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@TheRealThanos
All's well that ends well.

@TheRealThanos #22
Exactly! If I wrote hypothetically, why did you respond to me as if I had written factually? I don't appreciate being labeled delusional simply because I had the audacity to imagine a positive outcome. My comments reflect who I am, or was, so your response is indeed to me and not just my comment.
Side note: I do acknowledge that you meant no offense by your actions.

@TheRealThanos #20
I get where you're coming from, but you shouldn't have responded to my comment if your response had nothing to do with my comment.

If they have the ability to rival Nintendo, the more the merrier I say. Having another company as good as Nintendo out on the market only makes it better as a whole.

To all of the people saying that the graphics are bad, what are you comparing the game to? The PS4 and Xbone? You already knew that the Wii U was weaker, stop complaining about it.

@Wesvert #205
Invest:
to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
They are putting money into the company in return for a game. That sir is investment. I have no idea how you failed to recognize that.

People here are ready to offend and discredit Pachter whenever he shares his honest opinion, but now that it's a woman sharing her honest opinion nobody can offend or discredit her because it's sexist to? That in itself is sexist, my friends.

@Jazzer94 #100
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You're right, I did try to cram too much into there and it just became a mess. I'll just stick with good ol' economics; the rate of increase decreases per additional worker until there is no longer an increase because the workers outnumber the resources.

@WiiUExposed #107
Let's revisit your original statement

What you stated is true, but you forgot the fact that the game is now in HD. Nintendo had six year gaps when it was still working in SD. Now that it is working with HD and probably a similarly sized group, don't you think that it's reasonable for the production time to increase? Several of the first party games have already been pushed back and Nintendo itself stated that it is still getting used to working in HD. This could easily add on a year or two just by itself, take away a few months with Namco's help.
With the HD adding two years, let's move onto the balancing. The act of balancing could add on six months to a year to that total time because it is a lengthy and, according to Sakura's statements, a difficult process.
I can see why you would think that adding on a few more members would magically reduce production time, but there is more going on than you are acknowledging. The fact that Nintendo took on Namco's help should be a sign in itself that this is a huge project for Nintendo and that it will take time.

@DarkwingLz
Actually, there will be. "Balanced" means that the characters do not easily overpower each other because of faults. Not even a balance beam is 100% accurate.

@theberrage
DLC? That can be made after the soup is finished.

@SomeBitTripFan #60
Let me break down my metaphor for you:
-The single chef is the whole team working together
-The soup is the game
-The ingredients are the characters, stages, backgrounds, music, etc.
-The energy is the balancing
Of course the all of the ingredients can be prepared faster with more than one team, but the balancing, which is the main part of this game, has to be done by a small, constantly communicating group (probably not including significant involvement from Namco) to make sure that it is done properly. So even if all of the ingredients are complete, the game can't be released until the balancing is correct, until the energy has pervaded throughout the entire soup.
Maybe the balancing is a quicker process than the ingredients and, in that case, the more the merrier, but Sakurai's comments make it seem otherwise.

TL;DR, more chefs sure are nice, but do not necessarily speed up the release.

@WiiUExposed #28
Oh sure they can, and then they will just be sitting around waiting for energy to transfer, which which happens the same rate no matter how many chefs are present. Additionally, different ingredients are added into the broth at different times, so a single chef could have every ingredient ready by the time they needed to be ready and therefore cook the soup at the same time.

@WiiUExposed
That's like saying that having five chefs work on the same pot of soup will make it cook faster, yet physics says otherwise. Then can have as many people test the characters as they want, but they can only move so fast if they want to actually balance each character.
In reality, they have to balance the characters one at a time and making even small adjustments to a character can send ripples out that cause the other characters to need to be rebalanced.
It is not nearly as cut and dry as you are making it out to be.

@WiiUExposed #3
Tsk, tsk, tsk. You know better than that. Balancing the characters takes a lot of time. The lack of balance was the biggest complaint when it came to Brawl; Nintendo doesn't want to make that same mistake again.

"Nintendo" in brackets should just replace "it."

@Thats-what-she #240
Now now, there's no reason to get so upset over a simple conversation over the internet. But I'm glad you actually did use google.

@Thats-what-she #237
Please, dear sir, for the love of education, go and look up why Link had pink hair. As advanced as the SNES was, it could only hold 15 colors per palette and they had one color too many, there was auburn for his hair and pink for the bunny. Since his hair was so minimal, they opted to use pink.

@Thats-what-she #234
The style of the cover art for The Legend of Zelda has remained consistent throughout the games. Just take a look at this (small) history posterIt's not like other game covers such as, say, Mega Man, so you cannot simply dismiss it as just an artist taking creative liberties. The way that Link is drawn for the promotional material, game cover, etc. is what he looks like in "real life," for lack of a better term. The reason that his hair was pink was because of a limited pallet
I told you to educate yourself, it was only a few clicks away.

@Thats-what-she #228
Tsk, tsk, tsk, here is the artwork for Link from A Link to the past. If you're gonna be a smart aleck, at least be right.

@startopickie #176
Or better yet, do this {img}http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/178167-zelda-the-wand-of-gamelon-cd-i-screenshot-link-from-the-opening.png{/img}
You get this

@MF_MaxiMillion #18
Agreed, games without any story or narration cannot reach the same level as games with even minimal but properly executed story. That's not to say that games without story are bad, being able to pick them up and put them down at any time is a major plus, but you just can't get as connected to them as you could with a game that has story.

@Geonjaha #24
Fire Emblem and Zelda are incomparable, they are two completely different types of games.

@Thats-what-she #29
Sonny, it's time to educate yourself a little on LoZ's history.

@Guybrush_Threepwood #31
Well, it is a handheld after all. It's rather nice to have a game that can be picked up and put down at any moment's notice.

@startropicike #176
Do this
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except change the curly brackets for regular brackets.
You get this, except the ones that shall not be named

I'm really looking forward to the balancing of characters. Especially for Ike if they bring him back. All of his smashes were high risk an low reward. Hopefully they remove that from all characters. Their smashes should either be high risk and high reward or low risk and low reward.

@Blastoise-san #5
He already hit her. Link bounces every time his in-air-down-attack connects.

@Giygas_95
Things always slip our minds, it's a little frustrating sometimes, isn't it?

@unrandomsam

to which you responded,

Kingdom Hearts 3 is Square Enix. This is in house

and then I responded to correct you by telling you that anything in Kingdom Hearts that is not already Square Enix exclusive belongs to Disney, so Disney actually makes a decent chunk off of Kingdom Hearts.

@unrandomsam #8
Kingdom Hearts is by Disney and Square, and Disney actually owns Sora, Riku, etc., not Square.

Ew! I know it's nice for Skylanders to have competition, but Disney is just a disgusting monster spreading its tentacles where they don't belong. I can't say I would be sad if Infinity flopped really hard.

For getting stuck on the lack of a sword animation, you're not one to complain about repetition.

@FishieFish
You see, sarcasm and or joking is conveyed through tone, you placed no tone in your writing.

@Einherjar
I'm getting a little sore from crossing my fingers.

@Einherjar
Ooh, that Pokemon trainer concept is actually a good idea. It would go really well with Robin since he/she can be practically every class.

@Einherjar
Can't even disagree with ya .
I agree, basing the games around the popularity of the characters would just drain the life out of games. They should keep Ike in and Introduce someone ranged or really fast, such as Tharja because she was pretty dang popular. It would be good, Ike is heavy, Marth is all around, and [insert character] is ranged/light.
They probably will add feet, they would have done it if they had time for Awakening.

@Einherjar #132
You sir, make a very good argument. However, whenever you talk about adding Chrom, all I can think about is the Starfox gang and how they are all just clones. I have to agree with the other people here that Chrom and Lucina should just be skins for Marth since they all use the same style (or maybe just Lucina, since Chrom would move like a guy and Marth has the most feminine stances out of all of the characters)

@Einherjar and @ Murrkle
Seeing as how the US is Nintendo's second largest market, the opinion of the people matters a whole damn lot.

@ Murrkle
Since that Marth +1 setup wasn't available in the first game, that's not all there is to it.

@onlyaman #3 and @FishieFish #5
Of course he does. You guys should probably get around to playing some of other fire emblems.
@Einherjar #11
With what move set? Chrom would have the same exact move set as Marth since he was trained in the same style.

@Nomad #26
Ike has such a strong loyal following in the US, I don't think that would be the best of moves.

@Giygas_95 #72
Uh, what? These are all official releases from Nintendo.

@KingofSaiyans #86
Watch this video and then this video afterwards.

@Einherjar #105
Exactly, since Awakening has so many sales, Nintendo should have replaced Marth with Lucina or Chrom. Ike already has a unique move set, why would they just remove that from the game?

@murrrkle #107
Ike is actually the face of American Fire Emblem. Most die hard fans would take Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn over any of the newer Fire Emblems.

"misinterpreted" Ha!, they don't want to change, they just want to find ways to blindside the consumer.

As upsetting as it is, Nintendo really did make the right choice. They most likely would have lost most if not all of the potential lawsuits that might have occurred.

@unrandomsam #82
I really have no answer to that. Either they are skimping on those details so that they can put more into objects with greater focus, or they don't have enough power to make them look any better.

@Ryno #73
Plastic would have a harsh white reflection from the whole entire object, these objects only have a white glow around the edges and at the points furthest out from the center, such as objects in real life do.

@TromboneGamer #62
That is very true.

@Ryno #65
That's because lighting is actually the most important thing when it comes to reality. Check out Pedro Campos Anyone can draw the objects the same way he did, but it is the way that he added the lighting that makes them looks so real.

@LUIGITORNADO
Really? Are you so unfamiliar with screenshots that you don't know that they show pixels that you will not see when actually playing the game?

@TromboneGamer #2 @gatorboi352 #6 @Ryno #24 @Savino #25 @ToniK #27
You guys are scarring me, do you really not know how light interacts with objects? The only shots where Mario looked "plastic" were when he was in the rain. The rest of the shots only show a soft glow around the characters which is natural in bright sunlight and near bright florescent lights, and a stronger glow when near lava (which is a very high source of energy).

@gatorboi352 #15
Did you not realize that the only time they showed the Dry Bones, they were under the rain?

@Justaguest #6
Then you are not playing on a high enough level.

My sister loves plushies, so I just had to pre-order.

@DrRandle #3
I'm sorry to tell you, this is nothing like Toriyama's art style.

@Zombie_Barioth
True, I can agree with that. It's always a sad thing when someone passes away.

@Zombie_Barioth #160
Oh, he is indeed a loss to his family and much more, I agree that saying that no one will miss him is disrespectful, but to the industry? No.
"what your saying is because he made mistakes during his career any good he has done is irrelevant."

Thanks for reading.

It is sad that he died, but that is an overstatement. He dropped out of the industry before the GameCube's cycle even ended, so it has been running without him for a while. And on top of that, he nearly ran Nintendo into the ground with his decisions. Not to discredit all of the great things this man did (such as bringing Nintendo into the gaming market), but he is not a loss.

@Snkfiend #10
Except that cheese on a sandwich is very much noticed, why do you think they have hamburgers without cheese and cheese burgers with cheese and cheese sandwiches with only cheese and bread?

@Hyperstar96
By that logic, why not just get rid of animals all together? Then none of them would get rabies.

@Hyperstar96 #31
Does that change the fact that homebrew is mostly used by pirates? Homebrew is a cool concept, it's a nice thing to have, but it's really hard to justify it's existence and use when people don't respect its original purpose. If a dog has rabies, would you let it run around and bite your loved ones and infect other animals? Or would you put it down to keep it from harming people and other animals?

@Hyperstar96
The thing is, if you hombrew the game, you have to own a copy of it anyway so there is almost no point in putting it on a flash drive, it only saves you five seconds of switching time on the DS anyway and a little more on the Wii. Homebrew is even more pointless on the 3DS and Wii U where you can now download the game, and switching between games is even faster than with homebrew. It annoys me how people talk about homebrew like it's mostly used by honest people and not pirates, and as if it is still relevant.