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38/40 "If you don;t play this game you are a fucking imbecile" - google translate.
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Oh damn GS might have leaked their Donkey Kong Country TF review score... 5!!!!!
Oh shit if true. You can see a link for it through gamefaqs.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/wii-u/718938-donkey-kong-country-tropical-freeze
I hope that's not true about Donkey Kong. It's one of the few games I look forward to this year.
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How could it possibly be that bad? The original was awesome and its from Retro again.
It seems it maybe too hard for some... and its McShea
I'd take that review with a grain of salt. It seems fashionable these days for Gamespot to award lower scores.
Yeah. Over the past year or two Gamespot has gone out of their way to be provocative on reviews and other opinion pieces to get extra hits. I go back to RE6 getting that 4.5 score as a prime example. But even in the other direction, look at Link Between Worlds getting their Game of the Year award. I'm playing that right now, and loving every minute of it, but it is no GotY when you compare it to a lot of the other titles that came out last year. The site needs to be ignored on every level. It offers up absolutely nothing and is just a waste of programming and bandwidth at this point.
I just unlocked the 5th playable character in 3D World. Nice!
Gamespot reviews? What's that?
Just a random note, but after watching my son and some of his friends play some games over the past few days I really have to question Nintendo on why they're still ignoring the whole "creation" genre or whatever you'd like to call it. Minecraft, LBP, Disney Infinity. This is what I'm seeing them all play. They'll just build levels, worlds, or whatever and kill hours doing it. Not a coincidence that I see a lot of merchendise and clothing for that stuff as well (maybe not for LBP though if it were multi-platform you can bet your ass there would be). For a company that's philosophy is, "video games are toys" Nintendo is really missing the boat on a genre that's really routed in that belief.
I've asked the very same question before. I actually pondered a 'Mushroom Kingdom' game in the vein of MineCraft.
The conclusion is: Nintendo never gives the player that much creative freedom. They are so strict and controlling of their brands, image, reputation and games, that they would probably --NEVER-- do something like this, and that's a shame. Just another way Nintendo is refusing to adapt to the times and falling behind... again.
Yep. Sad but true. Though maybe they could create a non-branded game (heaven forbid it be a new IP right?) for something like that. It's going to be biting them in the ass soon enough. Outside of Pokemon and Mario Kart, my kids don't really have a strong interest in any of the classic franchises. I don't see things much different with their friends either.
Robio, you nailed it. That is certainly a direction Nintendo needs to head in. As someone who interacts with hundreds of children nearly every day, I can tell you that that genre is huge. I have kids that will walk past me in the hall and just blurt, "Minecraft!" They know that I've played it and they proudly display the fact that they do as well, in t-shirts, drawings, notebooks. Not a week goes by that I don't have dissuade a student from adding a Creeper into their Georgia O'Keefe flower drawings or something similar to that.
Nintendo already has a "creation" type game, and it has been around for over 10 years now: Animal Crossing.
Animal Crossing is not really focused on creation, though. More like hoarding.
With limited control and options over what you create. Very limited.
I have played Tales, I am playing Inazuma Eleven, Bravely Default and Lightning Returns. Vader is playing Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Steel is playing Shin Megami Tensei IV...
February really IS JRPG month at The VG Press!!
Pretty much this. Nintendo is completely missing the boat on what kids want to play now.
Nintendo also released Mario Paint over 20 years ago! That's pure creation! And don't forget the Mario Artist series on N64DD!
WarioWare DIY. I'm sure Nintendo saw the kind of minigames some gamers created, and thought it wisest to not venture in that area anymore.