This Just In: Nintendo Doesn't Get It

[Fe 26]

I honestly don't get why there's so many people in this thread accusing everyone else of being so outraged.

two gooks> derp derp derp
some people> some of that stuff those two gooks said is pretty ridiculous
the rest> WHY ARE YOU GUYS SO OUTRAGED? WHY ARE YOU COMPARING ONE OF THEM TO HITLER WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE? CAN'T YOU GUYS EVER SHUT UP???

probably because Yoshi's first post reads like a fox news report

There is this ridiculous ongoing series called "Ask Iwata." A recent entry saw Miyamoto and Iwata talking about New Super Mario Bros. The whole thing is somewhat frightening, but I especially "enjoyed" this part:









How do you say "hippie socialist" in Japanese?

he could just as well be talking about the demo's pleading for the death of babies.

[A Robot Bit Me]

If you die before completing a level, you have to do everything all over again! Hardcore! GotY!

If you die before completing a castle, you have to do everything all over again! LOL Nintendo is neutering their games! Retards!

Whatever, jerks!

How does sparse checkpoints = making games too easy? Isn't it the opposite? They're saying that any idiot can credit-feed their way through a shooter if they're willing to continue enough. Instead of applying that to Mario, they figured that it's better, if you lose all of your lives, to be asked to replay the stuff that you can beat before retrying the part that you couldn't. And they're right. It does make you feel like you're better at the game, and it does it without injuring the game's difficulty at all.

[dog$]

Being asked to replay stuff I can beat before retrying the part that I couldn't can easily make me feel infuriated and that the entire exercise is a waste of time, because I keep having to repeat doing things that I know I can do.

It certainly doesn't make me feel that I'm any better at the game.

[Joust Williams]

great but there's no part of those Nintendo games that you can't sleepwalk through

I don't feel I am better at the game; I just feel that their games are easy shit

[A Robot Bit Me]

Wasn't the complaint most commonly levied against Bioshock that dying didn't set you back at all?

MAKE UP YOUR MIND, INTERNET.

[Joust Williams]

yes, the most common complaint was that it was too easy

[Yoshi]

How does sparse checkpoints = making games too easy?

[A Robot Bit Me]

Well, how does they?

[Josh]

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[Joust Williams]

ugh

because if the game is easy (which it is), it doesn't matter if there are 0 or 5000000 checkpoints

you don't need them