I hope Tina is alright in texas.

Everyone hates Skyward Sword, but back in 2011 after a slew of open world brown and grey games, SS was one of the only unique experiences.

Sam, I can give you three reasons why they are making a Splatoon 3. 1) $$$ Money. This game is HUGE in Japan. And it's audience is the U.S. is growing 2) They want to evolve the series and make it a major Esports title. They said on twitter that they are adding new movement options like a dive roll and a jump attack. People play this game for mainly the multiplayer and the Splatfests. New Splatfests = more attention on social media. 3) To fill out Nintendo's lineup and get a new, original game in the storefront. Nintendo knows people will sour if all they do is release port after port. It's already starting to happen. I don't see your argument over splitting the fan base. Call of Duty releases every year and it's always a top seller. It will be 4 years since Splatoon 2. People are ready for an upgrade. If they make enough meaningful changes people will want to play it. New movement options + New gear + New abilities + New single player story + New Specials + New maps and New Splatfests ??? Better than old ports and more old ports. Nintendo doesn't really do serialized games that often (as in direct sequels). But if you want to complain about serialization, that's just a video game problem in general and not a Nintendo one.

Sam has gone full old man yells at cloud with this episode

Being a fan of Skyward Sword I was already buckling in to hear the IGN crew shit on this game and just brush it off but I can’t stand by Sam’s slander of saying it “doesn’t have any foundationally amazing revelations about the history of Zelda.” Hard disagree, it literally explains why the reincarnations of Zelda Link and essentially Ganon keep existing in all the games. We get a lot of info of how the master sword came to be at all. Even Skyloft and the Loftwings show why the royal hylian crest has wings on it. Could go on for awhile but SS being the first in the timeline gave it a huge opportunity for some great info on the history of Zelda!

Where's the skyward sword love at? It was a really good game only held back by a non HD console and repetitive back tracking last few hours. My only disappointment as with the mario 3d all stars collection is I wish they'd give us all of the 3d Zelda games together. But I cannot wait to replay SS in HD!

I do not comprehend people who hate Skyward Sword or motion controls. I will definitely play with joy con

You guys are crazy. 3D world is fantastic. Plays great. All games don’t have to be the same as old 64 to play great.

1:01 But 1st Nintendo direct 1:50 Mario golf 4:40 Zelda 17:29 project triangle square 22:41 legend of mana 24:21 Arcade stadium 26:48 star wars hunters 30:37 not showing you 32:09 splooton 3 33:48 Mario 41:30 Damon playing 45:54 Mark playing 47:32 Justin playing 52:20 Homework 55:07 20 questions

I'm pretty sure No More Heroes 3 had an August 27th release date announced during the Direct so that's probably the latest confirmed release date at the moment.

The highlight of my week has come! I love when I found out a new episode of Game Scoop comes out. It holds one of the top spots in my list of absolute favorite, must watch, podcasts.

Skyward Sword is an amazing game, the motion controls worked great (unless you're bad), and there were crazy mechanics, scripted events and enemies around every corner. The lack of overworld really screws up the pacing though and brought the game down, it makes no sense how undeveloped the Sky section is after the openess of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.

Skyward Sword is basically perfecting the past Zelda formula. I guess if you've played every single one then it's frustrating that it wasn't replicating the "it" games of 2011 (such as Skyrim). But for anyone going into SS as an entry into the Zelda franchise, it literally mastered the charm of that world and the dungeon design. And I disagree entirely about the story being bad because the story is sparse. Zeldas function as folklore or sagas. It uses archetypes and broad strokes to tell tales of heroism and good triumphing over evil. It doesn't need more. That being said, it's a cool kid thing to shit all over SS. It's a delightful children's game, not a difficult adult game.

No foundational story for Zelda? Don’t wanna get into spoilers, but if you know I would strongly argue otherwise. Skyward Sword is an origin story and explains why we see all these reiterations of the heroes.

Beautiful cat and fun episode as always! Being a cat guy myself, i love how many IGNers seem to have cats. :)

Project: Fishing to Bassing > Project: Triangle Strategy

Sam was just overFLOWING with awful takes this episode

Wii U to Switch is the same as Game Cube was to Wii --Basically the same guts, with an added function This is going to be a bit harsh and a bit hyperbolic - but everyone that bought a Wii U got a slap in the face from Nintendo, they dropped the support on that basically the day the Switch came out. There's no reason any of the Switch games couldn't be on Wii U, and because they decided to change the formfactor and restrict purchases, our Wii U games wouldn't work on this system. Now, had the Wii U done well.... No doubt we would have Odyssey, Mario Golf, and others on it.

Arkham Asylum and City aren’t backward compatible, that’s why the the disc didn’t work on your Xbox. Obviously with the remasters out Warner Brothers didn’t want the old versions to be playable on Xbox One.

Triangle Strategy is because of the 3 angles to a problem: Morale, Liberty and Utility. In the demo you get to experience that after the first battle. Supposedly, according to how you decide to solve a situation, the story changes and so does the characters that join you.

11:55 look at justin

I picked up the Sinners about a week ago. I love Matt Bomer, so I jumped to season 3. Only 2 episodes in, but I'm really liking it. Also Disenchanted is awesome.

Excite truck is legit, I can definitely see it being someone’s favorite game.

The weekend doesnt start till gamescoop starts

Did anyone else make the Star Wars Hunters : Metroid Prime Hunters comparison in their head when that title was announced?

Sam you're mistaken about Skyward Sword's timeline significance. The Master Sword origin is not as important as that game revealing that Zelda is the reincarnation of their universes Goddess in Hylian/human form. A lot of cool universe building blocks are laid out in that game be it the bird motif of the Hylian Shield, why their world is always under threat, why the Master Sword can "speak" to Link. It's rightfully considered the worst Zelda game from a game design perspective, but its narrative contributions are pretty neat. BotW even uses new lore that Skyward established.

Man :/ People still have such a negative opinion of Skyward Sword. It's such a fantastic game, with admittedly some shortcomings, but by no means a deal breaker. The negatives are always the focus, but there are so many positives!

Oh hell yeah! Every Extend Extra Extreme was SOOOOO GOOOOD. I think I still have it on my 360. I also am proud to say I finished Codename S.T.E.A.M. That game was so wacky. Mechanical Abraham Lincoln? Yes, please.

I understand people being disappointed with the direct, but remember this is only first half of the year. And for me it was pretty dope. I put over 300 hours into Xenoblade 2, So this was the most excited I've been for a Smash character for a while. I love Splatoon since the Wii U, so knowing 3 is coming is awesome, though I wish it was this year. I haven't played Skyward Sword since it came out and Zelda is my favorite series of all time, so I'm down, some of the best dungeons in any Zelda for real though. I am also really hype for the Age of Calamity DLC, already pre-ordered. Project naughty Triangle or whatever it's called looks awesome, loved Octo Path.

11:12 There are a couple of shrines in Breath of the Wild that can't even be done in handheld mode, especially if you are charging and/or using headphones and you have to flip the screen on itself lol

Where's the new ep this week? 🤔

Lifelong Zelda player here and very much disagree with anti-motion control disdain for SS. That WAS the entire appeal for the game. I believe the dislike is basically people who don't like motion controls wanting to change the game. And that just won't work with SS. That's WHY the rest of the game aspects were mediocre compared to other Zelda games because the main focus WAS the motion controls gameplay. Take away that and what's left is a lackluster Zelda game. Aside from being a good Zelda story. Nothing against people who don't like motion controls, mind you. Just saying you can't take away the main gameplay element from a game and expect it to be a better game. 🤷‍♂️

Thank you for roasting Mark lol

Wow I'm watching this too early in the morning for Mark Medina's energy in this episode.

I have the Steam version of Arkham Asylum and it looks pretty good considering how old it is. The cut scenes are noticeably low res though.

No Game scoop 615? Hope everyone is ok.

Best part of my week!

I would totally main an Excitetruck character in Smash Bros. The final smash could be some huge jump off a hill to crash onto the opponents caught nearby.

Good to hear some Arkham talk, my favourite trilogy of all time. City is my second favourite game of all time.

Excite Truck was a really fun game. I played the crap out of that game. There's a bit of a learning curve for the controls, but once you get it, it is pure arcade-style joy. The sense of speed is awesome, and doing tricks off of massive jumps to get boosts is super fun. I don't know about "favorite game of all time" material, but that 8 out of 10 score holds up in my opinion.

Hey guys, I usually watch on youtube to see everybody's face and I really thought that there was too much gameplay on this video. I usually like when the cameras are smaller on the bottom left of the screen with the gameplay in the rest of the screen. Just a tip to make for people watching on youtube a little more personal like we like it. Thanks!

I like Skyward Sword a bit, but full price for a port with updated controls is ridiculous. The lack of other Zelda ports (maybe a collection) or Metroid Prime Trilogy HD, is really disappointing. Also where is Bayonetta 3?

People just go with the narrative that Skyward Sword is trash, but thats not true at all. Its a pretty good game, and the dungeons were really fun. It has a 93 on Metacritic, and 8.1 user score. And IGN gave a it a 10/10. Most people didnt even play it and they just say its bad because thats the narrative around it.

what will ign ever do without these guys

The SCOOOOP CREW!!!!!!! #SCOOOOOPS

Thank you Mark, so sick of people bitching about the direct. It wasn't the best ever, but it wasn't a bad direct either. You know... for a Covid direct.

Game scoop da doop

Are the no more heroes games good?

I'm just here to ask where this week's gamescoop is 🙃

I think for the next Zelda, they will reuse the map, but they can make it new at the same time by restoring destroyed locations and putting underwater and underground exploration in the game.

That syrupy internet. I'm offended!

My PS1 was a JRPG machine. I pretty much only played JRPGs and Tactical RPGs. Can't wait to play Legend of Mana all over again.

I don't know what you guys are taking about with the Bowsers Fury control problems, I played through the entire thing and didn’t even notice the move set difference .

Dudes, Skyward Sword is way better than I think most of you seem to get or acknowledge. Yeah, that start takes far too long to take the training wheels off, but once you get past that it's generally pretty great (apart from one of two needless fetch quests nearer the end). But, imo, it's actually one of the best Zelda games, and only one of two I've ever bothered to complete (which says a lot to me). I think people are going to give it more credit when it comes around again on Switch (although the sheer freedom in Breath of the Wild might take away from it a little in modern times).

1:08:33 Also, it was a lunch title and there are never a ton of good games to play on a new system, so early adopters had a lot of time to play that game because it was one of the only few good ones on a brand new Nintendo system for a certain period of time. I know that's my case, and I grabbed Excite Bots as soon as it came out because I had already played and loved Excite Truck (and I wasn't 10 at the time, more like twice that, and I played that game almost exclusively in single player) I wouldn't say it's my favorite game of all time, because racing isn't even in my favorite genres, but both Excite games on Wii are among, if the THE best arcade racing games I've ever played. On a side note, this is probably the Nintendo-exclusive franchise that I want to see revived the most. I don't want Mario Kart 9, I want a new Excite game.

16:38 They just did a big New Year sale with some first party titles at 30% off (Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Kirby Star Allies, Yoshi's Crafted World)

What? No love for the Ninja Gaiden Master Collection that was announced as well?

36:00 was "sour puss" in reference to Mario 3D World or was it a dig at Sam?

I,m the same as Justin Davis not a big Zelda fan. I played phantom Hourglass, Link between worlds and Zelda windwaker. Outside of that most Zelda games are not very fun to me. Link between worlds is my favorite Zelda game.

I love mark medina on the show

I love disenchantment! We named our new black kitten Luci because of it. Can’t recommend it enough.

But... why done it?

I didn't know there was a game called Codename Steeve

Fire emblem for Wii cost $100

10:13 I mean... The Wii U was still compatible with the Wii remotes, they could've made the HD remake on that system already like they did with Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. We could've even used the gamepad like a radar for that completely useless 'dowse' feature lol Heck.. with how late in the Wii life cycle this game came out, I'm actually surprised they didn't delay it a bit further to simultaneously lunch the HD version on the Wii U. That would've single handedly turn the Wii U into a much different story than the sad affair it turned out to be. They had already figured out the recipe with Twilight Princess and they just forgot it for that generation, only to bring it back for BotW and the Switch..!

Bring back the SWAIM

The Nintendo switch gaming system is a port machine

We need more cats with the Omega Cops

People need to curb their expectations with hype. It's unhealthy

I take it Sam doesn't agree with the 10 Ign gave skyward sword.

Scoop!

Not favoring the Skyward Sword controls, or the added padding in the back have is completely understandable. What I don't understand is the extreme love/hate that the game gets in general. I can't stand the padding in Twilight Princess and I think the entire game is mostly soulless, depressing, and boring, but I still played it to completion and enjoyed some aspects. SS on the other hand, while a bit linear is 1000 times more enjoyable than TP. The characters have more depth, the dungeons are more engaging, the items don't feel like throwaway one offs, the controls are unique (and worked flawlessly for me), the villain was enjoyable for once rather than being Ganon AGAIN. I want another game with the motion controls of Skyward Sword. I want a hundred more games like that. It sucks that it will never happen.

Codename STEAM was lots of fun, very difficult to 100%

I just finished God of War 2018 on ‘give me god of war’ difficulty, for the first time. I love it

Batman and the Joker aren't mentally sound either Justin, there are very few sane people in the Batman universe lol

0:12 PRIME opportunity to intro with " ...and filling in for Tina Amina, Mark Medini!"

Kitty! 😻

Corky suggestions for the game scoop crew.... If the game scoopers correctly get the 20 questions game ... We should be rewarded with a Daemon "Dad Joke"... Also, how about revealing the 20 questions game to the audience... It'll be interesting knowing the game before the crew and seeing how close or how far they get.... It'll be cool

Love Mark. Scoop legend

To answer Sam’s question of why they don’t just release all three Zelda games in a three pack, it’s so that Nintendo sell each of them to us again for $60 each, because they’re greedy..

Wait, did Mark even ask anything in 20 questions? I dont think he did

Mark is not in sync. His audio is not right.

Excite Truck is one of the most under appreciated (driving) games of all time. That game was pure fun!

As a professional video editor who’s applied for a video production role with IGN...and considering my application hasn’t been responded to.... I’m really upset by the vocal/video sync in this production!

Excite Trucks Fucking Rules, and does does Excite Bots.

I love Sam but "Majora's Mask is the Dark World version of Ocarina of Time" - Wat?

Matt annoyed me during 20 questions lol

Disenchantment is criminally underrated!

Skyward Sword is my favorite Zelda. Yes, we exist

Mobile games never fell under the EA / Star Wars agreement. That’s why Hunters can come out this year.

Sam, I like you a lot, but for the love of God, if you don't like something, just say it and move on. Just because you didn't like it doesn't mean it's trash or that other people don't like it as well. Also, you don't know what you're talking about with the "no foundations" of Zelda story. It literally is about the creation of the Master sword, and about the start of the royal family, and so many other things. You can be cool, but get over yourself sometimes, please.

Weird watching Game Scoop before Beyond. Lol. As for the ND, it was pretty bad. We haven’t got a regular ND in a long while. Games like MP4, Bayonetta 3, and BotW 2 haven’t had any news. Bayonetta 3 hasn’t had news since it was announced. MP4 hasn’t had news since it was moved to Retro 2 years ago. So instead of getting news or release dates for those games we get 2 games coming in 2022. At least a year out but most likely longed. One didn’t even have an official name. I mean I get e3 of some sort is coming in 4 months. Or summer of games. But Nintendo didn’t announce crap last year. This ND could have had fans pumped for what is coming. Instead we get another sequel with no date, one Zelda announcement, and the rest was old news. Disappointing to say the least.

meow 😻

Where is the beautiful Tina :(

They announced a Shin Chan game in the Japanese Direct tho

It’s my favorite part of the weekend. Grab a beer and listen to four friends laugh, joke and discuss games. Always the best way to start it. You know you’re looking forward to a podcast when you start dreaming about it the night before. Don’t ask. Ha ha

best outro in quiet some time

Breath of the wild is more overhyped than Skyward Sword is hated it seems and i find it funny.

Has Mark lost a ton of weight or what? Dude looks great!

breath of the wild 2 could come out today i totally believe it is more or less finished just nintendo are holding onto it till they absolutely need it because they have nothing else.