@kkslider5552000 Yeah it was one of the Monado scenes, that I was remembering to be honest. I haven't played it since I finished it, when it came out on Wii. It still sticks with me how many times they said Monado. Great game though.
Here's a question, is Final Fantasy X a case of bad voice acting, or strangely written dialogue?
@Wargoose im gonna say its dialogue. The voice actors for FF X are a talented bunch (Wakka is Bender!). I think it's almost like Metroid Other M. It's how it's written but maybe a bit of poor direction too.
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Veeeery unpopular opinion: Nintendo was completely in the right to cancel that smash tournament, and all the people I’ve seen whining about it and calling Nintendo stupid and evil are completely childish.
@DePurpleMonkey it was protection of their property. Nintendo did not authorize the use of the mods that they were going to use. It’s taking a product made by Nintendo and modding for an event for the public. If Nintendo doesn’t want that illegal mod to be used for an event, it’s completely fine for them to do so
Nintendo was in the right in the sense that copyright law in its current form is profoundly stupid. "oh hey we'll allow you to have copyrights from the 30s still, but if its proven you didn't relentlessly defend it, you can lose it because reasons." Both of these things are awful, but its the combination of both existing simultaneously that is fascinatingly dumb.
@Blooper987 They're legally within their right to do so. There's no question about that.
I'd think that people were just hoping for a teeny bit of flexibility on Nintendo's part though, given that we're in unusual times. Cutting enough slack, just for once, to take a tournament online where the only alternatives are cancellation or a significant risk of it turning into a COVID superspreader event doesn't necessarily entail a softening of their stance against emulation and modding in the long run.
It's truly amazing how many people don't understand intellectual property laws, why they exist and why companies are in the right to enforce them.
Moreso than the mod itself, they have to use illegal copies of the game. The Big House doesn't mention this in their release. Nintendo does. So, Nintendo had the choice of condoning the illegal piracy of their IP or shutting it down, which isn't much of a choice at all.
Nintendo was in the right in the sense that copyright law in its current form is profoundly stupid. "oh hey we'll allow you to have copyrights from the 30s still, but if its proven you didn't relentlessly defend it, you can lose it because reasons." Both of these things are awful, but its the combination of both existing simultaneously that is fascinatingly dumb.
It's stuff like this that makes it not so cut and dry. Then there's the precedent if they did cut some slack. Oh, you let people use illegal copies of Melee for an event, so now you can't stop people from doing the same with Ultimate.
There's more to this than just the black and white some people are making it out to be.
@Shadowthrone Yeah but like, what IP damage would Nintendo be sustaining
Usually this stuff would be justified if it was damaging company image or sales of a potential new product, such as when Nintendo pulled the plug on AM2R and the Mario 64 PC conversion because new games or iterations were being worked on by them
Melee is a 19 year old GameCube game, which has since been completely replaced by not just one, not two but three considerably newer games.
Especially when you have companies like SEGA actively embracing stuff like fan projects and continued support of their older titles, this comes off as Nintendo practically being stuck in a little fantasy bubble where everything has to either be played their way, or not played at all, and it comes off as tone deaf considering they're already one of the most piss poor companies when it comes to restorations of legacy content these days
Nintendo should just release melee, with rollback netcode on switch. Nintendo makes a tidy profit, and makes the smash community happy. They could outsource it to another company like Code Mystics, if they really don't want to put the effort in themselves.
@TheFrenchiestFry The game itself is less the issue than setting the precedent of condoning piracy of their IP. One event gets to pirate Melee, so another can pirate Ultimate? Or MK8? Or any number of other 30 year old games that Nintendo likes to resell every generation, for that matter?
What Sega does is a moot point. If I freely loan my belongings to strangers, should you be chastised for not doing the same thing with yours?
Piracy stems from a lack of options in many cases. Nintendo was fully right to shut this down, but on the flip side of it, they would have fewer battles to fight if they treated their legacy content better. A Smash All-Stars on Switch, for example, would alleviate all of this. Melee has a huge following to this day and Nintendo does seem to have a blind eye to that sort of thing.
Emulation rulz!! Seriously I've discovered so many emulation sites, romsites, emulators, homebrew, retro games and just really cool stuff online. There are people from Russia sharing new games with people in the US. There are hackers in Brazil making some of the best SMW hacks ever. There are Super Metroid hacks, LoZ hacks, Mega Man, Contra, SM64, Mortal Kombat I-III, Doom, Sonic, SoR, Kirby, JRPGs it's really endless 👍
Emulation rulz!! Seriously I've discovered so many emulation sites, romsites, emulators, homebrew, retro games and just really cool stuff online. There are people from Russia sharing new games with people in the US. There are hackers in Brazil making some of the best SMW hacks ever. There are Super Metroid hacks, LoZ hacks, Mega Man, Contra, SM64, Mortal Kombat I-III, Doom, Sonic, SoR, Kirby, JRPGs it's really endless 👍
Yeah but like, what IP damage would Nintendo be sustaining
See, the problem is you assume the laws they're dealing with all make sense. Basically, what Nintendo is doing is dumb but that's because they have to deal with dumb.
But it is also true that it is fairly unlikely anything negative would come from it (I assume it would require a particularly bold patent troll). So...I dunno.
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