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@ThanosReXXX Indeed. I live in Portland, Oregon. Our city was ransacked by rioters for like eight straight months over that kind of boundless rage, and social media was the apparatus that facilitated the whole thing and really drove the escalation of it, so I take this all kind of personally. But who knows, maybe the pendulum will swing back the other way and we'll all say enough is enough.

@ThanosReXXX Definitely. I'm 36. I feel like I've lived long enough to say that the world felt healthier when most people kept the bulk of their thoughts in their heads. I believe in the freedom to say whatever you want AND in the practice of discretion, something society has a complete dearth of these days. Information and communication should be treated like a resource that we exploit responsibly. Mine it all up and burn it all at once and it'll destroy us.

@BloodNinja Honestly, I think humans just aren't as evolved as we think we are and our lizard brains render us unready for/unworthy of a tool like the internet, which could help us accomplish much good but seems more likely to lead to the dissemination of toxic information that will actually one day lead us to a large real-world conflict. The only thing that might prevent this is the natural human trait of laziness. And I'm only being like 10% sarcastic about all of this.

@ThanosReXXX lol, agreed. He's a creep who got super lucky that his completely unoriginal idea came along at just the right time.

@BloodNinja I think I said as much in the Direct chat the other day but super sorry to hear about your covid experience. I think on the whole, covid has exacerbated a lot of the problems with social media because people A: have a lot more time on their hands, and B: are bored and depressed and have pent-up anger and the most convenient outlet for that is to pull out their phone and turn someone online into their proxy punching bag, and then you see almost every fight snowball and it becomes a virtual Looney Toons fight-cloud where it rolls along and drags more and more people into it and eventually the reason for the initial conflict becomes secondary to the act of fighting and winning itself. It's simultaneously peak stupidity and a rock-bottom low point for humanity.

@jello64 Believe me, fellow cat, I've been seriously thinking about it lately.

@GTHOLLAND Yeah and that's on a GOOD day. It seems to regularly get much worse than that. Like some idiot comes up and punches you in the nuts because they overheard you say something they don't agree with and then drags you into the street and starts yelling at passersby about the thing you said and imploring them to beat the crap out of you.

@ThanosReXXX @BloodNinja Yep, I have a twitter account where I follow a handful of gaming companies and reporters for games news and that's it. Yet I'm still somehow getting peeks into the warmongering side of twitter and I'm constantly hearing from people in my life about the fights and miseries on the likes of facebook and I just can't help but think that social media is literally going to be the thing that ends the world.

@Muddy_4_Ever Yeah I know, that's what I'm saying. He says it's a HIM/US problem. But I don't think Crafted World is an extension of Woolly World. They play quite differently. I liked the game but I agree with Mitch, the game is kind of bland compared to Woolly World. The levels and music feel like a pretty significant step down.

I think the problem is clearly the internet and social media. Games were a lot more fun when people couldn't broadcast every single negative thought they ever have to the entire world. Now that people can hype up/sh*t on/fight endlessly over every game that gets announced, the innocence of just getting a new game and not worrying about other people's opinions of it will forever be shattered. UNLESS we avoid social media like the plague and get more selective in the articles we click on, which I largely do.

@Muddy_4_Ever He literally admits to that in the article.

@Manjushri Coronavirus.

@DaniPooo Haha. Burn.

@DaniPooo That’s fine, but why not redraw all the characters in the same style? Why keep them as pixel sprites? It would be like if I took NES Mario characters and stuck them on Rayman Legends backgrounds.

@BlueWeaselBreath I hate the mix of art styles. Like it genuinely makes no sense to me. If people like it then more power to them, but for my part it’s one of the most baffling design choices I’ve ever seen.

Is the point of the trailer that characters from other games are tired of their games and specifically want to play competitive online dodgeball instead? I shouldn’t have to think this hard about a trailer for a video game. Just show the game and some jazzy music and let the gameplay speak for itself.

Just give me a Meowser amiibo. Easy win.

"Also, they were taken off the project early because they got too fat."

lmao

Whoa, I've played this game a hundred times and somehow I never noticed that thing is totally a schlong. Now I hate myself.

@TheFullAndy Yes, but his/her physical position is still unknown to us.

@electrolite77 Exactly. People are acting like they think the big deal being emphasized is that Switch outsold consoles that are hard to find. But the big deal is that it sold better in the month of January than any system since the Wii. I doubt the expensive new next-gen systems with hardly any games would have pulled that off even if their supply weren't gimped.

@TheFullAndy It is foolish to question the ways of the ninja.

@Prizm Lol! Nintendo are richer now than they’ve ever been, by a significant margin. I don’t think a handful of people stealing their stuff is having the impact you’re hoping for.

@LinkSword You’re joking, right? Yeah dude I can definitely blame people for believing it lol. Because there has to be a complete lack of critical thinking skills to believe that a top-ranking executive, who probably doesn’t even get involved in some of their biggest and most legitimate lawsuits, would burn his precious time flying to a faraway country to inform a poor 9 year old child that his cardboard system had earned him a lawsuit, let alone one for hundreds of millions of dollars.

It’s so profoundly absurd that it should be beyond obvious that it’s fake. Finding it credible should be embarrassing to people.

@PBandSmelly No, I’m glad the reference is made. In most cases it’s not exactly necessary because it’s so obvious that it’s similar to Zelda (the guys in this game are almost literally wearing Link’s outfit), but it’s still true so it deserves to be reported on.

@JustMe Yep, they look kind of cheap to me.

@StevenG Lol! I’m 36 years old, I grew up in a community of mostly affluent white/educated people, and I have accumulated a lot of friends over the years. I can promise you that working PR for lego, a giant international corporation, is pretty unremarkable in my circle of friends at this point in our lives. This is a guy that used to be a special agent for the FBI so his current job is arguably much less interesting. But his house is full of legos that he gets for free, so that’s one perk that his kids appreciate.

Anyway, you sure seem to really care a lot about legos, so maybe channel all that energy and take your suggestions to Nintendo and try to convince them that they should go into the lego business full time instead of selfishly making a one-off set and abandoning the concept and focusing on video games like a bunch of selfish mean jerks. Their market research has clearly missed this gaping hole in their business plan which you have identified.

@StevenG I never said I think it’s too much, I said most of the people I know with money would think it’s too much. I also don’t know anyone in real life who actually pretends to care about the “LEGO/LEGOS” issue. Not even the people who collect and build legos regularly. Not even my friend who literally works in lego’s marketing department. That seems to be the exclusive domain of internet psychos who desperately want to score points in virtual debates with strangers.

@StevenG Bro, I'm an adult fan of lego.

@pixelpatch Just watch the trailer again and look at the number of islands and obstacles in the distance, and the floating islands in the sky. The scale of it is clearly gigantic compared to even the largest world from Odyssey, as evidenced by the fact that you need Plessie just to traverse the thing in a reasonable amount of time. The equivalent in Odyssey would be the Jaxi, and you could probably ride that thing across the entire expanse of the Sand Kingdom in less time than it took me to write this sentence.

Anyway, maybe I'm wrong and my perception is off but I hope not!

@StevenG Lol wait are you saying there's people out there that aren't poor?? Amazing concept, I've never heard of this. Thanks for the lesson.

But yeah, it's $230 for a lego set. Most of the people I know have good incomes with plenty of expendable cash (myself included) and I think just about every single one of them would laugh at the idea of spending that much money on some legos that will just sit there collecting dust until the end of time. I also doubt anyone on the planet has that giant thing on their desk, of all places.

But hey go convince Nintendo to make more of these things, I'm sure they're just totally unaware that there's an endless supply of people that are willing to spend thousands of dollars filling their desks up with multiple fake NES's and fake tv's so they can pretend to play different video games on them.

@neogyo I’d be very surprised if it’s that short. The world itself looks like it’s the size of a few worlds from Odyssey combined, plus Bowser essentially adds another mode/set of objectives to the stages, and there seem to be some obstacles and objectives tied to Plessie that will pad it out a bit. It’ll probably be at least a few hours worth of content.

@StevenG I don't know how much they made, you tell me. I doubt Nintendo has given those figures.

But it's an expensive novelty item. They probably made out alright but you can be sure that it's a very niche market, and of all the people that bought it, the number of people from that group that would spend that much money over and over again on multiple iterations of the same product is considerably smaller.

@pixelpatch This looks significantly larger than any world from Odyssey. It looks like it could fit multiple Odyssey worlds within it.

@Dman10 Yup, there were about 14 million of us who know good games when we see them and don't care if the system they're on is "uncool."

@nukatha Speak for yourself. I played it a ton on Wii U and it's more than worth it to me. Just the fact that they've increased the default speed of the game play in 3D World is itself a reason for me to buy it.

Lame. I know that Nintendo doesn’t have to give us anything for free or discount anything if they don’t want to, but if they’re going to go out of their way to have a program and call it a loyalty rewards program, there should actually be some rewards for people’s loyalty. Literally the only value I get out of it now is gold points on game purchases. Which is nice, but it’s not lighting my world on fire.

@sixrings So use it? Also lol at how many times over the last decade that I've heard people say "this place is hostile to different views!" Dude. This is a freaking video game fan site. It's not a political debate forum. We're not talking about wmd's and abortion rights. It's a place where Nintendo fans go to talk about Nintendo, something that's fun to them, as an escape from the drudgery of the world. Nobody comes here looking to get sucked into a flame war and act like their hobby is a life or death subject with important real-world implications. But deal with the fact that if you're going to go out of your way to disagree with someone's point of view, they have an equal right to disagree with your argument.

But mostly it just gets really old when every single article on here ends up dragged down by people who have an issue with the premise of this website, the very reason it exists in the first place. I don't see that on other enthusiast sites. I don't even see it on other Nintendo sites. Just this one. And it's bizarre.

@sixrings I don’t give a crap if you do or don’t like a video game. Literally nothing in the world could mean less to me. That’s 100% beside the point. My issue is that it’s basically a cliche now for people to come on this particular site and whine about how pro-Nintendo people are here. It’s like you think you’re original and have struck on something worth mentioning when in reality it’s old, boring, annoying, and serves no one.

How about if the pro-Nintendo slant annoys you, you take your own advice and ignore the comment sections yourself?

@sixrings Not really true, but it’s a Nintendo fan/news site. If you don’t like it, maybe go back to pushsquare? There’s nothing lamer than going on a website for a specific type of person and then complaining about that type of person.

@Yosher I have terrible social anxiety as well and I combat it by actually trying to be positive and happy. I don’t see you doing that as frequently as you think you do. The world is only as good as you and other individuals make it. If it stresses you out, maybe try to not put stress into it?

That said, internet comments aren’t the real world. You should not be basing your views on humanity and whether or not you interact with it on people disagreeing with you or even blatantly mistreating you online, especially if it’s over isolated and/or trivial subjects like this.

@StevenG Lol okay. I’m sure that “market” is just super lucrative and Nintendo’s totally missing out on like billions of dollars there.

This looks awesome. Sorry to contradict all the miserable commenters on this site.

@Yosher You’re so fun to have around. Thank you for literally always being there to make sure people don’t enjoy video games too much.

@StevenG I’m confused. What “market” is Nintendo not serving? They made an official set and it sold very well. The market you seem to be referring to is for what, budget ripoff versions that suck? And yeah, legitimacy definitely matters to a lot of people lol.

@Agriculture They didn’t dismiss Sony, they had a major falling out with them over a contract dispute. I know some people tell it like Sony were totally caught off guard by it but they weren’t. It was pretty much mutual.

As for the disc thing, maybe? But I don’t think Microsoft were giving Nintendo a snapshot of their plans/specs. This just sounds like a rough pitch. And regardless, GameCube was still pretty powerful for its time. Even so, Nintendo kind of stopped caring about specs and power after that anyway, so I don’t see how they would have meshed with Microsoft, who’s only real mission in hardware is to be roughly as powerful as PlayStation.

@Agriculture Not really even similar. Nintendo and Sony had a great working relationship for a long time, as evidenced by the fact that Sony made components for Nintendo’s existing systems and their joint console very nearly made it to market, which kind of proves the whole “Nintendo undone by their own hubris” theory wrong.

@Gamerdudesteel The options are not “agree” and “cringey”. That’s not how it works. It’s “cringey” and “not cringey”. And I believe you know why it’s cringey. But if somehow you really are as ignorant as you’re acting, I’ll just say keep reading your comment until you’re old enough to figure it out on your own.

@predatoure I don’t think they were trying to do a legitimate/specific British accent.

@JohnGrey I don't think they were going for an authentic British accent that would pass the European sniff test. I think they were just going for a dubious/mild pseudo-accent that sounded more regal than a standard North American accent.