yeah. Most from that conference. The actual original one? Yeah. I mean, they looked like the original ones. They looked worn and weathered. And I'm sure that they can, I'm sure they have them just laying around. But you'd think that they'd have some sort of historian that would be like, no, you need to, like, not touch these anymore now.

They're gone now. Yeah, so Mario Maker, we've seen it a million times, but it's really good to finally have a release date. And it's pretty soon. September 11th's not that far away. Yeah, I'm through the roof about that game, really. Like, I just, you know, Mario made a gamer out of many of us, including me. And I couldn't help but smile when they were showing the montages of all the games and stuff like that. Those are games that we hold near to us.

They even showed Super Mario, too, which I thought was funny. Yeah. I still really like that game. I love that game, too. But I'm surprised that they're acknowledging it. its existence as a real Mario game. They showed it for like two seconds. But yeah, Mario Maker is going to allow us to kind of like deal

in this hex design philosophy that they dealt with for so long. And it's funny to hear how it seemed like they were tools that they used internally that they then just made into a game. So, I don't know, I'm excited about it. It's one of the only games there that was interesting to me. That's one of the things. Mario Maker was the most interesting game. I think the most interesting announcements was the Skylanders Amibo hybrid.

That's really, we've talked about it before that Nintendo is tone deaf and doesn't listen and it's trying to silo itself. And you really see them with, you know, the announcement, obviously the mobile stuff. Now with this announcement, they're working with Activision. They're trying to get their properties out there. Get it to new people. Get it to where kids are. So they figure out, oh, Donkey Kong and Dry Bones, sure are cool dudes.

We need to go play those other games. Not to mention that you can crank the base and they go from being a Skyliner to being an amoeba, which is brilliant. Well, I think that's the problem too is the amoebo. There's not much you can do with them. Yeah. Like, I mean, once you tap them on your console, great. I have like a costume. I can, you know, do only a few.

a few things and you set them on your shelf and they look cool. So I think they really do need to kind of expand that. And I like that they start saying it was like the transformation. I mean, they're going into mobile. I mean, this is going to be huge. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like with, I mean, I've said it before about Amiibo. Like they should have just made toys.

And that's what they basically did. Like, we don't need the functionality. Who cares? Like that like just release your awesome toys with these awesome sculpts of all these great action figures basically. And I'll buy them up. One day, one day they have a plan for where it's going, right? They have an idea of what they want to do with this thing eventually.

But yeah, right now. I think it's the thing of it's marketing for their games. Sure. It's like I feel like there's a bunch of copies of Captain Toad treasure tracker that were sold because of Amibel just because it had functionality. You know what I mean? Yeah. People just bought it. But I mean, like, what we always go back to when we need to get back to what was actually announced.

But I mean, like, if they would just, like they're selling, you know, this 8-bit Mario, right? If they would sell him with, and in his base was the original Mario Brothers, right? If there was some cool pack-in like that that unlocked a game, that'd be awesome. Mm-hmm. Yeah, definitely. So for me, Star Fox, we need to talk about Star Fox. It's kind of exciting. Oh, yeah.

I mean, they've been talking about it forever. It's like... Oh, my God. Yeah, so to finally see it, I was very excited. I'm happy that it is a on-rails shooter. There's the all-range mode. It is classic Star Fox. There was no on-foot shenanigans going on.

There was like another ship... Not a foot robot that was running around. There was a transformer thing that I thought looked cool. Okay. It was nimble, and I liked that. There wasn't any fox on foot with awkward camera angles. I was hoping they were going back to the Star Fox adventures. No, no, no, no, no.

How do you feel about all, like, the motion control? with the game pad. Because even playing Splatoon, I mean, they were really trying to get you to really play with the motion controls. And that's default settings. But then I turned it off immediately. Because it's just not how we're accustomed to playing games.

And I don't feel like it's that accurate. The thing with that is, and I've been scared about this for a while, specifically with Starfarks, because they've been talking about, they want this to be the Wii U game-Pad game. And I'm really excited that when he was talking, he said you can use motion,

or you can use the game- The gyroscopes still look around. Yeah, yeah. But then the way they were showing it, I was like, oh man, I don't know how they would do it. Yeah, how do you do it without it? So it's like, that scares me a little bit. I definitely want to get my hands on it and see how it feels because that's worrisome. It's a different type of game if you were to play it with the game pad because then you're controlling your ship and aiming separately.

Yeah. Where Star Fox is, it's one thing typically, you know what I mean? So I hope that I can play it old school style because it definitely is very excited. I mean, like this is... Star Fox is going on a long, long time for this. It didn't live up to the hype, though, is the question. What did you see? Were you like, that looks awesome?

Oh, yeah. I mean, this is what I wanted. And the thing there is it's like, was it a beautiful game? No. It really wasn't. It was like kind of empty in a lot of ways. But I don't need that much going on for Star Fox. It looked like Star Fox 64, but, you know, nicer in HD.

That's really all I need. Yeah, I was kind of shocked by how it looked, actually, because Nintendo First Party typically extracts an incredible amount out of the limited power of their hardware. and you get games like Mario Galaxy, which is arguably, not in HD even, and arguably the prettiest game of that generation. And I was looking at Star Fox,

and I'm like, this game, and we were talking about it, I was like, this game looks ancient. Like, it doesn't even look old. Like, this game actually looks really old. I don't know. It took 10 years to make this? Yeah, like, I don't... What have they been doing?

I was, I don't care. I don't really care about the graphical fidelity. I care about systems being more powerful, especially for Nintendo, in order to attract third parties that they need to succeed, but I don't really care about graphics. If the game's fun,

then that's all that, really matters, but I was just, I was stunned because there's some really pretty games on Wii, and that didn't look like one of them. And this is a very late, this might be arguably the last, or one of the last first party games on Wii, so you expected more out of it. And it was clearly a game that has been in development for a while. Yeah, the look of it kind of reminded me of Hyrule Warriors, where it doesn't look like the Zelda game, you know what I mean? It has the elements and stuff, and it's pretty, and it's like, you know, the fidelity of it is nice, but it's just like there's not that much

going on, and it doesn't, it looks kind of empty and barren. That was the thing, and I mean, I'm not trying to harp on it, but like that, like, even Highroll Warriors when I watch Highroll Warriors and have seen demos and played it at demos, it's like, oh, there's a lot of color here. There's a lot of things happening. With Star Fox, there was like parts where you're in the sky and it's just like this blue and cloudy and like, you know what I mean? Like it wasn't like the textures looked flat. To be fair, that's the sky. Sure, but you know what I'm saying? Like where was, this is the same thing we saw, of course,

in the movie The Aviator. Leonardo DiCaprio's finest role and he needed to have clouds in the background so the planes looked like they were going fast. Well, it's going to be interesting like who are they targeting? Are they targeting the old school people or like kids now that are going to pick this up and be like, this game is not something that I want to play. Yeah, I think it's a little bit half and half, which is a classic Nintendo move. And I mean, it works for them.

You know what I mean? But it's just like it's not exactly what I want. But I want to play it. I don't want to judge this game too harshly until I play it because it's more what I want than I thought they were going to give me. So I'm happy about that. I thought it was going to be a lot worse than this. That's good. So you're okay.

I'm okay. You'd be hard pressed to find a game that Miyamoto has his hands on. bad. I have no problem that the game is going to be bad. I was just, like, I don't know who it appeals to people that already have a WiiU. You know, we've talked about it before. If Carton smashed it and sell WiiUs and they didn't, then this isn't going to either. This is for the

endemic audience that's already there and this is basically, you assume the second to last first party game. That's going to be on Wii U, Zelda being the last one. Because they're ramping it down and that's what I kind of saw out of this. I'm like, this is just a complete rampdown of Wii U. And we're getting some 3DS games, which is

great, but it's a very, they're very, They're in a nebulous kind of territory right now where they have to wait a little while and then start talking about the future. And so these were the games that they had a launch. And I was personally unimpressed, but I don't think that these games are necessarily aimed at me either. Yeah, that's a kind of a lapsed Nintendo fan. I mean, well, it's interesting for me too. It's like I feel like they weren't aimed at me. And that's bad.

You know, like there was no, oh, crap moment for me at all. Yeah, well, you thought that you were building that at the end, right? Like when they went into the 30 years of Mario, you were like, this is going to end with the reveal of the new 3D Mario or whatever. Yeah, and then they didn't. I'm like, okay, great. They've been announcing so much stuff leading up to this, too. I was like, what is left for E3? It was like, because they just kept announcing more stuff.

Like the mobile, they announced that pretty early. So, I don't know. I mean, I love the 3DS. So, I mean, I'm always really excited when they have anything for that. But it just sucks, too. It's like, I want to play those games that are out for wheat. I want to take them with me. Yep.

You know, it's like, hopefully you will with the NX. Yes. Throw it up. Yeah, it was definitely interesting to me that there wasn't a Metroid Prime or 3D Mario or any, something, like, something substantial. a substantial surprise that we didn't know. Mario Galaxy 3? Exactly.

Where the fuck is there? I predicted that they would end with some sort of nebulous. They would really... My particular guess was that they would tease Metroid and they wouldn't say what console was on. It would end up being that next game. But they're not showing any of these games because they're not going to be Wii U games.

And so why even... They're probably developing a Mario game and they realized maybe sometime a year or two ago they're like, we're going to send this thing out to die. You know? And maybe we should wait. Yeah. And so I think that you're going to see Mario on, you know, maybe as a launch game for NX.

Yeah. That'd be awesome. But, and that would be, yeah, that would be really cool. Yeah. But why, why announce anything for Wii you anymore? No, you're making good points. See, it makes sense. It's just not fun. You know, I agree.

And like, I have been arguing for years that these directs are equal to press conferences. And I don't understand many people are like, oh, they don't have a press conference. It's like, what's the difference? It's the same thing. Like, you're getting trailers, you're getting announcements. Here we got puppets. And there's no technical difficulty. There's a different atmosphere, and it is kind of weird.

But it's like, and specifically because it's a different day than the rest of the press conferences, but it's always been that way. Yeah. But for them to come out and not have those big moments, especially when the last couple days have been full of like huge, oh my God moments. It's like, man, Nintendo, you're making this hard for me. You're making this hard for me to be like, dude, no, the directs are great. They're awesome. See, I feel like this is the third year in the row you've said that.

No. That Nintendo's making it hard for you. No, last year was awesome. I loved it. All the smash stuff. Listen, dude. You know, you're going to, you know, I've already learned that I draw the eye of the Nintendo fans out there, right? But you just have to be honest with it. They don't, they're speak,

they've, they've not spoken to me for a long time, and maybe they're just not even speaking to you that much anymore. These are things are happening. It's clear, the Wii use barely sold 9 million units. Clearly, they're not speaking to many people. So it's not like it's an uncommon kind of thing. There's nothing wrong with it. You know, for sure. I totally get that, but I don't even want to be that negative about it. I am negative about this direct. I was not thrilled by it. I did want to be. Like, there was not the announcements I was looking for, and it's not even that I was expecting anything. I just expected to be surprised and excited. And I'm not so much. Am I excited about Mario Maker, Star Fox, Yoshi's Woolly World? Yes.

Animal Crossing? No? No, I'm not Animal Crossing, yeah. I'll leave that to you. It's okay. But I'm so excited about this games, but I knew about them. Yeah. And I've been knowing about them. And I can't wait to play them. I really was expecting that there was going to be something that we didn't already know. Yeah. Yeah, I thought they would at least tease the future without teasing the future. Yeah. Did they ever say how many units they've sold of like the new 3DS? Not the new one, I don't think, no. I mean, 3DS is doing fun. Yeah. It's not doing DS numbers, but it's working. A game like Yo-Kai Watch coming over

from, you know, Level 5 is a great Japanese developer. They did, you know, most recently did Nino Kuni, but they've been around for a long. They did Dark Cloud and Rogue Galaxy and all these games. They're great developer, and Yoki Watch was huge. So the fact that they're bringing these games over and translating them and, you know, even games like Fire Emblem Crush

Shimagami Tense and stuff shows that the 3DS is viable in the West. I don't think they're worried about the 3DS. Yeah, the vast library grows. Yeah, like there's definitely an hardcore audience that buys these games. And I don't think they're worried about any of that kind of stuff. I think their bigger problem is just like in the console space and in the future. And again, this is just an in-between year.

This is just a bad year for them because they have to just get everything out that's in the pipeline and clear the pipeline and then start, yeah, with the NX, as Greg likes to keep doing his X symbol, of course. It's hard too because they paved the way with like, all right, they launched the Wii U first. So already, once that was out, it was already outdated. Yeah, it's a shame. And that's why I just, you know, I feel for them. Like, you know, Nintendo got me in the games and I love Nintendo.

I want to see Nintendo come back and just be like, we want you back now and this is what we're going to do for people like you because I'm not the only one, right? Like we've talked about with the exception of the Wii, which is the anomaly, ever since NES, the sales decline in Nintendo's been precipitous. NES sold this as NES sold below that and 64 sold below that, GameCube sold below that, and then the Wii was the big spike, and then Wii is awful.

We use in sub-dreamcast levels. So we use awful in terms of sales. Right. And like, I know that's all you're saying, but it's like, man, I love my Wii. I was like, I love mine too. Yeah, but by the time that we get these games, Mario Maker, Star Fox, and Yoshi, the Wii is going to have a very solid library that is for sure worth the purchase. I think it already is.

Just for Mario Card and Smash and, like, Mario 3D World, those three games alone make it worth the investment to me. And adding these, it's like, definitely. It's a great system that I've played a lot of great games on. I had a good time playing Mario Party. I mean, these are the type of things that kind of brings back, like, you know, actually having people over to your house and playing games together. So kind of like going back to sort of, I don't know, how it used to be.

Back in the day, when we didn't play, we didn't play, you know, College Duty Online and just had fun. Yeah. I believe that Nintendo, they don't have, in a way, they don't have anything to turn around. They make money, they're very lucrative. You know, they're doing their thing. They're making more casual games now with DNA and stuff in Japan with their cell phone games and stuff like that. But I do believe that they can turn things around. They just have to figure it out.

They have the greatest game design and development talent in the entire industry. So that's taken care of. you just have to proliferate those games and get people to buy your console. That's why I was surprised that they didn't cut the price. You know, like, Wii U is way too expensive. And, you know, I would buy, like, we share basically a Wii U in an Xbox one. That's why I would, you know, I don't buy them. Well, because Greg hasn't.

It's like, I'm not going to buy them. But I buy my own just for virtual console. If it was, say, like, $150. I'm not spending more than that. Yeah. You know, so I'm surprised. I was, I was sure in our predictions when we did our predictions that they were going to cut the price of the Wii. Yeah.

Maybe they so will. I just feel like they feel like they don't need E3 to make the announcements. And it kind of reminds me of when Apple was like, you know what, we're not going to make all of our announcements here. We're going to have our own separate things because they used to make them all at Macworld. And they're like, no, we're going to pull away from that so that we can do anything we want when we want. And I feel like it's kind of cool that they're sort of, I don't know, embracing other things.

Like the mobile and the Skylanders, which I think that's huge for them. It is. So I mean, so do you play Skylanders? No. Okay, cool. Good. I've never owned a Skylander in my life. But then when the Amiens came out.

Now you're about to own two. Exactly. Yeah. But something about the Amoebo. when they first came out, I was like, these are awesome. This is cool, even though they don't do very much. I mean, I liked being able to, whenever playing Smash, you know, take your little character to somebody else's house.

Yep, and it carries over your clone. So, Justine, what do you think about the 3DS games now? There was a handful of them. We got Zelda Tri-Force Heroes, Hyrule Warriors, Legends, Metrored Prime Federation Forest, new Fire Emblem, and then Animal Crossing, Happy Home. Never played Fire Emblem, so I'm not really sure. So I can't really comment.

I'm sorry. It's going to be real. And then there was Mario and Luigi Paper. I'm excited about those right now. I'm playing Lego Jurassic World, which is pretty exciting. Yeah, I don't know. I just, I love the DS games because it's like, you know, when you're traveling and you're going places. And I love these street passes.

I think that's something that all of us DS Nintendo fans, we really love that. So I love all of like the mini DS games. So I'm hoping that they do some more kind of stuff like that. Yeah. Well, want to talk about the predictions? Oh, yeah. Oh, sure. You want to call out, we talked about in the beginning.

Yoshi's Willie World did get a release date in this thing. What is it? It's not good news for you. Damn it, are you serious? It's in Australia, June 25th. In Europe, June 26th. In Japan, July 16th. Here in the United States, October 16th.

I'm sorry, what? Do you want to go to Australia? Yeah, let's go to Australia. All right, let's go. I need that. It's not backwards compatible, obviously, right? Or not backwards compatible. Region free.

So, right, that's an issue. My God. That's unfortunate. When I went to Australia, I wanted one of the white DSC is so bad. So I bought one and then I bought like two games there. So it's all region locked, but anytime I travel outside the U.S. I can play my D.S. Oh, good, good, good. You got that on lock. I will say, I'll say, there's Colin putting me away. I will say to your point about the direct format before we

get into the predictions that we made, I like the direct format. I think that you lose and you gain things by doing it, right? You don't have like that Todd Howard moment at Bethesda where he's clearly going off script, right? You don't have the exciting moment to bring people out on stage you don't have like things that make it more personal like Aisha Tyler doing Ubisoft and clearly vamping half the time I think that that kind of stuff's exciting you lose that she saved that yeah you could tell sometimes I was like this is not going well and she saves it yeah absolutely like until you look like they have a more metered approach a more structured approach that Nintendo is like that they don't they don't

want to risk any leaks they don't want to do those kinds of things but you lose a little bit of you get personality from Reggie and those guys but you also lose a little bit of personality I think so I think there's like I would love to see them back in person it becomes a control message yeah and I think that you will see them at E3 next year. For NX? Yeah, for NX and all these new things.

I think they will come back in a big way. And I think it might have even been an intentional thing the last couple of years to be like, let's step away for a minute and then we'll come back in a major way and shake things up a little bit. I got chills. I like that. No, I would love to see that. Anyway, Greg, we did the predictions. As everyone knows on podcasts beyond that Greg and I did for years, we used to do PlayStation predictions.

It was a game that we liked to play for E3. So we did it for every company. Right. And we did it for Nintendo. Yes. Now you got a point here. This is complete garbage. So I'm going to have to take that out.

So Greg's five predictions were Amazon, Nintendo would make up with Amazon, Nintendo products would be sold normally and not through third party on Amazon. That happened before the show. So Greg will get a point for that. Greg predicted the return of Nintendo Dogs. He was wrong about that. I'm going to give Greg a half point for it because there were dogs. They were Nintendo Dogs.

I didn't say how the Nintendo Dogs were returned. 0.5. 5 everybody. Zelda on Wii. Zelda Wii gets a release date set for summer 2016. No mention of it. What the fuck? I mean, they said they weren't going to mention it. Well, I know, but they didn't...

You assumed that they were lying to you. Yeah. Greg said no mention of NX. He got a point here, but they clearly did mention NX, so I'm going to have to dispute that. And his fifth prediction was Mario Game. We see the next main Mario game. A teaser is shown will be an evolution of the Galaxy series

coming to Wii U, and that didn't happen as well. And then my predictions were Star Fox would open the show. You'd see an intensive look, and it's dated. It didn't release... It said Holiday 2015. Well, no, that Miyamoto said that Star Fox would be out before Zelda. So. Yeah.

Well, yeah, so holiday 2015, Zelda's 2016. So my prediction that Star Fox would be there and it would open the show both, give me, I guess, 0.66 points. I said that we would get a significant price drop of 40%. That didn't happen. Smash Brothers, significant time showing DLC characters. And then the ice climbers, my beloved ice climbers would come back. Got half a point for that. I predicted that we would see DNA's games for the first time.

They will release this fall. and then we would able to identify some of them and all these kinds of things that didn't happen and then I said at next they would tease an NX game although you wouldn't know it was an NX game it would be Metroid by Retro Studios and no game release date or any other indication of it

even name that didn't happen either so yeah so there we go Greg technically won this portion even though he got a point that he didn't deserve so we're gonna have to dispute that do you get like a prize or something like an amoebo or it doesn't matter you Give him a Mounds bar Give him a Mounds bar

Yeah please give me a Mounce Bar We gotta talk about that, Justin. I don't want to talk about it. Honestly, if you tweet me more time about the Mounds Barling, you're calling me out with 7.26 to what really is 2.5. But, like, do we really count then? Why don't you have a lot paper sister? I mean, they had their own, like,

Smash had its own direct. Does that count? Yeah, that's tough. No, that counts. I think that's three. I think that's significant. It was 18 minutes. I'll remove this.

If you remove that, and then I'm just going to gain another point. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, that's the one thing we didn't talk about was the Smash Bros. We didn't talk about that at all. Yeah. because we've been busy doing a lot of other stuff. I thought it was excellent. I love that they are still announcing new characters for you.

It's going to be awesome. Very excited to play as him when we get home. And I love that it's released now that we can go play as all the characters. And all of the Roy's back because he was my boy back in melee. Super random. I can't believe they did that. Random choice. I'm sure you loved that, Colin.

More firearm-com characters. Yeah, more file-on-lum characters that are indistinguishable from one another. I'm very excited about that. Well, Roy has red hair. Yeah, definitely. He definitely does have red hair. I understand that they said that the ice climbers cannot work based on the...

They got them running on Wii U but not on 3DS basically during development. I don't believe that that's a good thing. I was thinking about it. I'm like, I just accepted that as the explanation of why my beloved, beloved ice climbers are not in this game. And then I'm like, but there are eight characters at a time on the screen. You couldn't get the ice climbers to work? It doesn't make any sense.

Especially because there's Rosalina and Luma and there too. It's total nonsense. It's a total nonsense thing. Just admit that no one played is. them and that's why you didn't put it in. That is not. They'll be back. I think they'll be back.

Playing smash on DS was the most painful thing of it. It's definitely something. Can't do it. It's still fun though. It's like I can't see the screen. Yeah. Like where did my character go? Eh, it's still, I still love it.

Poponana. The most exciting thing to me about the smash announcement was the fact that they said that there's going to be more stages coming. There was the Mushroom Kingdom and Hyrule Castle from the N64 version that are coming. They didn't put a date on that. They just said, oh, there's more coming. It'll be there.

That excites me because that says there's going to be more DLC. This is not the end. Because Mario Kart had its two DLC packs and that was kind of it. But this shows that they're still going to be giving more serious climbers. They'll make their return. I hope so, man. I play as the king and I'm happy to do it.

But, you know, because D-D-D just, he's just the man. He's also... He did it dominates. He did the dominates and he's a crazy person and he's a sociopath and everyone knows it. But he's no ice climbers. So you are.

And while I think I'm competent with the king. I think I bring my game back to the next level with the ice climbers. Yeah. I play as the Wii Fit trainer, so... You can play as the Wii Fit trainer in Mario Maker now. I saw that's amazing. That's weird. That doesn't mean. I love her. Ladies and gentlemen,

this has been the kind of funny games cast for Nintendo's direct E32015. Thank you so much. We're about to get crazy. We're doing the whole GameSpot Live show the next couple days. So check us out at gamespot.com slash E3. Is that correct, Greg? You nailed it. Damn.

GameSpot Cross kind of funny. You done to it. Thank you so much. You guys are awesome. See you next. And thank you, Justine. Thank you. Thank you.

I love you guys. I'm so exciting. You are now one of the coolest dudes in video games. I love being a dude.