No one is saying it can’t be understood by playing it. This is describing the development process. There wasn’t anything to play when they were making the game.

Of course it’s taken out of context. This is an entire article built on a few lines from an interview that describe a really common concept in games and fiction: lore references.

Yea “required” is not accurate but the point is valid. This article is disingenuous for 1) leaving out the (pre-vaccine) pandemic as the reason for that decision and 2) implying that this decision (and not the pandemic) “decimated” the movie theater industry (which is still around FYI).

George’s dead fiancée Susan (and his palpable relief after her death) would like a word.

Zelda arguably invented the concept of an open world game with its first title.

Reminder that Nintendo went “back to basics” with the Zelda franchise as recently as Skyward Sword, with it’s puzzly environments. And of course that was very controversial to the fans of the more open worldy Twighlight Princess and Wind Waker.

Some single player games do have a resource economy, but I don’t think this game is one of those. It has a basic currency system with fixed prices per item. When a writer uses the term economy, the implication is variable pricing.

Does it matter if you “break the economy” of a single player game? Using the term economy usually implies some sort of player driven market in MMOs.

Spoken like a very young PC gamer. As someone who bought the first series of 3DFX GPUs, I can promise you this is nowhere near the worst time to be a PC Gamer.

Luke I appreciate thus article. Not pointing fingers, but I think the media at large also bears some responsibility for this.  As an audience we get a ton of information, but very little analysis.

And that’s if you’re paying full price. We also forget that drastically discounted games didn’t exist until Steam Sales took off about 12 years ago.

Yea I actively despise Sheeran’s music, and his general vibe, but I was rooting for him on this one.

Nothing wrong with changing lines, lots of actors do it. But most of them don’t publicly announce it at the expense of their coworkers’ reputation.

I don’t know that I would even characterize this as punching, and the down is debatable considering she probably got paid 100x what they did.

I probably would have called this “teasing” instead of scapegoating. I didn’t see any writers blaming Ortega for the conditions that led to the strike, and I didn’t see any executives blaming Ortega for the strike.

I probably would have called this “teasing” instead of scapegoating. I didn’t see any writers blaming Ortega for the conditions that led to the strike, and I didn’t see any executives blaming Ortega for the strike.

Yea this game would be so much better if it grappled with PTSD, war time sexual assault, the poor treatment of veterans, and the military industrial complex.  And who better to deal with that subject than Nintendo.

Totally agree. And I was just thinking about how unethical it is to play a Mario game.

Honestly I don’t think anything. I think we’re now past the point of incredible graphical changes across generations.

Its a reasonable association given the vast numbers of bad faith anti woke white guys.