Is Nintendo FINALLY Doing What I've Been BEGGING For?? 

I keep wishing the Game Awards will call Arlo to present an award alongside a Muppet. It would be so good.

​@verdantmistral442 if Summer Game Fest can bring in Dunkey, then Arlo at the Game Awards is a real possibility.

Similar event happened to me. Was like "oh he likes muppets, didn't know tha- oh wait no shit"

this all just proves the common phenomenon where actors and interviewers and other such performers tend to forget that the muppets are being puppeteered and treat them as independent beings

He's the bastard child of... well I don't want any beef with that hungry monster and ... whatever.

Don't forget about Super Mario RPG Remake and Metroid Dread.

Ttyd is going to be 60 dollars so that's more of a kick in the nuts than a positive. Also, I wouldn't count prime 4 yet either. The longer they wait the more likely it'll only be for the next console. That's going to be a huge handicap that the metroid series can't afford. Scalpers will ruin the launch and kill the game, just like what happened with ratchet on ps5

I feel as tho the price is 100% justified as this is a complete ground up remake of one of the most beloved paper Mario games for a system that is slowly dying.

​@@johndodo2062 he said Prime remastered, not Prime 4.

@@johndodo2062Oh no the game is going to cost as much as a game!?

I can't watch it without trying to find the flaws. And I don't see any.

That's because it's his real body. He is the puppet.

What puppet?

Hand puppet? But Arlo wasn't holding any puppet in his hand?

​@@TheFrostedfireflywell tbf one of his hands is under the desk,,,, maybe that one had a puppet on it?

A mini series called Are Low with just a simple arlo skit like his very ancient channel would be cool

I want an Arlo movie focused around the Raycon promotion and causing multiverse chaos or something. lol

And everyone is in a romantic relationship with pikmin

Google: ‘No. you shut up!’ Arlo would have been a great addition.

A Netflix original

However, it's also an example of 'things being left to just happen organically' since the reason that happened was someone at Nintendo really enjoyed Crypt of the Necrodancer and showed it to Eiji Aonuma from what I recall.

I'm so happy we've got it - one of my favorite Switch games ever, and one that I've never regretted going all-in on.

It's genuinely such a good game, I wish more people knew about it

It’s a fantastic game. I just got around to it last year and really enjoyed it.

That one definitely was a surprise, and it was a fun way to combine that game studio's strength with an IP that matches it well. I was also surprised that he didn't mention WayForward doing the Advance Wars 1+2 remake; that's pretty much a prime example of what's talking about with giving an outside studio an IP that hadn't been seen in a while.

Then you'd better go catch it! ...wait that doesn't work...

@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth lol okay mom

Wakka Wakka@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth

I thought Arlo was an imaginary friend, how do you all see him?

Better turn that thing off. That can be a hazard.

Andor also sucked. Star Wars hasn't had anything good the moment Disney purchased it

You didnt like Rouge One?@@stormcutter59

@@stormcutter59 I would argue against that, for the sake of Mandalorian (season 1) and Kenobi

​@@aster7840I'll give you Mando season 1 and maybe Andor, but absolutely not Kenobi. That show was pure trash. I love Obi but apart from him the show was terrible.

@@stormcutter59wrong

2024 is earthbound's 30th anniversary year, if they ever do a remake or something this would be the year

A RU-vidr called MoonChannel made a whole video on why Mother 3 will never be released outside japan. It’s not because of the Magypsies, it’s because of the music.

@@tylercoon1791 I'm aware of the issues. I've seen that exact video. What he rather glossed over is that the samples are mostly just in the battle themes. None of them are in the game's big music pieces. Fundamentally nothing would be lost if entirely new tracks were written or the offending parts were replaced with sound-alikes. At any rate, the Magypsies weren't the only thing I was referring to. There's also animal abuse, drug and alcohol use, the "oxygen machines", that questionable scene where Lucas's psychic powers are unlocked, and explicit references to death. Nintendo of America might be okay with releasing a game with all of that in it, but it ain't squeaking by with an E no matter how accepting people are of drag queens these days. I wouldn't want them to censor a thing, either, but I think it's fair to say that it should have a T rating so that people know what they're getting into before buying it.

@@TBustah The other games also have a T rating in their rereleases, so it would probably be stranger for M3 to release as E/E10

Their only real success lately has been most of their animated series.

That and, yknow, making good stories.

I feel the biggest issue is that Disney usually isn't comfortable to take some risks and wants to keep everything in an interconnected universe. The stories seem so scared to end up bad that they can't ever end up that good either. Similarly being so obsessive about keeping a cohesive universe means these IP's will just end up creating a ton of limitations for the kind of stories you can tell instead of it being a source of inspiration. There's only so much you can do with a story about a well-established character and cramming it in between two stories already told. There's only so much you can do with a story when it has to work as a part of a greater whole that needs to lead somewhere specific. You'll never get to a good story trying to please everyone in a split fanbase and trying to account from the complaints of people who don't know how stories work.

I love Arlo, but I still think his opinions around this topic are completely irrational and unreasonable. First: Nintendo absolutely is at pretty much their maximum output. After merging their home console and handheld divisions, plus working with more third parties, they are releasing far more games than they ever did. They can't release more than a game per month, when they do, it only hurts the smaller game, it gets send out to die, like WarioWare or Advanced Wars. Like Nintendo said, it's unreasonable to expect Nintendo to work on all of their IPs all the time, that doesn't make any sense, even if they did, like I said, half of those games would only be forgotten around all those other big games. It's wise to wait for the right time to release it, and that smaller series only get new games every 10-20, is completely expected when you look at the amount of IPs Nintendo has, and making new entries just for the sake of doing them is a stupid business decision, that's exactly what hurt many series like Sonic, Crash, Assassins Creed and so many others. Nintendo only works on a title when they have a good idea for it, and that's the right decision, if that means you only get your Starfoxes, F-Zeros, Punch-Outs every ten years, so be it.

@@RuuyG I completely disagree. 20 years ago it didn't take that much to create a masterpiece. The primary difference is mostly just fidelity. Making a game for the N64 took far less development time then than a game pushing the hardware does now. Aiming to make a game that's not that high performance will take less development time now because of better tools as well as less need to optimise. I am completely fine to be playing games that don't have more graphical fidelity than a GameCube game, and I'd much rather see more games that take less time to develop and take more risks.

There is a game called Anton Blast that is like WarioLand.

If they chose the Wario Land 4 style as opposed to the 2 and 3 style, absolutely.

Make it a collaboration.

tour de pizza has basically already made a wario land game though. why should they be stuck doing the same thing over and over?

Sexy wario would sell millions :P

That’s cool

Disney didn’t acquire until Iron Man 2

Way way before

​@heftyjongle2 958 not till after the third movie

@@heftyjongle2958they acquired before Iron Man 2 and just after Incredible Hulk. That’s when Feige was pretty much given free license to make what he wanted.

Come on, Arlo's not a puppet! ...Though I have heard that he's related to the Cookie Monster...

He's just a Muppet.

You can make the best Wario and Waluigi games in the world, they will never be relevant in the main series. Wario in Mario 64 DS was the closest we ever came to that.

@@MichaelHeide I honestly wouldn’t be mad if that happened again. After being wowed by all the new characters in Wonder but being utterly disappointed by the “bosses” I really do hope they learn to expand out especially after seemingly breaking away from PM: The Origami King’s no new characters rule. Even Ubisoft was like put them in the Rabbids game somehow.

@@SALT-cp4eu and don't forget the Broodals from Odyssey. But new Mario characters are always limited to appearances in one or two games. The Isle Delfino inhabitants have dropped from the face of the Earth after 1000 Year Door. The bosses from 3D World haven't appeared since. I don't think Nintendo wants more characters in their Mario games. It's surprising that Nabbit still appears today. But Wario and Waluigi are something else. They weren't created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka or one of their teams. Wario came from Mario Land 2, and Waluigi came from Mario Tennis. Nintendo doesn't like them despite their enormous fanbases. Waluigi isn't even a fighter in Smash, and Wario always gets shown with his Wario Ware outfit. Nintendo isn't ashamed of them, but certainly seem to be annoyed. I don't think they'll ever have a major role in a mainline game.

Especially considering how well received Tropical Freeze was

Nintendo punishing us for not supporting Wii U enough. Instead of a new game we just got a port. At least we are getting a new DK game this month. The Mario and DK games are modern takes on old DK style and legitimately good.

​@@andrebrynkus2055Is it really new if it's a remake of a GBA game?

​@@KeyBladeMaster-Dan Tropical Freeze is arguably the GOAT of all 2D platformers but we need a 3D platformer more than anything.

I mean, it was a long time before we got DK Country Returns 1, too. I’m guessing the Mario vs DK remake might be their answer to that, as cheap as that sounds. Or, they’re making a game to release around the same time the DK area of Universal is ready

I really hope there's a shift coming.

I would like to think that, but a lot of the IP are, alas, tech demos. Star Fox and F-zero being the biggest ones. They only EVER make new version of those games if they are showcasing tech or in Adventures case, feeling an IP can't stand witout some backing of a brand name. F-Zero likely got it the worst. Fro showcase of mode 7 to high speed poly rendering and course creation to some GBA fluff to the pressure triggers on the Gamecube and cross arcade compatibility. If those two IPs can't show off something, they are ignored or we are told, "We already made that game go play that one." When they WON'T release them either.

I never played it, but I hear GX was awesome. A modernized remake of GX would be a great way to see if F-Zero is still a viable franchise. It'd also be nice if Nintendo would give Mario and Zelda a break for a year or two to focus on smaller IPs, especially with how much the two got so much attention on the Switch (unless we get a new top-down zelda, of course).

@@ReikuYin I feel like franchises like Star fox and F-zero, even neglected franchises like wave race or excite bike/excite truck , could be big hits if nintendo put the same amount of resources into the development and marketing of those that they do for Mario/Zelda. I just think of growing up in the n64 era, all my friends used to play star fox/f zero/ wave race just as much as the main nintendo franchises. Nintendo must view it as too much of a gamble

I approve of Arlo explaining how businesses work because it seems random if you don’t know a few things about business and economics and gamers should arm themselves with this knowledge to influence the companies they buy from. He makes a couple of errors, Nintendo doesn’t refrain from making entries in less popular franchises because the developers don’t get around to it. The suits are what get in the way, they want games with the highest return of investment. Why spend resources on F-Zero when you can have your racing game developers make another ultra profitable Mario Kart and subsequent DLC? When a studio gets too large and rich too often making fat margins takes precedence over the artistic desires of developers. Passion projects become nonexistent in billion dollar game companies or they are forced to adhere to a mass market template. Nintendo is special because the art of video games still sort of matters to them. A typical megacorp would’ve given up on Pikmin after the first or second game, they had such low sales for a AAA developer.

(Also yes this is sarcasm)

He got it from a fan a few years ago.

Wait. Where do you see that? What's the timestamp?

@@luischeco3009 Look in the bottom right corner at 2:14

Another code was a game ive been wanting to play ever since i got a ds. But I couldn’t remember what the name is

F-Zero 99 is another example. First F-Zero game since the GBA.

The day they announce more Kid Icarus I will literally cry. Seeing Pit and the gang again will be like a father who hasn't seen his kids in over a decade.

This is very true I think people just want to see fresh new games from these which is a fair ask, but it's also important to know why their doing remakes and remasters first with some of these. Their testing to see if these will all sell well enough, so if you want new games for a franchise or in the case of paper mario a return to traditional rpg mechanics for that series you need to support these remakes to let Nintendo know very clearly this is what we want. Of course sometimes they've just jumped straight into it recently with a brand new game for a series too and have gotten good results that way too.

Pikmin 4 was in development mere months after Pikmin 3 released (judging by the claims Nintendo made), Samus returns was released as the 3DS started its decline, we just had a Paper Mario game with Origami King, and Dread was merely a shelved concept because the creators were waiting for good enough hardware to make it a reality. They are entries into lesser used IPs, but none of them really indicate that we'd get full fledge proper games for Star Fox, Golden Sun, and Kid Icarus. I really hope we do, but let's pump the breaks a little on our expectations.

He's not the only one... Nintendo just don't care at all.

​@@Lucrei. Gamers and their victim complexes.

@@NuiYabuko Judging by your words I suppose bullying is a much better way to live life?

Ant-Man, obvious.

@@Sam_T2000 God how did I not see this?

@@blakeudell - it’s okay, they’re very small and hard to see.

why did so many nintendo franchises have crappy games in the wii u and 3DS era then?

@@jclkaytwo cause they were desperately trying to get the wii u off the ground. Even then, they were still polished for the most part, just a lot had lacking content. amiibo festival was polished, but it was an empty and badly designed game despite that polish.

There's gotta be some contract that Gamefreak demands to be the only Company to develop the main line Pokémon games. If you look at the other games they've made besides Pokémon, they're all bad. Pokémon is the only franchise that keeps them relevant.

Pokemon aren't dragging on what is already flawed, it is part of what is flawed. Nintendo has this issue of being really good with spinoffs, till they then try to force a mainline series to be that. Regardless of if it goes good or bad it turns the community into a toxic cesspool because one side must lose. Paper Mario saw the result of this, and Zelda is facing this more and more now. Regardless of what side you like, you win at the expense of another and lose at your own expense. Had these been simply spin offs we could have our 2D, 3D, and Mario Karts. This current way Nintendo is handling it is you get 2D or 3D Mario and the other dies. This is the current issue Pokemon is facing, it is trying to turn its 2D into 3D while killing 2D.

@@80sForever29 how are drill dozer, pocket card jockey, harmoknight, etc. bad?

All of phase 1 is considered Paramount. That’s why for many years phase 1 DVD/Blu-Rays actually cost more than Phase 2 & 3. The first true Disney MCU movie was Iron Man 3, which is the worst of the 3 Iron Man movies.

@@Linklex7 Iron Man 2 wasn't particularly well either.

Well, there's Alex's Spirit on Smash Ultimate, that means Nintendo hasn't forgotten about the IP. I have hope.

Yes, that isn't a remake and isn't set in Lylat System. We can dream.

Nick Fury recruiting Arlo for the Avengers Initiative too.

Nintendo: We could do that... we could... OR... OR... OR Camelot: Please master.... no... please no... no more... Nintendo: MORE MARIO SPORTS BAYBEEEE!!! *cracks whip* $$$$$$$$$ :D :D :D Camelot: *whimper*

Iron Woman.

I wish the games were darker like the original, but I can understand why Nintendo moved it into a more kid-friendly direction.

@Lucrei. I agree. They even brightened the environments in the remake of the original on 3DS which kind of hurt the atmosphere I find. Games are still good though.

@@darrenmacqueen9884 I agree. The first one just hits so different for a Nintendo game. It was like Nintendo's Resident Evil 1.

The problem is even if you do an alternate timeline... Dark Dawn's plot would remain unresolved. I'd honestly prefer a true sequel to Dark Dawn and just make it much, much better than Dark Dawn. We can headcanon away anything they retcon from the previous games if it's written well enough.

@@Lucrei. I mean, the plot was kind of...bad for a lot of the run, though some of that was due to the limited scope it had, and who was telling the story of the first two games to the kids. That said, I'd drop all the old cast, and set something in the timeline a long time later(100+ years), maybe including a story of how they resolved Dark Dawns plot in a book, rather than trying to finish a story that has gone unresolved for so long.

@@SageofStars You're not wrong and that's a pretty good idea. Truth be told I just want to know what they found when they took the god damn paraglider... I can't believe the game ended RIGHT before that would have been answered. It was literally the entire impetus for their journey and it had NO payoff. The worst case of a misfired Chekov's Gun I've ever seen in a video game. Still frustrates me so much 14 years later. I'm stewing :'D

@@Lucrei. Certainly know that feeling, and to be fair, it's a case of, they thought the second game was in the bag, but due to mistiming, and TERRIBLE marketing for it, along with competition at the time from some Mobile RPGs which were just as technically good as what was coming out on the DS, it didn't do as well. Mind, then Mobile went down the toilet and you won't find many good RPGs on it at all anymore, sadly, and of course.

@@SageofStars PSP had A LOT of good RPGs too. That would have played a factor.

I cant wait

SEGA still a great company... kinda wish they were still in the console business - they were great competition for Nintendo specifically to diversify their IP

Completely agree!

Okay yes, but there's a balance. 20+ years is too fucking long. That's about 25% of someone's life... Once every 5-6 years? That's about where it should be. 10 years MAX. A decade is a stupidly long amount of time... and anything more (like a lot of these series have) is just a travesty for their fans.

I mean yes, but they're probably being made by Grezzo and I'm not a fan of their work. I know I'm in the minority there, but I'm a huge Zelda fan and it miffs me that Nintendo don't respect Zelda enough anymore to do all of its products in-house like they used to (bar the three Capcom games, but hey - it was mother-flipping !CAPCOM!)

Okay yes obviously schedule as best you can but I don't really see that as a priority, make the stuff and people can choose what they play. The mega series are always going to make bank anyway, so you just have to decide when you release the smaller IPs. If you think it might be able to really take off then you can put it in a gap and see some growth. If you think it it will just do the usual kinda numbers put it out alongside a heavy hitter and you minimise financial risk as the big title can support the small one you have less faith in. Give the consumers the choice... that's the answer and what they already did during their entire history until probably Wii U on-wards.

This year is Earthbound's 30 year anniversary! Perfect opportunity for them to announce a remake (or maybe give the U.S. Mother 3) 👀

@@aswizzlefoshizzle The problem is that Mother 3 has copyrighted music, localizing it could cause Nintendo trouble. The good news is that there is an indie inspired by Earthbound, called Eastward.

As I understand it, the N64 game was just the Mother 3 rough draft, so to speak; they started making it on that platform, then later shifted the project onto the GBA. ...Also, yes. 100% yes I would love to see some remasters, even if it would require replacing some iconic music!

@@AnotherCraig They can't change the music without Itoi's permission.

...They can also give it to Grezzo. If indie studios are going to work with big Nintendo IP, they should be putting twists on them and giving us something new, like what we saw with Cadence of Hyrule

@@PikaPhantomVG I would prefer Grezzo to make brand new Zelda games rather then continuing to butcher the old ones, although I concede I'm in the minority on the latter part... Not only that but new content is better than remakes we don't need, regardless of whether they're good or not. Of course I'd prefer Nintendo to handle all mainline Zelda games in-house like they used to and like they continue to do for Mario, but what do I know... I guess Splatoon is more important than Zelda now in their eyes.

Other then the teeth, Assault version of Fox looks the best

@@kurokamina8429 Adventures was peak Fox design... IMHO

@@Lucrei. Falco and fox maybe but I beg to differ for slippy and peppy.

@@kurokamina8429 oh yeah I'm talking strictly just Fox here

There is a game called Anton Blast that is like WarioLand.

@@orangeslash1667 Ah, didn't know about that one - it looks really fun! My point still stands as Pizza Tower (very deservedly) became a wildly popular and successful phenomenon, but I wish the Anton Blast devs all the luck.

@@chaoticcranium The reason Wario was created is because Nintendo R and D 1 runout of ideas for Mario Land, and wanted to work on something they created. Sadly R and D 1 was shut down. Funny Fact: the designer for Wario is also the designer for Samus.

You mean Pepé the King Prawn?

Camelot needs Golden Sun, their Mario Sports games are starting to fail.

There is an up coming game called Anton Blast that is like WarioLand.

@@orangeslash1667 I'm well-aware of that... And it's coming to the Nintendo Switch (unlike Pizza Tower, which doesn't seem to be coming to consoles anytime soon), so Arlo has an excuse to talk about Wario Land then.

@@Rubberman202 The reason Wario was created is because Nintendo R and D 1 runout of ideas for Mario Land, so they needed to do something new. However R and D 1 was shutdown. The only reason was Shake it was green lite is because of Takahiro Harada, of one the programers of ML2 6 golden coins. The good news is that Good Feel made a new adventure game.

I'm not an Earthbound fan but I want fans of the series to get an officially localised version of Mother 3. Point being: It's not that weird to want things that will make other people happy, ESPECIALLY when it's similar to situations you care about i.e. Nintendo being stupid with franchises you have personal investment in.

If Jim Henson had died, like, 10 years later, then I think The Muppets would be in a much better place. While Christmas Carol proved that the Muppets could live on without Jim, it quickly became clear that they were missing a fearless creative mind that got them this far in the first place. While I adore The Muppets (2011), and I really like Muppets Most Wanted, Haunted Mansion, and Mayhem, and it's a miracle that we got The Muppet Show on Disney+, I think selling them to Disney was a mistake. Disney got the Muppets at the end of Eisner's reign as CEO and long after he lost interest in acquiring them. It's pretty clear that Disney views The Muppets as a much more disposable brand than Marvel or Star Wars. They'll greenlight a project every once in a while, but they'll never give the francise the love it deserves.

​@@BrendanJSmith I think on some level a part of it is that Disney has pretty much decided CGI is The Way Forward and has been doing more and more digitally to the point that we had a freaking strike in large part because of actors concerned they'd eventually be totally replaced. The Muppets are INHERENTLY the realm of not only practical effects, but practical effects mastery; they'll use cg every now and again but puppetry is by nature all about the practical and Henson and Oz championed that proudly. Which ultimately means some nonzero number of people making decisions about the Muppets not only don't get it, but hate everything those fuzzy lil dudes stand for.

How about a main stream Star Fox game with a campaign like Star Fox Command? Command's campaign is probably the most complex of any Star Fox game, and the game is mostly held back by the graphical and control limitations of the DS (that's pre-DSi and 3DS, so yeah, not great).

I want a Star Fox game that has the same open-world exploration and battles of StarLink but with classic on-rails battle segments for story missions

​@@CouchSpud91that's a great idea too

​@@chaoslord8918you know, I never played that one but it sounds cool

Star Fox: Fates.

It surprised when I saw arc system works in the credits for another code. Usually they focus on fighting games, so it was intriguing seeing ASW branch off and with a nintendo ip to boot.

I can appreciate remakes, but it's tiring when it's half thier output

ArcSys did the Another Code collection? THAT I didn't expect... hm. Maybe because of their experience in cel-shading? Or maybe because they just happened to be available.

@@Mal-go5dl and even more so when they're a poor remake from a series that is CRYING out for new content (Advance Wars in particular, but probably applies to many others)

I mean, Arlo specifically said in THIS video that he isn't saying they should just indiscriminately green-light everything. But surely it wouldn't hurt if they aimed for, like, one new game in a dormant series per year or something.

@@TyrantWesker hell yeah, that sounds like a great way to flex their strong position and please fans at the same time... just actual new games please (remakes and remasters DO NOT count for dormant series)

Donkey Kong has decades of stories and he didn't get any new games for the Switch. The last 3D DK game was on N64. But I'm not sure they are willing to give him this treatment.

Yea me too

No? And if they did it would be with the next console

​@urm8matt156 This is just a potential first look. Doesn't nessisarly mean the game would come out this year- and that's if the rumors are true.

I talked to someone on the team the other day and it sounds like they’re working on it insanely hard right now so I wouldn’t be surprised if

​@@urm8matt156 if Prime 4 doesn't come to the current Switch, it will flop.

​@jeremytewari3346 😂😂😂

Less Mario spinoffs... more everything else