The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

Post by otikik » Fri, May 12, 2023, 12:19 PM UTC

arvinsim wrote: post #191

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The low weapons durability encourages the player to use all the weapons instead of a small set of his favourite weapons. Notice how even though your weapons break all the time, you (almost) never [1] run out of weapons. You can steal weapons from the enemies or pick up whatever is around and use it as a weapon. Initially, I did not like this mechanism, but I have come to appreciate it. It reduces your comfort, but yo…

Yeah, I remember binging BOTW until I got to the part in the castle where the Lynel is. I still haven't picked up BOTW again because of that.

Post by slackfan » Fri, May 12, 2023, 12:21 PM UTC

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #10

Apparently the game is just 16GB and runs seamlessly on a decade old hardware with no loading screens between game areas. How does Nintendo pull it off?

Post by hmry » Fri, May 12, 2023, 12:23 PM UTC

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It appears I have to do an 5y old explanation. 1 - In the product line of Nintendo consoles ever produced, the N64 by being an SGI Onyx in a box, was the exception in regards to IP before technical specifications. 2 - In 1996, when the N64 was released into the market, ALL game consoles had hardware limitations of some sort. This includes Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, and Playstation 1.

> 2 - In 1996, when the N64 was released into the market, ALL game consoles had hardware limitations of some sort. This includes Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, and Playstation 1. So, N64 wasn't an exception since it's a console with hardware limitation ?

Post by endisneigh » Fri, May 12, 2023, 12:24 PM UTC

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Software generally isn't released forever. Can you buy the original Metroid Prime for Gamecube? Nope. Same with pretty much any old game. It was a time limited release for the anniversary. If you still want it you can buy the disk version on Amazon for $100, no?

Super Mario 3D All Stars was released on September 18, 2020 and was available until March 31, 2021, when it was discontinued. Six months. I’ll get the popcorn for the Nintendo apologist responses. But this is silly, foolish, and absolutely anti-Nintendo when it comes to it games being about fun and not about collecting or scalping. I’m not paying $159 for it. I’ll just pirate it.

Post by PeterisP » Fri, May 12, 2023, 12:30 PM UTC

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If you are serious (I do game development for a living and work on graphical assets daily so that seems evident for me, but I totally understand it can be arcane stuff) it's simply that they choose a stylized graphical style avoiding a lot of costly details you generaly find in hight end games. They use low poly models, as far as I know there is no baked lightmap (these are pretty expensives but are mandatory in a lo…

>If you are serious I absolutely am serious; a lot of games and software in general today demand far more system resources than they have any reasonable right to. Don't give me "but the textures!" and the like either, optimize that stuff better instead. Whether it's Windows 10/11 or Call of Duty or Elite: Dangerous or Chrome or whatever strikes your fancy, software today has no business demanding the resources they d…