How Nintendo makes the video game industry look good

[Onyxmeth]

Johann said:

Game_boy said:

Onyxmeth said:

Johann said:

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I completely disagree. If anything, Nintendo has been putting more dialog in their games since the 8-bit era as a result of influence from other game companies doing so.

I realy hate it when I see any dialog in a Nintendo game. I don't care about the plot, just give me the game already!

Well I'm happy that you spit in the way of progress. It would have been so great for Mass Effect to just forget about the plot and just give us the game already. Same thing with Bioshock. Forget about why you're rummaging around an underwater city, and why these people are so hostile, and why you need to kill little girls accompanied by odd, walking submarine men, let's just shoot stuff.

 

That is why they make those games for you, and one of the reason why we would not buy Bioshock or Mass Effect. Get your text out of my games, especially Metroid.

That's what I'm talking about. The plot in a metroid game means absolutely nothing. It just keeps you from the game and it's annoying. Some games don't need a story because they are all about the gameplay.

I'm not talking about games like Metroid, Mario, etc. where they were bred out of the 8-bit era when stories could be entirely scratched onto a napkin. Obviously pasting a story onto Mario at this point would be futile. I mean Nintendo continues to make series that offer little in the way of story. In the N64 era, Rare made the story driven games for Nintendo. In the Gamecube era, Eternal Darkness was the heaviest story and was developed externally by Silicon Knights. Outside of Intelligent Systems, whom I feel do a fantastic job at times of merging great gameplay and enticing story-telling, where does Nintendo even make an effort? I cry every time I play another Zelda game with a painted on story to accompany it.

As far as Game Boy: you hate Microsoft thus I wouldn't expect you to like Bioshock or Mass Effect out of blind hatred. Your name alon shows me I shouldn't expect a fair shake of an opinion out of you regarding anything Nintendo. Leave it be.