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Re: Soapbox: For A Jaded Pokémon Fan, Scarlet And Violet Is Exactly What I Need

B_Lindz

I hope that these games bring people joy. As for myself, Pokemon games stopped being fun for me about 20 years ago, so you all have fun with these new games.

I think what gets me isn't that people enjoy Pokemon games; it's when Pokemon fans, including game reviewers, argue online that the games are still 9/10 or 10/10 experiences. They're not. They're not even close. By today's standards of what is possible in terms of gameplay, visuals, storytelling, and art direction, they are a decade or two behind the curve. At their absolute best, modern Pokemon games are still only around a 5/10. We live in a world with Dragon Quest 11 and Persona 5. Modern Pokemon can't hold a candle to these games.

Love what you're going to love, but maybe take the rose-colored glasses off.

Re: Soapbox: Why Do We Talk About Games By Comparing Them To Other Games?

B_Lindz

In all honesty, these kinds of descriptions that video game news outlets use (I'm looking at you IGN) drive me crazy. I think it's helpful to classify media types into genres, but now I think it's going way too far. I love Zelda, but I've started avoiding games that get the title "Zelda-like" unless it gets really great reviews, but even then, I don't usually bother.

If someone had told me that A Plague's Tale: Innocence was a French-style The Last of Us-like body-horror skill tree-crafting action-adventure, I don't think I would have ever played it. Instead, what I did hear was, "This game's story is crazy and dope as hell." That's why I played it and that's why I loved it.

Re: Shantae Celebrates 20 Years With A Switch eShop Sale, Up To 50% Off

B_Lindz

@anoyonmus @Rainz I've played part of Shantae, and I've finished Risky's Revenge and 1/2 Genie Hero, so I'm not an expert. I started with 1/2 Genie Hero and I didn't feel lost in the slightest. The story isn't hard to follow if you haven't played the others and the mechanics are very modernized compared to the others. You can skip the first game altogether; it didn't age very well. Risky's Revenge is good, but it also didn't age all that well. I've had Pirate's Curse in my backlog for forever, but I really need to play through it.

So, basically, what I'm trying to say is hop in wherever. They're fun games that are definitely worth your time.

Re: Feature: Games That Got Us Through Tough Times

B_Lindz

Breath of the Wild got me through the worst breakup of my life. When I broke up with my girlfriend, I shut myself in my room and couldn't get out of bed. I wasn't eating. I was a complete mess for the first few days. BOTW allowed me to escape and it genuinely saved me during that time of my life.

The Last of Us 1 & 2 got me through the beginning of the pandemic. It was becoming too easy to become numb during those first 6 months and The Last of Us helped me to hold on to empathy and to keep feeling when I wanted to go numb.

Re: Feature: Just How Accessible Are Switch Games Like Xenoblade, Pokémon, And Mario Odyssey?

B_Lindz

This is the aspect of Nintendo's games that, all things considered, are falling dismally behind industry standard. Sony's and Microsoft's focus on accessibility in their games are leaps and bounds ahead of Nintendo. I'm a web designer, and if I treated the accessibility of my clients' websites like Nintendo treats their games then OSHA would sue my a** off.

The fact that a paraplegic person could still experience The Last of Us: Part 2 by disabling all gameplay, essentially turning the game into a movie is mind-blowing to me. Freak, you can even disable all colors in the game except the good guys are blue, enemies are red, and items are yellow; it's incredible. The new Forza game allows you to enable a windowed view of a person signing all spoken words. Nintendo needs to severely up their game.

Re: Best Star Fox Games Of All Time

B_Lindz

@ChromaticDracula Dude, you NEED to play Assault. Boot it up on Dolphin and prepare to have your mind blown. It's not as charming as SF 64, but it a lot of ways it's an even better game.

Re: Best Star Fox Games Of All Time

B_Lindz

Did a bunch of furries come out of the woodwork to vote Star Fox Adventure above Star Fox Assault? Adventure kind of sucks, honestly. Assault is a fantastic hidden gem. I played this game to death as a teenager. I think there are some things Assault does that's even better than Star Fox 64. And that soundtrack. Ooooooo, that soundtrack. Effing best music in the entire series. I was playing Assault through Dolphin a couple of weeks ago and it still holds up insanely well.

Re: Round Up: Best Of PAX East 2022 For The Nintendo Switch

B_Lindz

These all look good but feel a little samey to me except for No Place for Bravery and Turbo Overkill (which is such a stupid name hahaha!). Both of those games are making their way right onto my wishlist. Blind Fate reminds me of Katana Zero, but I don't know if it will be quite on that level.

Re: Bandai Namco Has Officially Launched Its New Logo

B_Lindz

@Lizuka "Not like logo design matters much anyway"

Hooooooooooold up. I'm going to need to stop you right there. Logos are one of the single most important aspects of a company and brand. The logo drives product design, the culture of a company, and gives people a symbol to what they love. Can you imagine if Nike didn't have the swoosh or if McDonald's didn't have the M? Heck, Nintendo's logo is so strong that it can be displayed with every product they create without feeling out of place or breaking their image. A good logo is essential. A bad logo literally changes the face of a company and will influence its products for the foreseeable future.

You have every right to not care about logos, but holy crap, I'm sorry, no. Logos are important.

Re: Bandai Namco Has Officially Launched Its New Logo

B_Lindz

For all intents and purposes, this isn't a "bad" logo. It's functional. I'll work better in black and white compared to the old logo and it's much more legible... but that's about it. What it gained in functionality it lost in personality. That's not a win. To me, that's a step down from what it was.