Suspicious Dish posted:

now what incentive will the speedrunners choose for the botw charity marathon run

Infinitum posted:

ImpAtom posted:

The game does make use of the control scheme to emulate real motions in addition to doing attacks that follow the direction of your swipes. Doing a direct 1-for-1 swordplay would require something far more complex than we're able to do right now with anything.

ArmyOfMidgets posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6cTt_nxTWo

Basically, if it uses NVIDIA's brand newest chip it'll be pretty close to the Xbone/PS4 ballpark, if not, well.

Lemming posted:

If you're only peripherally aware of Metroid fandom you'd have known about it for years

ImpAtom posted:

Well, for one, Nintendo likes having extremely strong control over their IPs. It's a major factor in why they remain a console developer instead of going third party and it is only recently they've been willing to branch out to mobile.

Another is that it's impossible to tell the quality or viability of a project like AM2R at first blush or indeed until it's almost finished. "This project looks good" devolving into a giant messy clusterfuck is common enough that you only need to look at Kickstarter to get a feel for it. AM2R was in development for 10 years and was the work of novice developers who had the advantage of no timelines or budgets to work on. Snatch it up early enough and you risk it exploding. Snatch it up late and you look at PR troubles for taking a 'free' thing and making it cost money.

Third is that "snatching up a project' can be messy when it involves a bunch of fans creating a work together without contracts or previous authorization. Imagine if one guy who did spritework or music or something started making a fuss over it. It's super-easy for fan projects made for fun to implode if they go commercial and it can become a huge headache.

Fourth is that it can legitimately devalue the brand. If Nintendo makes Metroid Dread, a 2D sidescrolling callback to the classic Metroids, you'll now have people going "Well, someone made Metroid 2 Remake FOR FREE, why should I pay $20 for it?" If Nintendo grabs it and releases it for $5 you'll hear the same thing. People won't care that it is a 10-year project using recycled assets, just that they got it for free. If Nintendo isn't associated with it then you'll still hear that but it'll at least be "a fan did it" instead of "Nintendo did it."

greatn posted:

Look at how much Capcom has done with the Mega Man property after they published the Mega Man vs Street Fighter fangame! They released an nes ROM collection another company begged to let them make!

BillmasterCozb posted:

i mean, everyone hated a certain upcoming metroid game after a 30 second trailer

greatn posted:

He also is a Zelda aficionado, his favorite is Big Blue Ganon

Ometeotl posted:

Risk. All it takes is one "oops, the developer snuck a racist slur into the source code" kind of deal and suddenly Nintendo's responsible.

Zack Ater posted:

The linked Oracle games

SeANMcBAY posted:

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2248/
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2235/

Obviously you'll need to play via flash cart or an emulator for these to work. It's not perfect and some obvious things you still need stylus controls for but it's a much more comfortable way to play the games, especially for weirdos like me that finds handwriting awkward as well.

coffeecup posted:

-knight armor
-samurai outfit and top-knot hairdo

Patter Song posted:

They're different looks. LTTP Link had purple hair.

Trent posted:

I have this one

romanowski posted:

surely by now you've seen the trailer they released back at e3

coffeecup posted:

Yo s.i.r.e. here's a blog post that shows the samurai outfit. It may be a little more interpretable in motion though. Video can be found in the link at the start of the article.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

It technically is. Isn't all the gameplay shown so far from that initial starting zone?

Suspicious Dish posted:

The quality of Twilight Princess's dungeons are on par with OoT / MM.

Guy Goodbody posted:

That sucks. Do any of the other 3DS Zeldas have dress up options?

IronicDongz posted:

TP's Yeti mansion and Arbiter's grounds are a couple of my favorite dungeons in any LoZ game.

coffeecup posted:

Cool! For some reason I never expected them to make more besides the two Skyward Sword Links and the LBW Link. Guess they've made enough profit to do more. And probably has to do with the TP HD release. It would be cool if the trend continued and they tackled other games; I'd love a good Wind Waker Link (the "nendoroid" version is a little weird).

Surprised there's a Zelda this time around, too. I imagine the further you stray from a series' most iconic character, you end up dividing a niche market further and further and it stops being worth it to produce. I'll remain cautiously pessimistic about ever getting a Dampe toy.

Geostomp posted:

If they do that nonlinear dungeon design again, I want to see challenges for items instead of just some jerk in a shop. It's nowhere near as rewarding to the way ALbW did it.

coffeecup posted:

This is how the upgrade system works, with the little shell duders.

coffeecup posted:

Oh oh yeah. That would be neat to see again. When it's the basis of a game like "learn the origin of Link's SWORD or his HAT" it kinda falls flat. I don't care why his clothing is green.

I'm not sure why, but it definitely works better as little self-contained story vignettes like "I'm a kid and I'm too sick to catch bugs, borrow my net for a bit so I can play outside vicariously."

Hedrigall posted:

This is a bit off-topic, but the new HBO show Westworld gives me a huge Majora's Mask vibe.

Basic premise, for those who don't know: It's a futuristic theme park with androids populating a wild-west town. They're basically artificially intelligent NPCs. Every few days the park's "narrative" resets (with killed androids coming back to life and so on), and depending on what the new wave of guests decide to do, the events the androids play out change. In the show they even refer to the looping events as "cycles".

It's also a really good show with a great cast and some really creepy mysteries set up in the first episode.

ArmyOfMidgets posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaksmndynT8

Huh, forest water insta-kills the plant boss in WW, who knew?

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

Wait, seriously? The starter sword has worse damage than a literal stick?

Suspicious Dish posted:

is barrier skip RTA practical yet

turn left hillary!! noo posted:

I've never played any of the portable Zeldas before, or even known much about them, so imagine my surprise and pleasure after I think about Oracle of Seasons with a few hours into it, and realize it's set in the Hyrule of Zelda 1.