Nintendo First Half 2010 Lineup -- Mario, Metroid Other M, Sin & Punishment 2 Q1/Q2!

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.gamespot.com/events/nintendo1...id=6251785

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=387182

March 1st - Mega Man 10 (WiiWare) - Capcom
March 8th - Max and the Magic Marker (WiiWare)
March 14th - Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver (DS)
March 21st? - America's Test Kitchen (DS)
March 22nd - Cave Story (WiiWare)
March 28th - Warioware D.I.Y. (DS), DSi XL (hardware)
April 20th - Monster Hunter 3/Tri (Wii) - Capcom
May 3rd - Picross 3D (DS)
May 18th - Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Wii) - Ubisoft
May 23rd - Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
June 7th - Sin and Punishment 2: Star Successor (Wii)
June 14th - 100 Classic Books (DS)
June 27th - Metroid: Other M (Wii)
October - Ghostwire (Majesco) (Wii)
Spring - Art Style: Light Trax (WiiWare), Art Style: Rotozoa (WiiWare), Rage of the Gladiator (WiiWare), Metal Torrent (DSiWare), X-scape (DSiWare), Photo Dojo (DSiWare)
Summer - FlingSmash [AKA Span Smasher] (Wii), And Yet It Moves (WiiWare) (perhaps Spring?), Super Meat Boy (WiiWare), Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (DS)
2nd half - Guilty Party (Wii) - Disney
October - Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal (DSi Only Card) - Majesco


-Metroid Other M playable behind closed doors at the event
-Nintendo to publish Dragon Quest IX in the US
-Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer released, see the first link at the top -- looks great!

Yes, an actual Nintendo event that both wasn't disappointing and which actually gave us good news about game releases and release dates... amazing, isn't it? Awesome, though! :)

The only negative really is that there's really nothing coming out on the DS in the first half from Nintendo that I have much interest in, and that's too bad.

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27394...arties.php

Woah, I missed this... so Monster Hunter 3 NO FRIENDS CODES! Amazing, Capcom somehow managed to convince Nintendo to drop them? Let's hope that becomes a trend...

Plus US Monster Hunter 3 doesn't have the monthly fees of the Japanese version. Not bad.

But really, no friends codes? Amazing advance if true. (Plus it supports Wii Speak too, I believe)

[A Black Falcon]

So this site's so revived now that nobody cares one bit about Nintendo anymore? Hmm...

SMG2 video, for people too lazy to press a button:

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[DMiller]

That is an awesome lineup. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the last Wii game I got when it was released. There are a lot on that list that I will at least consider getting right when they come out.

Also, Yoshi's back! It was nice to see Yoshi in NSMB Wii but it looks like they came up with some unique ways to use him in Galaxy.

[EdenMaster]

Looks good, that video makes me wanna, yunno, finish the first Mario Galaxy :D

[Fittisize]

Metroid: Other M will be the next game I buy. The trailer looks amazing, and as much I love the Prime trilogy, I'm excited for the new direction the series is taking.

[alien space marine]

I've always wondered why Bowser and the Kupa troopers keep kidnapping the princess? What do those reptiles want with her?

I wish they'd make a game were you could play the Kupa Troopers..

[A Black Falcon]

Metroid: Other M will be the next game I buy. The trailer looks amazing, and as much I love the Prime trilogy, I'm excited for the new direction the series is taking.

Hmm, I'm not sure... I mean, the Metroid Prime series was so, so amazing... it could be good, and it could have an interesting story, but I don't know. We'll see, I'm reserving judgment for now.

I've always wondered why Bowser and the Kupa troopers keep kidnapping the princess? What do those reptiles want with her?

It's because Miyamoto hates games with stories and thinks that "rescue the princess again" is a good enough plot, so why bother putting in anything more than that?

For instance Zelda games really only have stories because back in the early '90s one of the guys working on Link's Awakening snuck plot elements into the game, against Miyamoto's wishes. He hasn't changed -- evidently Mario Galaxy 2 essentially has no story, unlike the first game, because Miyamoto doesn't like making games with real plots.

... I know that it results in some amazing gameplay, which is always his focus, but the lameness and sexism of "rescue the princess" saddens and frustrates me as a plot, as does the lack of playable female characters... the only Zelda games with playable female characters were two of the CD-i games, made by European or American studios, and the only Mario games are Mario 2, where it's all a dream, and the spinoff sports/puzzle games... Super Princess Peach excepted (made by Tose not Nintendo itself, though), but there instead they stereotype women as hyper-emotional. Great.

I mean, Mario games don't need great stories. That's not what the series is about. But come on, why are none of the playable characters in NSMBWii female, and why is the plot "Peach was an idiot and got kidnapped again because she's a moron despite supposedly being in charge of the country"? You should be able to do better than that...

(The gameplay itself of course is amazing, but the plot... I know it's a NES reference, but still. At least in Mario 3 on the NES Peach only got kidnapped before the 8th level, not at the beginning of the game.)

But it's really not just about sexism, it's just that "rescue the princess" is a lame plot in my opinion, even for a plotless game.

[Great Rumbler]

Still need to get NSMB, but lack of funds at the moment makes that a difficult thing to do.

Also looking forward to Metroid Other M, Super Mario Galaxy, and Sin and Punishment 2. Maybe Monster Hunter 3. Everything else I could do without.