Technically TOTK is my favourite. So much is improved. But BOTW raised the bar like no other. So TOTK is my favourite with a "but." I guess it's true and the same as birth order. The first born is the wow newness to parents whereas the second born is better, , but not as wow as the first. Only child thinking here...
This is great, I didn't even know this was a thing. Now I think they have 4 f zero games in total. Anyway I believe the newest f zero was on GameCube, a new game would be great. Anyway, can't you just add Chrono Trigger finally, and maybe mother 3?
this is good for the steam deck and rog... and even good news for Linux. I think it will be more akin to that streaming only thing that came out as they take a software approach.
Not to dismiss the issues those contractors might have without that Nintendo money, but considering some of what's come out about contractors there, this seems like its perhaps for the best for all involved tbh.
@BTB20 It's a long list, top item being the culture we're all sick of hearing about in other companies by now; my girlfriend and I quit when nothing was done about something that was happening to her, blatantly, on full display for weeks, and we weren't even the first people to report it. The sanitation was horrific, there were weird stains and very bad smells everywhere from the carpet to the chairs as if a janitor hadn't been in the area for years. The 3DS units we had to work with were disgusting and falling apart and the keyboards were even worse. It was such a sad little office and they put up mangled old posters of Mario characters that were probably an attempt to make you feel cool about working there but ultimately just made the atmosphere more of a joke, I sat next to two crumpled halves of a Toad poster put together crudely with a crooked strip of tape. Management would play their political podcasts on high volume while everyone worked and if you asked them to turn it down they had all sorts of idiotic responses like "work your way up to management and you can play whatever you'd like" or "you should be paying attention to this". They shut and locked the doors the second the clock hit 8am and anyone who was literally even a second late for any reason missed the whole day and got a strike, three of which would get you fired, and other penalties included "referencing other games or series that you're not working on" even if you said something like "nice Zelda shirt" to someone in the break room which would result in getting called into a meeting with a manager and having a 15 minute conversation about how you're putting their security in jeapordy. It was cool during lunch walking over to the main Nintendo building's cafeteria next door but the contrast in quality made going back to your cubicle all the more sad. The nicer building had big statues, happy employees, clean everything. It was like we didn't belong there. I could go on.
@Grumblevolcano the April direct is getting to be more likely. Announce all your games, then in the summer, announce the new console. At least that’s what my brain thinks will happen.
Steel Diver: Sub Wars' servers already got the axe, loaded it up for the first time in a while last month... boom. Hopefully third party servers for that will exist one day in the not far future. For 3DS online multiplayer I never had more fun than in those waters.
At the very least, these were contractors who knew and agreed to this kinda stuff day one. The entire structure behind being a contractor is picking up and dumping jobs semi frequently. Still sucks, but they should know the drill by now given their line of work.
Now MY concern is... WHAT QUALITY TESTERS???? You are telling me 100 people had the chance to see, play, and DO something about the constant AI slop and stolen asset flip garbage clogging up the eshop??? I know the job isn't as simple as that, but... they DO know these are making the eshop an interactive mobile game ad nightmare, right???
I hope I misinterpreted what this position meant, because if I was right then I don't even wanna know what things will be like now
Seeing 40% say they prefer BOTW is a little shocking to me, but also totally understandable. Personally, I prefer TOTK, but BOTW’s simplicity, for lack of a better description, is refreshing. Still think TOTK is a much bigger and more expansive game, though.
@arabiansanchez This is my thought, too. A big pool of testers would probably make it harder to prevent or track a leak if one happened--they're cleaning house so they can limit who sees what Switch 2 games and when.
Here's the thing about contracting...whatever company those contractors work for will just move them on to another contract.
I have been a contractor for...holy cow...17 years now and I have yet to ever go without a paycheck even with contracts going away - I simply filled an opening elsewhere.
TotK was the first new Zelda game that released since I became a Zelda fan in 2017. It’s really just as special to me as botw was for some people when it first released. Don’t get me wrong, Botw is one of my favorites, but TotK felt like a far bigger and better version of it
"Do you prefer a cheeseburger or do you prefer a cheeseburger with soda and fries?" Let's not pretend ToTK isn't BOTW 1.2, it's the same exact story, same map and same objective with new toys to experiment with. ToTK makes BoTW obsolete, no reason to ever boot it up again.
@Crono1973 I agree they should bring back retro games in for their stores. They would also need give fair prices/store credit for used video games for those who want to sell to them, because they would need inventory, if they offer very little, then they won't get much retro games in their stores.
For the larger-medium size Gamestop stores, I welcome more than just Video games in them though.
I've been playing Splatoon nearly every day for weeks. The lobby is usually full, so I guess a lot of folks are also trying to get every last minute out of this.
Hopefully Pretendo will be able to finish their own servers, it would be a shame to forever lose the ability to experience the online modes in these games, especially the ones that focus heavily on multiplayer like Federation Force and Triforce Heroes!
I hate them both, I fully went into 2018 buying a switch expecting to enjoy the new Zelda games (link's awakening did achieve that and even skyward sword), but now all of my hope is on Samus' shoulders because Link's latest adventures have let me down thoroughly.
IDK if this is related, but according to TV Tropes, under "Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things", as of the early 2020s, Nintendo no longer reveals the developers of their games until their release, in which fans will need to get the games and reach the credits to find out who produced them. This is likely to deter complaining about or harassment towards developers on social media. The same applies for voice actors, for safety reasons.
I have to go with both. I enjoyed how funny the golfing shrine in BotW(if you know, you know) and just how much you can mess with enemies in TotK and how much better getting around is(thank goodness for the frog armor that lets you laugh at rain). I even decided to do the tutorial area in BotW with the Master Mode thing to prepare for when TotK came out.
Contractors can indeed be temporary. It’s possible Nintendo are dressing this up a little but it’s not comparable to what’s been happening at other big firms. I imagine the short-term gigs are drying up a bit temporarily due to the transition from Switch to Switch 2.
I’m no expert in the biz but if I were at Nintendo, and there’s an upcoming new console and nothing revealed as of yet? I’d be tempted to lock that down and keep testing completely in-house.
Side point: who is Gach and why do we listen to them?
I tested the Animal Crossing: Welcome Amiibo update for them years ago and it was such an unprofessional ***** show I'm surprised there haven't been lawsuits by now.
I bided my time as the NSO library was very slowly built over the past X years, only having finally subscribed a month ago. Now I’m joyfully going through a bunch of old gems that I never played before, especially enjoying Treasure’s work for Sega. Every new release is a bemusing and pathetic joke, but then again, I don’t care because I’m happily taking the long way home.
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@SpaceboyScreams I don’t think you were a contractor, I think you were a prisoner. Only half joking.😢
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I used to work, multiple times, as a tester at NOA. They would let you go via a phone call on your way home back then. This is nothing new.
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Technically TOTK is my favourite. So much is improved. But BOTW raised the bar like no other. So TOTK is my favourite with a "but." I guess it's true and the same as birth order. The first born is the wow newness to parents whereas the second born is better, , but not as wow as the first. Only child thinking here...
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This is great, I didn't even know this was a thing. Now I think they have 4 f zero games in total. Anyway I believe the newest f zero was on GameCube, a new game would be great. Anyway, can't you just add Chrono Trigger finally, and maybe mother 3?
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TOTK is a great game with the dungeons and boss battles of old and the huge worlds to explore.
But as far as replay value, it's BOTW for me.
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Not to dismiss the issues those contractors might have without that Nintendo money, but considering some of what's come out about contractors there, this seems like its perhaps for the best for all involved tbh.
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@BTB20 It's a long list, top item being the culture we're all sick of hearing about in other companies by now; my girlfriend and I quit when nothing was done about something that was happening to her, blatantly, on full display for weeks, and we weren't even the first people to report it. The sanitation was horrific, there were weird stains and very bad smells everywhere from the carpet to the chairs as if a janitor hadn't been in the area for years. The 3DS units we had to work with were disgusting and falling apart and the keyboards were even worse. It was such a sad little office and they put up mangled old posters of Mario characters that were probably an attempt to make you feel cool about working there but ultimately just made the atmosphere more of a joke, I sat next to two crumpled halves of a Toad poster put together crudely with a crooked strip of tape. Management would play their political podcasts on high volume while everyone worked and if you asked them to turn it down they had all sorts of idiotic responses like "work your way up to management and you can play whatever you'd like" or "you should be paying attention to this". They shut and locked the doors the second the clock hit 8am and anyone who was literally even a second late for any reason missed the whole day and got a strike, three of which would get you fired, and other penalties included "referencing other games or series that you're not working on" even if you said something like "nice Zelda shirt" to someone in the break room which would result in getting called into a meeting with a manager and having a 15 minute conversation about how you're putting their security in jeapordy.
It was cool during lunch walking over to the main Nintendo building's cafeteria next door but the contrast in quality made going back to your cubicle all the more sad. The nicer building had big statues, happy employees, clean everything. It was like we didn't belong there.
I could go on.
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@Grumblevolcano the April direct is getting to be more likely. Announce all your games, then in the summer, announce the new console. At least that’s what my brain thinks will happen.
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ToTK was a half baked (storywise) game that didn't live off the expectations, to me, the abysmal gaps between the story killed
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Steel Diver: Sub Wars' servers already got the axe, loaded it up for the first time in a while last month... boom. Hopefully third party servers for that will exist one day in the not far future. For 3DS online multiplayer I never had more fun than in those waters.
Re: Nintendo Of America Restructuring Testing Department, Over 100 Contractor Jobs Reportedly Eliminated
At the very least, these were contractors who knew and agreed to this kinda stuff day one. The entire structure behind being a contractor is picking up and dumping jobs semi frequently. Still sucks, but they should know the drill by now given their line of work.
Now MY concern is... WHAT QUALITY TESTERS???? You are telling me 100 people had the chance to see, play, and DO something about the constant AI slop and stolen asset flip garbage clogging up the eshop??? I know the job isn't as simple as that, but... they DO know these are making the eshop an interactive mobile game ad nightmare, right???
I hope I misinterpreted what this position meant, because if I was right then I don't even wanna know what things will be like now
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TotK has more content, but so does watered-down soda. It's not an objective measure of game quality.
Re: Poll: So, Do You Prefer Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Or Tears Of The Kingdom?
Seeing 40% say they prefer BOTW is a little shocking to me, but also totally understandable. Personally, I prefer TOTK, but BOTW’s simplicity, for lack of a better description, is refreshing. Still think TOTK is a much bigger and more expansive game, though.
Re: Nintendo Of America Restructuring Testing Department, Over 100 Contractor Jobs Reportedly Eliminated
@arabiansanchez This is my thought, too. A big pool of testers would probably make it harder to prevent or track a leak if one happened--they're cleaning house so they can limit who sees what Switch 2 games and when.
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Here's the thing about contracting...whatever company those contractors work for will just move them on to another contract.
I have been a contractor for...holy cow...17 years now and I have yet to ever go without a paycheck even with contracts going away - I simply filled an opening elsewhere.
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TotK was the first new Zelda game that released since I became a Zelda fan in 2017. It’s really just as special to me as botw was for some people when it first released. Don’t get me wrong, Botw is one of my favorites, but TotK felt like a far bigger and better version of it
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"Do you prefer a cheeseburger or do you prefer a cheeseburger with soda and fries?"
Let's not pretend ToTK isn't BOTW 1.2, it's the same exact story, same map and same objective with new toys to experiment with. ToTK makes BoTW obsolete, no reason to ever boot it up again.
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@arabiansanchez Senior reporter at Kotaku (says it in the source link NL provides)
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@Crono1973 I agree they should bring back retro games in for their stores. They would also need give fair prices/store credit for used video games for those who want to sell to them, because they would need inventory, if they offer very little, then they won't get much retro games in their stores.
For the larger-medium size Gamestop stores, I welcome more than just Video games in them though.
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I've been playing Splatoon nearly every day for weeks. The lobby is usually full, so I guess a lot of folks are also trying to get every last minute out of this.
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Hopefully Pretendo will be able to finish their own servers, it would be a shame to forever lose the ability to experience the online modes in these games, especially the ones that focus heavily on multiplayer like Federation Force and Triforce Heroes!
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At first I thought this was Nintendo shutting down online play earlier than scheduled. Glad to see we still have 12 more days…
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@OctoCallie20 You know Aonuma-san was in a director role for the Zelda franchise since 1998 right? So that includes games prior to Skyward Sword.
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I have to go with both. I enjoyed how funny the golfing shrine in BotW(if you know, you know) and just how much you can mess with enemies in TotK and how much better getting around is(thank goodness for the frog armor that lets you laugh at rain). I even decided to do the tutorial area in BotW with the Master Mode thing to prepare for when TotK came out.
Re: Nintendo Of America Restructuring Testing Department, Over 100 Contractor Jobs Reportedly Eliminated
@BTB20
Probably the fact they had to play Amibo Festival.
rimshot
Edit: I can’t read
Re: Nintendo Of America Restructuring Testing Department, Over 100 Contractor Jobs Reportedly Eliminated
@SpaceboyScreams Were the working conditions terrible or what exactly was the ***** show?
Re: Nintendo Of America Restructuring Testing Department, Over 100 Contractor Jobs Reportedly Eliminated
Contractors can indeed be temporary. It’s possible Nintendo are dressing this up a little but it’s not comparable to what’s been happening at other big firms. I imagine the short-term gigs are drying up a bit temporarily due to the transition from Switch to Switch 2.
I’m no expert in the biz but if I were at Nintendo, and there’s an upcoming new console and nothing revealed as of yet? I’d be tempted to lock that down and keep testing completely in-house.
Side point: who is Gach and why do we listen to them?
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All original game development teams are cut. Going forward we’re just doing remasters.
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They are both equally amazing but I honestly prefer Ocarina of Time and possibly Majora's Mask over either of them.
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How is this even a question? Neither are actually good and proof that Aonuma is a fraud and a hack.
Anything pre-Skyward Sword is better by a century-wide mile.
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@Semudara Hope we see Nintendo re-visit it in the future. The game is fun and weird, when Nintendo really shines.
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I tested the Animal Crossing: Welcome Amiibo update for them years ago and it was such an unprofessional ***** show I'm surprised there haven't been lawsuits by now.
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I bided my time as the NSO library was very slowly built over the past X years, only having finally subscribed a month ago. Now I’m joyfully going through a bunch of old gems that I never played before, especially enjoying Treasure’s work for Sega. Every new release is a bemusing and pathetic joke, but then again, I don’t care because I’m happily taking the long way home.
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…no major first-party games in the "testing pipeline"
Uh oh!