XenoShaun

This looks like such a chill game to play. I need to start setting aside some cash for an import.

@BloodNinja @Einherjar I think the argument here is that with a difficulty slider you personally still have the choice to not use it.

It likely is contrasting back to the whole Dark Souls easy mode idea. Easy mode can make the games more accessible to some people, but that doesn't change what the 'normal' or 'hard' modes could offer.

All on all, why can't we have both easy slider and correctional options for colours etc.

@PoliticallyIncorrect @BloodNinja I would think an article like that could be more tricky to do, unless it was more so lambasting the many games that use mental health issues as a gimmick or some form of horror trope. Too many games use it in that manor, even the supposidly good represented games do (looking at Hellblade).

There must be some well represented games out there for the subject. I guess myself who suffers with varied issues it's tiresome seeing games get so much wrong in vein of a cheap gameplay mechanic, or horror setup. (Steam is riddled with the latter).

@hillyarb Oh yes, I think more so what the execs believed, not neccessarily the market itself. Wasn't long ago Ubisoft was making excuses they didn't want a female lead for Assassin's Creed because 'it would be too much work to animate them'. Unfortunately the execs get to dictate what we can and can't have in the bigger industry.

@hillyarb It could be down to how artists and creators feel forced to make something a certain way to appease the current culture climate. Examples being it was bad for games if they featured a lead female character (back in the 90s) and things like that. That forced nature limits what the actual creator could want.

Now of course if the creator / artist doesn't want to include other races, genders or whatever that should be perfectly fine as well. Pro-artistic freedom. The artist should have full control not the consumer in this case.

It's always good to see more meaningful representation. You get the outliers that either outright ignore it or include it as a common 'token character' which personally feel does more harm than good (same with any depicted character regardless of race and/or other).

People come from all walks of life, so should fictional characters. Just please be well written whoever you make!

I agree that hopefully sometime in the future any character (be it fictional or real life) from any walk of life can just be seen as normal. It's asinine how we as humans still haven't achieved that fully.

(Also Twintelle is bae).

Unlike a certain EA franchise, at least the 'last gen' versions of the game are still getting new content with the new neighbourhood. Seems PC is getting screwed again though?

@sanderev That's interesting to know. When I get some time I'll look a lot more deeply into it all.

@sanderev Genuine question as I haven't really delved too deep into it. But do games (like movies and other such things) have a time period before they enter public domain? It sounds like if they do they then should be moved to a form of archive (or museum etc).

I agree piracy is a general no no.

@Pak-Man These comments would be pretty boring if they didn't.

@sanderev I'd say it's quite the tricky quandary. On the one hand of course not. On the other, if you can never experience it, or go into the whole preservation debate, what else can you do? We all just have one life, seems trivial in some ways to just 'not experience it'.

Personally I only play ROMs of things I actually own. Generally has been PSP games as my PSP is broken but all my games are still around doing nothing. My phone upgrade had been fairly useful for that.

@Longondo Hey that's strange, everyone I have met has had an uncle that works at Nintendo. I wonder if it's a job requirement to have a niece and/or nephew...

@PBandSmelly More power to ya if you have the income to allow such purchases. It is always nice to have something physically tangible in your hands, especially if it's something you treasure.

@Steel76 @carlos82 I'd think if there was no actual legal way to pay the developers / publishers for a copy of the title, then it's really their fault and not us if we play a rom of it. It's similar to piracy in general, make it simple for the end user to pay for your product and they will.

It's not like anyone is stupid enough to actually profit off of these ROMs outside of the developers.

@Anti-Matter Just hold a controller and push buttons as the video plays. It really does feel like you are the player!

@Papichulo There are two special CD-I games where she is

@DrDaisy Ignore feature is perfect (and just used). Can't argue with people who want to cause more problems than solve.

@Deppasois You are calling me a racist for defending artistic freedom? That screams more about you than me. Stop demeaning the term.

Looks like a more darker action heavy title? Sheik gonna go all Kratos on everyone.

@Teksetter Yeah it seems the game needs to really click with you to be more than a short playtime. (Good choice with fire & ice).

@nib0 Switch Pro launch title of course.

@Teksetter In fairness some of these unknown titles are quite fun, but there's just no meat to their bones. Too many games (good or bad) on the service seem to be 5-10 minute killers and then never touched again.

@topher6490 I'd argue they only want Japanese subscribers. We have had bottom of the barrel stuff in the West for ages, including less games, poorer quality games and still paying the same (or more in some places).

At least throw us a JRPG bone or something when you keep giving Japan the goods Ninty.

@Deppasois I have seen what people have claimed it for. It's a comic book of questionable 'humour' and a bunch of people witch hunting and most likely not even understanding the era the 'humour' came from.

Too many people these days don't understand that culture changes over time, as do people. If we witch hunter everyone that did anything against today's culture in the past you'd have to jail everyone in their 30s and above.

Unless as I said he has actually called people that or used it in malicious tones, it doesn't change anything.

I'm also not supporting racial words. I supporting the proper use of calling people racist and artistic freedom. Another term that may be heeded here, 'all of it is okay or none of it is okay'.

@VoidofLight My thoughts on the Wii is it was a gem of a console surrounded in horse manure. If you Wade through the sheer crap on it you'll find many great games that have yet to be topped. (Xeno blade, Pandora's Tower, etc).

Also shame the early concept wasn't of black Wii motes. Could of been 'The leaks are back, back in black!', ah well maybe next leak.

@DrDaisy I run a forum board as part of my job. You would be surprised at the amount of daft things people report as abuse of rules. Haha.

@Deppasois I don't use it as it's in poor taste. But many people do use it. Look over social media, go outside, anything with people who speak the English language.

And report me for what exactly? I've said nothing against the rules of this site, nor have I said anything 'racial'.

Take this saying to heart more. "Separate the art from the artist." A racial artistic depiction does not indicate the artist is racist. Now the art could be in poor taste, stupid, unfunny or whatever. Also another thing to keep in mind his comics were during a time where racial humour was a big hit online. Even terrestrial TV shows made jokes at the expense of other races.

You show me a time he called someone the 'N' word, or used it in a malicious tone to anyone then yeah that would make him racist. Until then he is an A-hole with a subjectively bad taste in humour almost two decades ago.

@veesonic I would always assume nowadays if it says local co-op they mean local wireless with two switches. Been burned by a lot of games that claim local co-op but isn't same console coop

@Deppasois He did fictional written work that used the N word? Not really racist. Every piece of work with the N word in would be racist then.

@Deppasois Wouldn't really say he is a racist rather than he's an A-hole to everyone. It's mainly his persona schtick because all these YouTubers and twitchers need to have their hook.

@Pally356 I saw Mike Matei (co-writer and believe the actual person who got the game footage for that ep) play through the game and honestly it isn't that bad. It seems pretty fun, and it's sequels as well.

Thought the final AVGN ep of it was hilarious. James beat the crap out of Mike in the bunny suit haha.

I'd rather Twitter focus on this instead of returning to yelling at their screens that Lola Bunny isn't sexy enough.. sighs

@Chlocean It's a shame it isn't getting a wider Asian release as then it would likely of had English subtitle support. That's one of the better decisions of late that most Asian releases now are mandatory to offer English as it becomes more of the staple language.

@Snatcher 3D all-stars? Is that some sports game?

@westman98 He just recently got a swift 100+ mill bonus for no reason and against shareholder wishes. So he made a profit on that cut.

I would say it's more so how Heritage Auction is an illegal scam business. But least this sounds cooler.

@Specters My comment was purely in regards to what this article mentions is coming for the new game. A few new weapons and some new areas. The whole EA thing is a hyperbolic statement in regards to it seeming like the same game with just some new gadgets attached. The idea of that would be disappointing for a sequel (again based on this article's stipulation of content).

Though I am sure and hopeful there will be more than just that. Hense the 'too early to judge' addition.

@Spiders What I said above. I'm more interested in the single player experience and changes. If they are doing some proper internal changes then that's great. Nothing like that stated was happening in the article in question however.

@Dethmunk Seamless world then smarty pants

Am I the only one that thinks a 500% markup is quite small for this kind of thing? Most other companies charge way higher than that.

@blindsquarel I would like to think they could bring a good balance of both. As you said A link to the past was able to be linier structured but retain the open world style of the original Zelda. Maybe botw2 solves some of these issues?

I know it would never ever happen but I'd be down for a Zelda II style sequel.

@anoyonmus Yeah exactly. Starts to sound more like an EA yearly sports release now than an actual sequel. Though still early days yet to judge.

I'd be interested to know what innovations and changes they'll bring to the single inkling gamer here. Just new weapons and new locations for online sound like they could of just done a 'season 2' for Splatoon 2.

@fafonio Oh I agree there is a lot of things that can take from OOT style Zelda's. I was mainly commenting that Botw was more reminiscent of the original Zelda thus technically being more classic Zelda than say the OOT style. Item management and such was mainly in response to the commenters wants.

Open world's nowadays in general seem quite tricky to pull off. Every publisher and their granny thinks open world is about how big it is, but when there is always barely anything to fit in it, there's absolutely no point. Botw doesn't differ when it comes to that, but hopefully with more time and chance at the formula they can make the world more worthwhile.

Personally I'd take a far smaller open world packed to the brim with things to do than a massive open world that's shallower than a puddle. Though in Botw's defense I did enjoy exploring Hyrule even if there wasn't always a good payoff for it.

@blindsquarel The original Zelda and A link to the past were both open world and really well done.

Breath of the Wild is the most classic style we have had in a long time. Though I agree the shrines felt very limiting compared to proper thought out dungeons. More sparse resources too though I believe Master Mode helps with that a lot.

In short there are ways they can keep the old school open world and bring back the classic dungeon and item management of old as well.

@Dr_Lugae Congrats. I am on the list to be getting mine soon.

Hope the developers are staying safe through all this. Sucks Covid is spiking again, though with all the morons over here in UK after the football.. our spike was inevitable.

@Clyde_Radcliffe There was that Sonic Bioware RPG on DS too.

@Farts_Ahoy 11:00am.

I do love me some Fomo artificial scarcity. Some of the stuff looks cool but I don't bite at the bait.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi Sounds like Nintendo just can't win in any situation like that. Damned if they do and damned if they don't. Perhaps it's too logical to see the 'upgrades' sold and properly explained separately along with the standard bundle.