19th January 2017, 12:44 PM
That phone based Fire Emblem game sure was a disappointment. The sad thing is, a pure touch screen interface would work fine with Fire Emblem. Heck, I use the touch screen almost exclusively with the current crop of Fire Emblem games as it is. Turn based strategy is a perfect match for that.
At least you see where I'm coming from when it comes to Zelda, and I do get your point of view. I think the main reason Zelda isn't playable in Zelda games comes down to history. Nintendo is just too afraid to mess with their formula. It's the same reason you never play as anyone but Link in the series. There's a good number of games where multiple characters seem to have a lot going on, but it's always Link. I've said it before but Nintendo's biggest barrier is being able to look past their icons for a moment to really come up with some new perspectives in future games in a series. (The most recent Metroid game is an example of that done badly though. Care must be taken.) Heck, the newest Mario game continues the trend (ever since Mario 64) of putting Luigi on the back burner. He gets the occasional breakout oddball game like Luigi's Mansion, but goes largely ignored in the "main" series of Mario games. It's only in the New Super Mario Bros. series where they've seen fit to actually bring him back, but when it comes to stuff like Mario Galaxy and the upcoming one, he's outta there. It's a lot more acceptable with Mario because really the story doesn't matter at all in that series, but it still is a bit of a shame. Peach's character is a sticking point with me because there's plenty of material that gives her a much more compelling and fun personality. Super Mario Adventures and Super Mario RPG are the highlights, and are how I've seen her personality for years now, which is what makes her rather vapid persona in Super Princess Peach so annoying. At any rate, while sexism plays a part (it's how the male leads were picked in the first place when the series were young), the biggest barrier right now seems to be a fear of breaking out of the norms they've set.
I'm with you when it comes to all these complaints. It really does seem to me that people are just looking for things to be mad about when it comes to the switch. There's no shortage of little problems with the thing (the cost of that docking station is ridiculous, and the online being entirely linked to a cell phone that little kids may or may not have is a big mistake if that's the ONLY way to use it), but when people keep asking, nay, DEMANDING that they sell a "version of the switch without the docking station" because they "deserve to have a choice", it really angers up the blood. Get over yourselves, I want to shout at them. The docking station is the entire point, barely adds to the cost at all (in spite of what the individual docking stations are overpriced at) and frankly if they want JUST a switch they can always just buy that part by itself used like anything else. I think MS's whole Kinect debacle really got to these type's heads and now they've convinced themselves they've got every right to demand everything be removed from a system if they don't like it. Heck, why not demand a version of the system without the joycons while you're at it?
There's also the matter of Nintendo once again stating that the time-limited free games will only work for a month. The first time around, I was pretty sure that was a mistranslation of Nintendo saying you could only DOWNLOAD them for one month but they'd stay working forever after. Now I'm not so sure, because if NOA is still working off a mistranslation then at the very least there's a serious communication problem going on there.
At least you see where I'm coming from when it comes to Zelda, and I do get your point of view. I think the main reason Zelda isn't playable in Zelda games comes down to history. Nintendo is just too afraid to mess with their formula. It's the same reason you never play as anyone but Link in the series. There's a good number of games where multiple characters seem to have a lot going on, but it's always Link. I've said it before but Nintendo's biggest barrier is being able to look past their icons for a moment to really come up with some new perspectives in future games in a series. (The most recent Metroid game is an example of that done badly though. Care must be taken.) Heck, the newest Mario game continues the trend (ever since Mario 64) of putting Luigi on the back burner. He gets the occasional breakout oddball game like Luigi's Mansion, but goes largely ignored in the "main" series of Mario games. It's only in the New Super Mario Bros. series where they've seen fit to actually bring him back, but when it comes to stuff like Mario Galaxy and the upcoming one, he's outta there. It's a lot more acceptable with Mario because really the story doesn't matter at all in that series, but it still is a bit of a shame. Peach's character is a sticking point with me because there's plenty of material that gives her a much more compelling and fun personality. Super Mario Adventures and Super Mario RPG are the highlights, and are how I've seen her personality for years now, which is what makes her rather vapid persona in Super Princess Peach so annoying. At any rate, while sexism plays a part (it's how the male leads were picked in the first place when the series were young), the biggest barrier right now seems to be a fear of breaking out of the norms they've set.
I'm with you when it comes to all these complaints. It really does seem to me that people are just looking for things to be mad about when it comes to the switch. There's no shortage of little problems with the thing (the cost of that docking station is ridiculous, and the online being entirely linked to a cell phone that little kids may or may not have is a big mistake if that's the ONLY way to use it), but when people keep asking, nay, DEMANDING that they sell a "version of the switch without the docking station" because they "deserve to have a choice", it really angers up the blood. Get over yourselves, I want to shout at them. The docking station is the entire point, barely adds to the cost at all (in spite of what the individual docking stations are overpriced at) and frankly if they want JUST a switch they can always just buy that part by itself used like anything else. I think MS's whole Kinect debacle really got to these type's heads and now they've convinced themselves they've got every right to demand everything be removed from a system if they don't like it. Heck, why not demand a version of the system without the joycons while you're at it?
There's also the matter of Nintendo once again stating that the time-limited free games will only work for a month. The first time around, I was pretty sure that was a mistranslation of Nintendo saying you could only DOWNLOAD them for one month but they'd stay working forever after. Now I'm not so sure, because if NOA is still working off a mistranslation then at the very least there's a serious communication problem going on there.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)