This Just In: Nintendo Doesn't Get It

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Originally Posted by James

What they're talking about here is basic level flow. Intensity followed by brief rest. If it's all intensity all the time it burns the player out, it's not fun. By sticking the player at the beginning of the level when they run out of lives, or back at a checkpoint after losing one, they ensure they've got one or two bits the player can be good at before kicking his ass again. They're viewing a cycle of accomplish-accomplish-fail as better than fail-fail-fail-fail-fail.

And yeah, their comments on the origin of continues is dumb, but that's not really relevant to the overall discussion.

James

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I read the link and this is what I got out of the discussion as well. It seems the discussed design is based on the philosophy that it is better when one is able to overcome the more difficult obstacles in a cohesive level flow allowing one to develop a gameplay rhythm leading back up to the challenge rather than just ramming through it head on repeatedly until finally breaking through from a shortened, more concentrated distance (provided in the form of numerous continues or checkpoints restarting you at or close to the point of failure). This makes me think of games along the lines of PS2 Shinobi (the exception being boss battles).

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Originally Posted by dog$

Dude all gooks look and sound alike with their ching chong wing wong language and sloped foreheads and such. How am I supposed to know where those two are from.

Compass

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Gooks are Korean, Chinks are Chinese. Japs, Chow Mein ,and eggrolls are Japanese. Charlies, Rice eaters, and Ho Chi Men are Vietnamese.


Please consult your Redneck to Asian insult dictionary next time before you open your mouth.

I thought gooks were Vietnamese.

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Originally Posted by Advocate

Chow Mein ,and eggrolls are Japanese.

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Those don't make any sense at all! In my part of Pennsyltucky we were always careful to make sure we applied the right slur to the right group of filthy slant eyes.

I'm not getting how "Chow Mein" and "Eggrolls" are slurs for the Japanese either, but maybe that's part of the puzzle - slurs, and the people that use them, are stupid.

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Originally Posted by Advocate

Gooks are Korean, Chinks are Chinese. Japs, Chow Mein ,and eggrolls are Japanese. Charlies, Rice eaters, and Ho Chi Men are Vietnamese.


Please consult your Redneck to Asian insult dictionary next time before you open your mouth.

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Chow mein is a Chinese dish, and egg rolls are more known with the Chinese as well.

I'm sure racist are aware of that.

I bet they spent many hours researching how black people look like racoons before calling them coons as well.

Hey, can this thread be called, "This Just In: Tendo Doesn't Get It" so we have some kind of play on "Intendo"? I keep reading it as "Intendo Doesn't Get It" and i'm so disappointed when i realize that it doesn't really say that. Also, it could be some kind of questionable reference to Ranma 1/2, like a fan-fic or something where girl Ranma feels more attracted to Akane than boy Ranma does. It'd be funny.

that show was rarely funny.

Shut your cracker-ass mouth.

My daughter got a Wii for Christmas. After playing NSMB and the WiiWare Excitebike, seems to me that Nintendo gets it just fine.