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Cool, another Zelda clone with a female Link. Very original.

Yeah I'm calling foul on Netflix. I honestly don't know if I ever used it more than once just to see how functional it was and yet it's in my top 3. And I'm seeing a ton of people online saying essentially the exact same thing. So either there's some glitch in these numbers or Netflix was booting itself in the background and we had no idea.

Nice, seems like a great addition.

$25 is basically nothing when it comes to the expensive world of video game consumerism, so it seems like a no-brainer to me.

I'm with those that doubt it's cloud. I mean, I don't know how the heck it would NOT be cloud, but as far as I know, every single game that's come to Switch in cloud form has been specifically denoted as such from the very first reveal. So, fingers crossed it's native somehow.

@CarlosM87 I expect little to no impact on the gaming industry overall from Steam Deck. It's cool, but I don't see it breaking off a significant chunk of console gamers.

Really looking forward to the new DK Game, Donkey Kong: King of the Donkeys, which is just a donkey farming simulator where you play as Donkey Kong.

This is obviously dumb but it's not like I wouldn't eat it.

@MrHonest You know you don't HAVE to give them money, right? It's a consumer transaction. They make something, you choose to buy it or not. You aren't obligated to pay them. They're not the IRS.

@ForestBlue Probably. I usually ignore people, but once I start seeing the "Nintendo defense force!!!!" line on this, a Nintendo-specific site, I become deeply annoyed by the sheer unawareness it exhibits. It's bad enough to have to contend with it on twitter and general gaming sites, but it would be nice if we could have this one place that's specifically labeled for us.

But oh well, the web is trashy like that. Every space eventually attracts the attention of people that want to turn it into a landfill.

@BloodNinja I’m not defending a corporation, I’m defending common sense. You used to be kind of normal. What happened?

@BloodNinja It's a Nintendo site! Seriously, why is it so hard for some people to understand how this works?? Would you go on a site called Chocolate Life and talk crap about chocolate and then act all indignant when people start defending chocolate? That would make you a troll. It's obvious.

What you're doing is the internet equivalent of lighting a building on fire and then rolling your eyes as the fire department shows up. "Oh look, it's the anti-fire brigade, yet again. FIGURES."

@BloodNinja Why would we put it next to Wii U sales? It wasn't made next to Wii U. That was five years ago, and it's a brief period flanked by two 100-million-selling home consoles, bolstered by overlap of extremely hot dedicated handhelds, all wrapped up with record smashing software sales.

And that's to say nothing about their side initiatives like Pokemon GO, their parks in Universal, and their move back into film. They're an uncommonly healthy business in an industry where studios fail left and right, the most cash-rich company in Japan, and one of the most successful gaming companies ever. I think they've earned the right to comment on their own path to success.

Also, if Nintendo is your "least favorite company," then it makes zero sense for you to be spending your valuable time on a Nintendo fan site.

@narqendo For a PS5? Pass.

@Sora181 Not true, there were over 13 million of us that wanted Wii U. That's like the entire Los Angeles metro area!

And yet I would still rather have a Wii U. Saying that unironically as I haven't felt compelled to find a PS5 yet and I still fire up my Wii U somewhat regularly.

Can't think of anything more generic sounding than the Rock in a Call of Duty movie.

@Tasuki Nintendo already owns Retro. And there is a humongous difference between Nintendo buying a studio worth a couple hundred million dollars and one of the largest companies in the industry buying up several of the other largest companies in the industry. The term "monopoly" isn't just a loosely-defined pejorative, it's a specific term with known dimensions, and it definitely isn't out of reach in this conversation.

@JasmineDragon Well you're not the only one saying that, so surely some people mean it.

@Poco_Lypso Okay.

Why are we assuming she's pant-less and not just wearing leggings? She could just as easily be wearing white leggings as nothing at all, which frankly would make more sense.

@JasmineDragon This isn't gender bending, it's just a gender swap. Or more accurately, it's Link mistakenly portrayed as a female. It's not like a trans or drag queen Link or something.

@Chimaj You seem super fun. Really glad the world is so full of people like you these days.

To prove the short-sightedness of your hot take, look no further than the Legend of Zelda cartoon from the 80's, which portrays the direct inverse of this supposedly sexualized female Link: a stereotypical dim-witted male chauvinist who cares only about eating meat, seeking violent encounters, and sexually pursuing Zelda. So yeah, it exists. But it's best to just lighten up and stop looking for hills to die on over cartoon depictions of video game characters. Life is too short to deprive yourself and everyone around you of the ability to enjoy light-hearted things that infract upon your personal sense of justice.

So the newest form of the console wars is just the acquisition wars, then. How painfully boring.

This guy is obviously very talented, and this is indeed beautiful, but it doesn't look or feel like a Zelda game, let alone any specific Zelda game. It just looks/feels like an Unreal game.

Truly amazing. I would buy this.

@Poco_Lypso Yeah! Let's get everyone to stop buying Ubisoft games. Then Ubisoft will go out of business and all of the poor/mistreated Ubisoft employees will lose their jobs and go on unemployment! That'll teach em for being mistreated.

@blindsquarel This person thinks literally every article is the article for waging war for their ideals. That's what ideologues do.

@CharlieGirl Oh okay, so let's not support the thousands of developers and artists who worked on these games because their bosses are a**holes. Great policy, thumbs up.

This is hilarious. Some people just can't help themselves. They just HAVE to become a meme.

@patbacknitro18 There are still probably people who believe that. As someone who grew up Mormon, I can think of at least a few people that might still feel that Pokemon is from the devil.

I thought the world would outgrow this paranoia, but bizarrely you still see people freaking out over "video game addiction" and the unsavory influences of video games to this very day. Never mind the brain-numbing effects most people suffer from flipping through social media and vegging in front of the tv for hours every day, or the rage they willingly foster by fighting strangers on twitter etc on the regular.

@Greatluigi Yeah, I’ve been there at least 20 times now. You just have to shrug and take the plunge.

@Yorumi Yup. Polygon aren’t so much games journalists as they are social activists. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some kernel of truth here, because frankly game development in general is a harsh endeavor and most studios suffer from that to some degree, but I’m sure it’s not being fairly represented by outlets like polygon, kotaku etc.

Looks great. Day one buy. Nice to have a game to look forward to again.

@Crono1973 (I own Banjo on N64, Xbox 360, and Game Pass… the point is that I want it on Switch)

Seriously, where the f*** is Banjo? That game was a huge part of the reason I bought the expansion. If they’re still releasing it this year like they said they were, they’re really cutting it close.

@westman98 Lol exactly what I was going to say. This guy left to work on “cool things” and he ended up doing nothing.

@NWC I thought it was fun. Probably the best of the modern-formula Paper Mario games. I’m not a huge RPG fan so it works for me.

@Einherjar I never said China weren’t affected by covid, but they’re owners of a majority stake in the genesis of it. And they haven’t been held accountable for it by anyone. And more infuriating than that is the breathless defending western leftists provide them for it, labeling anyone willing to so much as question China’s role in covid a racist/xenophobe/Chinaphobe.

But you’re right. We live in insane times, where the side people take is the one that makes the most noise, and history and morality are completely secondary to fitting in and feeling empowered by everyone that’s on the same side as you.

@Einherjar Yep. I’m constantly baffled by the mental gymnastics people of progressive persuasions put themselves through to reach the conclusion that China deserves to be defended by them. Beyond their human rights atrocities, this country is having its way with the environment, and they’re responsible for the pandemic we’ve all been suffering through, which has killed millions of people and ruined economies.

Idk maybe it just comes down to communism. A lot of people really seem to think it’s cool these days and will defend it no matter what.

@Einherjar Chinaphobe! Work camps and genocide are just a cultural thing!

Wow, there’s actually people in the world who think Minecraft is the best game ever? The best. Ever. Really?

@thinkhector A: If you think corporations “captured” government, then it definitely happened much longer ago than the 1990’s. B: Consumerism has been the main thrust of culture since the industrial revolution. And C: Decades pretty much never feel distinct when we’ve just barely left them behind, but if anything has homogenized popular culture since the 90’s, it’s been the advent of the internet and rapid centralization of web culture.

@masterLEON I feel your pain. When we got the SNES, my parents gave our sometimes-malfunctioning NES, the zapper, the box it came in, and all its games to some relatives, who probably sold it to buy meth instead of giving it to their kids like they were supposed to. I protested pretty hard but they said I didn't need it and it was broken anyway.

Now that I know that the problem was probably just worn out springs on the pin connector, I wish I would have hidden the thing so they couldn't give it away! Would have been better to take the punishment and keep the system. And all those sweet, sweet games.

And man, to own a grey zapper and an original R.O.B.! That would be so cool. I feel cool just for owning a R.O.B. amiibo, owning the real thing would be another dimension of rad.

@OldManHermit @GameOtaku Definitely the orange ones. I saw a million of those (including my own) but I don't think I ever saw a single grey one in real life.

@CharlieGirl I think people take this topic too seriously. The vast majority of media out there is pretty crappy and plays on cheap emotional button-pushing of one type or another to hook people. But if it makes people happy, it's doing its job, which is to provide escape. Nothing wrong with that. And if nostalgia gives someone relief from the drudgery of life, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Something doesn't have to be comparable to Shakespeare to be valid.

@FixMadden22 Is this a joke? He's known for playing Doogie Howser, a b-tier role on another really seriously awful sitcom, and a cameo in Harold & Kumar. We're not talking about Daniel Day-Lewis here. This is exactly in his wheelhouse.

@CharlieGirl Isn't "been there done that" the very definition of "genre"? Rhetorical question, the answer is yes.