The circumstances being "right," of course, will never happen so long as the great people who made the series what it was now work at other companies... or are dead.
Did no one bother to read the list?
Nintendo isn't "shunned" at all. It's represented just as much if not moreso than any other developer there, except maybe Square-Enix.
Like what? 'Cause all I'm getting from that list + your post is that someone's probably a bigot, and it's probably not anyone who contributed to that list.
Huh. Didn't even know there was a companion app. I've got the android GAME, which is just the naval combat from AC4 and nothing else, which is pretty badass. I've actually played that more than AC4 proper.
Though part of that has to do with how swamped I am with PC games now that the sale and bludgeoned me to death, not to mention the DOS alpha and Wasteland 2 beta coming out the same week.
@Joseph225: I was referring more to how TLOU really doesn't do anything "new." It's basically a refinement of all the best/biggest/most popular gaming tropes of its generation--zombies, cover-based shooting, cinematic games, a little girl helper character, etc., etc.
When zombies aren't as popular and when cover-based shooting games aren't so ubiquitous and cinematic games no longer the benchmark of quality, will TLOU still have the same impact on ga...
I don't know of TLOU is "classic" material.
Don't get me wrong, it was a great game... but it's too much a product of "its generation," if you know what I mean. It won't have the same resonance in 10 years that it did this year, let alone two years.
Part of me thinks game awards should be segregated by budget. There are plenty of Indy games this year that are just as good as the big AAAs, but they don't get any recognition. Games like Don't Starve and Guacamelee just can't compete with the massive media coverage given to GTAs and Assassin Creeds.
@Knightshade: Please. Your review begins with "At its core, Rome II is not a bad game."
Which is patently false. There is literally nothing about Rome 2 that is well-done. It's a massive step backward from Shogun 2 in every respect.
You also published that review nearly three weeks after the game launched, so you're not really relevant to this problem, are you?
Funny, I thought defining a game as something with a win and a lose state was the MOST general definition possible. Although maybe I was a little vague. I define a game as "Interactive media with a win and/or lose state."
Stanley has neither. And, obviously, I'm defining interactive electronic visual media games, not games in general.
@coolbeans: yes, that's correct. In that case, instead of a game, you're dealing with a simulation. Alte...
There's no failure state.
Stanley Parable was like a solid 5/10 for me. +5 for being funny, -5 for not being a game.
But that was before I got to the Minecraft bit.
I only played A Link to the Past briefly and really didn't care for it. The combat window was too narrow (dated game design) for me to suffer through.
I also agree that it doesn't look amazing at all. I really, really don't care for the direction--looks too amateurish to my eyes.
The story is also pretty threadbare and by-the-numbers.
That said: from a mechanics and design perspective A Link Between Worlds is the absolute best Zel...
It needs more games.
Or, rather, it has games--it needs more LOCALIZATION of games.
The Western industry alone cannot sustain a handheld in the Western market. If the Vita had the same games in NA and EU that it has in Japan right now, there'd be a lot less whining and complaining.
7? Yikes. I hadn't realized the numbers had gotten so high.
But at least Nintendo has fixed all of the issues I had with the 3DS OS now. Wish I could say the same for the WiiU.
Depends what you mean be "safe."
If you mean it meets the high standard of quality Nintendo has for its flagship titles, it certainly does.
If you mean it's a product of the conservative game design that Nintendo has relied on for the past decade or so, you're also right--but only to a degree. ALBW is basically the Zelda version of Mario Galaxy--it doesn't really change up the core design of the game much, but refines the mechanics of pl...
So from this I take it that PS4 PSN games are just being called PS4 games to avoid confusion with the plethora of PSN games the PS4 can't play?
For those of you who went crazy and bought up a PS4 at launch, I'd strongly suggest giving Contrast a try. I've heard it's deeply flawed, but also that it's one of the most interesting and unique experiences on the platform.
If there's no messaging, then what's the point? All Miiverse is is a family-friendly (and Nintendo-friendly) BBS.
Nice argumentum ad hominem.
His statement is appropriate, accurate, and impossible to argue with. The fact that it applies just as much to the WiiU as the PS4 and XBox3 is irrelevant.
I know this kind of BS is to be expected with the console war heating up, and so many idiots running around masturbating to their favorite anti-consumerist corporation, but with all the ejaculation going on I'm getting real tired of having to wipe the metaphoric sperm from m...
That's not how it works.
There's a big difference between "news" and the absurd number of people who have an intense emotional investment in Nintendo "failing," which comprise the 99% of Nintendo opinion pieces that aren't fanboy wank.