Its really not on the same level as Earthbound. Its a mildly competent parody game that feel like it would fit better on Android or iOS than a dedicated gaming platform.
Also: extremely annoying load times.
I've never seen anyone characterize Nintendo as "nice." Out of touch and anachronistic, sure, but never nice.
Unless you think being "slight less anti-consumer than its' direct competitors, but still pretty anti-consumer" is the same as "nice."
After playing CoE myself, I can say it really deserves all these middling reviews. You can really see why it failed its Kickstarter.
Also, by changing their core mechanics some to emulate Zelda, they also made the best Musou game to date. Locking on to enemies and being able to roll/dodge are huge innovations for the franchise.
They were also able to do much note imaginative movesets due to no longer being constrained by a real world setting.
So, yeah: Hyrule Warriors deserves its success.
The coin landing on its edge.
(And if you know what game/s I'm talking about with that, congratulations, you have impeccable taste.)
...Xenoblade Chronicles is a port of a game you can play on a Wii or WiiU. It's no more an exclusive than OoT3D, Tales of the Abyss, or Guacamelee.
Other exclusive? I didn't realize it had even one.
I had an ongoing "conversation" with XSEED (I think?) customer support over email and message boards that lasted three years. My new copy of Wild Arms ACF, a two-disc PS2 RPG, had a defective disc 2.
So while, yeah, it sucks that publishers are trying to sell beta-stage games as gold, the fact that its so easy for devs to patch game-btraking problems these days is a GODSEND that more than makes up for it.
Well, that would be the one platform Sony has with a ton of great games.
Wow. I didn't think anyone was so far gone as to bemoan the cessation of a terrible rewards program for the launch of a new, potentially better program.
I mean, hell, not even Nintendo could make the new program worse than the Club.
I've only ever seen hipsters used as an Internet bogeyman to belittle the opinions of others. As for MM being "dark" ...Nope. Still haven't seen that descriptor before. Thematically MM is about futility and the inevitability of death, visually its bright and colorful. I guess you could call the themes dark, but certainly not brooding. The central theme of the game is about how people ACT in the face of the inevitable... Which is the opposite of brooding.
You're the only person I've ever seen call any Nintendo game "dark and brooding," let alone Majora's Mask, which was quite a bit more colorful than its predecessor.
And you do realize that hipsters really don't exist, right? And if they did, the only person here trying to conform to that archetype would be you, right?
I am so sick of people pointing this out like it's a relevant distinction. It's not. Not even close. Basic logic: if A=B and B=C then A=C.
Nintendo can do all the promotions they want. Sony will always be offering a vastly superior service so long as Nintendo continues to tie digital content to hardware.
I'd totally buy another copy of three if Sony gave us Steam-like gift inventories.
There are plenty of big games coming out this year that they really haven't spoken much about--Kirby, two Xenoblades, Youkai Watch, Bravely Default 2, Starfox, Majoras Mask, etc., plus all the big games they HAVE spoken a lot about--Zelda U, Mario Maker, Splatoon, etc.
So I imagine theyll talk more about the former and maybe give us some release dates for the latter. I do not expect them to announce any new games.
But in a perfect world they'd announc...
So far none of the DLC seems very interesting to me. I love the game, but the DLC seems really halfassed.
Nintendo... Planning anything for the virtual console? Sounds like a pipe dream.
You guys are missing the point. Without BC there is no option: you either play your games via an inferior and expensive streaming service, or not at all.
And no, "just buy/keep a PS3/PS2" is not a valid counterargument because scarcity and entropy are things that exist.
I saw the word "switch" and for a brief, beautiful moment thought there was a third Mighty Switch Force game. Now I'm sad.