While I rarely agree with you because you are usually overzealously defending some game that isn't that good, I will make an exception. You are absolutely spot on; of course this portable Zelda will have some functional-but-ignored multiplayer mode, just like all the portable Zeldas you've listed.

Whatever, nerds. Nintendo freely adds gods, demigods, deities, spirits, fairies, oracles, and whatever they fuck they want to the Zelda mythos, whenever they feel like it. If you see any foreshadowing or forethought in any part of the Zelda pantheon/mythology, you're seeing what you want to see.

For me, the XL is just big enough that it looks like I'm sticking something way too bulky in my pockets, and the fabric is really strained. I generally have wallet and phone in one pocket, keys and change in the other, and neither really has room for the volume an XL occupies.
Though yeah, if you significantly use your…

As long as you're fine with your 3DS XL not fitting in your pocket and needing to be kept in a backpack/bag of some sort, the 3DS XL is better than the 3DS in every single way.

Annotating the article text and article pictures both seem really unnecessary to me. It's still mostly a feature that just enable people to make glib jokes. The users who actually have anything original or insightful to say in the comments seem to barely ever annotate anything.

I've read in other threads that the volunteers would be basing the game off of a (fairly extensive?) PDF design document Notch released of what he intended the game to be. This article makes it seems like fans would just be making a game called 0x10c and just trying to make it seem like the short trailer and "yo man,…

My greatest Wii regret is that I played Trauma Center: Second Opinion on the Wii (liked it), then played Trauma Center: New Blood on the Wii (hated it because it was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too similar to the first game and still had way too many "remove these sci-fi parasites" missions). So then I was burnt out on the…

Everybody in War of the Roses takes like a gajillion hits to die, so I don't think War of the Roses is Battlefield or CoD. It's...whatever FPS where you have 50,000 health and it takes 30 bullets to kill you.

A game with puzzle-solving, where they introduce a new gimmick to allow for different puzzles than the previous game contained? THAT NEVER HAPPENS. Nope. Never.

It is ridiculously rare for anyone to split a prize pool at any broadcasted sporting/gaming event where the competitors are considered some of the best in their class (like ChrisG and Flocker).

Well that's very narrow-minded of you. Sometimes designers/writers have a DLC idea that isn't an extension of the exact same characters or time period or whatever as in the main campaign, and can't naturally just be another mission that pops up somewhere along the course of the game.

Meh, that Luigi camouflage just looks weird.

Because Twilight Princess had the most bland art design of just about any 3D Zelda?

Can we make all Zeldas look like Link's Awakening? GAME BOY DEMAKE CHALLENGE ISSUED!

Yeah, for sure. In this case, Silicon Knights/Precursor Games sort of seem like the type who are circumventing the common sense of publishers by just going straight to fans to resurrect their decade-old game.

An AU-long pole would be very unwieldy, so I can't blame them.

If you're a fan and don't work in the video games press or development, I'm still pretty sure there are less-than-honest ways to get a press pass for far less than 5k.

It turns out Kickstarter is becoming the avenue for any developer who just doesn't want to deal with publishers. Video game publishers, in a lot of cases, really just want something to be a guaranteed hit that has mass appeal, so a lot of riskier, more interesting ideas never see the light of day.

I dunno, other Kickstarters have made "opportunity to have design input on the game" a fairly high donation amount (like, at least $500 or something).

It sounds better than "We sure did extinguish all demand for the game by releasing a product that was constantly on fire, which was then found out to have been built on a foundation of lies."