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Instead of putting money into developing some games they spent all their budget on Muppets of themselves. Bravo Nintendo, bravo.

Gameplay wasn't solid, it was decent but I wouldn't say solid. Controls were a little odd since they were using one Wiimote on its side to walk around a 3D environment and the implementation of the first person mode meant you had to point at the screen at times but couldn't even walk around a the same time. The controls weren't necessarily bad but they weren't great either, the game design overall was too story focused. The Metroid Prime series had a great story and presented it in a way that gave you a sense of adventure. The linearity of Other M really ruined the experience for me, Adam was constantly telling me exactly where to go. "Go here and by the way I'm just going to allow you to use an ability you already had now so use that." I didn't discover the abilities or earn them, Adam just decides that you can use it now. Metroid was never about that, it was about exploration and adventure, telling the player exactly where to go and restricting their abilities just to allow them at certain points in the game was not a step in the right direction.

Other M was a real disappointment to me as a Metroid fan, the linearity was probably the main drawback. Super Metroid and the Metroid Prime series really made me feel a great sense of adventure, I'd explore each room and scan it to see what I could find as I discovered new enemies and abilities. Other M was just: go here, do this, here's a new ability and a poorly acted cutscene. Not at all what I was hoping for or expecting from a Metroid game and now we've got Federation Force and Blast Ball, what are they doing with Metroid at this point I don't think they even know.

You're free to like it of course and I don't hate it but it was pretty disappointing after I loved the Metroid Prime series so much that I pre-ordered it to get that.

How many of you have autism and if so has it helped you in your modding career?

Yes, clearly autism would help someone make mods.

That's pure speculation. You have no idea what they plan to do. Them taking away Minesweeper and other unimportant features isn't a sign that they're going to take away other important features then charge us to use them.

How can anyone seriously complain about that? I suppose if you're a die hard Minesweeper fan...

It's much better as it is. If you change it to 'Yook' you ruin the ukulele pun.

Yeah it did seem a bit off at first but I think it's already growing on me. I really like the chameleon design, well I like chameleons/lizards in general so it's hard to go wrong there for me but it's a nice style nonetheless.

Yep. It's a new main series Star Wars movie which takes place around 30 years after the events of episode VI.

They're not discussing as if they're owners of the IP itself, they're discussing it as if they're players of the game that share their gameplay footage online like so many others do with so many other games. It being only Nintendo that does this is not irrelevant, it's exactly the problem. It's not a problem to Nintendo because this is their choice but this is just less incentive for YouTubers to stream Nintendo content so it's an odd move in the end. I would think people that watch Nintendo games would be more likely to purchase them not the other way around, so why would Nintendo want to reduce what is free advertising? Simply because they can get more money out of it by getting a share of the YouTuber's ad revenue.

Of course he can't decide what happens, all he is doing is expressing his disapproval of Nintendo's policies. I don't watch enough of Angry Joe's videos to be able to say how much he really appreciates his YouTube success but when Nintendo is the only company doing this I think he has the right to be annoyed by it.

I'm not sure why you would really defend Nintendo in this. Sure they have the right to do what they are doing but when they're the only one doing it (correct me if I'm wrong) out of all the gaming companies then I think it's something that should be criticised rather than just accepted as their decision. Nintendo gets a pass too easily with things like this when their only motivation is greed. They see a missed opportunity to make some extra cash instead of encouraging more people to promote their products online they think it's a better idea to take some of the money that person could make from it. Imagine with smaller YouTubers who don't make much at all from their channel, the cut that Nintendo takes from them would make it not worth bothering with Nintendo games.

Nintendo would rather take money from these people than encourage their online communities to grow, which would lead to more sales in the end for them so I can't see this being a worthwhile business decision.