Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

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I have a really good feeling about Fox’s new VA.
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Never Scored said:
Open world space game where you can get in different vehicles and go to different planets, but they're just all open and flat with shrines peppering them and the ships disintegrate into dust if you use them too much.
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I just want to fly forward in a straight line in a space plane and shoot things. If there's also gay furry porn, that's just value added on.
 
Soggy Floppa said:
Has Nintendo ever done a remake that wasn't essentially a remaster?
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Let's Go Eevee & Pikachu are the first that come to mind.

I guess something like Super Mario RPG would be considered a remaster because it doesn't really change the base game at all?
 
The distinction between remaster and remake is that remasters are running the original code still. So Ocarina of time 3d was a remaster, same with Metroid Prime remastered. Nintendo calls these different things from their HD versions but both are the same thing. Remakes mean they actually remade the game, so no original code, which is where Mario RPG, Paper Mario, Luigi's mansion 3d, and Link's Awakening sit. Off my head the only actual remake that wasn't just literally remaking the game 1:1 with nicer graphics was the Metroid 2 3ds remake.

So that begs the question, where will this rumored Ocarina of Time remake sit?
 
You know, I'm no expert on the topic, but I'm pretty sure Wild Gunman for NES is a remake and not a remaster.
 
Soggy Floppa said:
Has Nintendo ever done a remake that wasn't essentially a remaster?
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Never Scored said:
Let's Go Eevee & Pikachu are the first that come to mind.
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Pokemon remakes are always very different games from the originals, but that's Game Freak's territory, which feels a bit off when thinking about what Nintendo would do. Similarly, Fire Emblem remakes are always different enough that fans count them as separate games entirely, but that's Intelligent Systems. A couple of the Kirby remakes are different enough from the originals that people will count them as different games, but that's HAL.

If we focus on the 100% first-party Nintendo IPs, which would be like Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Star Fox, Animal Crossing, F-Zero, Pikmin, Splatoon, Kid Icarus, a lot of smaller stuff... Among those, I think the only one with complete overhaul remakes is Metroid. Zero Mission and Samus Returns are effectively entirely different games from the original Metroid (NES) and Metroid II. Some Mario remakes/remasters are pretty different from the original, like 64 DS, but fans usually just sweep them together with the originals or ignore them when going over the whole series. You could think of Star Fox 64 as basically a remake of the first game, and Star Fox Zero as a remake of 64, but Nintendo talks about them as entirely new games so fans generally count them as reboots. If we think more obscure, there is the two Famicom Detective Club games which got Switch remakes. The remakes don't significantly alter the story or structure, but they are complete overhauls from the Famicom originals.
 
Soggy Floppa said:
Has Nintendo ever done a remake that wasn't essentially a remaster?
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Nintendo's internal teams usually do pretty basic remasters, that is true.

There have been FIVE remasters of 3D Zelda games (most recently Skyward Sword HD) and they were all basically graphical updates to the originals.

For 3D Mario games, Super Mario 64 DS was a pretty major overhaul with 30 new stars. But that was over 20 years ago now.

Pokemon and Fire Emblem have had much more ambitious remakes, but those were not made by Nintendo.
 
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