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We can't make that game because that would involve making a game.

@Mommar

"Which console are you referring to, the PS Flounder or the X-Flop?"

I don't know what comment you are replying to, sorry ✌️

hey look, an unforced error.

@Ducklizard

"He did also make the Virtual Boy, so nobody's perfect."

yes, indeed 😂✌️

I love the Virtual Boy button layout, incidentally. I wish he/they wouldve made the virtual boy into a simple "Gameboy 2" instead.

@FirstEmperor

Respectfully, I dont think you know what a counterfactual is.

"Whether it’s first-person like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond or a third-person title like Cronos: The New Dawn, the C-AS works,"

what an odd thing to say 🤔

I tried playing FFVII with a 3rd party flight stick when I was twelve, and you know what? it "worked."

this obviously wouldn't "work" for MP4 under any normal understanding of that word, as in "this controller works for playing this game."

Can you think of a game this hautepad would actually work for? IMHO that would be a lot more interesting to read about. ✌️

not how I had imagined dual analog sticks on an arcade stick

I'd love a stick that had a ball top digital stick on the left, standard buttons on the right, and then two analog sticks, spaced naturally apart, in the teardrop style, in roughly the "dualshock" arrangement. I've been dreaming of this a while, no idea if it exists somewhere.

@jsty3105

that's why I said "seen as" and then put the word "infallible" in "scare quotes." ✌️

it is already seen as "infallible" by various ordinary people who use it to "fact check" other people on issues and subjects they have no actual personal knowledge or experience with.

@TheSaneInsanity

"Are we really going to ignore the hard work of the people who didn't use AI on this project just because we hate AI?"

that's like saying if I don't order something from Amazon for X reason, I'm being cruel to the warehouse workers and drivers they hired.

@Aquinas

in my opinion, we are about to cross a line where AI becomes so ubiquitous and seen as "infallible" compared to humans that it will become socially awkward or possibly immoral or unethical to not use it, or even to contradict it.

@Ducklizard

In my opinion, Gunpei would take one look at the Switch's tiny defective sticks and pathetic "dpad" and push it off the other side of the table.

@AussieMcBucket

I feel like I saw people playing gameboys and DSes fairly often back in the day, but I was also younger then and yes those were probably other young people.

Smart phones weren't around yet either and people truly jumped the gun calling TV "the idiot box."

I've had fun with my Switch, too, but now that I've moved on, my Switch just kinda takes up space like an old obsolete phone or tablet rather than a "legacy console" like literally every other console I've ever owned in my life. I'm kind of "long game oriented" when it comes to gaming, I guess you could say ✌️

@kurtasbestos

"I'm on the train in Japan nearly two hours every day and I almost never see anyone with a Switch."

Granted I'm a childless 40 y.o. man living in the lower midwest of the US, but I have almost never seen a switch being used in the wild this entire time, by anyone. I hesitate to say "never" but I truly can not think of a single time.

I think the significance of the hybrid nature of the Switch to its success is a bit overblown, considering that Nintendo always got by with the imo superior "handhelds for everybody + awesome consoles for the real heads" model that was cannibalized to make the big flimsy handheld that doesn't console as well as a console.

Just wait til it's out to pay for it.

I am skeptical of the counterfactual presented in this analysis.

@Kang81

"I was one of the Wind Waker art style haters at first because I wanted the realistic look."

I was too! but also, I still kinda hate the way WW looks 😂 I don't think it "holds up" any better than Twilight Princess on the same console, personally, but that's probably not a popular opinion these days ironically.

Of course "realistic" back then didnt mean realistic. it mean "realism," aka based on reality but not necessarily looking like reality (in fact necessarily NOT looking like reality because that wasn't a thing yet.)

Also, it seems like people don't realize that there were two wildly different mainline Zelda games on Gamecube. We used to eat so well before Switch.

EDIT - for what it's worth I would call this remake's style "hyper-realistic" because a real photo of a guy on a horse doesnt display all 23,546 fibres of his tunic in equal prominence. It's obviously not real, but also uncannily too real.

@TYRANACLES

"Dad I was looking forward to their next 3d effort they were working on of the sequel."

We all were, son. We all were.

I'm not certain you can call anything the "highest rated ever" based solely on its Tomatometer rating.

Imagine a title that gets a 3/5 from 5 different reviewers. that's a 60% average score but 100 tomato points.

Now imagine another game that gets 4 5/5s and 1 2/5. That's 80 tomato points but which game do you think is likely better? Which one has the higher actual avg score?

UPDATE - saw film, can confirm. best videogame-film adaptation ever! 🥳

Answer...

DAILY DOUBLE! 🚨 "pew pew pew pew"

A: "an original story set within Raccoon City, focusing on a medical courier called Bryan."

Q: What is a zombie flick with licensed nouns (but not Leon or Jill?)

👏👏👏

@Kang81

what bothers me is the complete lack of anything looking "handcrafted," either literally drawn by hand like the 98 key art, or more abstractly, like you can kind of see why the designer put those polygons in that particular way in the game, or see interesting and clever tricks they might've used to kind of "go beyond" the normal capabilities of the console.

The new graphics just look like overworked fairly generic 3D graphics, a look with which I grew bored about 20 years ago but that just will not go away, and that is a few layers away from appearing like anything a human made.

but yeah the moisture bothers me too 😂 to me, he looks like he has just been "hosed off." like seriously: imagine a legendary adventurer's boots. are they shiny and brand new looking? or dusty, scuffed? used?

the old game didn't have the detail level to answer these questions directly, but this game has got it specifically wrong. thanks for listening.

(EDIT - I was specifically speaking about young Link's boots in paragraph 3. Adult Link looks like he's wearing Crocs lol)

PS - i just saw your comment about making the remasters look like the key/concept art, and I completely agree! I've been thinking about this for a long time, and my top contenders have long been Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, FFVII (fat chance lol 😅,) and Xenogears. ✌️

Q: Why are the new Ocarina models so sweaty?
A: They were watching "Cops."

that's because "buying stuff" is not a hobby.

@MARl0

I feel the exact same way. the old games are cool, Awakening is cool... Three Houses was massively disappointing and I just kinda ignored Engage tbh.

I would love to see a new Wars game though! And the utterly pointless "Re-Boot" does not count.

Switch Wars, please.

" innovative games that have changed gameplay a lot."

Most games you could call "innovative" were not also revolutionary. You can make an oddball or even brilliantly idiosyncratic game but "changing gameplay" is kind of a right place/right time situation not entirely in anyone's control.

I think he is mixing the concepts here.

Emulation at 2x res and a nice shader is all the "remaster" I need, thanks.

(fwiw I own multiple copies of this game on gamecube.)

This essay has a bit of a "J.Peterman" flavor.

Monkeyball Maker when?

how about a Monkeyball roguelite?

EDIT - actually a Monkeyball Party a la Mario Party could be pretty good!

Did they ever again perfect the controls for these games beyond the Gamecube?

Bbbbuuuulllllllllsssssshhhhhhiiiiiiittttttt!

This is almost like an Onion headline.

@MADLUDWIG11

"90% of that will never hit NSO, but man your post just reminds me that I'd play the crap out of the James Bond titles again if they ever did come over."

I never played the James Bond games on 'Cube! I think I will have to do that. ✌️🥳

Also I never got around to Future Perfect, but I just dusted off my Wii (...) and hooked it up to the living room 720p plasma (as you do) and 16:9 480p gamecube games look great on there! 🤗 So I'm looking to dig into that library again.

"Star Fox Adventures is one of a handful of GameCube titles that offers native widescreen presentation."

Gamecube games that support widescreen (minus a bunch of sports titles)

Batman Begins
Battalion Wars
Beyond Good & Evil
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
Burnout
Burnout 2: Point of Impact
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Dead to Rights
Die Hard: Vendetta
Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure
Dragon's Lair 3D
Drome Racers
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Fight Night Round 2
Freedom Fighters
Future Tactics: The Uprising
F-Zero GX
Geist
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
Gun
I-Ninja
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
James Bond 007: Nightfire
Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Need for Speed: Carbon
Need for Speed: Underground 2
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
NFL 2K3
NFL Street
Pac-Man World Rally
Peter Jackson's King Kong
R: Racing Evolution
R: Racing PAL
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
Soul Calibur II
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly
SSX 3
SSX on Tour
SSX Tricky
Star Fox Adventures
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Super Mario Strikers
Mario Smash Football PAL
Super Monkey Ball 2
Super Monkey Ball Adventure
Superman: Shadow of Apokolips
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
The Powerpuff Girls: Relish Rampage
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
TMNT
TMNT: Mutant Melee
Tony Hawk's Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
V-Rally 3
Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo

https://www.gc-forever.com/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_GameCube_games_with_native_widescreen

@Misima

you can't... turn the sidebars black?! 😦

what is Nintendo even doing over there?

@Yoshi3

"They mean that, since we didn’t know better graphics, our imagination filled in the gaps where the 1998 graphics couldn’t."

I'm pretty sure that if you can't get this, you can't really read books either (no judgement.)

@ROMhaiku

to be fair, I think at least some horses do have such eyelashes, but this is one of those details that I'm happy to leave to the imagination of the player 😂✌️

@Converge

Thank you! 😊 Yes I hear you, Nintendo is in an impossible situation, and I sympathize.

but also, the heart wants what it wants 😅 part of the reason Nintendo is so great is the passionate fanbase, and passion means strong feelings and genuine interest, so you are going to get conflicting ideas and even cognitive dissonance.

"You can't please them all" I think applies heavily here, but if we accept that then we must also accept that some portion of the audience must be displeased. I think the only logical response then is to not be surprised or chagrined when it happens.

(personally I'm in the "not pleased" camp right now but I was in the other for most of my life so I still count myself a fan 🥳 party on.)

EDIT - I just saw your edit lol.

yes, I probably "use people alot" (not as bad as that sounds lol) but for whatever it's worth I do actually try to ask myself the question I proposed when I do. ✌️

@Converge

The more you deploy the fallacy the more people are going to use the term. 👍

you could make better use of everyone's time by forming reasoned arguments for your positions, my intention is to help you with that.

here's a good one: any time you use the word "people," ask yourself "who?"

If you can't internally answer that question clearly and specifically, you might have no idea what you are talking about.

@Converge

"It’s funny how people judge Nintendo’s remake and whine over the visuals. But people have been remaking the game in Unreal and fan projects for years and it’s instant love"

I really wish those darn straw men would just make up their minds! 😡

@BrewsterTea

well, that's all obviously true, well done 😅👍

personally I find tone policing, pollyanna-ism, group think, and gatekeeping just as exhausting. ✌️

I think there's something to be said for the old cliche, "don't let it ruin your day," but I do realize that itself is a limited resource if even possible.

Random thought, maybe people around here could make use of some breathing exercises. in 4, hold 4, out 4, hold 4, repeat. Do it to music, it's like you're in the band! 🤗

@Dee123

I reread his comment. I don't see where he said the game was going to be bad. He seems rather to be lamenting the "open-worldification" of Nintendo franchises.

If he has a response to yours and others' replies I will be interested to read them!

I personally find it hard to get excited about open world games, but a good game is a good game! and open world doesn't necessarily make it bad.

but probably tho 😂✌️

@beltmenot

"don't like it? don't play it but don't drag down our excitement for it with your complaints."

People should feel free to post their opinions here. You might have some work to do if your personal excitement can't survive contact with someone else's comment. ✌️

Looks like if they made a Burgerking Kids Club videogame.

Oh good it plays like everything else, just what this masterpiece needed.

@repsahj

speaking for myself, I truly never wanted uncanny realism for Nintendo games.

It was a cool gimmick for a bit when PS3 came out but it got old fast. Thank goodness for indie devs! ✌️

"looks like a fairytale"

when I think "fairytale," I think ethereal, dream like, impressionistic, really anything but uncannily hyper detailed.

Link and Saria look like haunted dolls. Everything looks wet and plasticky. Zero room for imagination as the fine detail has been cranked to 1000. I guess that's what kids need now. I like a bit of impressionism in my graphics and they've completely killed it here, kind of like adding stills from the movie adaption to a classic novel and saying "see? it used to just be this ugly text to look at."

@BenAV

I used a Procon2 again for a number of rounds of MK8 8p yesterday, and I still don't like it!

zero tactile response from a controller is a dubious goal that they've just about achieved. I don't get it!

In the pen and pencil world, a writing implement can be too smooth, leading to a relative lack of control, bad grip technique, and/or worse handwriting. Many people really like a buttery smooth fountain pen, but that pen is still going to have more tactile feedback than a cheap Bic ballpoint, and that's a feature of fountain pens vs ballpoints, not a bug.

Anyway to cut a long story short, I think controllers are like that 👍 Nintendo used to evidently be aware of this, with the grippy concentric ridges on top, relatively stiff action and octagonal gates, but over time they've smoothed all of that over, into the generically slippery, soft and smooth experience we get today.

PS - 8p MK8 is cool, and it was fun having 8 people in the same room, but without the characters having name tags a la smash, there were far too many "wait, who's Baby Mario?" type questions being shouted, as we all tried to kind of "connect" with each other in real time over the action on screen. At a point, I just stopped caring who I was seeing in particular at any given time and it just felt more or less like I was playing MK8 by myself, on a fraction of the screen of course, in a crowded room.

I'm not overly excited to do it again, I guess that's my conclusion. 👍

PSA

A leak is when real and secret information is disseminated to the public. If the "leak" turns out to be untrue, then it was never a leak and is simply misinformation (or disinformation.)

A rumor is when unverifiable speculation is spread around, whether it ends up being true or untrue

One piece of info cannot therefore be a leak AND a rumor. Thank you.

@AGuyWhoLikesNintendo

I have never in my life actually cracked open a device and replaced a battery myself, but I am nevertheless firmly on the user serviceable side, for a variety of ethical, ecological, pro-consumer and human reasons. Basically any angle you want to look at it, user serviceable is the way to go, whether you plan to do the work or not. ✌️

Nintendo can still honor their warranty with visible screws et al on their products.