Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

Post by morelisp » Thu, May 18, 2023, 4:05 PM UTC

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nintendo's playbook: bet on withered technologies. which means their focus is only on gameplay mechanics, story and art direction. not focusing on bugs that are well not known cz of using something too new, expensive etc. not fancy graphics, or other modern fancy things - that don't really add anything to the game. wish the software industry would learn to bet on old technologies and develop novel experiences on thos…

You are wrong there. Nintendo instead been always pushing the tech. The NES, SNES, N64 and GameCube were part of the "bits race" and kept pushing forward in hardware power. Mario 64 is credited along with Wing Commander for creating the AAA graphics race at all costs behavior in the industry. The Wii wasn't entirely a direction change, Nintendo felt competing on CPU power now was not interesting and went for motion c…

Post by nicolaslem » Thu, May 18, 2023, 4:06 PM UTC

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Turns out, fps is not as important for making good games as people thought.

Movies have been THE gold standard for quality since the beginning of time... and usually are displayed in 24 fps. If Inception runs at 24 fps, Zelda does not need to run at 60 fps.

Post by mrguyorama » Thu, May 18, 2023, 4:09 PM UTC

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People hate Phantom hourglass because of the Ocean temple, despite the entire POINT of the ocean temple being improving your ability to skip most of it the next run. By the midpoint of the game, you can get to the midpoint of the ocean temple in a minute, without using any tricks. It's a speedrun integrated into a mainstream game that doesn't require stupid precision to be good at. Meanwhile it had incredible music,…

PH really is underrated. It's one of the only Zeldas I've gone back to for repeat playthroughs, and it's fun every time. You're absolutely right that the Ocean Temple is an integrated speedrun experience -- and even then, they really make it fun to go back through old floors to make use of new routes and obtain locked-off treasure chests. Also, Linebeck is one of my top-three sidekicks out of any Zelda game. He reall…

Post by vlunkr » Thu, May 18, 2023, 4:12 PM UTC

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Sure there’s a few bad eggs, even in the Zelda series there’s a couple, but the trend is not in that direction.

Which Zelda games are bad in your opinion?

Post by jstarfish » Thu, May 18, 2023, 4:13 PM UTC

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And the control schemes drag it back down into the quagmire of unplayable mess despite all that work. An excellent example of the broader point about development focus.

The clunky controls of rockstar games is intentional! They think it's "more immersive" for your character to just not do what you want it to do. Saints Row 4 is better than GTA 5, change my mind.