I mean, I think there is potential behind BotW and its engine, but it was definitely flawed. The weapon breaking system just didn't work for me. Instead of making weapons have actual differences and things to make them stand out from eachother, they just made weapons break, and at a silly frequency at that; making the weapon variety feel more forced. There's also the issue of the poorly implementated rain mechanic, the samey combat shrines, samey dungeons with samey bosses, alot of the side quests being bland and generic, bad difficulty sclae (how the game starts out very hard to eventually arguably becoming one of the cheesiest Zeldas in the series),

Despite its issues, I enjoyed BotW and had fun with its freedom and options, the secrets and discoveries, the shrine and shrine quests, the story and finding those memory cutscenes, the customization. A good game, but nowhere near as good as many of the classic titles.

I'd be down with Nintendo experimenting more with the BotW formula, and I'd actually like to see them use the game's engine and pull a "Majora's Mask" off with it. That said, I don't want Nintendo to just shove aside the classic 2D or 3D Zelda formulas and toss away what many loved about Zelda just because BotW was super duper popular. The older formulas are still valid and can have great games made with them, and I'm sure they could be expanded and improved upon.

There's alot more than that that have online play. Even if you were only referring about Switch exclusives and not third party stuff (which there's quite a bit of) you missed ARMS, Mario Tennis Aces, Super Mario Party and perhaps some other things I'm forgetting.

Not really, Most of the games I've wanted have also come to Switch. I've been playing my Switch significantly more than my Xbox One recently.

Do people still have a problem with Cloud in Smash? lol

Seriously though, getting FFVII, FFIX, FFX-X2 and FFXII Zodiac is completely mindblowing and exciting as all hell to me. Easily the highlight of the direct for me.

Yoshi's Crafted World looks great as well. Seems like they're finally getting really creative with Yoshi's gameplay. I really liked Woolly World, but It didn't really do much differently from Yoshi's Island.

Of what I've played, The Tales of series is one series that comes to mind where games had very minimal changes between titles. The last title I bothered to play was Vesperia on the 360, so I don't know if future titles did anything to evolve.

As long as Nintendo/Sakurai don't do something to botch Smash Bros Ultimate, that will probably be my GOTY. Everything announced about the game so far has largely been great.

I don't know if it will win GOTY from game sites though. I'm not sure if it releasing near the end of 2018 in December will do it much favors either. It'd be fresher in peoples' minds I guess, but it also doesn't exactly allow it time to really grow on people either. Has a game that released close to the end of a year won GOTY out of curiosity?

Well that's good to hear. We already have plenty of things going to BR route anyways.

Hearing about crazy shortages for games like Octopath makes me glad I went digital

WarioWare Gold perhaps; nothing else really jumps out at me. Not complaining though, I could use a weak month since I have enough on my plate, and that's not even including the Megaman X collections which released recently.

They probably will; it's not like their going to be developing and working with the Switch until the end of time. It's just a matter of when they'll reveal a new handheld, what it will be, how similar will it be to the Switch if at all, etc.