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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

The Switch has got to be the biggest POS in gaming history.

Poor Nintendo. How you have crashed and burned.

They are only alive because they have some of the most iconic characters in the history of gaming. Their console sucks

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

The Switch has got to be the biggest POS in gaming history.

Poor Nintendo. How you have crashed and burned.

They are only alive because they have some of the most iconic characters in the history of gaming. Their console sucks

And mostly only iconic if you played them as a child. Take that away and I don't see new people getting them unless it's the "follow the crowd" effect. It's hipster to like some Nintendo stuff for kids today. But without that effect, I don't see anyone picking up these IPs and saying "wow, this is on par with other AAA games today." For those that played them for decades, of course they are iconic and nostalgic and you are continuing a tradition and it makes sense. But you don't see many teenagers finding them to be competitive with gameplay in other games, at least not that I've seen.

coliver

Moving away from their traditional game play is doing wonders from Nintendo. Breath of the Wild would have worked just as well as a new IP as it does as a Zelda game. It's not perfect but it is very good.

wirestyle22

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Moving away from their traditional game play is doing wonders from Nintendo. Breath of the Wild would have worked just as well as a new IP as it does as a Zelda game. It's not perfect but it is very good.

Agree

scottalanmiller

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Moving away from their traditional game play is doing wonders from Nintendo. Breath of the Wild would have worked just as well as a new IP as it does as a Zelda game. It's not perfect but it is very good.

You won't fool me. Nintendo got me to try too may Zelda games. I've been burned way too many times. No more Nintendo crap in this house. Wii and Wii U were their last two chances. I'm not going to be that idiot again.

NDC

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Moving away from their traditional game play is doing wonders from Nintendo. Breath of the Wild would have worked just as well as a new IP as it does as a Zelda game. It's not perfect but it is very good.

You won't fool me. Nintendo got me to try too may Zelda games. I've been burned way too many times. No more Nintendo crap in this house. Wii and Wii U were their last two chances. I'm not going to be that idiot again.

Breath of the Wild is the first launch game I've ever felt genuinely justified the purchase of the system.

If other decent titles come out eventually that's just icing on this delicious Switch cake.

scottalanmiller

@NDC said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Moving away from their traditional game play is doing wonders from Nintendo. Breath of the Wild would have worked just as well as a new IP as it does as a Zelda game. It's not perfect but it is very good.

You won't fool me. Nintendo got me to try too may Zelda games. I've been burned way too many times. No more Nintendo crap in this house. Wii and Wii U were their last two chances. I'm not going to be that idiot again.

Breath of the Wild is the first launch game I've ever felt genuinely justified the purchase of the system.

If other decent titles come out eventually that's just icing on this delicious Switch cake.

Honestly if you gave it to me for free, I'd not even turn it on. Seriously, I will never trust Zelda as a recommendation again. It's one of the few games that I actively would rather just stare at the wall than play.

scottalanmiller

Unlike most people my age, we didn't have Nintendo or any Zelda when I was young. So I have no nostalgic component to it, so I can only judge it on its gameplay merits. And as storytelling is my most important piece of gaming and that's the piece that Zelda skips (it's action RPG with puzzles) there's nothing to make me like it.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Unlike most people my age, we didn't have Nintendo or any Zelda when I was young. So I have no nostalgic component to it, so I can only judge it on its gameplay merits. And as storytelling is my most important piece of gaming and that's the piece that Zelda skips (it's action RPG with puzzles) there's nothing to make me like it.

LOL - me either. My two younger brothers fought over gaming things when they were super young, so my dad made a decision that stuck until my parents were divorced - nothing newer than an Atari 2800 in the house.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Unlike most people my age, we didn't have Nintendo or any Zelda when I was young. So I have no nostalgic component to it, so I can only judge it on its gameplay merits. And as storytelling is my most important piece of gaming and that's the piece that Zelda skips (it's action RPG with puzzles) there's nothing to make me like it.

LOL - me either. My two younger brothers fought over gaming things when they were super young, so my dad made a decision that stuck until my parents were divorced - nothing newer than an Atari 2800 in the house.

If I had played it from the beginning or even from the 1992 release, I could see being into it today because of that. But since I didn't... it's entirely lost on me. I even have the gold cart of Ocarina, but hated the game so much I never completed it. I've given it quite the chance(s). I own nearly every entry in the series, but after the last few titles just got less and less on par with other games, I've given up trying to understand the appeal. It's just not my thing.

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Unlike most people my age, we didn't have Nintendo or any Zelda when I was young. So I have no nostalgic component to it, so I can only judge it on its gameplay merits. And as storytelling is my most important piece of gaming and that's the piece that Zelda skips (it's action RPG with puzzles) there's nothing to make me like it.

LOL - me either. My two younger brothers fought over gaming things when they were super young, so my dad made a decision that stuck until my parents were divorced - nothing newer than an Atari 2800 in the house.

If I had played it from the beginning or even from the 1992 release, I could see being into it today because of that. But since I didn't... it's entirely lost on me. I even have the gold cart of Ocarina, but hated the game so much I never completed it. I've given it quite the chance(s). I own nearly every entry in the series, but after the last few titles just got less and less on par with other games, I've given up trying to understand the appeal. It's just not my thing.

You didn't enjoy a link to the past?

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Unlike most people my age, we didn't have Nintendo or any Zelda when I was young. So I have no nostalgic component to it, so I can only judge it on its gameplay merits. And as storytelling is my most important piece of gaming and that's the piece that Zelda skips (it's action RPG with puzzles) there's nothing to make me like it.

LOL - me either. My two younger brothers fought over gaming things when they were super young, so my dad made a decision that stuck until my parents were divorced - nothing newer than an Atari 2800 in the house.

If I had played it from the beginning or even from the 1992 release, I could see being into it today because of that. But since I didn't... it's entirely lost on me. I even have the gold cart of Ocarina, but hated the game so much I never completed it. I've given it quite the chance(s). I own nearly every entry in the series, but after the last few titles just got less and less on par with other games, I've given up trying to understand the appeal. It's just not my thing.

You didn't enjoy a link to the past?

I enjoyed no title in the series. Link to the Past and Windwaker are the two that I found best. But not good enough to say that I enjoyed them. By the end Windwaker makes me angry to even mention, playing it or even thinking about playing it grinds on me. My kids want me to play it and I just can't do it. There is no reason to subject myself to it, it just ruins my time.

To me their are like Marvel movies. They feel like they were phoned in in such a way that the people making them seem to be mocking the people who bought them. I feel like Nintendo (or Marvel) are laughing at me for being unable to not give them money no matter what they do.