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Shareholders are worried because Nintendo's quality control appears to have slipped in the last two years. Let's go through this carefully.

1. Echoes of Wisdom has the lowest Metacritic score of any Zelda game in decades. Nintendo entrusted the game to the first female game director in the company's history, and she ultimately failed to knock it out of the park for reasons unknown.

2. Metroid Prime 4 has a lower Metacritic score than Other M. Nintendo and Retro entrusted the game's writing to a millennial trans activist, and she ultimately failed to knock it out of the park for reasons unknown.

3. Mario and Luigi Brothership: lowest Metacritic of any Mario RPG in recent memory.

4. Donkey Kong Banaza, while praised, also had a low Metacritic score compared to the devs' previous games.

5. Mario Kart World had the lowest Metacritic score of any mainline Mario Kart game.

Need I go on?

Whether because of a crackdown on crunch culture, a rise of lazy millennial devs who prefer to troon out than turn out good content, or simply a decline of institutional knowledge as older devs retire and fail to pass on their skills, Nintendo is facing an unprecedented decline in software quality, a decline that will prove hard to reverse.

Oh, sure, Nintendo shareholders have been nervous before, but always because of hardware issues (the Wii U), never software. Software quality is the ultimate test of Nintendo's corporate health, and right now that health ain't looking good.
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dont care still buying it
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mhm gonna slurp the tasty dip
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Anyone claiming that Bananza is bad is a FUCKING MORON
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>>730780580
>Need I go on?
Yes
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>>730780580
I also like making up bullshit for attention too OP.
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>>730780580
>Mario Kart World had the lowest Metacritic score of any mainline Mario Kart game.
Didn't they put fucking super circuit as the highest?
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>>730780580
>in the last two years.
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>>730780758
Water tastes better when you're in a desert.
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>>730780580
It's a boomer cult. They will always outperform every other vidya brand.
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>>730780580
Echoes was a better Zelda game and better at doing an open world for the series than Botw and totk.
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>>730780908
>food analogy
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>>730780758
My singular complaint is that DK isle should have been a part of the main game.
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>>730780885
this. The shitch as a console was low fucking quality and THAT WAS A HANDHELD + HOME CONSOLE MERGED
fucking embarassing how the joycons drift, how easily the console would overheat, and the kekstand
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>>730780580
shareholders are a joke, i still remember when nintendo stock dropped because they decided to not crunch on the release of animal crossing
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>>730780580
I don't care about any of those games you mentioned besides DK and I thought that game was great. Are people being harder on the game because it doesn't have Mario on it?
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>>730780580
>Need I go on?
No, I think you made your point. No need for this thread to keep going, really.
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>>730780580
GOOD
I didn't buy and won't, even if Kirby Air Riders is fun as fuck. Let's keep the pressure up and make sure they know game keycards are cancer and unwelcome.
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>Nintendo's quality control appears to have slipped in the last two years
>in the last two years
Try twenty. Iwata was the death of quality control. He fell too hard on the "work as a safe, relaxed environment" meme to offset the years of his predecessor's tyranny. The reality is we needed both of their extremes to fuse together where people who love to develop video games thrive and the people who are their primarily for work are held accountable to their lead's standards.
But now we have a bunch of lead designers/producers and first-party devs with no standards, who don't care enough to know how to design good vidya. So we get shit, or worse, shit that's trying to copy shit (I.E. Ubisoft, Open World, Microtransactions, DLC, etc...) and doing it infinitely worse.
Legitimately there is not a single Nintendo produced/developed game released in the last 15 or so years that I'd rather play over titles like Dragon's Dogma, Far Cry 4, Deus Ex, Stardew Valley, and Rocket League.
These niggas are completely irrelevant at every genre except Platforming, and they're not even great at that anymore. Nevermind they're so fucking few and far between releases. I mean goddamn, Odyssey came out almost a decade ago.
STOP FUCKING DEVELOPING MARIO SPORTS GAMES, NOBODY CARES. MAKE A WII SPORTS SEQUEL WITH MARIO SKINS AND END THIS INSUFFERABLE REPACKAGING OF SHITTY, LOW EFFORT MARIO PARTY-TIER """SPORTS""" TITLES.
FUCK.
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>>730781279
This. Plus making the launch models a paper-weight until you got the day 1 patch left a bad taste in my mouth. I will just buy a used system at this point, but they can still get some software sheckles from me if they try and remedy the key shit.
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>1. Echoes of Wisdom has the lowest Metacritic score of any Zelda game in decades.
wrong
>2. Metroid Prime 4 has a lower Metacritic score than Other M.
good
>3.
>recent memory.
fag
>4. Donkey Kong Banaza, while praised,
fag
>5. Mario Kart World had the lowest Metacritic score of any mainline Mario Kart game.
also wrong

>Need I go on?
you need to kill youself
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>Pokémon Legends Z-A paid DLC locks Mega Stones behind online battles requiring a subscription
I hope Doug Bowser and his tranny successor die in a car crash, Zampella-style baby
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>>730781008
OOOOOOH BANANA
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>>730781585
>Pass user since 2013
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Brothership got vastly overshadowed by Expedition 33, which is basically M&L gameplay but artsy fartsy. It's an alright entry.
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>>730780580
Guys, this is it. This is the moment we've been waiting for over 40 years
Nintendo is finally going to die!!!!!!!
Any day now... I promise.... this time it's really going to happen.
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nintendo lost their premium aura
no cap
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>>730780580
>>Shareholders are worried because...
The increase in RAM prices are going to either fuck Nintendo's margins on their console sales or result in increased prices resulting in lower sales across the board. Both result in lower profitability.

Shareholders do not care about review scores my nigga.
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>>730781585
>t. pass user
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>>730780580
They let woke shit over take their games.
Im not buying a single game from them until I know that poison has left their system.
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eric won
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>>730780580
so nintendo games are finally being rated appropriately instead of vastly inflated scores? Wow, what a tragedy.
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>>730780580
Bananza is literally one of the top 5 best games ever made
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>>730782106
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>>730781894
I am fine with bridging the generation gap over giving the middle finger to corporate motherfuckery.
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why am I supposed to care about the stock price?
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>>730780580
Good thing I'm not a shareholder so I have nothing to worry about.
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>>730780969
I was actually pleasently suprised at how close to the normal zelda experience it was despite the open world and copy mechanic, sadly they'll learn nothing from it and go full bore with the TOTK "make your own fun" sandbox desert model
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>>730781895
Nintendo negotiates stuff like that so far ahead of time and are relatively insulated because the Switch 2 is old tech. They've got a couple years at least. It'll probably affect the timing of the refresh.
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>>730780580

1. reasons known, it's because the game can be broken easily with just the bed.

2. Not entirely the fault of the writing it's been established that Nintendo did not let Retro fully reset the scrapped version they already had before handing over the reigns due to sunk cost fallacy which sabotaged the game's quality

3. Brothership is miles better than Dream Team and Paper Jam combined

4. You are a retard

5. Valid critique on Mario Kart World, it still sold millions though. Seethe.

Go peddle your incel rhetoric somewhere else
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>>730780580
>knock it out of the park
Am I ESL for not having heard or read this expression ever or is OP's post the shill ESL?
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>>730782635
You've never heard that? Its a phrase that comes from Baseball
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>>730780580
>Shareholders are worried because Nintendo's quality control appears to have slipped in the last two years.
Source: your asshole

>metacritic metacritic metacritic
Please just kill yourself already
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>>730781658
>gif
>>730782740
No, never. I don't watch or haven't played baseball ever but I should've still have seen it used once on normie media. It's really strange.
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>>730781008
>he eats his water
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>>730780821
super KINO
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>>730780758
It was mid at best
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>>730783491
you didn't play it
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Still buying a Switch 2
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Still not buying a shitch 2
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Still keeping my Switch 2 that I boughted at launch
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>>730783510
I did actually. The game was mindless. It was piss easy busting through everything and bosses were a fucking joke. If you turned your brain off to consider this game amazing I ask you to turn it back on now, if that's even possible for you. It was an okay 3D plat, nothing particularly special about it besides the novelty of destroying terrain
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>>730783513
You outed yourself by using the term "tendie" unironically.
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>>730784030
Now I know for sure you've never played it lol
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>>730784114
If you say so. Maybe you're so mentally deficient you found it challenging.
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>>730780969
It still had the stink of "le make your own fun" which kinda ruined the whole game. When I can just summon minions to fight for me, at virtually no cost, there's no challenge to be had.
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>>730784201
Keep the insults coming. I'm sure some tendie will come along and get triggered like you are hoping.
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Nintendo is going under and there's nothing anyone here can do about it.

You retards treat everything like a joke.
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>>730780758
It's ugly and terrible you blind retard.
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>>730784267
fpbp
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>>730784280
You didn't play it
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>>730782106
It has good moments, but it's repetitive.
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>>730783513
buy it already it's been out for 7 months
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>>730784254
>Keep the insults coming
Sure thing. You're also a faggot. I notice you're not actually denying anything I said, maybe you're the one that didn't actually play it.
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>>730782780
How else are you supposed to objectively measure the quality of games?
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>>730780580
Its going to get worse. The only big hitter for Nintendung is Migrant Emblem. This was developed before Japan became dangerously based and rejected the DEI slop.
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>>730784316
Don't have to play it. Just like nobody has to see evidence to know that Trump is a pedophile.
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>>730784316
I'd kill myself if i had to control that disgusting animal Kong, i can't even say his name.
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>Everyone who played Bananza loved it and thinks its a top 10 game of all time!
>I didn't like it that much
>You didn't play it.
It's just that easy, huh?
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why don't investors just murder low scoring metacritics are they stupid
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>>730784343
Okay
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>>730784441
Every DK game post DKC3 has been garbage. Yes, including the N64 one.
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>>730784380
I'd kill myself if I were you too
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>>730784510
You didn't play them.
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>>730784441
>Everyone who played Bananza loved it and thinks its a top 10 game of all time
literally no one says this + you didn't play it
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>>730784441
The same could be said of tranny simulators like E33 and Baldur's Gate 3. their steam pages say that they're overwhelmingly positive in reviews. Do you really wanna rely on retarded normgroid appeal? Or do you prefer the retards who run metacritic? which flavor of shit do you prefer?
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>>730784380
King K. Rool was 47, he was just a kid
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>>730784527
I don't waste my time with garbage.
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>>730784558
>literally no one says this
You didn't play it.
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>>730784350
>metacritic
>objective
You are so full of shit I dint know why I even bothered responding
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>>730784636
>You didn't play it.
You didn't play it
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You niggers really need to reconvene in your little discord and come up with better baits. This entire thread is embarrassing.
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>>730780580
Nintendo is pivoting away from video games as a business and purely into managing their IPs. Think about it, why should they spend effort and money making games on their underpowered restrictive hardware when just licensing Mario and Zelda brings in so much more cash?
Those IPs are also mature enough that you don't even need to make new games to keep them relevant, just like Mikey Mouse doesn't need a new movie or show to remain the most popular fictional character in the world.
So it's only natural that they don't really care about the new games that they put out being subpar and getting low scores, their captive audience will still buy them and people won't stop buying merch or going to theme parks because of them.
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>>730780580
We've been over this in the last thread, Snoy.
Stocks of every electronics company that doesn't make parts are down because shareholders fear the RAMageddon.
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>>730784976
Good, let them go back to selling cards while the world dies.
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>>730785063
It all returns to nothing
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>>730785030
Nintendo will leverage AI to turn into a gatekeeper for licensing their own IPs to AI services, so people will make their own Mario and Zelda games while they get paid for usage by generative service providers.
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You're all believing shit that has no evidence at all.
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>>730780908
But enough about Astrobot
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>>730780580
>Nintendo and Retro entrusted the game's writing to a millennial trans activist,
no wonder MP4 bombed
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>>730783513
Based
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>>730785428
>Astrobot is still living rent free in tendies heads
So much for it being forgotten when you can't stop seething about it for one second
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>>730784109
It's just a word. Just like your faggot name, triptranny. Relax.
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>>730785484
I don’t even have a Switch 2, snoy. And it deserves endless ridicule that the mediocre piece of trash ran the press circuit as some kind of revelation for a year.
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>>730785385
The writing is on the wall for those who can see it (people with a functioning brain).
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>>730780758
>bananza still living rent free in anti-tendies head
I see you hate good video games.
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>>730785610
Meant for >>730784380
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>>730785385
>the sky is blue
>uhmmmm proofs???
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i think we're nearing the end of the console race and AI is to blame along with the increase of RAM prices.
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>>730780580
That's not what quality control means.
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>>730780580
TLDR: The west got butthurt at the nonstop Sw1 assfucking and now Nintendo gets docked on every score and becomes the entire focus of media hate campaign.

Sorry 'bout the layoffs.
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>>730785030
You werent supposed to point that out....
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>Was mad that nintendo abandoned classic zelda after botw
>Play Crosscode
>Realize Nintendo would never be able to actually realize the full potential of a zelda game cause they have to cater to retards and children
Thank god for indie games
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>>730784441
I don’t take opinions of 4 yo seriously
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>>730786097
>fellow crosscode appreciator
My absolute nigga.
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>>730780821
Isn't metacritic a pile of shit anyway when you can give everything 10's or 0's without even playing/owning anything anyway?
People only like to mention it if it helps with shitposting anyway.
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>>730785931
So then why was bananza rated highly?
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>>730786275
I only picked it up cause I tried out the Alabaster Dawn demo and realized I already had Crosscode in my library so might as well try it out
How come people never talk about it? Man I fucking missed out
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>sell hardware division, consoles are a money pit and they are out of ideas since the Switch 2 is just a bad Steam Deck
>reduce relevance of video game development and focus on managing their IPs and collaborate with other media properties to increase their presence in the customer's mindspace
>aggressive licensing strategy focusing on experiences like theme parks, cruises and specialty shops
>join with X-Ai to provide customers with the opportunity to use their IPs in generative content while making sure it abides to their coroporate vision and brand values
But of course the japs are retarded and will just double down on making more flops like Bananza and MP4
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>>730785385
Anon, you are in a shitposting thread, almost everyone here is being retarded on purpose.
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No, Steam's rating is even worse because buyers justify spending money and Steam's rating is always inflated.
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>>730786792
We had quite a few threads about it years ago. It was the golden child of those ">play indie game >it's good" threads that got spammed a few years back.

Definitely deserves to be mentioned in more Zelda threads, though. What a gem.
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>>730786792
>How come people never talk about it?
They did. Almost every thread died since they were not to talk about the game itself but to push shitty opinions about indie games, with a rare few actually making it to 500, talking about the game.
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>>730785030
Nintendos stock is even worse off for the month
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>>730786764
It wasn't, it was rated a 91
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>>730787078
So a 91 is a victim of a hate campaign to you? Thats still a very good score. So whats your excuse for MK World being lower and all the rest being lower as well?
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>>730787078
>a 91 score is now considered a concentrated effort to destroy a game
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>>730780580
>umm umm umm these two games? yeah they failed because umm umm umm trannies
>oh the other games failed because umm umm umm well they just failed OK!!! don't break the precedent I was trying to establish because I'm an umm umm umm culture warrior and not a customer nor a fan
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>>730787164
>So a 91 is a victim of a hate campaign to you?
It was docked from a 95 or higher. Mario Odyssey tier platformer
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>>730787502
>Was TOTK's score a hate campaign to you too? since fans declare it to be an objective improvement to BOTW, and yet it ultimately got a lower metacritic? Was Prime 4's score a hate campaign, despite Prime remastered getting far better reviews?
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I didn't get Echoes of Wisdom because a Zelda game where you play as Zelda and summon shit instead of playing as Link is not a real Zelda game. And I hate that doll art style it reuses from Link's Awakening.
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>>730780580
source? oh right youre just a dumb faggot
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>>730787502
Bananza is good but lets be real here is it really odyssey level?
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>>730787078
>91 is no longer a good score
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Does the current CEO just wants to appease shareholders and investors?
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I like the switch 2 but so far I've basically exclusively used it to play switch 1 games with better performance/more comfortably. Cyberpunk is impressive but I could play it on pc. MKW was fine but 8 is infintely better so its pointless. I tried a few hours of Donkey Kong and was really unimpressed. I'm sure itll get a killer that this year or next but for now the best games on it are "4k60 botw
and "pokemon scarlet but playable"
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>>730788240
91 is literally average
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>>730788435
Thats more or less what Bananza is. You wouldve known if it was Odyssey tier
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>>730788435
Are you saying the masses can't be trusted?Then >>730785931 makes no sense.
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>>730788276
>does the CEO just want to do his job?
Nigger
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>>730788641
Who cares what I'm saying to be honest. Stop replying to me.



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