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We're all lucky that Nintendo is so technologically inept that they're perpetually 20 years behind the latest trends. Imagine what a shitshow Tears Of The Kingd

by kibwen 3y ago

We're all lucky that Nintendo is so technologically inept that they're perpetually 20 years behind the latest trends. Imagine what a shitshow Tears Of The Kingdom would be if it had Genshin-style gacha bullshit.

hbn 3y ago
I mean it literally does have in-game vending machines that spit out little pods with items in them! But you pay with items you collect in the game. And it's not like a collecting thing, the items are just portable fans and platforms and wheels and whatnot for building.
- yamtaddle 3y ago
  ... and you don't need any more than you'll just stumble on for free to advance in the game, and if you're a seasoned RPG-item-hoarder you'll beat the game never having used any of them, anyway, "just in case you need them later".
  - hbn 3y ago
    Yeah I've usually just been using each one I stumble upon once to see if there's anything new in it I don't have I think I used a fan once to blow some sand, and a mirror to reflect sunlight for a puzzle in the overworld where they had mirror pods in a chest nearby!
    - yamtaddle 3y ago
      Oh shit. I had stopped really paying attention to those pick-ups (I think I've used... maybe two? In more than 20 hours?) but now that you mention it, I think one I got was a mirror—I totally could have used a mirror to turn a 15-minute puzzle I did a couple days ago, into a 1-minute puzzle.
- mcphage 3y ago
  I wonder if affection for capsule machines is a Nintendo thing? Yoshi's Wooly World has capsule machines, and they're even less like real capsules machines—every machine has a 10 capsules, that's it, and they don't restock. Some of the things you get are labelled "common" and some "rare" and some "super rare", but ... the chance of each capsule is exactly the same. And if you buy 10, then you get all 10.
  - hbn 3y ago
    As far as I know, vending machines are just a big thing in Japanese culture in general. It's where the term gacha comes from, after all.
racl101 3y ago
> We're all lucky that Nintendo is so technologically inept that they're perpetually 20 years behind the latest trends. LOL. Yes that's true. At first I found it frustrating, now I find it as the key to their appeal. Maybe even kinda charming. But yeah, by not chasing or trying to keep up with everyone they're kinda free to do their thing even on majorly old hardware. At the end of the day, even though I own a PS5, 5 years from now I'll still remember how much fun I had with TOTK. I barely touch my PS5 as is. Waiting for Spider-man 2 and GTA 6 (who knows if that will even come out during the PS5 lifecycle). But yeah, in my estimation, more Switch games are aging incredibly well. But that's just me and I care little about next graphics especially if the the game isn't fun or the gameplay isn't fun.

by kibwen 3y ago

hbn 3y ago

I mean it literally does have in-game vending machines that spit out little pods with items in them! But you pay with items you collect in the game. And it's not like a collecting thing, the items are just portable fans and platforms and wheels and whatnot for building.

yamtaddle 3y ago
... and you don't need any more than you'll just stumble on for free to advance in the game, and if you're a seasoned RPG-item-hoarder you'll beat the game never having used any of them, anyway, "just in case you need them later".
- hbn 3y ago
  Yeah I've usually just been using each one I stumble upon once to see if there's anything new in it I don't have I think I used a fan once to blow some sand, and a mirror to reflect sunlight for a puzzle in the overworld where they had mirror pods in a chest nearby!
  - yamtaddle 3y ago
    Oh shit. I had stopped really paying attention to those pick-ups (I think I've used... maybe two? In more than 20 hours?) but now that you mention it, I think one I got was a mirror—I totally could have used a mirror to turn a 15-minute puzzle I did a couple days ago, into a 1-minute puzzle.
mcphage 3y ago
I wonder if affection for capsule machines is a Nintendo thing? Yoshi's Wooly World has capsule machines, and they're even less like real capsules machines—every machine has a 10 capsules, that's it, and they don't restock. Some of the things you get are labelled "common" and some "rare" and some "super rare", but ... the chance of each capsule is exactly the same. And if you buy 10, then you get all 10.
- hbn 3y ago
  As far as I know, vending machines are just a big thing in Japanese culture in general. It's where the term gacha comes from, after all.

racl101 3y ago

> We're all lucky that Nintendo is so technologically inept that they're perpetually 20 years behind the latest trends. LOL. Yes that's true. At first I found it frustrating, now I find it as the key to their appeal. Maybe even kinda charming. But yeah, by not chasing or trying to keep up with everyone they're kinda free to do their thing even on majorly old hardware. At the end of the day, even though I own a PS5, 5 years from now I'll still remember how much fun I had with TOTK. I barely touch my PS5 as is. Waiting for Spider-man 2 and GTA 6 (who knows if that will even come out during the PS5 lifecycle). But yeah, in my estimation, more Switch games are aging incredibly well. But that's just me and I care little about next graphics especially if the the game isn't fun or the gameplay isn't fun.