Exactly. He's also not a fan of "holding pattern" games and excessive gimmickry. Whenever he complains about controller gimmickry he's always quick to remind his point of reference for a "perfect" controller is the GameCube's.President Bagel said:And also Super Mario World and Metroid Prime. I've never bought into the misconception that he's biased against Nintendo, either. He just doesn't like it when game developers rely too much on nostalgia.Johnny Novgorod said:He liked Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Super Paper Mario, EarthBound and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. He's just biased against games that are bad and/or boring.LordTerminal said:You're biased against Nintendo and you don't like fighting games so why touch something you obviously aren't going to like other than to deliberately piss people off?
Me too. He praised just about everything in Alien Isolation, whereas the one thing that caught his eye about Shadow of Mordor was the Nemesis System. I would've sworn it would be 1) Alien, 2) Mordor, 3) Wolfenstein or Shovel Knight, etc.erttheking said:Yeah but there's a difference between loving it and loving it more than anything else that came out this year. I thought Alien Isolation would've taken that prize.Johnny Novgorod said:Didn't you watch his review? He loved it.erttheking said:Also on another note, Shadow of Mordor? Honestly didn't see that coming.
The fact that he wants Nintendo to go third party is proof enough for me to assume that he doesn't respect Nintendo, no matter what he tells us about his feelings regarding the company's stance towards actual gaming. He likes 6 Nintendo games. He doesn't like Nintendo, he liked 6 games that they released. It's like if a guy said that he likes video games but only played a certain series. He doesn't like video games, he just likes that series of video games.Johnny Novgorod said:Exactly. He's also not a fan of "holding pattern" games and excessive gimmickry. Whenever he complains about controller gimmickry he's always quick to remind his point of reference for a "perfect" controller is the GameCube's.President Bagel said:And also Super Mario World and Metroid Prime. I've never bought into the misconception that he's biased against Nintendo, either. He just doesn't like it when game developers rely too much on nostalgia.Johnny Novgorod said:He liked Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Super Paper Mario, EarthBound and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. He's just biased against games that are bad and/or boring.LordTerminal said:You're biased against Nintendo and you don't like fighting games so why touch something you obviously aren't going to like other than to deliberately piss people off?
Why? Their best games are third party these days. Like Bayonetta and ZombiU. What's wrong with having more third party games on their side?Ryallen said:The fact that he wants Nintendo to go third party is proof enough for me to assume that he doesn't respect Nintendo,Johnny Novgorod said:Exactly. He's also not a fan of "holding pattern" games and excessive gimmickry. Whenever he complains about controller gimmickry he's always quick to remind his point of reference for a "perfect" controller is the GameCube's.President Bagel said:And also Super Mario World and Metroid Prime. I've never bought into the misconception that he's biased against Nintendo, either. He just doesn't like it when game developers rely too much on nostalgia.Johnny Novgorod said:He liked Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Super Paper Mario, EarthBound and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. He's just biased against games that are bad and/or boring.LordTerminal said:You're biased against Nintendo and you don't like fighting games so why touch something you obviously aren't going to like other than to deliberately piss people off?
Not that he wants Nintendo to have more third party games. That would only do good things for the Wii U, and frankly, I'm in support of it. What I mean is that he said in one of his blog posts that he thinks that Nintendo should abandon the Wii U, the 3DS, and all future plans for consoles, and release ports on Steam. Doing so would only hurt Nintendo, as part of their identity is making games for THEIR consoles. Going third party and making PC games would just make Nintendo another PC gaming company, and severely limit what they make. This post was made a year ago, in 2013, I think, but it's not as if his opinion of Nintendo has increased, what with him still bashing Nintendo and a good portion of their fanbase, if not its entirety. Without even giving any sort of idea what he wants them to do, besides just move to PC games only.Johnny Novgorod said:Why? Their best games are third party these days. Like Bayonetta and ZombiU. What's wrong with having more third party games on their side?Ryallen said:The fact that he wants Nintendo to go third party is proof enough for me to assume that he doesn't respect Nintendo,Johnny Novgorod said:Exactly. He's also not a fan of "holding pattern" games and excessive gimmickry. Whenever he complains about controller gimmickry he's always quick to remind his point of reference for a "perfect" controller is the GameCube's.President Bagel said:And also Super Mario World and Metroid Prime. I've never bought into the misconception that he's biased against Nintendo, either. He just doesn't like it when game developers rely too much on nostalgia.Johnny Novgorod said:He liked Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Super Paper Mario, EarthBound and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. He's just biased against games that are bad and/or boring.LordTerminal said:You're biased against Nintendo and you don't like fighting games so why touch something you obviously aren't going to like other than to deliberately piss people off?
Ryallen is talking about Nintendo ceasing console production and just developing games for other consoles.Johnny Novgorod said:Why? Their best games are third party these days. Like Bayonetta and ZombiU. What's wrong with having more third party games on their side?Ryallen said:The fact that he wants Nintendo to go third party is proof enough for me to assume that he doesn't respect Nintendo,Johnny Novgorod said:Exactly. He's also not a fan of "holding pattern" games and excessive gimmickry. Whenever he complains about controller gimmickry he's always quick to remind his point of reference for a "perfect" controller is the GameCube's.President Bagel said:And also Super Mario World and Metroid Prime. I've never bought into the misconception that he's biased against Nintendo, either. He just doesn't like it when game developers rely too much on nostalgia.Johnny Novgorod said:He liked Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Super Paper Mario, EarthBound and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. He's just biased against games that are bad and/or boring.LordTerminal said:You're biased against Nintendo and you don't like fighting games so why touch something you obviously aren't going to like other than to deliberately piss people off?
I agree, while I do love Bayonetta (which reminds me, I need to get the 2nd one) and making some of their games 3rd party might be good, however going completely 3rd party and moving to the PC would be a terrible idea, especially considering how much of a train wreck Steam has become recently. There are many reasons why 2014 was a bad year for games and Steam is one of those reasons.Ryallen said:Johnny Novgorod said:Why? Their best games are third party these days. Like Bayonetta and ZombiU. What's wrong with having more third party games on their side?Ryallen said:The fact that he wants Nintendo to go third party is proof enough for me to assume that he doesn't respect Nintendo,Johnny Novgorod said:Exactly. He's also not a fan of "holding pattern" games and excessive gimmickry. Whenever he complains about controller gimmickry he's always quick to remind his point of reference for a "perfect" controller is the GameCube's.President Bagel said:And also Super Mario World and Metroid Prime. I've never bought into the misconception that he's biased against Nintendo, either. He just doesn't like it when game developers rely too much on nostalgia.Johnny Novgorod said:He liked Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Super Paper Mario, EarthBound and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. He's just biased against games that are bad and/or boring.LordTerminal said:You're biased against Nintendo and you don't like fighting games so why touch something you obviously aren't going to like other than to deliberately piss people off?
Not that he wants Nintendo to have more third party games. That would only do good things for the Wii U, and frankly, I'm in support of it. What I mean is that he said in one of his blog posts that he thinks that Nintendo should abandon the Wii U, the 3DS, and all future plans for consoles, and release ports on Steam. Doing so would only hurt Nintendo, as part of their identity is making games for THEIR consoles. Going third party and making PC games would just make Nintendo another PC gaming company, and severely limit what they make. This post was made a year ago, in 2013, I think, but it's not as if his opinion of Nintendo has increased, what with him still bashing Nintendo and a good portion of their fanbase, if not its entirety. Without even giving any sort of idea what he wants them to do, besides just move to PC games only.
EDIT:Not to mention I think that PC gaming isn't popular in Japan anyways.
EDIT:Here's the link to the article:http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/11018-What-Has-Nintendo-Done-Right-Lately
As it turns out it was written in February of 2014.
You have to pay fairly close attention to which slope of the circle they're on. If they're on the upwards slope then they're part of the top five, if they're on the downwards slope then they're part of the bottom games.cojo965 said:I've watched it several times now and I'm still confused, what is it?Lightknight said:The way the top and bottom games were portrayed was perhaps the most confusing way Yahtzee has displayed them. I would have preferred to see them all at one time in relation to one another. This video in general was a bit on the confusion side but I suppose he was just fitting it all into one spot.
I've got to watch it a second time to be sure of what I saw or missed.
EDIT: Ok, after watching it a second time I guess that makes sense. You top-hatted beautiful bastard, you. Haha.
One would think that the general tone when talking about games should lend a clue as to whether Yahtzee enjoyed it or not...Lightknight said:You have to pay fairly close attention to which slope of the circle they're on. If they're on the upwards slope then they're part of the top five, if they're on the downwards slope then they're part of the bottom games.cojo965 said:I've watched it several times now and I'm still confused, what is it?Lightknight said:The way the top and bottom games were portrayed was perhaps the most confusing way Yahtzee has displayed them. I would have preferred to see them all at one time in relation to one another. This video in general was a bit on the confusion side but I suppose he was just fitting it all into one spot.
I've got to watch it a second time to be sure of what I saw or missed.
EDIT: Ok, after watching it a second time I guess that makes sense. You top-hatted beautiful bastard, you. Haha.
Sound effects also somewhat help. Certainly the most confusing of his annual awards videos I've seen.
But I can't honestly say that this year deserved the same kind of attention previous ones have.
Do you know how many game of the year awards exist in this world?red255 said:...There was nothing on your list on either side I was particularly desired to play.
According to the ad on steam Wasteland 2 won some game of the year 2014. why didn't you mention it? I'm having fun playing it. not thinking I'd have much fun playing your numbers 1-3...
That's the sad thing, none of these games won because they were awesome and must plays but because they didn't fuck up or do what the rest did, rather bad year even if I think a few were hated more than deserving.Conner42 said:At least there were games for a top 5 best, even if it all of them "won" by default because nothing that interesting really came out. I honestly though it was going to be a straight-up bottom 5 for this year, but I guess I can be surprised sometimes.
I wouldn't call Nintendo's the most interesting, yeah Bayonetta 2 and Hyrule Warriors looks nice and I will get a Wii U for them eventually but the other's don't look interesting at all, just HD reskins of older (if good) games. No different than what CoD etc do.Aiddon said:And what's funny is Nintendo clearly had the most interesting software this year between stuff like Mario Kart 8, Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2, Smash Bros., etc while the newfangled "next-gen" consoles with their shiny new IPs floundered for one reason or another. It just goes to show that a lot of the time the young upstarts are just that: upstarts who are second bananas for a reason. Often it's the old masters who bring things forward, proving why they're in charge and the upstarts should stick to serving coffee for awhile.
Um...ok.(whitty name here) said:Do you know how many game of the year awards exist in this world?
Portal won like, 8 when it came out. Winning a game of the year award doesn't automatically make you the biggest talking point of the everything.