GrandScribe

I agree with the author that "the Imprisoned looks like a giant huggable pinecone with squishy little toesies, and that's not very scary" but it makes up for it with its encounters especially the latter being so frustrating and anxiety invoking. I hope they do something about the encounters though probably not.

If I were really interested in the game I'd be a bit tempted.

For being the first proper direct after so long it was disappointing.

I hope they make it to the Switch at a reasonable price point though I ain't gonna hold my breath especially on the last point.

Hopefully the standard controls are good, I really don't wanna play the game again with motion controls. Hopefully Windwaker and Twilight Princess are on the horizon as well.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi if they do Symphonia I hope they remove the gambling they added to get that one Devil’s Arm. It didn’t add anything to the quest it just made it exceptionally frustrating. I’d like them to work on the graphics, the HD version isn’t that much better looking than the original.

@huyi lots of pent up creativity and no way to better utilize it?

For all of my criticisms of the state of the Pokémon franchise they sure aren’t letting this anniversary pass em’ by. Nintendo really needs to take notes especially with the Zelda and Metroid franchises.

@Tyranexx completely agree it’s not acceptable to torment others to feel in control. I suppose the worst part of this toxic coping mechanism is how addictive it can be and how it can compel someone to escalate their behavior. There won’t be but there should be a meaningful consequence to this behavior for the victims but also to help the tormentors.

@Tyranexx desperation to feel in control and empowered can do some wicked things to people’s minds. Given how miserable the world is Im surprised we’re not seeing more instances of this.

Boy there needs to be some news some actual news.

Not my favorite genre so I’ll wait for a discount

No one uses it so they probably forgot it exists. Hopefully if by some miracle they remembered it exists they’ve realized being obstinate about stuff like voice chat makes them look bad and irritates people.

Jack Black is a solid choice though I’m not sure about Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis, hopefully she’ll surprise me.

I think they’re a little obsessed with Pikachu.

It would be nice to have Portal 1 & 2 on the Switch and it wouldn't be hard at all for them do.

It was an ok game but I have no interest in playing it unless they do something about that temple you go back to over and over again and the horrible controls.

@JasmineDragon just wait till you or your enemies start setting everything on fire or you get to the last chapter you’ll have problems.

I wonder if the issue is more its just to expensive to justify patching the Switch version. I’d like to know who thinks Divinity: Original Sin 2 runs just fine, my copy keeps crashing and if there’s fire all over the place and there often is the Switch struggles.

I hope they're not just gonna wait for E3 to announce everything.

Oh great yet another studio has been gobbled up, in another few years we're gonna be down to to like five!

There's gotta be something more to this story it seems incomplete, like Netflix wasn't a good partner or something prior and the leak was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm kinda glad that Netflix wasn't able to make the Zelda series they're either hit or miss and prone to killing good shows.

Really goes to show the rich like ill tempered dragons see money as something to hoard and common people see money as something to use. Wish this great dragon's den could be destroyed and that wealth put to good use.

Hopefully they'll at least announce re-releases of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess on the Switch and HD remasters of Metroid Prime 1-3. They'll probably announce a remaster or just a port of Wii music instead.

I know it won't happen but I wish they'd give a large portion of that back to their workers. Again it won't happen but I'd also like to see them take that money and revive some IPs like Mother and Eternal Darkness.

That is an awesome Switch, I love it!

The role of investors and especially banks could be handled by governments who's purpose isn't to extract as much money as possible from the arrangement but to encourage development of technology and the formation of new businesses.

In capitalism fair compensation and benefits cuts into profits so for workers to get anything close to it capitalists have to be forced to provide it by either government intervention or militant unions. The resulting fighting wastes time, energy and money that could be better used. Workers owning, structuring and democratically operating their work place applies a structural fix to the compensation/benefit problem and makes workers more emotionally invested because they're co-owners and have a say in their work life e.g. an annual vote in who the head of a department is, a vote in whether to pour money into R&D, a vote whether to expand paid vacation days. It's not a perfect system but dispersing power like that is better than what we have.

That was an interesting promotional video…dunno if I'd call it good or not.

My vote goes go the standard Indigo its just a really nice color.

@shining_nexus what exactly is the proof that without capitalism people won’t improve things at the same rate or faster? How does totalitarian control of businesses and the working class not getting the majority value of their labor in wages and benefits drive innovation?

@Tantani I’m not rich and I know economics that is why I’m opposed to the rich. A just society would be organized in such a way that workers own, structure and democratically operate their work place for their benefit instead of totalitarianism of capitalism.

I dunno what I’m more pessimistic about this movie or the Borderlands movie. Hopefully they both surprise me with how awesome they are.

@dumedum even if your claim that the rich earn their wealth was true that doesn't negate the reality power is inherently corruptive and dangerous especially when it concentrates and there's no democratic accountability of it. History is full of examples of rich people becoming monsters in human skin towards nature and the rest of humankind. So there is a strong moral justification independent of economic justice for workers for a society to disperse the power of the rich.

But your claim isn't right the rich didn't do the work other people did, so those people didn't get to enjoy the maximum of the value they produced. The only reason working class people agree to such predatory arrangements is because oligarchical societies don't allow working class people to even dream of a dignified life otherwise.

@DeclanS98 which is just one person!

Nintendo needs to hold a contest for people to show off their skills and hire the best and most creative.

@dumedum if they weren't hoarding trillions of dollars collectively they wouldn't be worth so much. That concentrated money is concentrated power without direct democratic accountability therefore it dangerous to allow that to exist. Furthermore all people deserve to live decent and comfortable lives because they are human, with some many of our brothers and sister suffering there is a moral justification to take what they don't need for those who need it through taxation. They didn't do the work to produce the value they now enjoy other people did.

@Tantani Don't threaten me with a good time! End of the stock market oh gosh that sounds like real fun time, a reason to get all dolled up and party!

The working class through their labor which actually contributes to society create the economy the rich don't do that. If the rich just vanished society wouldn't shatter into dust but it would if the working class did.

If money isn't flowing through an economy if its static say in an off shore bank account its of no benefit. Inflation is easily countered by price controls to prevent unethical business practices.

World hunger is an artificial problem because of rich people. Nothing meaningful is done about it because that threatens rich people's ability to profit off of it and the conditions such hunger creates and exacerbates.

@dumedum you admire people who coerce the financially disadvantaged and thus disempowered into giving them the vast majority of the value their labor produces? You admire people who horde more money than they could ever need or use which hurts the economy because its stagnant instead of flowing? You admire people who could end world hunger for just $40,000,000,000 annually (that's assuming there's no net positive economic affects because of it driving the cost down) and choose to let people go hungry and even starve to death?

I love that these lazy good for nothin conspiring rich people of Melvin Capital gambled one way and got egg on their face so badly they needed a bailout of $2,800,000,000 because some non-rich people on reddit banded together and gave them a taste of their own medicine. It's a good example of how skill has little to do with becoming rich.

@dumedum there ain't a way in the world to ethically be rich especially if you're among the billionaire class. If someone made $1 a second and they spent none of it and none of it was taxed it'd take 31.69 years to make just one billion. So rich people most defiantly are the enemy of anyone outside their class.

I hope Nintendo looks at this and sees the benefit in patching BOTW so when it runs on the Switch 2 it takes advantage of the more powerful hardware.

Come on people you need to be happy for the Blizzard owners! They'll be able to make even more money and they've gotten rid of competition so they've gained even more unaccountable power within the industry. Yes that was sarcasm.

If you can’t do the bare minimum to make your game accessible to people with disabilities or resent having to do the work then you really shouldn’t be making games.

If only their encounter could've inspired Gabe to release Half Life 3.

If I had in-laws I would put it on the dining room table to discourage family dinners. Since I don’t it’s not something I would personally buy

I live in a rural part of the USA so it ain’t a viable option.

@TheWingedAvenger in my opinion its probably one of the worst games Nintendo released in the last 20 years.

Looks like a cheap watch I would've worse as a kid. Hopefully the internals make up for the poor design.

The NYT is it is a publication of rich people for generally older rich aspirants and other rich people who wish to feel morally secure and morally superior then others simply because they got lucky enough to have some money. So it's no surprise they ran with this moralizing propaganda.

@TheWingedAvenger If they really wanted to get people to want to play Phantom Hourglass they'd also have to do something about that horrible temple you have to go to over and over again. The controls didn't help but that temple is probably the biggest reason I played Phantom Hourglass once and I've never wanted to play it again.

Didn't Spirit Tracks also use the stylus as the control method?

@Beaucine they could add a classic mode for people to have a more N64 experience.

@nocdaes this is a pretty big anniversary year what would normally be too much wouldn't.

@Rohanrocks88 they'd probably include those ridiculous changes to the bosses.

I'm not saying OoT on Switch needs to be as beautiful as BOTW (that would be amazing and it wouldn't be that hard) but they need to at least go beyond just upscaling and bumping the frame rate especially if they want to charge more than $30.

With our collective luck the last day of December we'll get a vague release window for 2022.