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Re: 'Nintendo Music' Update Adds Wii Sports Soundtrack, Here's Every Song Included

rushiosan

@romanista Which means preservation is at a halt since they don't have any other way to distribute official soundtracks outside a Switch Online plan. I fail to see who's their audience with this app, really. I like the idea but the subscription model is just wrong for people who don't own the hardware, it costs more than Spotify but offers way less, with no Desktop version as well.

Re: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Rated For Switch By ESRB

rushiosan

@Dr_Lugae Pachinko and other minigames remained exactly the same in Virtual Console releases back then. There is even a gambling minigame in Wario Land, slot machines in Mario Land 2, various casino minigames in SNES Yoshi's Island, a freaking CASINO in Super Mario RPG... well, you get the idea. None of those games received a higher rating in the release/re-releases.

Re: Soapbox: How Zelda's Bad Economy Made Weapon Degradation Great Again

rushiosan

@Cia Except you are. At the end of BotW, you only care about Royal gear because endgame enemies get 10x more health and no other weapon gets enough durability to stand a single encounter. In Silver Lynel fights, you switch between everything you have at your inventory and ends up wasting at least 3 good melee weapons. For what? Are the rewards really worth that much? Anyway, the strategy is always: 1- Farm Durians, cook all five in a single dish to full recovery + 20 bonus hearts; 2- Go to the castle, loot weapons, ignore enemies, warp outside; 3- Buy arrows.

Re: Hideki Kamiya Reveals Why He Left PlatinumGames

rushiosan

Wonderful 101 was a work of art and was extremely underrated back when it came out and during the kickstarter re-release. I guess we get the games we deserve after all. Why bother making a very polished product when you can simply squeeze another sequel? No doubt they'll keep milking Bayonetta just like Fire Emblem.

Re: Geoff Keighley Agrees Music Was Played "Too Fast" For TGA Winners This Year

rushiosan

@ModdedInkling It's not about highlighting the best crafted games of the year, It's about promoting companies. The "awards" are nothing but premium ADs. There is a good reason why you only see AAAs populating the relevant categories, even though stuff like Among Us were extremely popular or influential in their respective years. Those deserve the budget categories like Best Indie or Best Family Game so the billion-dollar publishers don't get offended. The fact we're always labeling pixel art games as "Indies" says a lot about how the industry works.

TGA is just a very expensive farse.

Re: Zelda Timeline Is Only Considered "To An Extent" During Development, Says TOTK Director

rushiosan

@LXP8 Ocarina is essentially a reimagining of Link to the Past in 3D. In fact, this is how Nintendo creators craft their games - the tech and gameplay lead the story, not the opposite. They take certain established concepts as part of a chronology (i.e. Ganon being sealed, the hero venturing through the Dark World, the sages, the triforce) but never in a strict way like a direct sequel of a movie would do. Final Fantasy also works the same - there are certain characters or entities that share multiple iterations between entries, but those games are also legends, never connected chronologically.

The idea of caring about a timeline in a franchise where each game is treated as an independent chronicle is laughable to say the least.

Re: Random: The Game Awards Urged Eiji Aonuma To 'Wrap Up' Zelda Acceptance Speech

rushiosan

It shouldn't take more than 30 seconds to say a thank you and thank everyone who helped in the game. This is basic stuff. A minute maybe, if you're considering a stretch.

Truth is that no one is interested in hearing long speeches and crap like "I've been dreaming of becoming a developer since I was 8 in my little hometown and gaming was always my passion blablabla". Problem is - 80% of this ***** party is all about advertising and e-celebrities.