But the real question is: does it still control like a clunky, gummy, unresponsive mess where all you really do is push up to win as the dev shoves sweeping vista after sweeping vista down your eye sockets? Where the only thing that counts as player agency is walking into arenas with chest-high walls and sputter…

“Because I say things, they must be facts”

This looks a bit like Firewatch - using color, lighting, etc. to build a good moody look without having to dump 100,000 polys on every tree to justify its existence.

No...don’t contradict them. A Gamer can never be wrong in their assumptions. Ever.

In the article, the head guy at Disney spells it out: only the first year was a success. Every version past that did progressively worse. So...I don’t think it has anything to do with ‘expecting to be stomped’ by competitors. The damage was already done.

Also Discovery Channel, I think. Or NatGeo. I get the two mixed up.

ITT: None of us own or run large businesses, but we present every presumption and theory as irrefutable fact.

haha, I don’t think it’s as deep as that. I think it has plenty to do with self-interests though.

You mean, devs hating Nintendo, Because Nintendo?

In my professional experience, if all you tell kids is ‘go to school, get into college’ and basically run their education by-the-numbers, they’ll be in for a rude awakening growing up.

Study, kids! That way you can go to a good college, graduate, and get loaded down with student loans.

We’ve seen this in the franchise before. The reveal trailer for Black Ops II, which took the franchise into the future for the first time, had the most dislikes of any reveal trailer we had ever made at that time. And that, of course, went on to become our most successful game ever.

They never found the Wii U more or less confusing than these insane naming conventions. They just made that excuse up because they hate Nintendo, Because Nintendo.

Given the amount of hinting done in the past that Nintendo doesn’t really know what to do with the series to make it popular again, the delays on this game, and the possible importance it may have for determining the fate of Zelda in the future...it kinda makes sense?

I’d say listen to this week’s GiantBomb podcast. They touch on this, and on comment that makes sense is that, E3 isn’t this mainstream event that Gamers and critics make it out to be.

Because they hate Nintendo, Because Nintendo

I’d say 3 and 4, just because I really like those, and it’s when the series began adopting its more modern mechanics. Stuff like a day/night cycle, developing relationships with other characters, etc. didn’t really get rolling til 3. I’m guessing 5 will be very similar in that regard, but with a different world to go…

Maybe that’s why I’ve liked FO4 much less than 3 or New Vegas.

maybe this is just the decade of Getting Mad About Things

That’s interesting - I grew up on console games and only got the bad end of flak for it. Didn’t experience other PC gamers who were more about talking about why they like PC.