todd, you’ve done it again

  • Nate Cox@programming.dev
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    9 days ago

    It’s frustrating that a small number of really good franchises are locked into the Nintendo bullshit business model.

    Xenoblade Chronicles, Zelda, Mario, and a couple of other series running on Steam Deck without the emulation nonsense would make me tremendously happy.

    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Zelda and Mario are first party, so I get that, but Xenoblade kills me. I need a rerelease of Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade on PC.

    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      The xenoblade game for the switch 1 was okay but the way all the women were depicted was fucking creepy and weird

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        8 days ago

        The worst part is, I consider myself a bit of a gooner; I like alluring, attractive characters. But that was meant to be a story-based game, and yet it designed so many jokes around attractive women dressing in rags, being clueless, easily offended, and seemed to design the story around an intense contact between a shonen hero and a large-breasted woman.

        At least in something like Stellar Blade, they evade the subject because they know there’s nothing constructive to say.

      • Nate Cox@programming.dev
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        8 days ago

        3 mostly solved this, it was way more reasonable. 2 was a great game with fantastic voice acting that was really diminished by the character models.

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        7 days ago

        Both BOTW and TOTK are some of the most well optimized games ever made. It’s truly wild that both those games can be played on what’s basically a suped up smart phone from 2016 and look and play as well as they do.

        Unless you’re talking about everything else in the game, idk

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          7 days ago

          I was thinking of it not being the same story over and over again for 25 years

          I think mask and oracle of ages/seasons was the last time they tried something interesting

    • mesa@piefed.social
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      8 days ago

      Meh most work on emulation. The only thing going legal would do is ease of use (maybe) and more $$ for nintendo.